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A pumpkin cake doughnut topped with caramel, pecans and cream cheese frosting
A South Bay Pop-Up Is Reinventing the Doughnut
Jurors sit in two rows inside an old fashioned courtroom.
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A Black man in a pattered button-up shirt, a fashionable hat and dreadlocks looks over his shoulder as the Bay Bridge stretches out in the background against a color-treated sky
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