The location is based on where Welch lived as a child.

It happened on a border world where I lived for a while as a child.

I lived alone for many years as a child.

He had lived there briefly as a child and for much of his later life.

The countryside, brown and dry, in summer, where he had lived as a child.

Sometimes people can tell what city someone lived in when as a child, by the way that person speaks.

I lived on 68th Street as a child; our apartment faced north.

How long did you actually live here as a child?

Sometimes it doesn't seem possible to me that I actually lived there as a child.

It must be the weather, reminding me of the place I lived as a child.