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This sex focused agenda of the left needs some backlash.
1 posted on 06/28/2015 1:02:10 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta
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To: FreeAtlanta

It almost becomes easier to list the companies to support!
For example, support the family values defending Chick Fila and Hobby Lobby.
I’m having trouble thinking of other companies to list like this, short of small local businesses.


59 posted on 06/28/2015 2:14:57 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: FreeAtlanta

With only a few exceptions I already don’t do business with the companies mentioned, so this boycott is easy for me.


61 posted on 06/28/2015 2:18:35 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: FreeAtlanta

The mark of the Mark of the beast is here.

http://www.afa.net/the-stand/homosexuality/the-mark-of-the-beast-is-here/


65 posted on 06/28/2015 2:26:21 PM PDT by right way right (Disclaimer: Not a prophet but I have a pretty good record.)
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To: FreeAtlanta

I’m dumping eBay as we speak.


68 posted on 06/28/2015 2:32:25 PM PDT by fwdude (The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
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To: FreeAtlanta

I cancelled my accounts with Wal Mart and Amazon. Any time I can deprive the Devil of a dime, I’ll do it. It does me good to know it.


69 posted on 06/28/2015 2:37:41 PM PDT by Aleya2Fairlie
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To: FreeAtlanta

A boycott will not really do much... I saw 3 other major airlines celebrating the ruling..


74 posted on 06/28/2015 2:56:10 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: FreeAtlanta
First read posts # 41 and 54 for suggestions.

Boycotting enormous outfits with no retail stores like e-bay, Amazon or the like just won't work for reasons anyone can dope out. Boycotting medium or smaller entities such as any varieties of chains and local big-box stores will work...also really popular destinations and TV high-advertising companies like the loathsome Progressive Insurance company will also work.

Right now my week-long list of potentials is starting off with "Hollyweird" movie theaters, Disneyland and Progressive Insurance.

Ben and Jerry ice cream, no....it's not popular enough to bother with for an organized boycott. It's on my personal shopping no-no list however.

Think of this phrase - "Maximum-Effect Boycott"....when you're mulling over and recommending targets.

And remember, the Power of the Purse is the best push-back we can devise.

Leni

78 posted on 06/28/2015 3:25:41 PM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: FreeAtlanta

NASCAR.


80 posted on 06/28/2015 3:42:15 PM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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http://www.google.com/search?q=%22FirstBank+is+proud+to+support+the+%23Denver+%23PrideFest+this+weekend%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=ssl


82 posted on 06/28/2015 3:49:57 PM PDT by HLPhat (This space is intentionally blank.)
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To: FreeAtlanta
Yes, here's my list of LGBT friendly companies and products. Delta was already on the list but thanks for giving further verification.

3M Co. St. Paul, MN

A.1. Steak Sauce

AAA Northern California, Nevada and Utah San Francisco, CA

ABC

Abercrombie & Fitch Co. New Albany, OH

Absolut

Accenture Ltd. New York, NY

Acuvue – contact lense

Aetna Inc. Hartford, CT

Agilent Technologies Inc. Santa Clara, CA

Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld LLP Washington, DC

Alaska Airlines Seattle, WA

Alcatel-Lucent Murray Hill, NJ

Allianz Life Insurance Co. of North America Minneapolis, MN

Allstate Corp., The Northbrook, IL

Alston & Bird LLP Atlanta, GA

Amazon.com

American Airlines

American Apparel

American Express Co. New York, NY

Ameriprise Financial Inc. Minneapolis, MN

AMR Corp. (American Airlines) Fort Worth, TX

Amtrak

Anheuser-Busch Companies Inc. St. Louis, MO

Aon Corp. Chicago, IL

Apple Inc. Cupertino, CA

Applebee’s

Aquapure

Aquarius

Arent Fox LLP Washington, DC

Arnold & Porter LLP Washington, DC

AT&T Inc. San Antonio, TX

Atlanta Braves Baseball

Athenos

Aetna

Aveeno

BB&T bank

Bacardi Mixers

Bacardi Premium Mixers

Bain & Co. Inc. (& Bridgespan Group Inc.) Boston, MA

Baker & Daniels LLP Indianapolis, IN

Banana Republic

Band-Aid bandages

Bank of America

Bank of New York Mellon Corp., New York, NY

Barnes & Noble Inc. New York, NY

Barq's

Barrilitos

BASF Corp. Florham Park, NJ

Bausch & Lomb Inc. Rochester, NY

Bayer Corp.

Bebe – children products

Ben & Jerry’s

Benecol – cholesterol reducer

Bengay

Best Buy

Beverly

Bingham McCutchen LLP Boston, MA

BMC Software Inc. Houston, TX

Boca Foods

Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc. Ridgefield, CT

Boeing Co. Chicago, IL

Booz Allen Hamilton

Borders Group Inc. Ann Arbor, MI

Boston Consulting Group Boston, MA

Boston Scientific - medical supplies

Boy Scouts of America

BP America Inc. Houston, TX

BP Oil

Breakstones

Bright And Early

Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc. Watertown, MA

Brinker International Inc. Dallas, TX

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. New York, NY

Brown Rudnick LLP Boston, MA

Bryan Cave LLP St. Louis, MO

Bud Light

Burger King

Caffeine-free Barq's

Caffeine-free Coca-Cola

Caffeine-free Diet Coke

Campbell Soup Co. Camden, NJ

Capital One Financial Corp. McLean, VA

CapriSun

Cardinal Health Dublin, OH

Cargill Inc. Wayzata, MN

Carlson Companies Inc. Minnetonka, MN

Carmax Inc. Richmond, VA

Cascal

Cathay Pacific Airlines

Celebrity Cruises

Charles Schwab Corp., The San Francisco, CA

Cheez whiz

Cherry Coke

Chevron Corp., San Ramon, CA

Chipotle

Chippewa

Chobani Yogurt

Choice Hotels

ChoicePoint Inc. Alpharetta, GA

Chrysler LLC Auburn Hills, MI

Chubb Corp. Warren, NJ

Cisco Systems Inc. San Jose, CA

Citgo

Citigroup Inc. New York, NY

Citra

Claussen Pickles

Clear Channel Communications Inc. San Antonio, TX

Clean & Clear – skin products

Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP New York, NY

Clifford Chance US LLP New York, NY

Clorox

CNA Insurance Chicago, IL

Coca-Cola – Odwalla

Coca-Cola Black Cherry Vanilla

Coca-Cola Cherry Zero

Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. Atlanta, GA

Coca-Cola Zero

Coca-Cola Zero Caffeine-Free

Coldwell Banker

Compeed – foot and canker sore products

Constellation Energy Group Inc. Baltimore, MD

Continental Airlines Inc. Houston, TX

Cool Whip

Coors Brewing Co. Denver, CO

Corning Inc. Corning, NY

Cortaid – skin healer

Costco

Country Time Lemonaid

Covington & Burling LLP Washington, DC

Cox Enterprises - Cox Media Group (msm), Cox Communications (Phoenix fiber internet), Cox Automotive Cox Enterprises Inc./Cox Communications Inc. Atlanta, GA

Cracker Barrel

Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP New York, NY

Credit Suisse USA Inc. New York, NY

Crystal Light

Cumberland Gap

Cummins Inc. Columbus, IN

Daktarin – athlete foot fungicide

Dannon

Darcars

Dasani

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP New York, NY

Delaware Punch

Dell Inc. Round Rock, TX

Deloitte LLP New York, NY

Delta Airlines

Desitin

Detroit Tigers Baseball

Deutsche Bank New York, NY

Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP New York, NY

Diageo - brands include Johnnie Walker, Crown Royal, JεB, Buchanan’s and Windsor whiskies, Smirnoff, Cîroc and Ketel One vodkas, Captain Morgan, Baileys, Don Julio, Tanqueray and Guinness.

Diageo North America Norwalk, CT

Dickstein Shapiro LLP Washington, DC

Diet Barq's

Diet cherry Coke

Diet Coke

Diet Coke Black Cherry Vanilla

Diet Coke with Lime

Diet Coke with Splenda

Diet Fuze Tea

Diet Inca Kola

Diet Master Pour

Diet Northern Neck

Diet Sprite

Diet Sprite Zero

DLA Piper Baltimore, MD

Dorsey & Whitney LLP Minneapolis, MN

Dow Chemical Co. Midland, MI

Dr Pepper

DuPont (E.I. du Pont de Nemours) Wilmington, DE

Eastman Kodak Co. Rochester, NY

eBay Inc. San Jose, CA

Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP Boston, MA

Electronic Arts Inc. Redwood City, CA

Eli Lilly & Co. Indianapolis, IN

Erie Insurance

Ernst & Young LLP New York, NY

Estee Lauder Companies New York, NY

Esurance Inc. San Francisco, CA

Evian

Expedia

Facebook

Faegre & Benson LLP Minneapolis, MN

Fannie Mae Washington, DC

Fanta

Fanta Sugar Free

Fanta Zero

Five Alive

Flavor Rage

Fleet Laboratories

Foley & Lardner LLP Milwaukee, WI

Foley Hoag LLP Boston, MA

Ford Motor Co. Dearborn, MI

Freescale Semiconductor Inc. Austin, TX

Fresca

Fried, Frank, Haris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP New York, NY

Fruitopia

Full Throttle

Fuze

Fuze Tea

GameStop Corp. Grapevine, TX

Gap

Gay Destination Weddings

Genentech Inc. South San Francisco, CA

General Mills

General Motors Corp. Detroit, MI

Gerber Baby Products

Gevalis Kaffe

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP Los Angeles, CA

Girl Scouts of America

Glacéau fruitwater

Glacéau smartwater

Glacéau vitaminenergy

Glacéau vitaminwater

Glacéau vitaminwater zero

GlaxoSmithKline – GSK pharmaceuticals

Global Hyatt Corp. Chicago, IL

Gold Peak

Goldman Sachs Group Inc., New York, NY

Google Inc. Mountain View, CA

H2OK

Harrah’s Entertainment Inc. Las Vegas, NV

Hartford Financial Services Co. Hartford, CT

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inc. Wellesley, MA

Haynes and Boone LLP Dallas, TX

HBO’s True Blood

Heineken

Heller Ehrman LLP San Francisco, CA

Herman Miller Inc. Zeeland, MI

Hershey's

Hewitt Associates Lincolnshire, IL

Hewlett-Packard Co. Palo Alto, CA

Hi-C

Hilton Hotels

Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. Nutley, NJ

Holland & Knight LLP Miami, FL

Home and Garden Channel – HGTV

Home Depot

Honest Ade

Honest Fizz

Honest Kids

Honest Tea

Honest Tea Zero

Honeywell International Inc. Morristown, NJ

Hospira Inc. Lake Forest, IL

Howrey LLP Washington, DC

HSBC - North America Mettawa, IL

Human Rights Campaign

Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP Kansas City, MO

Hyatt

Illy

Inca Kola

IndyMac Bancorp Inc. Pasadena, CA

ING North America Insurance Corp. Atlanta, GA

Intel Corp. Santa Clara, CA

International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) Armonk, NY

International Group Inc.

Intuit Inc. Mountain View, CA

J.C. Penney Co. Inc.

J Crew - clothing

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. New York, NY

Jaguar - cars

Java Monster

Jell-O

Jenner & Block LLP Chicago, IL

Jericho

Jet Blue

Jet-Puffed

Johnson & Johnson

Johnson’s Baby Products

JP Morgan Chase & Co

Kaiser Permanente Oakland, CA

Kellogg’s

Kenneth Cole - shoes

KeyCorp Cleveland, OH

Kimberly-Clark Corp. Irving, TX

Kimpton Hotel & Restaurant Group Inc. San Francisco, CA

Kinley

Kirkland & Ellis LLP Chicago, IL

Kool-Aid

KPMG LLP New York, NY

Kraft Foods

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP New York, NY

Krest

Lactaid – lactose intolerance

Land Rover

Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority

Latham & Watkins LLP New York, NY

Leatherman Tools

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. New York, NY

Levi Strauss & Co. San Francisco, CA

Lexmark International Inc. Lexington, KY

Lexus

Lift

Limited, The

Lincoln Financial Group

Listerine

Littler Mendelson PC San Francisco, CA

Liz Claiborne Inc. New York, NY

Loews Hotel

Lockheed Martin Corp. Bethesda, MD

Los Angeles Dodgers Baseball

Lubriderm

Lunchables

Macy’s Inc. Cincinnati, OH

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP Los Angeles, CA

Marc Jacobs - apparel and accessories

Marriott International Inc.

Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc. New York, NY

Martha Stewart

Maryland Live Casino

Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. Springfield, MA

Master Card

Master Chill

Master Pour

MasterCard Inc. Purchase, NY

Maxwell House

McDermott Will & Emery LLP Chicago, IL

McDonald’s

McGraw-Hill Publishing

McKinsey & Co. Inc. New York, NY

Meat New Zealand

Mello Yello

Mello Yello Zero

Merck & Co. Inc. Whitehouse Station, NJ

Merrill Lynch & Co. New York, NY

MetLife

Mezzo Mix

MGM Resorts International

Miami-Dade Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce

Microsoft

Miller Coors

Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo PC Boston, MA

Minute Maid

Minute Maid Enhanced

Minute Maid Fruit Falls

Minute Maid Juices To Go

Minute Maid Light

Minute Maid Orchards

Mio

Miracle Whip

Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams - home décor

Mondelez International - Oreos

Monster

Motorola

Moody’s Investors Service

Morgan Stanley

Morrison & Foerster LLP San Francisco, CA

Motorola Inc. Schaumburg, IL

Mozilla

MTV Music Television

Mylanta - indigestion

National Grid USA Brooklyn, NY

Nationwide Insurance

Natusan children products

NCR Corp. Dayton, OH

Neosporin

Nestle

Neutrogena

New York Life Insurance Co. New York, NY

New York Times Co. New York, NY

Newell Rubbermaid Inc. Atlanta, GA

Nielsen Co., The Schaumburg, IL

Nike

Nixon Peabody LLP New York, NY

Nordstrom Inc.

Northern Neck

Northern Trust Corp. Chicago, IL

Northrop Grumman - global security company providing innovative systems, products and solutions in unmanned systems, cyber, C4ISR, and logistics and modernization to government and commercial customers.

NOS

Novartis Pharmaceutical Corp. East Hanover, NJ

O’Melveny & Myers LLP Washington, DC

Oakland A’s Baseball

Odwalla

Office Depot

Olive Garden

Omni Hotels

Oracle Corp. Redwood City, CA

Orbitz Worldwide Inc. Chicago, IL

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP San Francisco, CA

Oscar Mayer

Owens Corning Toledo, OH

Pandora radio

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP New York, NY

Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP Los Angeles, CA

Paula Deen

PBS

Peace Tea

Penaten – baby products

Pepe Rico

Pepsi - Naked Juice

Pepsi Bottling Group Inc., The Somers, NY

PepsiCo – also funds abortions

PepsiCo Inc. Purchase, NY

Perkins Coie Seattle, WA

Pets Best Insurance

Pfizer

Pfizer Inc. New York, NY

PG&E Corp. San Francisco, CA

Philadelphia Cream Cheese

Pibb Xtra

Pibb Zero

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP San Francisco, CA

Piz Buin – skin care products

Planters Nuts

Polly-O Cheese

Powell Goldstein LLP Atlanta, GA

Powerade

Powerade Play

Powerade Zero

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP New York, NY

Prim’age – baby products

Proctor & Gamble

Progressive Corp., The Mayfield Village, OH

Proskauer Rose LLP New York, NY

Prudential Insurance

Purina PetCare Co. and Omnicom Group

Raymond James Financial Inc. St. Petersburg, FL

Raytheon Co. Waltham, MA

Recreational Equipment Inc. Kent, WA

Red Flash

Red Lobster

Rembrandt – teeth products

Replacements Ltd. McLeansville, NC - silverware and china

Reynolds American Inc. Winston-Salem, NC

Rite Aid

Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi LLP Minneapolis, MN

ROC – skin products

Rogaine

Ropes & Gray LLP Boston, MA

S. C. Johnson & Son Inc. Racine, WI

Sabre Holdings Inc. Southlake, TX

Sandos Hotels and Resorts

San Fransisco Giants Baseball

Savlon - antiseptic

Schering-Plough Corp. Kenilworth, NJ

Schweppes

Sears

Sears Holdings Corp. Hoffman Estates, IL

Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP San Francisco, CA

Sempra Energy San Diego, CA

Serono Pharmaceuticals

Seyfarth Shaw LLP Chicago, IL

SHARP Electronics

Shell Oil

Showtime

Sidley Austin LLP Chicago, IL

Simply

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP New York, NY

Smirnoff’s

Sodexho Inc. Gaithersburg, MD

Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal LLP Chicago, IL

Southern California Edison Co. Rosemead, CA

Southern Sun

Southwest Airlines

Splenda - sweetener

Spring!

Sprint Nextel Corp. Overland Park, KS

Sprite

Sprite Zero

Squire, Sanders & Dempsey LLP Cleveland, OH

Staples

Star Financial

Starbucks

Starcom MediaVest Group Chicago, IL

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide White Plains, NY

State Farm Insurance

State Street Corp. Boston, MA

Stove Top

Subaru of America Inc. Cherry Hill, NJ

Sugar Free Full Throttle

Sugar Free NOS

Sugar Free Sprite

Sullivan & Cromwell LLP New York, NY

Sun Life Financial Inc. (U.S.) Wellesley Hills, MA

Sun Microsystems Inc. Santa Clara, CA

Sunfill

SunTrust Banks Inc. Atlanta, GA

Supervalu Inc. Eden Prairie, MN

Surge

Symantec

Symantec Corp. Cupertino, CA

TaB

Target

Target Corp. Minneapolis, MN

Tassimo coffee

TD Bank

Tech Data Corp. Clearwater, FL

TEK Systems

Texas Instruments Inc. Dallas, TX

Thompson Coburn LLP St. Louis, MO

Tiffany Jewelers

Time Warner Inc. New York, NY

TJX Companies, Inc., The Framingham, MA

Toyota Financial Services Corp. Torrance, CA

Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc. Torrance, CA

Travelport Inc. Parsippany, NJ

Troutman Sanders LLP Atlanta, GA

Tucks Hemorrhoidal Ointment

Tylenol

U.S. Bancorp Minneapolis, MN

Uber

UBS - banking

UBS AG Stamford, CT

Unilever Englewood Cliffs, NJ

United Airlines

United Business Media LLC Manhasset, NY

United Parcel Service Inc. (UPS) Atlanta, GA

UPS

US Airways Group Inc. Tempe, AZ

US Dept of Energy

Vanilla Coke

Vanilla Coke Zero

Vault

Vault Zero

Vegibeta

Vegitabeta

Vendome – dermatological products

Velveeta

Verizon Wireless

Viacom Inc. New York, NY

Vinson & Elkins LLP Houston, TX

Visa Foster City, CA 3

Visine – eye products

Visteon Corp. Van Buren Township, MI

Volkswagen of America Inc. Herndon, VA

Volvo

VPI Pet Insurance

W Hotels Worldwide

Wachovia Corp.

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz LLP New York, NY

Walgreen Co. Deerfield, IL

Walgreens

Walmart

Walt Disney

Washington DC Convention & Tourism Corp

Washington Nationals Baseball

Washington Mutual Inc. Seattle, WA

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP New York, NY

Wells Fargo & Co. San Francisco, CA

Whirlpool

White & Case LLP New York, NY 1

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP Washington, DC

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC Palo Alto, CA

Winston & Strawn LLP Chicago, IL

WJKA Channel 7

World Bank

Worx Energy

www.BabyCenter.com

Wyndham Worldwide Corp. Parsippany, NJ

Xerox Corp. Norwalk, CT

XM Satellite Radio

Yahoo! Inc. Sunnyvale, CA

Zillow – online real estate

Zipcar

Zico

Zyrtec – allergy med

84 posted on 06/28/2015 3:57:34 PM PDT by bgill ( CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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I will make it a point to go to Chick-fil-a in the future.


92 posted on 06/28/2015 4:49:53 PM PDT by wildbill (If you check behind the shower curtain for a murderer, and find one.... what's yoIur plan?)
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I believe businesses (a) want gay business, and (b) don’t want to be smeared in the media, and (c) don’t have a strong feeling one way or another about homosexuality.

Is a business a person? Can’t remember what the court said.


94 posted on 06/28/2015 5:56:50 PM PDT by cymbeline
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It isn’t enough to boycott.
We can do better than that. We can stir up trouble for them. Use the lefties insanity against them. Buy stuff then return it, give fake answers to marketing surveys, little stuff that on its own won’t amount to much, but with millions of people doing it will seriously damage them. Clog their customer complaint lines about their product, they will spend millions trying to figure out how to neutralize us because if they don’t it will cost hundreds of millions.

Nothing to lose now.


98 posted on 06/28/2015 7:26:55 PM PDT by Dat
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AMC movie theaters. Their FB page is awash in rainbow crap.

Regards,


102 posted on 06/29/2015 4:25:19 AM PDT by VermiciousKnid (Sic narro nos totus!)
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> This sex focused agenda of the left needs some backlash.

bring bolt cutters and corks


108 posted on 06/29/2015 8:30:36 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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bttt


117 posted on 07/04/2015 8:47:50 AM PDT by MinuteGal
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