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Where Snowbirds Play - Rediscovering Palm Beach Through Memory, Mystery & Time There are places we arrive in for the first time and somehow recognize—not with the mind, but with something older, instinctive, and felt. For me, Palm Beach was exactly that. From the moment my husband and I landed there more than thirty years ago, its seaside light, subtropical fauna, and chorus of cicadas awakened memories of my childhood summers on the Adriatic coast of what was the communist Yugoslavia. The lizards darting across sunlit walls, geckos warming on stone, the soft coo of mourning doves—familiar details in an unfamiliar landscape—hinted at a mystery beneath the postcard-perfect surface. So when my husband set his heart on moving to a Jack Nicklaus golf course in the Sunshine State, I found little reason to resist. My parents, however, were horrified. “Florida is for old people,” they insisted—without, of course, placing themselves in that category. Still, I agreed to the move with the private assurance that we could always escape to our New York apartment whenever paradise felt too perfect. By ML Staff. Images courtesy of Gina Goldhammer.