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"I bought a raspadura at a coffee window; I tasted my first coco frio, Cuban sandwich, and later that week Jorge's sister's picadillo," Glenn says. "I couldn't believe how friendly the Cuban people were; they even encouraged my few feeble attempts at speaking Spanish. Women greeted me with besos y abrazos -- hugs and kisses. For me, Miami was something else, a tropical paradise."

That was how everything began for us. Somehow over the course of a few fishing trips and many vacations, something more than a friendship -- a bond of brotherhood developed between two Cuban guys from Cayo la Rosa, Cuba and one American guy from Minneapolis.

Before Raúl and Jorge joined the team, Glenn was forced to eat meals with a mechanical person. His original website, "One Guy and a Robot from Richfield" never caught on.

Glenn in Ybor City in 1985.

No, that's not his car!

Jorge and Glenn in the days before the "Happiness Curves" went out of control!

An early pigroast with Glenn's wife Maureen and daughter Erin; Raul's wife Esther and daughter Onix.

Jorge Castillo, Glenn Lindgren, and families. Glenn was sporting the monochromatic look way before Regis!

Nephew Neil Ruiz: The Early Years.

What, you've never seen Neil Young before?

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