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They knew the sea, these island people, nurtured for generations by tropical trade winds and crystal waters. They worked the difficult, rocky land, planting vegetables and tropical fruits in the coral-pocked flatlands and building simple, cool dwellings on the mangrove shores. In time, other islands called them from across the wide Gulf Stream of new opportunity. They came to a foreign soil, yet found familiar surroundings in places
like Key West, Matacumbe, Key Vaca, and Key Largo. Here, under the Florida skies, they recreated their old way of life.
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