Florida, United States (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

"I remembered the first time I had felt that: it was in the summer of 1968, driving home from Florida to Massachusetts."

"In March 2022, Florida governor Ron DeSantis signs House Bill 1467, legislation that allows parents to “make decisions about what materials their children are exposed to in school,”"

"Later, I switch to being a children’s school librarian in New York and in Florida."

"On another screen, Sanjong was monitoring the satellite images from the western Atlantic, off the coast of Florida."

"During his second sentence on the roads of Florida, Adam reduced his personality to a minus."

"Just the faintest, faintest sound of big trucks rolling out the night on 301, about twelve miles away, and of course the distant occasional Diesel baugh of the Atlantic Coast Line passenger and freight trains going north and south to New York and Florida."

"My job exists, for example, because a poor man from Florida sat down and wrote a letter to the Supreme Court, with paper and pencil."

"He stopped and panted and wiped the tears out of his eyes and said, 'I'm from Florida and ev'ybody I knew said they'd killed a nigger or two—at least one nigger—and I used to b'lieve 'em and I got to packing 'round my rifle looking for a nigger to kill till my old man found out what I was doing and said I couldn't kill no niggers until I got to be twenty-one and by that time I'd joined the Marines so I ain't never got to kill a nigger."

"His carpet had a Florida suntan."

"…killing people from Floidra to Texas and down iMntoexico."

"…to say that people lived all over, in midwestern sod huts, and in Florida swamps, and especially in the great canyons of New York, where an entire cranky tribe survives underground, and the Dirty Dozens are their stories!"

"He had spent half his life observing animals in the field, diving among manatees in Florida, crouching outside fox dens in upstate New York, once even roaming the Belizean jungles with the world’s foremost jaguar expert, watching over kills and waiting through endless mosquito‐infested nights for the magical photo of the big beast prowling among the lianas."

"…the inopportune mug shot available to all, especially in Florida and California, where they were uploaded by county clerks, making it seem as if a disproportionate share of screw-ups came from those states."