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Tom Brady often spent summers at family farm in Minnesota

BROWERVILLE, Minn. - There are no stoplights here. Everyone knows everyone else. They are hardy people, unflinching in the face of winters so cold that the temperature routinely dips into negative numbers.

New England's Tom Brady would seem to be an (ice) fish out of water here.

But this central Minnesota town of 750 people has a piece of the cosmopolitan quarterback's heart. It's where his maternal grandparents lived, and where his mom, the former Galynn Johnson, was 1962 homecoming queen.

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