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On Valencia, near 16th. I was so excited when I saw that his left hand said “Hope,” but then he showed me the full set.
That’s an authentic replica of a 15th-century samurai sword that he’s holding, by the way.
H.R. Smith has reported on tech and climate change for Grist, studied at MIT as a Knight Science Journalism Fellow, and is exceedingly fond of local politics.
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