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oh wow
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okay night [ __ ] Stars Amy Adams as a
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mom she is h a mom who loves her son but
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she can't help having dark thoughts very
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dark thoughts about where she is in her
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life about the world about what she
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thinks about her husband
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and her husband played by scoot McNary
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is a dutiful husband but not really
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great on being a dad that picks up the
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slack she spends
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247 with her young son he's a
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toddler like you know three or four
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years yeah twoy old two to three your
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range which needs all kinds of attention
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bathes him at night but she's let
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herself go to the point where she
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doesn't shower for a week she she feels
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heavy she has weird like hair growing on
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her body and this constant attention to
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the sun drives her mad because she has
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memories of her life before her child
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when she was an aspiring and revered
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artist who had a gallery show whatnot
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she finds it difficult to even relate to
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other uh women of her age that don't
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have kids and this is by far in terms of
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mainstream movies because it's from uh
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search light pictures one of the
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weirdest films I have seen this year her
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character is unhinged thing saying
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things about being a mother that should
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be considered unspeakable thoughts
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and it's all played as kind of
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comedy and she's going through what I
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would say is a metamorphosis to how to
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deal with being a mom her memory of her
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past life as an artist what she
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sacrificed and gave up and maybe
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resenting her husband for being able to
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just have a you know he can go out and
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work and whatnot and has kind of a life
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and
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he's I I'll say
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on the comedy side there's some very
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clever things in this that I quite liked
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and there are things I really really
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detested really detested and I think a
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lot of people will be turned off by this
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because of maybe some of her unhinged
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thoughts about motherhood but uh I I
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would not write it off because she Lo
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she loves her son she loves her son but
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she's just grappling with
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what she sacrificed she ends up becoming
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almost feral where is she turning into a
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werewolf in a way no well is she turning
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into a dog she turning into a dog she's
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she literally in the movie grows six
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nipples right so there's some weird
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she's growing think she's growing a tail
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as well she's goes is she growing a tail
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out of her back so part of it is body
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horror I think um which the movie the
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the the substance really dealt with in a
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great way but it's sort of body horror
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being a woman who sacrificed a career or
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a a son and then what that means and
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then dealing with the husband there's a
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great Montage sequence where um her
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husband says hey let me you know you
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rest I'll give him a bath goes to give
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their son a bath and every five minutes
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he's saying hey honey can you warm up a
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towel in the in the dryer hey honey
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where's this hey honey where's that and
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it made me feel like look I was a young
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dad I remember like I did my I changed a
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lot of diapers I did my best to help and
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I felt that he did not understand what
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she goes through and she finally brings
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a towel and says I do all this without
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you here you know so he there were some
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there were some things that I related to
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in the upbringing of toddlers which is
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not easy but I it's weird I'm in two
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minds about this movie there Parts I
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actually thought were just God awful at
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the same time I thought it was really
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clever and dark this movie really is
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made
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for who the lead character liberal
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feminist that's for Liberal feminist it
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really is it's um it's it's made for
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them specifically and she's not there's
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not even I'm looking at the cast I don't
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remember the name the cast She's listed
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as mother scoop McNary is listed as
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husband yeah and everyone else has names
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yeah yeah so anyways I I'm a almost bare
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recommend because of how weird this
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movie is and I like the title night
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[ __ ] and she even says it in the movie
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like she's like when she gets like she
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can say what she wants to her husband
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she's she says I'm a night [ __ ] you
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know she's a [ __ ] so a bare recommend
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from me with a a warning that this movie
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is one of the weirdest mainstream movies
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of the year they describe it as a horror
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comedy I'd say more of a comedy more of
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a body horror the co the horror is not a
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big aspect Allan what did you think of
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night [ __ ] yeah I should probably set
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this up by saying I'm a man and I'm a
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father and I'm a husband and I really
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didn't like this movie
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you know I mean I wrestled with it too
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because watching it uh at the end of it
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thinking to myself well maybe I'm just
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missing the art of this film or what it
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or what it wants to say uh I'm
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definitely not the target audience of
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this movie but I remember the first half
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of the movie uh it's it it was like this
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woman hates being a mother absolutely
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hates everything about being a mother
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and it's not like the kid is a horrible
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kid the the the the son is adorable yes
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the way he acts he he does all the
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cutest things that two you know
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two-year-olds aren't the cutest things
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in the world aren't aren't the most
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lovable creatures of the world but but
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in this one they really portrayed the
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son as being a very cute and adorable
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kid uh who you know who just wants to
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have fun and and gets into a little bit
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of trouble but it's not like the kid is
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screaming constantly running around the
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house defying orders uh and and what
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that told me was she hates being a
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mother even to the most cute uh lovable
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uh easyto rais child you can ever
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imagine and then um and then the
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conflict that occurs between the husband
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and wife um you know the ending the
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ending saddened me because it was like
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really that's that's why you know that's
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why what happens happens and uh it's
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like couldn't we try a little bit harder
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couldn't we talk to people you know and
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this is again this is coming from a
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father and a husband uh you know the and
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watching this play out um and so I the
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the first half just really turned me off
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and they they were going for some
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redeeming value uh redeeming values some
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things to kind of redeem her character
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but at that point it just felt like late
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and uh it was it it seemed forced in a
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way like the the you know there's in
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movies there's this ultimate moment
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where the character changes and uh I
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just didn't buy it at that point in in
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any way that would make me want to say
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this is a great movie or a good movie
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one worth recommending
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so get what they were going for uh and
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yeah as a man and a husband I am not
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recommending this movie that that's the
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best way I could say it I give it a
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recommend mainly for Amy Adams
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performance and I'll tell you what she
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looks terrible in this movie she looks I
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mean she is gained weight no you the the
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word she was Brave she was Brave that's
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what you say she looks God awful she
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Brave that's right she's
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brave but it's my memory of knowing what
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Amy Adams looks like she's an attractive
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woman and she does not she looks bad
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throughout this film and lets herself go
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and I think she really embraced the part
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so I give it a bare
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recommend you give it a warning and you
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do not recommend I do not recommend it I
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also uh we are supposed to submit our
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nominations for the critic's Choice
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Awards uh and there's one category of
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young actor and I'm wondering does that
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kid uh nominate this kid I love this kid
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I love this child uh can we nominate
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this child uh being two years old
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in the CCA
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nominations well uh we'll we shall see
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but I think Amy Adams for being brave is
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probably GNA be nominated so
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