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"EYE"
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It's a late or overnight airplane flight
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a red eye
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$400
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This avian outlook refers to a viewpoint from a high angle
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a bird\'s-eye view
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$600
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It's a building that is unpleasant to look at
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an eyesore
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$800
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A 2003 study said a dog with a problem will make this with a human to try & get help; a wolf with a problem probably won't
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eye contact
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$1000
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As seen here, a Bloody Mary is one of these when served at breakfast
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an eye opener
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STATE YOUR NAME
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$200
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Virginia Wade won 55 tennis singles titles, including this major in 1977, the last Englishwoman to do so
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Wimbledon
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$400
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Appearing in the novel "The Hustler", Minnesota Fats was a legendary player of this game
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pool
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$600
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1920s nightclub hostess Texas Guinan was arrested several times for operating these illegal "quiet" establishments
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speakeasies
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$800
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Stately first name of Mr. Tuxedo, a cartoon penguin voiced by Don Adams
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Tennessee
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This state comes before the names of blues musicians John Hurt & Fred McDowell
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Mississippi
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DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR
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I swear by him; he swears by himself in the book of Jeremiah
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God
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$400
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I swear on this so you know I'm telling the truth
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a stack of Bibles
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$600
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I swear to this map co-invented by Harry Potter's father
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the Marauder\'s Map
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$800
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Swear on this weapon, as the Vikings did & as Horatio does in "Hamlet"
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sword
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$1000
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You can swear by the Sun, using this Greek name, as in Euripides' "Medea"
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Helios
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GRAZE ANATOMY
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Sheep don't have any upper front these, using a dental pad instead
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teeth
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$400
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The rumen, the omasum & the reticulum are parts of this organ for a cow
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the stomach
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$600
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Llamas are sure-footed grazers because of their padded feet, which have these on their toes instead of hooves
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nails
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$800
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Camels' humps store nutrients from grazing as this substance, also called adipose tissue
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fat
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$1000
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This manatee relative grazes on the sea floor with its tough lips
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a dugong
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FINISH THE LINE
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$200
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Clark Gable in "Gone with the Wind": "Frankly, my dear..."
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I don\'t give a damn
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Dr. Seuss' Sam-I-Am: "Would you like them in a house? Would you like them..."
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with a mouse
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$600
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Oscar Wilde wrote, "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is" these 4 words
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not being talked about
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$800
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In T.S. Eliot's poem "The Hollow Men": "This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a" this
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whimper
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$1000
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John F. Kennedy: "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men..."
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to do nothing
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NOW READ THIS!
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$200
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Mia Thermopolis finds out that her dad is the crown prince of Genovia in this book, the first of a series
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The Princess Diaries
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$400
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Howard Roark is to "The Fountainhead" as John Galt is to this 1,100-page tome
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Atlas Shrugged
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$600
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He wrote the 1936 self-help book "How to Win Friends & Influence People"
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Dale Carnegie
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$800
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"Golden Girl" & "28 Summers" are Nantucket-set novels by this woman, "The Queen of Beach Reads"
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Elin Hilderbrand
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$1000
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Stella Kowalski's sister is this play character who has always depended on the kindness of strangers
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Blanche DuBois
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MOVIE TITLES THROUGH PICTURES
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$400
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Care to dance with this 2010 thriller?
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Black Swan
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$800
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"The Asner" is this 2009 animated film
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Up
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$1200
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Here's this 1994 British comedy distilled to its essence
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Four Weddings and a Funeral
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$1600
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Let's get down to business--it's the 2013 film broken down here
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The Wolf of Wall Street
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$2000
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This period piece from 2000 had some Ang-st
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
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HISTORIC POTPOURRI
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$400
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The Risorgimento was the 19th century movement to unify this country
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Italy
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$800
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One of Asia's first European-Native treaties was made in 1565 in the Philippines; drops of this mixed in wine sealed the deal
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blood
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$1200
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Sultan Yusuf I, responsible for the decoration of this palace in Granada, was assassinated in a mosque at age 36
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the Alhambra
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$1600
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They're the Russian words for Mikhail Gorbachev's 2 policies of openness & restructuring
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perestroika & glasnost
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$2000
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Also known as Deutscher Orden, this order of knights went to the Holy Land during the Third Crusade
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the Teutonic Knights
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LIBRARIES
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$400
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The ancient library in this North African city was founded by the Ptolemaic Dynasty around the 3rd century B.C.
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Alexandria
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$800
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Begun in 1800 with an appropriation of $5,000, it's one of the largest libraries in the world, with over 160 million works
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the Library of Congress
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$1200
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Barack Obama & Scott Turow have studied at the world's largest academic law library, at this school
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Harvard
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$1600
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Some 1,800 scrolls at a library in this city between Pompeii & Naples were uniquely preserved because Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D.
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Herculaneum
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$2000
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Seen here, the Long Room at this Irish school's library dates back to the 1700s, while the library itself was founded in 1592
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Trinity College
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THE IMPASSABLE DREAM
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$400
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Dams & other barriers to migration have reduced the Atlantic species of this food fish to a fraction of historic numbers
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salmon
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$800
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In October 1962 the U.S. put a naval this, an 8-letter word meaning obstruction, around Cuba
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blockade
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$1200
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In 1611 this English navigator sought the Northwest Passage but ended up trapped in the bay that would bear his name
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(Henry) Hudson
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$1600
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When you swallow, this flap covers the larynx to keep food out of the respiratory tract
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epiglottis
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$2000
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This 90-mile stretch of California south of Monterey is known for its scenic highway that sometimes does become impassble
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Big Sur
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HIGH/LOW
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$400
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Working with the firm Webb & Knapp, I.M. Pei designed the Mile High Center in this city in the mid-1950s
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Denver
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$800
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It's alphabetically first of the Low Countries
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Belgium
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$1200
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Mount Whitney is the highest point in what's known as the "High" this
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the High Sierras
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$1600
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Lower Merion Township is one of the main line suburbs of this city
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Philadelphia
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$2000
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The Aswan High Dam created a reservoir or "Lake" that was named for this Egyptian president
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Gamal Abdel Nasser
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DIËRESIS & ÜMLAUT WÖRDS
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$400
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Let's catch a ride with this German word that uses an umlaut & can mean "upon" or "beyond"
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über
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$800
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This word for the feast of Christmas can have a dieresis over the E
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Noël
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$1200
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A huge fan of the dieresis, the New Yorker uses one for this 5-letter word meaning gullible, simple or unjaded
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naïve
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$1600
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This northern sky constellation whose name may derive from a Greek word for "ox driver" does not sound like tiny tot footwear
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Boötes
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$2000
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This German word literally means the "twilight of the gods"
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Götterdämmerung
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LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN
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N/A
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These stories got their collective title because little Josephine Kipling insisted they be told exactly the same way each time
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Just So Stories
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