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Like so many named places in California it was less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts--census tracts, special purpose bond-issue districts, shopping nuclei, all overlaid with access roads to its own freeway.

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Thomas Pynchon
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 8
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