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The Crossing

Then came the scholarship, like a ship out of the morning mist, carrying him across the sea to Florida and into the wider realm of learning.

He crossed the great water alone and learned to find his way in a new land. A full scholarship freed him to give every hour to the work ahead. From a small historically Black college on Florida’s Atlantic shore, he won dual enrollment at the University of Florida, the great Gator Nation. There he studied finance and computer science, and he sat in undergraduate and graduate halls in the same seasons.