While most people are blissfully ignorant of their wastewater’s journey after showering or using the toilet, it’s become an unpleasant fact of life for many El Segundo residents.

STOCKTON, Calif. — For Laura Ornelas and thousands of other South Stockton residents, harmful air pollution is a fact of life.

Just a fact of life these days.

Most shockingly, he claimed that he and Vance were not that far apart on gun control, an issue that Vance has handled so poorly that it created its own crisis cycle for the Trumpov-Vance campaign when he recently called school shootings a “fact of life.”

"Deaths of despair" — which Anne Case and Angus Deaton write about in their book by that name — are a fact of life here.