Michael was the son of Emil Flutie Jr. who I first met in the mid 1950's before I moved to Hialeah at Flutie Neon which was on the 200-300 block of NW 29th Street in Miami and next door to Jones Shutter Products where I hung out after school and during summers because it was owned by a family friend and my aunt was his secretary. It was a small world when we moved to the Palm Springs section of Hialeah in 1957 and the Fluties moved a block or so away.

Michael and his brother Sandy both became Hialeah Police Officers, made it a career and retired as Sergeants. Michael lucked out and married a girl from Hialeah, Susan Zurawski, whose dad Ed was a long-time National Airlines manager responsible for all the turbine engines in National's fleet, and she grew up on the east side of Lake Laurence West at 6140 W. 10th Avenue. When they moved in they were the only house on that side of the lake. Susan has left some nice memories in the comments section towards the bottom of the page at http://www.pbase.com/image/104362815 .