I have a figure with a note below (not a caption: "blah blah blah..." in the below MWE). I would like it to be directly below the figure, but currently there is far too much white space separating them. 

The code I am currently running is below. I am using the minipage environment because the figure I am inserting is very large (it was generated in Stata, and I have tried saving it in multiple ways without luck). Is there a way to reduce the white space in this environment? I have already tried using `\vspace` as I do after the caption, and it doesn't work. Same for the `caption` package, `\abovecaptionskip`, etc. If someone could help, I would really appreciate it! Thanks in advance. 

```
\documentclass[12pt]{article}

\begin{document}
\begin{figure}[h!] 
\begin{centering}
\begin{minipage}{0.95\textwidth} 
 \caption{My Title Here}\label{mylabel}
 \vspace*{-4cm} 
\includegraphics[height=8in]{figure.pdf}
{\footnotesize blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.\par}
\end{minipage}
\end{centering}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

```