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My dad was in construction and my mother worked as a waitress.

We didn't really have much money. The entertainment for

us was to go to the beaches down near the skyway and do a little wade fishing,

go to the peers, fish off the peers.

We fished off the cat walks at the Gandy Bridge,

the cat walks at Johns Pass, the jetty.

And just for me versus my siblings, fishing was an escape.

It was an escape from the drudgery of the everyday.

We didn't get to do as much as the other kids got to do.

And I was a big kid, so I did get to play sports. So I was a popular kid because I was a big kid so I did get to play sports so I was a popular kid because I was a good athlete

But for me fishing was everything it was my time if I I buried my fishing rod as a middle schooler at my bus stop in a Brazilian pepper bush

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