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     | Perhaps the most 
    "foreign" and exotic of all American cities, New Orleans is a world in 
    itself. French, Spanish, West Indian, and African influences have combined 
    to produce a masterpiece of balconied colonial homes and antebellum 
    mansions, Creole seafood delicacies and a pinch of voodoo, all accompanied 
    by the immortal rhythms of jazz, which was invented here. | 
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