The keys were good to my grandparents. My grandfather met his closest friend there in the 1960s when their families both vacationed there. His friend was an economics professor at UIUC, and the two of them would never have met otherwise.

Another surreal Keys moment for me was seeing the MTV cribs episode with Aaron Carter. I'm virtually sure that compound previously belonged to another of my grandfather's friends. His business was helicoptering around financial documents in sort of the pre-networking version of HFT. I used to bike in that compound as a tween.