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.......@@@ - it was built in the late sixties. - @.@@...@@@
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....@.@@.. there would be a signal, but the elves .....@@@..
......@@@. would make us not hear it, and suddenly @....@.@@.
......@.@@ we would find the water rising, already @@.....@@@
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