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Orlando after tragedy: much more than world's theme park

  • Written by Jeff Kunerth, Visiting Instructor, Journalism, Nicholson School of Communication , University of Central Florida

Orlando has long been characterized as a place of transients, a perpetual churn of people moving in and out. Orlando is a stop, a stepping stone, not a destination. The city once even referred to its homeless as “transients” – as if they were something temporary, rather than permanent.

I certainly felt temporary when I took my...

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