A Brief Biography Of Darin Leroy Garner

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Growing up as a young man, Darin Leroy Garner Jr. was very athletically talented. He was born with the ambition to be the best athlete the world could have imagined. He took part in two sports; swimming, and baseball. Both of which he was awarded well in. There were multiple medals for swimming, and even more trophies and records in baseball. He ended up letting go of swimming and began to focus more on baseball. He began to play for travel teams, and everything was going fantastic. All untill the devastating news of his parents divorce hit him and his siblings very hard. The divorce divided everything from weekends to clothes, to the holidays from birthdays; It had taken everything from a family that once spent every weekend grilling out,

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