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From the newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Post Reports.

I'm Martine Powers. It's Friday, September 25th.

You know, I had watched a movie called The Florida Project in 2017,

which is a fictional movie starring Willem DeFoe.

Thanks for calling the magic castle, Sam.

Greg Jaffee is a national reporter for the Washington Post.

And it captures life in these motels along the 192 corridor.

Your kid killed my night. I want to go out to the ballgame.

You're going to pay me for three hours that I got to work later.

Hey guys, pay the man for his three hours.

I don't have any money. I don't have any money.

The Florida Project might be a fictional movie,

but it's based on a very real situation along Highway 192 in Central Florida,

just outside of Orlando.

That is where hundreds of people are stuck living on the edge of society

in a stretch of rundown motels.

I've been in Central Florida in 2019 during the democratic debates,

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