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Cal State Long Beach poet Gerald Locklin prepares to retire
There are certain people whom you can’t imagine Long Beach without. Kelvin Anderson of VIP Records is one; how would I have gotten through high school without my Eric B. & Rakim fix? Cal Worthington, the car dealer, is another; many of us grew up on [...]