John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie almost vomited from exhaustion as he picked cotton for the first time outside his hometown of Cheraw, South Carolina, in the summer of 1928. He was ten years old, and he hated it.
-Donald L. Maggin, Dizzy: The Life and Times of John Birks Gillespie
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