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California's 'island of romance' crippled by virus

by Associated Press
| April 26, 2020 12:03 AM

AVALON, Calif. (AP) — When the gates to California's “island of romance” were all but locked to lovers and pretty much everybody else last month it may have saved the 4,000 residents from a coronavirus outbreak but it destroyed an economy based almost solely on tourism.

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