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What’s The Word: ‘Big D’ Derrick Floyd – A True Athens Hero!

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A fter a night with friends, Derrick Floyd walked into Walmart late at night. He doesn’t drink or smoke but had the smell on his clothes. A young girl, who he mentored at the YMCA, spotted “Big D” and came in for a huge hug. Against her working mothers’ directions, the young girl stayed talking to Floyd but stared at him with a grossed out look thanks to the stench that clung to him.

Choked up, Floyd said, “She changed my life forever. That look of disappointment… I never want to disappoint a kid like I did.