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The Full Story of the Andretti Indycar Team

On September 27th, 2024, Jay Penske's sportico.com website reported that Michael Andretti was relinquishing ownership of Andretti Global and stepping back into a strategic role.

Michael Andretti, who spent over twenty years racing in Indycar in his own right and spent just as long as a team owner, was stepping away from team ownership, handing the reins to investor Dan Towriss.

Now, a lot of people have speculated as to why:

Some people say that Michael and Dan had a falling out earlier this season and Michael ultimately left.

Others say that Michael promised Dan an entry into Formula One, and now that the teams have firmly blocked that, Dan demanded some kind of return on his investment.

Others yet think that Michael stepping away is a way to smooth over the friction between Michael and the F1 team bosses, potentially giving an avenue for the Towriss-led Andretti Cadillac to make it into F1 after all.

There is also, you know, the possibility that Michael Andretti was being entirely truthful. He simply wants to step back to a more strategic role rather than dealing with team ownership.

We don't know the real answer though.

Nor is it the topic of this blog.

Instead, this blog is a retrospective on Andretti as a race team, particularly in Indycar. How they started, how the Andrettis got involved, some of the high points, and what the team means to Indycar now that, in one way or another, it won't even been the same.

The story starts in 1993, when Barry Green (a senior Australian engineer who worked with teams like Forsythe and Kraco) and Gerry Forsythe himself (who had run an Indycar team in the early and mid 80s) partnered with Player's cigarettes out of Canada to create a Formula Atlantic team, with Quebecois drivers Claude Bourbonnais and Jacques Villeneuve.

Claude finished second in the standings that year, Jacques just behind in third.

With a promising debut, the team moved up to CART in 1994, fielding Jacques Villeneuve in a Player's sponsored car. Jacques would finish second at Indy and take his debut win at Road America, to finish sixth in the standings and snatch rookie of the year.

Come 1995, the team experienced an ownership split. Barry Green kept Players and Villeneuve initially, while Gerry Forsythe started his own team with Teo Fabi - who had previously driven for Forsythe in 1983 - as the driver.

That didn't stop Team Green from continuing to be successful.

Villeneuve won the season opening Grand Prix of Miami, the Indianapolis 500, Road America yet again, and Cleveland to win the championship.

All of this was enough for Frank Williams to snatch Villeneuve out of Indycar and bring him over to Formula One.

Furthermore, Forsythe secured the Player's sponsorship for his own team for 1996, hiring Greg Moore to drive.

Meanwhile, Team Green had a pair of mediocre seasons in 1996 and 1997, with Raul Boesel and Parker Johnstone, respectively, however, by 1998, the team was ready to compete.

Barry's brother Kim joined in as co-manager of the team, KOOL cigarettes signed up as sponsor for 1997, and they switched to Honda engines that same year.

Then for 1998, they brought on Penske's Paul Tracy and Hogan's Dario Franchitti as drivers. Paul and Dario in those white, green, and gold KOOL cars would be defining drivers in those golden era of CART.

Dario struck first, winning Road America, Vancouver, and Houston in 1998, finishing third in the standings.

Come 1999, and Dario won Toronto, Detroit, and Surfers Paradise, whilst Paul Tracy won at Milwaukee and Houston. Dario finished second to Juan Pablo Montoya on countback, whilst Paul Tracy finished third.

This was Team Green's finest hour.

Paul Tracy won at Long Beach, Road America, and Vancouver in 2000 to finish fifth, but Dario struggled, and more than that, the two gained a reputation for crashing into each other. They crashed into each other at Houstin in 1998 (which Dario won), Gateway in 1999, Chicago in 2000...they were quite literally doing it once a year.

That wasn't the end of it either, since it happened again in Denver in 2002.

Anyway, also in 2001, Michael Andretti enters the story.

Now, Michael had worked with Barry Green at Kraco, but after that, Michael joined his father at Newman/Haas. From 1989 to 1992, Mario and Michael were teammates, and when Mario retired at the end of the 1994 season, it paved the way for Michael to return to Newman/Haas through the end of the 2000 season.

However, Michael wanted to race in the Indianapolis 500, and Newman/Haas was a CART diehard team. Thus, in 2001, Michael partnered with Motorola, Kevin Savoree, and Kim Green to create a satellite entry in the form of Team Motorola.

Michael won Toronto in 2001 and Long Beach in 2002 with Team Motorola, while also finishing 3rd and 7th, respectively, at Indianapolis in those years.

For 2002, Paul Tracy and Dario joined him, in 7Eleven sponsored cars - really a business-to-business (B2B) deal between KOOL and 7Eleven, effectively saying "come buy your cigarettes here!" - and Paul Tracy was pulling off a pass for the lead on Helio Castroneves as the caution came out.

Helio was deemed to have been ahead as Paul complained on the radio, saying that it was the IRL trying to cheat a CART driver out of the win, but the race finished under caution and Castroneves won his second consecutive Indy 500.

For 2003, Michael bought out Barry, with Kim Green and Kevin Savoree initially staying on as smaller partners.

Thus, Team KOOL Green became Andretti Green Racing, and they moved over to the IRL Indycar Series.

Dario Franchitti remained in the #27 car, picking up the Motorola sponsorship, while the 7Eleven sponsorship led to the other two cars becoming the #7 and the #11. The #7 would be driven by Michael Andretti through the end of the Indianapolis 500, while the #11 would be taken over by Tony Kanaan - Paul Tracy had refused to move over to the IRL, so he signed for Forsythe in CART instead.

Dan Wheldon, in a Jim Beam sponsored #26 car, would effectively replace the retiring Michael Andretti after the Indy 500.

In 2004, with the team adding on Bryan Herta in a fourth car - the XM Satellite Radio sponsored #7 - Andretti Green Racing would become the Indycar superteam. They had more cars than anybody else, their Honda engines were better than the Toyota and Chevrolet engines the competition were running, and the likes of Wheldon, Kanaan, and Franchitti would go on a tear.

Tony Kanaan would win the 2004 championship, Dan Wheldon finished second.

Dan Wheldon won the 2005 championship, Tony Kanaan finished second.

Also in 2005, the team achieved two massive milestones.

First, they swept the top four positions at the Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. The race in Florida was the first IRL event on a road or street circuit rather than an oval, and Andretti dominated it.

Dan Wheldon first, Tony Kanaan second, Dario Franchitti third, and Bryan Herta fourth.

Second, they won their first Indianapolis 500, capping off a career year for Dan Wheldon.

With Wheldon going to Ganassi for 2006, while Chevy and Toyota pulled out - meaning Penske and Ganassi now had those same Honda engines that Andretti was so successful with - marked a bit of a stumble for the team.

Nevertheless, with Marco Andretti replacing Wheldon in the #26, Michael returned for the Indianapolis, the father-son duo finishing second and third, narrowly losing out to Penske's Sam Hornish.

Still, Tony Kanaan won at Milwaukee and Marco won at Sonoma.

2007 marked a return to form, with Dario Franchitti winning at Indianapolis, Iowa, Richmond, and Chicagoland to take his first championship. Five wins for Tony Kanaan ensured he finished third in the standings as well.

Also, Danica Patrick took over the #7 car, putting a woman in top machinery in Indycar for the first time. She'd finish seventh that year, behind Dario and Tony, but ahead of eleventh placed Marco.

In 2008, Tony would win at Richmond to finish third in the standings again, however, the biggest story around Andretti Green Racing that year was Danica Patrick winning at Motegi. Now, a lot of people diminish this win, saying that half the Indycar world was in Long Beach for the the final Champ Car race.

However, those people don't seem to say that for all the wins that Tony, Dario, and Dan Wheldon got for that team.

Furthermore, at this point, the IRL had won the war. Scott Dixon, Helio Castroneves, all the Andretti guys...sure it wasn't a peak field, but neither was Champ Car at this point. There is a reason that the two series had no choice but to merge.

In any case, the team was on a bit of a decline as well, with the team going winless in a 2009 season where Danica beat out TK by seven points to be Andretti's top driver that season, finishing fifth.

Ryan Hunter-Reay would join the team in 2010 - now rebranded from Andretti Green Racing to Andretti Autosport - and lead them back towards the front of the field, eventually winning the championship in 2012 and the Indianapolis 500 in 2014.

Meanwhile, James Hinchcliffe won at St. Pete, Sao Paulo, and Iowa in 2013 to give the team that one-two punch again.

2015 was another struggle, only winning a single win - Detroit Race 1 with Carlos Munoz - but the team bounced back in 2016, with Alexander Rossi winning the Indianapolis 500 in the Andretti/Herta #98.

Takuma Sato in the #26 would give the team back-to-back Indianapolis 500 victories with his win in 2017, the first ever for a Japanese driver.

Then in 2018, wins at Long Beach, Mid-Ohio, and Pocono, Alexander Rossi would finish second in the championship.

Wins at Long Beach and Road America in 2019 would give Rossi another title challenge, finishing third this time.

Rossi - and Andretti proper - would go winless in 2020, but the affiliated Harding-Steinbrenner car of Colton Herta won the second race at Mid-Ohio.

On top of wins at COTA and Laguna Seca in 2019 before Harding-Steinbrenner joined up with Andretti, this marked Colton's ascendancy at the team his dad once drove for. He would finish third in the standings in 2020.

He won St. Pete, Laguna Seca, and Long Beach in 2021 but regressed to fifth, whilst Rossi, Hunter-Reay, and the returning Hinchcliffe all went winless.

A win for Herta at the first IMS Road Course race and a win for Rossi at the second marked a somewhat better 2022, but with Penske and Ganassi continuing their dominance of the series, while Arrow McLaren emerged as best of the rest, it marked a serious decline for Andretti. Especially once Rossi left Andretti to join an expanding Arrow McLaren team.

To add insult to injury, Rossi in ninth was Andretti's best car in 2022.

This got even worse in 2023, when Rossi's replacement, Kyle Kirkwood won at Long Beach and Nashville, but he was eleventh, and Colton Herta was tenth.

This was bad.

The team was making a lot of noise about trying to get into Formula One, and it even rebranded to Andretti Global as part of those efforts, but how were they going to build their own car for Formula One when they weren't even doing well in a spec series like Indycar?

More bad news for 2024 as DHL left the #28 car - most recently driven by Romain Grosjean - to sponsor Alex Palou for 2024. Andretti Global went from four car super team in 2005 to mid table in 2024 - they needed to consolidate resources if they wanted to get back to the front.

So they did.

Colton Herta in the #26 and Kyle Kirkwood in the #27 remained, but the #28 was taken over by Marcus Ericsson, while the #29 of Devlin DeFrancesco went away entirely. The four-car team was down to a comparatively sleek three, and they hoped to consolidate resources.

Well, wins at Toronto and Nashville Superspeedway ensured Colton Herta finished second in the standings, while Kyle Kirkwood was seventh, and Marcus Ericsson was fifteenth.

The team bounced back somewhat, and things looked good in the offseason.

Sure, Andretti seemed no closer to joining Formula One than they had before, but they consolidated resources to improve in Indycar, while getting ready to move into their fancy new headquarters in Fishers, Indiana.

There was some grumblings that two teams held out on signing Indycar's charter agreement all the way up until the final moment, but it wasn't exactly clear who the holdouts were.

Then Michael Andretti announced he was stepping back at Andretti Global. That...was interesting. That could mean he was the hold out, or maybe not.

It could mean that Towriss seized control of the team, or maybe not.

It could be a ploy to win over the Formula One teams, or maybe not.

It's unclear what will happen to Andretti Global going forward, but this is the story of what has happened to Andretti thus far.

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miami nights | l.mh

pairing: Minho x gender neutral!reader genre: fluff, slice of life warnings: cursing, alcohol + underage drinking (be responsible kids) word count: 4.7k notes: — changes made to skz ages: 00 line + jeongin are all graduating high school, mc/changbin/minho/chan have all just graduated college — for the record I don't hate miami as much as this fic might suggest, I'm just really fucking bored here Miami is boring. Minho is less boring. Put two and two together and this city still sucks, but maybe having Minho is enough.

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"I'm bored."

Minho doesn't even bother looking at his camera. "You've said that maybe ten thousand times in the past half hour."

"Yeah, because I meant it." You roll over your bed again. "I'm so fucking bored."

His sigh crackles through the FaceTime call. "Well, it's not like it's New York City, where we could do fucking everything."

"But it's Miami. Sunny Miami." Minho barks out a sharp laugh and you do an impeccable job of ignoring him. "Beach, sun, swamp. People come down here for vacation all the fucking time, there must be something to do."

He holds one hand up to the camera. "Everglades." One finger down. "Wynwood." Another finger. "Some nature estate." A third finger. "Beach." A fourth. And then, a long pause.

"Some other nature estate?" you offer.

Minho flaps his hand at the screen. It's his laptop screen, which you know because he's been glued to his phone for half of the FaceTime. "They're all the same and you know it."

Unfortunately, you do know it. There are only so many times you can walk Vizcaya or sit by the Deering Estate before they all end up coalescing into one big mush of ocean and grass in your brain. Beautiful the first few times. Pretty the next. Then just part of the landscape. Some might say you sound ungrateful, but you've lived here for eighteen damn years. You think you have a right to complain. Besides, how many times can you go to the beach before sand sticks itself so far up your ass that you decide you're never wandering into the ocean's depths again?

It's your turn to sigh this time. "So what are we doing tomorrow? Food? Boba?"

Minho's eating something now, so his voice comes out muffled. "What else is there to do?"

It takes too much effort to roll your eyes so you just stare at the ceiling. "Pick me up at twelve."

. . .

[12:36am] to: minnow just had the most terrifying moment of my life went to get water after everyone had gone to be didn't put on my house slippers bc it was supposed to be quick turned on lights ROACH NOT THREE FUCKING FEET AWAY FROM MY BARE FUCKING FOOT it's dead now but I have to throw it away 🤮 save me

[12:38am] to: minnow HOKY FUCKJNG SHIT IT WAS STILL ALIVEN I TRIEDT O SWEEP IT PU AND IT STARTEDD RUMNING AWAT NOW IT IS FUCKING DEAD oh god there is a separate leg that needs to be swept up I just lost ten years of my life

[12:40am] from: minnow cool

[12:40am] to: minnow I GO THROUGH A LIFE THREATENING EXPERIENCE AND ALL YOU HAVE TO SAY IS COOL

. . .

Seungmin is also there when you and Minho enter the Chipotle, so you end up sitting with him. He looks appropriately done with life, as befits a high school senior. "Oooo, skipping class," Minho singsongs before flicking him in the back of the head.

"Shut up," he mutters, slapping Minho's hand away. Or he would have if Minho wasn't so fast. "It's all useless now, I've already gotten into college."

You just laugh, dumping your Chipotle bowl in front of him. "Fail your AP exams and I disown you as my son," you warn cheerily. You nearly hit your head on one of the cheap fluorescent hanging lights as you sit down on the tall stool. There are fingerprints smeared all over the metal countertop and the cracked covering of the stool scratches your thighs. Maybe it was a mistake to wear shorts today. "What are you going to say if this goes on your permanent record?"

Seungmin gives you the stink eye. "Like they'll stop the valedictorian from graduating," he retorts. "And when the fuck did you two get back? I didn't realize you'd graduated already."

"Aww, missed us?" Minho beams, his eyes and mouth all turning into little slits that make him look far more threatening than he is. Actually, he looks like that meme of the cat staring straight at the camera that looks like it's smiling but its mouth is basically just a line with the slightest curvature at both ends. Felix would know what you're talking about. "We got back two weeks ago."

"And you didn't bother to tell us?" Seungmin sniffs.

"We did," Minho says. "You just don't check the group chat."

"You haven't even tried to congratulate us." You wipe away an imaginary tear.

He rolls his eyes, but you detect a little smile on his face that isn't just your own delusion. "Congrats, or whatever."

"I knew you cared!" you cheer, reaching over the table to give him a hug, despite half of the restaurant glaring at you while Seungmin attempts to fight you off. Minho just watches the whole scene unfold, his usual Cheshire Cat half smile stuck on his face.

Seungmin leaves soon after. You make a dramatic plea for him to stay, complete with a seated reenactment of Caesar's stabbing with Minho as Brutus and by proxy Seungmin, because Seungmin leaving is akin to Brutus stabbing Caesar who is you, or whatever. "No, my favorite child, don't go," you wail even as the workers start looking your way. "I'll buy you boba."

Minho snorts. "What are you, his parent?"

"What are you, a fucking loser?"

The offer of boba doesn't work because Seungmin has physics during his last period so he needs to be back in time to catch that class or his teacher will actually probably write him up (she's an evil old woman), and for all his skipping class Seungmin is still a mostly-goody-two-shoes who doesn't actually want anything horrific on his permanent record. So you and Minho finish your bowls alone with a side of healthy bickering, and then you walk back out into the disgusting heat to Minho's shitty little Toyota Corolla.

You almost don't catch the keys before they hit you in the face. "You drive," Minho says, opening the passenger side door.

"I'm not fucking driving." You drop the keys on his lap. "I only have a permit and I'm not on your stupid car's insurance."

"And I am an adult over twenty one with a license, and I trust that if you fuck up my car, I can throw you under the bus and say I was being kidnapped." He throws them back at your face and you screech. "You need to practice, so drive."

Minho wins because he's already in the passenger seat and the heat is sapping away your will to live, which includes your will to wrestle Minho out of that seat so you can take his place. So you end up in the driver's seat, sweating even more because the air conditioning in this car has been busted since last summer, and then you fudge your way out of the parking lot and down the road.

"If you say a word I will fucking kill you," you say.

Minho rolls his eyes and continues looking at his phone.

You manage to reach the boba shop in one piece. Minho orders his regular and you choose one of the new fruit teas on the menu. You find an empty round table with only minimal spillage in a corner of the shop and sit there in silence, sipping your drinks. You pull out your phone. Minho is still on his.

Ten minutes later, you crack. "This place fucking sucks."

"You just figured that out?" Minho mutters. He's chewing his straw as he obnoxiously slurps a boba pearl into his mouth. He's doing that on purpose just to annoy you but you rise to the bait anyway.

"Don't do that, it's disgusting." You put your phone down. "There's just nothing to fucking do. Almost makes me want to go back to college."

"You sure as hell weren't saying that right before graduation."

You debate the merits of slurping up a boba pearl just to take it out of your mouth and throw it at him. "Because I wasn't in buttfuck shit suburban Miami then."

Minho rolls his eyes. You do not throw the boba pearl, but only because you don't want sticky hands. Instead you lapse back into silence, the only sounds being Minho's occasional slurp and your ensuing complaint.

At two, your boba cup is empty and so is your will to live. You've seen the same Instagram reels at least twice, scrolled through Tumblr to oblivion, even poked at Sidechat before immediately closing the app after reading the first post you saw. You can't figure out the last three words on the New York Times Spelling Bee and you've already reached Genius status for the day so you have very little motivation to continue. "Let's go to Target," you say.

"Sure."

He makes you drive again and you yell at him the entire way because you're shit at directions so you have no idea how to get to Target despite having lived here for over a decade, and he won't stop looking at his phone the entire car ride there even while giving directions. You take a wrong left turn at some point and end up on the highway for five minutes. You blame him, obviously. Minho threatens to buy Starbucks just to pour on your head.

You don't buy Starbucks at Target because you just had boba. Minho picks up some vitamins, which he needs, and you find a weighted unicorn plushie, which you also need. He claims he doesn't need the matching dinosaur plushie but you dump it in his arms anyway and he carries it for an entire two hours until you get to checkout, which tells you everything you need to know. You snatch it out of his arms to pay for it and he threatens again to buy Starbucks to pour over your head. You tell him threats don't work the second time if he doesn't make good on them the first time. Unless you're Hyunjin, who's scared of everything.

You end up getting Starbucks anyway just before you leave because Chan and Changbin got back in town today and instead of being jet lagged like normal people they want to see everyone again, so you text the group chat and end up with nine orders including yours and Minho's. You refuse to drive this time. Minho mocks you the entire way to Changbin's house and you threaten to throw his plushie out the window.

Chan gives good hugs. So does Changbin. It doesn't stop you from making fun of them for being gym bros who don't miss a day to work out, not even during finals week. It also doesn't stop you from mocking Chan for his age.

"We graduated in the same year," he complains.

"But you got a Masters combined with your Bachelors," Minho says, grinning. "You're one degree ahead and you've been in school for five years instead of four so you're old."

Then Seungmin comes swinging through the door, four other gremlins following close behind, and you get to be called old by the five boys you practically raised ("You're not my dad!" "Vine's been dead for over ten years, shut the FUCK up.").

"What's with the plushies?" Felix eventually asks. He's already eyeing your unicorn. You hug it closer. Even though you love Felix, you will not cede that plushie to anyone. 

"Went to Target," Minho says, carrying his dinosaur by the scruff of its neck. "Got plushies. And Starbucks." He leaves out the bit where you spent most of your two hours there snickering at the stupid holiday cards in the gift section and making fun of the Colleen Hoover books randomly displayed around the store, but it's implied.

You all traipse into Changbin's living room because he's the only one with Mario Kart and enough controllers for all of you. It devolves into a big screaming mess within fifteen minutes and someone spills Chan's coffee. No one notices at first but then Minho, mom friend supreme, yells for everyone to shut the fuck up and get towels to clean up the growing mess. Only Chan and Hyunjin respond, Chan because it's his coffee and Hyunjin because Minho is going to make good on his threat to air fry him someday, but Minho bars Chan from cleaning the mess because it's not his fault and it's his coffee so you end up going out to buy him a new one while Hyunjin sops up the spill. Mario Kart continues as usual.

After placing in the bottom half for almost every game in an hour, Jisung switches the game to Smash. After beating Changbin gets boring, you boot him the console and kick Jisung and Minho's collective ass instead. Then the sky is darkening, and you all remember that Changbin's rich kid community has a waterfront view, so Chan shuts off the TV mid-game and you all bicker your way out of the house and to the beach.

The sun is setting and for all that you dislike the beach, the view is nice. Pink and orange rays stream from the horizon and cast a soft glow on the scene that makes everyone look vaguely angelic, even though you all are the furthest from a group of angels you could ever be. You perch on a chunk of limestone and watch Seungmin shove Jisung into the water.

There is a very good reason why Changbin's neighbors hate you all.

The sky gets darker. Minho picks you up with much screaming and dumps you into the water, but on your feet so only your legs get wet. On principle you still have to get revenge so you dump a handful of water over his head and then narrowly escape getting dunked in the ocean by kicking him in the knee before he manages to grab you.

You end up on the rocks again, rough limestone pressing marks into your thighs as you watch the moon slowly pick its way into the sky. Chan and Felix are looking for shells even though this beach is more pebbles than sand, while Seungmin and Jeongin are egging on Hyunjin and Jisung splashing each other in the water. Changbin has spread himself out on the sand and almost looks asleep. Minho sits next to you on the rocks and puts his head on your shoulder. You complain for a bit about his sweaty hair but it's fine.

You're so focused on the sunset that you don't notice that Jisung and Hyunjin are no longer playing fuck-around-and-find-out in the water. You don't even notice that they've come around you from behind. All you do know is that you suddenly hear the click of an iPhone camera and then Jisung whooping behind you.

"The fuck—"

He's holding his phone and it's clear he took a photo of you and by proxy, a photo of Minho. You screech again, on principle, but it's too late. A ping from your phone tells you Jisung has sent the photo to the group chat.

"I'm going to kill you," you promise.

"It's a good photo!" Jisung insists, all the while backing away.

You look at Minho for backup. Instead, you watch him open the message and, after scrutinizing the photo with a nonplussed expression, save it. "What?" he says when he notices your scandalized glare. "It is a good photo."

You look at the picture. With the darkening sky, you and Minho look like shadows on the rock, haloed softly by the last rays of the sun sinking under the horizon. The ocean shimmers gently, waves lapping quietly against the shore. His head is on your shoulder and even though only your backs are in the shot, an air of contentment exudes from the scene. You don't even look sweaty.

Something unknown builds in your stomach, vaguely nostalgic, some kind of sad, but also soft and a little bit sweet. More good than bad but you feel a bit empty, for some reason. "I guess," is all you can answer, and Minho doesn't say anything more. But when you return to Changbin's house, still damp and noisy, you slip into the bathroom and save it to your phone, too.

It is a good photo, after all.

. . .

[12:50am] from: minnow why the fuck are you still online

[12:55am] to: minnow I could ask you the same dipshit

[12:57am] from: minnow I asked first dipshit

[1:01am] to: minnow can't sleep dipshit do something abt it

[1:02am] from: minnow what am I a genie?

[1:02am] to: minnow would it kill you to be nice once in your life

[1:03am] from: minnow yes

[1:05am] to: minnow touché asshole

[1:10am] to: minnow if you go to sleep now tomorrow will come faster

[1:11am] to: minnow you mean another whole day of nothing?

[1:12am] from: minnow see you get it

. . .

[2:15am] to: minnow do you ever wonder what it would be like if we never met (message unsent)

. . .

The kids graduate on a Wednesday morning, so Minho picks you up early. You're sitting at your old piano when he lets himself in, staring at some sheet music you used to be able to play five years ago. You can still play it, as you are currently finding out. Badly. With a lot of wrong notes.

You hit a wrong chord. Minho doesn't even flinch. "You're not dressed," he says.

You wave him off vaguely. "Later," you say, and play the right chord this time.

He doesn't say anything, just lies down on the couch and stares at the ceiling while you plink plunk your way through the rest of the piece. He claps. You get changed. He throws you the car keys. You wrestle him out the passenger seat as peacocks watch menacingly from the front lawn, then threaten to poke his eye out if he tries that again.

Chan and Changbin are already there, responsible adults that they are. You and Minho find them in the stands, the kids' parents sitting a couple of rows down. Chan warns you not to make a scene in front of the adults but he's the loudest when each of the boys walks across the stage, so you heckle him semi-quietly from all sides until the ceremony is over.

The four of you head to Minho's while the five new grads get lunch with their parents. Chan insists it isn't a good idea to day drink so you save the bottles of vodka for when the kids arrive, which they do towards the evening. You play Smash until they show up and you and Minho battle for first place fifteen times in a row.

Minho's parents are out of town but the cats are here, winding around all nine pairs of legs when the kids enter the house, newly graduated, caps and gowns abandoned. Food is ordered, shots are poured, and libations are made for each of the newly minted adults in the room with Chan overseeing everything because he doesn't drink. Half of you are underage but that half are all over eighteen, and you say if they're old enough to get drafted they're old enough to drink. Anyway, the youngest is Jeongin and he once sampled fifty different energy drinks in one sitting because Chan was in LA and he had no supervision. He's still alive. A shot or two won't kill him.

There's Smash. There's Mario Party. There's another round of shots and congratulations to the soon-to-be-college-freshmen, then Seungmin finds a bottle of wine and they pour it out for the college grads too. Your head starts feeling fuzzy halfway through the third round of Mario Kart so you lie down on the ground, and Soonie curls up on your chest so you are legally not allowed to move anymore.

The noise settles into a buzz in the back of your head. You yell when Jisung finally places third in Mario Kart and Minho drops a cat onto your head. Eventually, though, the yelling begins to peter out, and when Jeongin starts snoring around two in the morning, Chan calls it quits and begins arranging people around the couches to sleep.

You're not sleepy, though, so long after everyone else is passed out in various positions around the living room, you head into the kitchen for water. You're still at least tipsy so your reflexes don't do so well when footsteps sound behind you and you try to turn around to see who it is.

Minho, drunk as he is, catches you by the shoulder. "Just me," he mumbles. He only looks a little more alert than you.

You nod and finish your water but you don't feel like going back to the living room, where everyone is snoring and it smells like booze. Instead you go to the dining room and lie under the dining table. Minho joins you shortly after.

"What are we doing here?" he asks.

"Being drunk."

He seems to accept that as an answer. You stare at the bottom of his dining table. You've been to Minho's house so many times over the past few years, but somehow you've never seen the table from this angle. It captures your attention for a few minutes. Or maybe an hour. Time isn't real.

"I'm bored," Minho announces.

You look at him. "That's my line."

"And I stole it."

You huff. "Then what the fuck do you want to do?"

No Target. No boba. No beach, and none of that matters since there's no car because you're both shitfaced. It's some stupid hour of the morning, anyway.

Minho raises his hands. Splays out all his fingers against the underside of the table. "Never have I ever."

You stare. "That's so fucking stupid."

"You're so fucking stupid."

"Your mom's so fucking stupid."

"...You take that back."

"Fine." You relent only because Minho's mom is a lovely woman and even drunk, you already feel bad.

Minho grabs your arm and shoves your hand up next to his. "Never have I ever punched someone in the face."

It's not a hard game to play, even drunk. The rules aren't difficult and you and Minho know enough about each other that each time one of you says something, another finger goes down. Both of you have one finger left and your brains are starting to feel fuzzy not just with alcohol but with drowsiness too, so it takes a bit longer for Minho to think of something. Not that it stops you from being a little shit. "Hurry up."

"I can't fucking think," he complains.

"Then say something both of us have done," you snap, waving your last finger around. "Just hurry up."

"Fine." The air seems to change but you're too drunk to really pay attention to it. "Never have I ever been kissed." He folds his last finger.

You don't.

There's a beat of silence. Even without looking you can feel Minho's eyes roving from your still lifted finger down your arm and over to your face, where you are still resolutely staring at the dining table bottom and not back at him. "You've never been kissed," he says, almost incredulous.

You snort. You won the game, but the single finger you're still holding up looks really, really sad. "No need to rub it in."

He grabs your shoulder and that forces you to look at him. You blink. He doesn't say anything and for several seconds or seventy-two hours you don't either. "What the fuck do you want?" you eventually mumble.

"Just shut up," he says, and kisses you.

Minho seems cold but he's actually very warm, a fact that you are reminded of when he presses his lips to yours. Your hand falls limply, the lone finger forgotten as he pulls you to him. His eyes are closed and after a moment yours shut too. You don't know if you can look at him now. It's already too much just to feel.

You pull away for air. Minho holds up your hand and folds all fingers down. "Now you've been kissed," he says. You can't read his expression in the darkness.

"Why?"

Cat eyes seem to glow in the dark. "Because I've liked you since we met, and I think you like me too."

You like me too.

You roll the sentence around your mind, feeling the words bounce off your skull. Minho is mean. Kind. Annoying. Pretty. He knows your boba order and doesn't talk when you don't need to listen. His cats like you and you like them. He complains that you're boring but he hangs out with you all the time and he has never made you feel less than what you are, even when you play the piano shittily in front of him. You think of the photo Jisung took of you two last week and how you've made it your phone's home screen. You think of perfunctory complaints, a sunset, and his head on your shoulder with a weird feeling in your stomach.

You hold his hand. "I guess you're right."

He smiles. You can see it in the dark. And it's not the patented Cheshire Cat grin of evil and mischief; not really, at least. It's softer and sweeter and you recognize it as one of the sides of Minho that he rarely shares. Like when a cat allows you to rub its belly and purrs instead of scratching.

You end up in his room, still on the floor because the bed is too annoying to get to. He's lying on his back, dinosaur plushie under his head, and you're draped over his stomach. You can feel him breathing slowly, steadily, softly.

"Do you ever wonder what it would be like if we never met?"

"...Could you just let me fucking sleep?"

"Be so for fucking real."

You can hear him rolling his eyes, but you can also hear him collecting his thoughts. "Well," he says, and you think he might be smiling, "Miami would be a lot more boring without you."

. . .

[9:14am] from: minnow before you try to overthink things yes I meant what I said last night tell chan if he wakes me up again I'll egg his car when he least expects it

. . .

Miami is stupid. There are peacocks and alligators and iguanas that fall out of trees in the winter. It's sunny all the fucking time and if it isn't it's pouring rain and in both cases there are mosquitoes out for your blood. Every time you walk outside it feels like you're melting into soup and the invasive ducks will give chase the moment you show weakness or fear. Cockroaches roam your home. So do weird millipedes and tiny lizards and idiot moths. Everything is hot and humid and stupid, and it's boring.

"I'm bored."

Minho rolls his eyes. "You are incredibly fucking annoying."

You pinch him. "Yeah, because I'm fucking bored."

"We could kiss."

Contemplative silence on your end.

"...Solid plan."

You hate this fucking place. It's boring and there's nothing to do but go to the beach or become one with the pavement. But there's Minho, and you'll never admit it if anyone asks, but you think that might be enough.

. . .

[6:45pm] to: minnow open ur fucking door

[6:45pm] from: minnow what happened to please and thank you

[6:46pm] to: minnow I will throw your boba in the sewer so fucking fast

[6:46pm] from: minnow you wouldn't dare

[6:47pm] to: minnow [image attached] don't underestimate me

[6:47pm] from: minnow I'm opening the door I'm opening the fucking door don't fucking do it

[6:48pm] to: minnow I knew you loved me

[6:49pm] from: minnow god I fucking hate you

[6:50pm] to: minnow aw I love you too <3

[6:51pm] from: minnow jesus fucking christ

[6:41pm] to: minnow say it back babe ik you want to

[6:42pm] from: minnow for fuck's sake I love you too

Reblogs and comments are deeply appreciated! Hope you enjoyed this, and have a lovely day :)

[beardedmrbean]

Three brothers in a celebrity real estate family were charged with sex trafficking conspiracy in a case involving "dozens of victims" from Miami Beach to New York, prosecutors said Wednesday.

Twins Oren and Alon Alexander and their elder brother Tal were charged with working together to "repeatedly and violently drug, sexually assault, and rape dozens of victims," according to a federal indictment filed in New York.

They were arrested Wednesday in Miami. The charges come in the wake of a string of lawsuits accusing the brothers of rape and sexual assault.

'Drugged' victims

Damian Williams, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan, said all three brothers had used "force, threats of force, fraud, and coercion" in sexually assaulting women for more than a decade.

"This conduct, as alleged, is heinous," Williams told reporters.

Some of the victims who were drugged found themselves unable to speak or to move, leaving them unable to escape, and were left with partial memories of their assaults, Williams said.

Oren and Alon Alexander were also facing separate sexual battery charges in Miami Beach, according to arrest warrants made public Wednesday afternoon.

"Oren Alexander is innocent," his lawyer, Susan Necheles, told USA TODAY. "The evidence will show that neither he nor his brothers ever committed a crime."

Lawyers for Tal and Alon Alexander could not immediately be reached for comment Wednesday.

Civil lawsuits against the Alexander brothers

The Alexander brothers – telegenic twins Oren and Alon, and their elder brother Tal – have been the subject of several lawsuits by women alleging they were raped and possibly drugged.

Until news broke of the sexual assault allegations, Oren and Alon Alexander were fixtures of the jet set, attending glitzy parties in Miami, New York and partying in the Mediterranean.

Oren and Tal Alexander run the Alexander Team, which boasts of brokering sales worth more than $7 billion in luxury markets including New York, South Florida, and Aspen, Colorado.

“We are glad to hear that there will finally be some measure of accountability for the Alexander brothers and justice for their many victims," the law firm Wigdor LLP, which represents several women who've accused the Alexanders of rape, said in a statement.  "We applaud all the survivors who have had the strength and courage to speak up about their unimaginable experiences after years of pain and suffering.”

Witnesses spoke of 'gang rapes'

In a memo asking a federal judge to deny bail, prosecutors wrote that witnesses and victims told investigators the Alexanders had been raping women since they were in high school.

"Evidence from the investigation, including multiple victim and witness accounts, shows that the Alexander Brothers began engaging in acts of sexual violence, including gang rapes, while still in high school in Miami, Florida," the memo says.

"Each of the victims that the Government has interviewed from this period reported hearing that individuals involved −including Tal Alexander − talked about the assaults at school, boasting about 'running train' on their victims and saying that they wanted to 'do it again.'"

New York Magazine cited witnesses in an August article who said the brothers often spoke of "running a train," slang for the act of gang rape, when they were in school.

In their senior year at Michael M. Krop Senior High School in North Miami, Oren and Alon Alexander's yearbook included a page with the question, “What was your most memorable moment at Krop?”

According to New York Magazine, Oren Alexander replied: “Riding my first ‘choo-choo’ train.”

The twins graduated in 2005.

Eleven years later, as Tal, Oren and Alon Alexander planned a 2016 trip to Tulum, Mexico, with male friends, women flown in for entertainment, and drugs including GHB − considered a "date rape" drug under federal law − the term appeared again in a group chat.

"I don’t want anyone being upset if they don’t run a 10 man train," an unidentified member of the group wrote.

Miami charges

In affidavits, Miami Beach Police detectives accused Alon Alexander in the October 2021 group sexual assault of a woman lured to a luxury apartment on Miami Beach's beachfron Collins Avenue under the pretext of attending a barbeque. Oren Alexander also joined that assault, the victim told Miami Beach Police Det. David Alvarez. An Alexander cousin, Ohad Fisherman, is at large, Dade County prosecutors said.

More than 30 women have alleged they were raped by Oren Alexander, Alon Alexander, or both brothers, according to a lawsuit filed by model Angelica Parker.

Parker charged that she was raped by Alon and Tal Alexander in 2012 while their brother Oren watched. They denied the allegations.

No bail, prosecutors urge

In a letter to U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni, prosecutors asked that the three brothers be held without bail., citing the nature of the crimes they're accused of, their wealth and close connections to Israel, where extradition to the U.S. can be a "drawn-out" process.

"After relying on their substantial wealth and connections to carry out and conceal their crimes for years, all three defendants now face charges carrying potential sentences in prison of fifteen years to life," assistant U.S. attorneys Kaiya Arroyo and Elizabeth A. Espinosa wrote.

The three brothers "pose an ongoing and significant danger to the community and present a serious risk of flight," the prosecutors said.

[ludmilachaibemachado]

Diane Levine with John Lennon in the background while in Miami, Florida, February of 1964. Photographed by Paul McCartney🌻🌻🌻

Diane Levine was born in June of 1946 in Miami, Florida. Diane was attending Miami Beach High School as a senior at the time when Paul McCartney was in Miami in February of 1964. Diane and her friends, Barbara Turchin and Carol Olesky, were at the beach and. they heard sirens and saw The Beatles running around posing for the press. Paul invited Diane to see the Beatles at The Ed Sullivan Show at the Deauville Hotel. She left during an after party in the hotel room and gave the guard her contact information (including her father's office). The next day while visiting her father's office after school, he informed her that Paul called him. They doubled dated with Ringo and Barbara to a drive-in movie. By 1984, Diane married, had three children, and moved to Hawail🎍🎍🎍

"It's not like l was a spectacular beauty. I was really quite shy. He had sand and water on his hand. He sort of wiped his hand on his bathing suit and shook my hand. Then he said, 'Come with me.' We ran toward a house where the entourage was. He sat me down and just started to joke immediately. I felt so at home with Paul. We had this Gemini thing in common, I suppose. We really clicked. It was very nice. After we talked for about 45 minutes, he was whisked away. He yelled out form the car window, 'come to the concert.' So l went to the Deauville Hotel, but I didn't have a ticket. A man who had been taking our pictures on the beach came running out. He said, 'Wait, I'll get you into the show. Paul said he wants to see you! When the show was over, I was taken up to the room. The Beatles were just as excited about the show as everyone else. After they left, the hotel guard told me I had to leave. I gave the guard a note thanking the Beatles and wishing them luck. I said I was sorry I didn't get a chance to say goodbye. I left my father's number and my home number. Then next day, when I dropped by my father's office after school, he said, 'Who is this Paul McCartney calling you?'" -Diane🌹🌹🌹

Via @thebestleswomen on Instagram🍂🍂🍂

[fiapple]

“This article contains discussion of fatal violence against a Black transgender person.

Tee Arnold, a Black transgender man also known to his friends and family as Lagend Billions, was shot in Hallandale Beach, Florida on April 3. Arnold died from his injuries in HCA Florida Aventura Hospital on April 7. He was 36 years old.

According to ABC affiliate WPLG, Arnold was shot near a shopping complex at around 1:30 a.m., and was transported to HCA Florida Aventura Hospital in critical condition. He died four days later. Police told WPLG that they do not believe the shooting was a hate crime, but rather an ‘isolated incident,’ adding they had identified a woman who knew Arnold as one suspect. In a Facebook post on the night of April 1, just over 24 hours before the shooting, Arnold wrote that someone had placed ‘a reward on [his] head’ and said they wanted to kill him.

Arnold attended Miami Central Senior High School and went on to study at Florida Memorial University, a Baptist and historically Black university (HBCU), according to his social media profiles. In social media posts reviewed by Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents (PLC), friends and family mourned Arnold’s ‘greatness, laughter, and good energy,’ recalling his compassion and willingness to help during difficult times.”

Rest in power Tee Arnold.

[corpish]

10 random facts about your childhood/teenage self and 10 about your adult self.

10 fun facts about my childhood/teenage self:

I learned (and still know) how to play piano, marimba, and various percussion instruments (ex. snare drum, drumset, etc)

My most-eaten food until college was peanut butter sandwiches (honestly, I feel like I averaged 1-2 a day)

In high school, I got paid to perform "Love is an Open Door" as Hans (my friend was Anna) for a child's birthday party

I bought my first laptop from my hometown priest

In like 5th grade, I unfortunately got a really bad haircut once and my family and I agreed not to take photos of me until it grew out (so there's like literally no photo evidence, but it sucked and I def cried lol)

Two friends and I had a YouTube channel in middle school where we would do sketch/improv comedy

In high school, I did an internship with Univision, got to help do lighting production for the 2015 Premios Juventud award show in Miami, and ~technically~ worked for artists like Pitbull, J Balvin, Maluma, Karol G, and Fifth Harmony

I was really into music mashups to the point where I taught myself how to use music software and made a ton of mashups of my own

In middle school, I once won a hula hoop competition

I decided on a somewhat whim to run for senior class president in high school and won, becoming the first Latinx president in my school's history(!!)

10 fun facts about my adult self:

In college, I gave a TEDx talk a niche topic I'm passionate about regarding the intersection of music and politics

I flew on an airplane for the first time and spent a month and a half backpacking across northern Spain

I was once interviewed by Ziwe on her TikTok Live

In college, I mentored a guy who's now an NBA All-Star?!? (Darius Garland!! the main reason I've semi-kept up with the NBA)

I worked as a radio host in Nashville for a little while and got to interview artists like the Jonas Brothers, Lady A, and one of the Fifth Harmony girls (her hairstylist also found me on insta and asked to hook up lmaoo)

I candidly have over 200+ playlists on Spotify...

This year I officiated a wedding for the first time! (for two of my friends from high school!)

I've really gotten into songwriting over the past few years and written a bunch of songs for fun and therapeutic reasons

I had my first threesome and foursome last autumn, the latter of which led to my bf and I becoming more than "just friends" lol

I saw Post Malone and hung out backstage for free earlier this summer because my cousin opened for him??? (his band is Beach Fossils!!)

ask me anything!

[kennedyxneills]

[ meghann fahy, cis-female, she/her ] - was that KENNEDY O’NEILL i saw by the lighthouse today? i heard that the THIRTY-ONE year old who has been in nightrest for HER WHOLE LIFE and works as an EMPLOYEE OF THE TREASURE TROVE & PHOTOGRAPHER has a reputation of being HOPEFUL, but also MULISH. they reside in ASHMORE & people in town usually associate them with THE GENTLE, RHYTHMIC THUD OF A CAMERA AS IT HANGS FROM YOUR NECK, SITTING AT THE EDGE OF THE DOCK BUT NEVER TOUCHING THE WATER, & HAND-ME-DOWN SWEATERS LOSING THEIR DISTINCT SMELL. let’s hope the killer doesn’t go after them next. 

tw: abandonment, parent death, grief

Kennedy's parents, Rory and Andrea were in their senior year of high school when they'd found out they were expecting. Unexpectedly expecting. There were nerves of course and plenty of worries, but Rory was so excited to be a father. Andrea felt differently. She'd tried after the birth, but soon enough all her friends were going off to college, living their lives, and then there she was. Stuck. See, Andrea had dreams of leaving Nightrest, moving out to maybe somewhere warm like Miami or even Los Angeles, becoming more than just another generation of her family that stayed. The resentment in her grew until finally in October she left, leaving behind the title of 'mother' that she never wanted.

Kennedy's father did as good a job as he could to fill in whatever gaps had been left. As a single father, he'd had to work extra hard to provide and always put that extra bit more of time and attention to let Kennedy know she was loved. They were a pair.

Nearly mirroring her parents, she had been a senior (this time in college) when she'd received news that would change her world. Her father, a commercial fisherman, hadn't made it back on their last outing. They'd said that the storm came up on them faster than they'd thought. Something about the waves being so tall. Nine years and his body was never recovered. Rory O'Neill: presumed dead.

Her father's death shattered Kennedy. She opted not to return to her classes, leaving college just shy of earning her degree in marketing. She fully returned to their home in Ashmore, to this day still struggling to make changes to the master bedroom. She returned back to the job she held in high school. Kennedy sought comfort in what parts of the past she could still hold onto.

Though it has been years since, Kennedy still has not gotten into the water. The closest she'd gotten has been letting the waves run up to her ankles on the beach or when she visits her father's motorboat at the old port. Plenty of people find it odd of her, considering the area they live. Her life was practically built around the water. She just felt more trusting of dry land nowadays.

Despite the lingering sadness, Kennedy truly tries to live each day better than the one before it. So even if there are tears in her eyes, she'll still have a soft smile on. Over the years she's found that it helps to surround herself with other people. Admittedly, sometimes that can lead to her being a little dependent and clingy. After a particularly toxic relationship, Kennedy realizes its something that she needs to work on.

Kennedy has always been a creative kid, a trait she had apparently gotten from her mother. She'd always looked forward to vacations or special occasions when she'd get a disposable camera of her own. There were still several shoeboxes filled with memories. And as she got older, her hobby continued and matured until just the last few years when she started making a side hustle of it. She's by no means getting her work in magazines, but she does a fair bit of the engagement, graduation, baby announcements, and of course the family photos (usually when they're all wearing some form of white button-ups). She'll usually have her camera on her, whether around her neck or in her cluttered monster of a bag— some days she can really give Mary Poppins a run for her money with the amount of stuff she's got crammed in there.

A recent change came on her last birthday, when her grandfather gifted her a cat. Clearly not keen to the rule that animals aren't gifts, he had insisted that Kennedy had needed a companion. "Can't keep living in that house all alone, Peanut." Kennedy still debates on whether he had forgotten that her father had been allergic or whether that had been a purposeful choice. Either way, a black cat named Fitz entered her life and now takes residence mostly in the front window where the sun shines brightest. They both enjoy rainy nights on the couch with trashy television on the screen with wine and charcuterie. Sometimes (most times) he'll earn himself a nibble of cheddar.

Around town, if she's not at her job, Kennedy can usually be found editing photos while sipping on cold brew at the Daily Dose, treating herself to a cocktail and specialty plate at Spirits, or strolling one of the many beaches. Usually, it's Echo but on occasion she'll go to Shipwreck, finding some odd sort of comfort there.

wanted connections:

best friend(s)

friends

old friends

drinking buddies

exes

ex from the toxic relationship - would love to plot this out, around the timeframe of just after her father passed.

fwb

one-night stand

enemy/do not get along

regular customer

photography customer

people that were close to her dad

maybe even someone that knew her mom, whether in nightrest or not.

old coworker

neighbors

plentyyyy more

[lboogie1906]

Chad Ochocinco Johnson (Chad Javon Johnson; January 9, 1978) known as Chad Ochocinco is a former football player who was a wide receiver. He played college football for Santa Monica College and Oregon State University and played 11 seasons in the NFL for the Cincinnati Bengals and the New England Patriots. He was drafted by the Bengals in the second round of the 2001 NFL Draft and played for the Bengals for 10 seasons. Ochocinco, which means “eight five” in Spanish, was his number. In 2011, he was traded to the Patriots, for whom he played in Super Bowl XLVI. In 2012, he played for the Miami Dolphins during the preseason but was released following his arrest for domestic violence. He played for the Montreal Alouettes of the CFL (2014-15) and played one game in 2017 for the Mexican team Monterrey Fundidores of the Liga de Fútbol Americano Profesional. He emerged as one of the NFL’s most productive wide receivers of the 2000s and owns nearly every Bengals receiving record.

In April 2011, CNBC listed him as @ on its list of “Most Influential Athletes In Social Media”. He was a six-time NFL Pro Bowler, was named to four All-Pro teams, and was voted as the #1 wide receiver on the Bengals 40th Anniversary team.

He was born in Miami. He graduated from Miami Beach Senior High School. He attended Langston University. He did not play football at the school. In 1997, he transferred to Santa Monica College.

In 2000, he transferred to Oregon State University, after being recruited to play. He led his team to an 11–1 season and a 41–9 victory over Notre Dame in the Fiesta Bowl that year. He broke a school record for the longest touchdown reception with a 97-yard reception in a game against Stanford. In his one season at the school, he played in 12 games and recorded 37 receptions for 886 yards and 8 touchdowns.

He is currently a panelist on the weekly highlight show Inside the NFL a role he has held since the show first moved to The CW in 2023.

He married Basketball Wives star Evelyn Lozada (2012-13). He has 9 children. His son, Chad Jr., is a wide receiver at Arizona State University. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[medicalcentermiami]

How Can a Medical Center in North Miami Beach Help You with Preventive Care?

A trusted medical center in North Miami Beach is key to helping you stay healthy through preventive care. Preventive care focuses on stopping health issues before they start, saving you time, stress, and money. A North Miami Beach medical center ensures you and your family stay on top of your health by offering regular checkups, screenings, and personalized advice.

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Nutrition advice to help with weight management

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Preventive care is critical for children to ensure their growth and development stay on track. Medical centers in North Miami Beach provide pediatric care that focuses on early detection and protection.

Key services include:

Vaccinations and wellness checkups

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Pediatricians work closely with parents to address concerns and provide nutrition, sleep, and activity guidance. Regular checkups help children build a strong foundation for lifelong health.

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As we age, preventive care becomes even more important. A North Miami Beach medical center offers specialized care for seniors to help them stay active and independent.

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Screenings for osteoporosis, memory loss, and heart disease

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Services include:

Counseling and referrals for therapy

Stress and anxiety management programs

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By focusing on mental health, preventive care ensures you are physically and emotionally healthy.

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These include:

Annual pap smears and mammograms

Birth control consultations and family planning

Screenings for breast and cervical cancers

Regular preventive care helps women detect and address health concerns early, ensuring long-term health and wellness.

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One of the most valuable benefits of visiting a North Miami Beach medical center is building a trusted relationship with your doctor. Over time, your doctor learns your health history, lifestyle, and concerns.

Benefits of this relationship include:

Personalized care tailored to your needs

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This long-term partnership allows for consistent care and better health outcomes over time.

Final Thoughts

A Medical Center in North Miami Beach is your partner in preventive care, helping you stay healthy at every stage of life. From routine checkups and vaccinations to lifestyle counseling and screenings, preventive care stops problems before they start.

By focusing on early detection, wellness, and personalized care, North Miami Beach medical centers make it easy for you and your family to prioritize health. Schedule your preventive care visit today to take the first step toward a healthier future.

[conandaily2022]

Niv Alexander biography: 20 things about New York City journalist

Who is Niv Alexander? Niv Alexander is an Israeli-American man who attended North Miami Beach Senior High School in North Miami Beach, Florida, United States, Miami Dade College in Miami, Florida, the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida, USA and Florida International University in University Park, Florida. He is a former journalist and he speaks English and Hebrew. In 1982,…

[mannawealthmanagement]

Retiring in Florida: A Comprehensive Guide

Florida is a top choice for retirees, offering a blend of beautiful weather, tax benefits, and vibrant communities. This guide provides detailed insights into why Florida is an ideal retirement destination and how you can make the most of your golden years in the Sunshine State.

Why Retire in Florida?

Ideal Climate

Florida's warm climate is one of its biggest draws for retirees. With mild winters and plenty of sunshine year-round, you can enjoy outdoor activities without the harsh weather conditions found in other parts of the country.

Tax Benefits

Florida is one of the few states with no state income tax. This can significantly benefit retirees living on a fixed income, as it allows them to stretch their retirement savings further. Additionally, there are no taxes on Social Security benefits, pensions, IRAs, or 401(k)s.

Affordable Living

While certain areas in Florida can be expensive, many regions offer affordable living options. The cost of living in Florida is generally lower than in many northern states, especially when it comes to housing and healthcare.

Best Places to Retire in Florida

The Villages

Known as one of the fastest-growing retirement communities in the U.S., The Villages offers a variety of amenities, including golf courses, recreational centers, and social clubs. The community is designed with retirees in mind, providing a safe and engaging environment.

Sarasota

Sarasota is renowned for its cultural attractions, including theaters, museums, and art galleries. Its beautiful beaches and high-quality healthcare facilities make it an attractive destination for retirees looking for a mix of relaxation and cultural enrichment.

Naples

Naples offers a luxurious retirement experience with its upscale dining, shopping, and golf courses. It's known for its beautiful beaches and high standard of living. While it can be more expensive, the quality of life in Naples is unparalleled.

Healthcare in Florida

Top Medical Facilities

Florida is home to some of the best healthcare facilities in the country. Hospitals such as the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville and Cleveland Clinic in Weston provide top-notch medical care, ensuring that retirees have access to high-quality healthcare services.

Senior Health Programs

The state offers various health programs specifically designed for seniors. These include wellness programs, preventive care, and chronic disease management, which help retirees maintain their health and well-being.

Activities and Lifestyle

Outdoor Activities

With its extensive coastline, Florida offers numerous outdoor activities such as boating, fishing, and beachcombing. The state's many parks and nature reserves also provide excellent opportunities for hiking, bird-watching, and picnicking.

Cultural Attractions

Florida is rich in cultural attractions. Retirees can enjoy a plethora of museums, theaters, and music venues. Cities like Miami and Orlando host numerous festivals and events throughout the year, ensuring there's always something to do.

Social Clubs and Communities

Florida's retirement communities are known for their social activities. Many communities offer clubs and groups centered around hobbies, fitness, and travel, making it easy for retirees to meet new friends and stay active.

Housing Options for Retirees

Retirement Communities

Florida boasts a wide range of retirement communities, each offering unique amenities and lifestyles. From independent living facilities to assisted living and memory care units, there's something to suit every need and preference.

Beachfront Properties

For those who dream of living by the ocean, Florida offers a variety of beachfront properties. Whether you're looking for a condo with a view or a cozy cottage by the sea, you'll find plenty of options to choose from.

Golf Course Homes

Golf enthusiasts will appreciate the numerous homes available on or near golf courses. These properties often come with access to exclusive golf clubs and courses, providing endless opportunities to enjoy the sport.

Financial Planning for Retirement in Florida

Budgeting

It's essential to create a realistic budget that takes into account Florida's cost of living. Consider factors such as housing, healthcare, and daily expenses to ensure your retirement savings will last.

Investment Opportunities

Florida offers various investment opportunities, particularly in real estate. Many retirees choose to invest in rental properties or vacation homes to generate additional income.

Estate Planning

Proper estate planning is crucial to ensure your assets are distributed according to your wishes. Florida has specific laws regarding wills and trusts, so it's important to work with a local attorney to navigate these regulations.

Conclusion

Retiring in Florida offers numerous benefits, from tax advantages to a vibrant lifestyle. By choosing the right location, planning your finances, and taking advantage of the state's amenities, you can enjoy a fulfilling and comfortable retirement in the Sunshine State.

With its sunny weather, tax advantages, and diverse living options, Florida stands out as a prime destination for retirees. Plan wisely and make the most of what the Sunshine State has to offer to ensure a happy and fulfilling retirement.

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Senior Trip Ideas: Celebrate Your Success

Senior trip ideas are an important rite of passage for many high school students. It's a chance to celebrate the end of an era and the beginning of a new chapter in life. The trip should be memorable, fun, and rewarding. Depending on your budget, interests, and location, countless destinations can make a great senior trip. This article will explore some of the best senior trip ideas to help you plan the perfect trip. Beach Vacation A beach vacation is one of the classic and popular choices in senior trip ideas, and for a good reason. There's nothing quite like the feeling of sand between your toes, the sound of waves crashing on the shore, and the warm sun on your skin. Beach destinations offer various activities, from swimming and surfing to snorkeling and parasailing. You can also take long walks along the beach, collect seashells, and build sandcastles. Many beach towns also offer lively nightlife, with bars, clubs, and restaurants that cater to young adults. Whether you prefer a quiet retreat or a lively party scene, a beach vacation is perfect for you and your friends. Beach destinations come in all shapes and sizes, from the tropical paradise of Hawaii to the bustling boardwalk of Miami Beach. You can rent a beach house or a condo, and spend your days lounging on the beach, playing beach volleyball, or taking a boat tour. Ski Trip A ski trip is another popular option for senior trip ideas, especially for those who enjoy winter sports and outdoor activities. Ski resorts offer various activities, from skiing and snowboarding to ice skating and snowshoeing. You can also take ski lessons, rent equipment, and explore the mountain scenery on a guided tour. Ski resorts offer plenty of après-ski activities, such as hot tubs, spas, and nightlife. You can stay in a cozy cabin or a luxury hotel and enjoy the warmth of a fireplace after a day on the slopes. Ski destinations come in all shapes and sizes, from the world-famous resorts of Aspen and Vail to the charming ski towns of Vermont and Colorado. Whether you prefer a challenging black diamond run or a leisurely beginner slope, there's a ski trip that's perfect for you and your friends. Road Trip A road trip is a classic and adventurous choice for a senior trip, allowing you to explore the beauty and diversity of the country. Road trips offer endless possibilities for fun and discovery, from trying new foods to visiting roadside attractions. You can choose a route that takes you through national parks, small towns, and big cities and enjoy the freedom of the open road. You can bond with your friends over long conversations, sing-alongs, and games. Road trips can be budget-friendly, as you can camp, stay in motels, or rent an RV. Or, you can splurge on luxury hotels and gourmet meals. Road trip destinations come in all shapes and sizes, from the iconic Route 66 to the scenic Pacific Coast Highway. Whether you prefer the rugged beauty of the Southwest or the historic charm of the East Coast, a road trip is perfect for you and your friends. Theme Park A theme park is a fun and exciting choice for a senior trip, especially for those who enjoy thrill rides and entertainment. Theme parks come in all sizes and themes, from the classic Disneyland and Disney World to the thrilling Six Flags and Universal Studios. Theme parks offer various attractions, from roller coasters and water rides to live shows and parades. You can enjoy delicious snacks and meals, shop for souvenirs, and take memorable photos with your favorite characters. You can choose a park that suits your interests and preferences, whether you prefer a magical kingdom, a superhero universe, or a wild water park. Many theme parks also offer special packages and discounts for large groups, making it a budget-friendly option for a senior trip. Whether you prefer to scream on a high-speed coaster or relax on a lazy river, there's a theme park perfect for you and your friends. Cultural Experience A cultural experience is a unique and enriching choice for a senior trip, especially for those who enjoy learning about history, art, and traditions. Cultural experiences can be found worldwide, from the ancient ruins of Rome and Athens to the vibrant markets of Marrakesh and Bangkok. Cultural destinations offer various experiences, from visiting museums and galleries to attending festivals and performances. You can also explore historical landmarks, monuments, and architecture and immerse yourself in local customs and lifestyles. You can choose a destination that interests you and your friends, whether you prefer the beauty of Renaissance art, the mystery of ancient civilizations, or the diversity of modern cultures. Whether you prefer a guided tour or independent exploration, there's a cultural experience that's perfect for you and your friends. Depending on the location, cultural experiences can also be combined with outdoor activities, such as hiking, biking, or skiing. Volunteer Trip A volunteer trip is a meaningful and rewarding choice for a senior trip, especially for those who want to give back to the community and make a positive impact. Volunteer destinations offer many opportunities, from working with children and animals to building homes and restoring natural habitats. You can choose a project that aligns with your interests and skills, whether you prefer teaching, construction, healthcare, or conservation. You can also learn about the local culture and customs and meet people from different backgrounds and lifestyles. Volunteer trips can be found worldwide, from the rural villages of Africa and Asia to the urban centers of Latin America and Europe. Depending on the location and project, volunteer trips can also be combined with cultural and outdoor activities. Many volunteer organizations provide accommodations, meals, and transportation, offering support and training throughout the trip. Whether you prefer a short-term or long-term commitment, a volunteer trip is perfect for you and your friends. Outdoor Adventure An outdoor adventure is a thrilling and exciting choice for a senior trip, especially for those who love to explore nature and challenge themselves. Outdoor destinations offer various activities, from hiking and camping to rafting and rock climbing. You can also go on a wildlife safari, take a hot air balloon ride, or try skydiving or bungee jumping. Outdoor adventures can be found worldwide, from the majestic peaks of the Himalayas and the Andes to the vast wilderness of Alaska and the Australian Outback. You can choose a destination that suits your preferences and fitness level, whether you prefer a leisurely nature walk or an adrenaline-fueled expedition. Outdoor adventures can also be combined with cultural and culinary experiences, depending on the location and itinerary. Many outdoor adventure companies provide expert guides, equipment, and safety measures and offer customized packages for groups. Whether you prefer to admire scenic vistas or conquer challenging trails, there's an outdoor adventure that's perfect for you and your friends. International Trip An international trip is an exciting and enriching choice for a senior trip, especially for those who want to experience different cultures, languages, and lifestyles. International destinations offer various experiences, from sightseeing and shopping to dining and nightlife. You can also learn about the country's history and traditions and meet people from different backgrounds and perspectives. International trips can be found all over the world, from the romantic streets of Paris and Venice to the bustling markets of Tokyo and Mumbai. You can choose a destination that suits your interests and budget, whether you prefer a beach resort, a cultural capital, or an adventure hub. Whether you prefer a group tour or independent travel, an international trip is perfect for you and your friends. International trips can also be combined with language courses, internships, or volunteer projects, depending on your goals and interests. Many international travel agencies provide comprehensive packages, including flights, accommodations, meals, and tours, and offer support and guidance throughout the trip. However, international travel also requires careful planning and preparation, including obtaining visas, vaccinations, and travel insurance. Cruise A cruise is a luxurious and relaxing choice for a senior trip, especially for those who want to indulge in fine dining, entertainment, and spa treatments while exploring multiple destinations. Cruise ships offer many amenities, from pools and fitness centers to theaters and casinos. You can also enjoy various activities, such as cooking classes, art auctions, and dance parties, or simply lounge on the deck and enjoy the ocean breeze. Cruises can be found all over the world, from the Caribbean and the Mediterranean to Alaska and the South Pacific. You can choose a cruise line that suits your preferences and budget, whether you prefer a family-friendly or adult-only environment, a large or small ship, or a themed or traditional itinerary. Cruises also offer the flexibility of choosing activities and excursions or joining organized tours and activities. Many cruise lines provide all-inclusive packages, including accommodations, meals, drinks, and entertainment, and offer special discounts and perks for seniors. However, cruising also requires careful consideration of safety measures and health precautions, such as vaccination requirements and COVID-19 protocols. Whether you prefer a leisurely cruise or an adventurous expedition, there's a cruise that's perfect for you and your friends. College Tour A college tour is an informative and inspiring choice for a senior trip, especially for those planning to pursue higher education or explore different academic options. College tours offer a unique opportunity to visit multiple campuses, meet current students and faculty members, and learn about the admission process and academic programs. You can also explore the surrounding community and attractions and get a sense of college life and culture. College tours can be found nationwide, from Ivy League universities and liberal arts colleges to state schools and community colleges. You can choose a tour that suits your academic interests and preferences, whether you prefer a large or small campus, a rural or urban setting, or a research or teaching institution. Depending on the location and itinerary, college tours can also be combined with cultural and recreational activities. Whether you prefer a comprehensive or selective tour, there's a college tour that's perfect for you and your friends. Many college tour companies provide expert guides, transportation, and accommodation and offer personalized and customized packages for groups. However, college tours also require careful planning and research, including selecting the right colleges, scheduling appointments and tours, and preparing questions and documents. Conclusion In conclusion, senior trip ideas offer a wide range of options for graduating students to create lasting memories and celebrate their achievements. Whether you prefer a relaxing beach vacation or an adventurous outdoor expedition, a cultural immersion, or a thrilling theme park ride, there's a trip that suits your interests, budget, and preferences. Senior trips also allow for bonding with friends, exploring new places, and gaining valuable experiences and insights. However, senior trips also require careful planning, research, preparation, and adherence to safety measures and health precautions. Whatever trip you choose, make sure to make the most of it, cherish the moments, and come back with stories to tell for years to come. So, pack your bags, gather your friends, and embark on an unforgettable senior trip ideas adventure! Read the full article

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Barbara Turchin and Ringo Starr on the beach in Miami, Florida, February of 1964🍀🍀🍀

Barbara A. Turchin was born on February 3, 1946 in Miami, Florida. Barbara was attending Miami Beach High School as a senior at the time when Ringo Starr was in Miami with The Beatles in February of 1964. He met Barbara and her friends (Diane Levine and Carol Olesky) on the beach while posing in the ocean for photographers and surrounded by fans. Ringo and Barbara briefly dated- they went to a drive in movie and he went to her house for dinner. As a parting gift before returning to England, Ringo gave Barbara a ring, which she wore on her necklace. By 1984, Barbara was about to be remarried for the third time and was a designer for silk quilts. (description originally posted on July 3, 2020)🍀🍀

Via @thebeatleswomen on Instagram🍀

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Broward and Miami Dade counties high school sports results

Photo Courtesy Northwestern Baseball Northwestern senior Darrell Pender Jr. signed to play college baseball for NCAA Division I Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi. Pender Jr., an outfielder/shortstop, was a Miami Herald All-Dade first team selection last season. He had offers from several power five schools but chose Jackson State. After the season opener against Miami Beach,…

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Who is Andy Cohen? What is Andy Cohen Net Worth in 2023?

Andy Cohen Net Worth: Andrew Cohen is an American TV chat show host, radio broadcaster, author, and producer. He began his career as an intern for the CBS shows "The Early Show," "CBS This Morning," and "48 Hours" before becoming a producer for those shows. He joined "Trio" right away, and when "Bravo" bought the network, he was promoted to executive vice president of development and talent. "Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen," an American late-night talk show focusing on pop culture, benefits from his work as host and executive producer. He created the "Radio Andy" channel on "SiriusXM Radio," where he hosts the shows "Andy Cohen's Deep & Shallow" and "Andy Cohen Live." Cohen has also worked as an executive producer on shows such as the Peabody Award-winning documentary film "The N-Word" and the Emmy Award-winning reality competition television show "Top Chef." He has also hosted a number of beauty pageants, including "Miss USA" and "Miss Universe." His autobiography, Most Talkative, was a New York Times Best Seller.

Andy Cohen Early Life

Andy Cohen was born on June 2, 1968, in St. Louis, Missouri, to Evelyn and Lou Cohen. His sister is jewellery designer Emily Rosenfeld. Cohen graduated from Clayton High School and Boston University in 1990 with a degree in broadcast journalism. Cohen wrote for "The Daily Free Press," the collegiate newspaper.

Andy Cohen Net Worth

Andy Cohen’s income and net worth are $50 million, and he is an American television executive and personality. Andy is a Bravo media personality, blogger, and executive in the television industry.

Andy Cohen TV Career

His first job in television was as an intern at CBS News, where he worked alongside Julie Chen. Cohen spent eleven years at CBS. He subsequently progressed to the position of senior producer for "The Early Show" on CBS. He was involved in the production of "48 Hours." Andy left CBS in 2000 to become the vice president of programming for the cable channel Trio.

Bravo hired him five years later to help transform the network into the reality juggernaut it is today. Andy Cohen was the Executive Vice President of Original Programming and Development for the television network Bravo. In the summer of 2009, Cohen began hosting the daily at-midnight chat show Watch What Happens Live. Despite leaving the show in 2013, he continued to host "Watch What Happens Life" and maintain a popular blog on BravoTv.com. Cohen declined to co-host the Miss Universe pageant in Russia in 2013 due to Russia's anti-gay legislation. He previously presided over Miss Universe 2011 and 2012, as well as Miss USA 2011 and 2012. Andy's best-selling book, "Most Talkative: Stories from the Front Lines of Pop Culture," was released in 2012. https://twitter.com/RealityBlurb/status/1610690556732006401 It was a New York Times Best Seller in the nonfiction, hardcover, and paperback categories. In March 2014, he appeared in Lady Gaga's G.U.Y. music video. "The Andy Cohen Diaries: A Deep Look at a Shallow Year," his second book, was released in November 2014. The title was inspired by "The Andy Warhol Diaries," which covers a year's worth of Cohen's private notebook writings. The book was also listed as one of the New York Times' best sellers. In 2015, Cohen debuted "Radio Andy," a brand-new SiriusXM Channel 102 radio station. He curates the channel's playlists and hosts one-of-a-kind Town Hall broadcasts in front of a live studio audience. He also hosts specials such as "Radio Andy Theater" and a "Real Housewives" spoof. In March 2015, Andy Cooper and Anderson Cooper embarked on a nationwide tour to promote their theatrical production, AC2. Their tour took them to Boston, Miami Beach, Chicago, and Atlanta. The concept was born after Anderson discussed his book with Cohen. Later that year, Cohen co-hosted "NBC's New Year's Eve" with Carson Daly and hosted "New Year's Eve Game Night," a live version of "Hollywood Game Night." "Superficial: More Adventures From the Andy Cohen Diaries," Cohen's third autobiography, was released in November 2016. It was the sequel to "The Andy Cohen Diaries," and it contained journal entries from the previous two years. It also topped the Times Best Seller list for celebrity-authored books. Cohen was the host of a Fox game show called "Love Connection" in May 2017. A second season was ordered in August 2017. Later that year, Cohen replaced Kathy Griffin as co-host of CNN's New Year's Eve special. In the TV series "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" and "Riverdale," Cohen has portrayed himself. He also appeared as a guest judge on "RuPaul's Drag Race" in March 2018. He is the executive producer of "The Real Housewives of New Jersey," "The Real Housewives of Orange County," "The Real Housewives of Atlanta," and "The Real Housewives of New York City," among other shows.

Andy Cohen Personal Life

Cohen became the first openly homose*ual late-night talk show host in the United States. In February 2019, he used a surrogate to become a parent. Benjamin Allen Cohen, his son, was welcomed. Cohen was given a COVID-19 diagnosis on March 21, 2020. Final Lines: Till Then, keep yourself updated with all the latest news from our website journalworldwide.com. Read Also:- Chris Paul Net Worth 2023: Early Life, NBA Career, and Personal Life! Jose Zuniga Net Worth 2023: Early Life, Career, Personal Life, and House!     Read the full article

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More Diane Levine. These write ups evidently appeared in the 20th anniversary of the Ed Sullivan Rolling Stone issue.

Diane’s n the black bathing suit

Miami mustered a welcoming committee for the Beatles that included four bathing beauties, a chimpanzee and 7000 shrieking teenager girls, who in their crush to get just a little closer broke 23 windows and a plate glass door in the airline terminal. Few fans were rewarded with more than a distant glimpse, but three seniors from Miami Beach High, who were working as models at a car show, got lucky. A photographer asked best friends Barbara Turchin, Carol Olesky and Diane Levine if they would like to pose with the Beatles at the beach. They were skeptical but turned up for the pictures session and an hour and a half later, the Beatles did too. Shots of Ringo with his arms around Barbara and Carol appeared in Modern Screen and on the cover of Inside Movie magazine. The girls were invited to The Ed Sullivan Show in a Miami Beach hotel, but after that Carol kept her distance. "My mother wouldn't let me go out with them," she explains, "and I had a boyfriend." Barbara became the object of Ringo's singular, if transient, attention, while Paul was smitten by Diane. The four of them double-dated at a drive in movie theater. Barbara invited Ringo home to dinner. He arrived concealed in a Hertz moving van and the family was amused when her grandmother kept calling him Hugo and tugging at his hair to see if it was a wig. Ringo pounded out boogie-woogie on the piano to entertain Barbara's younger brothers. "Music just poured out of them all the time," says Barbara of the group. "They'd compose a song right on the spot." Ringo's parting gift to her was a ring with a gold "R" in a black onyx stone, which, for a time, she wore on a chain around her neck. Barbara, now a Miami designer of silk quilts about to enter her third marriage, and Carol, an Annapolis, Maryland housewife, have maintained both their friendship and a wise perspective on their brush with fame 20 years ago. "It was an exciting time in my life," says Barbara, "but I'm not waiting for the Beatles to come back or anything."

Paul talks about calling her father and the drive-in movie in Eyes of the Storm

These and many more write-ups about the Sullivan appearances here

 Diane Levine,the girl who caught Paul’s eye.

Well, I’ve always kept it a secret.  But for the 20th anniversary, it’s okay.  I hope Paul doesn’t mind. It started at a private beach.  Three of my friends and I were relaxing after taking the college boards.  I was seventeen.  We were Seniors at Miami Beach High School. We heard sirens.  We thought it was an ambulance or something.  There they were.  They popped out of a car.  They were white—blue-white, skinny.  They looked white because everyone in Miami Beach is tanned.  We couldn’t believe our eyes for a minute.  I backed up.  I was totally blown away. A bunch of people were converging on them—press photographers.  The Beatles were in the water taking pictures.  Some girls were chasing Paul.  I  was standing by myself.  He was coming in my direction.  At that point I was really thrilled.  I held out my hand.  I said, “I don’t want an autograph.  I don’t want to rape you.  I just want to shake your hand and welcome you  to the United States.” It’s not like I was a spectacular beauty.  I  was really quite shy.  He had sand and water on his hand.  He sort of wiped his hand on his bathing suit and shook my hand.  Then he said, “Come with me.”  We ran toward a house where the entourage was.  He sat me down and just started to joke immediately.  I felt so at home with Paul.  We had this Gemini thing in common, I suppose.  We really clicked.  It was very nice. After we talked for about 45 minutes, he was whisked away.  He yelled out form thecar window, “come to the concert.”  so I went to the Deauville Hotel, but I didn’t have a ticket. A man who had been taking our pictures on the beach came running out.  He said, “Wait, I’ll get you into the show.  Paul said he wants to see you.” When the show was over, I was taken up to the room.  The Beatles were just as excited about the show as everyone else.  After they left, the hotel guard told me I had to leave.  I gave the guard a note thanking the Beatles and wishing them luck.  I said I was sorry I didn’t get a chance to say goodbye.  I left my father’s number and my home number. Then next day, when I dropped by my father’s office after school, he said, “Who is this Paul McCartney calling you?”