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Becca Lacey

@rebeccalacey.bsky.social
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Reader in Social and Lifecourse Epidemiology, City St George's, University of London Deputy Director of Equalise: ESRC Centre for Lifecourse Health Equity Childhood adversities, young carers, mental health Lover of all things longitudinal and trains

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Becca Lacey @rebeccalacey.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Today on #youngcarersactionday we are launching a new podcast series 'Sharing the mic: young carers & changemakers in conversation' produced by @researchpodcasts.bsky.social in partnership with Carers Trust, funded by @nuffieldfoundation.org Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/6PH1... pls share
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Becca Lacey @rebeccalacey.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
So chuffed to be launching this today - an exciting new podcast series designed and led by young carers. Please do share & listen
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Becca Lacey @rebeccalacey.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
I'm currently hiring for a PhD studentship based at City St George's, University of London as part of @equalise.bsky.social 'Family and environmental influences on children's home learning, and inequalities in education and mental health outcomes' Apply here: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/prospective-...
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Postgraduate research degrees | City St George's, University of London
City St George's, University of London offers a variety of research degrees and has supported pioneering research for more than a century.
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Equalise: ESRC Centre for Lifecourse Health Equity @equalise.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
📣New study by @rebeccalacey.bsky.social & @anne-mcmunn.bsky.social with @carerstrust.bsky.social & MYTIME Young Carers: Young carers face major educational disadvantages, risking future opportunities. Read more: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #YoungCarers
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Young carers and inequalities in educational attainment and school engagement: Evidence from the UK household longitudinal study linked to the national pupil database
Young carers (individuals under 18 providing care to family members) experience significant disadvantages. While prior research suggests caring negati…
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Equalise: ESRC Centre for Lifecourse Health Equity @equalise.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Too many young carers are being left behind. @rebeccalacey.bsky.social's new study shows early and preventable gaps in attendance and attainment. Young carers deserve better. Read the blog: childofourtimeblog.org.uk/2026/01/youn... @nuffieldfoundation.org #YoungCarers #HealthEquity #Policy
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Young carers are being failed in education — policy must catch up
Across England, a large and often invisible group of children are balancing school with helping a parent, sibling or grandparent who is ill, disabled or struggling with mental health or addiction. …
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Becca Lacey @rebeccalacey.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
There are a few more days to apply. Closes on Weds 4th June
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Becca Lacey @rebeccalacey.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
And now on jobs.ac.uk www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DND489/r...
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Research Fellow in Social Epidemiology at St George's, University of London
Discover Research Fellow in Social Epidemiology jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.
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Becca Lacey @rebeccalacey.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
And now on jobs.ac.uk www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DND489/r...
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Research Fellow in Social Epidemiology at St George's, University of London
Discover Research Fellow in Social Epidemiology jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.
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Becca Lacey @rebeccalacey.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
I am hiring for a new researchers on my @nuffieldfoundation.org young carers project. Closes 4thJune. After someone with strong quant longitudinal skills, passion for communicating research beyond academia & wants to work with people w lived experience/other sectors jobs.sgul.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
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Job Opportunity at St George's University of London: Research Fellow in Social Epidemiology
The Research Fellow will investigate young carers and health inequalities using advanced longitudinal quantitative methods. Responsibilities include data analysis, literature reviews, publishing findi...
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Lucia Ruggiero @lruggiero.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
International Social Epidemiology Society’s inaugural symposium on May 27, 2025 at 08:00 New York / 14:00 Paris / 17:30 Delhi / 22:00 Melbourne. For more information and to register www.social-epi.org/our-events
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Lucia Ruggiero @lruggiero.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Call for applications for the International Social Epidemiology Society Awards - recognizing excellence in social epidemiology research and practice. www.social-epi.org/ises-awards
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Simon Chen @yuntaochen.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
We are hiring. A two-year postdoc in Whitehall II research group at UCL focusing on air pollution and dementia based on 40 years longitudinal data. Please find more details in the link below. Please share this to people who may be interested. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Becca Lacey @rebeccalacey.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Today has been one of those days where everything has gone wrong and it feels like the whole world is against me. Constant barriers to progressing, never being good enough & no you're not eligible for PIP despite really struggling day to day.
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a black kitten is laying on a white blanket on a bed looking at the camera .
ALT: a black kitten is laying on a white blanket on a bed looking at the camera .
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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Come and join us!
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Becca Lacey @rebeccalacey.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Today on #youngcarersactionday we release new findings from our @nuffieldfoundation.org funded project on the educational attainment of young carers. This is the 1st time we have had self-report care info from YP matched with educational data. www.nuffieldfoundation.org/wp-content/u...
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Becca Lacey @rebeccalacey.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Today on #youngcarersactionday we release new findings from our @nuffieldfoundation.org funded project on the educational attainment of young carers. This is the 1st time we have had self-report care info from YP matched with educational data. www.nuffieldfoundation.org/wp-content/u...
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Jo Bibby @jobibby.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
📣📣📣 So … public health jobs @healthfoundation.bsky.social are like buses - you wait for one for ages and then two arrive at the same time! Another great role shaping our prevention agenda ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ Please share! lde.tbe.taleo.net/lde01/ats/ca...
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Hiring Senior Fellow (Prevention), - Salisbury Square, EC4Y 8AP
View job details and apply now
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International Social Epidemiology Society @ises-epi.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
The I-SES is excited to announce our 2025 Call for Awards to recognize the exceptional work of doctoral students, postdoctoral fellows, & early career researchers in social epidemiology! Please see the flyer below & go to www.social-epi.org/ises-awards for more details. And please share widely!
2025 Call for Applications for International Social Epidemiology Society Awards

Link provided to https://www.social-epi.org/ises-awards for additional details of the call for applications
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Becca Lacey @rebeccalacey.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Still time to get an application in - closing tomorrow. 👇
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Rebecca Montacute @beckymontacute.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
🚨 Freelance research opportunity 🚨 We're looking for a researcher to help us with data collection for our major report, Elitist Britain 2025 - looking at the backgrounds of those making up the country's elites - please do share in your networks 🙂 recruitment.suttontrust.com/jobs/5596434...
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Research Contractor (Elitist Britain 2025) - The Sutton Trust
We’re looking for a freelance researcher to carry out work for our landmark report, Elitist Britain 2025
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Anne McMunn @anne-mcmunn.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Final UCL PhD opportunity as part of new centre Equalise: ESRC Centre for Lifecourse Health Equity. Please share widely. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Anne McMunn @anne-mcmunn.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
We are advertising for a Communications Officer for Equalise our new ESRC funded research centre on Lifecourse Health Equity. Please share widely www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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INED (in english) @ined-english.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
The call for applications for the European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD) 2025-2026 is open! This international doctoral program aims to provide students with a high-level education in demography. Deadline to apply: March 25th, 2025 at 12 PM (noon). More information: eaps.nl/edsd/how-to-...
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Becca Lacey @rebeccalacey.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
New 3.5yr PhD opportunity at UCL with @equalise.bsky.social supervised by myself, @yvonne-kelly.bsky.social, @baowenxue.bsky.social & @profkatsmith.bsky.social on inequalities in pathways to employment in young people. Closes 25th Feb www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
PhD opportunity with an absolute dream-team of supervisors 😉 ⬇️
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Becca Lacey @rebeccalacey.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
New 3.5yr PhD opportunity at UCL with @equalise.bsky.social supervised by myself, @yvonne-kelly.bsky.social, @baowenxue.bsky.social & @profkatsmith.bsky.social on inequalities in pathways to employment in young people. Closes 25th Feb www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
ucl.ac.uk
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Max Eyre @maxeyre.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Reminder! Today at 3PM (UK) the DASH series on 'Causal Inference in Environmental Epidemiology' kicks off! @lshtm.bsky.social . Dr Marie-Abèle Bind from @harvardmed.bsky.social will discuss using causal inference to understand how environmental exposures impact health. #CausalInference #CausalSky'
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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I will be attending the Society for Social Medicine & Population Health Annual Conference in September 2025. It's the best place for epidemiology & public health research in the UK & Ireland. I hope to see you there. Submit your abstract before the end of Monday 24th February. #EpiSky
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uecna.bsky.social @uecna.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
UECNA Webinar Impact of Aircraft Noise on Children’s Learning January 27 18:00 CET Charlotte Clarke, Professor of Environmental Epidemiology at London University, author RANCH Study on children's learning Questions, discussion For zoom link www.uecna.eu
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Anne McMunn @anne-mcmunn.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Delighted to share this publications from Whitney Well's MSc dissertation showing ethnic differences in the health of unpaid carers in the UK with @baowenxue.bsky.social and @rebeccalacey.bsky.social jech.bmj.com/content/79/2...
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Differences by ethnicity in the association between unpaid caring and health trajectories over 10 years in the UK Household Longitudinal Study
Background Unpaid carers deliver critical social care. We aimed to examine differences by ethnicity in (1) profiles of unpaid caring and (2) associations between caring and physical and mental health ...
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Becca Lacey @rebeccalacey.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
#episky
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Becca Lacey @rebeccalacey.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Come & work with us @equalise.bsky.social We are hiring for 4 UCL based Research Fellows. Details here for 3 x UCL Institute of Epidemiology: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... UCL Institute of Child Health with me & Katie Harron: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
ucl.ac.uk
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Equalise: ESRC Centre for Lifecourse Health Equity @equalise.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
'Sandwich carers' suffer long mental health toll, new research from our ICLS colleagues shows www.ft.com/content/cd62... @baowenxue.bsky.social @anne-mcmunn.bsky.social @ukri.org
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‘Sandwich carers’ suffer long mental health toll, study finds
Research increases scrutiny over levels of state support for adults who look after children and elderly relatives
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Anne McMunn @anne-mcmunn.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Our work published today shows the psychological distress associated with combining care of both the younger and older generations with lead author @baowenxue.bsky.social and @rebeccalacey.bsky.social
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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Job opening for full professor and head of dept in infectious disease epidemiology and dynamics at @lshtm.bsky.social. Deadline 31st Jan: jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
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Job Opportunity at LSHTM: Professor (and Head of Department)
The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is one of the world’s leading public health universities. Our mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working i...
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aletelier.bsky.social @aletelier.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Happy to be part of the NIHR ARC North Thames Social Care Learning Network Fellowship. This is a great opportunity to work with researchers and practitioners, advancing research and practice to better understand the experiences of young carers. www.arc-nt.nihr.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
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Building a network across social care research and practice: Meet our first fellows
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Equalise: ESRC Centre for Lifecourse Health Equity @equalise.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
We are recruiting three research fellows to work in Equalise, our new ESRC Centre. See the link below and feel free to share widely www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Anne McMunn @anne-mcmunn.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
This work with Alejandra Letelier Rodríguez and @rebeccalacey.bsky.social suggests caring has become more common for young people since the pandemic. More awareness and support is required.
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Equalise: ESRC Centre for Lifecourse Health Equity @equalise.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Great opportunity to be part ion this fantastic new Centre that's embarking on a 5 year research programme to tackle health inequalities.
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Sarah Stock @folkysar.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Delighted to see the publication of my first PhD study last week! Thank you to my lovely supervisors @jessiebaldwin.bsky.social & @rebeccalacey.bsky.social, to Helen Fisher and the wider E-Risk Study team for being so supportive throughout the (lengthy) review process! doi.org/10.1111/jcpp...
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<em>Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry</em> | ACAMH Pediatric Journal | Wiley Online Library
Background Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are associated with mental health problems, but many children who experience ACEs do not develop such difficulties. A warm and supportive adult presen...
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Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
If you’re interested in Social epidemiology here’s an account to follow, the international social epidemiology society @ises-epi.bsky.social , for webinars, events & information sharing ⏬⏬
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Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
📢The Guardian is now officially on Bluesky @theguardian.com
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Becca Lacey @rebeccalacey.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Want to do a PhD in health inequalities? The first 3 of our new Equalise Centre studentships are open for applications. Details here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
ucl.ac.uk
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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International Social Epidemiology Society @ises-epi.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Thanks for all the follows! We hold a regular webinar series with guest speakers, & our next webinar will be held in January. Last month, Professor Maria Glymour and Dr. Frank Pega spoke at our career panel webinar. You can watch a recording of it on our website here: social-epi.org/our-events
Hands of different people on the surface of a world globe.
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Jonathan Burton @jonburton.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Present your research at the 2025 Understanding Society Scientific Conference @usociety.bsky.social - Call for abstracts. www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/news/2024/11... Looking for papers on: Research using Understanding Society or any other household panel study ...
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Call for abstracts open - Understanding Society
Present your research at the 2025 Understanding Society Scientific Conference Present your work at the 2025 Understanding Society conference
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Ben Barr @benjaminbarr.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
We have 4 post-doctoral positions, working with linked data to improve public health and health services with www.liverpool.ac.uk/population-h... and www.liverpool.ac.uk/civic-health... #episky #econsky #AcademicSky @profbuchan.bsky.social
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Health Inequalities Policy Research Group (HIP-R) | Institute of Population Health | University of Liverpool xlinkedinUniversity of Liverpool on FacebookLivUni on InstagramLivUni on XLivUni on ...
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Michael D. Green, PhD @michaeldgreen.phd · 09/11/2024
Lots of great Social Epidemiology researchers in this thread ⬇️ #EpiSky #MedSky
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Becca Lacey @rebeccalacey.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
Today the ESRC have announced their new Centres and we are one of them ☺️. Introducing the new ESRC Centre for Lifecourse Health Equity. Led by Yvonne Kelly, Anne McMunn & me as Deputy. ESRC post here: www.ukri.org/news/32m-for... We did it! ☺️
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£32m for four independent social and economic research centres
This investment will go to four independent research centres funded by UKRI and ESRC to address a variety of important social and economic topics.
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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 26/10/2024
Wise words: "Better to admit that you walked through the wrong door than spend your life in the wrong room."
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