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Kathryn Bain was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest."I grew up in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. I moved to Boise, but that evidently wasn't far enough! I…
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James Rivera grew up in Boonton, a small town in northern New Jersey. After he graduated, James worked at an auto dealer's repair shop. He wasn't happy…
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Delores West was born in Jacksonville, but spent most of her life in Miami."My grandparents moved to Miami when my mother was fourteen and pregnant with…
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Alia Reimer grew up in Rockledge, Florida and came to Jacksonville to go to the University of North Florida. She started building homes with Habitat for…
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You wouldn't know it from his voice, but Jack McNeil grew up in a small town in North Carolina.“There was no job opportunity there at all,” McNeil said.…
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Rod Borisade grew up in very rough neighborhood in Northwest Jacksonville. Drugs were more readily available than books were, and Rod knew that he didn't…
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Belinda Hulin is food writer by birth. She was born — a Cajun. When Belinda became a professional journalist and writer, there wasn’t any doubt that she…
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George Eckenrode grew up expecting to be a professional musician, and nothing else. "Ever since the third grade, I played trumpet in a band. I went to a…
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Twila Hudson lives in her childhood home, a house in the Lincolnville neighborhood of St. Augustine.Twila said, "My dad bought the house at auction. It…
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Gary Rodebaugh was a triathlete who lived in St. Augustine, competed internationally. But before he started training he was in bad shape.“I was working in…