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“HOLA, ¿QUÉ TAL?” An older man at a taco stand called out to Scarlett.
“Pedro, ¿cómo estás?” Scarlett stopped and spoke for a few minutes. Pedro had been a friend of her father and a fellow food vendor.
Scarlett had grown up going to the Farmer’s Market on Fairfax Boulevard. She loved the historic market, although it had grown and changed into a much more metropolitan shopping area under new ownership.
The newer section next to it, called The Grove, had a movie theater, upscale shops, and fine restaurants. A train for children wound through the open-air shopping addition, which often featured special effects like man-made snow in the winter. She shook her head thinking about it. Only in Hollywood do they manufacture snow amid sunny skies and palm trees. Still, some of the original ve
