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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    5:30 am
    @@@@@ "Will we go see Grainne?" Scarlett's hands
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    "Will we go see Grainne?" Scarlett's hands tightened on her reins
    "Now do you know Grainne?" The wise woman had told her to keep
    Cat
    away, to guard her close to home
    Who had taken Cat there? And why? "She gave Cat some milk
    Scarlett didn't care for the sound of itCat only referred to herself
    in the third person when something made her nervous or angry
    "What
    didn't you like about Grainne, Cat?"
    "She thinks Cat is another little girl named DaraCat told her, but
    she didn't hear
    "Oh, honey, she knows it's youThat's a very special name she gave
    you when you were just a little babyIt's Gaelic, like the names you
    gave Ree and OcrasDara means oak tree, the best and strongest
    tree
    of allA girl can't be a treeShe doesn't have leavesShe was overjoyed when Cat wanted to talk, the child
    was so often quiet, but it wasn't always easy to talk to herShe's
    such an opinionated little thing, and she always can tell w you're
    fudging a littleThe truth, the whole truth, or she gives a look that
    could kill"Look, Cat, there's the towerDid I tell you the story
    how old it is?"
    "Yes Scarlett wanted to laughIt would be wrong to tell a child to
    lie, but sometimes a polite fib would be welcome"I like the tower,"
    said Cat"I do too, sweetheart Scarlett wondered why she hadn't
    come here for so longShe'd almost forgotten how strange the old
    stones made her feelIt was eerie and peaceful at the same
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    5:30 am
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    “How are things?” Doc asked in a casual voice, sliding onto the counter next to me
    Ian, a few feet down from us, turned his body so it looked like he was part of the group
    “We boiled soup today,” Jamie rolex oyster perpetual daytona announced“My eyes are still stinging
    Doc held up a pair of bright red hands
    Doc gave a mocking bow from the waist, then turned to me“Wanda, I had a question for
    you” He let the words trail off
    I raised my eyebrows
    “Well, I was wondering Of all the different planets you're familiar with, which gucci hobo horsebit species is
    physically the closest to humankind?”
    I blinked“Why?”
    “Just good old-fashioned biological curiosityI guess I've been thinking about your Healers
    Where do they get the knowledge to cure, rather than just treat symptoms, as you said?” Doc
    was speaking louder than necessary, his louis vuitton tote mild voice carrying farther than usualSeveral people
    looked up–Trudy and Geoffrey, Lily, Walter…
    I wrapped my arms tightly around myself, trying to take up less space“Those are two different
    questions,” I murmured
    Doc smiled and gestured with one hand for me to proceed
    Jamie squeezed my Chanel Necklaces hand“The Bears on the Mists Planet, probably
    “With the claw beasts?” Jamie whispered
    “How are they similar?” Doc prodded
    I rolled my eyes, feeling Jeb's direction in this, but continued“They're close to mammals in
    many waysTheir blood isn't exactly the same as yours, but it does
    essentially the women rolex watches same
    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    5:30 am
    @@@@@Five weeks had gone by since invasion day,
    @@@@@Five weeks had gone by since invasion day, and with the exception of a few routine security patrols around the new bivouac, the platoon had seen no activityIt was approaching the rainy season, and it grew hotter each day, more trying to work on the roadBy the time they had been in the new bivouac for a week, many of the men, including some of the veterans of the Motome campaign, were wishing for combat again

    After evening chow Red had washed up, and moved over to Wilson and Gallagher's tentAll day it had been extremely hot and sultry, even more unbearable than the days and nights before it, and Red was feeling irritableThe day, like every other day, had been spent working on the road
    Gallagher and Wilson were sprawled in their tent, smoking quietly without talking"Whateya say, Red?" Wilson drawled at last
    Red wiped his forehead"That kid Wyman! It used to be bad enough bunkin' with a Boy Scout like Toglio, but that kid Wyman"They're gonna be sendin' 'em overseas soon with a sugar tit
    "Yeah, the platoon seems all topside-bottom since we got the replacements," Wilson complainedHe sighed, and ran the sleeve of his fatigue shirt over his chin, which was moist with perspiration"Weather's fixin' to act up," he said quietly
    "More fuggin rain," Gallagher snorted
    Dark slated clouds were washing the eastern sky and mounting thunderheads in the north and southThe air was leaden and moist, hanging limp without a murmurEven the coconut trees seemed swollen and expectant, their leaves drooping languidly over and raw chopped earth of the bivouac
    "That corduroy we put in is gonna be washed out," Gallagher saidRed looked out across the area and scowledThe tents were sagging, and appeared gloomy and somber although the sun was still shining with a dull red glow in the west
    "Just so we don't get our tails wet," Red said
    He debated for a moment whether to go back to his tent and deepen the rain trench, which had almost overflowed in the previous night's downpour, and then he shruggedIt was about time Wyman learned how to do itHe crouched and dropped into the hole in which Gallagher and Wilson were resting n
    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    5:38 am
    @@@@@He will marry her, and be poor and
    @@@@@He will marry
    her, and be poor and miserableGod grant that her influence do not
    make him cease to be respectable!” She looked over the letter again
    “‘So very fond of me!’ ’tis nonsense allShe loves nobody but herself
    372
    Mansfield Park
    and her brotherHer friends leading her astray for years! She is quite
    as likely to have led them astrayThey have all, perhaps, been corrupting
    one another; but if they are so much fonder of her than she
    is of them, she is the less likely to have been hurt, except by their
    flattery‘The only woman in the world whom he could ever think
    of as a wifeIt is an attachment to govern his
    whole lifeAccepted or refused, his heart is wedded to her for ever
    ‘The loss of Mary I must consider as comprehending the loss of
    Crawford and Fanny Edmund, you do not know meThe families
    would never be connected if you did not connect them! Oh! write,
    writeLet there be an end of this suspenseFix,
    commit, condemn yourself
    Such sensations, however, were too near akin to resentment to be
    long guiding Fanny’s soliloquiesShe was soon more softened and
    sorrowfulHis warm regard, his kind expressions, his confidential
    treatment, touched her stronglyHe was only too good to everybody
    It was a letter, in short, which she would not but have had for
    the world, and which could never be valued enoughThis was the
    end of it
    Everybody at all addicted to letter-writing, without having much
    to say, which will include a large proportion of the female world at
    least, must feel with Lady Bertram that she was out of luck in having
    such a capital piece of Mansfield news as the certainty of the
    Grants going to Bath, occur at a time when she could make no
    advantage of it, and will admit that it must have been very mortifying
    to her to see it fall to the share of her thankless son, and treated
    as concisely as possible at the end of a long letter, instead of having
    it to spread over the largest part of a page of her ownFor though
    Lady Bertram rather shone in the epistolary line, having early in her
    marriage, from the want of other employment, and the circumstance
    of Sir Thomas’s being in Parliament, got into the way of
    making and keeping correspondents, and formed for herself a very
    creditable, common-place, amplifying style, so that a very little matter
    was enough for her: she could not do entirely without any; she must
    have something to write about, even to her niece; and being so soon
    to lose all the benefit of DrGrant’s gouty symptoms and MrsGrant’s
    morning calls, it was very hard upon her to be deprived of one of
    373
    Jane Austen
    the last epistolary uses she could put them to
    There was a rich amends, however, preparing for he
    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    5:30 am
    @@@@@Swayne’s wife! They would know, they had to
    @@@@@Swayne’s wife! They would know, they had to know!
    Bourne lurched for the telephone on the desk; it began ringing before his hand touched it
    “Alex?”
    “No, Br’er Rabbit, it’s just an old friend, and I didn’t realize we were so free with names
    “We’re not, we shouldn’t be,” said Jason rapidly, imposing a control on himself he could barely
    exercise“Something happened a moment ago—I found somethingWhat can I do for you?”
    “I need you—out here where I amAre you free?”
    “Well, let’s see Cactus chuckled as he spoke“There are several board meetings I should
    rightfully attend, and the White House wants me for a power breakfastWhen and where, Br’er
    Rabbit?”
    “Not alone, old friendI want three or four others with youIs that possible?”
    “I don’t knowWhat did you have in mind?”
    “That fellow who drove me into town after I saw youAre there any other like-minded citizens
    in the neighborhood?”
    “Most are doin’ time, frankly, but I suppose I could dig around the refuse and pull up a few
    What for?”
    “Guard dutyIt’s pretty simple reallyYou’ll be on the phone and they’ll be behind locked gates
    telling people that it’s private property, that visitors aren’t welcomeEspecially a few honkies
    probably in limousines
    “Now, that might appeal to the brothers
    “Call me back and I’ll give you directions Bourne disconnected the line and immediately
    released the bar for a dial toneHe touched the numbers for Conklin’s phone in Vienna
    “Yes?” answered Alex
    “The doctor was right and I let our Snake Lady executioner get away!”
    “Swayne’s wife, you mean?”
    “No, but she and her fast-talking sergeant know who it was—they had to know who was here!
    Pick them up and hold themThey lied to me, so the deal’s offWhoever staged this gruesome
    ‘suicide’ had orders from high up in Medus
    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
    5:30 am
    @@@@@She through woods and fields like a wild
    @@@@@She through woods and
    fields like a wild creature at home there, and house was a land of
    opportunity for play in rooms that were but not used, attics full of
    boxes and trunks, basements with racks, barrels of foodstuffs, rooms
    for servants, for silver, for butter, cheese, ice, ironing, washing,
    sewing; carpenter , bootblacking, the myriad activities that maintained
    the Big There was never any point in looking for Cat
    She always came home for her meals and bath timelett couldn't
    figure
    out how the child knew what time it was, but was never lateMother
    and daughter went riding together every day breakfastBut Scarlett
    grew afraid to go out on the roads beca' the Whiteboys, and she didn't
    want to spoil the intimacy of rides by taking grooms along, so their
    route became the path had first used, past the tower and through the
    ford and into boreen that led to Daniel's cottagePegeen O'hara might
    not she thought, but she'll have to put up with Cat and me if she me
    to
    keep on paying Seamus' rentShe wished Daniel's son, Timothy,
    wasn't
    taking such a long time about finding a bridehe would have the
    little cottage when he did, and the girl could only be an improvement
    on PegeenScarlett missed the easy intimacy she had known with her
    family before Pegeen joined itEvery time she left for a hunt
    Scarlett asked Cat if she minded being leftThe little brown forehead
    wrinkled with perplexity above Cat's clear green eyes"Why do people
    mind?" she askedIt made Scarlett feel betterIn December she
    explained to Cat that she'd be gone for a longer time because she was
    going a long way, on the trainCat's response was the sameScarlett
    set off for the long-awaited hunt with the Galway Blazers on a
    Tuesday
    She wanted a day of rest for herself as well as her horses before
    Thursday's huntShe wasn't tired; on the contrary, she was almost
    too
    excited to sit still
    But she wasn't about to take any chancesShe had to be better than
    her bestIf Thursday was a triumph, she'd stay for Friday and
    Saturday as wellHer best would be good enough thenAt the end of
    the first day's hunting, John Graham presented Scarlett with the
    gore-gummed pad that she had wonShe accepted it with a court
    curtsey"Thank you, Your Excellen
    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    5:30 am
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    How could he? How?she ranted, ignoring me
    We sobbed, beyond control
    One word snapped us back from the edge of hysteria
    From the mouth of the hole, Jared's low, rough voice–broken and strangely childlike–asked,
    “Mel?”
    CHAPTER 30
    Abbreviated
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    My breath caught in another sob, an aftershock
    “You know that was for you, MelYou know I wasn't kissing it
    My next sob was louder, a moanWhy couldn't I shut up? I tried holding my breath
    “If you're in there, Mel…” He paused
    Melanie hated the “if A sob burst up through my lungs, and I gasped for air
    “I love you,” Jared said“Even if balenciaga replica you're not there, if you can't hear me
    I held my breath again, biting my lip until it bledThe physical pain didn't distract me as much
    as I wished it would
    It was silent outside the hole, and then silent inside, too, as I turned blueI listened intently,
    concentrating only on what I could hear
    I was twisted into the most impossible positionMy head tiffany diamond was the lowest point, the right side of
    my face pressed against the rough rock floorMy shoulders were slanted around a crumpled box
    edge, the right higher than the leftMy hips angled the opposite way, with my left calf pressed
    to the ceilingFighting with the boxes had left bruises–I could feel them formingI knew I
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    how? What should I say? How could I tell them that Jared had kissed me as a test, like giving a
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    Sunday, December 26th, 2010
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    He went up to talk to an officer for a few secondsWhen he came back, he said, "We'll let Toglio's group have the first rest He got behind one of the guns and gave it a tug"The sonofabitch is going to be heavy Wilson and Gallagher started pulling it with him, and the other platoon, which had already divided into a few men on each gun, began to move outThey tugged the guns across the bivouac area, and passed through a gap in the barbed wire where there was a machine gun emplacement"Have a good time, men," the man at the machine fake louis vuitton bags gun said
    "Blow it out," Gallagher answeredThe gun was beginning to drag on his arms already
    There were about fifty men in the column, and they moved very slowly down a narrow trail through the jungleAfter they had moved a hundred feet, they were no longer able to see the men in front of themThe branches of the trees on either side of the trail joined overhead, and they felt as though they were groping through an endless tunnelTheir feet sank into the deep mud and, after a few yards, their boots were covered with great slabs of gucci backpack muckThe men on the guns would lunge forward for a few feet and then halt, lunge forward and haltEvery ten yards a gun would bog down and the three men assigned to it would have to tug until their strength seeped from their fingersThey would wrestle the gun out of its rut and plunge it forward for fifteen feet before their momentum was lostThen they would pull it and lift it for another few yards until it sank into a hole once moreThe entire column labored and stumbled at a miserable pace along the trailIn the darkness they kept chanel logo ganging up on each other, the men on one gun sometimes riding it up onto the muzzle of the one ahead, or falling behind so far that the file at last broke into separate wriggling columns like a worm cut into many parts and still livingThe men at the rear had the worst of itThe guns and men that preceded them had churned the trail until it was almost a marsh, and there were places where two teams would have to combine on one gun and carry it above the ground until they had passed the worst of the slime
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    Saturday, December 25th, 2010
    5:38 am
    @@@@@ Crawford; and when Sir Thomas came back she
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    Crawford; and when Sir Thomas came back she had every proof
    that could be given in his then melancholy state of spirits, of his
    perfect approbation and increased regard; and happy as all this must
    make her, she would still have been happy without any of it, for
    Edmund was no longer the dupe of Miss Crawford
    It is true that Edmund was very far from happy himselfHe was
    suffering from disappointment and regret, grieving over what was,
    and wishing for what could never beShe knew it was so, and was
    sorry; but it was with a sorrow so founded on satisfaction, so tending
    to ease, and so much in harmony with every dearest sensation,
    that there are few who might not have been glad to exchange their
    greatest gaiety for it
    Sir Thomas, poor Sir Thomas, a parent, and conscious of errors in
    his own conduct as a parent, was the longest to sufferHe felt that
    he ought not to have allowed the marriage; that his daughter’s sentiments
    had been sufficiently known to him to render him culpable
    in authorising it; that in so doing he had sacrificed the right to the
    expedient, and been governed by motives of selfishness and worldly
    wisdomThese were reflections that required some time to soften;
    404
    Mansfield Park
    but time will do almost everything; and though little comfort arose
    on MrsRushworth’s side for the misery she had occasioned, comfort
    was to be found greater than he had supposed in his other children
    Julia’s match became a less desperate business than he had
    considered it at firstShe was humble, and wishing to be forgiven;
    and MrYates, desirous of being really received into the family, was
    disposed to look up to him and be guidedHe was not very solid;
    but there was a hope of his becoming less trifling, of his being at
    least tolerably domestic and quiet; and at any rate, there was comfort
    in finding his estate rather more, and his debts much less, than
    he had feared, and in being consulted and treated as the friend best
    worth attending toThere was comfort also in Tom, who gradually
    regained his health, without regaining the thoughtlessness and selfishness
    of his previous habitsHe was the better for ever for his
    illnessHe had suffered, and he had learned to think: two advantages
    that he had never known before; and the self-reproach arising
    from the deplorable event in Wimpole Street, to which he felt himself
    accessory by all the dangerous intimacy of his unjustifiable theatre,
    made an impression on his mind which, at the age of six-andtwenty,
    with no want of sense or good companions, was durable in
    its happy effectsHe became what he ought to be: useful to his
    father, steady and quiet, and not living merely for himself
    Here was comfort indeed! and quite as soon as Sir Thomas could
    place dependence on such sources of good, Edmund was contributing
    to his father’s ease by improvement in the only point in which
    he had given him pain before—improvement in his spiritsAfter
    wandering about and sitting under trees with Fanny all the summer
    evenings, he had so well talked his mind into submission as to be
    very tolerably cheerful again
    These were the circumstances and the hopes which gradually
    brought their alleviation to Sir Thomas, deadening his sense of what
    was lost, and in part reconciling him to himself; though the anguish
    arising from the conviction of his own errors in the education of his
    daughters was never to be entirely done away
    Too late he became aware how unfavourable to the character of
    any young people must be the totally opposite treatment which Maria
    and Julia had been always experiencing at home, where the exces405
    Jane Austen
    sive indulgence and flattery of their aunt had been continually contrasted
    with his own severityHe saw how ill he had judged, in
    expecting to counteract what was wrong in MrsNorris by its reverse
    in himself; clearly saw that he had but increased the evil by
    teaching them to repress their spirits in his presence so as to make
    their real disposition unknown to him, and sending them for all
    their indulgences to a person who had been able to attach them
    only by the blindness of her affection, and the excess of her praise
    Here had been grievous mismanagement; but, bad as it was, he
    gradually grew to feel that it had not been the most direful mistake
    in his plan of educationSomething must have been wanting within,
    or time would have worn away much of its ill effectHe feared that
    principle, active principle, had been wanting; that they had never
    been properly taught to govern their inclinations and tempers by
    that sense of duty which can alone suf
    Friday, December 24th, 2010
    5:30 am
    @@@@@He’s our link to CarlosThe Medusa
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    CarlosThe Medusa connection was a false lead, a stupid attempt by a stupid general in the
    Pentagon to put someone inside Gates’s inner legal circle
    “You’re sure of that?”
    “I am nowGates is a highly paid consultant to a law firm representing a megadefense contractor
    under antitrust scrutinyHe wouldn’t even return Swayne’s calls, which, if he did, would make him
    more stupid than Swayne, which he isn’t
    “That’s your problem, friend, not mineIf everything goes the way I intend it to go here, I don’t
    even want to hear about Snake LadyIn fact, I can’t remember ever having heard of it
    “Thanks for dumping it in my lap—and in a way I guess I mean thatIncidentally, the grammarschool
    notebook you grabbed from the gunslinger in Manassas has some interesting things in it
    “Oh?”
    “Do you remember those three frequent fliers from the Mayflower’s registry who flew into
    Philadelphia eight months ago and just happened to be at the hotel at the same time eight months
    later?”
    “Certainly
    “Their names are in Swayne’s Mickey Mouse loose-leafThey had nothing to do with Carlos;
    they’re part of MedusaIt’s a mother lode of disconnected information
    “I’m not interestedUse it in good health
    “We will, and very quietlyThat notebook’ll be on the most wanted list in a matter of days
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    142
    “I’m happy for you, but I’ve got work to do
    “And you refuse any help?”
    “AbsolutelyThis is what I’ve been waiting thirteen years forIt’s what I said at the beginning,
    it’s one on one
    “High Noon, you goddamn fool?”
    “No, the logical extension of a very intellectual chess game, the player with the better trap wins,
    and I’ve got that trap because I’m using hisHe’d smell out any deviation
    “We trained you too well, sch
    Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
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    "I still want to hear you promise, Dad
    92
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    I put the phone gently back into its cradle and
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    Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
    5:28 am
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    Jeb was prepared, with bottles of water and several portable stovesPeople began to gather
    around, squeezing together in the small spaceI was wedged between Jared and Ian, and I'd
    pulled Jamie onto my lapThough he was much too old for this, he didn't protestHe must have
    sensed how much both of us needed that–Mel and Ihad to feel him alive and healthy and in our
    arms
    The shimmering circle seemed to widen, enveloping the entire late-night supper party, making
    them family, tooEveryone waited contentedly for Jeb to prepare the unexpected treats, in no
    hurryFear had been replaced by relief and happy newsEven Kyle, compressed into the small
    space on the other side of his brother, was not unwelcome in the circle
    Melanie sighed in contentmentShe was vibrantly aware of the warmth of the boy in my lap
    and the touch of the man who still stroked his hand against my armShe wasn't even upset by
    Ian's arm around my shoulders
    You're feeling the No Pain, too,I teased her
    I don't think it's the No PainThis is more than I've ever had
    This is so much of what I lost
    What was it that made this human love so much more desirable to me than the love of my own
    kind? Was it because it was exclusive and capricious? The souls offered love and acceptance to
    allDid I crave a greater challenge? This love was tricky; it had no hard-and-fast rules–it might
    be given for free, as with Jamie, or earned through time and hard work, as with Ian, or
    completely and heartbreakingly unattainable, as with Jared
    Or was it simply better somehow? Because these humans could hate with so much fury, was
    the other end of the spectrum that they could love with more heart and zeal and fire?
    I didn't know why I had yearned after it so desperatelyAll I knew was that, now that I had it, it
    was worth every ounce of risk and agony it had costIt was better than I'd imagined
    By the time the food was prepared and consumed, the late–or rather early–hour had gotten to
    us allPeople stumbled out of the crowded room toward their bedsAs they left, there was more
    s
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    Saturday, December 18th, 2010
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    Friday, December 17th, 2010
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    @@@@@Bourne fired repeatedly into the mass of white as he sprang into the left
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    Saturday, December 11th, 2010
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    Friday, December 10th, 2010
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    Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
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    @@@@@He felt as if somebody were leaning against his stomach
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    Ridges shook his head"He's talkin' 'bout that Jap attack on the river
    Something of Wilson's panic transferred to the other menGoldstein and Ridges, who had been on the river, stared at Wilson uneasilyThe vast barren stretches of the hills about them seemed a little foreboding now
    "I hope we don't run into any Japanese," Goldstein said
    "They ain't a chance," Brown told himHe mopped the sweat out of his eyes, stared weakly into the distance"Nobody around," he panted, but a feeling of weakness, of desperation welled in himIf they were to fall into an ambush nowHe felt like crying again
    Monday, December 6th, 2010
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