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In the back are fruits and veggies that no longer look perfect: mushy papayas, wilting spinach and bruised tomatoes.

Nearby trees offer dragonfruit and limes, and there's even a smattering of papaya plants.

The couple already had a son of their own living at their ranch-style house in a working class part of La Puente, with a papaya tree out front and a rubber tree in the back.

If small-scale farmers grow fruit trees amid their crops, for example, they can eat those bananas or papayas themselves while selling the rest of the harvest.

For one more night, the papaya bar still beckons at the Conga Room in downtown L.A.