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User
Reviews 96
Approval 96%
Soundoffs 23
News Articles 9
Band Edits + Tags 2
Album Edits 21
Album Ratings 615
Objectivity 76%
Last Active 12-10-12 6:19 pm
Joined 12-06-07
Review Comments 4,460
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 | MercuryToHell Hey man thankyou for the feedback, it means a lot coming from someone with a lot of experience and time in, especially when it comes so constructively!
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 | Observer Hehe. I'm tryin to broaden his audience here. He is pretty m/ after all.
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| Observer kee, whats your take on the new bird album? saw you were dibbed for it
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 | klap lol it was pretty ignorant but humorous idea
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| klap http://www.popmatters.com/pm/column/154630-rock-is-the-new-jazz.-sorry-rock/
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 | aok 'all in all, yay!' well played as always keelan
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 | Irving Merry Christmas Keelan! And a Happy New Year as well! Also, while I'm here, do accept my best wishes for your Graduate school applications! Hope you get the one you want! Wherever you end up I'm pretty sure you'll end up doing very well! Cheers! =)
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| klap yeah that's rude, you should post your list anyways (mainly because i want to see it).
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| klap hey keels you should take m83 in the end-of-year list, i've already written enough about it and you don't have anything. downer is looking for someone
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 | Kiran cruising back in with some righteous ratings for beirut and cymbals eat guitars. niice.
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 | wabbit He's just a joy to read. Tolkien has written my favourite books but he is my favourite author...cause like Tolkien couldn't build suspense or tension if his life depended on it.
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| wabbit just realized that your writing style reminds me of Hemingway.
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| Irving Come back to us Keelan!
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| aok looking to review savane sometime this week and would be much obliged if you could give it a glance before i finish it. need to do that thing justice and you are one of my favorite reviewers on this site -- friend me on fb or shoot me a shout if that's cool.
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 | Blindsided Hey would you mind adding our blog to your blogroll?http://hopelesssound.blogspot.com/
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| Irving While I'm here Keelan, might I call your attention to the Decemberists that you made not too long ago? There are some formatting errors in it that really bug me - check it out and you'll see what I'm talking about =)
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| Irving Haha. Fair enough. Also, I shouldn't be complaining - university has kept me out of the loop for over a month now. I hope to get back to reviewing by mid-April. Sigh. Best of luck with school Keelan - will keep an eager eye out for your reviews =)
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| Irving You. Review soon. Plz =)
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 | MO great blog man, respect
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| aok if you got a good starting point to do make say think i would much appreciate it. also, i very much enjoyed your review of gorilla manor (helped me out a bunch). if you haven't seen those guys live, they're a must
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 | AggravatedYeti You and Robin both seem to like that new Dodos. Hmmmm, guess I should check it out.
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 | lancebramsay Saw you like GY!BE, you should check this outhttp://theslowestrunner.bandcamp.com/
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| Irving I've started going around and making your Age of Adz review required reading for new users on this site. Just thought you should know.
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 | Bitchfork http://www.mediafire.com/?vnqtwuynqgn#1
Guernica - Shinseiki E No Unga
japanese progressive pop with huge classical and cabaret influences and you'd love it.
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| Observer Not sure you are aware of this Space Is Only Noise album by Nicolas Jaar that's out on Valentines, but you should. Seems like your type of thing, and I love it, so was kinda hoping you might be persuaded to review it.
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 | Xenophanes Do you have some folk recs? I've really been digging some stuff and would like to expand a bit. Thanks!
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 | Sowing Congrats on the promotion man. Very very well deserved
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 | Masochist Well-earned promotion, sir! You're definitely perfect for the job!
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 | qwe3 yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah dude!
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 | Fugue Nice one Keelan, congrats man.
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 | SeaAnemone congrats Keelan :) when you're up on your podium looking down at us all, try not to remember where you came from. but yeah... obviously well-deserved
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| Xenophanes I was not-so-secretly pulling for you man, super well deserved! Congratulations!
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 | DaveyBoy You and your opinion on cliches. I told you it would work. LOL. Just kidding Keelan. So happy for your well deserved promotion. Congrats and welcome to the brotherhood.
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 | Knott- i would definitely say that it's the reverse; if YOU and caleb are reviewing it, mine will probably be redundant. except the last line. the last line rules.
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| Knott- love your decemberists soundoff 100% correct
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| klap thanks for turning me on to phosphorescent #16 on my year list
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 | Deviant. Cheers Keelan, much appreciated
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 | joshuatree holy s***, nice, thanks a lot. i'll sort through those soon enough
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| joshuatree since i decidedly love cloudburst, i was wondering if you had any other recommendations for any sort of classical music? just anything you really love/think i might possibly dig. i'm really bad at this kind of stuff (and you seem to have it figured out), which is why i ask
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 | Athom don cherry - symphony for improvisers
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 | robertsona hey sincei suck at finding music do you have a v0 (sorry im pretnetious hehe) d/l of conference of the birds
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 | robin yes. i love it. although if it's about things like postmodernism and stuff don't expect me to understand.. i'm still a kid!
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| robin in response to thomas hardy; i studied tess of the d'urbervilles and honestly i don't think there's a less subtle (,enjoyable) book. but i know nothing about literature so yknow ignore me. (although come to think of it, i loved writing about it). anyway, um, impossible soul is the best thing ever. x
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| robin kee are you serious, jude the obscure? thomas hardy? and to think...
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| Kiran send it over to kiran_soderqvist@yahoo.com when youre done and ill see what i can do ;)
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 | Iai I don't go mad for Part like a lot of people do but I'll check it out, sure.
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 | Gyromania "wait I don't get it is it cool to like this again? This site has more twists than Coronation Street!"Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahaha... Well done
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| robin great work dude. have you heard their debut? i have a massive soft spot for it, but this feels more complete (took their time). in this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics
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| Bitchfork that was unrelated. i asked him to buy my ep when it comes out. I want as many people to proof this one because it's so anti-me (cuz its accessible)
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| Bitchfork i was going to ask whether or not you'd be willing to edit/proof a review of mine for Psychic Ills.
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 | plane Check youtube, they're all up
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 | Mikesn Awww yeah. Dinosaur Comics is wonderful
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| robin ive decided to let my rogue wave issue with you go cuz ive worried you dont love me anymore... =(
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| SeaAnemone I think the contribs are gonna start a facebook msg thread to organize s*** if that's ok with you... 'Eric Loose' is the name if you're interested in helpin' out man... thanks!
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| SeaAnemone sooo, DFelon wants the contributors to organize soundoffs for the user top 100. I thought maybe we could start compiling some emails to organize this stuff off sputnik... don't want it leaked like the staff one. what do you think?
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 | NeutralThunder12 btw man, you have a great taste in indie. Sufjan Stevens is the best songwriter of the decade.
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| NeutralThunder12 hey man thanks for the help will take it in, but tried to be maybe a tad more analytical on my next review, Ill keep shorter, but I attempted there to actually 'talk' about the overall feel of the album, though yeah, maybe a bit long. Thank you.
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| NeutralThunder12 hey Keelan, saw your comment on my High Violet review. Help me out, tell me where I was being dry so I know to fix similar comments for next my review. Thanks.
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| AggravatedYeti so 'The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo' was visceral is **** -- ohhh man. basically see it; was very good.
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| klap thanks keels! you're next
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| SeaAnemone I hear ya- I have a 12 pager due on Friday about a 4-line poem ugh... if only Sputnik reviews could count for college credits.
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| SeaAnemone totally understand, good luck on the essays! don't get distracted (inevitably) by Sputnik!
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| SeaAnemone any chance you could proofread my Weakerthans review before I post it? I'd really appreciate it considering it may come off way too fanboy-y and I'm hoping to make it a good review.
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 | telebyrd Hey man. I'm a big spoon fan, and I read your post that "they don't know how to make a bad album." Do you consider their Telefono EP to be a good album? I love Gimme Fiction
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| AggravatedYeti yyeeaaahh, I don't know why they do that, and take so much time away from the other awards. Like no little intro videos for the ****ing EDITING award, or 1/2 assed overviews of the 10 nominated pictures...blah. SHOW ME MORE CLIPZZ
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| AggravatedYeti true, I got like a 90% win rate tho, so I was happy, and at least Bullock was funny. Waltz tho, he was like this humble little poet, great stuff. Too bad Steve Martin and Alec sucked :(
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| Athom I need to see them so bad. last month I was out having dinner with family in Hollywood and on the way home we passed a row of music venues and one had "Do Make Say Think" on the marquee. I don't think I've cursed so much, so loudly ever before. true story.
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| Athom ://www.archive.org/details/dmst2007-05-22.aud.flac16
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| Blindsided I will check them out. I will have to tell you to check out Joe Purdy. He's got some whispful folksy stuff, some of it might be generic albeit but it's still worth a listen tenfold. Honestly I think the combo of you and Kirgasm are basically perfect for the indie portion of the site. You're basically almost twins.
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| Blindsided It's good that's for sure. For some reason when it comes to indie I tend to be super picky (pretty much not listening to everything indie like you lol) but there is something about the vocals that get me. Also Castaways is fantastic. If there is anything that is similar/deep raspy vocals that is indie throw it my way.
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| Blindsided Just thought I'd let you know you've reviewed some great music lately, mainly Shearwater. I find it intriguing, confusing and fantastic at the same time.
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| AggravatedYeti So Crazy Heart -- pretty awesome. One kinda weak plot twist, but overall, very well done.
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| Observer New shearwater sounds awesome - look forward to your review.
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| SeaAnemone I'm jealous- when I saw that tour I was dying to make it work, but there's nothing nearby me.
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 | Electric City It's fantastic, but not what "Colouring of Pigeons" would have you think it is. To be honest, it reminds me a lot more of Flashbulb in that it tells its story in mostly short electronic compositions as opposed to long lyrical pieces. It's still very powerful, just not the "opera" you'd expect it to be.
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 | liledman good work on getting contrib man
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| joshuatree late but grats on promotion, completely deserved and shoulda happened a while ago
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| qwe3 DUDE well done, glad you got contrib
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| Electric City congrats on finally being promoted, looooong overdue
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| Observer Yeah, I'll admit that I'm a little depressed about it. I think I suffered from consistency issues, and I don't think Dave thought I was ready for it either. Anyway, I'll try to get better.
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 | Waior Congratulations on the promotion, Keelan - long deserved.
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 | kingsoby1 gratz on promotion. write a ton now!
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| AggravatedYeti as always, it's two completely different mediums of storytelling; but, I've found, that turning good source material into a screenplay is easier than working with s***ty prose ;).
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| AggravatedYeti nice thing about it -- it wasn't just him doing his shtick, pleasant surprise. I really want to see The Road, but I think it's already come through my area, which sucks. Viggo is the ****ing man, and the book is amazing, so good source material to work from.
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| AggravatedYeti So I saw 'Youth In Revolt' -- pretty f'in good, like I expected a lot worse
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| liledman sweet ill give it a look. oh and ive been digging conference of the birds so far man, its good stuff.
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| Observer That's a real shame - you're a spectacular writer. Your Kid A review was hard to take in at first but was an amazing read. I saw your application for contributor, and you definitely have the writing skills for it.
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| Observer I listened to some live tracks on Youtube. It's definitely relaxing stuff, and the guitar player from that track looked really good at his playing. I could see myself getting into it in the future, though probably not right now.
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| Observer I'll do that in a bit and tell you what I think. It's a shame more people didn't comment on the review. I did a short google search, and judging from what I found, critics seemed to enjoy the album.
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| Electric City uhduhhhhhhhhhh i love it. I was thinking of reviewing it too, it's fantastic
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 | I got banned
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| You're Vaughan-Williams fan? Whole new levels of respect
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| I finally got back to your comment on my list.
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| Electric City yes that was the one. interesting film, surreal, obviously.
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| Electric City yeah I really liked Caligari. We also saw one of Dali's films, I can't remember the name though...
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| Electric City lets see... Citizen Kane, Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Scarface (the original), It Happened One Night, those were among the ones I liked.
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| Electric City it's great, just watched it a couple weeks ago for a film class
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| Electric City "Electric City - Only rates girls who take 20 minutes to cum."
I have very post rocky sex, yes
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| liledman Yeah dude I've been meaning to check some of Do Make Say Think out too. You should check out Have A Nice Life, brilliant stuff. And also I think you would like The Middle East.
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 | Douglas Just had to say his name to have me hooked ; ) hahah
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| liledman Thanks for the recs man, I appreciate it. I've mostly only heard the Gerswhin songs Oscar Peterson recorded, so I'll check that album out. I've heard a few Dave Holland songs, I think off of Conference of the Birds, and I was actually going to buy it a couple of days ago but they didn't have it haha. I think you would probably like Medeski Martin and Wood, that's if you haven't heard them already, and also Hiromi, who too few a people have heard on sputnik!
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| Douglas Hey man when you get time listen to this; ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv6QB6-QfqM and part 2. It's big band, but its a MONSTER of a track!!!
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 | Kashmir09 PS your reviews of those two albums are ace as well, well done man
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| Kashmir09 Lol of course...I'm gonna let those 4 sink in for a week or two, and they are already doing a fine job of that, as I could not even come close to picking a favorite yet. After that, depending on how intense the love is I'm gonna pick up Painful and Summer Sun probably, still gotta balance in some Built To Spill too
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| Kashmir09 Niice, yeah I've had Built To Spill's discography for awhile now and have listened to it on and off. I must say that their new album has caught my attention the most. I'm sure this will change as I do love Perfect From Now On, but yeah. As for YLT, I got Popular Songs, I Am Not Afraid Of You.., I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One, and Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out. They are such an amazing band, I can't believe how diverse they can get
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| Electric City coming. the dmst review had to compete with real life last week. I expect it up by the middle of this week
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| Kashmir09 Duuude, Built To Spill and Yo La Tengo are slowly becoming regulars for me and are both absorbing my life. Thought I'd let you know since you're a fan of both, I'd love to discuss and get some recs for those bands, cheers
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 | WatchItExplode Are we in the middle of some pissing match here?...I simply found it random that we ended up with two reviews for such obscure material in the same week
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 | Glomp I dig your reviews and ratings bro
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| WatchItExplode Now You Know...it's the only one. There's some great material on there though.
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 | Poet *gives love back*lol. :)
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