That's not so unusual in North Florida and West Florida. It didn't used to be unusual. It was completely unremarkable for the longest time.
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When you don't know the story of a place, it makes it much easier to destroy it. And so much of Florida is being destroyed because people don't credit it with having a history . . . Because it seems there's no story here, everything in Florida can be made new, and I think that's wrong and I think we harm ourselves irrevocably by destroying our history.Diane Roberts
Winning feels great. Don't ask me the last time we won because I can't remember.
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I started writing about the Florida Legislature, and there are two possibilities for response to the Florida Legislature. One is weeping uncontrollably and jumping off a tall building, and the other is to laugh. So you might as well laugh.
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She could do things on beam that I had no name for. As a third-year coach, I had visions of grandeur, thoughts of state championships dancing before me. I couldn't wait to work with someone at that level.
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I don't lecture any more it bores people rigid. I read and I talk. After you teach college for a while, that becomes fairly easy to do. A formal lecture makes people sit up straight and feel like they need to take notes for an exam later, and I don't want them to feel that way.
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