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A Valentine’s Love Story Spans the Continent & the Years: Part II

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Jason & Tracy on Ios As soon as we exited the ferry, I knew the island of Ios was going to be a lot different. Where Santorini was more built up and had a more sophisticated crowd, Ios was much smaller and it was definitely a younger, party group. Jason had lived on Ios for almost a month, so it was as though he was coming home.   We returned to the inn that he had stayed and rented a room – which just happened to be in someone’s house – where we would stay for the rest of our visit. Ios was less Greek than it was British (i.e.: there were a lot of Brits and consequentially a lot of pubs and a lot of drinking). By the time we arrived on the isle, we had been drinking pretty much all week straight.   Jason was excited to show me all of his old haunts and had planned a fun night on the town. We arrived at our first bar of the evening and I broke it to Jason that I just couldn’t drink alcohol tonight. He looked at me incredulously.   He said, “We are one...