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Enter email address You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. This morning we’ll be sharing our compendium of some of the best California writing of 2020. California contains multitudes. This is a state of 40 million people a place so big that there have been at least 220 recorded attempts to break it up. Which is all to say that even a hundred stories couldn’t capture the entirety of the California experience during this historic year. Advertisement But these were 30 of our favorite stories published in 2020, from The Times and beyond. Together, they’ll take you up and down the coast, into the desert and through the Central Valley. There are narratives, investigations, news stories, essays and personal histories. You’ll meet nurses, linebackers, strawberry growers, a Qatari sheikh, a homeless 7-year-old, an iconoclastic federal judge and a devoted mail carrier, to name a few. ....