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* ToiletHumor: "Caralee threw up and pooed on my [=MacBook=]!"

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* ToiletHumor: The narrator complains that "Caralee threw up and pooed on my [=MacBook=]!"


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* UncertainDoom: The last we hear of Caralee is her being sold to a crack dealer for $50 by her babysitter.
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* LyricalDissonance: [[spoiler:The bridge is a description of how Sara murders six girls, set to a peppy cheerleading chant.]]

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* LyricalDissonance: [[spoiler:The bridge is a description of how Sara murders six girls, set to a peppy cheerleading chant. spelling the words Prom Queen.]]
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* SecondPlaceIsForLosers: "There's just no place for a princess at prom," says Sara's father... [[spoiler:so she decides to become queen by murdering her competition.]]

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* SecondPlaceIsForLosers: "There's just no place future for a princess at prom," says Sara's father... [[spoiler:so she decides to become queen by murdering her competition.]]

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%%* * DontThinkFeel: The Chorus of the song is telling the audience that if you think too hard about art, you'll tend to miss the art itself.
--> ''Think, and you'll miss it.''

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* MeaningfulName: The one who is looking to become a queen is named "Sara", which is Hebrew for princess.

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* MeaningfulName: MeaningfulName:
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The one who is looking to become a queen is named "Sara", which is Hebrew for princess.princess.
** Roquelle means "Little Rock". [[spoiler:She ends up crushed to death by a rock.]]

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* GroundhogDayLoop: What happens to the protagonist, waking up at the beginning to go through their chase once more.

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* GroundhogDayLoop: What happens to the protagonist, protagonist at the end of the song, waking up at the beginning to go through their chase once more.



* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Either the narrator is in a weird wonderland in Crazytown or he's been shot in the head and he's seconds away from dying or is stuck to repeate the events over and over again.

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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Either the narrator is in a weird wonderland wonderland/hell in Crazytown or he's been shot in the head head/some sort of disease in the brain and he's seconds away from dying or is stuck to repeate repeat the events over and over again.again until he confronts them.


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* ShoutOut: One of the lines goes, "And there's Theatre/NoExit anywhere."
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* DeterminedDefeatist: The narrator, having witnessed the story of Jules and Jessie, is very afraid of [[spoiler:losing his partner and being left alone like Jules]]. The song ends with his declaration that he's choosing love anyway, because even though everything inevitably comes to an end, love doesn't just go away.
* FirstPersonPeripheralNarrator: It's unclear how the narrator knows Jules and Jessie, but he relates their love story to us [[spoiler:and his own partner. The second half of the song subverts this by putting the narrator's own relationship with their partner at the forefront]].
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* EurekaMoment: During the bridge, Sara has a terrifying thought. [[spoiler: If there are seven other girls vying for the crown, what would happen if they were ''eliminated'' from the competition?]]

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* EurekaMoment: During the bridge, Sara has a terrifying thought. [[spoiler: If [[spoiler:If there are seven other girls vying for the crown, what would happen if they were ''eliminated'' from the competition?]]



* MundaneSolution: How is Sara's [[spoiler:murder spree finally ended? By Julie calling the cops.]]

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* MundaneSolution: How is Sara's [[spoiler:murder spree finally ended? put to an end? By Julie calling the cops.police.]]
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* CoinsForTheDread: Referenced in the song -- "Pounds, yen, dollars!" -- and this comes up just before the verse before the Idle Boy enters "stream of sea snakes".

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* CoinsForTheDread: CoinsForTheDead: Referenced in the song -- "Pounds, yen, dollars!" -- and this comes up just before the verse before the Idle Boy enters "stream of sea snakes".
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** A third line has the narrator jump into a '''s'''tream of '''s'''ea '''s'''nakes.


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* CoinsForTheDread: Referenced in the song -- "Pounds, yen, dollars!" -- and this comes up just before the verse before the Idle Boy enters "stream of sea snakes".
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* MundaneSolution: How is Sara's [[spoiler:murder spree finally ended? By Julie calling the cops.]]
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* AnArmAndALeg: Julie lost her leg in a car crash.

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* AnArmAndALeg: Julie lost loses her leg in a car crash.crash. The entire school feels so bad for her that they decide to make her prom queen, and Sara is ''not'' happy about it.
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* TheProcrastinator: Both lovers proclaim that they're going to leave their other...but not now because they hope that there's a way of salvaging it.

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* TheProcrastinator: RidiculousProcrastinator: Both lovers proclaim that they're going to leave their other...but not now because they hope that there's a way of salvaging it.
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* HatingOnAMonday: Inverted; the singer ''loves'' Monday because that's the day they fell in love with their partner.

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* HatingOnAMonday: HatingOnMonday: Inverted; the singer ''loves'' Monday because that's the day they fell in love with their partner.

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* AmbiguousGender: The singer is called "The Lover" and is female, but their romantic partner is never given a gender. The gender of said partner varies from animatic.



* FatalFlaw: The singer is very impatient and wants to rush their relationship. When they assume that their partner doesn't want to do anything of the sorts, only requesting to "play hard to get" and holding hands, they feel like the relationship is going nowhere.

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* FatalFlaw: The singer is very ''very'' impatient and wants to rush their relationship. When they assume that their partner doesn't want to do anything of the sorts, only requesting to "play hard to get" and holding hands, they feel like the relationship is going nowhere.nowhere even though they've been together for less than a week at that point.



* NoHuggingNoKissing: The singer is very impatient and annoyed that their partner doesn't want do anything like hugging or kissing, the closest is holding hands.

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* NoHuggingNoKissing: The singer is very impatient and annoyed that their partner doesn't want do anything like hugging or kissing, the closest is holding hands.hands on Wednesday.

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* FatalFlaw: As the singers note, Luanne is loyal to a fault, and even though she desperately wants to leave her husband, she can't bring herself to do so.

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* FatalFlaw: FatalFlaw:
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As the singers note, Luanne is loyal to a fault, and even though she desperately wants to leave her husband, she can't bring herself to do so.so.
** The Bastard's own flaws are his abusive douchebag attitude and violence towards his wife. [[spoiler:Even after he sees her as a ghost, he can't help but tell her that she deserved everything and God doesn't love her. If he had apologized or vowed to be a ''bit'' better, he wouldn't be stuck in Hell.]]


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* FatalFlaw: Sara's insistent need to be Prom Queen above all else ends her. She pushes away everyone who cares about her and instead of properly talking to Julie over what Prom means to her, decides that if she can't beat the competition [[spoiler:then she'll just ''kill'' the competition.]]


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-->''"Ät least in your head/you're Queen of High School Land./Don't pity the dead/you're Queen of High School Land!"''

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* AmbiguousGender: The singer is called "The Lover" and is female, but their romantic partner is never given a gender. Most animatics usually has them as either male or female.

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* AmbiguousGender: The singer is called "The Lover" and is female, but their romantic partner is never given a gender. Most animatics usually has them as either male or female.The gender of said partner varies from animatic.



* FatalFlaw: The singer is very impatient and wants to rush their relationship. When they assume that their partner doesn't want to do anything of the sorts, only requesting to "play hard to get" and holding hands, they feel like the relationship is going nowhere.



* NoHuggingNoKissing: The singer is very impatient and annoyed that their partner doesn't want do anything like hugging or kissing, the closest is holding hands.



* ComicallySmallBribe: The babysitter sells Caralee to a crack dealer for $50.



* EnfanteTerrible: Amusingly downplayed; the titular toddler Caralee ''is'' portrayed as a massive and annoying handful for the poor hapless babysitter to deal with, but she isn't murderous or outright villainous, just a young child who doesn't know any better.

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* EnfanteTerrible: Amusingly downplayed; the titular toddler Caralee ''is'' portrayed as a massive and annoying handful for the poor hapless babysitter to deal with, but she isn't murderous or outright villainous, just a young child who doesn't know any better. Doesn't stop the singer from comparing the girl to Satan.



* {{Balloonacy}}: The photo shows a man carrying numerous balloons.

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* {{Balloonacy}}: The photo shows a man carrying numerous balloons.balloon seller.



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%%* * TakeThat: The song is about how someone can manipulate the context of a photograph or a piece of art by putting some symbolic caption that holds a deeper meaning without deeply understanding ''how'' it came to be.


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* MoodWhiplash: After Luanne runs off, there's a hopeful violin melody as the singers motivate Luanne to swim for shore...[[spoiler:and then the Bastard arrives...]]


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* WhamLine: Everything seems to be fine until the bridge. Sara realizes that there are seven competitors before her and on the night of prom she stages her plot. What happens next is [[spoiler:a cheerleading song of how she offs ''six'' girls.]]

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* BlackComedy: Whatever humor that appears in the musical is midnight-black.
* DownerEnding: Virtually every song ends on a very depressing note, most notably "The Ballad of Sara Berry".

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* BlackComedy: Whatever humor that appears in throughout the musical is midnight-black.
* DownerEnding: Virtually every song ends on a very depressing note, most notably "The Ballad of Sara Berry".
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* DownerEnding: Virtually every song ends on a very depressing note, most notably "The Ballad of Sara Berry".



* BlackComedy: The song ends with the titular BrattyHalfPint being sold to a drug dealer, and the LyricalDissonance portrays this as a ''good thing''.
* BrattyHalfPint: Caralee in general is this trope.



* LyricalDissonance: A cheerful song that ends with a bratty child's babysitter paying a crack dealer $50 to take her so he won't have to deal with her anymore.

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* LyricalDissonance: A cheerful cheerful-sounding song that ends with a bratty child's babysitter paying a crack dealer $50 to take her so he won't have to deal with her anymore.



* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Caralee loves spaghetti, but more for throwing it and making a mess.

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* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Caralee loves spaghetti, but more for throwing it and making a mess.mess than actually eating it.



* InTheStyleOf: The entire song is done as a {{Homage}} to chivalric romance and other ancient stories.

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* LyricalDissonance: While the song's lyrics are meant to be akin to chivalric romance, the actual song and instrumentals are closer to HeavyMetal more than anything else.
* InTheStyleOf: The entire song is done as a {{Homage}} to chivalric romance and other ancient stories.romance.
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* WellDoneSonGuy: Sara herself is this, always told that she has to be the best in order to get affection from her parents.

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* WellDoneSonGuy: WellDoneDaughterGal: Sara herself is this, always told that she has to be the best in order to get affection from her parents.
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* AnArmAndALeg: Julie lost her leg in a car crash. How it's depicted -- either her on crutches, a wheelchair or a prosthetic -- depends on the animatic.

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* AnArmAndALeg: Julie lost her leg in a car crash. How it's depicted -- either her on crutches, a wheelchair or a prosthetic -- depends on the animatic.
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* PoorCommunicationKills: Sara never talks to Julie about the situation on her ''having'' to be Prom Queen, meaning that there could've been a way for Julie to step down and let Sara be the winner.

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* PoorCommunicationKills: Sara never talks to Julie about the situation on her ''having'' to be Prom Queen, meaning that there could've been a way for Julie to step down and let Sara be the winner. Better yet, she doesn't seem to do this with the ''other'' six competitors as well.
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** Why Sara's boyfriend decides to take Julie to the prom is never addressed. Is it because of Sara distancing from him? Is it because he's trying to rack sympathy points by dating Julie? Or is it because the two started to bond while Sara focused on her prom queen ambitions?


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* EurekaMoment: During the bridge, Sara has a terrifying thought. [[spoiler: If there are seven other girls vying for the crown, what would happen if they were ''eliminated'' from the competition?]]
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* PoorCommunicationKills: Sara never talks to Julie about the situation on her ''having'' to be Prom Queen, meaning that there could've been a way for Julie to step down and let Sara be the winner.

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* BeliefMakesYouStupid: More naive than stupid, but one of the reasons Luanne doesn't leave her abusive husband is because the Bible says she shouldn't.

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* BeliefMakesYouStupid: More naive than stupid, but one of the reasons Luanne doesn't leave her abusive husband is because the Bible says she shouldn't. In fact, this ends up being her FatalFlaw.



* HourglassPlot: Luanne is abused by her bastard of a husband and ends up [[spoiler:killed by him. Come the end of the song, she returns to drag ''him'' to hell and there's nothing he can do to stop it.]]



* TemptingFate: The bastard tells [[spoiler:the ghostly Luanne]] that God doesn't love [[spoiler:her]]. The final line of the song states that no, God ''does'' love [[spoiler:Luanne and gave her the chances to enact vengeance on the Bastard for everything he did to her]].



* TragicMistake: [[spoiler:Luanne deciding to run by waking up the Bastard and creating a diversion by letting out the dog to distract him, instead of just sneaking out of the house without waking him up. Even though she gets away, he catches up to her and kills her.]]

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* TragicMistake: [[spoiler:Luanne deciding to run by waking up the Bastard and creating a diversion by letting out the dog to distract him, instead of just sneaking out of the house without waking him up.up or just ''slicing his throat'' anyhow. Even though she gets away, he catches up to her and kills her.]]



* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: At one point, Luanne gets a cleaver and sneaks towards her bastard husband...to cut the dog's rope as an excuse to leave. Why she doesn't take a different knife and slice his ''throat'' is another thing.

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* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: At one point, Luanne gets a cleaver and sneaks towards her bastard husband...to cut the dog's rope as an excuse to leave. Why she doesn't take a different knife and just slice his ''throat'' or just run away without making a sound is another thing.



* AmbiguousEnding: Whether or not the lovers will actually decide to split apart or will be trapped in this cycle of procrastinating this breakup is unknown.

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* AmbiguousEnding: Whether or not the lovers will actually decide to split apart or will be trapped in this cycle of procrastinating this breakup is unknown. All that is known is that they're suffering from dragging it on too long.



-->''Goddamn I hate you, heart''
* TheProcrastinator: Both lovers proclaim that they're going to leave their other...but not now.

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-->''Goddamn --> ''Goddamn I hate you, heart''
* TheProcrastinator: Both lovers proclaim that they're going to leave their other...but not now.now because they hope that there's a way of salvaging it.



* AllForNothing: [[spoiler:Sara sacrificed everything in order to become Prom Queen and went on a massacre to ensure that ''she'' was the winner. She only gets to wear the crown for a few minutes before the cops take her into a mental asylum where she'll be staying forever, all while she's lost in her mind in thinking that she's "Queen of High School Land".]]



* AmbiguousSituation:

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* AmbiguousSituation: Since we're looking into the eyes of Sara going through a SanitySlippage, it's hard to tell if she's a reliable narrator.



** Is Sara's father as abusive as the song says he is or is this how Sara sees him as on her downward spiral?

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** Is Sara's father as abusive as the song says he is or is this how Sara sees him as on her downward spiral?spiral? Did he ever show concern for her at all? Better yet, what's going to happen to ''him'' [[spoiler:now that his daughter unleashed a massacre on Prom Night and is sent to a mental asylum?]]



* {{Determinator}}: ''Nothing'' will stop Sara from becoming Prom Queen, even if she has to isolate herself from her friends, boyfriend and [[spoiler:enact a murder spree.]]

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* {{Determinator}}: DetrimentalDetermination: ''Nothing'' will stop Sara from becoming Prom Queen, even if she has to isolate herself from her friends, boyfriend and [[spoiler:enact a murder spree.]]



* RageAgainstTheReflection: Many animatics have Sara destroying a mirror in rage before it transforms from her disheveled self to her prom self, signalling that she's going mad.

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* RageAgainstTheReflection: Many animatics have Sara destroying a mirror in rage before the reflection in it transforms from her disheveled self to her prom self, signalling that she's going mad.



** [[spoiler:Once Sara goes on her killing spree, it isn't long until someone calls the cops to put an end to it.]]

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** [[spoiler:Once Sara goes on her killing spree, it isn't long until someone calls the cops to a one-legged girl can put an end to it.it by calling the cops.]]



* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Sara's father disappears at the end of the song so his fate [[spoiler:in regards to learning that his daughter has murdered six girls]] is never revealed.



* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: If Sara wants to be Prom Queen so much, and Julie (presumably) doesn't, why not just ''explain'' her situation and Julie can just give her the crown and save so much trouble? The lead singer explains that Sara wasn't the "rational type".

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* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: If Sara wants to be Prom Queen so much, and Julie (presumably) doesn't, why not just ''explain'' her situation and so Julie can just give her the crown and save so much trouble? trouble or perhaps they can split the title of Prom Queen so ''both'' of them can get the crown? The lead singer explains that Sara wasn't the "rational type".

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* BludgeonedToDeath: [[spoiler:This is how Sara kills Anne, her third victim.]]



* SplashOfColor: The original photos are in black and white with red seen on the photos: one girl is circled with red, another one covering the leg with scribbles (Julie Jenkins) and everyone else has their faces scribbled out. Many animatics also follow suit with the red [[spoiler: reflecting the six other girls dying.]]

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* SplashOfColor: The original photos are in black and white with red seen on the photos: one girl is circled with red, another one covering the leg with scribbles (Julie Jenkins) and everyone else has their faces scribbled out. Many animatics also follow suit with the red [[spoiler: reflecting [[spoiler:reflecting the six other girls dying.]]



* TapOnTheHead: [[spoiler:Anne's death is when Sara "bludgeons her brains".]]



* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: After Julie becomes the #1 pick for prom queen, Sara starts losing it but it's not until [[spoiler:her boyfriend texts her by stating he'll take Julie to the prom]] that she ''really'' loses.

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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: After Julie becomes the #1 number one pick for prom queen, Sara starts losing it but it's not until [[spoiler:her boyfriend texts informs her by stating he'll take text that he's taking Julie to the prom]] that she ''really'' loses.snaps.

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