title: Son of Real Florida: Stories from My Life
author:  Jeff Klinkenberg 
description: Whether Jeff is eating Key lime pie or reminiscing about Joes Stone Crab in Miami Beach, he tells it as it was and in many cases, still is.<i><b>Tampa Bay Magazine</b></i><br /><br />"Klinkenberg . . . covers key lime pie, snake wranglers, and the oyster-shucking queen of Apalachicola with nuance. And that lets the rest of us lovingly celebrate our country's (arguably) most fascinating state."<i><b>Garden &amp; Gun</b></i> <br /><br />"Reverberate[s] with [Klinkenberg's] knowledge of and love for Florida."<i><b>Tampa Bay Times</b></i>
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  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are
  products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to
  be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locations,
  organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
  
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   **World Castle Publishing, LLC**
  
  Pensacola, Florida
  
  Copyright © Kathi S. Barton 2019
  
  Paperback ISBN: 9781949812671
  
  eBook ISBN: 9781949812688
  
  First Edition World Castle Publishing, LLC, February 4, 2019
  
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  _http://www.worldcastlepublishing.com_](http://www.worldcastlepublishing.com)
  
   **Licensing Notes**
  
  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any
  manner whatsoever without written permission, except in the case of brief
  quotations embodied in articles and reviews.
  
  Cover: Karen Fuller
  
  Editor: Maxine Bringenberg
  
   **Chapter 1**
  
  Brody was ready for his own bed. Well, one where a five-year-old wasn’t
  sleeping wit