GH 8/16: Free at last, free at last, 14 hours in jail, and you're free at last!
I watched some of the Brenda and Sonny marathon this weekend. What a trip. Everyone was so young and thin. Bobbie was still normal and glamorous looking. Alan was still so handsome. Luke's fuzzy toupe. SJB as Carly back when SJB was curvy and blonde instead of veiny and brunette! The ridiculous attempts to try to recreate the Patch and Kayla. V Ardanowski! I loved her! Sonny saying in the Catacombs "For almost a year I wanted to, but I couldn't kill myself because suicide is a mortal sin."
Loftian Vortex: Dante and Lou talk in the Brick Vortex that surrounds and encompasses and is at once within and without the loft. Lou needs to check with Michael to make sure he wasn't involved in any The Danger lately. Michael watches baseball.
Pentonville Bistro: Sonny tells Jason he's a free man. Because that's what they do in prison. They decide to release you, but they don't tell you and they keep you there until a loved one stops by to break the news.
Italy: Brenda responds to her movie star boyfriend's marriage proposal by giggling. I was positive he was going to tell her he's gay.
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Pentonville Bistro: Diane shows up to explain that some effing typo voided his plea agreement. Whatever.
Italy: Brenda and her aggravating cardigan she's wearing over a gown says she hadn't put marriage into her plan. They were just having a pleasant but boring interaction, and he wants to get married. I swear I watched their first scene together and thought they seemed so polite to each other that obviously they were about to break up. But now they are discussing marriage? Poor thing. Brenda says she's going to be in different cities constantly with her new job. She whines about how it's so awful being rich and famous because having all the money and stuff you want isn't worth anything if it comes with drawbacks. Whining about Rich People Problems is such a joke.
Birds of Paradise: Johnny says Sonny should have thought about payback. Ethan says killing Sonny will create consequences. Johnny says Sonny tried to kill him and also killed a Lopez, and Sonny is walking around free, so where are Sonny's consequences. How is that an answer? Ethan asks if Johnny is going to frame The Lopez Danger for Sonny's death. Johnny says it's easy. He'll walk up to Sonny on the street, shoot him, and claim self defense. "After all the attempts he's made on my life? Cops'll buy it." He takes a shot of booze. As people are wont to do mid-afternoon in this town.
Loft: Michael talks about the Yankees with Dante. Lou talks about the eye witness that saw Michael at The Shooting. Lucky strolls in and asks if he's talking about the old lady who lives across the street. I love Port Charles. I love that there's a high rise hotel next door to a little old lady's house, like in Up. (Also, if you haven't seen it, put Up at the top of your Netflix. Delightful for all ages!) Also, Lucky was somehow able to hear the entire conversation from the hallway, I guess? Lucky says the lady is super old and therefore a liar, or whatever, and they don't know for sure she saw Michael. Also, I'm sure Lucky has had her murdered by now because Lucky is rather perplexing to me. I can never tell where he stands with regard to the law.
Nurse's Station: Lisa's hair is in complicated twists, and she and Shawn Douglas look at a child's x-ray ("I don't trust those, they aren't even in color") Shawn asks her for a consult, and she suggests they invite Patrick. Girl has probably been trying to make that threeway happen since she was in college, which is kind of gross because Shawn would have been a teenager. That's how Lisa rolls. Patrick and Maxie arrive at the same time. Patrick pulls Lisa aside,distracting Maxie. She asks Shawn what's going on. Meanwhile, Patrick hisses at Lisa for cutting Robin's face out of their wedding photo, and that it has to stop. She says something will.
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Italy: Brenda delivers the kiss of death "you mean so much to me." She wants him to be with someone who really loves him. She's literally says "it's not you, it's me." ouch. Oh, well, I give the girl credit for doing this in person and not saying to his face that she loves him and then later texting. "UR gr8 let's B frendz" She says she just likes to get drunk with him and wants to do that now. Ouch. He says everyone around him is so superficial, and she's the only one who's real. My, gawd, what must this man's life be like if that's true? She tells him she's been left at the altar three times. (hmm, Jax once when Miranda was alive, Sonny when he left her standing in the rain, and Jax again when he was a total dick?) Also, how can he even be discussing marriage with her if he's never asked her about why her eyes sometimes fog over with sadness? or about her past relationships?
Jason's Penthouse: Carly tries to talk Typelli back into her idiot revenge plot to get Dante laid. She decides to pretend like she thinks this will save Looloo from Dante, hoping that works on Typey. Diane calls to say Jason is coming home. Typelli says the refrigerator is full of Stone Cold's favorite beverage (prune juice?) Carly has to take care of something and she loudly flops out of the room. She must be wearing clogs because her footclops are distractingly loud.
Loft: Lucky, Dante and Michael talk about their new cover up to lie about Michael's proximity to the shooting. Lucky muses that a cover up started this whole mess, and here they are again. Michael says he'll do whatever it takes to stay out of Pentonville.
GH: Lisa is still feigning innocence about the picture cutting. She says maybe Patrick hasn't looked at the picture in awhile, and Robin did it b/c she's onto them. Patrick rolls his eyes.
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Jake's: Carly has summoned Brooke and says they are out of time because Jason is getting out of prison and will shut them down. Carly says Brooke has to get Dante into bed tonight. Brooke says she should get extra hooker money for having the time limit. Also, she has to have proof.
Limo: Sonny and Jason take a drive around the lake and make sweet, sweet love to each other. Oh, wait, nevermind. That's Carly's trick. Sonny fills Jason in on his idiotic plan to have sex with Walsh because then she won't be able to prosecute him, and she's the only competent prosecutor in the state or in the country.
Italy: Oh, I get it now. Movie Star Boyfriend is just the guy who gets to ask Brenda "so tell me about your past boyfriends" He's heard of Jax and calls him "The Money Guy" I wish he'd called him Candy Boy. Brenda blah blahs about how Jax's wife showed up back from the dead at her first wedding. They joke about how it sounds like a stupid sit com season finale and that her life curiously mirrors preposterous TV plots a lot of the time. heh. She says the second guy "couldn't be bothered to leave me at the altar, so he sent his best friend" She then says the third time, she said her vows, and then Jax said "I don't" because she had kissed Bachelor #2 the night before. She says she's not great in the marriage department. Brenda turns to stare out into the night. Movie Star Guide asks "you love him?" He shrewdly doesn't specify which man, and his ambiguity is rewarded when Brenda answers with a question, "Sonny?" He sadly nods, now realizing that the woman he loves is in love with another man.
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Corinthaus: Sonny comes home to find Walsh waiting for him in various shades of lilac, violet and taupe. They discuss Jason's release. Apparently she put the loophole in Jason's plea agreement. She says she has another black mark on her record, and she feels oddly liberated. Yes, that's The Stupid setting in. It starts as a tingle in your panties, and then it makes really stupid decisions cause your body to release oxytocin, and then parasitic enzymes begin to lobotomize your brain causing everything to smell like freshly mowed grass.
Italy: Movie Star Boyfriend isn't phased and still wants to marry her. Blah Blah, he likes who he is when he's with her. She says it's hard to say no. They kiss, and he says he loves playing dirty, and then he tells her good night. She gasps because even the men whose heart she breaks still want a goodbye boink, for heaven's sake. he leaves and gives a gallant little salute. It has the desired effect because even though she doesn't want to marry him, she does want to spend time with him. In bed.
Jason's Penthouse: Typelli has put up a banner, but so far, all it says is "WELCOME HO" Jason comes home, and they giggle about the sign. Jason asks him what Carly has him working on.
Phone: Carly calls Michael and tells him Jason is coming home, so they should all get to the penthouse. She tells Brooke to call Dante.
Loft: Dante answers the phone, and Brooke puts on a pouty voice and asks him to pick him up. She hangs up the phone, and apparently the pouting wasn't a ruse. She seems conflicted about her job as Spy Hooker. Carly tells her to snap out of it and get to...oh, I get it. Carly isn't very bright and she's confusing how you can screw a person, with how you can screw a person. That the same word has different meanings. No wonder all the people at Lowe's think she's insane.
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Bullpen: Looloo shows up with a very low cut top. I never visit my brother showing cleavage. weird. Loo wants to talk to Lucky about Dante and how he brought up the M word. Lucky is in a Jekyll mood today and is being charming and funny and sweet and trying to help Looloo. I don't know where to put Lucky, so I guess some days I'll love him and some days I'll hate him. fair enough? Looloo yammers on about how she doesn't want Dante to think he has to propose. It's all very contrived and dopey because Looloo and Dante are not school children, but whatever, I'm glad when people confide in family members on this show, so I'll just find it sweet.
Jake's: Dante finds Low Cut Brooke and she is vague and near tears. She asks him not to tell anyone. She starts crying and says she gets panic attacks. It's interesting to watch an actress play a person who is being a very good actress. Like, I think the actual actress could get crazy and hysterical if she needed, but a normal girl wouldn't be able to do that, so instead, the actual actress is playing this like a non actress would, which is to say, Brooke is still crying, and hyperventilating a little, but not being too over the top. I dunno, I dig it. Brooke tells her to calm down and they will figure it out together.
Jason's Penthouse: Carly rushes into the room and into Jason's embrace and holds him like you'd hold a blanket in a storm. She whispers "don't ever leave me again"
Corinthaus: Blah blah, Walsh is gonna be a Big Career Girl because she earned it. Sonny says the point of all of this was to get her to trust him, so she'd end up in a compromising position. They stare at each other, and then kiss, one of those kisses where all four lips get very involved in the activity. She pulls away and has a vacant look in her eyes and says she doesn't trust herself when it comes to him. He says when she finally does, she knows where to find him. She asks if he's kicking her out. He says he's giving her an out. and blah blah yes, you want the green Jaguar afterall, yes, yes we've seen this before, only it makes sense when it's a 20 year old girl and not when it's an accomplished woman with a career. (see also, it's not lke Brenda wanted to do this all again the last few times she's been in town.) Walsh says she's not doing anything until she knows how she feels. She blathers something about if he's ever loved someone enough that he didn't think he could live without them. She says she's asked this before and is waiting for an answer.
Maybe Walsh and Movie Star Boyfriend will hook up like Miquel and Lily.
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Jason's Penthouse: Carly fixes the banner, and Jason sends Typelli and Michael to pick up fruit. Oy, it's okay, show, we know that Jason subsists on protein shakes and steroids. You've shown us how skinny he used to be. Jason warns Carly that she can't try to screw Dante and has to stop.
Jake's: Brooke and her friend Mickey Finn hang out at the bar, mixing drinks. They are drinking a beer called "Dark Ale" They mention the Yankees (drink!)
Italy: Brenda stares off the terrace into the moonlit night and remembers yelling at Jason "I'm so sick of your stone face, do you know that, obviously he sent you here, so why did he send you here?" She says she won't listen to him attack her relationship with Sonny. Jason coldly tells her she doesn't have one anymore. She opens the door to the rain and says "He always leaves me standing in the rain" before dissolving into tears.
In the present, Sonny stares out the window into the twilight and remembers the same thing, even though he would have only seen none of it because he left to go become a big Movie Star. Oh, I get it. The writers are making fun of Sonny by having Brenda dating a big Movie Star Boyfriend, the one thing Mo never became?
the end
Loftian Vortex: Dante and Lou talk in the Brick Vortex that surrounds and encompasses and is at once within and without the loft. Lou needs to check with Michael to make sure he wasn't involved in any The Danger lately. Michael watches baseball.
Pentonville Bistro: Sonny tells Jason he's a free man. Because that's what they do in prison. They decide to release you, but they don't tell you and they keep you there until a loved one stops by to break the news.
Italy: Brenda responds to her movie star boyfriend's marriage proposal by giggling. I was positive he was going to tell her he's gay.
Credits
Pentonville Bistro: Diane shows up to explain that some effing typo voided his plea agreement. Whatever.
Italy: Brenda and her aggravating cardigan she's wearing over a gown says she hadn't put marriage into her plan. They were just having a pleasant but boring interaction, and he wants to get married. I swear I watched their first scene together and thought they seemed so polite to each other that obviously they were about to break up. But now they are discussing marriage? Poor thing. Brenda says she's going to be in different cities constantly with her new job. She whines about how it's so awful being rich and famous because having all the money and stuff you want isn't worth anything if it comes with drawbacks. Whining about Rich People Problems is such a joke.
Birds of Paradise: Johnny says Sonny should have thought about payback. Ethan says killing Sonny will create consequences. Johnny says Sonny tried to kill him and also killed a Lopez, and Sonny is walking around free, so where are Sonny's consequences. How is that an answer? Ethan asks if Johnny is going to frame The Lopez Danger for Sonny's death. Johnny says it's easy. He'll walk up to Sonny on the street, shoot him, and claim self defense. "After all the attempts he's made on my life? Cops'll buy it." He takes a shot of booze. As people are wont to do mid-afternoon in this town.
Loft: Michael talks about the Yankees with Dante. Lou talks about the eye witness that saw Michael at The Shooting. Lucky strolls in and asks if he's talking about the old lady who lives across the street. I love Port Charles. I love that there's a high rise hotel next door to a little old lady's house, like in Up. (Also, if you haven't seen it, put Up at the top of your Netflix. Delightful for all ages!) Also, Lucky was somehow able to hear the entire conversation from the hallway, I guess? Lucky says the lady is super old and therefore a liar, or whatever, and they don't know for sure she saw Michael. Also, I'm sure Lucky has had her murdered by now because Lucky is rather perplexing to me. I can never tell where he stands with regard to the law.
Nurse's Station: Lisa's hair is in complicated twists, and she and Shawn Douglas look at a child's x-ray ("I don't trust those, they aren't even in color") Shawn asks her for a consult, and she suggests they invite Patrick. Girl has probably been trying to make that threeway happen since she was in college, which is kind of gross because Shawn would have been a teenager. That's how Lisa rolls. Patrick and Maxie arrive at the same time. Patrick pulls Lisa aside,distracting Maxie. She asks Shawn what's going on. Meanwhile, Patrick hisses at Lisa for cutting Robin's face out of their wedding photo, and that it has to stop. She says something will.
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Italy: Brenda delivers the kiss of death "you mean so much to me." She wants him to be with someone who really loves him. She's literally says "it's not you, it's me." ouch. Oh, well, I give the girl credit for doing this in person and not saying to his face that she loves him and then later texting. "UR gr8 let's B frendz" She says she just likes to get drunk with him and wants to do that now. Ouch. He says everyone around him is so superficial, and she's the only one who's real. My, gawd, what must this man's life be like if that's true? She tells him she's been left at the altar three times. (hmm, Jax once when Miranda was alive, Sonny when he left her standing in the rain, and Jax again when he was a total dick?) Also, how can he even be discussing marriage with her if he's never asked her about why her eyes sometimes fog over with sadness? or about her past relationships?
Jason's Penthouse: Carly tries to talk Typelli back into her idiot revenge plot to get Dante laid. She decides to pretend like she thinks this will save Looloo from Dante, hoping that works on Typey. Diane calls to say Jason is coming home. Typelli says the refrigerator is full of Stone Cold's favorite beverage (prune juice?) Carly has to take care of something and she loudly flops out of the room. She must be wearing clogs because her footclops are distractingly loud.
Loft: Lucky, Dante and Michael talk about their new cover up to lie about Michael's proximity to the shooting. Lucky muses that a cover up started this whole mess, and here they are again. Michael says he'll do whatever it takes to stay out of Pentonville.
GH: Lisa is still feigning innocence about the picture cutting. She says maybe Patrick hasn't looked at the picture in awhile, and Robin did it b/c she's onto them. Patrick rolls his eyes.
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Jake's: Carly has summoned Brooke and says they are out of time because Jason is getting out of prison and will shut them down. Carly says Brooke has to get Dante into bed tonight. Brooke says she should get extra hooker money for having the time limit. Also, she has to have proof.
Limo: Sonny and Jason take a drive around the lake and make sweet, sweet love to each other. Oh, wait, nevermind. That's Carly's trick. Sonny fills Jason in on his idiotic plan to have sex with Walsh because then she won't be able to prosecute him, and she's the only competent prosecutor in the state or in the country.
Italy: Oh, I get it now. Movie Star Boyfriend is just the guy who gets to ask Brenda "so tell me about your past boyfriends" He's heard of Jax and calls him "The Money Guy" I wish he'd called him Candy Boy. Brenda blah blahs about how Jax's wife showed up back from the dead at her first wedding. They joke about how it sounds like a stupid sit com season finale and that her life curiously mirrors preposterous TV plots a lot of the time. heh. She says the second guy "couldn't be bothered to leave me at the altar, so he sent his best friend" She then says the third time, she said her vows, and then Jax said "I don't" because she had kissed Bachelor #2 the night before. She says she's not great in the marriage department. Brenda turns to stare out into the night. Movie Star Guide asks "you love him?" He shrewdly doesn't specify which man, and his ambiguity is rewarded when Brenda answers with a question, "Sonny?" He sadly nods, now realizing that the woman he loves is in love with another man.
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Corinthaus: Sonny comes home to find Walsh waiting for him in various shades of lilac, violet and taupe. They discuss Jason's release. Apparently she put the loophole in Jason's plea agreement. She says she has another black mark on her record, and she feels oddly liberated. Yes, that's The Stupid setting in. It starts as a tingle in your panties, and then it makes really stupid decisions cause your body to release oxytocin, and then parasitic enzymes begin to lobotomize your brain causing everything to smell like freshly mowed grass.
Italy: Movie Star Boyfriend isn't phased and still wants to marry her. Blah Blah, he likes who he is when he's with her. She says it's hard to say no. They kiss, and he says he loves playing dirty, and then he tells her good night. She gasps because even the men whose heart she breaks still want a goodbye boink, for heaven's sake. he leaves and gives a gallant little salute. It has the desired effect because even though she doesn't want to marry him, she does want to spend time with him. In bed.
Jason's Penthouse: Typelli has put up a banner, but so far, all it says is "WELCOME HO" Jason comes home, and they giggle about the sign. Jason asks him what Carly has him working on.
Phone: Carly calls Michael and tells him Jason is coming home, so they should all get to the penthouse. She tells Brooke to call Dante.
Loft: Dante answers the phone, and Brooke puts on a pouty voice and asks him to pick him up. She hangs up the phone, and apparently the pouting wasn't a ruse. She seems conflicted about her job as Spy Hooker. Carly tells her to snap out of it and get to...oh, I get it. Carly isn't very bright and she's confusing how you can screw a person, with how you can screw a person. That the same word has different meanings. No wonder all the people at Lowe's think she's insane.
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Bullpen: Looloo shows up with a very low cut top. I never visit my brother showing cleavage. weird. Loo wants to talk to Lucky about Dante and how he brought up the M word. Lucky is in a Jekyll mood today and is being charming and funny and sweet and trying to help Looloo. I don't know where to put Lucky, so I guess some days I'll love him and some days I'll hate him. fair enough? Looloo yammers on about how she doesn't want Dante to think he has to propose. It's all very contrived and dopey because Looloo and Dante are not school children, but whatever, I'm glad when people confide in family members on this show, so I'll just find it sweet.
Jake's: Dante finds Low Cut Brooke and she is vague and near tears. She asks him not to tell anyone. She starts crying and says she gets panic attacks. It's interesting to watch an actress play a person who is being a very good actress. Like, I think the actual actress could get crazy and hysterical if she needed, but a normal girl wouldn't be able to do that, so instead, the actual actress is playing this like a non actress would, which is to say, Brooke is still crying, and hyperventilating a little, but not being too over the top. I dunno, I dig it. Brooke tells her to calm down and they will figure it out together.
Jason's Penthouse: Carly rushes into the room and into Jason's embrace and holds him like you'd hold a blanket in a storm. She whispers "don't ever leave me again"
Corinthaus: Blah blah, Walsh is gonna be a Big Career Girl because she earned it. Sonny says the point of all of this was to get her to trust him, so she'd end up in a compromising position. They stare at each other, and then kiss, one of those kisses where all four lips get very involved in the activity. She pulls away and has a vacant look in her eyes and says she doesn't trust herself when it comes to him. He says when she finally does, she knows where to find him. She asks if he's kicking her out. He says he's giving her an out. and blah blah yes, you want the green Jaguar afterall, yes, yes we've seen this before, only it makes sense when it's a 20 year old girl and not when it's an accomplished woman with a career. (see also, it's not lke Brenda wanted to do this all again the last few times she's been in town.) Walsh says she's not doing anything until she knows how she feels. She blathers something about if he's ever loved someone enough that he didn't think he could live without them. She says she's asked this before and is waiting for an answer.
Maybe Walsh and Movie Star Boyfriend will hook up like Miquel and Lily.
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Jason's Penthouse: Carly fixes the banner, and Jason sends Typelli and Michael to pick up fruit. Oy, it's okay, show, we know that Jason subsists on protein shakes and steroids. You've shown us how skinny he used to be. Jason warns Carly that she can't try to screw Dante and has to stop.
Jake's: Brooke and her friend Mickey Finn hang out at the bar, mixing drinks. They are drinking a beer called "Dark Ale" They mention the Yankees (drink!)
Italy: Brenda stares off the terrace into the moonlit night and remembers yelling at Jason "I'm so sick of your stone face, do you know that, obviously he sent you here, so why did he send you here?" She says she won't listen to him attack her relationship with Sonny. Jason coldly tells her she doesn't have one anymore. She opens the door to the rain and says "He always leaves me standing in the rain" before dissolving into tears.
In the present, Sonny stares out the window into the twilight and remembers the same thing, even though he would have only seen none of it because he left to go become a big Movie Star. Oh, I get it. The writers are making fun of Sonny by having Brenda dating a big Movie Star Boyfriend, the one thing Mo never became?
the end
"I wish he'd called him Candy Boy."
ROTFLMAO!! Oh God I would have died. Thank you for recapping!!!!
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Lucky says the lady is super old and therefore a liar, or whatever, and they don't know for sure she saw Michael
Excuse my French but DROP F"NG DEAD you pathetic pubic haired corrupt BASTARD!!!
I hate what they have done w/Lucky at least when GV played him he wasn't the brightest crayon in the box but he wasn't corrupt!
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Typelli has put up a banner, but so far, all it says is "WELCOME HO"
Why are they welcoming Spam home?
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You make me feel like I should actually watch the show!! I do....only so that I can laugh again remembering your jabs!!!
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"The Stupid" setting in!!! And the Lowes, Mrs Mad I'm over here crackin' up! Now that's CLASSIC!! Great Caps!
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Stone Cold's favorite beverage (prune juice?)
BwaHa!
"Yes, that's The Stupid setting in....."
My thoughts exactly! Man, I hope that's not true and she is pulling the most elaborate ruse ever pulled on Sonny...and that it works on some level, however small. (b/c lordy knows the show would collapse if Sonny were really sent away) How I hope she is not just a vehicle to get Sonny to think about the real love of his life.
"No wonder all the people at Lowe's think she's insane"
HAHA! Totally ROFLMAO!
"I dunno, I dig it."
Oh, how I love you. The lone voice of reason and serious analysis amidst the sea of vitriolic hate for this fine actress. My thoughts, EXACTLY!
"the one thing Mo never became"
OUch. Low blow there Ms Mad.
Great to see the hype is working on you. It totally worked on me. If they play it right the reunion may just be sweetest thing EVER.
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Watching an episode of "House" called sleeping dogs lie (2006) and guess who is playing one of the main characters on the show...WALSH!!!LOLOL
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