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Pittsburgh Steelers' Santonio Holmes makes the right choices
Steelers wide receiver Santonio Holmes, who sold drugs when he was 10-years-old in Belle Glade, credits his mother for helping him take a different path and showing him the right work ethic that has led him to a multimillion-dollar contract and a Super Bowl.
BY JEFF DARLINGTON
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'I'm not afraid to talk about it because I've told a couple friends . . . I definitely did it when I was a kid. I'm not proud,' said Santonio Holmes of selling drugs. JOE RIMKUS JR. / MIAMI HERALD STAFF
TAMPA -- She never knew then. She didn't realize that her little boy, just 10 years old, would leave school each day and head for the street corner to sell drugs.
But Patricia Brown still decided, simply because of the things she knew about the neighborhood, that it was time to move her son, current Steelers wide receiver Santonio Holmes, to another part of town.
''We've had our apartment broken into many of times because of family members selling drugs and guys were looking for them,'' Holmes said. ``We've had bullet holes in our door, in my mom's living room and in the kitchen.
``I found cocaine in my dump truck when I was a kid, which was the worst thing ever. My mom felt like we couldn't live like that anymore.''
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