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If I were you, I would not worry at all about any discrepancy between your fictional Lakewood and the real place. Remember Joseph Heller's disclaimer at the very start of his novel Catch-22:

The island of Pianosa lies in the Mediterranean Sea eight miles south of Elba. It is very small and obviously could not accommodate all of the actions described. Like the setting of this novel, the characters, too, are fictitious

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