<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><i>Growing up—and even now—people would ask me, “where is your family from?” They wanted to know about my ancestry.</i></span></p><p><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><i>My reply was always: “America.”</i></span></font></p><p><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><i>America never satisfied people’s curiosity. America, so it seemed, didn’t qualify as a place where anyone could be </i></span></font><em><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">from</span>; </span></font></em><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><i>my ancestors couldn’t possibly be Americans.</i></span></font></p><p><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><i>However, I feel I am as American as apple pie, white picket fences and abandoned rubber factories...</i></span></font></p><p><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><i><br></i></span></font></p><p><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Benjamin Rexroad, Artistic Director of Heads Up Productions, discusses a growing trend in young Americans and how he has decided to confront the issue. Find out how by reading the post at</span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"> </span></font></font></p><p><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"></span></font></font><a href="http://www.headsupproductions.net"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">www.headsupproductions.net </span></font></a></p></body></html>