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Diddy's Amish Summers

07/13/07
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(DiR) Earlier this week it was widely reported that Kim Porter dumped Diddy. We didn't bother covering it because a hip-hop breakup isn't really earth shattering news. However, a story surfaced today that explains so much about the man with silly nicknames we couldn't ignore it.

Long before he was shoveling musical manure down the collective throat of the world, Diddy enjoyed Amish summers where he got to practice with the real thing. Here is part of Contact Music's report:

Rap mogul SEAN COMBS spent his childhood summers with an Amish family, shovelling horse manure every morning. The 37-year-old New Yorker's mother enrolled him in the Fresh Air Fund, an organisation for inner-city kids to spend time in rural communities, each year.

He says, "I went to the extreme Fresh Air Fund. I stayed with an Amish family every summer. "I guess that was my mother's idea of a great vacation for me - no electricity, a bunch of farm work, moving horse manure every morning, no telephones so I could contact her. - more on Diddy's shiddy past here

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