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Posted by Osmosis Jones on Mon Feb 28 17:15:38 2011 From The Brooklyn Paper:"First came the fight over Atlantic Yards — now comes the fight over all the bars it will attract. Park Slope residents are planning to storm a Community Board 6 hearing on Monday night to protest a liquor license for Prime 6 NYC, a live music venue and sports bar that is under construction at the corner of Flatbush and Sixth avenues — just one and a half blocks from the future home of the Brooklyn-bound Nets. Their large venue, which will occupy the shuttered Royal Video, is a “two-floor” club with “outdoor seating with a beautiful garden,” according to the Prime 6 NYC Myspace page. But residents believe that the bar will target a hoops and hip-hop crowd that will be raucous before and after games. “It is completely in conflict with an internationally famous, family oriented area,” said Steve Ettlinger, a non-fiction writer who lives nearby. “And everyone who has approached the owner has been rudely rebuffed.” Akiva Ofshtein, who is listed as the lessee in public records, did not return calls, but the bar’s social media websites offer a glimpse at what’s to come. On the bar’s Facebook page, where the Prime 6 logo is in the shape of a basketball, many of the “friends” are musicians and DJs. The webpage also includes a link to the “Prime 6 mixed CD,” which was created by hip hop artist DJ Big Jeff, who has songs titled, “Motha F–ka, I’m Ill” and “New Money.” The bar’s Myspace page looks a little different; it has 300 friends, most of whom are attractive women, posing suggestively. The owner of the building, Lina Feng, would say only, “I’m not at liberty to talk about it. I just collect the rent.” The liquor license application will be discussed by Community Board 6 at the Prospect Park YMCA [357 Ninth St. between Fifth and Sixth avenues in Park Slope, (718) 643-3027] on Feb. 28 at 6:30 pm." Although I'm ashamed of the not-so-subtle racism my "progressive" liberal counterparts project, I'll continue to be a Democrat as long as they continue to at least try to look like they give a shit about the poor. Regardless, they can all go back to Idaho or whatever lame Midwestern shithole they came from. |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Mon Feb 28 17:32:38 2011, in response to "Progressive" Park Slope shows its true colors, posted by Osmosis Jones on Mon Feb 28 17:15:38 2011. I think your last sentence pretty much explains it. :(Real "progressives" appreciate something different and lively. |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Mon Feb 28 17:46:01 2011, in response to "Progressive" Park Slope shows its true colors, posted by Osmosis Jones on Mon Feb 28 17:15:38 2011. Race has nothing to do with this. Neighborhood vs. bars/night clubs has been going on forever. NOISE! Alcohol. Women. Fights. People urinating in the streets. Parking. |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Mon Feb 28 17:50:00 2011, in response to Re: ''Progressive'' Park Slope shows its true colors, posted by LuchAAA on Mon Feb 28 17:46:01 2011. In other words, they're afraid of it turning into a college town. :) |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Mon Feb 28 17:50:55 2011, in response to Re: ''Progressive'' Park Slope shows its true colors, posted by SelkirkTMO on Mon Feb 28 17:50:00 2011. Or worse, Bell Blvd. |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Mon Feb 28 18:05:14 2011, in response to Re: ''Progressive'' Park Slope shows its true colors, posted by LuchAAA on Mon Feb 28 17:50:55 2011. Check out New Paltz on a Friday night and get back to me. :) |
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Posted by orange blossom special on Mon Feb 28 18:13:18 2011, in response to "Progressive" Park Slope shows its true colors, posted by Osmosis Jones on Mon Feb 28 17:15:38 2011. Subject line corrected. The Progressive movement was founded with the tenants of racism and prohibition and obviously it continues.But how nice of these rich folks to "give a shit" about poor people. The poor will now sleep better at night knowing these power hungry people outwardly "care" in order to gain themselves attention. |
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Posted by italianstallion on Mon Feb 28 19:25:46 2011, in response to Re: Progressive Park Slope shows its true colors, posted by orange blossom special on Mon Feb 28 18:13:18 2011. "the tenants of racism and prohibition"What apartment did they rent? |
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Posted by Fred G on Mon Feb 28 19:35:37 2011, in response to Re: ''Progressive'' Park Slope shows its true colors, posted by LuchAAA on Mon Feb 28 17:46:01 2011. Smoking!your pal, Fred |
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Posted by Fred G on Mon Feb 28 19:36:55 2011, in response to "Progressive" Park Slope shows its true colors, posted by Osmosis Jones on Mon Feb 28 17:15:38 2011. Nobody but professional drinkers want a new bar on their block. It's not race.your pal, Fred |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Mon Feb 28 19:41:16 2011, in response to Re: Progressive Park Slope shows its true colors, posted by italianstallion on Mon Feb 28 19:25:46 2011. Sublease. :) |
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Posted by Easy on Mon Feb 28 19:50:10 2011, in response to "Progressive" Park Slope shows its true colors, posted by Osmosis Jones on Mon Feb 28 17:15:38 2011. I can see why. Lots of news stories about violent hip hop crowds, gangs, rowdy behavior, etc. Nobody wants a nightclub too close especially a hip hop nightclub. Almost every time one opens up out here it ends up being closed after too many fights and complaints.West Hollywood video |
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Posted by Peter Rosa on Mon Feb 28 20:04:55 2011, in response to "Progressive" Park Slope shows its true colors, posted by Osmosis Jones on Mon Feb 28 17:15:38 2011. Guaranteed this nightclub would be a total sausage party.My blog |
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Posted by Osmosis Jones on Mon Feb 28 20:12:12 2011, in response to Re: ''Progressive'' Park Slope shows its true colors, posted by SelkirkTMO on Mon Feb 28 17:32:38 2011. Real "progressives" appreciate something different and lively.I'm starting to think that there is no such thing as "progressiveness" and that it's all a farce covering up some ulterior, sinister motive. |
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Posted by Osmosis Jones on Mon Feb 28 20:13:07 2011, in response to Re: ''Progressive'' Park Slope shows its true colors, posted by Osmosis Jones on Mon Feb 28 20:12:12 2011. And don't worry, I think tinfoil hats are tacky, so 1999. |
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Posted by Osmosis Jones on Mon Feb 28 20:16:50 2011, in response to Re: ''Progressive'' Park Slope shows its true colors, posted by LuchAAA on Mon Feb 28 17:46:01 2011. That's what I thought before I read this:But residents believe that the bar will target a hoops and hip-hop crowd that will be raucous before and after games. Just like a lot people have a hard time believe someone is gay until they're seen making out with another man no matter how many signs suggest it, it seems like people also have a hard time believing that someone is racist until they're heard saying the n-word. |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Mon Feb 28 20:19:14 2011, in response to Re: ''Progressive'' Park Slope shows its true colors, posted by Osmosis Jones on Mon Feb 28 20:12:12 2011. Heh. Hipsters gonna hip. :) |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Mon Feb 28 20:21:53 2011, in response to Re: ''Progressive'' Park Slope shows its true colors, posted by Osmosis Jones on Mon Feb 28 20:13:07 2011. Absolutely! They now come in nanocarbon fiber! :) |
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Posted by Osmosis Jones on Mon Feb 28 20:26:05 2011, in response to Re: Progressive Park Slope shows its true colors, posted by orange blossom special on Mon Feb 28 18:13:18 2011. But how nice of these rich folks to "give a shit" about poor people. The poor will now sleep better at night knowing these power hungry people outwardly "care" in order to gain themselves attention.Yeah it's messed up, but as long as the unions still exist & they keep on getting government assistance, they couldn't care less either. Why do you think campaigns like "Vote or Die" exist? |
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Posted by Osmosis Jones on Mon Feb 28 20:31:28 2011, in response to Re: ''Progressive'' Park Slope shows its true colors, posted by Fred G on Mon Feb 28 19:36:55 2011. It wouldn't be if this weren't in the article:But residents believe that the bar will target a hoops and hip-hop crowd that will be raucous before and after games. Who the hell is some hipster trust fund baby from Wisconsin that's only going to live in Park Slope for 10-15 years before moving back to Wisconsin to judge people that are going to support local business & give the neighborhood new life? |
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Posted by Fred G on Mon Feb 28 20:34:22 2011, in response to Re: ''Progressive'' Park Slope shows its true colors, posted by Osmosis Jones on Mon Feb 28 20:31:28 2011. Who the hell is some hipster trust fund baby from Wisconsin that's only going to live in Park Slope for 10-15 years before moving back to Wisconsin to judge people that are going to support local business & give the neighborhood new life?LOL, great post. Yeah I see what you mean, ain't no goth chix stompin no hip hop. your pal, Fred |
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Posted by Easy on Mon Feb 28 20:36:42 2011, in response to Re: ''Progressive'' Park Slope shows its true colors, posted by Osmosis Jones on Mon Feb 28 20:31:28 2011. A stakeholder. |
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Posted by Easy on Mon Feb 28 20:37:30 2011, in response to Re: ''Progressive'' Park Slope shows its true colors, posted by Osmosis Jones on Mon Feb 28 20:12:12 2011. Like my other thread about Planned Parenthood? |
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Posted by Fred G on Mon Feb 28 20:40:21 2011, in response to Re: ''Progressive'' Park Slope shows its true colors, posted by Easy on Mon Feb 28 20:37:30 2011. LOLyour pal, Fred |
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Posted by Osmosis Jones on Mon Feb 28 20:43:11 2011, in response to Re: ''Progressive'' Park Slope shows its true colors, posted by Easy on Mon Feb 28 19:50:10 2011. They don't care about the violence they're just using the words "hoops & hip hop" to covertly refer to black people. All kinds of nightclubs can produce rowdy behavior, including nightclubs already in Park Slope that black people from other neighborhoods go to, so if they really cared about "raucous" behavior caused by drunk rowdy fans then they'd try to close the existing night clubs/bars in the area too, but they don't care about that, and "hoops and hip-hop" comment proved that drunk, rowdy behavior was not their main concern but rather the color of those who are drunk and rowdy.Lots of news stories about violent hip hop crowds, gangs, rowdy behavior, etc. Maybe they should stop learning about black people through the news & meet black people for other reasons than interviewing them for babysitting their children. |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Mon Feb 28 20:43:58 2011, in response to Re: ''Progressive'' Park Slope shows its true colors, posted by Easy on Mon Feb 28 19:50:10 2011. I knew a black concert promoter who called them "shoot 'em up clubs". |
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Posted by Osmosis Jones on Mon Feb 28 20:44:22 2011, in response to Re: ''Progressive'' Park Slope shows its true colors, posted by Easy on Mon Feb 28 20:37:30 2011. I don't get the reference. |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Mon Feb 28 20:45:19 2011, in response to Re: ''Progressive'' Park Slope shows its true colors, posted by Osmosis Jones on Mon Feb 28 20:16:50 2011. Osmosis,Still does not mean that racism is at play. There are white music genres that would make neighbors uneasy as well. |
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Posted by Osmosis Jones on Mon Feb 28 20:48:18 2011, in response to Re: ''Progressive'' Park Slope shows its true colors, posted by Easy on Mon Feb 28 20:36:42 2011. Barclays Center means much more to the area than a stakeholder getting his funds from his parents in Idaho. |
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Posted by Easy on Mon Feb 28 20:50:46 2011, in response to Re: ''Progressive'' Park Slope shows its true colors, posted by Osmosis Jones on Mon Feb 28 20:44:22 2011. My No.1 Killer thread. Planned Parenthood advises black women to have abortions. Or so they say. And most people are happy to hear that 60% of black babies are aborted. I'm paraphrasing here. |
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Posted by Osmosis Jones on Mon Feb 28 20:51:45 2011, in response to Re: ''Progressive'' Park Slope shows its true colors, posted by LuchAAA on Mon Feb 28 20:45:19 2011. I find it hard to believe that there would be as much outrage if a "Skateboarding and Rock" demographic was expected to attend the club. This article basically surmises the view of your typical "progressive" hipster who appreciates black culture by watching "The Jacksons: An American Dream" once a year then calling it a day. |
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Posted by Fred G on Mon Feb 28 20:51:51 2011, in response to Re: ''Progressive'' Park Slope shows its true colors, posted by LuchAAA on Mon Feb 28 20:45:19 2011. He's got a point tho, with that terminology but I think any music bar is going to draw rowdy drinker, except maybe an ABBA bar.your pal, Fred |
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Posted by Osmosis Jones on Mon Feb 28 20:52:54 2011, in response to Re: ''Progressive'' Park Slope shows its true colors, posted by Osmosis Jones on Mon Feb 28 20:51:45 2011. Or rather, "appreciates". |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Mon Feb 28 20:53:28 2011, in response to Re: ''Progressive'' Park Slope shows its true colors, posted by Osmosis Jones on Mon Feb 28 20:51:45 2011. This article basically surmises the view of your typical "progressive" hipster who appreciates black culture by watching "The Jacksons: An American Dream" once a year then calling it a day.That's not just hipsters, that's also your typical White Elitist Democrat too. |
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Posted by Easy on Mon Feb 28 20:54:31 2011, in response to Re: ''Progressive'' Park Slope shows its true colors, posted by LuchAAA on Mon Feb 28 20:45:19 2011. And plenty of black neighborhoods that don't want a hip hop club in their neighborhood. When Carson got a concert venue (The Home Depot Center) the venue let the neighbors (mostly black) provide a list of unacceptable concert acts. It was pretty much a list of every rap group that you ever heard of at the time along with some random rock bands. They had that Lollapalooza thing a couple of times and then cancelled all concerts. |
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Posted by Osmosis Jones on Mon Feb 28 20:55:25 2011, in response to Re: ''Progressive'' Park Slope shows its true colors, posted by Easy on Mon Feb 28 20:50:46 2011. Heh, I see. |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Mon Feb 28 20:56:42 2011, in response to "Progressive" Park Slope shows its true colors, posted by Osmosis Jones on Mon Feb 28 17:15:38 2011. Although I'm ashamed of the not-so-subtle racism my "progressive" liberal counterparts project,I tried to explain to you the other day that the Democratic party has used and exploited minorites for decades, and they just allow them to do it. When it comes down to it, Elitist White Democrats are not particularly tolerant of minorities, they only cater to them (or at least appear to cater to them) because they use them, and exploit them for votes. Most Elitist White Democrats would NEVER live in a mixed neighborhood. |
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Posted by Osmosis Jones on Mon Feb 28 20:57:26 2011, in response to Re: ''Progressive'' Park Slope shows its true colors, posted by Easy on Mon Feb 28 20:54:31 2011. Except the difference between Carson (if Carson's a black neighborhood) & Park Slope is that Carson probably actually cared about the violence & disorder a club would bring to their neighborhood than the race of the people attending the clubs. |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Mon Feb 28 20:59:16 2011, in response to Re: ''Progressive'' Park Slope shows its true colors, posted by LuchAAA on Mon Feb 28 17:46:01 2011. Yeah, there is truth to that. most people don't want a bar/club like that opening in their neighborhood because of the drunks and rowdy behavior it brings.A bar in a good neighborhood, steps away from the new Stadium will attract all races of drinkers who were already drinking before coming to the stadium, during their time at the stadium, and then pile up at the bar which is steps away. |
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Posted by Easy on Mon Feb 28 20:59:47 2011, in response to Re: ''Progressive'' Park Slope shows its true colors, posted by Fred G on Mon Feb 28 20:51:51 2011. Exactly. Hip hop might be the worst, but none of them are desirable. If they have a club for hot lesbians exceptions might be made, but that's about it. ;) |
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Posted by Peter Rosa on Mon Feb 28 21:02:02 2011, in response to Re: ''Progressive'' Park Slope shows its true colors, posted by Easy on Mon Feb 28 20:54:31 2011. When Carson got a concert venue (The Home Depot Center) the venue let the neighbors (mostly black) provide a list of unacceptable concert acts. It was pretty much a list of every rap group that you ever heard of at the time along with some random rock bands. They had that Lollapalooza thing a couple of times and then cancelled all concerts.I would guess that the majority of the people attending events at the venue are Hispanic, especially for Chivas USA games. My blog |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Mon Feb 28 21:04:38 2011, in response to Re: ''Progressive'' Park Slope shows its true colors, posted by Fred G on Mon Feb 28 20:34:22 2011. Yeah, I agree with him too. While Basket ball fans are in all colors, it's usually not whites that like hip hop. But I don't know where the article says that it is supposed to be a "hip hop" bar. It says it's a "sports bar", which would seem fitting for a business that is near a stadium, which attracts people of all races. The White Elitist Democrats of Park Slope are the ones that read "hip hop" into it because the Nets are a Basketball team, and their stereotypes of "who" likes Basketball came to their elitist minds. That's the hypocrisy of Elitist White Democrats, they claim to be so tolerant of other races, but it's all a front to use and exploit Minorities. When it comes down to it, they don't want to "live" with the minorities, only put on the front that they are "accepting". |
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Posted by Osmosis Jones on Mon Feb 28 21:05:50 2011, in response to Re: ''Progressive'' Park Slope shows its true colors, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Mon Feb 28 20:56:42 2011. I know, I finally realizes it and disgusts me, I can see why you and others here don't choose to associate yourselves with either side of the political spectrum. It goes both ways though, if poor minorities voted Republican then they'd probably lose some of their government assistance & less improvements would be made to parks, schools, police stations, etc in their communities, so voting Democrat is pretty much a necessary evil if you're a poor minority. It's why so many poor minorities don't give a shit about voting & many programs exist to encourage them to. |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Mon Feb 28 21:06:31 2011, in response to Re: ''Progressive'' Park Slope shows its true colors, posted by Osmosis Jones on Mon Feb 28 20:43:11 2011. Good post. |
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Posted by Easy on Mon Feb 28 21:07:16 2011, in response to Re: ''Progressive'' Park Slope shows its true colors, posted by Peter Rosa on Mon Feb 28 21:02:02 2011. Definitely for Chivas, but the Galaxy crowd is predominantly white. Plus they have lots of other stuff like tennis camps, soccer camps and a velodrome. Most of the people that I see going in and out are white. Maybe unusual given the area, but not unusual given the events and the cost of those events. |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Mon Feb 28 21:08:34 2011, in response to Re: ''Progressive'' Park Slope shows its true colors, posted by Osmosis Jones on Mon Feb 28 21:05:50 2011. The far right Republicans are even worse, but at least you know where you stand with them. The real danger is the Elitist White leftist Democrats, they put on a smile to minorities and "pretend" to be all accepting and tolerant, but then they turn around and stab in the back.I hate both parties. |
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Posted by Osmosis Jones on Mon Feb 28 21:10:00 2011, in response to Re: ''Progressive'' Park Slope shows its true colors, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Mon Feb 28 20:59:16 2011. But Park Slope doesn't, there are a whole bunch of bars and clubs on Flatbush Avenue, 7th Avenue, 5th Avenue, etc that drunken white people stumble out of at night, why aren't residents concerned about them? |
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Posted by Easy on Mon Feb 28 21:10:37 2011, in response to "Progressive" Park Slope shows its true colors, posted by Osmosis Jones on Mon Feb 28 17:15:38 2011. Oh wait. I should have read more closely. I agree with you. Oops. |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Mon Feb 28 21:11:17 2011, in response to Re: ''Progressive'' Park Slope shows its true colors, posted by Easy on Mon Feb 28 20:59:47 2011. Hahaha. Unfortunately, most Lesbians don't actually look like the ones in the "movies"..... |
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Posted by Easy on Mon Feb 28 21:11:53 2011, in response to Re: ''Progressive'' Park Slope shows its true colors, posted by Osmosis Jones on Mon Feb 28 20:43:11 2011. Yeah, you're right. I should have read before disagreeing with you. |
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