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She found that locals, especially immigrants who came here in the 1980s, look on the place as a back yard .

From Los Angeles Times May 6, 2026

Then the ufo landed in my back yard.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 12, 2026

It helped having a pole-vault pit in the back yard of their home in Louisiana, where Duplantis grew up alongside his two brothers and younger sister Johanna, who is also a professional pole vaulter.

From BBC Sep. 11, 2025

“One memory is just jumping in the back yard after school and Mondo would coach me,” says Johanna.

From BBC Sep. 11, 2025

I heard him go out of the kitchen door and I knew that he had gone into the back yard.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright




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