Every imaginary city a hero lives in has a zoo, a world class university, a museum of natural history, a museum of art, a government lab, an observatory, a haunted house, a nearby abandoned mine, a harbor where a ship carrying treasure sank and whatever else the otherwise cliched plots may require. I can believe one city like that, and would want to live there, but so many?

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