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Here’s the weird saga of the Republican National Convention in Jacksonville, a city plagued with perennial low self esteem and strange sitcom jokes, the story of how a mayor and a governor attempted to trade a city for scrap, how a city resisted an invasion and won, how a city started to see itself and realized it was, already, a real town. Didn’t it? It’s time it did.