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In the early 1990s, while still in grade school, Snowden moved with his family to the area of [[Fort Meade, Maryland]].<ref name="NBCNews Man Who Spilled">{{cite news |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/edward-snowden-interview/who-edward-snowden-man-who-spilled-nsas-secrets-n114861 |title=Who Is Edward Snowden, the Man Who Spilled the NSA's Secrets? |first1=Bill |last1=Dedman |first2=Mike |last2=Brunker |first3=Matthew |last3=Cole |work=NBC News |date=May 26, 2014 |access-date=April 11, 2015}}</ref> [[Infectious mononucleosis|Mononucleosis]] caused him to miss high school for almost nine months.<ref name=BamfordWired /> Rather than returning to school, he passed the [[General Educational Development|GED]] test<ref name="guardian-reveal">{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/09/edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower-surveillance |title=Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations |last1=Greenwald |first1=Glenn |last2=MacAskill |first2=Ewen |last3=Poitras |first3=Laura |date=June 9, 2013 |work=The Guardian |location=London}}</ref> and took classes at [[Anne Arundel Community College]].<ref name="NBCNews Snowden" /> Although Snowden had no undergraduate college degree,<ref name="Despiteresume" /> he worked online toward a master's degree at the [[University of Liverpool]], England, in 2011.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/us-fears-edward-snowden-defect-china-sources/story?id=19389672 |title=U.S. Fears Edward Snowden May Defect to China: Sources |work=ABC News |date=June 13, 2013 |first1=James Gordon |last1=Meek |first2=Matthew |last2=Mosk |first3=Shushannah |last3=Walshej |access-date=October 19, 2019 }}</ref> He was interested in [[Japanese popular culture]], had studied the Japanese language,<ref>{{cite news |title=Snowden's Life Surrounded By Spycraft |url=http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ap-impact-snowdens-life-surrounded-spycraft |agency=Associated Press |first1=Adam |last1=Geller |first2=Brian |last2=Witte |date=June 15, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141219140551/http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ap-impact-snowdens-life-surrounded-spycraft |archive-date=December 19, 2014 |url-status=dead |access-date=October 23, 2019 }}</ref> and worked for an [[anime]] company that had a resident office in the U.S.<ref>{{cite news |title=Exclusive: Snowden as a teen online: anime and cheeky humor |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-security-snowden-anime/exclusive-snowden-as-a-teen-online-anime-and-cheeky-humor-idUSBRE95B14B20130612 |work=Reuters |first1=Kristina |last1=Cooke |first2=Scott |last2=Shiffman |date=June 12, 2013 |access-date=October 23, 2019 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/06/15/national/02-profile-paints-snowden-as-manga-anime-gun-girlish-geek-with-list-of-likes/ |title=Snowden Web manga profile still online |work=Japan Times |location=Tokyo |first=Reiji |last=Yoshida |date=June 15, 2013 |access-date=October 23, 2019 }}</ref> He also said he had a basic understanding of [[Standard Chinese|Mandarin Chinese]] and was deeply interested in [[martial arts]]. At age 20, he listed [[Buddhism]] as his religion on a military recruitment form, noting that the choice of [[agnostic]] was "strangely absent."<ref name="nyt-ambition">{{cite news |last1=Broder |first1=John M. |last2=Scott |first2=Shane |date=June 15, 2013 |title=For Snowden, a Life of Ambition, Despite the Drifting |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/us/for-snowden-a-life-of-ambition-despite-the-drifting.html |newspaper=The New York Times |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130615232919/http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/us/for-snowden-a-life-of-ambition-despite-the-drifting.html |archive-date=June 15, 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref> In September 2019, as part of interviews relating to the release of his memoir ''[[Permanent Record (autobiography)|Permanent Record]]'', Snowden revealed to ''[[The Guardian]]'' that he married [[Lindsay Mills]] in a courthouse in [[Moscow]].<ref name="I was very much a person the most powerful government in the world wanted to go away"/> The couple has a son born in December 2020. <ref> https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEJFNhZ2urgqvdwSy4KuIMCYqGAgEKg8IACoHCAowhK-LAjD4ySww-9S0BQ?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen</ref>
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|title=Edward Snowden, wife Lindsay Mills share photos of new baby boy
|work=Reuters |date=December 26, 2020 |access-date=January 1, 2021 }}</ref>
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