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And the main thing was that I wanted to live in south Florida. That's why I left the Cowboys; to live in south Florida.

This land is your land, this land is my land, From California to the New York Island. From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me.

I got kind of burned out, so I moved to Florida. I was down there for 10 or 12 years, raising children.

I'm a coastal person. I grew up in Long Island and lived in San Diego. I felt landlocked in Pittsburgh. Psychically, it just wasn't the place for me.

When I was a kid, my dad was in construction and used to move the family back and forth between central Florida's east and west coasts.

I did all of California from north to south. I did Florida from north to south. I went to the Midwest. I spent time discovering the culture because I thought I was going to stay in America for only two years. Then I decided to come to New York.

My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.

I literally integrated the small town of Libertyville, Illinois. I was the first person of color to reside within its borders.

Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.