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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 28/07/2026

Via Yana Gallen at Summer Institute, both men and women care about amenities like work boundaries. The things we do to attract top female talent make the workforce better for everyone!!

Chart showing value of workplace features in Denmark like long hours, evening work, and working near home. Women value each more, but not THAT much more.

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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 16/07/2026

My favorite thing on the internet right now. (Charity photo shoot in Spain when Messi played for Barcelona).

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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 15/07/2026

Devastated that Unilever is shutting down the Ben and Jerry's foundation, in betrayal of the original merger agreement to allow it to continue to operate without corporate interference. Ben and Jerry's has been a valued funder of our work at @openheartsnyc.bsky.social and countless grassroots orgs.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 15, 2026
CONTACT: Alexandra MacLean 1-802-272-0443
The Ben & Jerry's Foundation Announces Suspension of Operations Following Funding Cutoff by Unilever/Magnum
After 40 years of supporting grassroots social change, the Foundation will be forced to suspend operations unless it obtains a favorable ruling in its legal challenge
South Burlington, VT, - The Ben & Jerry's Foundation today announced it will suspend operations as of December 31, 2026, unless it obtains a favorable ruling in its legal challenge to its loss of funding. The Foundation is actively pursuing that challenge which is expected to extend into next year and is fully committed to seeing it through. This year-end suspension of operations follows the April 2025 decision by Unilever’s spinoff, The Magnum Ice Cream Company (TMICC), to cut the Foundation's funding and its more recent mandate for the Foundation to vacate its corporate office by today, July 15, 2026. Without these essential resources, the Foundation cannot continue its work.
"After forty years of investing in grassroots organizations working to make the world a more just and better place, TMICC is causing us to shut down at exactly the moment that work is most urgently needed,” said Liz Bankowski, President of the Board of Trustees. “While we’ve lost funding and been removed from our office, we stand firm in the belief that the law and the facts are on our side.”
Since its founding, the Ben & Jerry's Foundation has been unwavering in its mission: to support progressive social change at the grassroots level and to engage Ben & Jerry's employees in that work. Last October, the Foundation celebrated its 40th anniversary, a milestone honoring thousands of small grassroots organizations whose work to advance justice, human dignity, and environmental protection was bolstered by the Foundation's early and often catalytic support. Beyond the national grants program, the withdrawal of funds also affects roughly $600,000 contr…

For more than 25 years, following Unilever's acquisition of Ben & Jerry's in 2000, the Foundation operated without corporate interference - a true testament to the integrity of the original merger agreement. That agreement established an Independent Board to oversee the company's product integrity and historic social mission and provided for Foundation funding under an annual formula. The Foundation's independence was never questioned, even when it funded Migrant Justice during a period when that organization was considering a boycott of Ben & Jerry's. Rather than interfering, Ben and Jerry’s, led by the Independent Board, responded by becoming the first dairy company to establish a human rights program designed and built by farm workers themselves.
"The Ben & Jerry's Foundation was a key early funder for our work; they helped us get to where we are today," said Will Lambek, of Migrant Justice. "They believed in the human rights vision of Vermont farmworkers, even when it brought us into direct conflict with the company itself. The Foundation's decision to fund Migrant Justice while we were campaigning against Ben & Jerry's was a testament to its independence, courage, and integrity. They have brought that same integrity to all of their funding decisions over the past forty years."
Everything changed in early 2025, when Unilever restructured its ice cream businesses under a new corporate entity, TMICC. Using a pretextual governance review and a promised but never-disclosed audit, TMICC moved to remove a Foundation trustee and members of Ben and Jerry’s Independent Board and to cut off funding to the Foundation. The Foundation joined the Independent Board in a legal challenge under the merger contract, the case that is currently pending in federal court in New York.
"We are a $6 million foundation,” said Bankowski. “TMICC is a multi-billion-dollar multinational corporation. This is exactly the kind of David and Goliath fight our grantees face every day – and like the…

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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 04/06/2026

A felony and $2 million fine! Truly wild in a world where Trump kept reams of documents in his toilet. "The plea deal comes months after the top Trump foe was charged by prosecutors in Maryland for allegedly keeping diary entries from the first Trump White House in his home."

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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 20/01/2026

The Carney speech is indeed very, very good. paulwells.substack.com/p/the-carney...

We knew the story of the international rules-based order was partially false. That the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient. That trade rules were enforced asymmetrically. And that international law applied with varying rigour depending on the identity of the accused or the victim.

This fiction was useful, and American hegemony, in particular, helped provide public goods: open sea lanes, a stable financial system, collective security, and support for frameworks for resolving disputes.

So, we placed the sign in the window. We participated in the rituals. And largely avoided calling out the gaps between rhetoric and reality. This bargain no longer works. Let me be direct: we are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition. Over the past two decades, a series of crises in finance, health, energy, and geopolitics laid bare the risks of extreme global integration.

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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 15/01/2026

Ack, sorry, should have verified! Apparently he SAID that, but there's no verification he's actually on the list. I guess it was based on the below post (my screenshot from X). The fact that he's free, pardoned by Trump, is 100% true, however.

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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 30/12/2025

Guys this is so seriously fucked up. Like, I know it's cliche at this point, but can you imagine if Obama...? www.cnn.com/2025/11/02/p... (sorry it's paywalled)

"A timeline of US strikes on boats that have killed 107" (CNN)

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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 31/10/2025

Happy Halloween!!!! My little bookworm celebrating recent book launches from @itsafronomics.bsky.social, Judd Kessler, @falklab.bsky.social and more!

A baby in a green onesie and red hat meant to look like the very hungry caterpillar with cut out book covers attached.

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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 27/10/2025

Making this graph was "me-search"--I wanted to understand why things felt so HARD for me when I was on the tenure track and had a new baby. Money was tight and so being urged to spend it to make time felt like gaslighting! I was teaching extra to make *money*!! (the opposite conversion).

Picture of me when my son was a baby, in an NYC apartment we couldn't afford, commuting to my job in Philly!

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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 27/10/2025

Which is women getting pushed into the labor force by the bottom falling out of the marriage economy, via easier divorce, without a true change in underlying gender roles or attitudes. So what's "The Squeeze"? It's a period in life when time any money pressures hit at the same time for women.

A graph depicting a mountain of childcare and housework time over women's lifecycle, peaking at 35. Income increases and peaks at age 50, the end of the graph.

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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 27/10/2025

This is the first graph from the book, which shows that the increase in work hours for women and decrease in housework time (bc of time-saving technology) exactly offset each other. But that increase in childcare time? Unaccounted for. We spend twice as much time with our kids as a generation ago!

Graph showing women's time on market work increasing from 20 to 30 hours a week from 1975 to 2015 while time on housework decreases from 25 to 15. Men's hours stays the same. Time with kids increases from 6 to 12 over the same period.

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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 27/10/2025

Hi! Since others are talking about my book, thought I'd share a little about it. The book is a love letter to women everywhere wondering why their time just isn't adding up. It turns out, it's not you! We are getting massively squeezed by structural changes! 🧵 www.amazon.com/Having-All-T...

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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 14/10/2025

On my way to Boston for this!! Can't wait!! Signup here: luma.com/p2tci7bh

October 14th Chestnut Hill MMLaFleur 6-8pm, Corinne Low in conversation with Lise Vesterlund regarding book, Having It All

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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 07/10/2025

Got to tape at the storied BBC with the one and only @timharford.ft.com! Can't wait for you to hear about what the data has to say about men pulling their weight. Femonomics is the UK title of Having It All. Thank you for hosting me for 36 hours, London!!!

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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 03/10/2025

I could not love this article any more. YES the NBA makes more-- but players get a higher PERCENTAGE of revenue.

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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 23/09/2025

My book, a labor of love, with 15 years of my own research and the stories of countless women, is out today!! I document why women's time has gotten so squeezed, and then provide actionable, evidence-based strategies on what we can do about it! So many people on here did the research in the book! 🙏

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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 18/09/2025

Thrilled to finally have this incredibly important work by @itsafronomics.bsky.social in my hands!!! We on econ Twitter of yore know that Anna is PEERLESS at scicomm for econ--breaking down complex topics to make them palpable, relatable, and fun. Get yours!! a.co/d/9z7ktCf

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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 18/09/2025

If you can't join one of the in person events, this zoom tonight with the incredible @jessicacalarco.com is a great chance to hear about Having It All. Can't wait to dig into the structural problems facing women and WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT IT! And attendees can win a book!

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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 09/09/2025

I did this beautiful event with Eve Rodsky at a fancy hotel. It was life affirming and incredible. AND, behind the scenes I am living in my book cover. I flew to LA for this event, and my 4 month old baby decided that she didn't want to take a bottle all of a sudden and cried the whole time.

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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 31/08/2025

So excited that THE @jessicacalarco.com will be moderating a virtual event about Having It All! Sept 18th, 8EST/7CST. If you can't make an in-person stop, this is a great option! We'll be talking why the world isn't working for women & how to change it! www.familyactionnetwork.net/events/havin...

Event flyer for having it all, Corinne Low and Jessica Calarco, September 18th at 7 central.

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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 26/08/2025

Lisa Cook documented the devastation of the end of Reconstruction. This graph, from her paper "Violence and Economic Activity," shows the effects of Jim Crow on Black patenting and newspapers. As she said on Planet Money: "1899 was the peak year for African American patents per capita. It still is."

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/876097416
https://www.jstor.org/stable/44113425

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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 21/08/2025

Did someone say book tour??? Hopefully coming to a city near you!! Links to register for bookstore events here (NYC, Philly, Santa Monica, Boston), more links coming soon! linktr.ee/corinnelow

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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 18/08/2025

Bloomberg did such a beautiful job of covering my research on women's time use! "You see this mountain in child care + housework time at the same time as women are trying to invest in their careers.” Intensive parenting + intense careers = a perfect storm. Gift 🔗: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Purple and yellow graphs showing women's time use and earning over the life cycle. Click link for text describing.

Purple and yellow graphs showing women and men's time use changing over 50 years. Click link for text describing.

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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 15/08/2025

New Yorkers! @itsafronomics.bsky.social is coming to 92Y to discuss The Double Tax with Chelsea Clinton! Get your tickets now -- Advance sales of these types of events are super important! www.92ny.org/event/anna-g...

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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 30/07/2025

The returns on marriage have changed. For many women, the math just isn’t mathing anymore. 💍 Check out my newsletter to learn about the shifting economics of partnership and why more women are opting out. 📩 subscribepage.io/A6iiIU

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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 28/07/2025

I wrote a book and these people read the book!!! And they even liked it! I'm so excited to share this labor of love with the world in less than two months!

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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 11/07/2025

I talked to Ellen Bryan about JUST how uneven the load still is at home—take a look for one stat that genuinely shocked me. 📖 You can pre-order Having It All now at @barnesandnoble for 25% off! Use code PREORDER25 at checkout. Full interview here: www.wusa9.com/video/entert...

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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 09/07/2025

Was on Great Day Washington with the amazing Ellen Bryan, who is living the #HavingItAll life! Baby's first green room, lol!

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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 08/07/2025

Want 25% off Having It All? Preorder now through Friday @barnesandnoble.com 📚 Learn about the structural economic forces leading women to get a bad deal at home and work, and how we can carve out more joy amid those constraints! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/having-it-...

Graphic showing orange book cover: "Having It All: What Data Tells Us About Women's Lives and Getting the Most Out of Yours," Corinne Low, PhD. On blue background saying "Barnes and Noble: Preorder offer for a limited Time! 25% off. From July 8-11. Flatiron Books."
Use code PREORDER25 at checkout. Premium Members get an extra 10% off.

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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 27/06/2025

My newsletter Femonomics is live! This series will unpack the choices we face & the costs we carry to “have it all." The first edition looks at the economics of egg freezing and my own experience freezing embryos at 38 (📊 there's a chart in there I wish I'd seen sooner). Subscribe: bit.ly/femonomics

Corinne holding a baby and a laptop and reading my book, Having It All.

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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 24/06/2025

Thank you @carosanderson.bsky.social for including Femonomics (the UK title of Having It All) as one of her 10 nonfiction highlights for the fall! Pub date September 25th in the UK!

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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 16/06/2025

This kiddo got his advanced copy already---enter below to win yours!! (Or media, podcasts, etc, just ask! info@corinnelow.com ) Pictured: what it's like to get ready to launch a book on maternity leave. #HavingItAll

Corinne in a chair with laptop and baby, wife giving me water, 8 year old in soccer jersey reading my book beside me.

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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 04/06/2025

This event was so fun and my friend Emily is so smart, buy her book! wwnorton.com/books/978132...

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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 20/05/2025

Bluesky what are we reading this summer? This is my maternity leave lineup. Paperback fiction, and lots of journaling. Ishiguro is a favorite and I haven't read this, same with Vonnegut, and of course need something light in there, too, and heard good things about Evelyn Hugo!

4 books arranged in a grid--a green journal with a gold geometric pattern, Kazoo Ishuiguro "The Buried Giant," "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo," and "Cat's Cradle" by Vonnegut.

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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 15/05/2025

Well if this isn't peak "Having It All"--advanced reader copies for the book arrived at my door just in time for this little one's one-week birthday. Thanks to the Philly friends holding us down with meals, hugs, and in-the-moment photography services.

Tired momma holding sleeping one-week-old baby with orange, purple, and green book entitled "Having It All."

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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 11/05/2025

Her middle name is 天使 Tianxi, meaning angel. But my wife and I chose it bc the two characters mean Heaven + Send, and she's our gift from the universe--the dream baby neither of us thought we would get to have. Gonna do a newsletter soon on egg/embryo freezing, and the graph I wish I'd seen earlier!

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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 11/05/2025

This little angel got here just in time for Mother's Day. My path as a mom started a long time ago, when I became a step-mom to a wonderful now young adult. Then came K. Then an 8 year journey filled with twists and turns, and now, baby H, after starting the process to freeze embryos two years ago.

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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 02/05/2025

Different title in the UK: my old handle Femonomics, published by @hodderbooks.bsky.social! UK preorders: lnk.to/Femonomics I absolutely cannot wait to share this story, data, and mandate to find a better way with you all. In the meantime, I'm gonna go have a baby real quick--back soon!

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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 02/05/2025

Thrilled to share the cover of my upcoming book, Having It All: What Data Tells Us About Women's Lives and Getting the Most Out of Yours. @flatironbooks.bsky.social, Sept 23! Containing 15 years of research & my personal story. Preorder links, book talks, & newsletter here! corinnelow.com/book

Orange, pink, and yellow book cover with white text, showing various objects representing women's lives, from a house to a kid's bike to an airplane, with some objects representing the stress of it all: dinner on fire, a broken high heel, a crying baby, a spilled coffee cup, and overflowing inbox. Having It All: What Data Tells Us About Women's Lives and Getting the Most Out of Yours. Corinne Low, PhD. On Sale 9.23.25.

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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 14/04/2025

My good friend and brilliant scientist Emily Falk has a new book out about the alignment between our choices and our values, and how we can use neuroscience to understand the gap, and make better choices for ourselves and our communities. Get your copy! bookshop.org/p/books/what...

Me holding Emily's book, with the title "What We Value" in a rainbow gradient, positioned as though on a scale.

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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 04/02/2025

This is not a left/right issue--PEPFAR was started by George W. Bush, and R Sen Bill Cassidy is calling for funds to be released: x.com/senbillcassi... Medication withheld IS lives lost. People's viral loads will rebound, be transmissible, + may become unresponsive to ARTs. 3/4

Tweet from US Senator Bill Cassidy, MD: PEPFAR is the epitome of soft power. It is a Republican initiative, it is pro-life, pro-America and the most popular U.S. program in Africa. There’s even a waiver acknowledging this, yet I’m told that drugs are still being withheld at clinics in Africa. This must be reversed immediately!!
With attached letter to the state department.

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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 04/02/2025

Letter here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Signatories including Joseph Stiglitz, Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Janet Currie, Costas Meghir, Seema Jayachandran, Pascaline Dupas, and Ted Miguel below. Please download the full PDF of the letter and share with your representative! 2/4

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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 04/02/2025

I am hearing that PEPFAR programs are still being stalled, and medication appointments cancelled, despite a waiver in place to allow life-saving programs to continue. Thus, @belindaarch.bsky.social and I are sharing the letter we wrote, signed by 110 economists, urging its continuation. 1/4

Text of letter available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SMkdyaeJWOHN4y-DC5RPY1ZGk9B_SIIk5Tv_Yz5zQRw/edit?tab=t.0

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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 27/11/2024

At the waiting room for little pre-thanksgiving cast change for this little angel, so let me tell you about Wharton's great econ job candidates!! #econsky

Cute kid with a red and black striped cast.

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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 19/11/2024

Editing my book, my 7yo asks to take a look. Carefully examining this figure, he says "Wait, 0, 80, 60, 240.... that doesn't make any sense." Me: Laughs. "What? Oh... you're right. It's supposed to be 160, it must have gotten cut off by the label." So anyway, I have a new copyeditor.

Image shows a chart of women's time and income over the lifecycle. The y axis for minutes per day says 0, 80, 60, 240. The error is marked out in pen.

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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 11/11/2024

Really important new work by Carolina Arteaga and Victoria Barone on how the opioid epidemic fueled support for Republicans, identified off of geographic variation in initial Oxycontin marketing exposure. viquibarone.github.io/baronevictor...

In this paper we establish a causal connection between two of the most salient social developments in the United States over the past decades: the opioid epidemic and the rise in partisanship and polarization. Drawing on unsealed records from litigation against Purdue Pharma, we uncover rich geographic variation in the marketing of prescription opioids that serves as a quasi-exogenous source of exposure to the epidemic. We use this variation to document significant increases in drug-related mortality and greater reliance on public transfer programs. This induced economic hardship led to substantial changes in the political landscape of those communities most affected by the opioid epidemic. We estimate that from the mid-2000s to 2020, exposure to the opioid epidemic continuously increased the Republican vote share in House, presidential, and gubernatorial elections. By the 2020 House elections, a one-standard-deviation increase in our measure of exposure led to a 4.6 percentage point increase in the Republican vote share. This higher vote share in the House translated into Republicans winning additional seats from 2012 until 2020.

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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 02/09/2024

The New Yorker's September cover is going to stay with me for a long time. "Who takes care of the children of the people who take care of your children" is a question I implore everyone who has the means to pay for private childcare to ask themselves.

A Black woman sits on a playground bench holding a white toddler. She shows an image of a young Black man, presumably her son, in a graduation gown to a brown-skinned woman standing next to her, holding a pink scooter, apparently caring for the helmeted red-headed girl, also white, running toward the playground.

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