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Much as it might conform to a New Yorker's stereotypical image of the denizens of Los Angeles, it behooves me to inform your readers that not every Angeleno adheres to the self-conscious hipness of Bruce Wagner's smug vision of our city's electorate ("L.A. Existential," Op-Ed, May 23).
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