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Which Disney Princess Are You Based On Your Birth Month?
Do you want to build a snow man or paint with all the colors of the wind?
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If Joey Tribbiani Quotes Were Motivational Posters
“This is all a moo point.”
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Which Classic TV Show Are You?
Nostalgia time! Are you more I Dream of Jeannie, or perhaps a little I Love Lucy?
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17 Secrets We Want To Tell Our Exes
“I miss your dog more than you.”
A few days ago, we released a video where we wrote secret messages to our exes.
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This Water Pouring Illusion Is All Sorts Of WTF
But is it real or fake?
The person pours some delicious, what looks to be sparkling water, in a glass, and then it magically turns into a hard cardboard cutout that looks like a full glass. WTF?
Normal pouring and filling of the glass.
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And then this will have you all sorts of twisted, "WTF?"
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Wait, here's THAT VERY MOMENT, again:
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27 Moments You'll Totally Understand If You Have A Gym Crush
I think I’ve found my ~swolemate~!
When you're at the gym and the perfect human walks by.
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When watching them ~be~ is enough to make your heart rate rise.
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When you catch your reflection in the large mirrored-walls and regret wearing those track pants.
So much for first impressions.
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When the song playing through the gym's speakers is the score to your romantic journey.
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Australia's Ice Epidemic Creeping In To Remote Indigenous Communities
Health workers in the Northern Territory brace for the worse.
The CEO of one of the only residential drug and alcohol rehabilitation centres in the Northern Territory says service providers are struggling to cope with rising methamphetamine use.
Chris Franck, CEO of Banyan House in Darwin, told BuzzFeed News that in the past year the number of people seeking help from ice addiction has skyrocketed.
"There has been a significant increase in people seeking treatment for ice, whether that translates directly into an increase in use is a debatable point. If you look at our data over the past year there has been a 150 percent increase in people seeking treatment here."
Currently, around 30 percent of the residents at Banyan House are Aboriginal, many of them from remote communities.
Franck says that remote communities are ill-equipped to deal with the devastating impact of ice and says a rise in methamphetamine use could tear Aboriginal communities apart.
"If there is an increase in ice in these communities over the next five years it will be catastrophic, so we need to be prepared. We need a multi-systematic approach with health, business, corrections all at the table together to fix this," he said.
Banyan House CEO Chris Franck (Allan Clarke BuzzFeed)
At a National Ice Taskforce meeting held in Darwin in May anecdotal evidence suggested that fly-in, fly-out (FIFO) mining workers were responsible for introducing the drug into communities.
At that meeting Indigenous Suicide Prevention Network chairwoman Ngaree Ah Kit said she knew of at leat six Aboriginal communities where ice was present.
Clinical nurse and Aboriginal man Benjamin Gorrie, in Darwin delivering workshops on methamphetamine use, told BuzzFeed News that isolated communities were attractive prospects for drug runners.
"A lot of small aboriginal communities in rural and remote areas are attractive for the dealers and suppliers of the drug because there is social isolation and the educational level of some people is lower because of lack of access to education."
"This makes the perfect setting for people wanting to escape their disadvantage so it’s a desirable marketplace for someone selling ice," Gorrie said.
Former patients at Banyan House have told Franck that dealers actively pursue those trying to get clean.
"We have residents who have been in here for three months and within a few hours of leaving the supply line know they’re out. If they go to any shopping centre or anywhere public, people are following them saying 'I have the stuff'," he said.
"The supply line is well organised, well oiled, well funded and quite aggressive."
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Domestic Violence Allegations Dropped Against Indigenous Australian MP
The member for Cook has had allegations that he abused his former partner dropped, as police charge another woman with blackmailing him.
Police have dropped an investigation into allegations that Queensland independent MP Billy Gordon assaulted his former partner.
Queensland police said on Thursday night that there was insufficient evidence to press charges.
"The last eight months has been an extraordinarily traumatic time for myself and my immediate family," Gordon said in a statement on Friday.
"I will be considering all legal options that can be taken against individuals who have been involved in these vicious and vexatious charges against me and what affect they will have on my future ongoing work as the Member for Cook.
Gordon, the member for Cook, was forced to quit the QLD Labor Party after Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk referred him to police after the allegations surfaced in March.
Gordon has maintained his innocence and says he still has confidence in QLD Labor.
"I remain committed to the Palaszczuk government and continue to have great confidence in the Premier's leadership and her government's courage and credibility."
Just hours after dropping the investigation, Queensland Police charged a 50-year-old woman with extortion.
Police say the woman tried to blackmail Gordon over an image he sent to her in a text message.
The accused woman is due to appear in Cairns Magistrate Court on October 9.
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Everything You Need To Know About What Happened At The French Canadian Leaders' Debate
The third leaders’ debate of the federal election didn’t lack for heated exchanges.
The third leaders' debate, done entirely in French, touched on everything from pipelines to niqabs — all while offering the usual tasting of politicians yelling over one another.
The debate, hosted Thursday night in Montréal by a consortium of French media, was the first so far this election to feature Bloc Québécois Leader Gilles Duceppe. It also included Green party Leader Elizabeth May, who hasn't been invited to all debates.
Here are the highlights.
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This debate, like previous ones, featured five leaders who often tried to yell over one another. Translators had the arduous task of trying to communicate that bickering live over the English networks.
Because the debate was in French, those with the strongest grasp of the language generally had an easier time dealing quick blows to their opponents.
Harper and May, who aren't as fluent as Mulcair, Trudeau, and Duceppe, seemed to struggle a bit at times, but that doesn't mean they were unable to score points.
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Are You More Kendall Or Kylie Or A High-Tech A.I. That Doesn't Know It's A Computer Simulation?
Which Jenner and/or computer program are you?
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27 Australian Signs That Just DGAF
We just don’t care.
This get-your-priorities-in-order sign.
This all-inclusive sign.
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This sign that redefines "flood".
This creatively-vandalised sign.
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"Ernie Awards For Sexist Behaviour" A Triumph For Australia's Old, White Men
Sexism’s night of nights.
Football Federation Australia has won the "Gold Ernie" award - handed out each year for Australia's most sexist behaviour - for its ongoing pay dispute with Australia's female stars.
FFA chief David Gallop.
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Founded by feminist author and former politician Dr Meredith Burgmann, the awards are named after former union boss Ernie Ecob, who once reportedly claimed that women only wanted to be shearers for the sex.
The FFA took out this year's top award for paying Australia's women's team, the Matildas, only $21,000 a year and for refusing to pay them maternity leave.
As the pay dispute continues, the Matildas have effectively gone on strike, refusing to train for an upcoming tour of the U.S.
In a statement earlier this month, the Matildas said the FFA has "failed to recognise the significant sacrifices the Matildas players are forced to make in playing for their country."
But the FFA wasn't the only winner on the night.
Political Ernie winner: Former prime minister Tony Abbott.
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Mr Abbott has been a frequent Ernie winner, and this year took out silver for his efforts as minister for women.
Earlier this year when asked for his greatest achievement as minister for women, the then-PM nominated the scrapping of the carbon tax, because women are heavily affected by household bills.
But don't think that Abbott's departure from the top job will mean the Ernies have nowhere to go.
"I don't think the change of leadership will alter things in the sexism stakes. Politicians just can't help themselves and Malcolm [Turnbull's] condescending style is intensely irritating to women he is admonishing," says Ernies founder Dr Meredith Burgmann.
"He is also very fond of using the deeply sexist expression 'man up' when he means show some strength."
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This Is What Nintendo Princesses Would Look Like In Real Life
Time to move aside Disney princesses, the royal 1Ups are here.
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Someone Has Started A GoFundMe To Save A Giant Iconic Lobster
Pinchy has got nothing on this Australian crustacean.
The iconic Big Lobster in South Australia is under financial threat and not from hungry travellers wanting to butter up his delicious flesh.
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One of the current leasees of the site (and Big Lobster caretaker), Frances Curkpatrick, told BuzzFeed, "While the Big Lobster is a significant tourism icon in South Australia, it is now in need of repair and development after years of neglect."
"It is also considered to be unsafe from an engineering point of view."
With repairs needing to take place sooner rather than later, Frances has taken it upon herself to start a grassroots campaign via Go Fund Me to raise the much needed money to fix Larry.
For most South Australians, Larry is a significant marker on road trips between Adelaide and the Limestone Coast.
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Can You Name These TV Shows From Their Famous Hangout Spots?
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16 Weird Things We Will Have To Say To Our Grandkids
In my day, we called it “Netflix and chill.”
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We Made Andrew Garfield Build An Ikea Chair While Talking About His New Movie
Andrew Garfield is often recognized for portraying adorably awkward and charming characters, but all of that is changing with his new role in the film 99 Homes. It's an emotionally charged and heartbreaking two hours, telling the story of a Florida contractor named Dennis (Andrew Garfield) who is evicted from his home and works for the suit who did it to him (Michael Shannon) in order to get his family back on their feet. To no one's surprise, he absolutely kills it onscreen.
Andrew stopped by BuzzFeed New York to channel his inner Dennis by attempting to assemble an Ikea chair while answering our hard-hitting questions. And because he's cool as hell, he took off his jacket and shoes and got down to business. Watch Andrew hilariously struggle (and succeed!) at tackling the task so many twentysomethings know all too well.
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If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?
Andrew Garfield: That’s a question that I’m actually asking myself. I don’t know where to live because my heart is in so many places in the universe. Well, in the world. My heart isn’t on Mars. But my heart is in England, where my family are and the majority of my closest friends are. But then on the West Coast of America I have the ocean, and I need the ocean in my life. That’s where I surf and I have very close people there as well that I adore. And New York City has great, fond, lovely memories — and also the problem is, I don’t like cities. And I’ve just named three cities. So I’m really having major issues about where I belong.
Have you ever worked at a job you hated?
AG: Yes. I did a lot of odd jobs when I was a struggling actor. I worked at Starbucks and I really liked that. I really liked Starbucks.
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Did people ask you for secret menu items?
AG: I didn't even know there were secret menu items! Like what?
Cookie Dough Frappuccinos, Birthday Cake Frappuccinos, Cotton Candy Frappuccinos...
AG: We were in England, so. You guys are crazy! I liked working there. [Screws in a part on the chair] I'm literally going to kill myself if this doesn't go in.
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So you don’t want to work at Ikea, is what you’re saying?
AG: Nooo. But god, I’ve spent many a breakup in Ikea. Just a surefire way, if you don’t have the courage to break up with someone, just suggest a trip to Ikea, and it’ll do it for you! That should be the Ikea commercial.
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No, but I worked at a clothing store called Reiss in London. Reiss was terrible because not a lot of people came to the store, so I would sit down a lot because there was nothing to do. And my boss was like, What are you doing? And I’m like, Well, having a sit-down. I’m reading the Vogue magazine. And she was like, Well there’s so much to be doing. And I’m like, What? No one’s here!
[Works on chair] You know what, I’m gonna cheat this. Sorry, Ikea, I’m cheating. Because you’re a nightmare.
So I sat down a lot and she would never let me, and she’d be like, Separate all things on the rack six inches apart with a ruler! Anyway, I was fired, because I would just always sit down. And I argued. But then I got another job at the Wigmore Hall, which is a classical concert hall in London — I really liked that! But then I actually did go through a pretty grief-ridden breakup and again I would sit down a lot. I would find ways to sit, whether it was in the toilet cubicle — or, the stockroom became my place of choice to just cry and grieve the loss of my first love.
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If you had to trade lives with one of the characters you've played, who would you pick: Spider-Man, Eduardo from The Social Network, or Dennis from 99 Homes?
AG: That’s tough! None of them. I don’t wanna. Do I have to? I would pick Spider-Man, because I do like responsibility, I do like helping people, and being of use — as you can see. And I like pressure, and I kind of like the difficulty and confusion of being misunderstood.
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There’s something kind of nice about that, and [it's] important to not be totally liked by everyone all the time, and obviously Spider-Man goes through that as a teenage boy. I love that it speaks to all of our ordinariness and all of our extraordinariness. So, I just love that. It’s like we have a duty to be simply who we are, in a simple way, as human beings. And we also have a duty to this very extraordinary thing we are gifted with, and we all have it, we all have some genius, we all have some extraordinary gift that we’re supposed to bring to the world. But none of them — I’d rather just be me!
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If you could go back in time and give yourself advice, what would you say to your 16-year-old self?
AG: I would probably just say keep going, like, stay true to yourself. I was pretty lonely as a teenager. I was on a different track than my mates, who are still my closest mates in the world. Because I looked much younger than everyone else, I couldn't get into the pubs they were all getting into when I was a teenager. So they all started drinking, and I was turned away at the door because I looked like a 12-year-old. And it kind of sucked, to be honest — it was really hard just to watch them all bonding over this new thing and I just wasn’t interested in it, I guess. I just wanted to keep skateboarding and being stupid. I was just like a perpetual child. So I’d probably just say, "Ah, no, it’s OK. You’ll grow facial hair at some point. Just keep going!"
[Continues to work on chair] OK, look! At least a part of it is done! I like it because it’s so distracting. Because then I'm just talking and I'm not worrying about what I'm saying. It’s actually pretty nice. This is actually going to be a prerequisite to every interview I do. From now on, I have to be building an Ikea chair.
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Have you ever been mistaken for a doppelgänger?
AG: [laughs] I don't want to talk about this! It makes me kind of embarrassed. Some sweet girls from Japan, I believe, would give me pictures of Bambi the deer. And I didn't really understand what that was about, but I think they were thinking that if there was ever a live-action version of Bambi, that I would play Bambi.
Andy Murray — my friends take the piss out of me because they think I look like the tennis player Andy Murray. I genuinely don't think I do.
What’s one thing on your bucket list you haven’t been able to do yet that you want to do?
AG: I’m 32 years old! I don’t have a bucket list. Um, gosh, it’s a strange thing; my dreams are very strange and very weird. Very weird things I dream of doing — and it’s not, like, bungee jumping off the highest place in New Zealand. The bucket list is hard. I really want to live a full life, a life of meaning. So I think that’s a constant bucket list. I feel like I’m always in the bucket list because every moment is so fleeting and vital and important.
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And again, it kind of relates to that seriousness thing of relax and just let yourself enjoy the wind and the air. I have a real hunger to understand what life is about, and for, and I get lost in that. So maybe my bucket list is to be more present, and maybe breathe a little deeper and notice how beautiful the world is and how beautiful people are — outside of, you know, Donald Trump and the other sociopaths out there.
Puppies or kittens?
AG: Puppies! Well, only because I'm allergic to kittens. And I don't know, just puppies. That's a BuzzFeed question right there. That is a full-on BuzzFeed question.
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It feels like we’re just hanging out, it’s really nice. I'll probably regret everything I’ve said. But I'm happy, right now, in this moment.
It’s going to be totally fine.
The film is based in Orlando — have you ever been there in real life?
AG: Well, first of all, I went there as a kid for family holidays to Disney and all that. You know, what I thought was good stuff. I loved it as a kid, it was heaven. Roller coasters and water parks and miniature golf and excessive amounts of bloomin' onions and Bennigan's. But I recently went for research for 99 Homes, this particular subject matter of eviction and the economic crisis and the housing crisis — specifically in 2010 Orlando when Florida was hit particularly badly, and I just met a lot of families who lived down the street from Disney, and worked at Disney. A lot of the guys that I was speaking to would get often employed by Disney World and just had pretty rotten things to say about it, kinda behind-the-scenes stuff. And ironically, the motel I was staying at, which is based on the motel the Nash family stays at in the film, was five minutes away from Disney World. So you have all these families who have been exiled from the American dream — exiled from, you know, feeling worthy in the society they're in, five minutes away from one of the main symbols of what it is to live the American dream. The excess and the "everything’s fine," while, you know, five minutes away there are families who have been put in the most impossible circumstances to make ends meet.
But I'm really excited for people to see the film, because it's a part of culture that we don't want to look at. Everyone has their own problems, and we’re all dealing with our own stuff, but I believe we were built to be empathic, we were built to be full of compassion and love for our fellow man, and we're in an economic system right now that is kind of set up to pit us against each other.
Jon Premosch
So, yeah, I like escaping as much as the next person, and I need it in my life, but also in order to feel like I'm living a life of meaning, I need to be involved in things that are life-giving. And that's why I'm so excited about the uprisings that are happening around the country that are economic rights–related, or gay rights–related, or transgender rights–related, or feminist-related — anything that's bridging the gap between people and calling for a more decent system, and a more decent way of perceiving each other. I'm really excited about that.
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What's the last album you bought?
AG: Oooh, OK. Raury! A young kid from Atlanta, check him out. He’s very soulful. I think the album is Indigo Child. He feels like a really exciting part of a next generation of artists — again, cares about people, cares about love and compassion and the idea that there’s no separation between me and this chair and me and another person. Anyway, Raury. He's really powerful and really beautiful.
A lifetime supply of chocolate or pizza?
AG: Chocolate.
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What's the last book you read?
AG: Gosh. I have a problem with reading, I get so interested in so many things that I'm doing a little bit of this, a little bit of that. So right now I'm reading a lot about the next project I'm doing, which is about a guy Desmond Doss, who is an amazing person who lived an amazing life, so I'm reading a lot about him. I'm reading a lot about World War II, and I'm also reading about grief. There's a book that a friend gave me about grief and praise which is very beautiful, very, very difficult to read because it's about how we've lost our sense of what grief is in our culture, and how to grieve — you know what, I loved Inside Out. And talking about sadness being the partner feeling to joy, and you can’t have one without the other. I just love this consciousness that I think the mainstream culture is coming into, because we’ve exiled grief, we’ve exiled these emotions we’ve deemed as negative for so long. I think they're coming back into fashion, and I'm really happy about that. Because there’s no such thing as a negative emotion as far as I'm concerned — they’re all needed. Oh, there’s another book I'm reading called The Soul’s Code, which is beaaauttiful, which is speaking to this idea that we all have inherent gifts.
Is there anything else specifically you want to do in your career? Do you have a big goal?
AG: Nahh, I’m done. I’m over it. Um, SO much. Unfortunately. So many scary things. I'm scared every time I go to act. But I'm scared of everything, really.
Jon Premosch
Every time I go to start something new, all the voices come in saying, Who do you think you are, and why do you think you have any right to be making a chair right now? You're gong to fail at this chair-making and everyone’s going to see how wrong you are!
You’re doing great!
AG: Thank you! It will collapse. So, I love storytelling and I love people and humanity and making sense of what we’re all doing here, so I love acting, I absolutely love it. But I would like to be more involved. I produced 99 Homes, so that felt really good to be more hands-on with the process from the beginning, but that still wasn’t enough. It kind of makes me think maybe, Oh, you need to try to direct, just because life is short and also you never know, maybe you’ll enjoy it and maybe you’ll be good at it, and maybe you won't be! And then you’ll know and you won’t try again. But the hesitancy and the not doing is what scares me the most. The bucket list is just doing, doing, doing, doing.
And also I love young people. I'd like to be involved with young people and teaching about acting maybe, or theater, because theater was my first passion. Without my first teacher bringing me to that, I would not be building this chair with you right now. I'd be somewhere strung out, on some awful class-A substance — homeless, probably. I don’t know what I'm talking about. But I'd love to give opportunity to young people who maybe don’t have the opportunity to explore whether this is something that they're called to. Those are the things that are kind in the forefront of my mind right now.
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Watch Andrew show off his Ikea-building skills in the video below:
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99 Homes opens in select New York theaters Friday, Sept. 25 — and in theaters everywhere Oct. 9!
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Unfriending A Coworker On Facebook Now Constitutes Workplace Bullying
The Fair Work Commission found that unfriending someone can show “a lack of emotional maturity.”
A workplace tribunal has found that unfriending a coworker on Facebook can constitute workplace bullying.
The decision came during a workplace bullying trial involving Tasmanian real estate company, VIEW.
Rachael Roberts, who worked at VIEW for three years, reported the real estate firm's owner, James Bird, and wife, Lisa, to the Australian Fair Work Commission for 18 alleged examples of workplace bullying in February of this year.
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Roberts' complaints included her work was deliberately unprocessed for nine days, her properties not being shown in the business's front window, and that she was not allowed to answer the phone whilst the owner's wife, a sales administrator, was at work.
One of the alleged incidents involved Mrs Bird calling Roberts a "naughty little schoolgirl running to the teacher" after Roberts called Mr Bird to ask why her properties had not been displayed at the front of the office.
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A judge ruled that the unfriending was a result of Mrs Bird's "provocative and disobliging" behavior.
"I am of the view that Mrs Bird took the first opportunity to draw a line under the relationship with Ms Roberts on 29 January 2015, when she removed her as a friend on Facebook as she did not like Ms Roberts and would prefer not to have to deal with her," Deputy President Wells said.
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When You Think You Might Snap
It’s always the quiet ones…
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