The Cable Guy Invited Me to a Cookout and The Rest is History

<p>I was loving life in Tampa Bay, living near one of the world&rsquo;s most beautiful beaches, hanging out with my sorority sisters and the Bucs players they dated. But that was at night and on the weekends. Well, some weekends. A lot of the time, I was at work. As a reporter for the&nbsp;<em>St. Petersburg Times</em>&nbsp;(Florida&rsquo;s largest newspaper, now renamed the&nbsp;<em>Tampa Bay Times</em>), I covered city halls, and Florida state government and hurricanes and immigration and weird &ldquo;Florida man&rdquo; stuff.</p> <p>I talked on the regular with Charlie Crist before he was governor, and learned firsthand that Gov. Jeb Bush is a lot taller than you think, and he always answers questions from the short reporter over to the side (me!) I even wrote a piece, &ldquo;Siguiendo a Francisco,&rdquo; about the area&rsquo;s first immigrant from the city of Los Remedios in the Mexican state of Hidalgo, a guy named Francisco &mdash; a legend really. (Sidenote: Working on that piece with the imitable Latin American correspondent David Adams was and is a highlight of my journalistic career. )</p> <p><a href="https://adrienne.medium.com/the-cable-guy-invited-me-to-a-barbecue-and-the-rest-is-history-530ac9f0e5bf"><strong>Click Here</strong></a></p>
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