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strange (or is it strangely beautiful?) island in the US. This place is seriously screwy, in a
(mostly) good way. There's no middle separating the high and low brow, that's for sure.
On one side of the road, literary festivals, Caribbean villas, tropical noir and expensive art
galleries. On the other, an S&M fetishist parade, frat boys vomiting on their sorority girl-
friends and 'I Love to Fart' T-shirts (seriously).
Where the other Keys are a bit more country-fried, Key West, a historical haven for ho-
mosexuals and artists, remains a little more left of center. The locals revel in their funky
nonconformity here, probably because weirdness is still integral to the Key West brand.
But past these idiosyncrasies is simply a beautiful tropical island, where the moonflowers
bloom at night and the classical Caribbean homes are so sad and romantic it's hard not to
sigh at them.
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