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Why is this i-adjective conjugated to the て form at the end of the sentence?
Why not just leave it as 珍しい?

The only use I know for て form adjectives is so you can chain them together,
but there is no other adjective here.

> 田舎育ちだからコンビニが **珍しくて** さ。
>
> Convince Stores are rare, because I grew up in the country.
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grammar て-form i-adjectives
What does a て form i-adjective for sentence ending mean?
I write my opinion as a Japanese native speaker. My major is not linguistics.  
  
I think ”田舎育ちだからコンビニが珍しい” is also correct expression. but leaving “”珍しい” feels
more literary style.  
  
I think your sentence come from daily conversations (sentence-ending particle
“さ” is mostly using in conversation ). So the sentence “田舎育ちだからコンビニが珍しくてさ” has
a context. Japanese language is called high context language. In this case, I
think there are other events or conversations that cause your sentence. for
example,  
  

> person A「へぇ、なんでも売ってるんだね。」  
>  person B「コンビニはどこもこんな感じじゃない？」  
>  person A「田舎育ちだからコンビニが珍しくてさ。」  
>  
>

In this example, what person A want to say is that 田舎育ちだからコンビニが珍しくて驚いた. So the
i-adjective is conjugated.
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