![]() ![]() The four of us spent our weekends and summers swimming in the ocean and collecting treasures on the beach. ![]() My brother, two stepsisters and I grew up in a remote house that overlooked the Atlantic Ocean, not far from my grandmother’s old schoolhouse. ![]() You might know that a divorce can be hard on your heart, but we managed our newly blended family by all playing outside together a lot. My mother remarried when I was ten and my stepfather brought two children to the marriage. My parents divorced when I was six years old. My mother was also born in Vero Beach, so my family has been walking the same stretch of shore for generations. She’d stay all week and then, each Friday, (weather permitting), she would row back to the mainland. She rowed a boat to the barrier island every Monday morning to teach in the one-room schoolhouse. My grandmother was a schoolteacher in nearby Wabasso. I was born on April 3, 1953, in Vero Beach, Florida, the very town where my great-grandfather had surveyed the original streets in the early 1920s. ![]()
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