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Miami Proud: Miami's Brittany L. Smith Shines In Hit Netflix Series Sweet Magnolias

"They did have a performing arts track, but I wanted to be a lawyer ever since I was a little girl," Smith recalls.

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March 25, 2022

Brittany L. Smith had another plan in mind for her future while attending Coral Reef High School in southwest Miami-Dade. The class of 2006 graduate was in the magnet school’s political and criminal justice track.

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“They did have a performing arts track, but I wanted to be a lawyer ever since I was a little girl,” Smith recalls.

But in college, she realized her heart wasn’t in the law.

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