In the meantime, projects like the Antelope Valley school district carry with them a glimmer of hope.

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The mother and daughter live a mile from each other in the Antelope Valley town of Rosamond, where they like to joke that nothing ever happens.

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Like Addax was before it, Oryx is named after a noble African relative of the antelope with grand horns.

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