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		<title>Tales of Grand Illusion</title>
		<link>http://www.shocktotem.com/05/16/2012/tales-of-grand-illusion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 06:59:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Contor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, a writer friend on Facebook posted about how he hated the “who you know” model for advancing his writing career, but he acknowledged that most of his opportunities came from people he knew. I can relate. It&#8217;s not just &#8230; <a href="http://www.shocktotem.com/05/16/2012/tales-of-grand-illusion/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Available Now—The Wicked</title>
		<link>http://www.shocktotem.com/05/14/2012/available-now-the-wicked/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 20:40:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>K. Allen Wood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shock Totem Publications is pleased to announce that our first non-magazine release, James Newman&#8217;s fantastic ode to 1980s horror, The Wicked, is now available for purchase. As previously noted, The Wicked has been revised by the author, expanded with a &#8230; <a href="http://www.shocktotem.com/05/14/2012/available-now-the-wicked/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Conversation with James Newman</title>
		<link>http://www.shocktotem.com/05/08/2012/a-conversation-with-james-newman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 16:59:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Boden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;THE SPOOKY STUFF&#8221; A Conversation with James Newman by John Boden James Newman&#8230;a Southern Gentlemen who gave us the novels Midnight Rain and The Wicked, as well as such novellas as the co-authored Night of the Loving Dead, with James &#8230; <a href="http://www.shocktotem.com/05/08/2012/a-conversation-with-james-newman/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Mr. Shivers</title>
		<link>http://www.shocktotem.com/05/03/2012/mr-shivers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 04:08:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Boden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Great Depression was a turning point in American—make that world—history. In the years prior to World War II, a series of events led to one of the lowest periods ever recorded. It was a blight, a plague upon the &#8230; <a href="http://www.shocktotem.com/05/03/2012/mr-shivers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>May 2012 Flash Fiction Contest</title>
		<link>http://www.shocktotem.com/04/27/2012/may-2012-flash-fiction-contest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 01:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>K. Allen Wood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every other month we host a flash fiction contest on our forum. The next contest begins on Tuesday, May 1. Participants have one week to write a story based on a prompt that we provide. The prompt must be integral &#8230; <a href="http://www.shocktotem.com/04/27/2012/may-2012-flash-fiction-contest/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Mentionable Honors</title>
		<link>http://www.shocktotem.com/04/17/2012/mentionable-honors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 05:16:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>K. Allen Wood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ellen Datlow just released her full honorable mention list for Best Horror of the Year Volume 4, and while there are a daunting 608 stories on that list, we&#8217;re very happy to say that seven of them are from Shock &#8230; <a href="http://www.shocktotem.com/04/17/2012/mentionable-honors/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Evolution of a Book Cover</title>
		<link>http://www.shocktotem.com/04/10/2012/evolution-of-a-book-cover/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 06:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>K. Allen Wood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most artists live in the shadows of their work—and few see them. We have sold thousands of copies of Shock Totem, and one thing we&#8217;re consistently complimented on is our cover art. This happens all the time. Think about that. &#8230; <a href="http://www.shocktotem.com/04/10/2012/evolution-of-a-book-cover/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Shock Totem Gets Wicked</title>
		<link>http://www.shocktotem.com/04/06/2012/shock-totem-gets-wicked/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 19:49:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>K. Allen Wood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shock Totem Publications is pleased to announce our first non-magazine release. On May 1, 2012, we will re-release in paperback James Newman&#8217;s second novel and ode to 1980s horror, The Wicked. Originally published in 2007 in limited edition hardcover, The &#8230; <a href="http://www.shocktotem.com/04/06/2012/shock-totem-gets-wicked/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Pretty Little Dead Bad Things</title>
		<link>http://www.shocktotem.com/04/06/2012/pretty-little-dead-bad-things/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 07:38:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Boden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I would like to start and say I am not, nor have I ever been, a fan of “series” novels. I have too short of an attention span to commit to that sort of thing, usually. I would now like &#8230; <a href="http://www.shocktotem.com/04/06/2012/pretty-little-dead-bad-things/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Enter the Gate—Free Admission!</title>
		<link>http://www.shocktotem.com/04/04/2012/enter-the-gate-free-admission/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shocktotem.com/04/04/2012/enter-the-gate-free-admission/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 05:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>K. Allen Wood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[T.R.O. Publishing recently released the second installment of The Gate series, The Gate 2: 13 Tales of Isolation and Despair, an anthology featuring work from two of Shock Totem&#8217;s own—Mercedes M. Yardley (&#8220;Black Mary&#8221;) and me, K. Allen Wood (&#8220;The &#8230; <a href="http://www.shocktotem.com/04/04/2012/enter-the-gate-free-admission/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>And the Stoker Goes to&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.shocktotem.com/04/01/2012/and-the-stoker-goes-to/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 06:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>K. Allen Wood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mercedes M. Yardley! More accurately&#8230; Earlier tonight, John Skipp won the Stoker for his epic of an anthology Demons: Encounters with the Devil and His Minions, Fallen Angels, and the Possessed, which Mercedes has an excellent story in. A well-deserved &#8230; <a href="http://www.shocktotem.com/04/01/2012/and-the-stoker-goes-to/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>And the March Flash Fiction Contest Winner is…</title>
		<link>http://www.shocktotem.com/03/29/2012/and-the-march-flash-fiction-contest-winner-is%e2%80%a6/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shocktotem.com/03/29/2012/and-the-march-flash-fiction-contest-winner-is%e2%80%a6/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 23:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>K. Allen Wood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Wehunt Michael won with his story &#8220;Beside Me Singing in the Wilderness.&#8221; Not only did he win the contest, but we just sent him an acceptance letter for another story to be published in issue #6. He&#8217;s had quite &#8230; <a href="http://www.shocktotem.com/03/29/2012/and-the-march-flash-fiction-contest-winner-is%e2%80%a6/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The One-Hour Flash Fiction Challenge</title>
		<link>http://www.shocktotem.com/03/29/2012/the-one-hour-flash-fiction-challenge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 05:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>K. Allen Wood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Saturday, March 31, at 8 PM EST, we will once again be hosting our bi-weekly flash fiction challenge. The challenge: You have just one hour to write, edit, and post your story. This is a &#8220;prompted&#8221; challenge, meaning your &#8230; <a href="http://www.shocktotem.com/03/29/2012/the-one-hour-flash-fiction-challenge/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Lake</title>
		<link>http://www.shocktotem.com/03/20/2012/the-lake/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 02:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Contor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Lake, by R. Karl Largent, is one of those 90&#8242;s-era ecological disaster novels that slipped under the radar (at least, it did for me). The Lake is written as a personal memoir of Elliott Wages, a novelist who is &#8230; <a href="http://www.shocktotem.com/03/20/2012/the-lake/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Stokers, Flashes and Black Ink</title>
		<link>http://www.shocktotem.com/03/14/2012/stokers-flashes-and-black-ink/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 01:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>K. Allen Wood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Later this month, at this year&#8217;s Bram Stoker Awards™ banquet, to be held at the World Horror Convention in Utah, Mercedes and I do battle. To the death! Okay, maybe not to the death. And maybe it&#8217;s not so much &#8230; <a href="http://www.shocktotem.com/03/14/2012/stokers-flashes-and-black-ink/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Goodreads Giveaway: Epitaphs: The Journal of New England Horror Writers</title>
		<link>http://www.shocktotem.com/03/13/2012/goodreads-giveaway-epitaphs-the-journal-of-new-england-horror-writers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 06:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>K. Allen Wood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three copies of Epitaphs: The Journal of New England Horror Writers, the Stoker Award nominated anthology featuring work from Kurt Newton, Rick Hautala, Christopher Golden, L.L. Soares, K. Allen Wood (that&#8217;s me!), and twenty-one others, are being given away through &#8230; <a href="http://www.shocktotem.com/03/13/2012/goodreads-giveaway-epitaphs-the-journal-of-new-england-horror-writers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Tribesmen</title>
		<link>http://www.shocktotem.com/03/05/2012/tribesmen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 08:28:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>K. Allen Wood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the greatest rewards that comes from publishing Shock Totem is being able to watch young writers evolve within their craft. Even when I read something less than great from them, there remains something special about it. It’s in &#8230; <a href="http://www.shocktotem.com/03/05/2012/tribesmen/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Skull Cathedral Woman</title>
		<link>http://www.shocktotem.com/03/03/2012/skull-cathedral-woman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2012 09:16:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Boden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2008,Tim Waggoner put out Skull Cathedral, a supremely short and limited edition booklet, via Squid Salad Press. Skull Cathedral is a bizarro tale that is a smorgasbord of trippy images, the premise of which appearing to be the delusions &#8230; <a href="http://www.shocktotem.com/03/03/2012/skull-cathedral-woman/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Women In Horror</title>
		<link>http://www.shocktotem.com/02/24/2012/women-in-horror/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 22:02:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mercedes M. Yardley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you know that February is Women in Horror month? Damien Walters Grintalis, a Shock Totem regular, graciously allowed me to guest post on her blog. Swing by to see my take on why women are not only familiar with &#8230; <a href="http://www.shocktotem.com/02/24/2012/women-in-horror/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Glitter Rose</title>
		<link>http://www.shocktotem.com/02/17/2012/glitter-rose/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 07:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mercedes M. Yardley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finding Marianne de Pierres&#8217;s Glitter Rose collection in my World Fantasy Con swag bag was like taking a walk on the beach and stumbling across a sapphire in the sand. It&#8217;s a charming, hardcover book with a soft and feminine &#8230; <a href="http://www.shocktotem.com/02/17/2012/glitter-rose/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Kindle Users: Free Shock Totem</title>
		<link>http://www.shocktotem.com/02/06/2012/kindle-users-free-shock-totem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 06:52:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>K. Allen Wood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week only we&#8217;re running promos on all five issues of Shock Totem. Starting today with issue #1, Kindle user will be able to download it for free. Tomorrow issue #2 will be free, Wednesday issue #3, and so on. &#8230; <a href="http://www.shocktotem.com/02/06/2012/kindle-users-free-shock-totem/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Zee Dreamt and Deathless Wurm</title>
		<link>http://www.shocktotem.com/02/05/2012/zee-dreamt-and-deathless-wurm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Boden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David James Keaton&#8217;s Zee Bee &#038; Bee (a.k.a. Propeller Hats For The Dead), as it was called when it was sent to me last spring, has since been rechristened Zombie Bed &#038; Breakfast (Zee Bee &#038; Bee). Regardless of which &#8230; <a href="http://www.shocktotem.com/02/05/2012/zee-dreamt-and-deathless-wurm/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bring More Lore!</title>
		<link>http://www.shocktotem.com/02/03/2012/bring-more-lore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Boden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Born in a New Jersey basement in the mid-90&#8242;s, Lore was a DIY magazine for dark fiction and fantasy. In their time, they took home a number of awards, including The Dragon&#8217;s Breath Small Press Award for Best New Magazine, &#8230; <a href="http://www.shocktotem.com/02/03/2012/bring-more-lore/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Dark Treats from the Midnight Asylum</title>
		<link>http://www.shocktotem.com/02/01/2012/dark-treats-from-the-midnight-asylum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Boden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I first heard about Mark Allan Gunnells through James Newman, a mutual friend and a writer I consider family. On the merits of that alone, I knew Gunnells&#8217;s work must be special. So I contacted Mark, and we quickly became &#8230; <a href="http://www.shocktotem.com/02/01/2012/dark-treats-from-the-midnight-asylum/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Ghost Hunting with TAPS</title>
		<link>http://www.shocktotem.com/01/31/2012/ghost-hunting-with-taps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:25:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mercedes M. Yardley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was with some glee that I got my hands on Ghost Hunting: True Stories of the Unexplained Phenomena from The Atlantic Paranormal Society, by Jason Hawes, Grant Wilson, and with Michael Jan Friedman. Who doesn&#8217;t love a slightly creepy, slightly campy &#8230; <a href="http://www.shocktotem.com/01/31/2012/ghost-hunting-with-taps/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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