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Gone but not forgotten

Papa Rico died tragically in Panama a few weeks ago. It was instant and people who saw the accident said he did not suffer.

Rico and I became friends towards the ends of both our times in Key West. I knew the guy from his pizza joint for years but I never really ran into him much as you didn't ever really see him on Duval Street. A mutual friend told us both that we were both making plans for the same thing - Panama. I started making visits to his pizza truck next to Walgreens (he didn't have to pay rent for two years - he knew the developer of the condos that were going up and they gave him an 'easement' lol)and we became friends. He had T-shirts made for his Restaurant in Boquete before he even had a Restaurant in Boquete. A man on a mission...

He sometimes asked me to find out stuff for him on the web. We joked about how he was going to get his dough mixer to Panama. He made a particular trip down with one suitcase full of mixer parts and nothing else!

When I caught
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