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Maneet Chauhan knows the exact moment she became a Nashvillian. Nov. 18, 2015, at 4:53 a.m. The moment her son Karma came into the world.

He arrived more than three months early, weighing only 2 pounds, 12 ounces; not even as much as a half-gallon of milk. And Chauhan, a celebrity chef on the Food Network who was then on the brink of launching her new Nashville restaurant, awoke from emergency surgery confused and scared.

But on that day, and on the many days that followed as she visited her newborn covered in wires and tubes inside an incubator, the tenderness from her caregivers made her feel loved.

That’s when Nashville truly became home.