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When you don't know the story of a place, it makes it much easier to destroy it. And so much of Florida is being destroyed because people don't credit it with having a history . . . Because it seems there's no story here, everything in Florida can be made new, and I think that's wrong and I think we harm ourselves irrevocably by destroying our history.

Diane Roberts

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