Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 41 boyhood 36 suburban 33 memoir Dreams 32 brick bungalow 31 woodsy 31 Chadds Ford Pa. 30 log cabin 30 suburbanite 29 McMansion 29 affluent suburb 29 exurban 29 poet Langston Hughes 29 suburbia 29 upstate 29 homeplace 28 blue collar roots 28 millworker 28 townhouse 27 suburb 27 Columbus Ohio 27 nondescript 27 Norman Rockwell 27 childhood 27 family 27 blue collar 27 white picket fences 26 McMansions 26 leafy suburb 26 hometown 26 Civil War buff 26 Kankakee Ill. 25 lifelong 25 Madelyn Dunham 25 woodworking shop 25 Midwestern 25 Olivette 25 teen ager 25 homesteader 25 Wasilla Alaska 25 hardscrabble 25 sharecropper 24 cul de sac 24 exurb 24 Winnetka 24 paternal grandfather 24 upbringing 24 gated community 24 northeastern Pennsylvania 24 affluent 24 Brantford Ontario 24 hard scrabble 24 upscale 24 suburbs 23 sprawling 23 immersing himself 23 tony 23 bucolic 23 suburban sprawl 23 downstate 23 midwestern 23 recluse 23 stepfather 23 Philadelphia 23 dream 23 strip malls 23 cherished memories 22 nomadic existence 22 summered 22 Chicago 22 burbs 22 Germantown 22 ancestral roots 22 middleclass 22 # ZIP code 22 upscale gated 22 father 22 mementos 22 haberdasher 22 stomping grounds 22 ritzy 22 racially mixed 22 Ill. 22 alma mater 22 sepia toned 22 Pacific Palisades 21 tinkerer 21 boyhood dream 21 fondly recalled 21 neighborhood 21 exurbs 21 girlhood 21 ancestral 21 lifelong dream 21 postindustrial 21 birthplace 21 grandmother 21 strip mall 21 emigrated 21 his 21 piney woods 21 bricklayer