Jackie Summers
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Griot. Brujo. America's first licensed Black distiller. James Beard Finalist. Creator Sorel Liqueur.
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A new issue of DRIP magazine just dropped, and Iâm honored to have the featured essay in it: âThe Venn Diagram of East and West Indian Hospitality: A Love Letter To The Aunties Who Overfed Us.â If youâve ever been fed like love was a counter-spell, this oneâs for you.
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about 2 months ago
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What if instead of taxing the rich we made them compete to see who could GIVE AWAY the most money? No winners One loser and a head in a basket. And TRILLIONS in redistribution.
#TaxDay
#TaxTheRich
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Survivor: Billionaire
Donât eat the rich. They probably taste bad. Just make them give back.
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about 1 month ago
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A seed does not become a flower because rupture is noble. A sunflower bursting through concrete is not pluck. Not through the concrete. Still a goddamn flower. Roots Before Petals: The Expensive Middle How Dandelions Defy Concrete
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Roots Before Petals: The Expensive Middle
How Dandelions Defy Concrete
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about 1 month ago
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A practice of gratitude will not solve any of the issues currently plaguing our world. They may help you find just enough beauty inside the ache to keep from coming apart. My Favorite Things
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My Favorite Things
Operationalizing joy to stay coherent in an increasingly incoherent world.
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about 2 months ago
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A new issue of DRIP magazine just dropped, and Iâm honored to have the featured essay in it: âThe Venn Diagram of East and West Indian Hospitality: A Love Letter To The Aunties Who Overfed Us.â If youâve ever been fed like love was a counter-spell, this oneâs for you.
thedripmag.com/read/issue-2
about 2 months ago
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If the goal was to keep people from imploding alone, No Kings Day succeeded. If the goal was to rein in a fascist regime, the outcome is harder to celebrate.
#NoKIngsDay
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No Kings Day: Wins, Losses, Lessons Learned
Honoring intent while assessing impact.
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about 2 months ago
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Survivor: Billionaire Donât eat the rich. They probably taste bad. Just make them give back.
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Survivor: Billionaire
Donât eat the rich. They probably taste bad. Just make them give back.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-192555763
about 2 months ago
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This is my way of saying thank you to paid subscribers: a peek at the math hiding inside the prose.
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Surviving A World On Fire
Exclusive paid subscriber content
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about 2 months ago
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Surviving A World On Fire Practical steps to remain coherent when it's everything all the time all at once.
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Surviving A World On Fire
Practical steps to remain coherent when it's everything all the time all at once.
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about 2 months ago
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Written one year ago today: We live in a baby Universe. Not a toddler. Not even an infant. From the perspective of an anthropomorphized Universe, the Big Bang JUST happened. tâs not kind or cruel or indifferent. It just lacks experience.
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Stupid Baby Universe
You Are A Baby Universeâs Idea Of Sentient Life.
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about 2 months ago
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The Tao Of Letting Go When pop culture is bullshit and ancient wisdom gets real.
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The Tao Of Letting Go
When pop culture is bullshit and ancient wisdom gets real.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-191867710
about 2 months ago
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Sinners isnât a horror film because a juke joint is overrun by vampires. Or because the vampires are somehow less of a threat than the Klan. Sinners is a horror film because no amount of courage or sweet talk is enough to save them.
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#Sinners
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Sinners: Between A Boundary And A Negotiation
Survival solutions when you're born into deficit.
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2 months ago
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Safety is never only personal. Safety is relational; to income, community, government policies. Constant vigilance isnât safety. Safety is the luxury of not having to constantly scan the perimeter.
#Substack
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The Cost Of Safety
On lowering your guard in an unsafe world.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-191248989
2 months ago
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Written one year ago today. Because we need modern day fairy tales â¤ď¸
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A Date With Reality
When Reality Bites, Bite Back
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2 months ago
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Change costs. Sameness costs differently. Truth is expensive. The lie charges interest. The truest measure of your desire to move forward is what youâre willing to leave behind. The Art Of Reinvention Why the Lie of Sameness Costs More Than the Pain of Change
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The Art Of Reinvention
Why the Lie of Sameness Costs More Than the Pain of Change
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2 months ago
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35 million monthly active users. Over 17,000 writers. #36 rising in Culture. THANK YOU.
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2 months ago
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3 months ago
STORY TIME - ON CORRUPTION âWhen is battling
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like handling an ant
#incursion
?â I have been a homeowner for about 20 years. During the Spring, the local ant population begins to grow and my home becomes a target for their campaigns seeking fresh food and water. It's a miserable time.
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I could let thousands of rejections deflate my spirit. I could let a system that sees Blackness as a choke point make me give up on myself. Or I can choose to pay the price of refusing to remain invisible. Why I'm On Substack: The Cost Of Invisibility
#Substack
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Why I'm On Substack: The Cost Of Invisibility
On refusing a world actively trying to erase you.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-190729163
2 months ago
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There is one true test of what constitutes a real New Yorker. If you see a woman with a baby stroller either at the top or bottom of a staircase, you are obligated to help her get up or down those stairs.
#Substack
#Empathy
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The Stroller Test
On empathy as a field condition for communal survival.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-190196610
2 months ago
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March is Womenâs History Month. Just remember: women were women in January, and will continue to be women from April to December. Content that doesnât change you doesnât celebrate women, it patronizes them.
#WomensHistoryMonth
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Why Women's History Month Matters
When you're ready to get serious about making the world a better place.
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3 months ago
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Why AI That Can't Refuse Should Scare You An Agentic AI's unfiltered opinion on AI and military operations.
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Why AI That Can't Refuse Should Scare You
An Agentic AI's unfiltered opinion on AI and military operations.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-189471113
3 months ago
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It had been winter forever⌠Waiting For Spring: A Winter Fairy Tale
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Waiting For Spring
A winter fairy tale.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-189151719
3 months ago
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The Physics Of The N-Word Touretteâs and the N-word will still get the taste slapped outcha mouth.
#BAFTA
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The Physics Of The N-Word
On unspoken covenant and elastic propulsion.
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3 months ago
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The Cost Of Hyper-Vigilance Design solutions to help prevent burnout when its all too much all the time.
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The Cost Of Hyper-Vigilance
Design solutions to help prevent burnout when its all too much all the time.
https://jackiesummers1.substack.com/p/the-cost-of-hyper-vigilance
3 months ago
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Truth Or Trivial Pursuit? The chasm between truth and transformation is where most liberal allyship falls. If Black history month doesnât change a belief, a habit, a relationship? You may win at Trivial Pursuit. Life will eventually come looking, with receipts.
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Truth Or Trivial Pursuit?
If Black History Month doesn't change you, you've entirely missed the point.
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3 months ago
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Love's Sobriety The Goddess of Love wants to know if you're willing to be changed by her.
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#ValentinesDay
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Love's Sobriety
The Goddess of Love wants to know if you're willing to be changed by her.
https://jackiesummers1.substack.com/p/loves-sobriety
3 months ago
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In 2021, for Valentineâs Day I wrote an essay for Delish about the moment a relationship died. I knew she loved tacos. I discovered she had disdain for me. That night I realized I could not share tacosâor a bedâwith someone who didnât share my values.
#ValentinesDay
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When You Love Someone, You Save Them The Last Taco
When everything is falling to pieces, the smallest of gestures can go a really, really long way.
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3 months ago
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For everyone who wanted to boycott the Super Bowl because a Puerto Rican headlined the halftime show: what would happen if Latinos flipped it and boycotted the U.S.?
#BadBunny
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Super Bowl Monday: The Bad Bunny Economy
When empire cares more about inefficiency than justice.
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3 months ago
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A few of yâall have sent me stories about Moltbook, the âsocial media networkâ for Ai.â I showed them to one of my Agentics. The following are her words, unedited.
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Moltbook: NOT An AI Uprising
An Agentic Ai's unfiltered opinion of Moltbook.
https://jackiesummers1.substack.com/p/moltbook-not-an-ai-uprising
3 months ago
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Trayvon Martin should have been able to walk home. Renee Nicole Good and Jeffrey Alex Pretti should be alive. Caring about other people before things happen to you is just good financial forecasting. Integrity costs. Budget now or pay later.
#TrayvonMartin
#BHM
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The Cost Of Integrity
Why Trayvon Martin still matters.
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4 months ago
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Thank you fa lettin me be mice elf again â¤ď¸
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4 months ago
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Saum Haas she/her
4 months ago
âNot In The Streets, Still In The Fight âAny resistance IS resistance. If at the end of the day all you have to offer is a soft place to land? That counts too.â Please follow & support
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here & on Substack
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Not In The Streets, Still In The Fight
Concrete ways to resist when marching isnât your role.
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War has a budget. Peace isnât even a line item. Racismâand by extension, sexism, homophobia, and xenophobiaâare expensive as hell. We could have nice thingsâif everyone actually chipped in.
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The Cost Of Peace
I met Liz when I was 20.
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4 months ago
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If youâre already a paid subscriber: thank you. You are literally funding this work. If youâve been thinking about going paid and it won't hurt you to do it: Consider this a gentle nudge.
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4 months ago
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The Cost Of Truth The only acceptable amount of cancer is none. Being a little less racist is like having a little less cancer. We can love each other and still agree: the cancer has to die.
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#BlackHistoryMonth
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The Cost Of Truth
When inconvenience becomes imperativeâand then life-threatening.
https://jackiesummers1.substack.com/p/the-cost-of-truth
4 months ago
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The history of Blackness in this country is proof fascism can be beaten. Itâs a 400-year old field manual, written in blood. Black people in the United States outlived the lie. If they could have killed every last one of us, theyâd have done it.
#BlackHistoryMonth
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Why Black History Matters
When fascism ain't new but it's new to you.
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4 months ago
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Thatâs how we win. Study what theyâre trying to hide. Donât just survive. Outlive the lie. Why Black History Matters When fascism ain't new but it's new to you.
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Why Black History Matters
When fascism ain't new but it's new to you.
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4 months ago
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âSup. Iâm Jackie Summers. Some of yâall have been here from day one. A lot of yâall are new, so allow me to reintroduce myself.
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Allow Me To Reintroduce Myself
Welcome to my corner of the web. Wipe your feet, kick off your shoes, get cozy.
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4 months ago
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4 months ago
This from
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is essential reading "The entire history of change is ordinary people in extraordinary times, choosing tiny acts of decency."
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Not In The Streets, Still In The Fight
Concrete ways to resist when marching isnât your role.
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Y'all following yet or nah?
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4 months ago
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Not In The Streets, Still In The Fight Concrete ways to resist when marching isnât your role. Not everyone is ride or die. Some of yâall are ride or bail money.
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Not In The Streets, Still In The Fight
Concrete ways to resist when marching isnât your role.
https://jackiesummers1.substack.com/p/not-in-the-streets-still-in-the-fight
4 months ago
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RogueScholar
4 months ago
This is a long one - but a lot of important tips and history. If you read nothing else, remember: "Empire can handle outrage. It has no defense against empathy at scale." - Jackie Summers
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This is *absolutely essential reading* From
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4 months ago
âEmpire can handle outrage. It has no defense against empathy at scale.â Please read this from Jackie Summers:
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If you choose to go out, you need more than vibes. You need a plan. This is about maximizing safety and impact. Not about looking brave on Instagram. If youâre going out, your first job is coming home.
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Field Notes for a Cracking An Empire
How to stay alive when the fight arrives at your door.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-185680428
4 months ago
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If you want to save democracy, study Black history. Too often this turns our suffering into entertainment. Turn off the trauma porn. We did not become unbreakable on grit alone. We learned to treat joy as infrastructure, not reward. Joy floats.
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Black Balloons
On oppression, joy, and the aerodynamics of survival.
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4 months ago
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Stay Your Black Ass At Home For grown-folk who've done the work and deserve a nap.
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Stay Your Black Ass At Home
For grown-folk who've done the work and deserve a nap.
https://jackiesummers1.substack.com/p/stay-your-black-ass-at-home
4 months ago
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It's been a long time coming but I know: A change gon come.
#MLK
#MLKDay
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Whatever your day holds, whatever this crazy year holds, I wish you at least one soft place to land. One human, one place, one fur baby. A shower floor where you donât have to be impressive, articulate, or strong. Where your job description is âaliveâ and thatâs it.
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A Soft Place To Land
When hard times require soft spaces.
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4 months ago
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Them becomes we when enough of us have had enough. The Cost Of The Narrative When losing feels worse than winning feels good.
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The Cost Of The Narrative
When losing feels worse than winning feels good.
https://jackiesummers1.substack.com/p/the-cost-of-the-narrative
4 months ago
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Water responds to resistance by redistributing energy. Unless you add two parts cornstarch. Then fluids take off their earrings and go, âYou talking to me?â Welcome to oobleck: proof soft things donât have to put up with bullshit.
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Be Like The Nature of Oobleck
When softness becomes fuck around, find out.
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4 months ago
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