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celebrate our culture and listen to the music,” Lue, 57, said.

Lue lives in Hollywood and Senior, also 57, lives inMiamiGardens. Their Jamaican heritage unites them, Lue said.

Inside the City Center building, vendors sold handbags, jewelry and crafts. Some offered complimentary tea tasting or a sample of rambutan, a tropical spiny red fruit.

Outside, food trucks lined the perimeter, and children played in a bounce house, had their faces painted or ran around the festival with balloon swords and animals.

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