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The Shops at Sunset Place was never just a mall. It was our first taste of freedom. When it opened in 1999, it quickly became a defining part of every Miami kid’s childhood and early adolescence.
From 2000 to 2010, it was the place to hang out. The mall your parents actually let you get dropped off at. The one where you suddenly had hours to fill on your own. Where you and your friends did endless “loser laps at Sunset,” circling the same floors before or after a movie at the AMC Sunset Place 24 theaters, pretending you had somewhere to be while secretly hoping to run into someone you knew. (Bonus points if you only knew that person over MySpace, AOL Instant Messenger/iChat, Blackberry BBM, or Facebook.)…