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The summer before last, I registered to attend UCLA, resigning myself to a four-year sentence of living in Los Angeles. Amid cheery classmates headed to the East Coast or Berkeley, I skipped high school graduation and prom, sulking and throwing myself into a full-time summer job at a Santa Monica sushi restaurant.