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A list for books that are amazing by themselves, that don't require sequels or series', are NOT book 13 of 100 and do not abuse their characters by using them repeatedly.
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My Lady Love
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Bridgitte Lesley (Goodreads Author)
4.51 avg rating — 110 ratings
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The Help
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Kathryn Stockett (Goodreads Author)
4.47 avg rating — 2,976,475 ratings
score: 777,
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Water for Elephants
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Sara Gruen (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 1,685,935 ratings
score: 674,
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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4.16 avg rating — 2,089,853 ratings
score: 664,
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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Audrey Niffenegger (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,847,119 ratings
score: 575,
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The Lovely Bones
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3.86 avg rating — 2,445,477 ratings
score: 575,
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The Kite Runner
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Khaled Hosseini (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 3,425,259 ratings
score: 481,
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1984
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4.20 avg rating — 5,285,904 ratings
score: 466,
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Grit: The Banter and Brutality of the Late-Night Cab
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Karl Wiggins (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 1,100 ratings
score: 400,
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4 people voted
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Gunpowder Soup
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Karl Wiggins (Goodreads Author)
4.67 avg rating — 21 ratings
score: 378,
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Gunfight at the Old Leake Canal
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G.B. Hope (Goodreads Author)
4.51 avg rating — 59 ratings
score: 294,
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Zorro's Last Stand
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Mark Shearman (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 32 ratings
score: 291,
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The Chrysalids
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3.93 avg rating — 61,119 ratings
score: 288,
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Howson's Choice
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4.61 avg rating — 28 ratings
score: 287,
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The Long Weekend
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4.60 avg rating — 42 ratings
score: 284,
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100 Common Sense Policies to make BRITAIN GREAT again
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Karl Wiggins (Goodreads Author)
4.55 avg rating — 20 ratings
score: 283,
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Nobody Asked Me, But ....
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Karl Wiggins (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 63 ratings
score: 278,
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The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
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3.66 avg rating — 104,540 ratings
score: 197,
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Paper Towns
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John Green (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 1,471,495 ratings
score: 196,
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A Prayer for Owen Meany
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John Irving (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 333,608 ratings
score: 195,
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State of Fear
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3.70 avg rating — 90,606 ratings
score: 193,
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Timeline
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3.87 avg rating — 214,997 ratings
score: 192,
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Sarah's Key
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Tatiana de Rosnay (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 491,359 ratings
score: 190,
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The Cider House Rules
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John Irving (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 193,465 ratings
score: 189,
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White Boy in Watts
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Karl Wiggins (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 34 ratings
score: 188,
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2 people voted
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
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4.20 avg rating — 770,985 ratings
score: 188,
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Calico Jack in your Garden
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Karl Wiggins (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 218 ratings
score: 185,
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Brave New World
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3.88 avg rating — 1,261,780 ratings
score: 184,
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Cabbie with a Dangerous Mind
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Karl Wiggins (Goodreads Author)
4.62 avg rating — 21 ratings
score: 184,
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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 2,348,892 ratings
score: 183,
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2 people voted
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Self-Publishing In the Eye of the Storm
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Karl Wiggins (Goodreads Author)
4.62 avg rating — 61 ratings
score: 183,
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My Sister's Keeper
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Jodi Picoult (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 1,267,116 ratings
score: 176,
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The Girl Who Owned a City
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3.79 avg rating — 5,419 ratings
score: 100,
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The After Girls
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Leah Konen (Goodreads Author)
3.54 avg rating — 455 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Cinema of Shadows (Harmony, Indiana, #2)
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Michael West (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 331 ratings
score: 100,
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Growing Amaranth
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Toney Larson (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings
score: 100,
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Dancing with Devia
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Viveca Benoir (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 111 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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The Historian
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3.80 avg rating — 274,297 ratings
score: 100,
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Eighteen Kisses
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3.87 avg rating — 90 ratings
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The Harem
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Thomas Sweeney (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 51 ratings
score: 100,
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Earthly Powers
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David Anderson (Goodreads Author)
4.56 avg rating — 78 ratings
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Mara, Daughter of the Nile
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4.25 avg rating — 13,447 ratings
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Woody Notes, and Heat Sneaking up Fast
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4.57 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Spook House (Harmony, Indiana, #3)
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Michael West (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 268 ratings
score: 99,
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Tagged: The Apocalypse
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3.31 avg rating — 371 ratings
score: 99,
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The Naphil's Kiss
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Simone Beaudelaire (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 50 ratings
score: 99,
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To Murder Matt
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Viveca Benoir (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 174 ratings
score: 99,
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Time and Time Again
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4.09 avg rating — 15,187 ratings
score: 99,
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Jennie
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4.28 avg rating — 2,193 ratings
score: 99,
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Shit my History Teacher DID NOT tell me!
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Karl Wiggins (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 297 ratings
score: 99,
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Ysabel
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Guy Gavriel Kay (Goodreads Author)
3.63 avg rating — 11,125 ratings
score: 98,
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Life After Life (Todd Family, #1)
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3.78 avg rating — 238,912 ratings
score: 98,
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Before I Fall
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Lauren Oliver (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 344,877 ratings
score: 98,
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The Third Witch
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3.72 avg rating — 687 ratings
score: 98,
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You Really Are Full of Shit, Aren't You?
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Karl Wiggins (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 196 ratings
score: 98,
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A Dirty Job (Grim Reaper, #1)
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Christopher Moore (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 122,873 ratings
score: 97,
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The Light Between Oceans
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M.L. Stedman (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 474,967 ratings
score: 97,
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If You Find Me
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Emily Murdoch (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 24,301 ratings
score: 97,
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Dogshit Saved My Life
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Karl Wiggins (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 189 ratings
score: 97,
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Congo
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3.63 avg rating — 177,331 ratings
score: 96,
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Never Eighteen
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Megan Bostic (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 2,149 ratings
score: 96,
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Goodwood
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3.60 avg rating — 3,243 ratings
score: 96,
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The Magnificent Miss Broadway
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JanJan Untamed (Goodreads Author)
4.55 avg rating — 211 ratings
score: 96,
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The Birth House
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Ami McKay (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 45,839 ratings
score: 95,
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Just Listen
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Sarah Dessen (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 250,038 ratings
score: 95,
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The Stationery Shop of Tehran
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Marjan Kamali (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 113,523 ratings
score: 95,
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Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe
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Karl Wiggins (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 58 ratings
score: 95,
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Before I Die
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3.81 avg rating — 57,788 ratings
score: 94,
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Forbidden
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Tabitha Suzuma (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 75,608 ratings
score: 93,
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Hate List
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score: 92,
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A Single Thread
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Tracy Chevalier (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 32,674 ratings
score: 91,
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A Clockwork Orange
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Firestarter
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 243,362 ratings
score: 90,
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Picnic at Hanging Rock
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3.66 avg rating — 29,588 ratings
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Brave New World
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3.88 avg rating — 1,261,780 ratings
score: 89,
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Middlesex
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4.04 avg rating — 658,892 ratings
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The King of Warsaw
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4.21 avg rating — 9,928 ratings
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Nowhere Boulevard
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Katherine Black (Goodreads Author)
4.50 avg rating — 105 ratings
score: 87,
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The Road
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Look Homeward, Angel: Autobiographical Novel
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3.92 avg rating — 15,592 ratings
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Into the Wild
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Jon Krakauer (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 1,172,698 ratings
score: 77,
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