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        <![CDATA[<p>"Testing attention please"<br>Feel the tension soon as someone mentions me<br>Here's my ten cents, my two cents is free<br>A nuisance, who sent, you sent for me?</p>]]>
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        <![CDATA[<p>*update* The special envelopes finally arrived!*</p>]]>
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