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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 went to Florida when I was 15. That was my first time in America, so you learn about how different the regions are.

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

I grew up in West Palm Beach, Florida. My dad took me hunting, trapping and fishing when I was a kid.

Soon after I was born, my parents moved to the South Florida area, and I've lived here ever since (with a few years of living in both Portugal and Brazil in my younger days).

My mom is from Texas, but I was raised in Florida.

I was ten years old in 1969, and while we lived in Arizona that year, I spent most of the summer staying with family friends in Portland, Oregon while my parents visited Spain. It was an adventure all around.

My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that's the law.