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Cocoa I'm going to be able to be. And so you know, Welcome to JFK in The Enduring Secret.

I'm your host, Jeff Crudell.

Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the podcast.

Today's episode is episode 123, and it's the beginning of a small, many wander into the

history of the island of Cuba.

For those of you that have followed this podcast through most of its 122 previous episodes, well, you know, I grew up

in South Florida and Fort Lauderdale, to be exact, and I know very well a good part of the entire

geography from West Palm Beach down to the Florida Keys. It was my stomping ground for a good

part of my life. My parents came to Fort Lauderdale first back in 1946.

Then they left, and then they came back again in 1962 when I was just a year old.

It was really just the beginning of the mass immigration that would reshape the entire culture of the South Florida area.

I've never been to Cuba.

I suppose the closest I've ever been is to take a deep dive down to the edge of the Atlantic Wall,

a short distance off the island of Cayman. The Great Wall is a favorite diving spot, and after hovering at about 115 feet of water in the Atlantic Ocean,

for a very short period of time, you get a chance to stare over the abyss that goes straight down

5,000 feet off the continental shelf in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. There's not much to see

there, but it's quite eerie.

The Cayman Islands are on the south side of Cuba, but closer to home, if you drive from Fort Lauderdale and head down through Miami and then through Homestead and finally get on to U.S. 1 and meander down to the Florida Keys, you will eventually get to the southernmost point in the United States,

and it's at the tip of Key West. There's even a tourist marker there to remind you of that when you get there. It's not too far from Hemingway's house in Key West. He was a lover of

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