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Florida Governor Ron “Dick” DeSantis was a boy once.

Folk wisdom says the boy makes the man. Look at the boy, and you can cull the man he will be. Look at the man, you can cull the boy he once was. I don’t necessarily ascribe to such a view, but it can be intriguing to inquire into the boyhood of notable men just to see if there were adumbrations of things to come. The boy George Washington said he could not tell a lie, and we’ve good reason to believe the man George Washington always lived by that dictum.

So what kind of a boy was Ron “Dick” DeSantis?

A Florida psychic named Bayleen Mazok claims to have ‘seen’ episodes of DeSantis’ boyhood while she was in a feverous trance on Dog Island, off the Florida Panhandle.

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Any clues about the man emerging from that boy?

J. H. McKenna (Ph.D.) has taught the history of religion since 1999 at the University of California, where he has won teaching awards. He has published in academic journals and the LA Times, Huffington... More by J. H. McKenna