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An Ignored Problem In New York City
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There was a man walking down the street in New York City who noticed a small hole in the street and decided to walk past it. The next day the man walk past the hole and noticed it got a little bit bigger. Every day when the man went for a walk he noticed the hole was getting bigger. He thought to himself “I should do something about this hole!” Instead he continued to walk away. One day he approached the hole and decided to do something about the gaping hole in the middle of the street. He pulled out his cell phone and decide to call 311 to report this hole that was so huge. He could not ignore it anymore. As he paced up and down the sidewalk, he began to speak to the representative on the phone and described the

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