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In the hills above Elysian Park, something is stirring.

Local residents have reported a flurry of nocturnal activity, centered around an historic beauty spot high up on a hill overlooking the skyline of downtown Los Angeles. What happens there among the trees and across the picnic benches at night is not for wallflowers. It’s dangerous, it’s sexy, and it’s turning everything we thought we knew about young people and modern romance on its head.

“We’re tired of being alone,” one late-night romper told VICE, “and now we’ve got th

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