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LibraLiz1973 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 05:52 PM
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Prom Fashions have changed sooo much since I was that age
Would u let your daughter wear any of these to the prom?

I kind of agree with whoever wrote this.
Not about all the dresses, but a few, for sure!

http://queensofrandom.com/?p=379
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trof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 05:56 PM
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1. Yeah, if they were hookin'.
jeez
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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 05:57 PM
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2. FUCK NO!
To quote (Will Smith?) from "Made in America":

"You can go ahead and flaunt your funbags, but I just got one thing to say. FUNBAG flauntin' ONLY leads to trouble!"

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LibraLiz1973 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 06:07 PM
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7. Thank god u guys agree- a friend from work sent me the link and said,
"do you really think these are that bad?"

I wrote back:

I DO, I DO
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LibraLiz1973 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 06:09 PM
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11. Adding: Her daughters senior prom is in a few wks and now I am
thinking the dress must be tramp-tacular
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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 06:10 PM
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12. Well, I wouldn't have minded when I was in high school
BUT I'M A DAD NOW - with three teen aged daughters (God's way of paying me back, I've been told).
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MrCoffee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 05:57 PM
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3. That's what I love about high school girls
I get older, they stay the same age.


Yes they do.
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LibraLiz1973 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 06:07 PM
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8. Oh you!
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 05:58 PM
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4. That's enough to make a person miss shiny taffeta and puffy sleeves.
No, if I had a daughter I would not buy any of those dresses. A few are hideous but cover up enough that if so inclined my theoretical daughter could buy one with her own money if I somehow failed to talk her into something tasteful.

My prom was in March and the venue had a large open-air courtyard. I had full sleeves and a floor length skirt on my dress, as much for warmth as for fashion. I had to get it made custom to get something I wanted that fit properly.
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LibraLiz1973 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 06:06 PM
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5. I see some of those things and all I can think is: WHY?!?!?!?!?!
I am so glad that others agree. It just seems so.... ewwww
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 06:06 PM
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6. No fucking way.
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Lyric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 06:09 PM
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9. I didn't get to go to prom
because my folks really couldn't afford a dress, and I didn't have a date anyway. But I still had a dream of wearing a dress like this, with blue or white satin gloves to match.



:loveya:
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LibraLiz1973 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 06:12 PM
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14. That, to me, is a prom dress. My prom dress was that exact color
but ankle length. I loved it. My mom would have cut me before she let me go out in one of those tacky gowns from that web site.


now for the funny.. when I first looked at the pic u posted, I did a double take because the first time I looked i thought the text on the dress read: formaldresses4u.cock
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PassingFair Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 08:53 PM
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40. Dig it! Here's me at prom...


Heh heh.
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LanternWaste Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 06:09 PM
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10. Quite the change from the balloon-y dress my date wore...
Quite the change from the balloon-y dress my date wore, but then again-- I imagine the guys aren't wearing powder-blue tuxedos topped off with feathered hair anymore either. Probably just ripped t-shirts, sandals and that weird, greasy unkempt look that the teens are sporting around these days.

Happy to have been a teen in the early eighties-- it was the right time for me :P
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LibraLiz1973 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 06:12 PM
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15. Oh, the boys are just as bad, though not as slutty
And that powder blue formal with feathered hair was hawt!
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 06:11 PM
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13. hubba hubba!
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RebelOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 06:13 PM
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16. No way. Only the red or aqua ones in the next to last photos. n/t
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Fleshdancer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 06:23 PM
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17. I hate cut outs in formal gowns
Let a dress be a dress and a bathing suit be a bathing suit. There's no need to combine the two concepts. :banghead:

I wouldn't let my daughter wear any of that crap.
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LibraLiz1973 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 06:25 PM
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18. That's so true, about combining the 2 things. I didn't even think of that!
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realisticphish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 07:16 PM
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19. They really haven't changed that much
Edited on Wed Apr-29-09 07:17 PM by realisticphish
yeah, there may be a few radical designs, but the vast majority of girls wear the standards prom dress :shrug: My senior prom was 6 years ago, and my sister's 4, and the girls just wore contemporary formal dresses. It's not like more than a few girls are wearing things like this

edit: spelling
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alphafemale Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 07:23 PM
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20. Google "Pregnant Prom Dress"
G'head
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NMDemDist2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 07:38 PM
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21. OMG!!!1!! this website alone is so funny/scary i don't know whether to laugh
or go hide under the bed!!

here's the main post, but it's the comments that make me go wackatron

High school senior prom is a very immoral ceremony where boys seduce girls into having premarital sex. They will ply your daughter with alcohol and then do grinding dances to devils music, all so they may put their serpent scepters into your precious girl’s no no zone.
I’m here to tell you today parents that you must not let your daughter go to prom this spring. Over 86% of teenaged pregnancy happens at senior prom and stats do not discriminate. Any girl can become pregnant.
When your daughter naturally cries and tells you it’s not fair that you forbid her to go to prom, ask her how she would like to be dieing a slow, bloody death of herpie AIDS and pregnancy while the rest of her moral friends are off enjoying their studies at college the next year.
At this point some liberal parents out there will try to convince you that senior prom is not all about sex and that your daughter won’t get pregnant our catch AIDS.
You just tell them to be quiet because 86% of teenage pregnancies happen at prom and if that stat isn’t reason enough to scare you into keeping your girl home this year, look at the new sinful dresses.
Look at the placement of the pink slits in this dress’s skirt area and try to tell me that’s not innuendo and foreshadowing of what a boy expects your daughter will be showing off later that night.
My friends Satan’s favorite food is your daughter’s virginity, so please don’t let some boy sow his sinful seeds in her fertile holy place. The gardens of evil and sinchilds that spring from it will only lead her to a life of disease, welfare mom prostitution and death. Keep your daughter from prom and make God proud.

and here's the Devil Dress :wow:






http://christwire.org/2009/04/dirty-prom-dress-reveals-satans-plan-to-get-your-daughter-pregnant/
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PassingFair Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 09:16 PM
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43. Laugh, laugh, laugh...that site is pure parody....
Just ask the "True Christian"


:rofl:
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 11:12 PM
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51. zounds!
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Nikia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 08:08 PM
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22. Most of our dresses were shorter
I graduated from high school in Ohio in 1996 and myself and the majority of my female classmates wore knee length or shorter dresses, not the long old fashioned looking dresses that seem to be popular now.
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ACTION BASTARD Donating Member (765 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 08:14 PM
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23. The latest in slut wear.
Those are some fine rapo dresses right there.
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Pierre.Suave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 08:18 PM
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25. ...
:eyes:

Define "rapo" for me please.
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Pierre.Suave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 08:15 PM
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24. These two are hot


:P
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Shell Beau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 08:22 PM
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27. Although I do think she looks lovely in that dress, I would consider
that too risque to wear for a teenage gal.
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Pierre.Suave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 08:24 PM
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28. I agree with you shell
however, those two women are welcome to come over here anytime wearing them...

:P
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Shell Beau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 08:20 PM
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26. As long as they aren't too risque, then I am fine with it.
Fashion changes so much over time. Even if I find it hideous, as long as everything that should be covered up is, then who am I to say anything? Fashion is a funny thing.
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BarenakedLady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 08:24 PM
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29. God Lord
I'm old.

Senior Prom 1987



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jeff30997 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 08:38 PM
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32. You look like a princess.
I assume that this picture was taken before you changed

your name to BarenakedLady or do you only dress on special

occasions ? :)

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BarenakedLady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 08:45 PM
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36. Awwww Thanks
Yes, that pic was taken before I blossomed into the exhibitionists that I am now.

:)
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no name no slogan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 08:39 PM
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33. YOU CAN'T BE OLD
I was a senior in 1987. If you're old, that also makes me old. SO CUT THAT SHIT OUT RIGHT NOW, MMMMKAY?!?!???
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BarenakedLady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 08:44 PM
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34. LoL
Tell that to my saggy boobs.

:P
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Pierre.Suave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 08:47 PM
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37. Don't give him any ideas...
:rofl:
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BarenakedLady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 08:49 PM
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38. My boobs made me do it.
They are incorrigible!
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Pierre.Suave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 09:01 PM
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42. They make me want to do all sorts of things too...
:P
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no name no slogan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 08:49 PM
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39. You got those too?
At least you're a girl. Try explaining these danglebags I have to the world. :eyes:
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jeff30997 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 08:25 PM
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30. That one is very appropriate




...for pron night.:evilgrin:


But seriously if I had a daughter I would never let her wear

something like that.No way.

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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 08:33 PM
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31. I went to my grad prom with a friend. We rented vintage dresses from a rental store.
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lildreamer316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 08:44 PM
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35. I would buy some of those to work in..of course, I'm
an exotic dancer.

Are these companies out of their minds??
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FloridaJudy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 08:55 PM
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41. That psychedelic thing is kind of cute
Though it does look a bit like a nightgown. Not appropriate for a teen, but it would be stunning on someone a little older. The model is way too thin though. I want to buy her a shawl (to cover up those bony arms) and a sandwich.
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LibraLiz1973 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 10:19 PM
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44. LOL- they put up a page 2
Edited on Wed Apr-29-09 10:20 PM by LibraLiz1973
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Iggo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 11:19 PM
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52. These ones are a little loud...
...but I could live with letting her wear either one of these.
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carlyhippy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 10:24 PM
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45. my kid's senior prom, a girl actually wore one of the low cut dresses on the top of the page
parent's tongues were a-waggin during the grand march....my kid's dress was similar to that hot pink one at the bottom, she didn't wanna wear one of those lingerie looking ones....her dress reminded me of a big birthday cake....
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 10:26 PM
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46. You should see what the guys are wearing!


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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 10:28 PM
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47. I might let her wear one of these:


I would question her concept of color, but at least they cover what needs to be covered.
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LibraLiz1973 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 10:32 PM
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48. I think those were fine except the color of the neon green one
that is something the wearer would look back on later and think.. oops
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 10:42 PM
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49. I don't think they're bad at all, except that those dresses are ONLY for skinny women
Where I grew up in the midwest, that would have been one fucking ugly prom.

Well, they were ugly anyway, because it was the 80s and the designs were fucking godawful, but this would have been a very different kind of ugly. One advantage the godawful 80s styles had was that fat women could wear them, too, and look just as shitty as the thin women. Everyone was equal, then.
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Withywindle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 11:10 PM
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50. here's some more links
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