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So I went outside and roamed around East London, searching out guerilla units and seeing what they were up to. I ran into a diverse range of set-ups, from little familial outfits in parks to the nightmarish youth, running wild and strafing explosives in all directions, sniping each other and the odd passerby with roman candles. 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