About My Life

My name is George Swanson Starling. I grew up in Eustis, Florida with my father Big George, as they like to call him. My parents split when I was about 8 years old. I used to steals oranges from the orange tree that outside the church. So, after they split, I went to live with my grandmother, my mother's mother, in Ocala. It was three of us that lived with my grandmother. My father used to send money to my grandmother but after a while the money stopped coming, and the same thing happen to cousins. My grandmother sent me back to my father in Eustis. Big George was a farmer.He was a very strict man. I went to school, then high school. I was Valedictorian of my senior class, by the time we graduated it was only six people in the senior class.

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