Books About Forgotten History - People and Events That Don't Get Taught in History Class

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Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America
Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America 4.44 avg rating — 1,229 ratings
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The Mighty Miss Malone
The Mighty Miss Malone 4.13 avg rating — 16,124 ratings
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Khairlanji: A Strange and Bitter Crop
Khairlanji: A Strange and Bitter Crop 4.65 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Before We Were Yours
Before We Were Yours 4.40 avg rating — 697,586 ratings
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Women's Slave Narratives
Women's Slave Narratives 3.84 avg rating — 80 ratings
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My Heart is on the Ground: the Diary of Nannie Little Rose, a Sioux Girl, Carlisle Indian School, Pennsylvania, 1880
My Heart is on the Ground: the Diary of Nannie Little Rose, a Sioux Girl, Carlisle Indian School, Pennsylvania, 1880 3.74 avg rating — 3,564 ratings
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The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
by: Tom Reiss
4.02 avg rating — 21,034 ratings
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The Gypsy Goddess
The Gypsy Goddess 3.77 avg rating — 587 ratings
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Suffragettes: The Fight for Votes for Women
Suffragettes: The Fight for Votes for Women 4.11 avg rating — 151 ratings
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Little Daughter: A Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West
Little Daughter: A Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West
by: Zoya Phan
4.03 avg rating — 662 ratings
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Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong
Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,110 ratings
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The Kitchen House
The Kitchen House 4.23 avg rating — 295,516 ratings
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Between Shades of Gray: The Graphic Novel
Between Shades of Gray: The Graphic Novel 4.35 avg rating — 2,420 ratings
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Everything I Never Told You
Everything I Never Told You 3.83 avg rating — 598,339 ratings
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Daughters of a Nation: A Black Suffragette Historical Romance Anthology
Daughters of a Nation: A Black Suffragette Historical Romance Anthology 3.87 avg rating — 137 ratings
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Mahtab's Story
Mahtab's Story 3.58 avg rating — 423 ratings
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The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom
The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom 4.33 avg rating — 569 ratings
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Dark Before Dawn (The Mound Builders Book 3)
Dark Before Dawn (The Mound Builders Book 3) 4.71 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Raven of the North (The Mound Builders Book 4)
Raven of the North (The Mound Builders Book 4) 4.52 avg rating — 31 ratings
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A Convenient Hatred: The History of Antisemitism
A Convenient Hatred: The History of Antisemitism 4.28 avg rating — 358 ratings
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Chicano! the History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement
Chicano! the History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement 4.18 avg rating — 130 ratings
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The Perfect Hostage: A Life of Aung San Suu Kyi
The Perfect Hostage: A Life of Aung San Suu Kyi 3.93 avg rating — 326 ratings
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A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History 4.32 avg rating — 757 ratings
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Farewell My Concubine
Farewell My Concubine 3.94 avg rating — 1,568 ratings
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The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race, and American Identity
The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race, and American Identity 3.99 avg rating — 121 ratings
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Black Coffee in a Coconut Shell: Caste as Lived Experience
Black Coffee in a Coconut Shell: Caste as Lived Experience 4.23 avg rating — 66 ratings
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Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class
Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class 3.74 avg rating — 1,943 ratings
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When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace
When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace 4.12 avg rating — 4,294 ratings
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Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun
Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun 4.31 avg rating — 164 ratings
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The Souls of Black Folks
The Souls of Black Folks 4.31 avg rating — 44,287 ratings
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From Phansi Yard: My Year with the Women of Yerawada
From Phansi Yard: My Year with the Women of Yerawada 4.58 avg rating — 78 ratings
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Miss Burma
Miss Burma 3.61 avg rating — 3,340 ratings
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Stealing History: Tomb Raiders, Smugglers, and the Looting of the Ancient World
Stealing History: Tomb Raiders, Smugglers, and the Looting of the Ancient World 3.84 avg rating — 348 ratings
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Troubled Waters (People of the Longhouse #3)
Troubled Waters (People of the Longhouse #3) 4.54 avg rating — 101 ratings
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Paper Wife
Paper Wife 4.12 avg rating — 25,021 ratings
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Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs And Claims
Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs And Claims 3.83 avg rating — 602 ratings
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Fire On The Ganges: Life Among the Dead in Banaras
Fire On The Ganges: Life Among the Dead in Banaras 4.17 avg rating — 204 ratings
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Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution
Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution 4.08 avg rating — 1,295 ratings
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Hasina
Hasina 3.74 avg rating — 156 ratings
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Before the Pioneers: Indians, Settlers, Slaves, and the Founding of Miami
Before the Pioneers: Indians, Settlers, Slaves, and the Founding of Miami 4.09 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Sacred Sins: Devadasis in Contemporary India
Sacred Sins: Devadasis in Contemporary India 4.39 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Red Tails: An Oral History of the Tuskegee Airmen
Red Tails: An Oral History of the Tuskegee Airmen 3.85 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Daughter of Fortune
Daughter of Fortune 3.94 avg rating — 138,063 ratings
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Teen Trailblazers: 30 Fearless Girls Who Changed the World Before They Were 20
Teen Trailblazers: 30 Fearless Girls Who Changed the World Before They Were 20 3.89 avg rating — 203 ratings
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How Long Can the Moon Be Caged?: Voices of Indian Political Prisoners
How Long Can the Moon Be Caged?: Voices of Indian Political Prisoners 4.53 avg rating — 34 ratings
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The Round House
The Round House 3.98 avg rating — 122,373 ratings
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Lady of Death: The True Story of Russia's Greatest Female Sniper
Lady of Death: The True Story of Russia's Greatest Female Sniper 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Young Jaguar (Pre-Aztec Series, #1)
The Young Jaguar (Pre-Aztec Series, #1) 3.91 avg rating — 353 ratings
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The Degenerates
The Degenerates 4.06 avg rating — 1,068 ratings
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A Boundless Fear Gripped Me: How the Other Half Lived in the Pandemic's Shadow
A Boundless Fear Gripped Me: How the Other Half Lived in the Pandemic's Shadow 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Don't Call Me Lady: The Journey of Lady Alice Seeley Harris
Don't Call Me Lady: The Journey of Lady Alice Seeley Harris 3.89 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Night Witches: The Amazing Story Of Russia's Women Pilots in World War II
Night Witches: The Amazing Story Of Russia's Women Pilots in World War II 4.19 avg rating — 471 ratings
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The Other Madisons: The Lost History of a President's Black Family
The Other Madisons: The Lost History of a President's Black Family 4.20 avg rating — 1,101 ratings
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Water in a Broken Pot
Water in a Broken Pot 4.15 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Gray Girl
Gray Girl 3.99 avg rating — 548 ratings
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Shadow Warriors of World War II: The Daring Women of the OSS and SOE
Shadow Warriors of World War II: The Daring Women of the OSS and SOE 3.69 avg rating — 267 ratings
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Autobiography of a Slave Autobiografia de un esclavo
Autobiography of a Slave Autobiografia de un esclavo 3.80 avg rating — 257 ratings
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Affairs of Caste: a Young Diary
Affairs of Caste: a Young Diary 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Area Bird: Duty Doesn't Always Follow the Rules (Gray Girl Series)
Area Bird: Duty Doesn't Always Follow the Rules (Gray Girl Series) 4.17 avg rating — 106 ratings
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Women of RAF Tempsford
Women of RAF Tempsford 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Wolf Den (Wolf Den Trilogy, #1)
The Wolf Den (Wolf Den Trilogy, #1) 4.04 avg rating — 42,644 ratings
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A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present 4.08 avg rating — 259,722 ratings
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Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan
Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan 3.98 avg rating — 1,005 ratings
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Antihistoria de México
Antihistoria de México 4.63 avg rating — 62 ratings
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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa 4.19 avg rating — 66,224 ratings
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The Debs of Bletchley Park and Other Stories
The Debs of Bletchley Park and Other Stories 3.65 avg rating — 406 ratings
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The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville
The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville 3.74 avg rating — 2,313 ratings
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The Visionary Mayan Queen: Yohl Ik'nal of Palenque (Mists of Palenque, #1)
The Visionary Mayan Queen: Yohl Ik'nal of Palenque (Mists of Palenque, #1) 3.43 avg rating — 138 ratings
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Manchu Princess, Japanese Spy: The Story of Kawashima Yoshiko, the Cross-Dressing Spy Who Commanded Her Own Army
Manchu Princess, Japanese Spy: The Story of Kawashima Yoshiko, the Cross-Dressing Spy Who Commanded Her Own Army 3.25 avg rating — 137 ratings
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The Warrior Queens
The Warrior Queens 3.71 avg rating — 2,785 ratings
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Serving Our Country: Japanese American Women in the Military during World War II
Serving Our Country: Japanese American Women in the Military during World War II 3.54 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire
The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire 3.93 avg rating — 4,563 ratings
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Our Mothers' War: American Women at Home and at the Front During World War II
Our Mothers' War: American Women at Home and at the Front During World War II 4.09 avg rating — 713 ratings
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The Last Queen of India
The Last Queen of India 4.05 avg rating — 11,839 ratings
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The Land Girls
The Land Girls 3.95 avg rating — 153 ratings
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The Heretic Queen
The Heretic Queen 4.21 avg rating — 26,347 ratings
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Bomb Girls: Trading Aprons for Ammo
Bomb Girls: Trading Aprons for Ammo 3.42 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Pinkerton's First Lady: Kate Warne - United States First Female Detective
Pinkerton's First Lady: Kate Warne - United States First Female Detective 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Hitler's Spy Princess: The Extraordinary Life of Princess Stephanie von Hohenlohe
Hitler's Spy Princess: The Extraordinary Life of Princess Stephanie von Hohenlohe 3.24 avg rating — 29 ratings
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The Forgotten Woman: The Untold Story of Kastur Gandhi, Wife of Mahatma Gandhi
The Forgotten Woman: The Untold Story of Kastur Gandhi, Wife of Mahatma Gandhi 4.07 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Part of My Soul Went with Him
Part of My Soul Went with Him 4.06 avg rating — 359 ratings
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The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt 3.93 avg rating — 3,657 ratings
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Sacagawea: American Pathfinder
Sacagawea: American Pathfinder 3.78 avg rating — 297 ratings
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Sisters in the Struggle: African American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement
Sisters in the Struggle: African American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement 4.31 avg rating — 226 ratings
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Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World
Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World 4.44 avg rating — 6,797 ratings
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Find Where The Wind Goes: Moments From My Life
Find Where The Wind Goes: Moments From My Life 3.91 avg rating — 162 ratings
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The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk
The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk 4.14 avg rating — 4,470 ratings
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Obstruction of Justice: The Search for Truth on Canada's Highway of Tears
Obstruction of Justice: The Search for Truth on Canada's Highway of Tears 3.72 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Don't Call Us Molls: Women of the John Dillinger Gang
Don't Call Us Molls: Women of the John Dillinger Gang 3.74 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Razor: Tilly Devine, Kate Leigh and the Razor Gangs
Razor: Tilly Devine, Kate Leigh and the Razor Gangs 4.01 avg rating — 229 ratings
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Forbidden (Old West, #1)
Forbidden (Old West, #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5,447 ratings
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Kathryn Kelly: The Moll Behind Machine Gun Kelly
Kathryn Kelly: The Moll Behind Machine Gun Kelly 3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Aung San Suu Kyi
Aung San Suu Kyi really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Elizabeth Bathory: The Blood Countess
Elizabeth Bathory: The Blood Countess 3.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Tong Wars: The Untold Story of Vice, Money, and Murder in New York's Chinatown
Tong Wars: The Untold Story of Vice, Money, and Murder in New York's Chinatown 3.55 avg rating — 258 ratings
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Boy, Snow, Bird
Boy, Snow, Bird 3.34 avg rating — 30,807 ratings
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Black Gangsters of Chicago
Black Gangsters of Chicago 3.69 avg rating — 49 ratings
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The Erotic Life of Racism
The Erotic Life of Racism 3.62 avg rating — 143 ratings
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Old Shanghai - Gangsters In Paradise
Old Shanghai - Gangsters In Paradise
by: Lynn Pan
3.72 avg rating — 29 ratings
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At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power 4.47 avg rating — 3,602 ratings
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