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What are the best 1990s period piece movies? (I.e., made after 1999, set in 90s)

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ruddy parlour
  05/27/25
Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1...
Silver territorial striped hyena principal's office
  05/27/25
Who even watches these anymore?
ivory trust fund
  05/27/25
I still watch Film
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tripping elite feces
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ruddy parlour
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but yet you know nothing of it
Alcoholic native
  05/27/25
Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure ...
carnelian hospital newt
  05/28/25
mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo
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  05/27/25
True Detective season one
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Best answer so far
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The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after ...
ruddy parlour
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Sapphire bateful station internal respiration
  05/28/25
Alpha Dog pops into mind first
Haunting space legend
  05/27/25
(Nick Cassavetes) (JT)
Sable bull headed son of senegal temple
  05/29/25
There are not a lot - certainly no great films. Add The F...
ruddy parlour
  05/27/25
How to train your dragon
ivory trust fund
  05/27/25
social network.
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Wolf of Wall Street
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Twinkling alcoholic boistinker public bath
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Mostly an 80s movie though.
ruddy parlour
  05/27/25
Speed
aggressive halford
  05/27/25
I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP&rsquo...
ruddy parlour
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Nigger Feet
ivory trust fund
  05/27/25
"period" is a gross word.
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The Diaper
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Twinkling alcoholic boistinker public bath
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I think this has to do with Klosterman’s theory about ...
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The Queen (2006) The Fighter (2010) Erin Brocovich (2000) ...
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Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers
ruddy parlour
  05/28/25
Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 9...
pale immigrant location
  05/27/25
Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their t...
ruddy parlour
  05/28/25
I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthe...
ruddy parlour
  05/28/25
Same for Napoleon dynamite Technically set in 2003 but ru...
Out-of-control faggot firefighter institution
  05/28/25
Good one
ruddy parlour
  05/28/25
lilo and stitch for the same reason
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Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly ...
ruddy parlour
  06/14/25
Road Trip
aggressive halford
  05/28/25
this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our me...
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Twinkling alcoholic boistinker public bath
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Pain & Gain Mid90s The Informant!
stirring dilemma
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT
Racy private investor
  05/29/25
Im a Curator
stirring dilemma
  05/29/25
Three Kings
Sapphire bateful station internal respiration
  05/28/25
1999
stirring dilemma
  05/28/25
One Day (2011) Love and Other Drugs (2010)
citrine love of her life
  05/28/25
Black Hawk Down
passionate prole
  05/28/25
this
Boyish carmine base
  05/29/25
Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia
ruddy parlour
  05/29/25
I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera ar...
carnelian hospital newt
  05/29/25
the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux ca...
cerebral gas station nowag
  05/28/25
I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discu...
ruddy parlour
  05/29/25
Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the ...
Boyish carmine base
  05/29/25
No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using...
aggressive halford
  05/29/25
tyvmft
Boyish carmine base
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The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Cr...
Puce mother point
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Harry Potter
medicated confused university
  06/03/25
The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - t...
Glassy impertinent kitchen
  06/03/25
Good one
ruddy parlour
  06/03/25
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Racy private investor
  06/03/25
tv show but derry girls. wife insisted i watch it. i tho...
Aquamarine puppy chad
  06/07/25
It’s criminally underrated
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  06/08/25
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Aquamarine puppy chad
  06/09/25


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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:15 AM
Author: ruddy parlour



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:30 AM
Author: Silver territorial striped hyena principal's office

Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1991.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48964673)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: ivory trust fund

Who even watches these anymore?

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: carnelian hospital newt

I still watch Film

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: Alcoholic native

but yet you know nothing of it

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: carnelian hospital newt

Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure I know about Film.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:32 AM
Author: Out-of-control faggot firefighter institution

mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48964686)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:34 AM
Author: Sienna Step-uncle's House

True Detective season one



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: Twinkling alcoholic boistinker public bath



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:02 PM
Author: ruddy parlour

Best answer so far

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:48 AM
Author: Boyish carmine base



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:23 PM
Author: Charismatic Jade Stag Film Nibblets



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:28 PM
Author: tripping elite feces

tp

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Twinkling alcoholic boistinker public bath



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: ruddy parlour

The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after the lawnmower

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:34 AM
Author: Sapphire bateful station internal respiration



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:38 AM
Author: Haunting space legend

Alpha Dog pops into mind first

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:44 AM
Author: Sable bull headed son of senegal temple

(Nick Cassavetes)

(JT)

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:19 PM
Author: ruddy parlour

There are not a lot - certainly no great films.

Add The Fighter and Spring Breakers

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48964843)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:22 PM
Author: ivory trust fund

How to train your dragon

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:23 PM
Author: Heady trailer park ape

social network.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: Erotic Lake Hall International Law Enforcement Agency

Wolf of Wall Street

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: offensive persian



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: Twinkling alcoholic boistinker public bath



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:58 PM
Author: ruddy parlour

Mostly an 80s movie though.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48966409)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:45 PM
Author: aggressive halford

Speed

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: ruddy parlour

I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP’s criteria.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48966424)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: Twinkling alcoholic boistinker public bath

Autoadmit.com

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: ivory trust fund

Nigger Feet

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: gaped cordovan business firm

"period" is a gross word.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: tripping elite feces

The Diaper

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Twinkling alcoholic boistinker public bath



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: ruddy parlour

I think this has to do with Klosterman’s theory about the vanishing future. The internet has made it so the 90s never left. There’s no clear break with the past like Nirvana ending the 80s. So the era continues to live on in the culture (e.g. Friends and Seinfeld still Top 5 tv shows by hours watched) preventing us from developing a collective Nostalgia for the 1990s.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48966422)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: tripping elite feces



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:08 PM
Author: Twinkling alcoholic boistinker public bath



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:44 AM
Author: offensive persian



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:49 AM
Author: Twinkling alcoholic boistinker public bath



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: aqua mediation cruise ship

The Queen (2006)

The Fighter (2010)

Erin Brocovich (2000)

I, Tonya (2017)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48966468)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:50 AM
Author: ruddy parlour

Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:03 PM
Author: pale immigrant location

Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 90s.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48966568)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: ruddy parlour

Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their times (Clerks is great), but the 90s are massively underexplored by people from another, later time reflecting on the historical era and what it MEANS now that culture has some distance.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48966871)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:54 AM
Author: ruddy parlour

I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthetic and is based on Rogen and Stone’s high school years.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48966875)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 7:05 AM
Author: Out-of-control faggot firefighter institution

Same for Napoleon dynamite

Technically set in 2003 but rural Idaho was still in 1990

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48966880)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:43 AM
Author: ruddy parlour

Good one

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:52 AM
Author: Ocher Parlor Trump Supporter

lilo and stitch for the same reason

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:55 AM
Author: Twinkling alcoholic boistinker public bath



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:43 AM
Author: turquoise meetinghouse weed whacker



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Date: June 14th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: ruddy parlour

Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly 90s

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#49014596)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:59 AM
Author: aggressive halford

Road Trip

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: canary place of business resort

this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our memories of problems in teh 90s. the late 90s movies (office space, american beauty, fight club) were all about the purposelessness of american life and culture.

kind of hard to reset a 90s film knowing what is going to happen

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48967167)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:14 AM
Author: Twinkling alcoholic boistinker public bath



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:10 AM
Author: stirring dilemma

Pain & Gain

Mid90s

The Informant!

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:23 AM
Author: Racy private investor

Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:11 AM
Author: stirring dilemma

Im a Curator

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: Sapphire bateful station internal respiration

Three Kings

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:38 AM
Author: stirring dilemma

1999

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:44 AM
Author: citrine love of her life

One Day (2011)

Love and Other Drugs (2010)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48967320)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:48 PM
Author: passionate prole

Black Hawk Down

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:13 AM
Author: Boyish carmine base

this

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:49 AM
Author: ruddy parlour

Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48969956)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 8:44 AM
Author: carnelian hospital newt

I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera around then, it was 180.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48970015)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:54 PM
Author: cerebral gas station nowag

the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux case.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48969260)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:08 AM
Author: ruddy parlour

I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discussing

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48969800)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:14 AM
Author: Boyish carmine base

Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the tech used

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48969841)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 6:44 AM
Author: aggressive halford

No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using the number pad for texting. Also Alec Baldwins character mentions the Patriot Act

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48969890)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 6:44 AM
Author: Boyish carmine base

tyvmft

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:25 AM
Author: Puce mother point

The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Creek.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48969850)



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Date: June 3rd, 2025 1:22 AM
Author: medicated confused university

Harry Potter

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 3:07 AM
Author: Glassy impertinent kitchen

The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - the drama with Cuba Gooding Jr. as OJ, not the documentary one.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48982587)



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Date: June 3rd, 2025 10:09 AM
Author: ruddy parlour

Good one

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 11:41 AM
Author: Racy private investor



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:39 AM
Author: Aquamarine puppy chad

tv show but derry girls.

wife insisted i watch it. i thought it would suck but it’s 180

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Date: June 8th, 2025 8:34 PM
Author: medicated confused university

It’s criminally underrated

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Date: June 9th, 2025 11:12 AM
Author: Aquamarine puppy chad



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