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A RARE SIGHT

"It was a really windy day in the South Bay and it cleaned the smog right out of Los Angeles!" writes Jeannine Saade of why she and her fiancé trekked up to the Griffith Observatory for the "breath-taking" view. "In the 19 years that I have lived in Los Angeles, this is the most beautiful that I have ever seen it."