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I WAS BORN IN ILLINOIS
MY FATHER WAS IN THE SERVICE. So my mother stayed with my grandparents in Illinois [while he served], but I grew up in Winter Haven, Florida. I lived there from a very young age, and it’s a great place to grow up. It’s a mid-sized town, and it had a lot going on. I grew up around Cypress Gardens and all the fun things around there. It was just a good family town back then. That was a wonderful place for my family to raise a family. My father was involved with the phosphate industry. He worked in Bartow, and...