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BY JENNIFER WHITE technique that is taking West Coast Florida Weekly Correspondent aficionados by storm thanks to the Japa- nese who invented this unique meth- Welcome to another Key West sum- od of filtering through a special type mer, when it rains every day for 30 of carafe), and the infamously strong minutes and the breeze is as cool as a Turkish coffee infused with sugar and hair dryer blowing two inches from your cardamom. face. It’s four long months of being hit by Keys Coffee Company’s beans are a heat wave every time you step out of sourced from several plantations around the door. Your tongue parches, your eyes the world, from exotic places like Gua- burn, the sweat never stops its relentless temala and Indonesia. Before the week- drip and you are getting very sleepy, all ly delivery to the shop the beans are of the time. It’s the price we pay to live in roasted in small batches exclusively for paradise, to which I say, thank goodness Keys Coffee by a South Florida roaster for iced coffee. It is the secret weapon who has been in the business for over that keeps me going and I know just 30 years. where to go for the perfect cup. To go along with the sophisticated At Keys Coffee Company, a quaint coffee that they serve, the breakfast and little café at 505 Southard St., owners lunch menu is just as decadent in detail, Geno and Alena Drazdou have cleverly with surprising twists on classic origi- created an entire menu celebrating the nals and a definitive international influ- craftsmanship of the caffeinated bev- ence that still manages to remain unpre- erage, but at this time of the year it tentious. Alena is responsible for bring- might be most important to pay extra ing years’ worth of barista skills into attention to their signature cold brew the business, while Geno has worked in and the butter rum roasted bean nitro such iconic Key West kitchens as Café brew on tap. There is also frozen con Sole and uses his experience as a sous leche, frappé, iced coconut brew and chef to develop the recipes for the food. iced mocha, but it is the nitro brew that The entire concept is the perfect fit for they talk most passionately about. In these two and the right equation to be fact, they batch it and keg it themselves successful. They are making what they on premise to give that extra attention know and they are making it with heart. to quality. “Our Capri breakfast sandwich is the “The actual cold brew takes 48 hours COURTESY PHOTO most popular and is made on a toasted to make, which results in a smoother, Nitro cold brew will cool you down on a hot Key West summer day. croissant with local mozzarella. We sweeter and more caffeinated coffee. are lucky enough to have found some- Our nitro cold brew comes with a fla- Geno said. “It has a creamy texture and the hot version in the middle of June, one who makes mozzarella, in South vored roast like hazelnut, Irish cream is very smooth.” Keys Coffee Company also makes drip, Florida, fresh every week. Then we add or buttered rum, which is my favorite,” If you’re still brave enough to sip on espresso, French press, pour-over (a sautéed spinach, garlic, tomato, basil

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— Geno Drazdou pesto and eggs,” Geno explains, “and the Oslo with a secret recipe house- cured salmon, onions, scallion cream cheese and eggs on Goldman’s Deli Bagels is probably our number two. And I’m pretty sure we are the biggest wholesale customer on the island for Goldman’s bagels.” They have also added the option of avocado toast with fresh avocado, red » Where: 505 Southard St. onion, tomatoes, and eggs on multigrain Website: www.keyscoffee.co toast to the selection and are particular- » ly proud of the Sunrise tacos made with pepper jack cheese, crispy arugula, red right down the road. Sometimes they onions, tomatoes, ham, bacon, sriracha get their usual to go and sometimes they and egg folded into two corn tortilla. stay to relax over heavily spiced chai “It’s a dish that redefines the expecta- lattes with a friend or two. tions of breakfast,” Geno says. COURTESY PHOTO “We just want everyone to come in For lunch they offer several styles of Sunrise Tacos redefine traditional breakfast expectations. and feel comfortable, somewhere we artisanal preparations and a selection of could see ourselves as customers if we complementing sandwiches and baked smoothies and juices and kombucha food, while watching the daily traffic didn’t own it.” goods, including a Tortuga Reuben with with fresh pressed ginger purée, as well of Key West life pass by the big win- And just in case the heat has got you corned beef, Swiss cheese, half sour as blueberry muffins, banana nut bread dows that take up the entire storefront. hiding in the house or stuck in your pickles and chipotle dressing on mul- and oatmeal raisin cookies that have If you sit there long enough, there is a hotel room, they will deliver to you as tigrain bread, or a Tel Aviv wrap with been known to sell out before the day good chance you will see several of the well. homemade roasted garlic and red pep- is done. island’s top business professionals walk Follow Keys Coffee Company by vis- per hummus, cucumber, tomato, spin- Keys Coffee Company is the per- through the doors and many more pass iting them on Facebook @keyscoffee- ach, sprouts and artichoke. In addition, fect casual place to get real, down-to- by on their way to work. In and out the company or on their website at www. there are chock-full-of-healthy-stuff earth, health-conscious yet satisfying customers go, both visiting and from keyscoffee.co. ■

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Positive stories are not necessarily safe or comfortable, he notes, and they teau, the late marine explorer and sci- will never be merely sugary, superficial entist whom Mr. Biffar knew and once or shallow. He’s aiming for transcen- filmed, but Michelle Condesse, who dence, stories sparked from the anvil of saved his life. grace, compassion, courage and love in “We immediately went below the sur- human behavior. face and started buddy breathing to ex- Those things are real and they remain pel the carbon from my body. It all hap- underreported or even unidentified by pened so fast I didn’t have time to get most media, he suggests, just like com- scared. Only after I was back in my hotel panies or corporations operating “with did the fear take over.” a conscience. We call them ‘B’ or Ben- efit corporations. They’re also trying to The reason why make their communities better, while Fear is a reasonable thing, sometimes, profiting.” but nothing that seems to have definedd Those are the companies he’s seeking Mr. Biffar’s professional or for that as investors who will back PeaceVision, matter his personal life. a Fort Myers-based for-profit venture He’s deeply devoted to his three COURTESY OF JOHN BIFFAR aimed at doing well while doing good. now-adult sons, all supporters of JohnJo Biffar with his three sons David, Sean, Ambitious as that is, all of it almost PeaceVision who appear in some of aandn Scott, then and now, all on board with became none of it for Mr. Biffar, age 61. his camera work — Sean, Scott and ttheh latest mission — PeaceVision. He was carefully watching his pres- David. But about love, for example, sure gauge, he remembers, starting he’d offer no advice, to them or anyone foundedf DreamTime Entertainment. his return from the last dive, when it else. “I wouldn’t tell them anything, as He’sH made documentaries, commercial dropped to 500 pounds. Unfortunate- clearly I’m not qualified,” he says. films commissioned by companies, ly, he miscalculated how much time it Born in New York City into a family and in 1995 he wrote and directed the would take him to get back out of the of seven children, his father once com-- feature film, “Captiva Island,” starring cave before swimming for the surface. manded the fire boats for the New Yorkk Ernest Borgnine. “I was still in over 100 feet of water City Fire Department (the old man laterr 19771977 There is this about him, too, adds Mr. (when) I felt the unmistakable sign of learned to windsurf at 70, something hee withith Bob B b Hite, Hit a Hite,H who even had a minor role in “Cap- my tank running out of air as I sucked was still doing at 90, Mr. Biffar notes deeply experienced reporter in Vietnam tiva Island:” on the regulator,” he said. proudly). who later became the many-year anchor “Of all the men I know, he’s prob- The camera was still rolling. When his parents split up, he moved at NBC’s WFLA-Channel 8, in Tampa. ably the finest. He’s the real thing. He’s “When we got back and played back with his mother and two siblings to Fort Mr. Hite retired from television in a spiritual man. John would be a much the tape, I realized it took me over a Lauderdale, on the beach. That was 51 2007, but he’s thrown his hat into the wealthier person if he didn’t spend so minute to make it to the surface. I just years ago; he is now 61. The beach be- ring at PeaceVision. much of his own money doing docu- kept thinking, ‘breathe out,’ knowing if I came his life, in part. The other part was “I don’t know any other man as well mentaries out of his own pocket about didn’t my lungs would explode.” a camera. as I know John,” he says. “Throughout people or organizations that need help.” It was far too close for comfort. “Right “There was really nothing to do grow- these many years, what he’s produced Others echo that sentiment. before I reached the surface I lost my ing up there but hang out on the beach,” for TV has mostly been positive news. His longtime friend Bill Boggs, a for- vision but not consciousness. When I he recalled. “But when I was 12, I conned On commercial, local TV in Tampa you mer news anchorman for WNBC in New did hit the surface I heard a loud explo- my older sister into getting me a video have three stations, and they do murder, York, a host of talk shows and author, sion, which was the air coming out of my camera — my parents wouldn’t do it, but mayhem, death and destruction. John first met Mr. Biffar high in the Swiss lungs.” she did.” has usually been ‘the kicker’ — in televi- Alps when Biffar filmed him in the snow He suffered the bends. The nearest The camera became an appendage, a sion, that’s what they call the last news- and ice by hiring a helicopter and shoot- bends room, a decompression chamber, third arm, and for years he struggled to cast that leaves viewers with a smile.” ing while leaning out the door. was in Portugal. It might as well have scrape together money every time he “He’s one of the most spiritually cen- been on the moon. shot footage for the $20 tabs to develop The kicker tered people I know. He cares about do- “My vision returned (as) my French single rolls of film. The kicker started with a full-time job ing good in the world,” he says. dive partner got to me,” he said. He earned a degree in film from USF, for WINK TV in Fort Myers — pay was “I just respect him as a human. What- His dive partner wasn’t Jacques Cous- doing an internship in Tampa starting in $175 a week, he says — where he later ever he does, he does with heart and

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» With Jacques Cousteau, Erik Lindberg, Bill Boggs, Norma Miller and Chip Yeates. FLORIDA WEEKLY KEY WEST www.FloridaWeekly.com WEEK OF JUNE 4-10, 2020 A7 soul. Hopefully he’s right for his time, “He just has a huge heart. He’s a kind and the world will be drawn to this kind of a south Florida pirate, always seeking of programming at PeaceVision.” to find and illuminate stories — particu- John Lack, now a Palm Beach County larly stories of positive change.” resident and friend, was instrumental in Those are his treasures. Mr. Lindbergh founding MTV. To do it, he identified met Mr. Biffar with Walter Cronkite another market of people untapped who about two decades ago when Mr. Biffar wanted something new and different, made his documentary, “Uncommon roughly the same thing Mr. Biffar aims Friends,” narrated by Mr. Cronkite. to do now. It details the close friendship of the But Mr. Biffar’s effort includes a moral late Jim Newton (the film title came edge. from Mr. Newton’s book) with Thomas “He’s always had that feeling about Edison, Henry Ford and Harvey Fires- life — you have to give back, you’ve got tone. Newton, with his wife, Ellie, later to do good — whether in documentaries befriended the famous aviators (and in or some other way,” Mr. Lack said. “He’s her case a writer), Charles and Anne looking for the people angle and how Morrow Lindbergh. to tell the people story. He believes he They spent months and years on the can do stories that are uplifting, that can southwest coast, and they were Erik’s (teach) others a better way to live.” grandparents. He teaches them simply by being near “PeaceVision is born from John’s them, too, apparently. heart, he’s been talking about it for years Julie McEnroe, whose husband, Capt. SPECIAL TO FLORIDA WEEKLY and putting bits of it together,” explains Finbar Gittelman, built and commands John Biffar in the studio with David Essel, bringing PeaceVision to fruition. Mr. Lindbergh, an aeronautical engineer a two-masted schooner based in Key his policy was, “one for them, one for Traveling to L.A., he’d been routed whose company, Verdego Aero, based West, “The Wolf,” designated flagship of me” — he gave the income from every through Atlanta that day. “But it was in Daytona Beach near Embry-Riddle the Conch Republic, sailed recently into other performance to charity. only two weeks later that my assistant Aeronautical University, is building Cuba with Mr. Biffar and a crew. They “I have equally admired the work that informed me she’d originally booked me electric propulsion systems for aviation made the last trip just before the Trump Harry Chapin was doing with his music through Boston, but switched the ticket that represent what he calls potentially administration closed the door on that and his efforts to feed the hungry, so I because it was a middle seat. Since I’m “a big disruption coming in aviation, and opportunity. actually look up to them both, him and 6-foot, 7 inches, she knew that wouldn’t a billion-dollar market.” Mr. Biffar’s documentary about the Kari,” Mr. Biffar said. work.” For Mr. Biffar, adds the 55-year-old Mr. goodwill journey and the Cuban people The Boston-based plane left without Lindbergh, “having the gift of time as a will appear in the fall on PBS, which Close to his heart Mr. Biffar. A short time later that morn- result of the coronavirus lockdown has committed to buying the story, Ms. He also won awards and praise for ing it hit the north tower of the World let him do this now. McEnroe says. (among others) such documentaries as Trade Center. “I’m so excited to see that. I think She’s known him since the 1990s, “The Queen of Swing,” about a long- There were no rental cars available in there’s enough polarization in the world when her brother, John McEnroe, oper- time Las Vegas performer he rediscov- Atlanta, so he got one of the last three today that at we need to focus on where ated a riverfront watering hole called ered, the late Norma Miller, and “The seats on a Greyhound bus, back to Fort we can come together, where we can Victoria Pier. Fire Boats of 9/11,” describing what the Myers. learn how to talk to other people, the Both Mr. McEnroe and Mr. Biffar were NYPD’s marine division did following Mr. Biffar appeared startled when OTHER people, quote unquote.” single dads at the time, together, she the terrorist attack. asked if he considered himself a risk- Mr. Biffar sums up what he aims to said. After making “The Queen of Swing,” taker. do this way, on his new website, www. “He’s like that magic person. I call him he and Ms. Miller remained friends for “I never thought of it that way, but peacevision.com: my magic person. He’s done so much the rest of her life. She died last May at now you mention it, I was called that “The world has become a place where good. He was in Guatemala, he’d gone to 99, having stretched her remarkable ca- once in court by a lawyer who sued me,” the news is unbalanced, at best, and ev- find this American woman, Kari Engen, reer, in part with Mr. Biffar’s help and he said. eryone is constantly bombarded with who started a school for kids who were encouragement, from 1932 all the way to He’d been filming a couple of figure negativity. We believe this creates an op- living in the dump (in the most dire pov- 2019, singing to the end. skaters, moving with them on the ice, portunity to give people what they really erty imaginable), in Guatemala City.” And he made “The Fire Boats of 9/11” when he slipped and fell, bringing them want — a better and more connected life The documentary he made from that to honor first responders, who had once down with him, embarrassing the cou- experience.” journey, “Children of the Fourth World” included his father. ple. They claimed he did it on purpose, “To give people what they want” is — he won an Emmy for best writing — Since his dad had commanded the and took him to court. the same vision of Roger Ailes, the late changed his life, he says. NYFD’s marine division and knew the But that’s as far from his style as it chairman and CEO of Fox News, who re- On that trip he identified one of the firefighter who stepped into that role gets, says Mr. Boggs, who remembers signed four years ago after allegations of two heroes in his life, spiritual mentors later, Mr. Biffar was able to get on the not only his professional do-good in- sexual assault by 23 women. of sorts who take action to make the boats and see for himself, he said. stinct, but his personal tenderness and But Ailes’ vision of what people ac- world better. But his relationship with the tragic caring for suffering people. tually want diverged radically from Mr. “Meeting Kari Engen in Guatemala events of 9/11 is even more personal than “We were filming in Fiji and three- Biffar’s vision of what they want. and seeing the work she was doing af- that. quarters of the crew got desperately ill,” “We will provide engaging video con- fected me more than I can ever say. She “I was in the air on 9/11 with a script in Mr. Boggs recalls. “So did I. John didn’t tent free from negativity, politics, and was for me an example of what it is to my hand for a show we were wrapping get sick, but I can still remember him violence,” he explains, ”instead show- truly Love, and what can happen when up called, ‘The Nazi Plan to Bomb New patting my head down so gently with casing paths toward positive change. you commit yourself to something com- York City,’ for the History Channel,” he a cool towel. I was hallucinating at the “We’ll also curate documentaries, pletely.” recalls. moment, convinced I was selling sun- films and messages from inspiring non- And there was also Harry Chapin, the “Someone got on the plane and told glasses on the boardwalk in New Jersey.” profits — purpose-driven corporations, singer whose father, a drummer with me they saw President Bush’s plane in artists, influencers and world-class film- whom Mr. Biffar played and to whom he Sarasota on their way down that morn- The road less traveled makers that we partner with. grew close, introduced him. ing. When we landed in Atlanta, a news All of that experience in life personal- “Our goal is to provide people with ac- Harry Chapin’s most famous song may crew came up to me and started asking ly and professionally makes up the man tionable ways to achieve more peace in be “Cat’s in the Cradle,” but his most me questions like, “What did they tell now raising the anchor and embarking their lives.” glorious moment in Mr. Biffar’s mind you happened?” We knew nothing of the on his newest do-good venture, PeaceV- You probably can’t do better than that came when he told Bruce Springsteen tragedy until then.” ision, says Erik Lindbergh. in a media life. ■

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And he always 10, the U.S. govern- seems to keep it real. ment has managed Ever since he burst onto the stage with to devise the broad- the indie film success “She’s Gotta Have cast of an invisible It” in 1986, the NYU Film School grad signal, which makes (now NYU Film School professor and it impossible to do Masterclass expert) has had a stream anything unlawful of films that speak to the truth. True to or illegal. Enter Gra- the times. True to his voice. True to his ham Bricke (played cause. by Edgar Ramírez), “Do The Right Thing” (1989), “Mo’ Bet- a career criminal who teams up with ter Blues” (1990), “Malcolm X” (1992), gangster Kevin Cash (Michael C. Pitt) “Chi-Raq” (2015), “Michael Jackson’s and Shelby Dupree (Anna Brewster) to Journey from Motown to Off the Wall” journey to commit the last, and largest, (2016) and six-time Oscar nominated criminal heist before the signal goes “BlacKkKlansman” (2018), to name just a ERIC RADDATZ / FLORIDA WEEKLY live. Directed by Olivier Megaton and few, have catapulted Lee to being known Spike Lee at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. His latest film “Da 5 Bloods” premieres on Netf- based on the “Radical Publishing Graph- as one of the most successful and recog- lix June 12. ic Novel” created by Rick Remender and nizable directors of our era. (Watch all Greg Tocchini, it also co-stars Patrick of these films.) Set to head the Cannes Bergin and Sharlto Copley. 2h 20m. Film Festival jury this year (which was cancelled, so he will do it next year), he ■ “Artemis Fowl” is poised to be the first black person to Disney+ brings “Artemis Fowl” to lead the jury in its 73-year history. streaming June 12. Based on the book by His latest film “Da 5 Bloods” is a Eoin Colfer, the film story about four African-American veter- follows 12-year-old ans — Paul (Delroy boy genius Artemis Lindo), Otis (Clarke Fowl on a spellbind- Peters), Eddie ing journey through (Norm Lewis) and underground civiliza- Melvin (Isiah Whit- tions, fairy lands and lock, Jr.) — who ultimately the Acu- bond as they fight los, a powerful magi- side by side during cal device, to save the Vietnam war, his father, who has returning decades been kidnapped. The later to find the adventure climaxes in remains of their a war of the wits with the most powerful fallen squad leader fairies around. The family fantasy film (Chadwick Boseman) and a fortune in directed by Kenneth Branagh stars Ferdia gold he helped them hide. Starting with Shaw, Lara McDonnell, Josh Gad, Tamara photos and footage confronting Amer- NETFLIX IMAGE Spike Lee with the cast on the set of “Da 5 Bloods,” which comes to Netflix June 12. Smart, Nonso Anozie, Josh McGuire and ica’s prejudiced past (think the last few Nikesh Patel, with Adrian Scarborough, minutes of “BlacKkKlansman”), Lee Greene, Lee’s childhood neighborhood in and starring Damon Gameau, the film Colin Farrell and Judi Dench. PG. 1h 55m. proves again his ability to powerfully Brooklyn. R; 2h 34m. looks at how environmental concerns move an audience with an unequaled gift Here are a few more fresh-to-stream- could be addressed to provide the film- ■ “The King of Staten Island” of storytelling and editing. (In addition ing selections for consideration: maker’s daughter a more hopeful future. Originally set to open the 2020 SXSW to being a talented creative genius, Lee Releasing in virtual theaters on June 5. ■ Film Festival (which was cancelled) and has proven his works to be based on what “Spelling the Dream” 1h 32m. also slated for a public celebration at is historically factual, as well as being Directed by Sarasota native and film- ■ Tribeca (also cancelled), this film from recognized as a huge voice for social maker Sam Rega, this film played at “You Don’t Nomi” director Judd Apa- justice.) “I’m a big historian,” Lee said. the Denver and Some say “Showgirls,” an erotic drama tow (“Trainwreck,” “I was taught that African-Americans Cleveland film fes- film directed by Paul Verhoeven and “Knocked Up” fought for this country from day one.” tivals in 2018. It fol- starring Elizabeth Berkley, was one of the and “The 40-Year- Co-written by Lee with Danny Bilson, lows four students worst movies ever Old Virgin”) stars Paul DeMeo and Kevin Willmott, the as they compete made. Total trash Saturday Night film, shot on location in the cities of Chi- to realize their even. Despite Live breakout Pete ang Mai, Bangkok and Ho Chi Minh City, dream of winning being the biggest Davidson. “The is set to premiere on Netflix June 12. the prestigious NC-17 movie ever King of Staten Drawing inspiration from war-themed Scripps National released, it was Island,” a comedy classics like “Bridge on the River Kwai,” Spelling Bee. Fol- nominated for 13 about love, loss, “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” and low their journey Razzie Awards. mental health and “Apocalypse Now,” Lee used a distinctly with perspectives Film critic Roger laughter on Staten different approach. from CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Fareed Ebert may have Island, will now “No disrespect to any film that’s been Zakaria, comedian Hari Kondabolu, summed up the premiere on VOD done before about the Vietnam War, but ESPN’s Kevin Negandhi (1999 Scripps public and profes- June 12. In a story very close to the life of we wanted to do this through the per- National Spelling Bee winner), and more sional sentiment Davidson, his character Scott, who lost spective of the black soldiers … we knew as the doc set to stream on Netflix June in one of the more his firefighter father when he was seven, that we had not seen brothers like this in 3 explores the reasons why the competi- positive reviews when he said, “The film has reached his mid-20s, achieving little a Vietnam film.” tion has been won by Indian-Americans is not, in short, quite unredeemably bad.” but dreaming of starting a tattoo restau- The film offers a powerful and emo- for the last 12 years. 1h 22m. Still, after the wild outpouring of cult rant. Living with his exhausted ER nurse tional narrative, confronting America’s adoration and some kind of redemption ■ mother (Marisa Tomei) and spending racist history while celebrating the patri- “2040” soon following, director Jeffrey McHale most days hanging with the guys smok- otism of African-American soldiers on Having played Seattle, Stockholm, Ber- takes a hard look as to why “Showgirls” ing weed, his life changes when a fire- the frontlines of the Vietnam War with lin and Gold Coast may now be considered a masterpiece in fighter named Ray (Bill Burr) enters his relatable, imperfect heroes. Six songs Film Festivals, the movie “You Don’t Nomi,” complete life. Also starring Steve Buscemi as Papa, from Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On” “2040” is a docu- with archival footage from the original a veteran firefighter who takes Scott album are also featured in the film. mentary that takes picture, interviews with the bigger play- under his wing, Bel Powley and Pamela Lee’s past contributions have also an inspirational ers involved in its creation and conver- Adlon. The film’s executive producers included less serious television com- look at what a jour- sations with cinephiles regarding the are Pete Davidson, Michael Bederman mercials, most famously with Michael ney to the future raw appeal. After taking the film festival and Judah Miller. R; 2h 16m. ■ Jordan in Nike’s Air Jordan campaign (“Is might look like — route in 2019, including the prestigious it the shoes?”) as well as commercials for if we embraced Tribeca Film Festival, the doc’s premiere — Eric Raddatz is the Presentation Converse, Taco Bell and Ben & Jerry’s. smart solutions for to streaming is planned for June 9. 1h Editor at Florida Weekly, host of the His production company, 40 Acres and our planet today. 32m. indie film series T.G.I.M. and the founder a Mule Filmworks, is located in Fort Directed, written of Fort Myers Film Festival. FLORIDA WEEKLY KEY WEST www.FloridaWeekly.com WEEK OF JUNE 4-10, 2020 A11 CAUGHT IN KEY WEST THIS WEEK

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