It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9.
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I grew up on a tiny little island.
My mom used to take me down to the Jersey Shore when I was 7, 8, 9 years old. I can remember being down in that area - Belmar, Seaside Heights, Asbury Park and all those places that I went back and revisited.
I grew up in Pittwater, north of Sydney; Elvina Bay, Scotland Island area. I had to go to school by boat. To get to the mainland, we had to go by boat, so it was just a way of life.
I moved south when I was 11 years old, moved to England. I've lived in all kinds of places, all parts of England.
My wife's family lives up in South Carolina, so we go back and forth quite a bit up there.
My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.
Until I was four years old I lived in the house of my paternal grandfather, about two miles from the pretty little village of Wallace, at the mouth of the river of that name.
Charleston is an amazing place. I probably didn't appreciate it enough when I was growing up.
My wife and I live in Brooklyn, N.Y., not too far from where my Long Island childhood happened.
I grew up in Far Rockaway and then Long Island.