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Why do subdivisions and office complexes have names invoking landscapes and animals that don’t exist there? A Fort Wayne, Indiana, listener got to wondering about this after passing the โ€œBay View Apartmentsโ€ in her hometown: there’s not a bay in sight. Here’s the Billy Collins poem on that topic, โ€œThe Golden Years.โ€ This is part of a complete episode.

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