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A suburb between West Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale in South Florida holds deep ties to the area of southwest Haiti hard hit by Saturday's earthquake.
Many residents of Boynton Beach, Florida have been worried about their loved ones, friends and childhood homes, some are already mourning relatives who died and others are trying to assess the needs, rallying the town to gather supplies and shelter materials. "
You are seeing that feeling of "there's no where to go now. Home is destroyed. Home is gone." said Christina Romelus, a city commissioner whose parents and in-laws are from southwest Haiti. "That loss that can't be replaced."
In the last decade, Boynton Beach has grown its Haitian population far from Miami's Little Haiti and established a partnership with Les Cayes, Haiti, welcoming officials, including a former mayor who died Saturday in one of the many building collapses that followed the 7.2-magnitude quake.

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