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This is week in addition from
NPR News. I'm Scott Simon.

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We begin this hour with Russia and the
new intelligence report on Russia's

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ambitions in the US presidential
election. The headline, they save.

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Vladimir Putin, the president,

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Russia personally ordered a
campaign dry to the election,

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both President Obama and
President Trump by US agencies.

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On the classified version.

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I.

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Ask have.

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Lot two

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SAY.

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I have a lot to say. A
lot to say. Thank you. Do

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U you one,

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two talk.

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Yes, yes, I do.

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Hale Lucas was born in 1943,

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diagnosed early with cerebral palsy.

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He was educated in a one room schoolhouse
in St. Louis Obispo, California.

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His mother refused to
institutionalize him.

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When Hale was born. And
then there were all of the

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diagnoses of what was going to happen,

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and they were urging her early on to
put him in an institution. And she said,

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oh, no. She said, I knew he was bright.

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She said he'd lie in his crib and he'd
watch when I'd turn the lights on,

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he'd take his eyes from the switch
to over where the light turned on.

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He was figuring things
out even as a little baby.

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So I knew that he had a good brain.

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Hale was a student at uc, Berkeley,
a math major and fluent in Russian.

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The Berkeley physically disabled students
program had been around for a few

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years, started by Ed Roberts. They
were housed in a hospital off campus,

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and the university could not meet the
growing demands of the disabled community

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as a whole. Hail and four others founded
the Center for Independent Living,

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the first group of its kind in the world,

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dedicated by disabled
people for disabled people.

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And everybody was so excited this was
going to be really independent living.

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And then of course,

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they became so successful because
they dealt with every aspect

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from how to get around in a motorized

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wheelchair to what's your
sex life going to be like

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as a disabled person. And yes,

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you can have one and
touching every topic of life.

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The demonstration is going on throughout
the entire nation. Washington,

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New York, Denver, here in San Francisco.

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In 1977,

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protests erupted nationwide to expand
disability rights throughout the new

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nation. Rights that were
promised and not delivered.

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Hail and other disability activists
stormed the San Francisco Federal Building

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to protest the Jimmy Carter's
administration's refusal
to sign Section 5 0 4

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of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.

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Section 5 0 4 was to prohibit
discrimination on the basis of

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disability.

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One thing,

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it's the first really militant thing
that disabled people have ever done.

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And we feel like we're building
a real social movement.

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We're really sympathizing
with the demonstrators.

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They understood this was an issue.

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I can tell you that every
time you raise issues

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except but equal,

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the outrage of disabled
individuals across the country

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is going to continue. It
is going to be ignited.

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There will be more takeovers of buildings.

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Until finally maybe you begin
to understand our position.

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We will no longer allow the
government to oppressed,

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disabled individuals. We
want the law enforced.

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We want no more segregation.

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We will accept no more
discussion of segregation.

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And I would appreciate it if you would
stop shaking your head in agreement when

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I don't think you understand
what we are talking about.

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40 Years after the protest, Judy human
sat down to talk about that fateful day.

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And nobody defined, for example,

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no curb cuts on streets as discrimination.

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No one defined a movie theater where
they said you had to get out of your

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wheelchair as discrimination.

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No one defined a bus that
wasn't accessible or a
train that wasn't accessible

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as discrimination.

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And even if you applied for
a job and clearly didn't get

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that job because of disability, it still
wasn't being called discrimination.

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Hail. Now,

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a leader of the movement went with Judy
Human and other activists to Washington

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to confront the Carter administration.
The emerged victorious.

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As I believe that as in any
movement for human liberation,

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you free one set of people and

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doors open for everybody. Ed, of course,

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and Judy could speak very
fluently and they were the

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mouthpiece of the movement.
But in so many ways,

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Hale was the workhorse. Going
to those commission meetings,

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making sure things got done.

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FT draft draft.

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So do you want me to look up draft here?

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He learned on his board, he feels
comfortable, he's in charge.

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I think being in charge is very important.

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Do you want to look at this one?

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Helping N Journal.

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I think Hill's great strengths
are his intellect and his belief,

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and if he believes in something, he
will fight for what he believes in.

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A lot of ways in which this
is research that is innocent.

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I think the transformative
part of Hail to me has been

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watching him and how he
can get his point across.

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The motion is to approve
publication of the

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2015 edition of the standard.

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Thanks. Okay.

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All in favor of publishing
the 2015 edition of

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the standard. Raise your
hand or say Aye. Aye.

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Aye.

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Are you voting?

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Okay, the motion carries hearing.

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So he traveled every day on Bart.

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So he really knew the BART
system extremely well,

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and he knew what was needed
to make it fully accessible.

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And because he worked in an
institute that was all disabilities,

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of course, he was very aware of the
disability needs of other people

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within the disability community.
Even the design of the button.

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The design of the button that we have
today is basically hale's design.

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So if you go to any elevator in
the system and look at the button,

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that is a button that hail basically
said, this is what we need.

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In 2012,

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Hale was honored for his work in transit
with a plaque at the Ashby Rail station

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in Berkeley. He continues his
advocacy work to this day.

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Hale makes the monthly trip to attend the
transit accessibility Board meeting in

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downtown Oakland.

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Here Hale is to come to the BART
accessibility task force meeting.

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It starts at two,

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but he's looking to be on time and one
of the elevators was down and the impact

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that had on him,

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he has to go to an adjacent
station and then traverse back.

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Three. Elevator is out
car platform two is four.

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That's your San Francisco
three month platform.

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And then additionally 19 street platform.

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He's the end of the people and he goes
with the public and he takes public

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transit and he makes a tremendous
effort. So when isn't right,

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when something isn't
accessible and he brings it up,

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it's a powerful message that he's sending.

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Now he's missed a good chunk
of this meeting where his input

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is so valuable that's separate
from that minimum basic

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accessible pathway.

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Alright, buddy, you still
got some brown hair.

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Amazingly enough,

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he doesn't accept no for answer
and that has its good parts

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and its bad parts. Well,

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the good parts are that he
makes his way in the world.

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He doesn't accept limitations. And

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the bad part of not accepting limitations
is that it gets you into trouble.

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It could be dangerous

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and he's hurt himself a number of
times, but somehow he keeps going.

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Really, Hillary Clinton.

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Blame her for everything. She
got blamed for Whitewater,

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for the Rose law firm, for Travelgate,
for Floris Shop Gate, for Gate Gate,

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for Westfield, for Livermore outlets.

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They blamed her for the space shuttle
explosion and the sinking of the Lucita.

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And season two of True Detective,

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she started the fire that killed BA's mom.

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Hail tells me he's depressed,

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but hail is so optimistic
you wouldn't believe it.

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Hail will go forward and
will push and he won't

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get stopped. And that's not the
sign of someone who's depressed.

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That's a sign of someone who really
feels that he knows where he wants

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to go or knows what the issue is.

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Have you ever contemplated suicide?
I want you to be honest with me.

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You have? Yeah. So what stopped you?

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You.

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Being on the

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other

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side of the

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T-H-I-N-L-I-N-B

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than on the other side of the thin line?

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I think that this need for
a lot more hails out there.

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And it's like someone being an explorer,

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there's lots of battles that need
to be fought in order to make

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quality,

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to help people attain a quality of life
that we all want for ourselves and each

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other.

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Hale really overcame the greatest barrier.

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He insisted on being heard.
He insisted on speaking out.

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He insisted on getting it right,

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and he made things happen
that showed that it

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was possible for them to
happen. And once that occurs,

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a change is possible everywhere.

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You spent your whole life fighting
for people to have better access and

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disability rights and to be able to
live their own life independently.

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Why did you not quit? What was
the reason you fought so hard?

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I did

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not. What?

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No, my

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S-T-Y-L-E

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end of word.

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C-R-A-M-P,

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cramped.