I bought a haunted doll off eBay. Do you think she looks haunted or what?

“Raising Both Hands in Celebration of Our Jam”

The "Don't Worry, I'll Hold Your Hair" Emoji:

Suggested use: When you've had a LONG night out, and you know you've got a true friend for life.

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The "Overanalyzing Texts Together" Emoji:

Suggested use: When you need reinforcement to decipher the true meaning of a message from your crush.

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The "Completing Each Other’s Sentences" Emoji:

Suggested use: For when you're absolutely convinced you and your bestie are actually the same person.

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The "Road Trip" Emoji:

Suggested use: When ditching that one-horse town with your partner in crime is an absolute necessity.

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You aced the first one - but can you be as good this time?

We can’t all be Cary Grant.

There would be lots of drinking.

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Lots.

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But you would always look classy and perfectly put together, even when downing your fifth martini.

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There would also be lots of smoking.

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When you log off, who’s gonna get you off IRL?

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Bondi is nothing compared to the beauty you can find inland.

There is no denying that Australia has amazing beaches.

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Arguably, we have some of the best beaches in the world.

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But in reality, we're so much more than that.

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Let's start in the Blue Mountains, which offers up rolling hills and beautiful vistas as far as the eye can see.

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A visitor holds up her toy bunny to the aquarium glass in front of Aurora the Russian polar bear at the Sao Paulo Aquarium in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Thursday, April 16, 2015.

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French urban climber Alain Robert, also known as "Spider-Man", scales the Cayan Tower, the world's tallest twisted building, on April 12, 2015 in Dubai.

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The horse of a participant dressed as French soldier is pictured during the reenactment of a Napoleonic military battle that took place in 1805 at castle Veveri near Brno, Czech Republic, on April 11, 2015. More than 200 participants dressed in Napoleonic uniforms met at the Castle Veveri to commemorate the battle of 1805, which took place when Napoleon returned from Austerlitz.

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Vladimir Tarasenko #91 of the St. Louis Blues shoots the puck over Charlie Coyle #3 of the Minnesota Wild during Game One of the Western Conference Quarterfinals during the 2015 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs at the Scottrade Center on April 16, 2015 in St. Louis, Missouri.

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Young ballet dancer Himika Tamamoto, 7, stretches her leg during auditions, as boys and girls ages 6 to 7 year old try out for The School of American Ballet Winter Term, at the P.S. 124 Yung Wing school in New York's Chinatown on April 16, 2015. The School of American Ballet was established in 1934 and is one of the premier ballet academies in the United States.

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A dancer warms up before the finals of the 2015 World Pole Dance Championship on April 12, 2015, in Beijing.

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Race winner Lewis Hamilton of Great Britain and Mercedes GP celebrates on the podium during the Formula One Grand Prix of China at Shanghai International Circuit on April 12, 2015 in Shanghai, China.

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Thai locals and foreigners take part in a city-wide water fight on April 15, 2015 in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The Songkran festival, marking the traditional Thai New Year, is celebrated each year from April 13 to 15. The throwing of water was traditionally a sign of respect and well wishing during the festival.

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A model parades an outfit by Australian designer Akira Isogawa during Fashion Week Australia in Sydney on April 15, 2015.

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Body-painted PETA activists parade placards outside Fashion Week Australia calling on the fashion industry to drop the use of fur, wool, leather and other skins used by some designers, in Sydney on April 13, 2015.

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Redesigned stormtroopers appear onstage at the kick-off event of the Star Wars Celebration convention in Anaheim, California, April 16, 2015.

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Democratic presidential hopeful and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stops to take a selfie after meeting with members of the Iowa State legislature at the Iowa State Capital on April 15, 2015 in Des Moines, Iowa.

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A protester jumps on the table in front of the European Central Bank President Mario Draghi during a news conference in Frankfurt, April 15, 2015. The news conference was disrupted on Wednesday when a woman in a black T-shirt jumped on the podium.

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A girl with an Israeli flag stands in between a barbed wire fences in at the former Nazi German Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp during the 'March of the Living' at in Oswiecim, Poland on April 16, 2015. The annual march honors Holocaust victims at the former Nazi German Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in southern Poland.

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Ultra-orthodox Jews visit Yad Vashem's Holocaust History Museum in Jerusalem April 14, 2015. Wednesday marks Israel's annual memorial day commemorating the six million Jews killed by the Nazis during World War Two.

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A relative of the victims of South Korea's Sewol ferry disaster is in a nose-to-nose stand-off with a policeman during an anti-government protest near the presidential residence in Seoul on April 17, 2015. Dozens of people continued their protests overnight after thousands of mourners rallied to mark the first anniversary of the disaster that claimed 304 lives.

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Riot policemen stand splattered with red paint thrown by protesters outside the Athens University on April 16, 2015. The protesters demended the release of families of political prisoners and changes to the anti-terrorist law.

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Blood runs down the face of an injured anti-riot police officer as he is assisted by a colleague during clashes with opposition protesters during a demonstration in Conakry on April 13, 2015. Several protesters were wounded when Guinean police opened fire during violent demonstrations across the capital Conakry against the regime of President Alpha Conde.

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An Iraqi man cries over body-bags containing the remains of people believed to have been slain by jihadists of the Islamic State group lie on the ground at the Speicher camp in the Iraqi city of Tikrit, on April 12, 2015. The Islamic State jihadist group executed hundreds of mostly Shiite recruits last June in what is known as the Speicher massacre, named for the military base near which they were captured. Thirteen grave sites have been found.

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Families of victims of a mine disaster arrive at the trial in Akhisar, Turkey, Wednesday, April 15, 2015. Forty-five managers and employees of a mine in the western Turkish town of Soma, went on trial on Wednesday accused of causing the deaths of 301 miners who perished in a fire last year in Turkey's worst mining disaster.

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Snow falls on flowers shortly after the arrival of a spring storm, in Boulder, Colo., Thursday, April 16, 2015.

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Heidi Pham, from Minneapolis, Minnesota, walks along the Tidal Basin, April 11, 2015 in Washington, DC. According to the National Parks Service, the cherry trees are expected to be in peak bloom through Tuesday.

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People in traditional dai costumes celebrate the Dai minority group new year in Xishuangbanna, southwest China's Yunnan province on April 14, 2015.

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A group of devotees throw vermillion powder to other devotees in celebration of the new year during the Sindoor Jatra Festival on April 15, 2015 in Thimi, Nepal. Sindoor Jatra Festival is celebrated each year in Thimi, on the outskirts of Kathmandu, to welcome the Nepali New Year and celebrate the coming of spring.

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Revelers, covered in colored powder, celebrate, during a Holi Run Festival in Madrid, Spain, Sunday, April 12, 2015.

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FKA Twigs performs onstage during day 2 of the 2015 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club on April 11, 2015 in Indio, California.

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Recording artists Madonna and Drake kiss onstage during day 3 of the 2015 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club on April 12, 2015 in Indio, California.

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In this Tuesday, April 15, 2015 photo, Yazidis gather at the holy shrine of Lalish, 35 miles north of militant-held Mosul, Iraq, as thousands celebrate the New Year, their first since Islamic State militants swept through the area last summer.

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A man ignites rockets during Greek Orthodox Easter celebrations on the eastern Aegean island of Chios, late Saturday, April 11, 2015. Thousands of handmade rockets are fired every year on Great Saturday night, before the Resurrection, by locals of the two rival churches of Agios Markos and Panagia Erithiani, in the village of Vrontados. The tradition is about 125 years old, but locals say it could be even older.

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The Boeoegg, a snowman made of wadding and filled with firecrackers, burns atop a bonfire in the Sechselaeuten square in Zurich April 13, 2015. As the bells of St. Peter's church chime six o'clock, the bonfire below the "Boeoegg" is set alight and mounted guildsmen gallop around the pyre to the tune of the Sechselaeuten March. The faster the head of the "Boeoegg", the symbol of winter, catches fire and explodes, the warmer and more beautiful the summer will be.

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Are you a princess or fearless badass?

A Novocastrian love story.

Casa de Loco

What You'll Find: A Mexican tapas style menu with over 60 tequilas and mezcals, and a vegan night every month.
Where You'll Find Them: 10 Pacific Street, Newcastle East.
Relationship Status: Gazing at each other from across the room.

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The Hop Factory

What You'll Find: 20 craft beers on tap, slick decor and a Beer Experience that matches carefully selected beers to a 5-course meal.
Where You'll Find Them: 102 Darby Street, Newcastle.
Relationship Status: Repeatedly writing their name in your diary.

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Red Baron's Berlin Bar

What You'll Find: A 1920's themed bar with Eastern European style cuisine and mouth-watering cocktails. You'll be convinced you've stepped into another era.
Where You'll Find Them: 31 King Street, Newcastle.
Relationship Status: Wearing matching underwear.

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Coal and Cedar

What You'll Find: An intimate bar with a sumptuous drinks menu and an enchanting interior that looks like a few dapper gents from 1901 took charge of the decor.
Where You'll Find Them: 380-382 Hunter Street, Newcastle.
Relationship Status: Wildly exaggerating about your life to try and impress them.

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“I had no idea how important shoes were,” founder Kenton Lee told BuzzFeed News.

"For years the idea of these growing shoes wouldn't leave my mind," he told BuzzFeed News.

The first step was starting Because International with a few friends in 2006, a nonprofit devoted to "working with and helping those in extreme poverty," their site says.

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A substantial increase in budget, double the staff focused on Latino outreach, and a blueprint based off big 2014 wins in Florida and Colorado. But will starting earlier than ever in Latino communities be enough to fix its damaged brand with them?

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Maria del Carmen Weese, a retired volunteer with the Colorado Republican Party, was skeptical.

It was June 2014 and she was getting ready to hear the Republican National Committee (RNC) blueprint for reaching Latino voters in the state in the midterm elections. She had seen this before, of course, the word outreach being thrown around, but then as soon as elections are over, everyone packs their bags and leaves. So her request was simple: she would volunteer and work her ass off for the party if they would commit to staying past election day.

Jennifer Sevilla Korn, the RNC's deputy political director, who presented the blueprint, told her they would.

So Carmen Weese, 58, went to work. Colorado Republicans went to everything from the Peruvian festival to county fairs and events with churches and businesses, together totaling 70 events reaching 223,000 people between June and November, according to records the local party kept.

Republicans across the country won in a wave election for the party, but Colorado boasted two wins the RNC attributes to their strong Latino outreach. Cory Gardner defeated incumbent Mark Udall in the U.S. Senate race by less than 50,000 votes, but made a 10,000 vote improvement in a place like Pueblo county, which is 42% Hispanic. Rep. Mike Coffman defeated Andrew Romanoff in a district that became majority-Democratic after 2010 redistricting, learning Spanish, and taking part in Univision's first-ever Spanish-language debate in the state.

The Cuban-American Carmen Weese, who put 1,900 hours into Latino outreach was elated, but resigned to the national party high-fiving and leaving town. Then she got a call a week after the election.

"They called me and said we're here through 2016," she said. "I knew then that all the efforts and the hours that I put in did not go to waste."

Buoyed by victories in Colorado and in Florida, the RNC feels it has a blueprint for how to win support from Hispanic voters. Of the $10 million strategic initiative announced after the 2012 election for the midterms aimed at Hispanic, black, and Asian voters, the largest chunk was spent on Latino outreach, with more than 40 staffers spread across 10 states including the Southwest battlegrounds, Florida, Virginia, North Carolina, and Texas.

Now the RNC says it is raising the strategic initiative budget "substantially," with plans to double paid staff to more than 80 in those states.

But Republicans also readily admit that they have a long way to go with the Hispanic community nationally, where the brand is damaged after searing fights on immigration policy that have often cast them as out of step and sometimes as racist in certain wings of the party. Democrats say Latinos will respond to policies that make their lives better, not empty words and outreach, no matter the impressive level of resources deployed on the ground.

"They can dedicate all the money in the election to the Latino vote but how can they defend the offensive nature of the immigration debate, wanting to repeal Obamacare, and opposition to the earned income tax credit?" said Gabriela Domenzain, who ran Hispanic media for the Obama campaign in 2012.

"Republicans are their own worst enemies."

This is the earliest Republicans have launched a national Latino outreach effort, according to the RNC. And they've put an emphasis on repeating what worked in 2014, even if that midterm electorate was very different than most presidential ones. That starts with candidates willing to do the outreach.

Gardner, for example, went to Fiestas Patrias, a raucous 92,000-person celebration for Mexican independence, where he was followed by Univision in September.

In Florida, Rick Scott who eked out a win over Charlie Crist in the governor's race, mounted the earliest and most expensive Spanish-language television ad campaign in Florida history, held a recurring Hispanic pastors' breakfast, and unveiled ads weeks before the election with popular former governor and presumed presidential candidate Jeb Bush telling voters to support Scott in Spanish.

"It's important that you have a candidate who's willing to make the Hispanic community a priority," the RNC's Korn told BuzzFeed News.

A Florida Democrat close to the governor's race said this explanation for Scott's success is oversimplified. Scott, the Democrat said, split the Hispanic vote when he ran in 2010, but lost it by 20% in 2014. The Democrat gave another reason for his win.

"They bought everything, they walked into Spanish radio stations and said, 'We will buy everything that's available,'" the source said.

The numbers back up the contention. An election eve memo by Crist's pollsters found that at the end, Scott was pumping $1,200 a minute into TV ads.

Democrats acknowledge that the RNC Latino outreach machine is impressive, especially as it relates to what their party is doing, and say Democrats need to wake up before 2016.

"Democrats should give more resources, we have a whole lot more at risk if we don't engage the Latino community in 2016, we have to match them and then some," said DNC Hispanic Caucus chair Iris Martinez, a Chicago state senator. "We are the crucial vote, the party needs to spend a whole lot more money in places where the Latino population is high and we have to do it early on."

Domenzain said the entrance of Marco Rubio and expected candidacy of Jeb Bush, who is fluent in Spanish, raises the bar for all Hispanic outreach for both parties, especially for Democrats.

"Folks that come from Florida know the differences [within the Latino community]," she said. "They never had a Republican contender with such deep ties to the community, one that speaks the language. When your principal speaks the language, that's a different playing field."

The DNC waved away concerns about RNC initiatives in an email to BuzzFeed News.

"Almost every Republican running to be the leader of their party supported an effort to shut down part of the government, because they wanted to stop a policy that would keep immigrant families together," said DNC spokesperson Holly Shulman, referring to the fierce opposition to Obama's executive actions from Republicans that would shield more than 4 million undocumented immigrants from deportation and is currently undergoing legal challenge.

"The fact is no amount of new hiring or new programs will be able to make up for having the wrong policies on issue after issue."

The DNC has had some hiring difficulties so far: the party has not hired someone to oversee its Hispanic media efforts nationally.

Andres Ramirez, a 20-year veteran Democratic strategist in Nevada said for all the criticism of the DNC, they identified in 2003 that the Latino community wasn't monolithic — that Nevada has a higher immigrant population, for example, and in Colorado and New Mexico you're dealing with third and fourth-generation Hispanics. The GOP, he said, is just playing catch up.

Republicans acknowledge that their biggest challenge is convincing Latino voters that the party doesn't have animosity towards them.

The RNC told BuzzFeed News that the perception the Hispanic community has of Republicans may be negative, but when they go into their communities, and stay there, and share their message, things can change.

Korn said the biggest problem was that in the past Republicans weren't present.

"How can you change someone's mind if you aren't there?" Korn said. "The door has to be open, it doesn't mean we will always get their support but opening the door and having them listen is very important."

Carmen Weese, the Colorado volunteer, said first of all, people don't really like you knocking on their door. The Republican Party kind of made things worse.

"The pushback was awesome," she said. "They came out and argued with us, they were angry. They said, 'What are you doing here now, you're here now because of the election, right?'"

So what did she do?

"We listened, we acknowledged their concerns," she said, which can have a positive effect in the long run. "When a person has a good experience, they will tell more people."

In a letter published in the Boston Globe, the parents of Martin Richard ask the government to drop the death penalty against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and grant him a life sentence.

Parents of 8-year-old Martin Richard, the youngest person killed during at the Boston Marathon bombing, published a letter in the Boston Globe calling for the government to drop its pursuit of the death penalty against convicted bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

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But now that the tireless and committed prosecution team has ensured that justice will be served, we urge the Department of Justice to bring the case to a close. We are in favor of and would support the Department of Justice in taking the death penalty off the table in exchange for the defendant spending the rest of his life in prison without any possibility of release and waiving all of his rights to appeal.

We understand all too well the heinousness and brutality of the crimes committed. We were there. We lived it. The defendant murdered our 8-year-old son, maimed our 7-year-old daughter, and stole part of our soul. We know that the government has its reasons for seeking the death penalty, but the continued pursuit of that punishment could bring years of appeals and prolong reliving the most painful day of our lives. We hope our two remaining children do not have to grow up with the lingering, painful reminder of what the defendant took from them, which years of appeals would undoubtedly bring.

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Bill Richard is depicted while testifying during the federal death penalty trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, second from left, Thursday, March 5, 2015, in Boston.

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On April 8, Tsarnaev was convicted of all 30 charges against him, including 17 that carry the possibility of the death penalty. The sentencing phase of the trial is scheduled to begin next week. During the next phase, the government is slated to present its argument for why Tsarnaev's crimes deserve a death sentence. Among those aggravating factors is the fact that Tsarnaev placed his bomb at the feet of Richard and killed a defenseless child.

On day two of the trial, Bill Richard gave perhaps the most harrowing testimony the jury endured.

"When I saw Martin's condition I knew that he wasn't going to make it," Richard testified.

Speaking in a low and sad tone, Richard told the court, "We were unlucky that day."

Richard's 7-year-old daughter, Jane, had her foot blown off during the blast. His oldest son, Henry, was badly burned. And Richard and his wife, Denise, both sustained permanent damage to their hearing.

On the last day of the government's presentation during the guilt phase, the jury saw autopsy photos and the charred and tattered clothing of Martin Richard from the day of the bombing. Several jurors sobbed as Boston's Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Henry Nields testified that a 6-by-6-inch portion of Martin's torso was blown off, exposing organs and intestines.

After the letter was published in the Globe, U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts Carmen Ortiz responded in a statement saying she could not comment on the specifics of the letter and that the views of all of the victims and survivors "is very important to me."

Other survivors from the bombing, however, have come out in favor of a death sentence for Tsarnaev. Following the conviction on April 8, Liz Norden, whose two sons lost legs at the bombing, told reporters that she is for the death penalty. "I want to see justice for my boys," Norden said.

Opening statements in the Tsarnaev trial are scheduled to begin on Tuesday, April 21, the day after the running of the 2015 Boston Marathon.

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Time to see how much of ’90s kid you really are.

Get that dog some cheese to go with that whine!

Lexi, the Boxer, is just BEYOND OVER IT! If her human friends don't pay attention when she wants to play, she makes her frustration ~very~ clear.

Listen to your pets, people!

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FF to the best part... around :09 when she takes a breath to start all over again!

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WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT DOESN’T COME OUT UNTIL NEXT YEAR?

You've finally come to the end of that gripping novel you were enjoying only to realize it's part of a series.

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So you go to purchase the next one only to discover it won't be released until NEXT YEAR.

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Even worse, it ended on a CLIFFHANGER.

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What could possibly fill the empty void of this unfinished story until then?

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That’s So Throwback.

Ian Gibson was killed when the animal charged at him. WARNING: Graphic pictures of dead animals.

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So fresh and so clean, clean!

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Bring it home to the 6!

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Go ahead and indulge yourself.

Grapefruit Thyme Fizz

This drink is light and bubbly and a great twist on the traditional martini.

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Strawberry Mint Mojito

This drink adds a berry twist on a classic cocktail.

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Ginger Gin Fiz

Mint is for more than mojitos. Toss some in this fizzy cocktail and have yourself a treat.

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Kiwi Capiroska

This South American inspired libation uses kiwis and lime. Drink this in a hammock for full effect.

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