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Where is home? I've wondered where home is, and I realized, it's not Mars or someplace like that, it's Indianapolis when I was nine years old. I had a brother and a sister, a cat and a dog, and a mother and a father and uncles and aunts. And there's no way I can get there again.
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As quoted in "The World according to Kurt" in Globe and Mail [Toronto] (11 October 2005)

 

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