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Who said that?

Florida’s quote of the day

"We call him ‘young punk.’"

-- Anil Shukla

“We call him ‘young punk,’” Anil Shukla said, nudging Suresh Tijoriwal’s shoulder.

Tijoriwal laughed. The 74-year-old sat at the head of a table crowded with bottles of Stella Artois, paper plates of snacks and plastic cups of red wine. In the glass-walled portico, eight neighbors gathered for Wednesday evening happy hour, a tradition for nearly five years.

The men are from all over India: Mumbai, Shimla, Ahmedabad, Kolkata. They’ve spent decades raising families and building careers across the U.S. And now, they live at Anand Vihar, a 167-home community for Indian Americans over 55 in Wesley Chapel.

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