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To this day, I work at Huntington and someone will come in that I know was Eva's

friend back in the day and they'll mention Eva and I'm like even I are not friends.

Renee Thomas grew up in a rural town in eastern Ohio in the 90s.

So I grew up actually 20 miles south of Zanesville.

It's a little town called Roseville.

We grew up in the country, so my grandfather had like, don't know about 300 acres they grew up as

farmers they actually had a dairy farm so I was brought up you know there's

indoor chores there's outdoor chores, there's outdoor chores.

It's like never ending.

Being brought up like that really, I think,

made me who I am today as far as my work ethic.

I know what hard work is. I don't ever think that's a man's job. I'm going to get out there and do it too.

Roseville was a small town and in small towns everybody knows or is somehow related to everybody else.

In high school, Renee met Terry and Eva through her classmates, Macklin and Aaron,

who were Eva and Terry's cousins.

Eva was a little older but she and Renee became fast friends.

After the Friday night football games they had SawCops the Dance so actually Terry had come

with Macklin and Aaron to one of those we kind of met we's dancing hit it off we actually

started talking I met Eva through him. Me and her became really good friends.

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