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Apoorva Sripathi

@apoorvasripathi.bsky.social
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writer-editor-artist-poet-butter enthusiast, does other things also. www.apoorvasripathi.com

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Apoorva Sripathi @apoorvasripathi.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
any poets or fiction writers here, please submit to chlorophyll's issue 4 'ghosts'! complete details of theme in the ‘about us’ section and you have until this week to submit! please send us some weird lit or poetry that can reduce us to dust (or something like that!)
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About us — Chlorophyll homepage
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Apoorva Sripathi @apoorvasripathi.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
hello party people and homebodies, if you’re looking for a recipe for this christmas/nye/holiday season that is also a showstopper, consider my brilliant veg biryani that is time consuming but gratifying to make! this is also my last newsletter for 2025, become a paid subscriber, support my work! ty
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Brilliant vegetable biryani
A labour of love AND a showstopping dish for party season
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Anna Aslanyan @anna-aslanyan.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
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Anna Aslanyan | On the Picket Line
On Monday morning, more than a hundred people formed a picket line outside one of the entrances to the British Library...
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Apoorva Sripathi @apoorvasripathi.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
i wrote a short story for chlorophyll mag called Parasite on loneliness, hunger, and monstrosity and i think you should all read it! chlorophyllmag.com/parasite-1
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Parasite — Chlorophyll homepage
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Apoorva Sripathi @apoorvasripathi.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
hi i'm doing xmas prints so i can make some money this december - it has been tough with writing, so here's some art from me! choose from four A4 prints (or get them all) of wobbly jelly, a solitary bag of sugar, a hand claw holding orange wine, and a lush swiss roll apoorvasripathi.com/home/art/
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Art
Xmas prints, choose from wine/jelly/sugar/swiss roll – A4/£35 Cabbage print (portrait) – A5/£23 Cabbage print – A5 in portrait, printed on premium off-white 250gsm uncoated, light…
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Apoorva Sripathi @apoorvasripathi.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
you can also support our work by donating to us 🫂 all deets on our website
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Apoorva Sripathi @apoorvasripathi.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
issue 2 of chlorophyllmag.com is out tomorrow featuring a roster of brilliant writers. we’ll also be drip feeding the issue: essay/fiction/poem at regular intervals so you keep coming back! we’ll send snippets straight to your email as and when a new piece releases, so join our mailing list 💌
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Apoorva Sripathi @apoorvasripathi.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
shelf care is back with recommendations on what to read, and with a surprise for paid subs <3 you can opt to receive a small print for christmas/new year (depending on mail times) for the small price of only a postage fee. there are two options to choose from!
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shelf care: detours along the way
(#13) Recommendations on reading and consuming + a small surprise for paid subs
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Apoorva Sripathi @apoorvasripathi.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
ive stopped sharing my newsletter here because it didn't do much for me or the newsletter and yet i cannot resist. a bonus recipe for paid subscribers featuring cauliflower caponata, a one-pan no-stir recipe for cold weeknights shelfoffering.substack.com/p/one-pan-ca...
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One-pan cauliflower caponata
A stunning new staple in my house this winter
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Apoorva Sripathi @apoorvasripathi.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
before i take some time off, a missive on why you should become a paid subscriber to my newsletter, shelf offering. one perk i forgot to add was that this automatically gets you into the workshops, talks, and discussions at FFF. plus a zine that's incoming EOY
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One thing and another
This work is endless – support me and become a paid subscriber
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Apoorva Sripathi @apoorvasripathi.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
if you’re in london, i urge you to go to the Wayne Thiebaud exhibition at The Courtauld Gallery from this Friday onwards. this is the first ever museum show of his work in the UK and ahead of that, i’m resharing my essay on his artwork and life via sugar and solitariness. read, enjoy, go!
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Pies, loneliness, pies
Sugar and solitariness in Wayne Thiebaud's paintings, plus a writer community announcement
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Apoorva Sripathi @apoorvasripathi.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
5 years of independent newsletter writing and it's becoming more and more difficult to continue in a self-sustaining way unless i have some sort of following that will pay for any kind of shit i write. unfortunately i dont possess the personality of a cult leader. should i bemoan my lack of guile?
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Apoorva Sripathi @apoorvasripathi.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
september roundup: links on some interesting articles that i’ve curated from the internet, a compilation of what i’ve cooked and consumed, a podcast rec (!!) and a picture of my cat. become a paid subscriber if you are nosey and wanna know what i’ve been upto. oh and solve the MONTHLY CROSSWORD
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shelf care: burnt and burnished
(#12) Recommendations on reading and consuming, plus the monthly crossword
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Apoorva Sripathi @apoorvasripathi.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
issue 2 cover reveal ‼️ we publish soon but in the meantime here’s our cover, a trompe l'oeil of posted notices and prints that plays with the flexibilities of language and the meanings (spoken and unspoken) you can find in words. give issue 1 a read while you wait 📰 chlorophyllmag.com
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Apoorva Sripathi @apoorvasripathi.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
issue 2 cover reveal ‼️ we publish soon but in the meantime here’s our cover, a trompe l'oeil of posted notices and prints that plays with the flexibilities of language and the meanings (spoken and unspoken) you can find in words. give issue 1 a read while you wait 📰 chlorophyllmag.com
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sarah duignan @anthrodish.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
this week on the newsletter, a field log of a disappearing canadian chocolate. on factory labour, snack historians, bloggers who track old candy labels down, and dubious statements from international corporations! sarahduignan.substack.com/p/a-farewell...
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a farewell to neilson jersey milk chocolate bar
fieldnotes on canadian chocolate discontinuations
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Apoorva Sripathi @apoorvasripathi.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
join us on 29 september for a meet-and-greet with the FFF gang! come and tell us what you'd like to see from us? how would you like to participate? how can we support your work, too? ask us questions or just chat with us. register via link in the newsletter, and my paid subs go for free 💞
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What does it mean to be a woman in food writing?
Join us Feminist Food Friends on 29 September for a conversation
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Apoorva Sripathi @apoorvasripathi.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
a bunch of us lovely talented people have formed Feminist Food Friends and there will be talks, discussions, workshops and more cool stuff to come! paid subscribers to shelf offering attend for free and for everyone else, an accessible ticket is available: luma.com/a4mibq9c illustrations by me 🥰
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Apoorva Sripathi @apoorvasripathi.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
a bunch of us lovely talented people have formed Feminist Food Friends and there will be talks, discussions, workshops and more cool stuff to come! paid subscribers to shelf offering attend for free and for everyone else, an accessible ticket is available: luma.com/a4mibq9c illustrations by me 🥰
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Apoorva Sripathi @apoorvasripathi.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
for @vittles.bsky.social, i wrote on the joys of lentils via two recipes for making sundal, which is a dish that dares to be categorised into one thing but is actually many things – think beyond dal! this is my urging to you
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More than just Dal
Apoorva Sripathi's quick and easy sundals using green lentils and chickpeas, plus a refreshing roasted peach and rosewater lassi.
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Apoorva Sripathi @apoorvasripathi.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
i wrote about memento mori, weird art – an apron made out of fish, blocks of frozen fruits, Victorian hair tokens – and the beauty in bizarre things. please read and repost! (yes it's on substack)
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Apoorva Sripathi @apoorvasripathi.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
for paid subscribers, a recipe for those abundant late season juicy tomatoes - turn them into curry!
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Tomato season paneer curry
Bursting with ripe tomatoes, onions two ways, and capsicum of all colours
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Apoorva Sripathi @apoorvasripathi.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
i wrote about memento mori, weird art – an apron made out of fish, blocks of frozen fruits, Victorian hair tokens – and the beauty in bizarre things. please read and repost! (yes it's on substack)
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Apoorva Sripathi @apoorvasripathi.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
something cheerful to start Tuesday morning with: a shelf offering on death in art but also transitory, bizarre, beautiful things via memento mori and fish aprons
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The bizarre and the beautiful
Pleasure is futile but death is certain in art and life
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Apoorva Sripathi @apoorvasripathi.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
my VERY tamil dad thinks i'm eating spaghetti for breakfast because i now live in europe
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Apoorva Sripathi @apoorvasripathi.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
anyway, today is chathurthi for those who celebrate. for those who don't and are thinking of dumplings, consider this essay on them by me
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The Kuzhakattai Is a Simple, Versatile Dumpling with History — Whetstone Magazine
Versatile in form and adaptable by way of filling, kuzhakattais in all their forms are a true showcase of simple pleasures.
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Apoorva Sripathi @apoorvasripathi.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
saw something that made me stop in my tracks: white man posting about how South Indian food is NOW part of life in north India. the evidence is that he has personally visited two north indian cities and ate dosai. i ask myself, where will we be without white men & feel honoured by their presence
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Apoorva Sripathi @apoorvasripathi.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
monthly roundup on what i’ve been reading/eating/cooking/watching is here, along with the monthly crossword – solve it, share it etc etc
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shelf care: too many tomatoes
(#11) Recommendations on reading and consuming, plus the monthly crossword
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Karmela Padavic-Callaghan (they/them) @kpc.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Earlier this summer I could not stop talking about how big of a deal it was that my mom was coming to visit me in NYC, now I finally wrote up what we did and how it went for my personal newsletter. What do you do with a mom that's cooler than you? ultracold.substack.com/p/mediadiet-...
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Media/Diet (August '25)
How to host your mom in NYC (but she's more fun than you and already loves the city)
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Apoorva Sripathi @apoorvasripathi.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
for shelf offering paid subscribers, a rasam-dal hybrid that does double duty, as both a thin and watery rasam, as well as a gloopy and thick dal. Either way, eat it with rice or some toast – or puree the whole thing into soup and call it dinner. you wont find recipes like this elsewhere but here 🫡
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Green tomato rasam
Or dal, depending on how you look at it
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Apoorva Sripathi @apoorvasripathi.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
another shelf offering missive on hands, on chasing imperfections, and the specificity they demand shelfoffering.substack.com/p/chasing-im...
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Chasing imperfections
Are hands beautiful only when held in certain poses?
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Apoorva Sripathi @apoorvasripathi.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
another shelf offering missive on hands, on chasing imperfections, and the specificity they demand shelfoffering.substack.com/p/chasing-im...
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Chasing imperfections
Are hands beautiful only when held in certain poses?
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Apoorva Sripathi @apoorvasripathi.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
i wrote about rejecting despair in the face of changing narratives re Gaza and general defeatism shelfoffering.substack.com/p/rejecting-...
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Rejecting despair
Summoning some thoughts about the current narrative
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Apoorva Sripathi @apoorvasripathi.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
hey, i've been selling my art so i can make more money to live beyond paycheck to paycheck and because i'm pretty fucking talented. so if you like it, please buy my art? currently selling these beautiful curly cabbage prints on my website: apoorvasripathi.com/home/art/ reposting this also helps!
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Art
Cabbage print (portrait) – A5/£23 Cabbage print – A5 in portrait, printed on premium off-white 250gsm uncoated, lightly hammered Fedrigoni card. Made with FSC® certified pulp. It has a …
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Apoorva Sripathi @apoorvasripathi.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
for paid subscribers, a new recipe for the heatwave: spiced lemonade aka shikanji – lemon & jaggery come to form the sweet and sour base and is then topped with herbs and spices such as chaat masala, ground cumin, and black pepper. make it and drink it with lots of ice; spike it with rum or whiskey
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Spiced lemonade aka shikanji
Sweet, sour, savoury, funky, and exceptionally addictive
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Apoorva Sripathi @apoorvasripathi.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
ATTN paid subscribers: starting this month, i'll be constructing crosswords every month for you <3 (alongside a roundup of what i'm reading, eating, and working on) go and solve it - it's a 5x5 mini grid shelfoffering.substack.com/p/shelf-care-9
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shelf care #9
Recommendations on reading and consuming, plus the start of monthly crosswords
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Apoorva Sripathi @apoorvasripathi.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
ATTN paid subscribers: starting this month, i'll be constructing crosswords every month for you <3 (alongside a roundup of what i'm reading, eating, and working on) go and solve it - it's a 5x5 mini grid shelfoffering.substack.com/p/shelf-care-9
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shelf care #9
Recommendations on reading and consuming, plus the start of monthly crosswords
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Apoorva Sripathi @apoorvasripathi.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
my recipe series for Something Curated continues: mango rasam, for a combination of flavours that sing of pleasure and joy! It is great mixed with hot rice but equally refreshing as a standalone drink.
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A Hot and Fragrant Rule-Breaking Mango Rasam to Start the Summer As You Mean to Go On
I make rasam to remind myself of the volatility of the act and to remember what my mother says about cooking and life: there are no rules.
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Apoorva Sripathi @apoorvasripathi.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
do call it a comeback! for my first essay post the forced newsletter break, a missive on motherhood connected by Burnt Sugar and Mary Cassatt via memory and consumption 💌 also prev paid subscribers, come back and give me another chance!
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Remembering, forgetting
On motherhood, memory, and consumption in Burnt Sugar and Mary Cassatt's works
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Apoorva Sripathi @apoorvasripathi.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
hey if you have that poem/fiction/non fiction pitch languishing in your drafts and it connects to chlorophyll’s issue 2 theme, then send it our way! we’re unable to pay currently and we’re working to reverse that but we will read your work with care <3 chlorophyllmag.com/about-us
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About us — Chlorophyll homepage
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Apoorva Sripathi @apoorvasripathi.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
please send us your stories, poetry, and essay pitches!! deadline is 31 May!!!
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Apoorva Sripathi @apoorvasripathi.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
please send us your stories, poetry, and essay pitches!! deadline is 31 May!!!
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Apoorva Sripathi @apoorvasripathi.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
🚨 for chlorophyll, i designed and constructed a crossword on the theme of language (some anomalies of course), featuring 33 words. it took me two days to think and design by hand and now i've hosted it on an open-source site where you can solve it and tell me how much you like it!
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chlorophyll magazine (@chlorophyll) | Crosshare Crossword Puzzles
The latest crossword puzzles from chlorophyll magazine (@chlorophyll). chlorophyll is an online literary magazine seeking abundance, desire, community, and insolence in writing.
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Apoorva Sripathi @apoorvasripathi.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
we’re seeking your brilliant thoughts & ideas again, for issue 2 of chlorophyll on the theme ‘language’. send us your essays, fiction, poetry before Monday, 31 May to chlorophyll.zine@gmail.com. check our website for guidelines and other queries 🌱 chlorophyllmag.com
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Apoorva Sripathi @apoorvasripathi.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
i need more people to take a look at what myself and Anne Wallentine have created - an online lit magazine publishing stunning prose & poetry! read: chlorophyllmag.com
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Chlorophyll homepage
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Apoorva Sripathi @apoorvasripathi.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
i need more people to take a look at what myself and Anne Wallentine have created - an online lit magazine publishing stunning prose & poetry! read: chlorophyllmag.com
chlorophyllmag.com
Chlorophyll homepage
cargo.site
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Apoorva Sripathi @apoorvasripathi.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
happy new moon, happy spring — issue 1 is out now featuring these amazing writers! read: chlorophyllmag.com
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Apoorva Sripathi @apoorvasripathi.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
i think we need to LOOK BACK and not forward with newsletters and starting next week i will handwrite my essays and deliver them through couriers or stand on the street and hand them out if anyone’s interested hit me up i will walk throughout south london and do this
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Apoorva Sripathi @apoorvasripathi.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
hey hi hello – myself and the talented Anne Wallentine are launching an online lit magazine. here is our (mock) cover for the inaugural issue set to release March 29 featuring prose + poetry by an exceptional group of writers. please support us! chlorophyllmag.com www.instagram.com/chlorophyllmag
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