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I Never Want to Visit California Ever Again
Like me, if you were born during the 2000s, you probably grew up watching Cartoon Network, and if you watched Cartoon Network as a kid, then you most definitely watched “The Amazing World of Gumball.” This story is about what my best friend and I saw when we went to visit Elmore. If you google “Gumball house IRL,” you can actually find the address of the real-life house. In fact, every building in Elmore is real. Gumball’s house, the mall, and the school—they’re all there. But in the pictures, everything looks abandoned and straight out of an apocalypse movie. At the time, my best friend, whom we’ll call Torsson, and I were really into urban exploration. We liked the thrill…