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Where does the Westside start?

Depends on your point of view: In Chinese Buddhism, the West represents movement toward the Buddha or enlightenment. In American literature moving West has sometimes symbolized gaining freedom, perhaps as an association with the settling of the Old West. -from wiki

— shmoe
June 11, 2010 at 2:02 p.m.
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