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Civic Hades

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On Sunday, we did something we very rarely do, which is visit the nearby city of San Francisco. This may seem hard to believe, but San Francisco was once the most-visited city on the entire planet of Earth. In recent years, as has been incessantly reported, it has diminished in terms of overall quality of life, particularly in certain parts of town including, ironically, this one:

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