Growing up in Augusta, Georgia, Ruth Rebecca Diggs Bostic dreamed of moving to New York. She realized that dream following her graduation from Lucy Laney High School in Georgia and drove to Long Island with her brother John. She settled first in Copiague, then in Wyandanch and finally in Amityville in 1984, which she loved and considered her home. 

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