| 1 | She thought of her family, safe at home in Kansas City. | |
| 2 | I am the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas. | |
| 3 | She was born in a town on the other side of the world, in Kansas. | |
| 4 | What Harve needed, of all people, was a course in some first-class Kansas City business college. | |
| 5 | Friends had described Dunham, who was originally from Kansas, as an example of strength and determination. |