He tried to do all of the right things for me in the time that we had together, but I was a quiet kid and like many boys related more with my mother than my father.

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Parents of three boys, they opened a kid-friendly franchise, BounceU, last year in Charlotte, North Carolina, an entrepreneurially strong city.

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As a Brooklyn kid, I feel like the The Beastie Boys are the soundtrack to my youth.

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