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A sixty-year mystery solved ...
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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 444428" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>Wow, Star! Being patted on the head by Richard Nixon is a claim to fame that not many people can make! The closest any of my family have ever come to a famous politician is when my son almost got arrested by the Secret Service for driving his pavement-rumbling Chevelle right through Al Gore's motorcade when he was VP so he could get to the convenience store to buy a can of Red Man! "Mr. Impatient" couldn't wait for it to go all the way by! Apparently the Secret Service frowns on that! </p><p></p><p>So if Miami is all Russians and Brazilians now, where did all the Cubans go? Orlando, probably! A lot of them settled around Tampa too. That's where all the cigars come from! I used to work with a man about my same age whose family had come to the US from Cuba when he was a kid, right after Castro first came in to power. His family was very wealthy in Cuba, had a lot of land and owned some very valuable properties and businesses. They took it all and the whole family left and came to the US as some of the very first Cuban refugees. There was pretty much nothing left but the clothes they were wearing! It must have been pretty rough.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 444428, member: 1883"] Wow, Star! Being patted on the head by Richard Nixon is a claim to fame that not many people can make! The closest any of my family have ever come to a famous politician is when my son almost got arrested by the Secret Service for driving his pavement-rumbling Chevelle right through Al Gore's motorcade when he was VP so he could get to the convenience store to buy a can of Red Man! "Mr. Impatient" couldn't wait for it to go all the way by! Apparently the Secret Service frowns on that! So if Miami is all Russians and Brazilians now, where did all the Cubans go? Orlando, probably! A lot of them settled around Tampa too. That's where all the cigars come from! I used to work with a man about my same age whose family had come to the US from Cuba when he was a kid, right after Castro first came in to power. His family was very wealthy in Cuba, had a lot of land and owned some very valuable properties and businesses. They took it all and the whole family left and came to the US as some of the very first Cuban refugees. There was pretty much nothing left but the clothes they were wearing! It must have been pretty rough. [/QUOTE]
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