Some places become more than locations. They shape the way people speak, the food they crave when they are homesick, the music they return to without thinking and the instincts they carry into rooms that look nothing like where they grew up. Snoop Dogg's line captures that idea with the language of hip-hop, though the thought behind it is far older than the culture that produced it. Leaving a place is one thing. Leaving behind everything that place has written into a person's character is another.
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