2024-09-02
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Back in the 50s, when my guest Diana Nyad was a kid, she'd stand on the beaches of southern Florida with her mom and she'd squint.
Just out of you was an island, an island that became almost like a myth.
It was called Cuba.
I asked my mom, where is it?
I know Cuba's out there.
I can't see it because it was just over the horizon, over the curve of the earth.
And most people in our area of Florida knew Cuba very well.
For Diana, it was a mysterious island.
It fascinated her in the way that things do in the supercharged imaginations of children.
Then, at the end of the 1950s, the Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro seized power.
After that, the country was a no go zone for most Americans.
The island would become even more isolated, even more far away in the years to come.
At the same time, Diana was developing another obsession.