15 Views of Orlando: Part 7 (of 15)

Location:  Albertsons, Oviedo

I left Florida fifteen years ago and, until now, I haven’t been back.  I didn’t even wait until my high school graduation.  Left the day before.  Got in the car and drove north until the humidity broke and I could roll down the window and not feel like two hands were pressing a heavy wool blanket against my face.  By the time my senior class was listening to speeches about how their futures were right there in front of them, I was driving through Southern Tennessee, climbing the great Smokey Mountains, hugging my future as close as I could.

15 Views of Orlando has been stolen from the tubes of the Internet and is now in book form, due out on 1/31/12.
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About the Author:

Jay Haffner is an English teacher and baseball coach at Apopka High School. He is a former editor for both The Cypress Dome and The Florida Review, and now works with the smartest and most talented of the Apopka youth at the campus newspaper. He is a native of Detroit, Michigan, and though he has lived in Florida for many years, he has never been able to tan.