In 1997-98, Washington numbingly junked up the tax code with additional incomprehensible provisions.

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Readers copied the romantic gesture until one of the bridge's lamp posts was so junked up with locks that officials worried that it would collapse.

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The two residents, whose modest white clapboard homes are separated by a vacant house, a boarded-up Methodist church and dozens of junked cars, are on friendly terms but tend to keep their distance.

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