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John David Booty living a dream in Los Angeles - Shreveport Times
To be the leading man of college football's most well-oiled machine, the dream has to start somewhere in the vivid imagination of a boy. And John David Booty had — and still has — bigger dreams than most kids.

Years ago and more than 1,600 miles away, Booty envisioned himself as the golden-armed protagonist in a great Hollywood show. The celluloid images from Southern California were particularly alluring to the impressionable boy watching television in the den of his Shreveport home.

"As far back as I can remember, when I was a little kid, I always wanted to live out here," Booty said on a recent summer day. "Watching TV and seeing LA and Hollywood, I just felt like this is where everything was happening."...

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