TDW 1900 - The Home For Wayward Streetlights
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someone alert the Ghostbusters it looks
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as if Slimer has reared its head and
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he's leaving a trail there's no doubt
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it's him welcome everyone Adam Zulu here
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we're gonna cover a wide variety of
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locations and topics as I wander around
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streets and roads that I am not really
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that familiar with it's my second
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channel daily vlog channel but you learn
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by doing and you immerse the senses by
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wandering I just made that up it's the
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daily woo I think my favorite jingo off
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the album lights camera revolution is a
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song called you can't bring me down and
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they shot the cover right up they're
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pretty freaking cool and what is pretty
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much par for the course in this neck of
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the woods they have their own set of
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hand prints on the ground and I was
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noticing tobe Hooper the director of
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Texas Chainsaw Massacre who just passed
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away right next to the director of The
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Exorcist I can't be the only one who
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gets just a little nervous walking
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underneath these construction tunnels
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that
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activities going on up above and fits
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the lap that it I can't be the only one
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that gets nervous right check out the
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front of this apartment complex I really
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like the design above the cinder blocks
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it's always interesting when you see all
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the different types of architecture as
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you want even the number up there has
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that very interesting distinct fashion
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to it I'm not a hundred percent positive
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but this might possibly be the the gates
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of the Gateway to Hades let's look at
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this like weird entryway here this
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little diner might seem normal at first
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glance but take a closer peek at the
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tree that is festooning itself out of
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the windows they just cut out little
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slots for this gargantuan beautiful
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foliage to make its way out of the the
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little porch area this section has been
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given the name Sunset Junction and
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amongst the artwork is this former road
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you can tell at one point was a
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thoroughfare and they have blocked it
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off with planters and there are these
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circular designs painted on the ground
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all the way through where the vehicles
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used to drive there's a very unusual
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fountain that is no longer filled with
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water I was doing a little reading
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online about this and some consider this
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to be the fountain that looks like
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bedpans I could see that I could totally
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see that scenario prepare thyselves now
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prepare thyselves for Alice Cooper
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pillow someone has adorned the side of
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this wall with a painting in homage to
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Calvin and Hobbes I always loved that
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comic strip in those books when I was
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growing up is it considered good luck to
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dance above and upside down or maybe a
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right-side up is that right side up or
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upside down horseshoe it probably is it
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probably would be beneficial to do wait
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wait wait a second
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Jim trap point fish are not only
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beautiful in water but also on the
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sidewalk and I was correct about the
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name of this place they do title it
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Sunset Junction wow this gentleman is
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looking very majestic very majestic and
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very biblical
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indeed classic car alert check this bad
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boy out
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impressive
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most impressive I pointed this out in
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the past but I'm noticing a theme all
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around Los Angeles you see these little
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placards on the sidewalk private
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property permission to pass revocable at
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any times just on the normal sidewalk
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where people wander at any moment they
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can just say get lost back from the top
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of the slight and Bank meant you can get
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a perspective of where the Hollywood
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sign is and the Griffith Observatory now
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I'll break out the zoom lens and get a
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little closer dun dun dun dun dun dun
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dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dah
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slightly dramatic soundtrack there gives
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it the proper ambiance didn't feel well
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I feel like this needs to happen this
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needs I have to connect I have to
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connect it's it's got to bunk this is
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very clever a dragon a dragon I swear I
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saw a dragon above mounted on an ashtray
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and this is not the only mythical
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creature right here along this shopping
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area look at this what it exists it
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actually exists I think about it I might
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be a little bit different than the
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normal population I can find
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entertainment and the smallest what some
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people consider to be mundane items just
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on the side of the road or behind a
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fence or back there you know nestled in
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the nether regions of a street but to me
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it's exciting at the immersiveness of
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just seeing something new it is bizarre
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when I even try to analyze it sometimes
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I wonder what the heck am I getting so
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excited about but that's just me I can
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get the same joy out of just wandering
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around places I've never been or have
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been and seeing new things that I never
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noticed before in places that I've been
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multiple times then I would get watching
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a movie watching a TV show watching
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someone else's YouTube video just going
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out doing it myself and enjoying life
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continuing on to place your bets place
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your bets is there a workable phone in
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there whap whap wham wam want to go for
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two for two
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let's go two for two once again all bets
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are off now is there a workable phone oh
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yes yes there is 50% this character that
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has been spray-painted tagged and
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graffiti drawn on the side of the wall
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is following suit of its creator and he
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himself also is tagging and graffitiing
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it's just a it's just a whole whirlwind
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of of artwork right here in the parking
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lot of this shopping centre is something
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you normally would not see next to an
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office supply store look at all of these
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street lights just lined up they have
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titled this the home for wayward street
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lights an art installation project that
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was going to last only one year placed
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in 1993 in almost a quarter of a century
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later they still remain pretty freaking
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cool and I was noticing if you look at
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the base of each and every one of them
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there is a nameplate and a description
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for example this one was used in Whitley
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Heights and this one is just a standard
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citywide residential model do you think
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anyone ever exits out of there at night
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walking to their car and gets completely
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blind we don't need this much light out
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here we don't need this much light you
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see some spiderwebs have accumulated
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down in that little open spot you can
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almost use this as an obstacle course
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winding in and out going to and fro this
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could be on one of those America ninja
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or the Ninja Warrior shows the the
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challenge the challenge of the
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streetlights I just made that out I'm a
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copyright that hopefully no executives
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here
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steal my idea because it could go it
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could go hey that guy is looking at me
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very awkwardly one last look at the home
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for wayward streetlights and I did count
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them there are 25 which makes next year
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the anniversary will they start adding
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more on year 26 let me rephrase that I
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was confused and a little thrown off by
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the two gentlemen sitting on the
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sidewalk directly behind me and I'm
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gonna paraphrase in a nicer gentler
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fashion of what they said excuse me sir
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why are you taking photos in this
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parking lot and that is that is the that
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is a family-friendly version what I was
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trying to say is there were 25
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streetlights it's almost a 25 year
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anniversary you know kind of IRA isn't
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it ironic don't you think
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and next year will they start adding
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additional ones to coincide hopefully
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that makes a little more sense you might
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think this gentleman has a lot of pets
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but in reality he works for a company
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that walks dogs and you see that in a
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lot of bigger cities coming up now on a
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99-cent store that has an operational
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spinning around sign even though they
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still made those that completely are
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still in working order this particular
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chain of stores is similar to the Dollar
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Tree on the East Coast but here on the
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west coast there one cent cheaper and
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something else I have never experienced
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in any other place I've resided in the
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past flower stores that are just tucked
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away on the corner of retail parking
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lots this place looks like it's been
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here for years this is the most
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populated area I've ever lived at
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anywhere in the existence of the tenure
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of my 43 years here on this planet
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I like it it's totally totally different
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realm than what I am used to living in
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small towns
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what I you know not even cities even
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when I lived in st. cloud that was a
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suburb of Orlando like 30 miles from
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Orlando not in the heart not nestled in
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the activity zone the plethora of people
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and things the sights the sounds the
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wonderful and not so wonderful smells I
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love it here it's a good place to reside
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to call home for now everything changes
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no song everything changes nothing looks
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the same through the eyes of the vlog I
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think that's the 2017 updated version I
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