I think the Golden Age analogy is pretty right. I mean, those of us who were there then have always kind of considered it the best time in our lives. It was so intense, and it had a pretty short lifespan, and it was built in kind of a vacuum. We were free in ways that we never were before and never were again. And Key West was uniquely suited to that because it was a sort of a battered town. Duval Street was mostly boarded up, and it felt like a foreign city. In fact, a lot of it was not English-speaking. So it was exciting to be young there. I’m not sure if we’d been in our forties, we would’ve found it so alluring.
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