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Charles "Peanut" Tillman reflects on his childhood, fatherhood and his illustrious football career in a letter to his younger self for the Players' Tribune.

The former Chicago Bears and Carolina Panthers cornerback reminisces on what he experienced growing up with a father who was in the Army.

He said he moved 12 times in 13 years as a child and attended schools in Kansas, Ohio and Weierhof, Germany -- during third grade alone.

Tillman expressed how moving to Germany was the most challenging point of his childhood.

He had to deal with language barriers and kids from different cultures.

"In Germany, you lived on an Army post where everything was American.

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Your neighbors were American and everybody spoke English and used the U.S. dollar.

"But off post was another story. The stores and gas stations only accepted these multicolored bills called deutsche marks. When you'd go out to e