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Swing the Spinning Step by moodlighting
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
09 Apr 2024
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Alex went to the gay bar with June and Nora on a Thursday night and walked out with the blond smokeshow he’d been exchanging heated glances with for hours.
His name was Henry, and his hands were on Alex and under his coat as soon as they walked through the front entry of his beautiful, enormous fucking brownstone. Alex would circle back to that later.
Henry swiftly divested him of two and a half layers as Alex gripped him by the elbows, just trying to hold on. Eyes slipping shut on an appreciative groan, Alex swayed forward to capture Henry’s mouth with his own.
A firm palm at the center of his chest stopped him halfway there.
Alex blinked to find steady blue eyes staring back at him.
“No kissing, if you don’t mind,” Henry said coolly.
AU. Alex and Henry are friends with benefits. Henry has a rule about kissing.
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21 Jun 2024
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pañuelo melody by acastle
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
11 Jun 2024
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“It sounds like the Alex I grew up with,” Henry tells him. He pauses, thinking if he can say it, but he holds on to the light, and tries, “The one only I got to see.”
And Alex doesn’t leave him any room for doubt, telling him, “That Alex will always be yours.”
Henry closes his eyes, chin quivering in the wake of new tears, grateful and pained, and even all these years later, still quietly in love.
(In which Henry and Alex were children, growing up together, and Henry had always loved him, a little, a lot. And then they weren’t children anymore, and everything changed, and the memories are haunting, all-consuming, and divine.)
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11 Jun 2024
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but daddy, you love him by theprinceandagcd
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
02 Jun 2024
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Alex peers up at Henry’s face, the familiar tenseness in his jaw and mildly disinterested eyes nowhere to be seen. Instead, Henry’s expression is open and borderline delighted, like Brie used an extra strong shot of sorcery to draw Henry in and melt the ice that he usually stays locked behind.
Suddenly, Alex’s vague crush on an unapproachable coworker feels realer, all because he’s standing there and looking at Alex’s daughter like she hung the fucking moon. He’s treating the most important person in Alex’s life—his entire goddamn heart—as if she truly matters to him, giving her fist bumps and smiling at her and telling her she’s beautiful like her dad.
It’s doing weird things to Alex’s chest and making his palms sweat even in the air conditioned office, and he can’t decide if he’s okay with that development or if he wants to stick his head in Brie’s Easy-Bake oven.
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or, the matchmaker kidfic :)Series
- Part 1 of Matchmaker Kidfic
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- English
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- 16,397
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07 Jun 2024
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Elevator buttons and morning air by dollarstoreannabethchase for goldenpatronus
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
12 Aug 2023
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Last night, Alex hooked up with the most attractive man to ever exist after getting stuck together in the elevator of his apartment complex. He's incredible, but the second day of the job that will make or break his career is not the time to be starting a relationship; even if he kind of wants to scream every time he thinks about Henry.
So you can imagine his fucking surprise when he walks into the office the next day and sees none other than his Henry—elevator Henry, blue-eyed, British, dreamy, with thighs for days Henry—standing and talking to Pez. It’s in that moment that it all clicks, and Alex realizes. He’s Henry, as in, Henry, his other boss. Henry, his boss, a.k.a. the man who was on his knees in Alex’s bedroom last night. He is so fucked.
Or: Alex and Henry get stuck in an elevator together; Chaos ensues.
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05 Jun 2024
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something good can work by arcticmaggie
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
02 Jun 2024
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Henry absolutely loves people watching. To catch others as they’re completely immersed in their own lives and their inner workings of relationships and struggles and accomplishments.
And today.
Henry feels a cramp settle into his hand as he’s already finishing his second page in 15 minutes after lifting his head and immediately settling his eyes upon the most beautiful man he’s ever seen.
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Writer!Henry spends his afternoons people watching in a cafe to find inspiration for his writing.
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- English
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- 7,496
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- 1/1
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- 138
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03 Jun 2024
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My King (To Love and Be Loved) by SatinBirds
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
17 Mar 2024
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Henry had never known what it meant to be the center of someone else's world. Not until now.
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- Part 2 of Over Land and Sea
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11 May 2024
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Risotto + Melanzane + Dolce (a love story) by villiageidiot for railmedaddy
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
11 Sep 2023
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Alex doesn’t necessarily need a job—a full course load (plus some) is more than enough to fill his time—but he hasn’t had much of a social life since starting law school, and his coffee habit could use a few extra dollars. When June tells him the restaurant is looking for help, particularly on their Thursday Spaghetti Special night, he halfheartedly agrees. Everything that happens thereafter is technically her fault, a fact he likes pointing out any time she tries to yell at him for something, like serving uncooked garlic bread, or accidentally making a grown man cry, or breaking public indecency laws.
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Alex works at an Italian restaurant and is very bad at it. Henry is a customer and doesn’t seem to mind.
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28 Apr 2024
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wrung out by arcticmaggie
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
19 Apr 2024
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So excuse him if he passes by Henry one night, both in pajamas and on their way to their respective rooms, both about to end their day at the same time, and his pinky slightly grazes against Henry’s right hip, immediately making him stop, whip around and stutter out, “H-Hey.”
It startles Henry—it startles Alex as well, Jesus—as he stumbles with his steps and turns around, eyebrows raised in surprise at the sudden break in peaceful silence in their apartment.
“Hey?” he replies.
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Law student Alex is incredibly touch-starved and his English Lit PhD roommate Henry is right there.
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- English
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- 7/7
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28 Apr 2024
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One of the world’s largest retailers is opening a store on his street. A bookstore. He looks down at the article in his hand again and catches sight of a phrase: “We hope that people will see this as more than a bookstore, and hope to foster a sense of community.” As if Henry Fox-Mountchristen has any concept of what community means.
Alex very narrowly does not break something.
(When global mega-retailer Mountchristen opens a new location—led by the infuriatingly attractive and insufferable Henry Fox-Mountchristen—near his LGBTQ-focused bookshop in Soho, Alex's comfortable life is turned upsided down. Luckily, he has one of his best friends to turn to: a guy he met online and knows only as H. Meanwhile, Henry is battling against his family to make a positive difference in the world and falling further in love with a man he's never met. But... what if they changed that?
Yes, it's a You've Got Mail AU.)
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- English
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- 61,992
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- 12/12
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- 2,256
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23 Apr 2024
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Gonna Give You Something (So You Know What’s on My Mind) by affectionatelyrs
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
23 Dec 2023
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Alex hums, turning around to pull open the freezer drawer. “You want anything?”
But Henry barely registers his question. Not when Alex is slightly bent over, allowing Henry a perfect view of his perfect ass. Each individual ridge of his spine is visible due to his lack of shirt. All of these things combined would normally be a large enough issue in itself to render Henry dumbstruck, except—
Except, that’s not the only thing that Henry’s faced with.
Right there, clear as day: blue lace, delicately peeking out from the waistband of his joggers. Henry’s hand immediately flies up to his cheek. The skin is hot to the touch, and he feels the imprint of where the material once lay like a brand.
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Or, With the help of a white elephant gift, Henry learns that maybe the whole being-in-love-with-his-roommate thing isn’t as one-sided as he thought
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- English
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- 11,391
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- 2/2
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- 96
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14 Apr 2024
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me and you and awkward silence by kill8a for rizcriz
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
28 Jan 2024
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Alex has a bit of a predicament. The new librarian, Henry Fox, has proved to be a little too attractive to go un-noticed, and he might be harboring a bit of a crush.
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08 Apr 2024
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with all these nights we're spending (my broken bones are mending) by theprinceandagcd
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
07 Apr 2024
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It’s unexpected, and the softness that Prince Henry maintains is a shock to his system.
It makes him want to say something, even if it’s only to ask how his day was or to request an explanation for why he spent nearly fifteen fucking minutes looking at Cupid and Psyche with a forlorn look in his eyes. When he moves on, Alex gazes up at the sculpture and tries to discern the magic that must have captured the prince’s attention, but he comes up with no answers.
Which makes him want to ask more.
But he isn’t supposed to.
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Or, Alex is the new V&A night guard and Henry is the prince that Alex has been explicitly instructed to leave alone.- Language:
- English
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- 13,239
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- 1/1
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07 Apr 2024
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(Dil)Do It Yourself by happinessofthepursuit
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
28 Dec 2023
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“Listen,” Nora starts, turning her body once more so that she’s sitting sideways in the chair with her legs thrown across the armrest. “I did the math. There’s a 79% chance you’re gonna become a slut to the power of the prostate, and while we’re not dating anymore, it’s my duty as your fellow slutty bisexual to get this party started.”
Or, when Nora drags Alex to a holiday dildo workshop, he doesn’t expect to find someone to use it with.
Fic now complete :)
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- Part 1 of Seize the Play
- Language:
- English
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- 16,728
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- 3/3
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- 294
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03 Apr 2024
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keep me in the moment (don't it feel so real?) by anincompletelist (soldouthaz)
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
21 Mar 2024
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They still have two years until they graduate. There isn’t any need to rush into anything, even if Alex spends most of his boring classes daydreaming about running his fingers through Henry’s hair and how they’d combine their last names. They’re friends. It’s fine, and he’s fine, and he isn’t worried about any of it at this point. Really.
But it doesn’t at all help that Alex knows exactly what Henry sounds like when he says: Be a good boy and fucking take it, darling.
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31 Mar 2024
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all i need (is on the other side of the door) by acdseyelashes
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
28 Mar 2024
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Alex has lived in this apartment for a few months, and it’s fine… for the most part. The rent isn’t exactly cheap, but it has nice amenities and it’s a convenient location. But considering how much he pays every month, and how new the building is, the walls shouldn’t be this thin.
He’s sitting at his desk on a Friday night, his laptop propped up on a stand and several empty coffee mugs around him. He taps his pen on his massive law textbook and pulls his glasses off for a brief moment to rub his eyes when he hears voices in the hallway. His unit is near the elevators so yes, he does sometimes hear people going to the elevators, but that’s fine.
What isn’t fine is the sound of someone playing the piano at ten or eleven o’clock at night. He has no idea if it’s the unit next door, above or below him. But he does know that it’s starting to drive him crazy.
alex's neighbour plays the piano late at night when he's studying, and he hates it. when he meets his neighbour henry, he starts to form a crush on the hot british neighbour with a cute tax attorney beagle.
little does he know that henry's the one playing the piano.
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- Part 1 of and they were neighbours
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29 Mar 2024
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secrets, secrets are no fun, unless you share with everyone by winterpine
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
29 Mar 2024
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Henry clicks on the first and is flooded with content. Photo after photo of Alex standing on a roof, in front of a white background, prone suggestively across a small couch. Some in black and white and others in full color. In just briefs, wearing dark-wash jeans, in the midst of undressing, playing with the cut of his muscle tank, leaning down to tie his shoe, and even toying with the button of the denim. Henry salivates.
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or, Henry is a professor and loses his mind when Alex does a Calvin Klein photoshoot
- Language:
- English
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- 3,320
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
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- 202
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- 2,155
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- 349
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29 Mar 2024
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Not So Silent Night by inexplicablymine
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
23 Dec 2023
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Sure, Alex can admit in the deepest recesses of his mind, at two in the morning, when the Liszt is playing forlornly like some kind of bugle call for grief, that whoever the fuck lives next to him is on another level with the keys.
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Alex has no idea who his piano playing neighbor is, but Alex knows one thing for certain… This means war.- Language:
- English
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- 6,197
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- 1/1
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- 118
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- 833
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29 Mar 2024
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rearview mirror to the faithless by vibrantsaturn
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
17 Mar 2024
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"You know what? I can do it for you. Let me do it for you. The wedding is in two weeks— you won't get a date on such a short notice. Auntie Pezza got you. Plus, you're hot, Hen. I wouldn't mind getting some of that," Pez winks, nudging Henry with his foot.
Look, Alex knows it's just some harmless flirting— it doesn't mean anything. Still, that's his fucking husband and Alex will be damned if he lets anyone except himself kiss that perfect mouth.
"No, I'll do it," Alex interrupts before Henry can say anything. "No offence, man, but nobody is going to believe y'all are dating."
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Alex and Henry have to fake date while being secretly married.- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 5,347
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- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
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- 160
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- 2,359
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- 24,442
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21 Mar 2024
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make it five by anincompletelist (soldouthaz)
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
23 Feb 2024
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“Fifty bucks says I can get that guy’s number.”
Popping the bubble of cinnamon-flavored gum Alex had just blown, he glances up from his phone to look at where Nora’s pointing. Just over the soles of his shoes, crossed at the ankles and propped on the flaking black wood of the shop’s front desk, there’s a man with broad shoulders lingering by the far wall. Alex hadn’t even heard the guy come in.
“Nora. He’s literally looking at one of the biggest dildos I’ve ever seen,” he deadpans quietly.
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alex works at a sex toy shop. it's usually a pretty easy job — if he could just stop daydreaming about the blonde guy that keeps coming in to buy literally all of alex's favorite sex toys.
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- Part 8 of let's talk about sex!
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24 Feb 2024
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cut by validvali
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue (2023), Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
20 Feb 2024
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Holy fucking eyelashes.
He’s all tan skin and bright eyes and charming smile— everything that makes Henry weak in the knees. Pretty brown eyes dart between the lineup and his clipboard, trying to put two and two together, but all Henry can focus on are those arms. Those hands. That arse.
“Can I call you up, handsome?”
Henry almost blacks out.
or, the five times alex and henry shoot a video together as (not so) strangers, and the one time they do as a couple.
- Language:
- English
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- 12,645
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- 6/6
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- 235
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22 Feb 2024