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Melissa Eco-Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇪🇺

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Scottish Independence 💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙 Dumfries and Galloway 💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙

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Melissa Eco-Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @melissapudding.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
As we watch too many punch down on others due to their race, creed, gender or politics, I thought it’s a good day to post a favourite quote.
When you walk through that open door of opportunity, you don’t slam it shut behind you. You hold it open.
Michelle Obama
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Melissa Eco-Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @melissapudding.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Is that the Supreme Court ruling that just lost two cases in Scotland?? What’s the point of Labour, they’re certainly not fans of an inclusive society
I’d rather be excluded for who I include than be included for who I exclude.
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Melissa Eco-Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @melissapudding.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
A fantastic beach, sadly a bit cold and grey the day we visited
Photo of Lunan Bay, on a grey day.
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Melissa Eco-Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @melissapudding.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Oh wow the view you had. The best thing about a long view is the changes with the weather. My current view is probably the best I’ve ever had, across the valley to the hill farms opposite. Sadly often in a mist. Best shot on my camera roll was a sunset a few weeks ago
Sunset photo from my window.
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Melissa Eco-Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @melissapudding.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Come on Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Poster with details of Falkirk Unity March and Rally today at 10.30.
Don’t let the bussed in anti refugee Reform win.
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Melissa Eco-Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @melissapudding.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I got one of these, works well enough. But try a go at Sky first, in the meantime £15 will extend your Wi-Fi. Bit annoying the with this you need to change Wi-Fi network depending on which you’re closest to the the house. But same password, phew!
Photo of Wi-Fi extender
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Melissa Eco-Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @melissapudding.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Very disappointed that pigeon reading newspaper has gone, but did appreciate two cones on the tail. 💙Glasgow
Photo of Wellington statue outside GOMA, one traffic cone on his head,two traffic cones on his horse’s tail.
#LoveGlasgow
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Melissa Eco-Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @melissapudding.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Managed to get most off my fingers now, quite frankly I’m lucky I didn’t glue most of my fingers together 😱 Was repairing the front of one of the drawers, which fell off,on this. A tad crooked, but repaired. Now I can get off in the post to my great nephew.
Photo of legacy advent calendar… drawer for each day, now filled with chocolate treats and a few Christmas presents. 
Now to post off to my great nephew.
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Melissa Eco-Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @melissapudding.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
The juxtaposition of two frequently used emoji’s … 😁😁😁
Screen grab of two emoji’s next to each other in my most used.
Bonkers face and Union Jack
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Melissa Eco-Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @melissapudding.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
I’ll try to remember to look up quickly when they go over. Moffat also has it’s own spitfire and every September we have a spitfire fly over. Air Chief Marshall Dowding was born here. www.thedowdingspitfire.co.uk
Photo of Moffat Spitfire
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Melissa Eco-Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @melissapudding.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Might have been, you only catch a glimpse as you hear them after they’ve gone past. We also occasionally have this one fly through at low level, we assume training as no military air base near us, just hills and valleys
Transporter plane flying at low level.
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Melissa Eco-Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @melissapudding.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Brings to mind this …
I’d rather be excluded for who I include than be included for who I exclude.
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Melissa Eco-Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @melissapudding.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Oh yeah, she’s a favourite NOT!
Collection of photos of police attacking independence protestors in Catalan.  
Quote from Lisa … advocating that this is how to treat independence supporters in Scotland (not exact words, but the meaning of her words).
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Melissa Eco-Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @melissapudding.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Sorting out a few things to go to auction.
Vintage Japanese lantern sitting on a large pewter platter
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Melissa Eco-Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @melissapudding.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Things that every journalist in the UK should know by now;
Wales is not part of England
Northern Ireland is not part of England 
Scotland is not part of England 
The UK is not England
England is not the UK
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Melissa Eco-Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @melissapudding.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
England! Not UK!
Things that every journalist in UK should know by now:
Wales is not part of England
Northern Ireland is not part of England
Scotland is not part of England
The UK is not England
England is not the UK
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Melissa Eco-Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @melissapudding.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
It means I’m almost home 💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙
Photo of Welcome to Scotland sign on M74
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Melissa Eco-Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @melissapudding.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Also never forget this …
Photo is front page headline quoting Scottish LibDem leader “Scotland can never and should never exist again”.
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Melissa Eco-Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @melissapudding.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
A good reminder …
Collection of memes say what workers rights Reform have voted against:
- banning fire and hire
- improving access to sick pay
- banning exploitative zero hours contracts
- improving paternity pay
- allowing bereavement leave
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Melissa Eco-Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @melissapudding.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙
Photo taken by One O Clock Gun, Edinburgh Castle.
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Melissa Eco-Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @melissapudding.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
So now this should say “he gives me back £3.50” …
Barnett Forumla explained 
I have £10, my next door neighbour takes it. He gives me back £4 for me self.
He tells me I owe him a further£30 for a new lawn mower he bought for both is us.
I don’t have a lawn mower.
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Melissa Eco-Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @melissapudding.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
This springs to mind
Peanuts cartoon .. two kids sitting in classroom, one says to the other “no one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them”.
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Melissa Eco-Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @melissapudding.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
In the bakers, any requests?
Photo of displaying the bakers, pies, cakes, pastries, rolls and bread. 
Every one is delicious
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Melissa Eco-Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @melissapudding.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Many things, but perhaps the best was private tour and lunch at the Castle. We were up close and personal for the One O Clock gun. Yes we did get ear plugs 💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙
Me and OH standing next to the Gunner and the one o clock gun at Edinburgh castle. He is holding the shell that was fired. This was presented to our friend who organised the private tour and lunch.
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Melissa Eco-Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @melissapudding.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
She’s on my list of things to do. #BucketList I’ve been on the one on Lake Geneva, fabulous boat, lovely sunny but very cold journey.
Photo of the Belle Epoch, paddle steamer on Lake Geneva.
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Melissa Eco-Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @melissapudding.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Nerk!
From Oxford dictionary:
Nerk informal British English
A foolish, objectionable or insignificant person
“you little Nerk”
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Melissa Eco-Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @melissapudding.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Peanuts cartoon. Two kids sitting at school desks.
Linus (kid in front) looking over his shoulder and saying to girl behind “No one is going to give you the education to overthrow them!
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Melissa Eco-Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @melissapudding.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Every time I see his face, I think …
 Meme.
Backpfeifengesicht: 
Someone who makes you feel the desire to punch him in the face just by looking at him
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Melissa Eco-Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @melissapudding.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
I’m a big Pizza Express fan, but have had an awful meal at one. It was in Highgate, burnt pizza no good. Two favourites in Edinburgh, Northbridge and Britannia (great view see photo). Closest we visit often is in Carlisle.
Photo of the view from Pizza Express Britannia, in Edinburgh. Sunset view
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Melissa Eco-Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @melissapudding.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
A tad damp here, but the autumn show from the trees is spectacular, even on a grey day 🍁🍂🍁🍂🍁
View from my window of line of trees in a variety of autumn colours.
Tennis courts just in front of the trees, hill beyond.
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Melissa Eco-Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @melissapudding.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
I found one in my wee town today … was very excited. Never seen one before..
Photo of red top mushroom
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Melissa Eco-Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @melissapudding.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
I thought these only existed in fairy tales until today! 🍄
Photo of a red top mushroom with white stalk, next to fence (background) amid grass and a variety of leaves.
Apologies no idea what type/name of mushroom.
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Melissa Eco-Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @melissapudding.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
The very reason they have suspended Article 8 of ECHR? Telling us this was to allow deportations, but actually opens up all our data to them, and our private lives and homes.
article 8 protests your right to respect for private and family life, your home and correspondence
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Melissa Eco-Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @melissapudding.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Updated version …
Two pictures of rich man telling working man that the refugee/immigrant on opposite side of the table “careful buddy that foreigner wants your cookies”
Top drawing 1982 the plate in front of rich man has maybe 10 cookies.
Bottom drawing 2025, the plate in front of rich man has enormous pile of cookies.
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Melissa Eco-Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @melissapudding.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Might have been same day we had this sunset. Taken on my phone, in real life the sky was fire red.
Sunset, the sky looks on fire
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Melissa Eco-Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @melissapudding.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Wake up people!
Whatever you allow your government to do to others they will eventually do to you.
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Melissa Eco-Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @melissapudding.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
No wonder Starmer had a go at Scotland today! #VoteForScotland2026
List of things the SNP didn’t do:
- privatise your oil and gas
- privatise your Telecom
- sold off your power generation 
- sold off your railways
- shut down your coal industry
- smashed your trade unions
- sold off the steel industry
- depleted your housing stock
- charged you for further education 
- sold off gold reserves
- didn’t regulate banks
- trying to privatise your NHS
- depleted your armed services
- handed back £1.5bn to Westminster 
- raided your pensions
- didn’t keep an oil fund 
- took us to illegal wars
- introduced PFI crippling schools & NHS

But once again, congratulations on handing complete, unregulated control over to those who did in London.
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Melissa Eco-Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @melissapudding.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
#LoveMoffat #DumfriesAndGalloway
Poster for Moffat Art Day 
Saturday 1st November 11am-2pm
Moffat Town Hall
Come and try your hand at some art with some local artists. From painting clay, entry is free with a small contribution for clay and fusion glass.
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Melissa Eco-Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @melissapudding.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
This Nandy? Who advocates police brutally.
Photo of Lisa Nandy, next to a quote of her saying “We should look outwards to other countries and other parts of the world, where they’ve had to deal with divisive Nationalism, in places like Catalonia”
Below are photos showing police brutality against those wishing independence.
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Melissa Eco-Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @melissapudding.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Crossing the Forth Rail Bridge.
Photo taken from train window when crossing forth rail bridge, 
Foreground shows some of the distinctive red iron work of the bridge. 
The Forth Road Bridge and Queensferry Bridge can be seen in the distance
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Melissa Eco-Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @melissapudding.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Many years ago I got issued an NI number card, had a magnetic strip on it too. Absolutely pointless and useless as was not accepted ID.
Photo of UK national insurance card …
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Melissa Eco-Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @melissapudding.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Have you seen John Swinney’s response 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Post from John Swinney: 
I am opposed to mandatory digital ID - people should be able to go about their daily lives without such infringements.
That aside, by calling it BritCard, the Prime Minister seems to be attempting to force every Scot to declare ourselves British.
I am a Scot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Melissa Eco-Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @melissapudding.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Morning outing #DawyckBotanicGarden Just glorious! 💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙
Winter crocus … pale pink/mauve View of trees from bench we sat on. Lots of lichen on the fur trees, bush with red berries (foreground), glorious blue skyLooking down the dell, a few trees showing their autumn colours, giant fir and redwood trees, view is a riot of green colours. Blue sky with one fluffy white colour semi obscured by tall pine/fit tree
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Melissa Eco-Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @melissapudding.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Awesome sunset tonight, the sky looked like it was on fire. Never seen a triangle ray like that either. 💥
Sunset, with rooftops and trees in foreground.
Strange triangle ray from sun. No idea what created that. 
10 mins later, sun gone, no firey light in the sky.
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Melissa Eco-Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @melissapudding.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Tango!
Photo of couple dancing the Tango
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Melissa Eco-Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @melissapudding.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Still mourning the loss of my communicator! Admittedly not origin Star Trek. Used to wear on my coat!
Photo of Star Trek next generation communicator
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Melissa Eco-Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @melissapudding.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Sunday afternoon walk, requirement for sun glasses and wet weather gear. Frequently walk past this beauty, outrageous colour 💜💜💜
Two hot pink/purple dahlias!
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Melissa Eco-Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @melissapudding.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
He’ll be cross he’s not riding in the golden coach 🤣
Photo of Royal Golden coach/carriage… QE2’s coronation
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Melissa Eco-Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @melissapudding.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Taken on my way home last Tuesday.
Photo of field with herd of cows, some of which are calves.
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Melissa Eco-Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @melissapudding.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Reform are not the party of the working classes.
Collection of meme of things Reform has voted AGAINST
- banning fire and rehire
- improving access to sick pay 
- banning exploitative zero hours contracts
- improved paternity leave
- allowing bereavement leave
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