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On the trail of the poppies

LOS ANGELES had been on lockdown for weeks. The natives were getting restless. My friend Nick and I talked every other day… ‘What are you doing?’ ‘Nothing’ has been our normal conversation, until… ‘You know the poppies are in bloom?’

Once a year in Antelope Valley, 1½ hours’ drive outside Los Angeles at the edge of the

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