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...cigarettes and freely ordering cocktails, seemingly oblivious to the economic crisis sweeping much of the country. Maybe it's all an escape. "Oh, I don't spend that much," says Linda Buggee, 60, while walking through the casino's front doors on a recent balmy afternoon. The Palm Beach County, Fla., paralegal was eager to add to the thousand of dollars she's won in recent days. "I've been lucky," she says...
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...have our own ritual that has evolved over the years. It usually starts with blowing a conch-shell horn to rouse all the members. We walk down the beach, form a larger circle, do some jumping jacks to get the blood flowing. And one of our members always has a chant - a different chant each week that we always do our jumping jacks to. Then we go into the water and form a larger circle there - people are welcome to scream - and then it's a kind of open swim after that. For the past few years, the New York...
...Sunday during the winter for the past 25 years. Ten years ago, there'd be about eight of us showing up regularly. So about five years ago we reorganized the club and made it more accessible to people instead of being this almost secret group that met on the beach...
...know there are development plans going on - they've been going on for years now, and it's changing even as we speak - so I feel sad about that; it won't be the same. Whatever changes do take place out there, as long as there's still the beach and the water, we're going to remain there no matter what. We are the longest living landmark. That's our home...