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Late one night after a day of reporting in Levittown,
I called Margie from my drive home and she told me she'd turned up something big.
I told Olivia I'd found some people who were looking into the same website where the Levittown girls had appeared.
They were halfway across the world in New Zealand.
I was like, what?
In my many years of covering tech for Bloomberg, I've had very few stories take me back home.
To me, New Zealand is a little slice of paradise at the bottom of the world.