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• Snapping turtles find a home in Saint-Lazare

  25-07-2018 23:44 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Jul 25: A Saint-Lazare woman made a once-in-a-lifetime discovery by stumbling upon snapping turtles while out for a walk. As Global’s Billy Shields reports, the protected species have attracted the interest of herpetologists and environmentalists from all over.
  
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• Former Canadien Guy Lafleur's 1976-77 Hart Trophy up for auction

  25-07-2018 23:40 via montrealgazette.com
  The Hart Trophy former Canadiens star Guy Lafleur won as the NHL’s most valuable player for the 1976-77 season has been put up for auction.
  Lafleur’s Hart Trophy, which he no longer owned, is being auctioned on the Lelands Auctions website with a starting bid of US$20,000. The auction will end on Aug. 17.
  Lelands says that the 14-inch replica of the real Hart Trophy was given to Lafleur after he posted 56-80-136 totals in 80 games during the 1976-77 season. The Canadiens won the
  
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• Quebec City father and son build largest exposition of miniature cities

  25-07-2018 23:30 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Jul 25: A father and son’s shared love for building blocks has turned into North America’s largest exposition of miniature cities. As Global’s Raquel Fletcher reports, the duo takes visitors on a trip around the world from New York to Dubai to London.
  
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• Quebec announces plan to combat addiction, prevent opioid overdoses

  25-07-2018 23:30 via montrealgazette.com
  The government of Quebec will be spending $35 million annually to combat addiction in the province, Health Minister Gaétan Barrette and Public Health Minister Lucie Charlebois announced Wednesday.
  The $35-million total represents funding for two initiatives: $23 million will be dedicated to preventing opioid overdoses, while the remainder will go to fighting addictions such as gambling and excessive internet usage.
  A report accompanying the announcement says that while there is currently
  
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• Fatal shooting of Quebec teen under investigation

  25-07-2018 23:30 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Jul 25: Quebec’s police watchdog is investigating after a teenager died during an incident with police in Knowlton. As Global’s Felicia Parrillo reports, the small town of Lac Brome is in shock after the fatal shooting.
  
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• Quebec City father and son create North America’s largest miniature cities exhibition

  25-07-2018 23:27 via globalnews.ca
  A father and son's love for building blocks has turned into North America's largest exposition of miniature cities. From New York to London to Dubai, Quebec City visitors can take a trip around the world sized to scale.
  
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• Edmonton Eskimos at Alouettes: Five things you should know

  25-07-2018 23:12 via montrealgazette.com
  Here are five things you should know about the Edmonton Eskimos-Alouettes game at Molson Stadium on Thursday (7:30 p.m., TSN, RDS, TSN Radio 690).
  Matchup: The Eskimos made it to the West Division final in 2017 and will undoubtedly be primed to take the next step this season, with the championship game at Commonwealth Stadium. Edmonton’s a better team than its 3-2 record would indicate, but somehow lost at home to Hamilton in its second game. The Eskimos are also the only team that Toronto
  
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• T'Cha Dunlevy: Montreal's electric Bixis sound like a menace to me

  25-07-2018 22:58 via montrealgazette.com
  So Bixi is going electric. In August, the Montreal bike-rental service will add 57 electrically powered bicycles to its fleet. Can you say terrible idea?
  Lazy types who don’t like to break a sweat may love the plan, but any everyday commuting cyclist with their own wheels will recognize this for what it is: just one more thing to worry about.
  I’m not talking about the numerous well-behaved Bixi commuters, some of whom even wear helmets. Nor am I dismissing physically challenged users
  
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• Montreal calls for patience as it works on 'global strategy' for intersections

  25-07-2018 22:47 via montrealgazette.com
  The city’s new administration is finding it takes longer to improve safety at key intersections than they would like, says the councillor in charge of active transportation.
  Cycling and pedestrian activists called out the administration of Mayor Valérie Plante last week for a lack of action so far on safety, after two pedestrians and one cyclist were killed in accidents with trucks in the span of two months. Marianne Gigiuère, an associate councillor on the executive com
  
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• Stu Cowan: Former Expo Vladimir Guerrero clubbed his way to greatness

  25-07-2018 22:46 via montrealgazette.com
  Swing Away was the perfect title for the outstanding TSN Original feature Michael Farber did on former Expos outfielder Vladimir Guerrero, who will be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., on Sunday.
  There was no such thing as a bad pitch to Guerrero, who would swing at anything — even pitches that bounced before reaching the plate. That’s what makes Guerrero’s lifetime .318 batting average even more impressive, along with his 449 home runs. Guerrero nev
  
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• MUHC investigating cause of generator failure during power outage

  25-07-2018 22:12 via montrealgazette.com
  Emergency and operating rooms at the McGill University Health Centre’s Glen site in N.D.G. were without power for almost an hour Monday after one of the superhospital’s back-up generators failed during a Hydro-Québec power outage.
  The MUHC says they are investigating the cause of the problem, but current theories point to a “faulty electrical component coupled with a possible human error in the building control room,” a statement released Wednesday reads. It says t
  
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• IKEA's Quebec City store to open Aug. 22

  25-07-2018 21:47 via montrealgazette.com
  IKEA Canada announced on Wednesday that its much-anticipated Quebec City store will open on Aug. 22.
  The 340,000 square-foot outlet — IKEA’s 14th in Canada — will include a showroom, market hall, a full restaurant and a children’s play facility.
  The IKEA Quebec City regular store hours will be weekdays from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays.
  The existing Quebec City pickup and order point will close on Monday, Aug. 13,&nb
  
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• Teen killed by SQ in Knowlton had displayed suicidal behaviour: friend

  25-07-2018 21:27 via montrealgazette.com
  After the crime scene tape was torn down and the police cars left the scene, a bloodstained road and a bouquet of flowers marked the spot where a 17-year-old was shot and killed by police in Knowlton, near Brome lake, early Wednesday morning.
  The victim, Riley Fairholm, was troubled and displayed suicidal behaviour in the past, according to his ex-girlfriend, Camille Larouche, who came to the scene with her parents. She painted a picture of Fairholm as a smiling but troubled young man who d
  
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• Former canadian national wrestler makes the move to the MMA. Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=mahRD_… https://t.co/Rlo4rJPuNb

  25-07-2018 21:00
  
  Former canadian national wrestler makes the move to the MMA. Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=mahRD_… https://t.co/Rlo4rJPuNb
  
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• Intoxicated woman drives off with ambulance, hits a few cars before police find her in NDG

  25-07-2018 20:46 via cbc.ca
  The woman freed herself from a stretcher, jumped into the vehicle's cab and sped away while the workers were outside the vehicle.
  
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• Tom Green returns to Just For Laughs and his Quebecois roots here in Montreal. Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=Ziu3il… https://t.co/hZcPlBSPnT

  25-07-2018 20:44
  
  Tom Green returns to Just For Laughs and his Quebecois roots here in Montreal. Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=Ziu3il… https://t.co/hZcPlBSPnT
  
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• Tom Green crashed our very own Green Screen this morning. https://t.co/N56mRQejgI

  25-07-2018 20:41
  
  Tom Green crashed our very own Green Screen this morning. https://t.co/N56mRQejgI
  
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• Chef Natalia Machado has the freshest pasta in town and here's how she does it. youtube.com/watch?v=jRA79Y… https://t.co/142b9RiPvq

  25-07-2018 20:38
  
  Chef Natalia Machado has the freshest pasta in town and here's how she does it. youtube.com/watch?v=jRA79Y… https://t.co/142b9RiPvq
  
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• Super Aqua Club owner arrested again for alleged sex crimes

  25-07-2018 20:35 via montrealgazette.com
  The owner of the Super Aqua Club in Pointe-Calumet was arrested on Wednesday for a second time over alleged sex crimes.
  Réjean Julien Proulx, 57, is facing charges of sexual touching, invitation to sexual touching and sexual assault of a teenager between 1994 and 2000, according to a statement from the Sûreté du Québec.
  He was expected to appear at the St-Jérôme courthouse Wednesday afternoon.
  Proulx was first arrested on June 15 by Lac-des-Deux-Monta
  
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• Canadian country supergroup Delta Creek describe their country inspiration. Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=MhKB7v… https://t.co/g7opjWqfRq

  25-07-2018 20:33
  
  Canadian country supergroup Delta Creek describe their country inspiration. Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=MhKB7v… https://t.co/g7opjWqfRq
  
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• Quebec health minister says Ontario's plan to reconsider supervised injection sites a mistake

  25-07-2018 20:25 via cbc.ca
  Announcing $35 million in new funding to combat opioid addiction and other dependency issues like online gambling, Gaétan Barrette took a shot at Ontario's new premier, Doug Ford.
  
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• Quebec health minister says Ontario's plan to close supervised injection sites a mistake

  25-07-2018 20:25 via cbc.ca
  Announcing $35 million in new funding to combat opioid addiction and other dependency issues like online gambling, Gaétan Barrette took a shot at Ontario's new premier, Doug Ford.
  
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• Quebec government announces $35M plan to curb addictions

  25-07-2018 20:25 via cbc.ca
  Three Quebec ministers announced the plan, saying that while Quebec has been spared the worst of the fentanyl crisis, opioid-overdose deaths are on the rise, as are psychoactive drug use and online gambling addictions;
  
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• Public memorial for Harry Gulkin to be held Aug. 5

  25-07-2018 20:15 via montrealgazette.com
  A public memorial for Harry Gulkin will be held Sunday, Aug. 5 at 2 p.m. at the Segal Centre, 5170 Côte-Ste-Catherine St.
  The legendary Montreal filmmaker died Monday at 90, following a brief bout with pneumonia.
  Flowers are welcome and can be sent to the Segal Centre on the day of the memorial. In addition or in lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made in Gilkin’s memory to the Canadian Film Institute, where he served as president and chair. The donation details can b
  
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• Opinion: Respect accessibility rights, boost public transit ridership

  25-07-2018 20:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal’s public transit system is reporting plummeting ridership on buses. And while métro ridership is up, the system is not easy for many people.
  Lots of good ideas have been offered for making the public transit system more attractive and user-friendly.
  Here’s one more: Why not make our system accessible?
  According Statistics Canada, long-term disability affects about 10 per cent of Quebecers. Many face severe obstacles in accessing our public transit system. Ad
  
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• Watch: A Montreal composer scores the latest Tomb Raider video game

  25-07-2018 19:46 via montrealgazette.com
  Montrealer Brian D’Oliveira, a Trinidad-born multi-instrumentalist, has spent a good chunk of the past three years composing the score for Shadow of the Tomb Raider, the latest instalment in the ultra-popular video-game series which was developed by Montreal’s Eidos Interactive and spawned the hit movie franchise Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, starring Angelina Jolie.
  The Montreal Gazette spoke to D’Oliveira about why he was chosen for the project, the research he did and how he put
  
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• Clare Bronfman, Seagram’s heiress, released on $100M bond amid Nxivm ‘sex cult’ investigation

  25-07-2018 19:45 via globalnews.ca
  Clare Bronfman was charged Tuesday with conspiracy to commit identity theft and racketeering in relation to Nxivm.
  
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• Martin Patriquin: What SLAV episode says about the state of Quebec culture

  25-07-2018 19:28 via montrealgazette.com
  If the fallout from Robert Lepage’s SLĀV showed us anything, it’s that Quebec culture is an extension of its politics. As with politics, culture is defended as though under constant siege. Cultural practitioners aren’t just singing, dancing or writing; they are doing God’s work. And as usual with the divinely inspired, grandiosity and self-martyrdom are rarely in short supply.
  It’s why the debate over SLĀV, a play in which an overwhelmingly white cast sung
  
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• Montreal's heartbroken Greek community fundraising for wildfire victims

  25-07-2018 19:19 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal’s Greek community is reeling from news that wildfires in Greece have taken at least 79 lives outside the nation’s capital.
  “It’s devastating to think that so many people are losing their lives and their loved ones in this fire,” said Andy Crilis, vice president of the Hellenic Community of Greater Montreal.
  “And then you think of the people who don’t know if their loved ones are OK or not. It breaks your heart.”
  Crilis said he hasn’t
  
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• Take a bag, leave a bag box lets Rosemont residents share reusable shopping bags

  25-07-2018 19:18 via cbc.ca
  Shoppers on Masson Street who forgot their bags at home or have one too many can now help each other out, thanks to a concept inspired by neighbourhood book-exchange boxes.
  
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• Women play star-crossed lovers in Shakespeare in the Park's Romeo and Juliet

  25-07-2018 18:19 via cbc.ca
  For Repercussion Theatre's 30th season, the company has staged a queer love story that will tour parks across the Greater Montreal area and parts of Quebec.
  
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• Quebecers still getting millions of dollars of health care in Ontario

  25-07-2018 18:01 via cbc.ca
  Tens of thousands of patients from Quebec were treated at eastern Ontario hospitals in 2017, costing the Quebec government millions of dollars and becoming an issue in the upcoming provincial election.
  
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• Female patient stopped by police after driving off with ambulance in Montreal

  25-07-2018 17:37 via globalnews.ca
  A female patient jumped into the front of an ambulance and sped away before being intercepted by Montreal police.
  
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• NXIVM founder to appear in federal court on sex-trafficking charges

  25-07-2018 17:32 via montrealgazette.com
  NEW YORK — The founder of a self-improvement group that’s accused of branding some of its female followers and forcing them into unwanted sex is due before a federal judge in New York.
  Keith Raniere has a pre-trial court appearance on Wednesday afternoon, along with one of the group’s more high-profile adherents, TV actress Allison Mack.
  On Tuesday, an heiress to the Seagram’s liquor fortune and three other people were arrested in the investigation into the upstate New Yo
  
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• Agitated patient arrested in N.D.G. behind wheel of stolen ambulance

  25-07-2018 17:30 via montrealgazette.com
  A 22-year-old woman was expected to be questioned by Montreal police Wednesday after a bizarre incident Tuesday night that saw an Urgences-Santé ambulance stolen in Little Burgundy, apparently by the patient it had been called to assist.
  Police stopped the vehicle 1.5 kms away in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce. While several vehicles were damaged over the course of the ambulance’s route, no injuries were reported.
  The incident began at about 10:45 p.m., when the ambulance and i
  
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• Bird-strike risk at Trudeau airport: Compost plan doesn't heed all safety advice

  25-07-2018 17:19 via montrealgazette.com
  The city isn’t heeding some of the safety precautions that Aéroports de Montréal recommended to reduce the risk of bird-plane collisions around a municipal organic waste treatment centre that Montreal is planning to build near Trudeau airport, a Montreal Gazette investigation reveals.
  An examination of the contract specifications for the future centre shows some of the airport authority’s precautions are absent or partially addressed. However, the city maintains it
  
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• Six O’Clock Solution: Steak sandwiches from Sherlock Holmes's pantry

  25-07-2018 17:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Summer often means extra time to read, and to cook, so A Literary Tea Party (Skyhorse/Thomas Allen, $29.99), a new cookbook inspired by favourite books, is timely. The author is U.S. blogger Alison Walsh, who also supplies outstanding photographs of the 55 recipes.Walsh, who blogs at WonderlandRecipes.com, likes to sit down with a cup of tea and foods based on literature — largely British books, but sometimes Canadian or American. Sandwich recipes are plentiful, inspired by the tastes of M
  
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• Sûreté du Québec officers fatally shoot armed youth in Lac-Brome

  25-07-2018 16:40 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec’s independent investigations bureau, the BEI, has been assigned to investigate after a young man was fatally shot by provincial police early Wednesday in Lac-Brome.
  The incident occurred at 1:20 a.m., when a 911 call was received concerning an armed individual in a public area near Highway 104.
  Sûreté du Québec officers arriving on the scene found the man carrying a firearm and tried to speak to him using a loud speaker, however, according to information received
  
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• IKEA Canada announces opening date for Quebec City store

  25-07-2018 16:24 via montrealgazette.com
  IKEA Canada announced on Wednesday that its much-anticipated Quebec City store will open on Aug. 22.
  The 340,000 square-foot outlet — IKEA’s 14th in Canada — will include a showroom, market hall, a full restaurant and a children’s play facility.
  The IKEA Quebec City regular store hours will be weekdays from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays.
  The existing Quebec City pick-up and order point will close on Monday, Aug. 13,&n
  
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• Entrepreneur Week: Natalia Baquero Millinery

  25-07-2018 15:44 via globalnews.ca
  It’s Entrepreneur Week and we’re talking with Montreal designer Natalia Baquero, whose turning heads with her customs hats!
  
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• Pros & Cons of Bexsero and HPV vaccines

  25-07-2018 15:40 via globalnews.ca
  Pediatrician Dr. Harley Eisman joins Global’s Laura Casella to talk all about the pros & cons of Bexsero and HPV vaccines.
  
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• Rescue crews search for missing in Greek wildfires; 79 dead

  25-07-2018 15:37 via montrealgazette.com
  MATI, Greece — Rescue crews were searching Wednesday through charred homes and cars for those still missing after the deadliest wildfires to hit Greece in decades decimated seaside areas near Athens, killing at least 79 people and sending thousands fleeing.
  There was no official indication as to how many people might be missing, and some took to social media and Greek television stations with appeals for information on their loved ones.
  Survivors described dramatic scenes of people fleeing
  
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• CFL host Brodie Lawson previews Thursday Night Football

  25-07-2018 15:01 via globalnews.ca
  Canadian Football League host Brodie Lawson stops by to preview Thursday’s game between the Edmonton Eskimos and the newly revamped Montreal Alouettes!
  
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• Condo corporations rushing to prohibit pot smoking before legalization

  25-07-2018 14:46 via globalnews.ca
  Medicinal pot smokers could potentially face legal action if ever a neighbour complains about contamination of their personal living space. Which is precisely why several condo corporations are rushing to prohibit pot smoking before the upcoming October 17th legalization date. Attorney Maxime St-Onge breaks down all the details alongside Global’s Laura Casella.
  
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• Pilot project aims to measure concert noise levels in Saint-Lambert, Old Port

  25-07-2018 14:41 via cbc.ca
  The cities of Montreal and Saint-Lambert and the Société du parc Jean-Drapeau, the group that runs the park, have installed machines that measure the decibel levels and collect data to be analyzed.
  
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• Making salads and helping newcomers settle into Montreal

  25-07-2018 14:41 via globalnews.ca
  For every monthly salad sold, Mandy’s salads co-founders Rebecca Wolfe & Mandy Wolfe will donate $1 towards the ‘Welcome Collective,’ a not-for-profit organization. It provides new asylum seeking families their most basic needs upon first arrival. The sisters sit down with Global’s Kim Sullivan to talk all about this initiative.
  
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• Illuminated see-saws can travel the world after David vs. Goliath ruling

  25-07-2018 14:41 via montrealgazette.com
  Conor Sampson can display his illuminated see-saws anywhere in the world he pleases.
  Quebec Superior Court has quashed an attempt by the Partenariat du Quartier des Spectacles, a municipal non-profit organization in charge of Montreal’s entertainment district, to stop Sampson from reproducing and exhibiting Impulse, the playful playground equipment he designed for the 2015-16 Luminothérapie festival.
  Since they first went on display in Place des Festivals in December 2015, the award
  
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• NEXT: @DeltaCreek have taken off as a pop-country supergroup in Montreal! Watch live: ow.ly/GahJ30l6jVd https://t.co/Kb9r3VfMqK

  25-07-2018 14:30
  
  NEXT: @DeltaCreek have taken off as a pop-country supergroup in Montreal! Watch live: ow.ly/GahJ30l6jVd https://t.co/Kb9r3VfMqK
  
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• Celebrations: July 25, 2018 We celebrate you!!! https://t.co/CkMAUqIB3e

  25-07-2018 14:16
  
  Celebrations: July 25, 2018 We celebrate you!!! https://t.co/CkMAUqIB3e
  
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