Idiosyncrasies
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Topic: Idiosyncrasies
Posted By: Peace
Subject: Idiosyncrasies
Date Posted: 18 December 2006 at 9:23am
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A big word with definition:
Main Entry: id·i·o·syn·cra·sy Pronunciation: "i-dE-&-'si[ng]-kr&-sE Function: noun Inflected Form(s): plural -sies Etymology: Greek idiosynkrasia, from idio- + synkerannynai to blend, from syn- + kerannynai to mingle, mix -- more at CRATER 1 a : a peculiarity of constitution or temperament : an individualizing characteristic or quality b : individual hypersensitiveness (as to a drug or food) 2 : characteristic peculiarity (as of temperament); broadly : ECCENTRICITY - id·i·o·syn·crat·ic /"i-dE-O-(")sin-'kra-tik/ adjective - id·i·o·syn·crat·i·cal·ly /-'kra-ti-k(&-)lE/ adverb Ok, so what makes you eccentric (weird)? I was thinking the other day that I have a couple of certain characteristics that make me weird and anal and I would love to hear of others. Mine: I can't handle anyone else opening my fastfood straws, packages or mail. I have to do it myself or it totally pisses me off! I am ritualistic with what I do when I have Olivia in bed, any slight differance in her activity totally screws my day. I stop what I am doing every night at 6.30pm to watch the T.V show "Friends" even though I have seen them a billion times. I've read the Harry Potter series so much I need a new set of books as mine are worn 
I hate, hate, hate, getting touched by the wet shower curtain while I am in the shower. I always wash myself in the same routine while I am in the shower. ------------- DD1 May 2006 DD2 March 2011 DD3 August 2012 |
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Posted By: nicola86
Date Posted: 18 December 2006 at 9:35am
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ok ill join in.
I hate people opening my mail. I have to check on jake before i go to bed even if i checked him like 10minutes before. I also hate being touched by the wet shower curtain. i sleep with lots of blankets on even if it is real hot. Well thats all that i can think of right now 
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Posted By: jax
Date Posted: 18 December 2006 at 10:11am
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Oooh... I have to get the munchkin up, but I'll put up a proper list later on today... for now...
I HATE WET TEA BAGS in the bloody sink !!!!!!!! ------------- Jacquie - Mama to Erin, 13.07.06 - Chief Cat Chaser & Marmite Sammie Eater 
Love many, trust few, harm none. ~Anon~ |
Posted By: fattartsrock
Date Posted: 18 December 2006 at 11:05am
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I have MILLIONS of them, but I will agree with the wet tea bags, and I HATE wet dishcloths in the sink! Yuck! Wring it out and leave it on the bench!!!
One of my big *shivers* too long pants... I hate it when you see people wandering around, they look nice, then yu get to their pants and they are walking on the bottoms of them, and they are all freayed and YUCK. Surely it isn't that hard to take up a cuff on pants? or pay the drycleaner $10 to do it???? ------------- The Honest Un PC Parent of 2, usually stuck in the naughty corner! :P |
Posted By: fattartsrock
Date Posted: 18 December 2006 at 11:09am
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oh and (although my last post isn't a shining example) poor spelling and grammar, I can't help myself from correcting people... I am very very embarrassingly (for others) bad for it, It makes me feel physically sick to see things spelt wrong, especially in menus etc.. Also, poor use (over use) of punctuation! I got an invitation to a 30th birthday party the other day that my friend had typed up on her 'puter. Very nicely done, but WAY too many apostrophies, I had to throw it out, as I couldn't stand to look at it!
Fair play, though, most of the mistakes in message boards are typos, fingers moving too fast for brain... ------------- The Honest Un PC Parent of 2, usually stuck in the naughty corner! :P |
Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 18 December 2006 at 11:38am
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My pet hate is when we (any group including me) gets takeaways and someone starts eating them before everyone's ready. Fair enough if people are slacking around and called, but if we pick up chips to take back home etc to eat, I'm driving, and you're sitting in the passenger seat eating chips I will get very cross!! Things like these always sound so silly though don't they? -------------  |
Posted By: mum2emj
Date Posted: 18 December 2006 at 12:42pm
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hehe i love how we can tell people our things like that (i reckon they make us all special and unique!) hubby thinks im a bit over the top with things so im sure i have heaps, will have to ask him for help though as it seems normal to me (how i feel and what i do!)
oh annie- you'd go nuts at me, at the moment i am wearing jeans that are too long and *shrug* freaying (sorry!) but then they are also falling off at the waist thanks to some weight getting dropped (woohoo!) |
Posted By: baalamb
Date Posted: 18 December 2006 at 1:29pm
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Peace, I laughed so hard when I read your post about the fastfood straws!!! Only because I can't imagine myself getting annoyed at anyone for opening it! Hehe too funny.
Mine (and I hope DH reads this  ):
- I HATE things left on the kitchen window sill. If you put something up there, please take it down! - I'm another one of those 'have to check the baby before going to sleep even if I just did it 10 mins ago' mums. - Bad formatting/too many text fonts drives me nuts - especially when it's on something that is meant to be professional or important etc. - We've got Winnie the Pooh bottles that have different coloured lids and pictures etc and the lid colour MUST match the colour of the writing on the side of the bottle. The first time DH didn't match the colours, he knew about it haha! (I've tried to loosen up on this because the green lid leaks  I just find I don't use that bottle unless I really really have to)
There's probably a whole bunch of other things! |
Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 18 December 2006 at 1:43pm
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One think for me is when I was doing Andrew's bottles (and will probably be the same for this one), is the ring and lid have to be the same when going into the fridge. DH would often when he did the bottles just put any lid on any bottle and it annoyed me they had to match. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 18 December 2006 at 1:46pm
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Oooo I'm sooo with you on the 'too many fonts' thing. I had to do a group assignment at uni with 3 boys - they used about 3 different fonts in the assignment. It drove me almost to tears! And they couldn't understand what I was getting annoyed with.
And yeah, sponge in the sink. ARGH. That makes me sick. I bite my nails REALLY badly. Must stop. I just don't realise I am doing it  even when they are bleeding from being bitten so much.
So many more... mind blank. |
Posted By: fattartsrock
Date Posted: 18 December 2006 at 2:33pm
ewwww manky fingers, so NOT hot, Nikki! ------------- The Honest Un PC Parent of 2, usually stuck in the naughty corner! :P |
Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 18 December 2006 at 2:52pm
| I know. I'll do everything I can to hide them from you when I visit Annie. NO ONE sees these, unless they catch me out of course. |
Posted By: meow
Date Posted: 18 December 2006 at 2:54pm
Hahaha Annie, I don't think you would like me very much.. I love long pants, as I hate my sneakers and try to cover them up (don't ask me why I don't just get shoes I like, long story  ).. I like frayed jeans too!
Also love to bite my nails and usually do it when I'm bored or nervous.. I hate cloths hanging over the tap in the sink esp when they are all slimy!
I have to check the door is locked a few times at night (partly due to DP going out to do something and not locking it again). Can't think of any more right now but I'm sure there are lots! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 18 December 2006 at 3:09pm
Oh yeah, I'm a super-long pants wearer too. I hate my shoes sticking out. I'll wear a skirt for you Annie. 
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Posted By: Jay_R
Date Posted: 18 December 2006 at 3:16pm
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I HAVE to check on Joshie before I go to bed, even though I've usually just given him a bottle. I HATE balled up dishcloths on the bench or in the sink - please rinse it under the hot tap and leave on the side of the sink so they don't get STINKY. I'm a bit of a nut about punctuation too, and bad spelling, especially on menus or in ad's drive me crazy
I also hate the feel of cottonwool, toilet paper, tissues..... and I hate putting dirty feet into socks!! Hehehehe, I'm a freak
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Posted By: james
Date Posted: 18 December 2006 at 4:25pm
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ok mine
i hate people in my room even the thought frecks me out people not picking up after them sevels piss me right off i have too have everything for james or hemi before we leave if not i start frecking thereis more i just cant think of then right now ------------- <a href="http://lilypie.com"><img src="http://b4.lilypie.com/nLJ5p13.png" alt="Lilypie 4th Birthday Ticker" border="0" /></a> |
Posted By: ellabellame
Date Posted: 18 December 2006 at 4:43pm
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hmmm, i had to think a bit but once i thought of one, more just kept coming to mind lol.
i hate hate hate the feeling of dried dirt on my skin, if i have it on my hands i can't touch anything until i've washed it all off, i can't even let my fingers touch each other until they're clean. i also have to check inside the toilet before i sit down on it, especially at night, for some reason i have an image in my head of a hand coming up and grabbing my bottom (blame it on scary movies). lol, i think that's weird enough, i won't tell anymore or no-one will want to talk to me anymore ------------- |
Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 18 December 2006 at 5:05pm
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I'm a super-long pants wearer too, but only cos i'm a short arse and despite knowing how to sew, do not know how to hem pants.. used to get my mummy to do it for me. lol. otherwise wore tall shoes, but with sore legs now.. i just fold them up inside and hoep they don't fall down.. but yeah, hate people walking on their pants.
Mike has a few that i get annoyed at. he's pedantic about the "blanking doofas" (ie, the little round bits that go inside the bottles) they have to match too, and he won't leave daycare till they are found if they aren't on the bottle when he gets there. lol (am sure the daycare teachers must get frustrated with him.. if only he was as on to it with making sure the kids clothes come home) He hates water on his hands.. ie, he wets a cloth for me to use when changing nappy.. he will have to stop, and dry his hands first.. anything where water gets on his hands.. even a dot, he has to stop and dry his hands... meanwhile i'm struggling with a child that doesn't see why she has to sit still for so damn long cos daddy needs to dry his hands! (have taken to ensuring that ihave 2 cloths ready most changes in case i need another.. otherwise have to wait for him to do his ritual. argh!.. same with getting bottles when kid is screaming in the night. for god sake the microwave takes 25 seconds.. yet he takes 3 or 4 minutes to get the bottle!!lol ok, anyway, i agree with the shower curtain thing, and the wet tea bags thing and the dish cloth.. has to wrung out and stuck on the bench! I hate my girls piggy tails being crooked.. Paris thinks i'm a cow cos i make her look STAIGHT ahead when doing her hair.. and if it is crooked.. I take it out and start again.. at least I don't do what my mum did and just yank on the hair to turn our head.. i ask her nicely. lol That and face cloths.. yeah, we have a few different sorts.. but geez, by now after coming round and folding our washing a fair few million times, mum still doesn't get it.. they are all VERY different, and folded differently.. he he.. I feel a bit like Monica off friends with her types of towels. There's bum cloths, soft wiping faces cloths, face cloths with pictures on for the bath, and our face cloths. Oh, and i hate unmade beds!!!.. even if the dishes haven't been done and there's washing piled on the couch.. the beds are made EVERY morning! I used to think mum was crazy cos we weren't allowed to sit on our beds when i was little. I let my kids sit on them.. but get grumpy if they play inside them and mess them up big time. oh my god i am like my mother how the hell did that happen?!  ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja 
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Posted By: my2angels
Date Posted: 18 December 2006 at 5:25pm
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I have heaps too but the main ones would be
1) have to spider check the bedroom before i can sleep 2) have to check the kids before bed and if i wake in the night 3) hate the smell of playdough, makes me gag 4) cant make scones cos i hate the dough under my nails 5) if Im in a lift by myself i have to block my ears and pace the lift. If others are in there with me i have to be closet to the door. 6) and I hate people watching me eat or talk. and pretty much everything everyone else has already said! |
Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 18 December 2006 at 5:26pm
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I have an extremely overactive imagination and once convinced myself that there was an invisible shark living in our pool.....I was 17years old. Oh the shame.
I only learnt to drive earlier this year. (yah me) I like my books to be in order - from tallest to shortest to tallest again (the bookcase has open sides) - and they must be facing the right way and right side up. And other than that, am completely normal |
Posted By: mum2emj
Date Posted: 18 December 2006 at 7:12pm
lol- i am exactly the same! we have the pooh bottles and they HAVE to match! hubby always mixes them up just to tease me MEANIE! he knows it drives me insane |
baalamb wrote:Posted By: fattartsrock
Date Posted: 18 December 2006 at 8:29pm
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OMG TOO MANY LONG PANTS WEARERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Another pet peeve, and I know this has been discussed long and hard before. People who CHANGE my toilet Roll from facing out to facing the wall.... I HATE that. We've got my parents living here ATM (now that is a RANT all on its own) and EVERY FRICKEN time I go to the loo, some sh*te head has turned the toilet roll over so the paper runs down the bloody wall, and it is driving me fecking nuts. When they move into their own place at the wekend, i will bloody well do it to them to show them how bloody annoying it is!  ------------- The Honest Un PC Parent of 2, usually stuck in the naughty corner! :P |
Posted By: aimeejoy
Date Posted: 18 December 2006 at 8:30pm
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Liz I so know what you mean about the shark in the pool thing! We used to live across the road from my primary school and mum was the cleaner til I was part way through high school, so I got to swim all summer, usually by myself tho. One year it got painted black (something about keeping the water warm) and I totally convinced myself that eels were in there cos the water came from the river!!
Also, I am phobic about birds (why does the Welly Zoo new nocturnal house not have glass! They should say that before you go in)
I hate dirty slimy cloths and tea towels etc, and it totally peeves me off when Daniel leaves the dish sponge wet in the sink
I hate people being late. I am hardly ever late, am usually at anything early and get really upset if I am late. Especially hate waiting for someone to come pick me up. I refold my washing if its not folded the "correct" way! Chewed up food makes me dry retch - although I must be getting immune to Hannahs cos I dont find it so gross. I know there are heaps more but having a mental blank... ------------- Aimee Hannah 22/10/05 Greer 11/02/08 |
Posted By: aimeejoy
Date Posted: 18 December 2006 at 8:31pm
Annie I walk on the back of my pants too!!  ------------- Aimee Hannah 22/10/05 Greer 11/02/08 |
Posted By: Jennz
Date Posted: 18 December 2006 at 8:54pm
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Hehe now to lose your respect...
1) I have to have the volume control on the car stereo/TV on an even number. 2) I hate excess bread on burgers- whenever I get a burger from a fast food place I always take off one of the buns, usually the bottom one (I take 2 buns off a big mac!). 3) All Charlottes toy sets have to be arranged a certain way after she goes to bed before I can rest for the evening. All the kitchen untensils in her toys kitchen have to be on the right knobs, the animals in the right homes etc. 4) I'm another spider checker before bed. 5) I hate mouth sounds or when people don't eat tidily and can't stand watching people eat ice cream My biggest one is when people talk to you on the phone and eat at the same time. I will always make my excuses and get off the phone if I can hear them eating. I even have to turn off the radio during some ads because of the slurpy way some people talk.
6) I go mad when our living room mat isn't straight. I adjust it about 20 times a day to be perfectly in line with the wood flooring and if I see DH move it (not on purpose) I have been known to yell... loudly. 7) I hate getting envelopes that have just been tucked in rather than sealed. 8) If I miss anything off my shopping list I have to go straight back to the supermarket and get it- I can't wait or it weighs on me and drives me nuts until I do it. There is more but I won't bore/worry you any further. I'm such a nutter! ------------- Jen, Charlotte 7 & Kate 3 
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Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 18 December 2006 at 9:15pm
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hehehehe you are so cute Jen!
*silently thinking* I wonder how many times I pissed you off with one of those?!? |
Posted By: my2angels
Date Posted: 18 December 2006 at 9:25pm
| Oh i hate burger buns to, and if you buy a sausage like the fund raiser ones they sell i rip half the bread off, i hate doughy bread and i also hate the lettuce in buns, cant stand warm lettuce so either get it made without lettuce or scrap it all out. |
Posted By: james
Date Posted: 18 December 2006 at 10:05pm
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ok tought of some more
i have the wrost fears of higth my fam bully me about all the time cant stand people sitting near the edge even on a carprak i follw the same rotine every moring
i hate mess on desk,s surfaces but am to lazy to clean it my self o and i hate being told waht to do if you ask there is no prob but if you tell me there will be ------------- <a href="http://lilypie.com"><img src="http://b4.lilypie.com/nLJ5p13.png" alt="Lilypie 4th Birthday Ticker" border="0" /></a> |
Posted By: fattartsrock
Date Posted: 18 December 2006 at 10:08pm
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Ahem *spelling*... ------------- The Honest Un PC Parent of 2, usually stuck in the naughty corner! :P |
Posted By: baalamb
Date Posted: 19 December 2006 at 8:11am
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DH has one with the alarm clock. He can't set it to say 6.30, it has to be at either 6.27 or 6.38 or something just as odd! It's NEVER set at anything ending with 5 or 0.
ETA: yesterday he asked me to set it at 5.59 and I didn't want to go all the way through to 59 so I set it at 6.01 (thinking a couple of minutes wouldn't matter) and got told off for it because he missed the news! |
Posted By: 11111
Date Posted: 19 December 2006 at 8:59am
Oh me too we don't have Winnie the pooh bottle's (wish I did tho) but the ones we do have are coloured. Rach DH is the same mixes them up just to tease me. I can't think of any more at the momnet for me, but DH has alarm issues too he alway's set's it way earlier then he has tp then uses the snooze button ever 10 min's for nearly an hour before he get's up. Oh and I hate the dish cloth in sink it must be rinsed in cold water the sat in hte bench flat till it dries. Oh am I am another one to check on hte kids all the time. ------------- Deborah Mum to:   
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Posted By: jax
Date Posted: 19 December 2006 at 1:10pm
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Just thought of another one... I am really pedantic about dirty dishes, WHY leave them on top of the counter (rinsed or not) when the dishwasher is just underneath it !? I always put things straight in (and rinse if needed), drives me nuts. Same about food packaging and bits of rubbish, our bin in the kitchen is right next to the stove, surely not that much of a stretch to reach. Although if the dishwasher is busy, I have to have all the dirty stuff lined up on the right hand side of the sink, and never the left ! What else... ah, tables ! No matter which table it is, it always has to line up parallel with the other furniture around it, I *hate* it when they sit at funny angles... like the dining table has to line up with the fridge, and the coffee table in the lounge has to line up with the rug AND the couches. And last but not least (for now!), laundry... I hate hate hate hate HATE it lying around in clumps on the bedroom floor, even more so in the bathroom - that's what we have laundry hampers for ! I got so fed up with this that I told DH that if it's not in the hamper, then it doesn't get washed, so then it's his own fault if he doesn't have anything clean to wear for work
Edited to add: I'm a spelling AND grammar nazi, but I blame it on my mum ! (She's got an MA in Linguistics.) I have to work really REALLY hard not to pick on people for it ------------- Jacquie - Mama to Erin, 13.07.06 - Chief Cat Chaser & Marmite Sammie Eater
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Posted By: aimeejoy
Date Posted: 19 December 2006 at 1:15pm
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I thought of another one too! I have a "thing" about walking on dirty floors, it just totally grosses me out, esp on lino/wood floors. I have to walk around on tip toes ------------- Aimee Hannah 22/10/05 Greer 11/02/08 |
Posted By: Peace
Date Posted: 19 December 2006 at 1:45pm
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All the dishes have to be washed and draining before I go to bed and all of Olivia's "fortnight toys" get lined up for the next day.
My fridge magnets on my fridge have a certain side of the fridge they are suposed to go on for what type of fridge magnet they are (plastic letters at the front, everything else holding up fliers down the side). All my baby clothes get washed and soaked separately from everything else and hung on their own indoor airer, even if it is sunny outside they go on the airer (outside though). Before I leave the house I always chant out loud "Keys! wallet! cellphone!" and since I have had Olivia it's "Keys! wallet! cellphone! nappies! formula! Olivia!" I have been known to sort cash and carry it in order of amount and cereal number (doesn't happen much now as I have no cash!). I get totally freaked out if Olivia sleeps any longer than 2 hours. ------------- DD1 May 2006 DD2 March 2011 DD3 August 2012 |
Posted By: littlejo
Date Posted: 19 December 2006 at 1:48pm
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I don't get it...you all sound perfectly normal to me! ------------- Jo Jo http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: 11111
Date Posted: 19 December 2006 at 1:49pm
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Oh how I wish I had a dish washer ------------- Deborah Mum to:
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Posted By: baalamb
Date Posted: 19 December 2006 at 2:16pm
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Hahaha I do that too Peace! The whole chant thing. Mine goes 'cellphone, wallet, keys' for me (keys has to be last because I check that before I shut and lock the door) and 'bag, bottle, bum (meaning nappies but nappy doesn't start with a 'b' hahaha!), baby' for Ashlee
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