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var stext = ['New Voices 27. From <i>A Letter Unsent</i>','New Voices 27. From <i>Men are from Oz, Women are from Venus</i>','New Voices 27. From <i>Mad City, Inhabited</i>','New Voices 27. From <i>Men are from Oz, Women are from Venus</i>','New Voices 27. From <i>Schrodinger`s Cat in the Hat (fancy that!)</i>','New Voices 27. From <i>The Spy in Size 4`s<i>','New Voices 27. From <i>Screw this Noise</i>','New Voices 27. From <i>Thirty-Six Situatioins</i>']	
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