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Around 40 years ago, in the Jacksonville neighborhood of Five Points, David Kanupp was a 13-year-old kid in with a bicycle who like to hang out at Benny…
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Kalpana DePasquale was born in Bangalore, India and came to the U.S. with her parents when she was small. She went to school in Florida through medical…
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Philip McDaniel grew up near New York City, the youngest of six children. He began his career working with one of his entrepreneurial older brothers.“I…
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Mary Johnson, who bakes cupcakes at her boutique bakery in the Mandarin neighborhood of Jacksonville, was a nurse at a major hospital in Jacksonville, and…
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Chris Henderson has loved motorcycles for most of his life. He didn’t plan to work in the industry, though. He went to the University of Florida to become…
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Heather Ashby is a novelist, but 13 years ago, her husband and she were retired Navy veterans with two children.“My son was our high-maintenance child,”…
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Darren Ronan was born into a musical family. His father was a country-western singer from Ocala who had a radio show and performed at fairs and…
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When Barbara Weber retired earlier this year after 27 years in corrections with the Duval County Sheriff’s Corrections Department, she immediately started…
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Sometimes, having more than one career can be a huge benefit.Robert Lester Folsom was the lead singer in a struggling rock band in a small town in south…
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Dana Greyson has lived most of her life in the Pacific Northwest. In 2005, she met her husband, Walt, through a friend. “He asked me to go sailing,” she…