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    <title>topic Re: How can you afford it? in Community Spirit</title>
    <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/736409#M214725</link>
    <description>&lt;P&gt;I sometimes think we (including myself) need reminding that the best&amp;nbsp;computer/telephone/car/appliance/television/whatever &amp;nbsp;is the one that does everything YOU need it to do, as opposed to eveything that CAN be done.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;My children think I have a problem because all I want my mobile phone to do is make and receive phone calls, and do&amp;nbsp;the very occassional bit of internet banking for when I am caught off guard by an unexpected bargain!&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I contacted my phone's manufacturer and my service carrier recently, to find out how to disable messaging (text and voice), because I don't use my mobile daily and worry about people thinking they have left me a message which I may not see for a fortnight. I am not a luddite, but I carry a mobile for my convenience, not as a camera, social tool, amusement tool, or anything else. Both places told me that this is not possible (I don't believe that for a moment - it's obviosly about revenue). So I said, then the only reliable way I can prevent messages is to tell people I don't have a mobile? Both organisations actively tried to discourage me from taking this action! Wonder why....&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I am not making any judgment about people who do want all the functions, but whatever happened to "optional extras"?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I know this is all a little off topic, but my point is that we often pay for things we don't want or need, and may never use.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Cheers,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Marina.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT color="#610669" face="comic sans ms,sans-serif"&gt;I'm not insane, and I have the psychiatric reports to prove it.....&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 08 Oct 2013 06:41:32 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>nevillesdaughter</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2013-10-08T06:41:32Z</dc:date>
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      <title>How can you afford it?</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734529#M214270</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;After being away several months, I notice many of the same faces are still spending all day posting, despite their assurances that they work. One even spent a whole day waiting until 5.30 pm before posting just to prove she is employed!!! (only people unemployed or on benefits for years would assume the average work day is still from Nine-to-Five LOL!)&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;My question is, how do you afford to&amp;nbsp;be here so much? Do you live off savings, an inheritance, divorce settlement, or do you simply chat from a library or a second hand notebook on limited internet usage?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;To get a decent computer costs at least $2000 and without good internet connection, chatting on a forum isn't even worth it, so are these regulars going into debt over the boards? Would a bank even loan or credit them enough to supplement their activites and time usage here?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;It's all very puzzling...&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2013 09:49:10 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734529#M214270</guid>
      <dc:creator>how.about.another.slice</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-10-07T09:49:10Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: How can you afford it?</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734549#M214276</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Oh dear &lt;span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:"&gt;🙂&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Some one is bored&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;TABLE&gt;&lt;TBODY&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD&gt;Date Registered&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;3 minutes ago &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD&gt;Date Last Visited&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;3 minutes ago &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD&gt;Total Messages Posted&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD&gt;1&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;/TBODY&gt;&lt;/TABLE&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2013 09:55:04 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734549#M214276</guid>
      <dc:creator>poddster</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-10-07T09:55:04Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: How can you afford it?</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734559#M214278</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;I have a rich husband.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2013 09:56:54 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734559#M214278</guid>
      <dc:creator>crystal**flake</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-10-07T09:56:54Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: How can you afford it?</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734565#M214280</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Unusual hobby you have (bothering to note that much detail about other posters) &amp;nbsp;a bit creepy and obsessive really.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I have a laptop, netbook, smart phone, that I can post from. None of those cost anywhere near $2000...what decade are you living in?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I pretend to work, but live on Govt benefits.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Way to go Crystal!!! I don't think the OP factored that into her/his choices...that is any sort of partner that has paid work out side the home and one that doesn't&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2013 10:01:49 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734565#M214280</guid>
      <dc:creator>cherry*135</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-10-07T10:01:49Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: How can you afford it?</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734567#M214281</link>
      <description>Lol, me too</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2013 09:59:41 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734567#M214281</guid>
      <dc:creator>debra9275</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-10-07T09:59:41Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: How can you afford it?</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734573#M214283</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;And some of us with high I.Q.s come to see how the other 90% interact with their peers &lt;span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:"&gt;🙂&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2013 10:00:17 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734573#M214283</guid>
      <dc:creator>poddster</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-10-07T10:00:17Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: How can you afford it?</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734577#M214284</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;I only come here when the adds are on tele&amp;nbsp;&lt;img id="smileylol" class="emoticon emoticon-smileylol" src="https://community.ebay.com.au/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-lol.png" alt="Smiley LOL" title="Smiley LOL" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2013 10:01:14 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734577#M214284</guid>
      <dc:creator>trustmee-2013</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-10-07T10:01:14Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: How can you afford it?</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734581#M214285</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;I am not rich, but this is Cheap entertainment hahaha&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2013 10:02:16 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734581#M214285</guid>
      <dc:creator>lionrose.7</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-10-07T10:02:16Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: How can you afford it?</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734583#M214286</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;Debra,I read your post as replying to Am3 at first&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2013 10:02:33 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734583#M214286</guid>
      <dc:creator>trustmee-2013</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-10-07T10:02:33Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: How can you afford it?</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734593#M214290</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;$10 p.w. for internet connection.. do you have to be rich to afford that? Cheaper than a pack of cigarettes I guess?&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2013 10:04:14 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734593#M214290</guid>
      <dc:creator>cherry*135</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-10-07T10:04:14Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: How can you afford it?</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734597#M214292</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Should have asked&amp;nbsp;&lt;A target="_self" href="https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Are-we-getting-more-stupid/m-p/732787#U732787"&gt;here&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2013 10:05:21 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734597#M214292</guid>
      <dc:creator>freakiness</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-10-07T10:05:21Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: How can you afford it?</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734605#M214294</link>
      <description>Eeek! I just posted a similar theory to poddy's on the smart thread. I think I am spending too much time here.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;I've been on LSL. &lt;span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:"&gt;🙂&lt;/span&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2013 10:07:05 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734605#M214294</guid>
      <dc:creator>*elizabeths-mum*</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-10-07T10:07:05Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: How can you afford it?</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734607#M214295</link>
      <description>&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;HR /&gt;@am*3 wrote:&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I pretend to work, but live on Govt benefits.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;Thought so.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2013 10:07:09 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734607#M214295</guid>
      <dc:creator>how.about.another.slice</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-10-07T10:07:09Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: How can you afford it?</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734613#M214297</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Well, I work from home but really, my husband keeps me in the manner I have become accustomed to.............my pc is in my sewing room................ I do sometimes use my mobile device but rarely................&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;what about you, OP?&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2013 10:08:43 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734613#M214297</guid>
      <dc:creator>azureline**</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-10-07T10:08:43Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: How can you afford it?</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734617#M214299</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;I also have a comfy feux leather computer chair I love to sit on&amp;nbsp;&lt;img id="smileylol" class="emoticon emoticon-smileylol" src="https://community.ebay.com.au/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-lol.png" alt="Smiley LOL" title="Smiley LOL" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2013 10:09:11 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734617#M214299</guid>
      <dc:creator>trustmee-2013</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-10-07T10:09:11Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: How can you afford it?</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734633#M214412</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Sometimes we have to search into things to unearth lies.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2013 10:13:52 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734633#M214412</guid>
      <dc:creator>cherry*135</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-10-07T10:13:52Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: How can you afford it?</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734639#M214413</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Why would anyone need a $2000 computer to post on a forum? LOL LOL LOL.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2013 10:14:50 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734639#M214413</guid>
      <dc:creator>cherry*135</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-10-07T10:14:50Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: How can you afford it?</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734641#M214414</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;EM&gt;LOL, you must be easily pleased if you think less than&amp;nbsp;$2000 buys you a great computer!&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;tell us about your set up?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;mine (quad core) cost me a grand and the specs are big everything&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2013 10:14:52 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734641#M214414</guid>
      <dc:creator>joz*garage</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-10-07T10:14:52Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: How can you afford it?</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734651#M214415</link>
      <description>&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;a href="https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/161335"&gt;@joz*garage&lt;/a&gt; wrote:&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;EM&gt;LOL, you must be easily pleased if you think less than&amp;nbsp;$2000 buys you a great computer!&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;tell us about your set up?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;mine (quad core) cost me a grand and the specs are big everything&lt;/P&gt;&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;P&gt;They are living in the early 2000's I think.. not many people pay $2000 for computer/laptop these days.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2013 10:16:28 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734651#M214415</guid>
      <dc:creator>cherry*135</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-10-07T10:16:28Z</dc:date>
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      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734653#M214312</link>
      <description>&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;a href="https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/437353"&gt;@poddster&lt;/a&gt; wrote:&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;P&gt;Oh dear &lt;span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:"&gt;🙂&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Some one is bored&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;TABLE&gt;&lt;TBODY&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD&gt;Date Registered&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;3 minutes ago &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD&gt;Date Last Visited&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;3 minutes ago &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD&gt;Total Messages Posted&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD&gt;1&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;/TBODY&gt;&lt;/TABLE&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;HR /&gt;They must have got bored with their quiche id. And their toowoomba tart id, and their baby.jane.begins id, and the curse of pretoria id, and the id's that are too vulgar to repeat.&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;IMG align="middle" border="0" title="troll" alt="troll" src="https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/9259iD6BAA1D2D7411EA6/image-size/small?v=mpbl-1&amp;amp;px=-1" /&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2013 10:16:35 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>the*scarlet*pimpernel</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-10-07T10:16:35Z</dc:date>
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