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1ded-md p-5",children:[e.jsx("p",{className:"text-xs font-semibold uppercase tracking-widest text-primary mb-2",children:"Friday Evening — Ease Into It"}),e.jsx("h3",{className:"font-serif text-xl font-bold mb-2",children:"Savannah History & Haunts Candlelit Ghost Walk"}),e.jsx("p",{className:"text-muted-foreground text-sm leading-relaxed mb-4",children:"The ideal opener — a guide leads your group by candlelight through the historic squares and cobblestone streets, hitting about six haunted sites while weaving in the real history behind the hauntings. 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Walk the squares by candlelight. Save Bonaventure for last, when the light goes gold through the moss and you remember that "haunted" and "gorgeous" have always been the same word here.`}),e.jsxs("p",{className:"font-serif text-lg font-semibold mt-4",children:["Book the tours before they sell out — because they will. And bring the friend who screams. Every group needs one. ",e.jsx("em",{children:"Go get spooked."})]})]}),e.jsxs("div",{className:"rounded-lg overflow-hidden",children:[e.jsx("h2",{className:"font-serif text-2xl font-bold mb-3",children:"Find & Book Your Savannah 

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