Sounds like the starting gate of celebrity life, with sellers of breakfast cereals and sports drinks ready to line their pockets with endorsement cash.

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At the front desk of the Laventura, a disdainful blond woman provided her with a handful of devices for entry into her new life: apartment and mailbox keys, garage-gate remote, car tag, a code for accessing inner sanctums bearing keypads.

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"Golden Gate's toll-takers deal with people of all walks of life, new drivers and older motorists, wealthy and broke, friendly and cranky, and rushed and leisurely, " said the local news website Marin Independent Journal in an editorial.

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At Disneyland in Anaheim, the oldest of the company's four theme parks, the company is building California Adventure, a microcosm of the state that will allow the tourist in a hurry to visit Venice Beach, Napa Valley, the Golden Gate, a redwood grove and a host of other sights that in real life are inconveniently scattered, all in a single day.

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