In the hills, torrents of water washed soil away, or left it but rinsed the nutrients out of it.

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She said she was unable to throw away a pizza, left half-eaten by Jay, or put the washing machine on, because it contained one of her son's shirts.

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She noticed that whenever patients left the hospital, leftover medications like eye drops or inhalers were just thrown away.

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There are several homes burning or destroyed in Poway that are less than a half-mile away from the home we left.

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They romanticize what they left behind and find it easier to love the country from hundreds or thousands of miles away.

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