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The Conch Republic
Mallory Square, Key West
MATT MUNRO / LONELY PLANET ©
Florida is not one place but many, each nearly a self-contained world unto itself.
Or so wish the Conchs (
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) of Key West, a separate island untethered
from the nation, the state and even the rest of the island chain, except by a flimsy
bridge one hurricane away from being swallowed by the Gulf. A bring-on-the-night
crazy party animates Mallory Sq and Duval St nightly, part drunken cabal and part
authentic tolerance for the self-expression of every impolite, nonconformist im-
pulse known to humanity.
