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Los Angels: A Short Story

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It's was a cloudy day at downtown Los Angels. Melanie had just got off her cab from the airport. As soon as she got out the cab she had realized she got off at the wrong location. Not only that but as soon as she searched for her phone in her pocket it was gone and she noticed she had left it inside the cab. Melanie felt really dreadful because she wanted to go home to see her family and now she couldn't and did not have a way to communicate with any of them. She was frightened because it was her first time being at Los Angels and she did not know the directions to anywhere because they were all in her phone. Not only did she not know where she was at but it also looked like it would take her a while for her to walk to the city to

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