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"Yeah. They're buying up Orange County now."

"The story reported that Peter Smith, an L.A.P.D. Special Services officer, was the target of a vicious grudge attack by an Orange County gang known as the Bitch Killers."

"The fact that they also represented three of the biggest land developers in Orange County was less often publicized."

"I remember that last tournament, you and Matelasse brought your boys? I remember the roster from some Orange County team. All Joshua and Jeremiah and Jonah. From the Bible."

"in jeans faded to the whitish blue of the Orange County sky in summer"

"Only the maids and construction workers used this bus stop – marked by a fiberglass sign reading 'orange county transportation authority' – so there was no sidewalk, just the dust and pebbles of the shoulder beside an undeveloped meadow."

"“Do you think the Russian mafia would ever come to Orange County?” he asked his brother."

"He passed Disneyland, left Orange County and entered Los Angeles County at La Habra."

"“There’s a red-flag warning in the canyons of Los Angeles and Orange counties, which means acute fire danger …”"

"At the Orange County Emergency Communications Center, the operator considered the choices on her screen, which required her to classify the urgency of the dozens of dramas, mundane and bloody, that were whispered and screamed at her through her headset each day."

"After just a few minutes of casual conversation, she had learned a lot about Araceli, the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, and what it was like to clean houses in Orange County."

"Among the tribe of sheriff’s deputies, detectives, social workers, and assorted county officials gathered in the Torres-Thompson living room, it was the presence of the representative of Orange County Child Protective Services that Maureen found most threatening."

"I called the LAPD. It’s smack in the middle of the ganginfested garment-factory district of L.A. If taking two Orange County kids to that hellhole isn’t two seventy‐three-A, then I don’t know what is."

"Janet Bryson’s contribution to the campaign to return Araceli Ramirez to jail, and eventually back to Mexico, began at the southernmost point on her big fold-out map of Orange County, in the community formerly known as Leisure World."

"Goller placed the local news section of the Orange County Register on the dining room table."

"The district attorney of Orange County sent back a one-word answer: “Surprising.”"

"It had been ages since the Orange County District Attorney’s Office had a defendant whose fate worried faraway liberal crusaders."

"“We spent four hours tracking down the Oaxaqueño with the best mole in Orange County,” Octavio said."

"COUNTY OF ORANGE, said the official seal on the social worker’s plastic badge: three pieces of the eponymous fruit rested in a green field that itself was nestled inside the center of a sun ablaze with a corona of dancing yellow arms..."

"Before we refugees had arrived last year, Sonny had been reporting for an Orange County newspaper, making his home in a town I had never visited, Westminster, or, as our countrymen pronounced it, Wet-min-ter. He was likewise a scholarship student at a college in Orange County, an hour away by car."

"the Congressman, however, had written editorials defending us and welcoming the émigrés to his Orange County district"

"You missed the Tet celebration she organized in Orange County. You should have seen it!"

"They built their own Vietnam War Memorial in Orange County, Calif., home of Little Saigon, the largest Vietnamese community outside of Vietnam."

"along the coast from Santa Barbara to Orange Counties"