Fatal Shooting at Chicago Luau Party: One Woman Dead, Eight Injured

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Welcome to No Tears for Black.
Girls.

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A true crime series created,
written and produced by

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award-winning writer Jon
Reedberg and hosted by Samantha

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Paul.
Rare to have a mass shooting in

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Chicago where nine people are
killed.

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Even more unusual when all
victims were women, one of them

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died shortly after being
transported here to Mount Sinai

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Hospital and another victim, a
28 year old woman suffered 8

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gunshot wounds.
She is right now inside fighting

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for her life as community
leaders and that Ward's Alder

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person are now imploring the
community and the public to come

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forward with any information
that could lead to the shooter.

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Natasha Graham was devastated.
Another tragedy struck her

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family as she learned that her
daughter, Kanisha Gaines, had

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been fatally shot during a
neighborhood celebration.

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She was only 21 years old.
It happened in the early hours

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of a Sunday morning in July 2023
in Chicago's North Lawndale

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area.
Kenisha and several other women

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attended a luau themed birthday
party on South Keeler Ave.

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They were wearing colorful Lays
and enjoying themselves when

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suddenly a black Jeep drove up.
Several gunmen emerged from the

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vehicle and started shooting,
turning what was a festive

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gathering into a scene of chaos
and horror.

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Kenisha was hit in the face by a
bullet and died from her

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injuries.
Among the victims, aged between

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20 and 33, one woman was
critically injured with eight

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gunshot wounds.
The neighborhood was left

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reeling from the shock, scared
by every unexpected noise.

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For Natasha, this was a painful
deja vu.

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She had already lost her 18 year
old son Kashawn to gun violence

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back in 2019.
Kanisha's two young children, a

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three-year old son and a two
year old daughter, would have to

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grow up without their mother.
Natasha.

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'S grief turned into anger as
she spoke out against the

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rampant gun violence tearing
through communities.

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She voiced her frustration over
the easy access to guns and the

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carelessness of those using
them.

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Amidst her profound sadness, she
called for action and change,

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hoping to prevent more senseless
deaths and spare other families

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from experiencing the same
heartbreak.

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Here's a live stream.
Of family.

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Members sharing their.
Thoughts and feelings about

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kenisha's tragic murder what to
God these little girls playing

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in her face and I'm going to
playback I ain't going to lie to

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you I'm going to playback Hello
ain't no way mother don't know a

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God thing y'all know what the
going on They don't nobody want

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to talk don't nobody want to say
something to.

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Share We.
All that y'all weird as hell but

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don't want to say nothing then
about go block me and she's like

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what you what you blocking me
for what you feeling some type

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of way because I'm feeling some
type of way about my niece folk

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holla got here.
Y'all know how I'm coming.

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I only do this laugh shit when
the only time I get on laugh is

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when y'all make me feel some
type of way.

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Stop getting on here, talk my
mom and niece and you know you

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ain't gonna talk about what
happened to her.

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It's kind of weird to me how
your weird.

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Block me though.
How you block me and you mad

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'cause I feel some type of way
baby?

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Scratch.
Your ass and get.

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Glad bitch.
I ain't going to even lie to you

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though.
Everybody know what it is with

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me.
Y'all weird to see you?

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I swear to God, if you want to
fuck Anisha, I'll send it to the

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moon.
She ain't got no best friend.

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All that she did, she got family
in there.

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She ain't got no more friend
that that's what it is, 'cause

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all y'all weird people, y'all
know what the going on, ain't

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nobody talking, but y'all want
to be weird on Facebook making

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statuses is.
I don't like none of y'all to be

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honest with you.
I wish my niece had to stayed

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against it, stayed away from all
y'all, but she did.

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She ain't listen to me, but if
she had to listen to me, bro,

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she wouldn't have been around.
She wouldn't have been around

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that everybody can face their
facts and all of that we 3 for

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three all of that but a three
for three ain't no snitching bro

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you ain't snitching if you tell
them what happened to your 3 for

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three.
She went in the streets come on

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now that's a different story.
If she was in the streets bro

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come on talk to bro.
She went in the streets y'all

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weird as hell.
She went in the streets.

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She know what the what's going
on you put them off you bring

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them off to the scene.
You think they don't know what

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the going on the got here?
Bro you weird as hell G she know

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what the was going on got here.
She died because another decided

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to make a bad bad decision and
they backfired.

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That's what the happened got
here Ain't no setups.

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I ain't never say a motherfucker
set my niece up.

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Let's be clear while running
around saying that I ain't never

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say I'm upset my niece up.
I said I'm up, set that girl up.

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That's what I said and it
backfired.

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Now we can talk about it now
it's all out there now.

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Now let's be clear cause none of
the that was hanging on my knees

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standing in the crowd with her.
She wants shut down.

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Shut the fuck up.
Talking to me.

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What's up?
I was humble enough.

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She gone in the ground now.
What's up y'all real stupid?

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Real stupid, right?
Weird people sitting up here

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talking all that weird get you a
best friend you this y'all that

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y'all this but ain't nobody came
to talk to us.

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But I heard my got pictures.
I heard my got I heard my got

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text messages.
So most why we ain't getting why

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we ain't know so weird.
Sorry, I'm weird all that today

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get all that today.
What's up?

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The whole screenshots and they
falls but I I got to beg them up

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for it.
I got to beg them up for I asked

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for this days mom said they
shouldn't they fall since the

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day it happened.
But these ain't drops up until I

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start begging for that.
Got here.

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Y'all weird as hell.
Come don't get to telling me

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about how I feel 'cause I feel
some type of way 'cause y'all

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I'm moving the right way.
Man.

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Ain't gonna never tell the
police.

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We have a better chance of
finding this without ourselves.

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They'll never talk to the police
my scary than a mother talk

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about some.
Well, I don't want my name on

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black and white.
What the fuck is you talking

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about?
Tired of being humble kind of it

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is what it is.
They're gonna.

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Always scream all this.
Best friend is best friend that

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get so weird.
Oh daddy heard this shit from my

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from the first self that's in
the hospital bed still to this

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day.
Yo back though I'm not trying to

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hear none of that.
My time out black and white is

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the difference in snitching and
being loyal.

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So obviously you're not loyal to
my sister little girl.

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Obviously you're not.
You ain't got no loyal bone in

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your mother, so if you didn't
want to talk to us, you could've

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talked to the police.
But you don't want your name so

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you not shot for real.
Yo, this is great 'cause I swear

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to God on my kids.
Oh my dad, mother on my daddy.

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Mother saved your all day.
I was on your all day and I told

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you to your face when my sister
was going in the ground.

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You was showing fake love.
You ain't want to go with your

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moo.
How you know what's up with me?

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You fake yourself.
Gee, on my kids, I can't see you

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on no day.
Keep talking about not today, on

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no day.
You don't even come around right

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now on my kids.
Literally.

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I don't feel that bro.
God, that's why I'm mad.

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TT you should have let me go
with my mood because this ain't

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even going to come back around.
I'm Jesus, this ain't going to

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come back around.
This going to be hard now.

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You blocked me.
Why you blocked me?

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You blocked me too.
I'm God at the end of the day.

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Oh my kids, you can't say we
acting funny.

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You can't say we bogus another
day.

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Let me tell you why 'cause you
went to the hospital and talked

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to this girl for one and show
her all type of screenshots of

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take for you to come out.
They don't know who did it or

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whoever, whatever.
We don't know this.

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We ain't got this.
Who can't be my sister, best

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friend and any rocking with you.
I'm not rocking with them.

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That behind this little girl
right here all you talking

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about?
Every last one of you.

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Every last one of them.
I'm not playing all that at the

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end of the day.
My mom and dad when I was 13 and

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I know how I feel to live
without a Mama.

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These kids, three or two, so
they got a whole life ahead of

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them without a Mama.
Ain't nobody gonna treat them

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kids like they Mama gonna treat
them cuz ain't nobody treat me

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how my mom would have treated
me.

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You tell me how.
Yeah, we can do whatever.

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Me, I can do whatever back
close.

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I can buy shoes, all that.
I'm still not them kids Mama.

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At the end of the day I'm still
not them kids.

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My mom like ain't see and they
like that's just sad bro.

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Y'all don't know what the my
little sister also real girl

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bounced up when she had the
kids, her kids What's her world

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'cause you talking about
treasure was sad all that day

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was sad her face.
She cried all that day.

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Keep Mario was sad too but
treasure that little girl that

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shit gonna hurt when she get
older.

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Bro that shit bogus.
At the end of the day, you not

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loyal.
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