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Windansea. “That’s the way we were brought up — to fight. We were beat up at 11 years old by guys 18 or 19 years old.”
Posted July 10, 2003
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We Don’t Want Anyone to Surf Here
When a stranger showed up with his surfboard at the Windansea surf break last December, the locals knew he was a troublemaker.“He was a biker-surfer type,” said Mark Dephilippis, a 43-year-old Windansea local who was …
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