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		<title>By: neenee</title>
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		<dc:creator>neenee</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:44:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>MJ WROTE THIS TO U HATERS LEST U CAN READ IT 
MOTHERFUCKERS!!! I DONT SEE HOW HE COULD CALL U 
HATIN ASS BITCHES DEAR IT MAKES ME SICK THAT 
HES SO NICE TO U HE WRITES:
 PLEASE READ IF YOU 
HAVE A HEART U WILL UNDERSTAND Dear people, I 

would like to ask you a question - the question 

WHY. Why is there so much poverty in the world? 

Why so many wars? Why so much torture and 

agony? And why must children die and innocent 

suffer? I don't understand it. Do you 

understand it?
I want to help. I want to make people happy, 

and may it be just for a moment. That is what 

gives my life a sense. Don't you understand me? 

What did I do that you judge me? Are you really 

envious of me? You don't have to. I wouldn't 

wish you to be me…
Maybe you just want me to confess my 'guilt':
Yes, it is true, I do love children! But not 

the way you want it to be. I love them from the 

bottom of my heart. Because children don't make 

wars. Children have never hurt me. It makes me 

happy to look in their shining eyes. Is it a 

crime wanting to be happy and want to make 

others happy? Many of them who visit me are 

going to die soon, of cancer or other terrible 

diseases. I won't let you forbid me through 

your arrogance to give them just one happy day!
Yes, it is true that I had plastic surgeries! 

Do you know what it feels like?! How often did 

I have to wake up in pain! How often I didn't 

know what would expect me when I look into the 

mirror! How often did I cry when I did it! 

Don't you see that I'm punishing myself for 

that I cannot cope with my face - and with 

myself! Why do you also punish me for it?

Yes, it is true, once I was black! You get 

darker in the sun and get admired for that. But 

I am sick and you hit me for it. The sun you 

love so much can kill me. In former times I 

loved to be outside in the light, too, now I 

can nearly only go out at night. And you make 

your fun out of it. If I hadn't become the 

Michael Jackson you know today, then I would 

also be like that: I would be a white black 

with curls and a thick niggernose for which 

everybody would tease me. Well, now you tease 

me because of my little nose. Maybe I would 

already be dead because I couldn't protect 

myself so good as I can today. Would you prefer 

it when I was dead? Or when I had never 

existed? But then you wouldn't have my music! 

Would you like to do without 'Billie Jean'?! My 

music you love though, don't you? Just not me. 

But I create the music to make you happy.
You torture me with your disgraceful words. 

Words can sometimes hurt so much more than 

punchs. Often I sit in an edge and cry. I ask 

God for what I have to suffer, what a reason 

I've given you. Cause I never did harm to 

anyone. I am afraid of you 'cause you've hurt 

me so badly. And I don't even defend myself. I 

simply hide behind my masks. Oh, how I hate 

these masks! Under them I can hardly breathe. 

But I have no choice, it's the only way to 

protect myself. But you don't like it when I 

protect myself. You'd prefer to kick a 

defenceless man in his face. but this favour I 

won't do you. I don't need to be ashamed for 

anything I've done. And as I can see at you, 

dear Unknown there are people who understand my 

message.
My friends and me, we don't go into the war 

with tanks. We come with sunflowers to all of 

you even though you laugh at us and snap our 

flowers off. Maybe you will understand not 

before not only the flowers but the whole sun 

goes out. With my music, with what I do I would 

like to bring a light into the world. But is it 

necessary that I kill myself until someone 

believes me? And until someone believes me that 

I just want to do good things and that I suffer 

from your hate? But then you would be outraged: 

"And the children?!" Particularly you would say 

that, you who would love the most to take my 

children away from me. You say they aren't my 

children. You say I couldn't educate them. How 

do you want to know this?! And is it important 

then what blood is flowing through their veins 

when I would die for them? Your jealousy and 

your hate make you blind for what love means.
You don't know me, nevertheless you have 

already judged me! You, those reporters who 

hammer me at the cross in the morning, you 

listen to my music in the evening! That is not 

fair! You are not interested in what you write 

if it just attracts readers and causes 

headlines. But my name is enough to attract the 

people. Why is it always necessary to denounce 

me? Why don't you write something positive, 

there you wouldn't have to search so long! Why 

do I have to be 'Wacko Jacko'? Can't you see 

that the only one I'm hurting is myself?! You 

hunt me like I was a piece of cattle. Isn't 

there anybody who sees that I'm also a human 

being?! Where do you have your heart? Where do 

you have your mercy? Where do you have your 

love?
If just one out of ten people who get this 

letter tries to understand me, already then my 

life is it worth being lived.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>MJ WROTE THIS TO U HATERS LEST U CAN READ IT<br />
MOTHERFUCKERS!!! I DONT SEE HOW HE COULD CALL U<br />
HATIN ASS BITCHES DEAR IT MAKES ME SICK THAT<br />
HES SO NICE TO U HE WRITES:<br />
 PLEASE READ IF YOU<br />
HAVE A HEART U WILL UNDERSTAND Dear people, I </p>
<p>would like to ask you a question - the question </p>
<p>WHY. Why is there so much poverty in the world? </p>
<p>Why so many wars? Why so much torture and </p>
<p>agony? And why must children die and innocent </p>
<p>suffer? I don&#8217;t understand it. Do you </p>
<p>understand it?<br />
I want to help. I want to make people happy, </p>
<p>and may it be just for a moment. That is what </p>
<p>gives my life a sense. Don&#8217;t you understand me? </p>
<p>What did I do that you judge me? Are you really </p>
<p>envious of me? You don&#8217;t have to. I wouldn&#8217;t </p>
<p>wish you to be me…<br />
Maybe you just want me to confess my &#8216;guilt&#8217;:<br />
Yes, it is true, I do love children! But not </p>
<p>the way you want it to be. I love them from the </p>
<p>bottom of my heart. Because children don&#8217;t make </p>
<p>wars. Children have never hurt me. It makes me </p>
<p>happy to look in their shining eyes. Is it a </p>
<p>crime wanting to be happy and want to make </p>
<p>others happy? Many of them who visit me are </p>
<p>going to die soon, of cancer or other terrible </p>
<p>diseases. I won&#8217;t let you forbid me through </p>
<p>your arrogance to give them just one happy day!<br />
Yes, it is true that I had plastic surgeries! </p>
<p>Do you know what it feels like?! How often did </p>
<p>I have to wake up in pain! How often I didn&#8217;t </p>
<p>know what would expect me when I look into the </p>
<p>mirror! How often did I cry when I did it! </p>
<p>Don&#8217;t you see that I&#8217;m punishing myself for </p>
<p>that I cannot cope with my face - and with </p>
<p>myself! Why do you also punish me for it?</p>
<p>Yes, it is true, once I was black! You get </p>
<p>darker in the sun and get admired for that. But </p>
<p>I am sick and you hit me for it. The sun you </p>
<p>love so much can kill me. In former times I </p>
<p>loved to be outside in the light, too, now I </p>
<p>can nearly only go out at night. And you make </p>
<p>your fun out of it. If I hadn&#8217;t become the </p>
<p>Michael Jackson you know today, then I would </p>
<p>also be like that: I would be a white black </p>
<p>with curls and a thick niggernose for which </p>
<p>everybody would tease me. Well, now you tease </p>
<p>me because of my little nose. Maybe I would </p>
<p>already be dead because I couldn&#8217;t protect </p>
<p>myself so good as I can today. Would you prefer </p>
<p>it when I was dead? Or when I had never </p>
<p>existed? But then you wouldn&#8217;t have my music! </p>
<p>Would you like to do without &#8216;Billie Jean&#8217;?! My </p>
<p>music you love though, don&#8217;t you? Just not me. </p>
<p>But I create the music to make you happy.<br />
You torture me with your disgraceful words. </p>
<p>Words can sometimes hurt so much more than </p>
<p>punchs. Often I sit in an edge and cry. I ask </p>
<p>God for what I have to suffer, what a reason </p>
<p>I&#8217;ve given you. Cause I never did harm to </p>
<p>anyone. I am afraid of you &#8217;cause you&#8217;ve hurt </p>
<p>me so badly. And I don&#8217;t even defend myself. I </p>
<p>simply hide behind my masks. Oh, how I hate </p>
<p>these masks! Under them I can hardly breathe. </p>
<p>But I have no choice, it&#8217;s the only way to </p>
<p>protect myself. But you don&#8217;t like it when I </p>
<p>protect myself. You&#8217;d prefer to kick a </p>
<p>defenceless man in his face. but this favour I </p>
<p>won&#8217;t do you. I don&#8217;t need to be ashamed for </p>
<p>anything I&#8217;ve done. And as I can see at you, </p>
<p>dear Unknown there are people who understand my </p>
<p>message.<br />
My friends and me, we don&#8217;t go into the war </p>
<p>with tanks. We come with sunflowers to all of </p>
<p>you even though you laugh at us and snap our </p>
<p>flowers off. Maybe you will understand not </p>
<p>before not only the flowers but the whole sun </p>
<p>goes out. With my music, with what I do I would </p>
<p>like to bring a light into the world. But is it </p>
<p>necessary that I kill myself until someone </p>
<p>believes me? And until someone believes me that </p>
<p>I just want to do good things and that I suffer </p>
<p>from your hate? But then you would be outraged: </p>
<p>&#8220;And the children?!&#8221; Particularly you would say </p>
<p>that, you who would love the most to take my </p>
<p>children away from me. You say they aren&#8217;t my </p>
<p>children. You say I couldn&#8217;t educate them. How </p>
<p>do you want to know this?! And is it important </p>
<p>then what blood is flowing through their veins </p>
<p>when I would die for them? Your jealousy and </p>
<p>your hate make you blind for what love means.<br />
You don&#8217;t know me, nevertheless you have </p>
<p>already judged me! You, those reporters who </p>
<p>hammer me at the cross in the morning, you </p>
<p>listen to my music in the evening! That is not </p>
<p>fair! You are not interested in what you write </p>
<p>if it just attracts readers and causes </p>
<p>headlines. But my name is enough to attract the </p>
<p>people. Why is it always necessary to denounce </p>
<p>me? Why don&#8217;t you write something positive, </p>
<p>there you wouldn&#8217;t have to search so long! Why </p>
<p>do I have to be &#8216;Wacko Jacko&#8217;? Can&#8217;t you see </p>
<p>that the only one I&#8217;m hurting is myself?! You </p>
<p>hunt me like I was a piece of cattle. Isn&#8217;t </p>
<p>there anybody who sees that I&#8217;m also a human </p>
<p>being?! Where do you have your heart? Where do </p>
<p>you have your mercy? Where do you have your </p>
<p>love?<br />
If just one out of ten people who get this </p>
<p>letter tries to understand me, already then my </p>
<p>life is it worth being lived.</p>
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		<title>By: sexycream21</title>
		<link>http://thestartingfive.net/2009/06/29/even-when-michael-jackson-dies-hate-becomes-the-new-love/#comment-29223</link>
		<dc:creator>sexycream21</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:26:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>innocent want proof heres your proof

THERES A WOMEN THAT STAYED THE NIGHT AT NEVERLAND SHE SAID THE 

BOYS BEGGED TO SLEEP IN THE ROOM WITH HIM AFTER MAKING FALSE 

CLAIMS AGAINST MICHAEL THE SAME BOYS BEGGED AND PLEADED TO SLEEP 

IN MICHAEL'S ROOM WHEN HE WAS NOT THERE RIGHT AFTER SAYING THAT 

HE MOLESTED THEM I DONT KNOW ABOUT YALL BUT THAT DOESN'T SOUND 

RIGHT TO ME SHE EVEN WROTE THEM A LETTER SAYING THAT AFTER 

MICHAEL HELPED THEM AND BECAME FRIENDS THEY TURN RIGHT AROUND AND 

STABBED HIM IN THE BACK WITH LIES FOR MONEY AND I FOR ONE KNOW 

THAT ITS NOT MICHAEL'S FOUGHT IF THEY HAD BEEN POOR HE IS 

GENEROUS HE WOULD HAVE GAVE THEM MONEY BUT THE WAY THEY WENT TO 

GET GET IT WAS WRONG I WOULD NEVER TREAT A FRIEND LIKE THAT THOSE 

LIER'S Discuss Me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcXi3HHTIOY&#38;feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcXi3HHTIOY&#38;feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lVUvOLdg50&#38;feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlaVZw5h6YE&#38;feature=related

http://mjjdreamworld.yuku.com/topic/629?page=2

http://mjjdreamworld.yuku.com/topic/629?page=3

listen to MJ he clearly says that he let them have the bed and 

slept on the floor and theres nothing wrong with that

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQwY4ll1Kfc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpA0r0Lz2zc&#38;feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlaVZw5h6YE&#38;feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpQo4yWdaso&#38;feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=084VrfNpZJU&#38;feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_0zxCCGQ6Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX0ItcAIeIY&#38;feature=related</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>innocent want proof heres your proof</p>
<p>THERES A WOMEN THAT STAYED THE NIGHT AT NEVERLAND SHE SAID THE </p>
<p>BOYS BEGGED TO SLEEP IN THE ROOM WITH HIM AFTER MAKING FALSE </p>
<p>CLAIMS AGAINST MICHAEL THE SAME BOYS BEGGED AND PLEADED TO SLEEP </p>
<p>IN MICHAEL&#8217;S ROOM WHEN HE WAS NOT THERE RIGHT AFTER SAYING THAT </p>
<p>HE MOLESTED THEM I DONT KNOW ABOUT YALL BUT THAT DOESN&#8217;T SOUND </p>
<p>RIGHT TO ME SHE EVEN WROTE THEM A LETTER SAYING THAT AFTER </p>
<p>MICHAEL HELPED THEM AND BECAME FRIENDS THEY TURN RIGHT AROUND AND </p>
<p>STABBED HIM IN THE BACK WITH LIES FOR MONEY AND I FOR ONE KNOW </p>
<p>THAT ITS NOT MICHAEL&#8217;S FOUGHT IF THEY HAD BEEN POOR HE IS </p>
<p>GENEROUS HE WOULD HAVE GAVE THEM MONEY BUT THE WAY THEY WENT TO </p>
<p>GET GET IT WAS WRONG I WOULD NEVER TREAT A FRIEND LIKE THAT THOSE </p>
<p>LIER&#8217;S Discuss Me</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcXi3HHTIOY&amp;feature=related" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcXi3HHTIOY&amp;feature=related</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcXi3HHTIOY&amp;feature=related" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcXi3HHTIOY&amp;feature=related</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lVUvOLdg50&amp;feature=related" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lVUvOLdg50&amp;feature=related</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlaVZw5h6YE&amp;feature=related" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlaVZw5h6YE&amp;feature=related</a></p>
<p><a href="http://mjjdreamworld.yuku.com/topic/629?page=2" rel="nofollow">http://mjjdreamworld.yuku.com/topic/629?page=2</a></p>
<p><a href="http://mjjdreamworld.yuku.com/topic/629?page=3" rel="nofollow">http://mjjdreamworld.yuku.com/topic/629?page=3</a></p>
<p>listen to MJ he clearly says that he let them have the bed and </p>
<p>slept on the floor and theres nothing wrong with that</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQwY4ll1Kfc" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQwY4ll1Kfc</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpA0r0Lz2zc&amp;feature=related" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpA0r0Lz2zc&amp;feature=related</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlaVZw5h6YE&amp;feature=related" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlaVZw5h6YE&amp;feature=related</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpQo4yWdaso&amp;feature=related" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpQo4yWdaso&amp;feature=related</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=084VrfNpZJU&amp;feature=related" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=084VrfNpZJU&amp;feature=related</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_0zxCCGQ6Y" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_0zxCCGQ6Y</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX0ItcAIeIY&amp;feature=related" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX0ItcAIeIY&amp;feature=related</a></p>
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		<title>By: Matthew Fudge</title>
		<link>http://thestartingfive.net/2009/06/29/even-when-michael-jackson-dies-hate-becomes-the-new-love/#comment-27764</link>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Fudge</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:50:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Can't wait to hear Paul Mooney's take on what happened.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Can&#8217;t wait to hear Paul Mooney&#8217;s take on what happened.</p>
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		<title>By: Matthew Fudge</title>
		<link>http://thestartingfive.net/2009/06/29/even-when-michael-jackson-dies-hate-becomes-the-new-love/#comment-27762</link>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Fudge</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:46:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>"And furthermore….. Lil’ Wayne…… (keep in mind i’m gonna curse)……. WHAT IN THE FUCK IS YOUR FUCKING ASS THINKING ABOUT? Performing that song with the world watching? And then having the nerve to put pre-teen girls on stage? You have got to be outside your mind. This is what happens when there’s no one around an artist to say, “Na Man. Not like this. Not tonight.”

Yet the world will come to an end if a Don Imus or Michael Richards shows their behind.  Like I've  been saying for the longest, no one will respect us if we don't respect and check ourselves and each other.  Obama getting elected doesn't mean the race is over.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;And furthermore….. Lil’ Wayne…… (keep in mind i’m gonna curse)……. WHAT IN THE FUCK IS YOUR FUCKING ASS THINKING ABOUT? Performing that song with the world watching? And then having the nerve to put pre-teen girls on stage? You have got to be outside your mind. This is what happens when there’s no one around an artist to say, “Na Man. Not like this. Not tonight.”</p>
<p>Yet the world will come to an end if a Don Imus or Michael Richards shows their behind.  Like I&#8217;ve  been saying for the longest, no one will respect us if we don&#8217;t respect and check ourselves and each other.  Obama getting elected doesn&#8217;t mean the race is over.</p>
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		<title>By: Matthew Fudge</title>
		<link>http://thestartingfive.net/2009/06/29/even-when-michael-jackson-dies-hate-becomes-the-new-love/#comment-27722</link>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Fudge</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:39:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Very well put, Miz.  We need to make black and white people for the programming that winds up on BET, but we also need to check ourselves as well.  I'll look in the mirror.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Very well put, Miz.  We need to make black and white people for the programming that winds up on BET, but we also need to check ourselves as well.  I&#8217;ll look in the mirror.</p>
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		<title>By: MODI</title>
		<link>http://thestartingfive.net/2009/06/29/even-when-michael-jackson-dies-hate-becomes-the-new-love/#comment-27635</link>
		<dc:creator>MODI</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:28:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>mizzo, I hadn't watched BET in years (I watch very little TV besides sports anyway) and like so many others tuned in for the expected tribute. I thought New Edition was a great touch and naturally expected a great tribute and for reasons you mentioned it sucked. 

Firstly, I believe that when faced with the tough choice of "tribute" or "self-promotion", too many artists chose the latter. Jamie Foxx and his too frequent concert date announcements helped set that tone.

But to your question, I put more of this on Debra Lee dropping the ball than the artists. There were some very simple things that she could have been done that could have made it work without a lot of labor-intensiveness. 

1) Send out the memo: Any artist scheduled to sing two songs must make the second one an MJ song. If Beyonce can do Ava Maria and a Sarah McClaughlin cut, can't she send one back for Michael? Ditto for everybody...

2) I was just SURE that Jay-Z or some other rapper(s) would throw a verse or two out there in honor of Michael. Just finish your planned song and do a couple verses A cappella. Thats all. you would have brought the house down. Two days is a lifetime to create a few lines.

3) Where was the video tribute? I know I wasn't the only person expecting one.

These are all relatively simple adjustments that you can do in two days easy.  Perhaps she spent the time trying to pull off far grander things like say, get Usher on board the way she did New Edition to start. I don't have the answers, but MJ deserved so much better.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>mizzo, I hadn&#8217;t watched BET in years (I watch very little TV besides sports anyway) and like so many others tuned in for the expected tribute. I thought New Edition was a great touch and naturally expected a great tribute and for reasons you mentioned it sucked. </p>
<p>Firstly, I believe that when faced with the tough choice of &#8220;tribute&#8221; or &#8220;self-promotion&#8221;, too many artists chose the latter. Jamie Foxx and his too frequent concert date announcements helped set that tone.</p>
<p>But to your question, I put more of this on Debra Lee dropping the ball than the artists. There were some very simple things that she could have been done that could have made it work without a lot of labor-intensiveness. </p>
<p>1) Send out the memo: Any artist scheduled to sing two songs must make the second one an MJ song. If Beyonce can do Ava Maria and a Sarah McClaughlin cut, can&#8217;t she send one back for Michael? Ditto for everybody&#8230;</p>
<p>2) I was just SURE that Jay-Z or some other rapper(s) would throw a verse or two out there in honor of Michael. Just finish your planned song and do a couple verses A cappella. Thats all. you would have brought the house down. Two days is a lifetime to create a few lines.</p>
<p>3) Where was the video tribute? I know I wasn&#8217;t the only person expecting one.</p>
<p>These are all relatively simple adjustments that you can do in two days easy.  Perhaps she spent the time trying to pull off far grander things like say, get Usher on board the way she did New Edition to start. I don&#8217;t have the answers, but MJ deserved so much better.</p>
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		<description>i never doubted that you were a grumpy old man. put it this way: Sankofa is the Fit Finlay of TSF. Look it up.</description>
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