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What are the best 1990s period piece movies? (I.e., made after 1999, set in 90s)

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coiffed pink nibblets
  05/27/25
Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1...
Spectacular puce resort dingle berry
  05/27/25
Who even watches these anymore?
beta toilet seat
  05/27/25
I still watch Film
Pontificating mint sandwich orchestra pit
  05/27/25
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multi-colored hunting ground indian lodge
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coiffed pink nibblets
  05/27/25
but yet you know nothing of it
Bat-shit-crazy Blue International Law Enforcement Agency Nursing Home
  05/27/25
Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure ...
Pontificating mint sandwich orchestra pit
  05/28/25
mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo
Plum pozpig business firm
  05/27/25
True Detective season one
At-the-ready jade plaza
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Startled Rusted Circlehead
  05/27/25
Best answer so far
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Unholy internal respiration
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Irate Liquid Oxygen
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tp
multi-colored hunting ground indian lodge
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Startled Rusted Circlehead
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The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after ...
coiffed pink nibblets
  05/28/25
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mahogany wonderful boltzmann quadroon
  05/28/25
Alpha Dog pops into mind first
Mind-boggling Skinny Woman Useless Brakes
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(Nick Cassavetes) (JT)
provocative sinister blood rage
  05/29/25
There are not a lot - certainly no great films. Add The F...
coiffed pink nibblets
  05/27/25
How to train your dragon
beta toilet seat
  05/27/25
social network.
Fear-inspiring psychic nowag
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Wolf of Wall Street
excitant school doctorate
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Rambunctious Candlestick Maker Voyeur
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Startled Rusted Circlehead
  05/27/25
Mostly an 80s movie though.
coiffed pink nibblets
  05/27/25
Speed
translucent twinkling uncleanness
  05/27/25
I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP&rsquo...
coiffed pink nibblets
  05/27/25
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Startled Rusted Circlehead
  05/27/25
Nigger Feet
beta toilet seat
  05/27/25
"period" is a gross word.
Glassy swashbuckling philosopher-king
  05/27/25
The Diaper
multi-colored hunting ground indian lodge
  05/27/25
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Startled Rusted Circlehead
  05/27/25
I think this has to do with Klosterman’s theory about ...
coiffed pink nibblets
  05/27/25
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multi-colored hunting ground indian lodge
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Startled Rusted Circlehead
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Startled Rusted Circlehead
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The Queen (2006) The Fighter (2010) Erin Brocovich (2000) ...
contagious canary temple persian
  05/27/25
Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers
coiffed pink nibblets
  05/28/25
Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 9...
Sick bat shit crazy ladyboy old irish cottage
  05/27/25
Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their t...
coiffed pink nibblets
  05/28/25
I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthe...
coiffed pink nibblets
  05/28/25
Same for Napoleon dynamite Technically set in 2003 but ru...
Plum pozpig business firm
  05/28/25
Good one
coiffed pink nibblets
  05/28/25
lilo and stitch for the same reason
Appetizing Hominid Theater Stage
  05/28/25
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Startled Rusted Circlehead
  05/28/25
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Big theatre
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Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly ...
coiffed pink nibblets
  06/14/25
Road Trip
translucent twinkling uncleanness
  05/28/25
this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our me...
Sooty travel guidebook
  05/28/25
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Startled Rusted Circlehead
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain Mid90s The Informant!
Shivering Locus
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT
Misunderstood Naked Shrine Sex Offender
  05/29/25
Im a Curator
Shivering Locus
  05/29/25
Three Kings
mahogany wonderful boltzmann quadroon
  05/28/25
1999
Shivering Locus
  05/28/25
One Day (2011) Love and Other Drugs (2010)
cracking cocky public bath chad
  05/28/25
Black Hawk Down
passionate tan home fortuitous meteor
  05/28/25
this
Unholy internal respiration
  05/29/25
Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia
coiffed pink nibblets
  05/29/25
I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera ar...
Pontificating mint sandwich orchestra pit
  05/29/25
the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux ca...
glittery deranged dilemma
  05/28/25
I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discu...
coiffed pink nibblets
  05/29/25
Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the ...
Unholy internal respiration
  05/29/25
No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using...
translucent twinkling uncleanness
  05/29/25
tyvmft
Unholy internal respiration
  05/29/25
The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Cr...
Dun Field Jap
  05/29/25
Harry Potter
jet cruise ship background story
  06/03/25
The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - t...
bearded shaky theater
  06/03/25
Good one
coiffed pink nibblets
  06/03/25
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Misunderstood Naked Shrine Sex Offender
  06/03/25
tv show but derry girls. wife insisted i watch it. i tho...
Razzle casino ratface
  06/07/25
It’s criminally underrated
jet cruise ship background story
  06/08/25
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Razzle casino ratface
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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:15 AM
Author: coiffed pink nibblets



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:30 AM
Author: Spectacular puce resort dingle berry

Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1991.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: beta toilet seat

Who even watches these anymore?

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: Pontificating mint sandwich orchestra pit

I still watch Film

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: multi-colored hunting ground indian lodge



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: coiffed pink nibblets



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: Bat-shit-crazy Blue International Law Enforcement Agency Nursing Home

but yet you know nothing of it

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: Pontificating mint sandwich orchestra pit

Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure I know about Film.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:32 AM
Author: Plum pozpig business firm

mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:34 AM
Author: At-the-ready jade plaza

True Detective season one



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: Startled Rusted Circlehead



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:02 PM
Author: coiffed pink nibblets

Best answer so far

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:48 AM
Author: Unholy internal respiration



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:23 PM
Author: Irate Liquid Oxygen



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:28 PM
Author: multi-colored hunting ground indian lodge

tp

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Startled Rusted Circlehead



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: coiffed pink nibblets

The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after the lawnmower

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:34 AM
Author: mahogany wonderful boltzmann quadroon



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:38 AM
Author: Mind-boggling Skinny Woman Useless Brakes

Alpha Dog pops into mind first

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:44 AM
Author: provocative sinister blood rage

(Nick Cassavetes)

(JT)

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:19 PM
Author: coiffed pink nibblets

There are not a lot - certainly no great films.

Add The Fighter and Spring Breakers

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:22 PM
Author: beta toilet seat

How to train your dragon

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:23 PM
Author: Fear-inspiring psychic nowag

social network.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: excitant school doctorate

Wolf of Wall Street

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: Rambunctious Candlestick Maker Voyeur



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: Startled Rusted Circlehead



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:58 PM
Author: coiffed pink nibblets

Mostly an 80s movie though.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:45 PM
Author: translucent twinkling uncleanness

Speed

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: coiffed pink nibblets

I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP’s criteria.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: Startled Rusted Circlehead

Autoadmit.com

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: beta toilet seat

Nigger Feet

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Glassy swashbuckling philosopher-king

"period" is a gross word.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: multi-colored hunting ground indian lodge

The Diaper

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Startled Rusted Circlehead



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: coiffed pink nibblets

I think this has to do with Klosterman’s theory about the vanishing future. The internet has made it so the 90s never left. There’s no clear break with the past like Nirvana ending the 80s. So the era continues to live on in the culture (e.g. Friends and Seinfeld still Top 5 tv shows by hours watched) preventing us from developing a collective Nostalgia for the 1990s.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: multi-colored hunting ground indian lodge



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:08 PM
Author: Startled Rusted Circlehead



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:44 AM
Author: Rambunctious Candlestick Maker Voyeur



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:49 AM
Author: Startled Rusted Circlehead



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: contagious canary temple persian

The Queen (2006)

The Fighter (2010)

Erin Brocovich (2000)

I, Tonya (2017)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:50 AM
Author: coiffed pink nibblets

Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:03 PM
Author: Sick bat shit crazy ladyboy old irish cottage

Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 90s.

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: coiffed pink nibblets

Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their times (Clerks is great), but the 90s are massively underexplored by people from another, later time reflecting on the historical era and what it MEANS now that culture has some distance.

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:54 AM
Author: coiffed pink nibblets

I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthetic and is based on Rogen and Stone’s high school years.

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Date: May 28th, 2025 7:05 AM
Author: Plum pozpig business firm

Same for Napoleon dynamite

Technically set in 2003 but rural Idaho was still in 1990

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:43 AM
Author: coiffed pink nibblets

Good one

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:52 AM
Author: Appetizing Hominid Theater Stage

lilo and stitch for the same reason

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:55 AM
Author: Startled Rusted Circlehead



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:43 AM
Author: Big theatre



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Date: June 14th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: coiffed pink nibblets

Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly 90s

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:59 AM
Author: translucent twinkling uncleanness

Road Trip

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: Sooty travel guidebook

this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our memories of problems in teh 90s. the late 90s movies (office space, american beauty, fight club) were all about the purposelessness of american life and culture.

kind of hard to reset a 90s film knowing what is going to happen

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:14 AM
Author: Startled Rusted Circlehead



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:10 AM
Author: Shivering Locus

Pain & Gain

Mid90s

The Informant!

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:23 AM
Author: Misunderstood Naked Shrine Sex Offender

Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:11 AM
Author: Shivering Locus

Im a Curator

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: mahogany wonderful boltzmann quadroon

Three Kings

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:38 AM
Author: Shivering Locus

1999

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:44 AM
Author: cracking cocky public bath chad

One Day (2011)

Love and Other Drugs (2010)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:48 PM
Author: passionate tan home fortuitous meteor

Black Hawk Down

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:13 AM
Author: Unholy internal respiration

this

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:49 AM
Author: coiffed pink nibblets

Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia

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Date: May 29th, 2025 8:44 AM
Author: Pontificating mint sandwich orchestra pit

I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera around then, it was 180.

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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:54 PM
Author: glittery deranged dilemma

the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux case.

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:08 AM
Author: coiffed pink nibblets

I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discussing

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:14 AM
Author: Unholy internal respiration

Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the tech used

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Date: May 29th, 2025 6:44 AM
Author: translucent twinkling uncleanness

No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using the number pad for texting. Also Alec Baldwins character mentions the Patriot Act

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Date: May 29th, 2025 6:44 AM
Author: Unholy internal respiration

tyvmft

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:25 AM
Author: Dun Field Jap

The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Creek.

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 1:22 AM
Author: jet cruise ship background story

Harry Potter

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 3:07 AM
Author: bearded shaky theater

The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - the drama with Cuba Gooding Jr. as OJ, not the documentary one.

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 10:09 AM
Author: coiffed pink nibblets

Good one

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 11:41 AM
Author: Misunderstood Naked Shrine Sex Offender



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:39 AM
Author: Razzle casino ratface

tv show but derry girls.

wife insisted i watch it. i thought it would suck but it’s 180

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Date: June 8th, 2025 8:34 PM
Author: jet cruise ship background story

It’s criminally underrated

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Date: June 9th, 2025 11:12 AM
Author: Razzle casino ratface



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