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alexsfictionaddiction · 5 months ago
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And the winner of the Women's Prize(s) is...
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Unless you're literally brand new to my blog, you'll know that I've been following the Women's Prize for Fiction and Non-Fiction this year and we are finally at Winners Announcement Day!
For anyone who doesn't know about the Women's Prize, it now refers to two book prizes -one for fiction and one for non-fiction. 2024 marked the 29th year of the Women's Prize for Fiction and the very first year of the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction. For both prizes, eligible books had to be written originally in English by a woman and published in the UK between 1st April 2023 and 31st March 2024.
I have been following the Fiction prize for a few years now and this year for the second time, I successfully completed all 16 books on the longlist. I have had the best time reading these books and a few of them were truly outstanding for me. I've actually only read three of the 16 books on the Non-Fiction longlist but I was really impressed by the ones I picked up.
Without further ado, the winners are...
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Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein. Published by Allen Lane on 12th September 2023.
Brotherless Night by V. V. Ganeshananthan. Published by Viking on 29th June 2023.
I'm delighted to say that Doppelganger was one of the three non-fiction nominees that I've read and I really did find it fascinating. I'm even more delighted that Brotherless Night won the Fiction prize because it is an absolute masterpiece of a novel.
Doppelganger is a dense but very interesting book about our digital selves and how they can affect our non-digital lives. As AI, influencers and fake news look to become more of a presence in our everyday lives, it's an important book that looks at our modern world in a unique way in an accessible voice. It could have been a lot dryer than it is!
I read Brotherless Night weeks ago and I'm still thinking about the characters I met in this sprawling, emotionally charged, educational story. It was certainly my favourite to win, so I'm so excited that its victory may mean that more people give it a read. No matter how much you know about what happened in Sri Lanka in the 1980s, it's an absolute must-read.
Have you read either of the winners? Do you want to? Are you happy with the result? I'm really sad that Women's Prize season is over for another nine months at least. I'm already looking forward to next March when we'll have another two longlists to explore and root for. Until next time, readers!
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empress-alexandra · 1 year ago
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Maria Skłodowska-Curie, 1903.
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teachersource · 1 year ago
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Gerty Cori was born on August 15, 1896. An Austro-Hungarian-American biochemist who in 1947 was the third woman to win a Nobel Prize in science, and the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. With her husband Carl and Argentine physiologist Bernardo Houssay, Gerty Cori received the Nobel Prize in 1947 for the discovery of the mechanism by which glycogen—a derivative of glucose—is broken down in muscle tissue into lactic acid and then resynthesized in the body and stored as a source of energy (known as the Cori cycle). They also identified the important catalyzing compound, the Cori ester.
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higherentity · 1 year ago
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In honour of all our Nobel Laureates!
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Stories behind the female Nobel laureates coming soon!
Keep going <3
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cinemaocd · 2 years ago
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Erwin Schrödinger and Fritz London in Berlin, 1928
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wordshaveteeth · 21 hours ago
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Why I picked this: This was not on my radar anywhere, until a work colleague (who has proved to be a reliable source) recommended it to me. Nevertheless I’m pleased it’s less than 250 pages long; I’ve been needing a little ‘snack’ book of late.
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chantireviews · 1 month ago
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The 2024 Chatelaine Book Awards Long List for Women's Fiction and Romance
The Chatelaine Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Romantic Fiction. The Chatelaine Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs). Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best new books featuring romantic themes and adventures of the heart, historical love affairs, perhaps a…
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alexsfictionaddiction · 1 year ago
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The Women’s Prize for Fiction 2023 Winner is Announced!
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It’s here -the winner of this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction was announced last night and to be quite honest, I am delighted with the result! It was a very strong shortlist and I’m not sure how the judges decided between the vast majority of them but it is now over.
The winner is...
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Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver!
I read this incredibly enchanting, immersive, special feat of literature in October without really knowing how I’d get along with it. I haven’t read David Copperfield and know very little about that story, so I didn’t know whether I’d really get everything that Kingsolver was trying to tell me in this novel. It’s also a pretty hefty book, so I won’t pretend that I wasn’t slightly intimidated by because of that too. I had multiple reasons to leave it on my TBR but on a cold autumnal night, something told me to just take the plunge and pick it up.
I can honestly say that I will never forget Demon as a character. His story is relentlessly bleak but his relationships with his friends bring a wealth of light into his life and the pages of the book. The setting of Lee County, Virginia and the horrors of the opoid crisis that ripple far beyond the addicts themselves are so vivid and I was completely captivated by Kingsolver’s wonderful prose and expert storytelling ability. 
I’m pretty sure I said in each of my Women’s Prize posts this year that it was a clear winner for me and I’m so happy that the judges could see it for the amazing book that it is. It did win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction this year too and I know there was some talk amongst Women’s Prize followers that its Pulitzer win could dampen its chances of winning the Women’s Prize too. Again, I’m overjoyed that it obviously didn’t come into the decision making!
Demon Copperhead’s win also makes Barbara Kingsolver the first ever woman to win the prize twice, having first won in 2010 with The Lacuna. I am yet to read any of her other books but I will be doing some research into them to try and find any that interest me. I ladored her writing in Demon, so I have no doubt that she’ll have some others that I love just as much.
If you haven’t picked up the very worthy winner of the Women’s Prize 2023, you simply have to because I’m pretty sure you’ll enjoy it. I know its size might look scary and the fact that it’s won more than one literary prize might even amplify its intimidation levels for some but it really is a beautiful, insightful, thought-provoking novel. You should know by now that I am not a big ‘high brow literature’ reader, so the fact that I loved it should tell you that it is very accessible for popular fiction readers who love character-driven, epic life stories.
I have to say that I am really sad that the Women’s Prize season is now over. It’s a time of year that my nerdy, bookish heart looks forward to all year and having pretty much completed the longlist for the first time this year (I’m about to complete the last one -yay!), I’m already getting pumped to do it all again! 
Next year, there will be a non-fiction Women’s Prize running alongside the fiction one. Promoting women’s non-fiction is an amazing thing for them to be doing but I think I would have preferred them to run it at a different time of year. Having both of them at the same time could mean that one overshadows the other and that one of them (probably the new non-fiction one because fiction tends to have a wider readership anyway) will get lost. We don’t know the number of books that will be longlisted for the non-fiction prize yet but if it’s 16 like its fiction sister, that’s 32 books to read in around a three month period?! I will be waiting to see the longlist of both prizes before deciding exactly what I’m going to be reading from each or whether I just concentrate on one next year. I’d like to read at least some of the non-fiction list but I may end up being highly selective with it -we’ll see!
What do you think of the Women’s Prize winner this year? Have you read the fantastic Demon Copperhead? What are your thoughts on next year’s new Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction? Are you excited for it? Let me know!
Until next time, happy reading!
-Love, Alex x
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thebookbin · 1 year ago
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Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
Sheri Fink
Publisher: Crown Publishing (Penguin Random House) Genre: nonfiction, history, journalism Year: 2013
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Wow, what a read.
As a Houstonian who lived through both Katrina and Harvey, the devastation of hurricanes and flooding is not lost on me. I spent days ruminating over this book, and I still feel conflicted about it. While the investigation and reporting of events inside the hospital are some of the most profound words journalism has ever produced, the Part II "aftermath" section is riddled with the author's biases, especially in a religious sense.
For those not in the know: this book follows the events at Memorial Baptist Hospital in New Orleans during and after Hurricane Katrina, in which 45 people died at the hospital and where one doctor and two nurses were charged with accusations of euthanasia. While the investigation of what went on at Memorial is poignant and powerful, Fink's insistence on framing this entire debate on personal responsibility, while simultaneously letting a corporation she acknowledges as corrupt in passing off the hook is infuriating. Fink describes in detail and had access to Tenet's (the parent corporation of the hospital) emails where they actively chose not to send aid to the doctors at their own hospital, and yet focuses all her vitriol on the nurses and doctors trapped there with no water, no electricity, limited resources, and dying patients. This is where I believe Fink's personal religion colors this book to an unacceptable degree that makes this work unworthy of the Pulitzer Prize it won. Sheri Fink's disdain for certain topics shines through every snide remark disguised as journalism. She clearly does not agree philosophically with euthanasia. Fink is obviously religious, as she is incapable of removing her biases from her supposed "objective reporting" leads to targeted questions that clearly are intended to discredit the opinions she clearly disagrees with, "Could the societal embrace of suicide for terminally ill or disabled people lead to those groups feeling more worthless, devalued, and abandoned? Would it discount the meaning to be had from family reconnections, insights, forms of spiritual enrichment, and personal growth that may accompany death's approach?" This quote comes from a passage where Fink is discussing and "airing the debate" of assisted suicide. She seems to have no problems with Jehovah's Witnesses exorcising their rights to refuse treatment, but holds a palpable and sharp distaste for those who want the power to choose the time and place of their passing and be able to pass along painlessly. Even the veneer of her journalism can't hide her pompous disdain for the idea. While I personally don't know enough about medically assisted suicide to have an informed opinion, I have compassion for people who may be considering this route, and am curious enough about the debate to hear arguments and considerations from all sides. But Fink's biases are so strong I found myself siding in opposition to her, just to spite her obvious attempts to sway my opinion. Towards the end of the book it gets worse. She describes a doctor who went to jail for facilitating a physician assisted suicide of a terminally ill patient in the 90s, and then switches to the perspective of an investigator who, upon reading a newspaper "what she read, made her cry." She only shows the emotions of the people who's perspective she agrees with, and somehow that perspective never points any blame at any corporation, government, or system that failed and always on individual people's actions.
Fink also seems to completely disregard class consciousness until it serves her. She has no intellectual curiosity on how or why class affected Katrina outcomes, unless it's to be condescending to her target: Dr. Anna Pou. This ends up reading as absurd, when a billion dollar hospital group was responsible for lack of preparation before, ignoring federal regulations and warnings about their storm-readiness and Fink reports all of this like it's an afterthought. Ah yes, the entire system failed, the government failed to intervene and when they finally did their efforts were so disorganized they actively hindered rescue operations, but let's not look any closer there, we definitely can't investigate corporate malpractice, or even the possibility of personal responsibility for those in charge of the situation—no. We only care about personal responsibility of those not in charge. It's this hyper-individualistic stance that confirmed for me that this book is religious in nature. She hyper-fixates on Dr. Pou's wealth, while barely mentioning the two middle-class nurses charged alongside her unless it's a brief mention of how they struggled financially after their respective arrests. Fink seems desperate to frame this novel as taking down the Big Guy, but instead of doing the more interesting and admittedly harder work of investigating the Big Guy, she chooses a single doctor as the figurehead of the worlds problems and dresses her up as the boogeyman while allowing the actual menacing entity responsible for this tragedy continue to exist unexamined.
Overall, I would say my feelings towards this book are... conflicted. I do think that documenting what went on is important, as is the discussion of euthanasia, medical standards and how they might shift in disasters, and the philosophical and ethical questions of practicing medicine in extenuating circumstances. I just firmly believe this book fails to achieve that to any meaningful degree, and instead reads as a religious manifesto on the sanctity of life, an attempt to take on the Man that was misaimed in a way that lets actual corrupt power fester unchecked.
storygraph | bookshop.org | local houston
★★★ don't read this unless you want to be angry
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teachersource · 2 years ago
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Jennifer Doudna was born on February 19, 1964. An American biochemist who has done pioneering work in CRISPR gene editing, and made other fundamental contributions in biochemistry and genetics. She received the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, with Emmanuelle Charpentier, "for the development of a method for genome editing."
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higherentity · 11 months ago
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friendlymathematician · 1 month ago
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7 out of 7 of the announced nobel prize winners and all of the science prize winners are males this year. two males in medicine, two males in physics, and three males in chemistry. the committee has to be actively avoiding women at this point.
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harvestheart · 2 years ago
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Marie Curie quote
“A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales”
— Marie Curie-Skłodowská, Nobel Prize winner in both Physics (1903) and Chemistry (1911)
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a-kind-of-merry-war · 17 days ago
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ALL THE PAINTED STARS
When Lily Barden discovers her best friend Johanna’s hand in marriage is being awarded as the main prize at a tournament, she is determined to stop it. Disguised as a knight, she infiltrates the contest, preparing to fight for Jo’s hand. But her conduct ruffles feathers, and when a dangerous incident escalates out of Lily’s control, Jo must help her escape.
Finding safety with a local brewster, Lily and Jo soon settle into their new freedom, and amongst blackberry bushes and lakeside walks an unexpected relationship blossoms. But when Jo’s past catches up with her and Lily’s reckless behaviour threatens their newfound happiness, both women realise that the choices they make will always have a cost.
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A GENTLEMAN'S GENTLEMAN/THE EARL MEETS HIS MATCH
The notoriously eccentric Lord Christopher Eden is a “man of unusual make” and even more unusual habits: he prefers to live far from the prying eyes and ears of the ton, and would rather have the comfortable company of his childhood cook and his aged butler than the swarm of servants and hangers-on befitting a man of his station.
But Christopher’s pleasant, if occasionally lonely life is upended when he receives word from his lawyers that, according to his late father’s will, he must find a wife by the end of the Season if he intends to keep his family’s fortune and the Eden estate. If his quest to marry has any hope of succeeding, he must move to London posthaste and acquire some more suitable staff. Enter James Harding, Christopher’s new, distractingly handsome—if rigidly traditional—valet.
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funkopersonal · 6 months ago
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Here's your daily reminder that...
Jews are only 0.2% of the worlds population but...
Jews make up 14% of the World Total and 38% of the United States of America total winners for the Nobel Prize for Literature (source).
Of the 965 individual recipients of the Nobel Prize and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences between 1901 and 2023, at least 214 have been Jews or people with at least one Jewish parent, representing 22% of all recipients. (source)
Jews make up 14% of the total winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 18% of the total winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; 53% of the total winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction (source).
Jews make up 39% of the total winners of the Antoinette Perry (Tony) Award for Best Play; 54% of the total winners of the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical (with 62% of all Composers and 66% of all Lyricists of Best Musical-winning productions being Jewish) (source).
Jews make up 40% of the total winners of the Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Original Screenplay; and 34% of the total winners of the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (source).
Although Jews constitute only 3% of the U.S. population...
80% of the nation’s professional comedians are Jewish (source).
90% of American comic book creators are jewish (source)
38% of the recipients of the United States National Medal of Science are Jewish (Source).
Jews are very successful, with educational levels higher than all other U.S. ethnic groups with the exception of Asian Americans, and income levels the highest of all groups. Six out of ten Jewish adults have college degrees, and 41% of Jewish families report a household income of $75,000 or more” (source)
Jews are a minority across the globe. We've been historically opressed and hated. But these key figures from history are all Jewish and loved, yet many don't even know they're jewish (or they don't know these people in the first place!):
Stan Lee (birth name: Stanley Martin Lieber) - An American comic book writer and editor, Former executive vice president and publisher of marvel Comics, creator of iron-man, spider-man, and more.
Albert Einstein - a Theoretical physicist, Received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics, developed the theory of relativity and the "worlds most famous equation"  (E = mc^2), and more.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg - Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, co-authored the initial law school casebook on sex discrimination, co-founded the Women’s Rights Project at the ACLU in 1972, and more.
Jack Kirby (birth name: Jacob Kurtzberg) - an American comic book artist, co-creator of Captain America, one of the most influential comic book artists
Harry Houdini (birth name: Erich Weisz) - a Hungarian-American escape artist, illusionist, and stunt performer, noted for his escape acts.
Emma Lazarus - An American author remembered for her sonnet "The New Colossus," Inspired by The Statue of Liberty and inscribed on its pedestal as of 1903.
Julius Rosenthal, Lillian Wald, Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch, Stephen Wise, and Henry Moskowitz - Jewish activists that helped form the NAACP along with W.E.B. Dubois, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, and Mary Church Terrell.
Mark Zuckerberg - Founder and CEO of Meta, a businessman who co-founded the social media service Facebook, and within four years became the world’s youngest self-made billionaire Harvard alumni.
Joseph Pulitzer - a politician and newspaper publisher, his endowment to the Columbia University established the Pulitzer Prizes in 1917, he founded the Columbia School of Journalism which opened in 1912.
Jacob William Davis - a Latvian tailor who is credited with inventing modern jeans and who worked with Levi Strauss to patent and mass-produce them, died.
Irving Berlin - drafted at age 30 to write morale-boosting songs for military revues (including “God Bless America”). Many Berlin songs remained popular for decades, including “Puttin’ on the Ritz,” “Cheek to Cheek,” “Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better),” “There’s No Business Like Show Business,” and two celebrating Christian holidays: “White Christmas” and “Easter Parade.”
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel - received his doctorate in Berlin. He was arrested by the Nazis in 1938, moved to the U.S. in 1940, and became an influential figure in the 1960s, marching with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma, Alabama, and speaking out against the Vietnam War.
Elie Wiesel - Romanian-American writer and professor, holocaust survivor, nobel laureate, political activist. Authored 57 books including Night, a work based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps
Bob Dylan - an icon of folk, rock and protest music, won the Nobel Prize in literature for his complex and poetic lyrics.
J. Robert Oppenheimer - ran the Manhattan Project, considered the "father of the atomic Bomb," presented with the Enrico Fermi Award by President Lyndon Johnson.
Betty Friedan - co-founded the National Organization of Women and became its first president, wrote The Feminine Mystique (1963) and helped spark the second wave of feminism.
Gloria Steinem - one of the most prominent feminists of all time, launched Ms. Magazine and co-founded the National Women’s Political Caucus with Bella Abzug, Shirley Chisholm, Betty Friedan and Myrlie Evers-Williams, widow of Medgar Evers.
Sergey Brin - an American businessman best known for co-founding Google with Larry Page, president of Alphabet Inc.
Judith Heumann - a founder of the disability rights movement, led a 26-day sit-in at a federal building in San Francisco. The protest spurred implementation of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, a precursor to the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Larry Kramer - co-founded Gay Men’s Health Crisis in response to the AIDS epidemic but was soon ousted over his confrontational activism. He went on to help launch a more strident group, ACT UP, and wrote a critically acclaimed play, The Normal Heart, about the early AIDS years in New York City.
Steven Spielberg - released his critically acclaimed epic film Schindler’s List, based on the true story of a German industrialist who saved Jews during the Holocaust. The movie won seven Oscars and led Spielberg to launch the Shoah Foundation at the University of Southern California, which filmed interviews with 52,000 survivors of the Holocaust and genocides in Nanjing and Rwanda.
Calvin Klein - made designer jeans and the infamous ad starring Brooke Shields revolutionized the fashion industry, sold his company to Phillips-Van Heusen (now PVH) for $430 million. Klein was the first designer to win three consecutive Coty Awards for womenswear.
Daveed Diggs - an American actor, rapper, and singer-songwriter. he originated the dual roles of Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson in the musical Hamilton, for which he won a 2016 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical. Along with the main cast of Hamilton, he was awarded a Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album in the same year.
And so much more. (a pretty decent list is available here)
Not only that, but the following are all Jewish inventions...
The Teddy Bear - made by Morris and Rose Michtom in honor of Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt.
The Ballpoint Pen - *the first commercially sucessfull ballpoint pen was made by Lazlo Biro, a Hungarian-Jew, and his brother.
Mobile Phones - made by Martin Cooper, nicknamed the "father of the cellphone", and was born in Chicago to Ukrainian Jewish immigrants.
The Barbie - made by Ruth Marianna Handler, born to Polish-Jewish immigrants.
Power Rangers - made by Haim Saban, a Jewish-Egyptian
Video Games - made by Ralph Baer, a German-Jew
Peeps - made by Sam Born, a Russian-Jewish immigrants who came to the United States in 1909.
Cards Against Humanity - created by a group of Jewish boys from the same high school
Many Superheroes including Superman, Ironman, spider-man, batman, and more!
and more! (an illustrated list available here.)
Conclusion: If you're Jewish, be proud. You come from a long line of successful people. No matter what happened to them, Jews persevered, and they strived for sucess. Be proud of your culture, your history, these are your people. You're Jewish.
(feel free to reblog and add more, or just comment and i'll add it!)
Last Updated: June 25, 1:35 AM EST
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