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 | | SANTA MONICA, Calif. - Where I grew up in a Mississippi backwater, a cricket was a chirping bug you impaled on a fishhook in hopes of snagging a succulent catfish to grace the dinner table. |
 | | Santa Monica today remains ripe for partying and celebrity-spotting, in places like the Third Street Promenade, three blocks of car-free shopping, dining and imbibing, where dancing in the streets is a frequent happening. |
 | | Santa Monica, literally the end of the road for famed Route 66, has miles of prepared paths for walking, jogging, cycling and skating, not the least of which is palm-lined Palisades Park, on a sandstone bluff high above the beach. |
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