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Rachelle Erickson's family may not have started out in Oklahoma, but she said at this point, it's pretty much the family home.

Originally from Kansas, Erickson lived through stints in Georgia and Iraq, before finally settling down in Oklahoma.

"Growing up, my father opened his own auto-repair sh...