“That’s where I worked when I was a kid. It was hard, hot, brutal work. I can remember one day saying, ‘Damn, there’s got to be something better than this.’ My father, who also worked on the celery farm, heard me say that. I’ll never forget what he told me later that night. He said, ‘There is something better than this. But you can’t find it here. You’re going to have to go out and get it.’ “When my dad said that to me, it was a turning point in my life. He made me realize that the world wasn’t going to hand me the life I wanted to live. I had to decide what I wanted out of life and then go
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