Something to relate to...

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(05-02-2013 11:29 AM)Gene C Wrote:  or chocolate...

I noticed your quote and I just HAD to share this! So many times, the quote does not always follow the man, but....

I used to work with victims of domestic violence and rape and many of the ladies with whom I worked were African American women whose partners seldom lived with the family, or took an active interest in their children.

We were visiting my daughter and her husband in St. Petersburg, Florida and went to the mall. While we were there, I happened to notice this African American man with his arm on his teenaged son's shoulder looking at the mall directory and talking to him in such a way that I was struck with awe. You really had to be there to get a sense of why I was feeling this way. There was just something about the two of them together, shopping. I couldn't hear what he was saying, but there was so much love and understanding between them that I asked my daughter and her husband to look at them (nothing like being a country bumpkin!).

My son-in-law looked at me and said, "Don't you know who that is?"

I said, "No."

And he said, "That's Tony Dungy!"

Ever since then, Tony Dungy has had a very special place in my heart!

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