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Former child model Luz Dunn squats in this U.S. state in a dystopian 2015 novel by Claire Vaye Watkins. While searching for a missing boy named Christopher Robin, the narrator of a work set in this state encounters and hooks up with a drug dealer nicknamed “Deadeye.” The community of Acorn is founded in this state at the end of Octavia Butler’s novel Parable of the Sower. (15[1])A book’s section of (*) “Life Styles” in this state includes an essay that opens, “The center was not holding.” The narrator remembers how a preschool-aged child in this state (10[1])was given (10[1])LSD in her essay about her (10[1])experiences in a city in this state’s Haight-Ashbury (10[1])district. For 10 points, name this state chronicled in The White Album and other essays by Joan Didion. ■END■

ANSWER: California [prompt on Golden State or Golden Land] (Claire Vaye Watkins' novel is Gold Fame Citrus.)
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Ben Russell JonesFour Neg OmeletteBroken Hearts6615
Thomas Hart10 Negs that Shook the QuizOld London Town9510
George CharlsonScottish, Irish, Both or NeitherBetrayed by Rita Izzatdust9710
Michael Mays3HK1MMTabearnacle10310
Jamie Keschner-LycettYes, ModeratorFoucault's Penndulum11110

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2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard)10/21/2023Y3100%0%0%110.67
2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite)10/21/2023Y6100%17%0%86.50
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