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Arizona, on which her grandfather served and died after saving 19 men. Her brother later joined the army and died because there weren't enough doctors. When she was growing up, she moved every 18 months due to her family's involvement in the military. Whenever they would get somewhere new, her father would take her skating first thing. Wherever they ended up, the skating always stayed the same, which made her feel safe. She did it in college, in med school, and when she first got her job at Seattle Grace.
She noticed the skating made the kids feel at ease, too. The way she described her upbringing is that she was ".. Raised to love my country. Love my family. Protect the things I love. She learned to act tough when she had to, due to her name, and she never had to "come out" to her parents because it wasn't a shock to them.
She had a poster of Cindy Crawford in her room and she wasn't looking at her beauty mark. She never brought any boys home and when she finally brought home a girl, Joanne, her mother wasn't surprised.
