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Vancouver
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Vancouver as in:  the Canadian city

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  • I lived in Vancouver before the amnesty.†  (source)
  • I discovered chat rooms for those with spinal injuries, and found there were thousands of men and women out there just like Will—leading hidden lives in London, Sydney, Vancouver, or just down the road—aided by friends or family, or sometimes heartbreakingly alone.†  (source)
  • Crake had also located Uncle Pete's stash of high-grade Vancouver skunkweed, kept in orange-juice cans in the freezer; he'd take out about a quarter of the can, then mix in some of the low-octane carpet sweepings you could buy at the school tuck shop for fifty bucks a baggie.†  (source)
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  • I used to take a roundabout route to the river so I could watch the new owner (we called him Vancouver Singh) at work.†  (source)
  • We're outside of Vancouver.†  (source)
  • This is when my mother would take out a box of old ski sweaters sent to us by unseen relatives from Vancouver.†  (source)
  • And all that spring I visited her on set up in Vancouver, then in Chicago, then in Budapest.†  (source)
  • Vancouver defenseman March 12 dives, trying to block the shot.†  (source)
  • In the hush that ensued he would announce gravely that the Department of Agriculture—he had a letter—credited their fair island with producing America's Finest Strawberry, or that King George and Queen Elizabeth, on a recent visit to the city of Vancouver, had been served San Piedro's Best for breakfast.†  (source)
  • I'll have to place a very embarrassing call to Vancouver...Oh, I did see one name.†  (source)
  • She was leaving early in the morning for Vancouver.†  (source)
  • They were items that Carly had collected: photos from their honeymoon, a four-leaf clover they'd found while vacationing in Vancouver, the bouquet of peonies and calla lilies she'd carried on her wedding day, ultrasound images of Josh and Kristen while each was still in her womb, along with the outfits that each had worn on the way home from the hospital.†  (source)
  • Jumped ship in Vancouver.†  (source)
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