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Valley of Dreams

Silicon Valley has changed drastically in the last 20 years. The hopes of the families who live there have not
Then: Lilah, 5, in her childhood bedroom in Brisbane, Calif., in 2004.

FOR ITS OUTSIZE REPUTATION, SILICON VALLEY is a narrow thing. America’s innovation capital mainly consists of a thin column of towns and cities on the San Francisco peninsula squeezed between the coastal mountain range to the west and the bay to the east. It has traditionally comprised the top of Santa Clara County

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