If you stand still in any city long enough, you see everyone pass you by. So you're in Chicago. If you stand on the corner of Belmont and Clark, and you do that for three years, you'll pretty much have seen everybody in Chicago pass that junction.

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Any Chicago City Clark Corner Enough Everybody Everyone Long Much Pass Pretty See Seen Stand Still Three Years You

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