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• PATTI LABELLE AND GLADYS KNIGHT SAY THEY LOVE THE GAY COMMUNY ON VERZUZ
• MORMON STARS FACE BACKLASH AFTER GAY MARRIAGE BAN
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THE GROUP OPENED FOR R&B LEGENDS THE 1950S, THEN HEAD TO MOTOWN AND CROSSED OVER TO POP MIC. AS GLADYS KNIGHT AND THE PIPS, THEY RERD THEIR SIGNATURE SONG, "MIDNIGHT TRA TO GEIA." KNIGHT LEFT THE PIPS BEHD 1989, AND NTUED TO PERFORM AND RERD AS A SOLO ARTIST. TODAY, SHE'S KNOWN FONDLY AS THE "EMPRS OF SOUL."EARLY YEARSSGER AND ACTRS GLADYS KNIGHT WAS BORN GLADYS MARIA KNIGHT ON MAY 28, 1944, ATLANTA, GEIA, AND STARTED OUT ON THE ROAD TO SUCCS AT AN EARLY AGE. SHE MA HER SOLO BUT AT THE AGE OF 4, SGG AT THE MOUNT MARIAH BAPTIST CHURCH ATLANTA, GEIA. NOT LONG AFTER, SHE WON A PRIZE FOR HER PERFORMANCE ON THE TELEVISED TED MACK AMATR HOUR. IN 1952, AN 8-YEAR-OLD KNIGHT FORMED "THE PIPS" WH HER BROTHER AND SISTER, MERALD ("BUBBA") AND BRENDA, AND TWO S, ELENOR AND WILLIAM GUT (ANOTHER , EDWARD PATTEN, AND LANGSTON GEE LATER JOED THE GROUP, AFTER BRENDA AND ELENOR LEFT TO GET MARRIED; GEE LEFT BY 1960). WH YOUNG GLADYS SUPPLYG THE THROATY VOLS AND THE PIPS PROVIDG IMPRSIVE HARMONI AND SPIRED DANCE ROUT, THE GROUP SOON EARNED A FOLLOWG ON THE SO-LLED "CHL CIRCU" THE SOUTH, OPENG FOR POPULAR ACTS SUCH AS JACKIE WILSON AND {-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:#A00000;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;}{LOR:#595959;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}SAM COOKE.THE PIPSWHILE THEIR FIRST SGLE, "WHISTLE MY LOVE," WAS RELEASED BY BNSWICK 1957, THE PIPS DIDN'T SRE A BONA FI H UNTIL 1961 WHEN THEY RELEASED "EVERY BEAT OF MY HEART.” BUT WAS WHEN THE GROUP BEGAN RERDG WH MOTOWN RERDS THE MID-1960S, AND WERE TEAMED WH SONGWRER/PRODUCER NORMAN WHFIELD, THAT THEIR REERS REALLY TOOK OFF. IN 1967, THE PIPS' VERSN OF WHFIELD'S "I HEARD THROUGH THE GRAPEVE"—LATER A HUGE H FOR MARV GAYE—CROSSED OVER OM THE RHYTHM AND BLU CHARTS TO THE POP CHARTS. THEIR POPULARY CREASED WH THE SUCCS OF SGL LIKE "NTY GRTY," "FRIENDSHIP TRA" AND "IF I WERE YOUR WOMAN," BED WH TOURG PERFORMANC WH THE MOTOWN REVUE AND NUMERO TV APPEARANC. KNIGHT AND THE PIPS LEFT MOTOWN 1973 FOR BUDDAH RERDS, A SUBSIDIARY OF ARISTA (THE GROUP LATER TOOK MOTOWN TO URT FOR UNPAID ROYALTI). IRONILLY, THEIR LAST MOTOWN SGLE, "NEHER ONE OF US WANTS TO BE THE FIRST TO SAY GOODBYE," BEME THE PIPS' FIRST NO. 1 CROSSOVER H AND A GRAMMY WNER FOR BT POP VOL PERFORMANCE 1973. THE GROUP — NOW KNOWN OFFICIALLY AS GLADYS KNIGHT AND THE PIPS — WAS RIDG HIGHER THAN EVER DURG THE MID-1970S WH A SMOOTHER, MORE ACCSIBLE SOUND, A H ALBUM, IMAGATN (1973) AND THREE GOLD SGL: "I'VE GOT TO USE MY IMAGATN," "BT THG THAT EVER HAPPENED TO ME" AND THE GRAMMY AWARD-WNG NO. 1 H "MIDNIGHT TRA TO GEIA" (BT R&B VOL PERFORMANCE). IN 1974, THE GROUP RERD THE SOUNDTRACK FOR THE FILM CLDE, WH SONGS WRTEN BY CURTIS MAYFIELD; THE SOUNDTRACK ALBUM SPAWNED THE H SGLE "ON AND ON." THEIR NEXT ALBUM, I FEEL A SONG (1975), CLUD KNIGHT'S H VERSN OF MARV HAMLISCH'S "THE WAY WE WERE," ALSO POPULARIZED BY BARBRA STREISAND; THE ALBUM'S TLE TRACK BEME A NO. 1 SOUL H. KNIGHT AND THE PIPS HOSTED THEIR OWN TV SPECIAL THE SUMMER OF 1975, AND 1976, KNIGHT MA AN APPEARANCE THE FILM PIPE DREAMS, FOR WHICH SHE AND THE PIPS ALSO RERD THE SOUNDTRACK ALBUM. SHE LATER -STARRED OPPOSE EDIAN FLIP WILSON ON THE 1985-86 S CHARLIE & CO. DUE TO LEGAL PROBLEMS WH BUDDAH, KNIGHT AND THE PIPS WERE FORCED TO RERD SEPARATELY THE LAST YEARS OF THE 1970S, ALTHOUGH THEY NTUED PERFORMG TOGETHER LIVE GIGS. AFTER SIGNG A NEW NTRACT WH COLUMBIA, THE GROUP RELEASED THREE RNN ALBUMS DURG THE EARLY 1980S, ABOUT LOVE (1980), TOUCH (1982) AND VISNS (1983), SRG HS WH SUCH SGL AS "LANDLORD" (PRODUCED BY THE ACE SONGWRG TEAM ASHFORD AND SIMPSON), "SAVE THE OVERTIME FOR ME" AND "YOU'RE NUMBER ONE". MOVG TO MCA RERDS 1988, KNIGHT AND THE PIPS RELEASED THEIR FAL ALBUM TOGETHER, ALL OUR LOVE, WHICH CLUD THE GRAMMY-WNG SGLE "LOVE OVERBOARD." THE NEXT YEAR, KNIGHT LEFT THE PIPS TO LNCH A SOLO REER, RERDG THE TLE SONG FOR THE JAM BOND FILM LICENCE TO KILL (1989) AND THE ALBUM A GOOD WOMAN (1990), WHICH FEATURED GUT STARS DNNE WARWICK AND PATTI LABELLE.LATER PROJECTSTHROUGHOUT THE 1990S, KNIGHT NTUED TO TOUR AND RERD, PRODUCG THE SUCCSFUL 1994 ALBUM JT FOR YOU AND EARNG ACCLAIM FOR HER NSISTENTLY STRONG VOLS AND HARDWORKG PERFORMANCE STYLE. IN ADDN TO HER MIL REER, SHE ALSO ACTED A RECURRG ROLE ON THE 1994 TV SERI NEW YORK UNRVER. KNIGHT HAS ALSO APPEARED ON LIVG SGLE AND JAG. ON THE BIG SCREEN, SHE HAD A ROLE TYLER PERRY'S I CAN DO BAD ALL BY MYSELF 2009. WHILE NO LONGER A CHART-TOPPG SUCCS, KNIGHT, KNOWN FONDLY TODAY AS THE "EMPRS OF SOUL," HAS NTUED TO MAKE RERDS. SHE ONCE STATED, "SCE I'VE BEEN SO WONRFULLY BLSED, I REALLY WANT TO SHARE AND TO MAKE LIFE AT LEAST A LTLE BETTER. SO EVERY CHANCE I GET TO SHARE THE GOSPEL OR UPLIFT PEOPLE, I WILL TAKE FULL ADVANTAGE OF THAT OPPORTUNY." KNIGHT LLABORATED WH THE THE SATS UNED VOIC FOR HER 2005 GOSPEL ALBUM ONE VOICE, WHICH DID WELL. KNIGHT'S 2006 ALBUM BEFORE ME ALSO RECEIVED A WARM RECEPTN. IN 2012, KNIGHT CID TO TAKE ON ANOTHER KD OF ROLE BY JOG THE ST OF DANCG WH THE STARS, THE POPULAR TELEVISN PETN, AND STTTG HER STUFF AGAST THE LIK OF ACTRS MELISSA GILBERT, ACTOR JALEEL WHE AND TV PERSONALY SHERRI SHEPHERD. TWO YEARS LATER, SHE RELEASED ANOTHER STUD ALBUM, THE GOSPEL-FED WHERE MY HEART BELONGS.IN EARLY 2019, WAS ANNOUNCED THAT KNIGHT WOULD SG THE NATNAL ANTHEM BEFORE SUPER BOWL LIII.PERSONAL LIFE AND SPOKNIGHT MARRIED HER FIRST HBAND, AN ATLANTA MICIAN NAMED JIMMY NEWMAN, AT AGE 16. THE MARRIAGE PRODUCED TWO CHILDREN, JAM AND KENYA, BEFORE NEWMAN, A DG ADDICT, ABANDONED THE FAY AND DIED ONLY A FEW YEARS LATER. HER SEND MARRIAGE, TO BARRY HANKERSON, END ACRIMONLY 1979 AFTER FIVE YEARS A PROLONGED CTODY BATTLE OVER THEIR SON, SHANGA. KNIGHT MARRIED THOR AND MOTIVATNAL SPEAKER L BROWN 1995; THAT MARRIAGE END 1997. IN ADDN TO A TUMULTUO LOVE LIFE, KNIGHT SUFFERED THROUGH A SER GAMBLG PROBLEM THAT LASTED MORE THAN A . IN THE LATE 1980S, AFTER LOSG $45,000 ONE NIGHT AT THE BACRAT TABLE, KNIGHT JOED GAMBLERS ANONYMO, WHICH HELPED HER QU THE HAB. SCE 1978, KNIGHT HAS LIVED LAS VEGAS, CLOSE TO HER MOTHER, ELIZABETH, AND TWO OF HER CHILDREN AND THEIR FAI. SHE NTU TO PERFORM EQUENTLY LAS VEGAS AND BEYOND, AND PUBLISHED A MEMOIR, BETWEEN EACH LE OF PA AND GLORY: MY LIFE STORY, 1997. WH THE PIPS, SHE WAS DUCTED TO THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME 1996 AND RECEIVED A LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD OM THE RHYTHM & BLU FOUNDATN 1998. IN APRIL 2001, KNIGHT MARRIED WILLIAM MCDOWELL, A RPORATE NSULTANT SHE HAD REPORTEDLY MET 10 YEARS EARLIER, BUT HAD ONLY BEGUN DATG THE PREV {BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK FACTS
• GLADYS KNIGHT HONORS MARV GAYE WH TOUCHG VER OF 'WHAT'S GOG ON?'
• R&B LEGEND GLADYS KNIGHT PERFORMS TOUCHG TRIBUTE TO MARV GAYE: 'I MISS YOU SO MUCH'

PATTI LABELLE AND GLADYS KNIGHT SAY THEY LOVE THE GAY COMMUNY ON VERZUZ

’”“And all of our gay fans, honey? “Ooooh, thank you gay people. ”“Gay people?

I love the gay muny.

MORMON STARS FACE BACKLASH AFTER GAY MARRIAGE BAN

Knight sang at the Mount Mariah Baptist Church Atlanta, was award for her performance on the televised ‘ted mack Amatr Hour’ Knight was about 8 years when she formed ‘the Pips’ 1952 wh her siblgs and wh two s, Elenor and William the marriage of her sister to Elenor, the uple left the show, and another , Edward Patten, and Langston Gee joed the, Gee also left by supplied the throaty vols and the Pips provid imprsive harmoni and spired dance rout and the group received a followg on the so-lled ‘Chl Circu’ the group released their first sgle, ‘Whistle My Love’ was released 1957 by group was not so regnized before they rerd wh Motown Rerds the mid-1960s and were teamed wh songwrer/producer Norman Pip’s versn of Whfield’s ‘I Heard Through the Grapeve’ 1967 and another huge h for Marv Gaye crossed over om the rhythm and blu charts to the pop beme more regnized after the huge succs of sgl like ‘Nty Grty’, ‘If I Were Your Woman’, ‘Friendship Tra’ bed wh tourg performanc wh the Motown Revue and numero TV group left Motown 1973 for Buddha Rerds and their last Motown sgle, ‘Neher One of Us Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye’ beme the Pips’ first No.

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THE GROUP OPENED FOR R&B LEGENDS THE 1950S, THEN HEAD TO MOTOWN AND CROSSED OVER TO POP MIC. AS GLADYS KNIGHT AND THE PIPS, THEY RERD THEIR SIGNATURE SONG, "MIDNIGHT TRA TO GEIA." KNIGHT LEFT THE PIPS BEHD 1989, AND NTUED TO PERFORM AND RERD AS A SOLO ARTIST. TODAY, SHE'S KNOWN FONDLY AS THE "EMPRS OF SOUL."EARLY YEARSSGER AND ACTRS GLADYS KNIGHT WAS BORN GLADYS MARIA KNIGHT ON MAY 28, 1944, ATLANTA, GEIA, AND STARTED OUT ON THE ROAD TO SUCCS AT AN EARLY AGE. SHE MA HER SOLO BUT AT THE AGE OF 4, SGG AT THE MOUNT MARIAH BAPTIST CHURCH ATLANTA, GEIA. NOT LONG AFTER, SHE WON A PRIZE FOR HER PERFORMANCE ON THE TELEVISED TED MACK AMATR HOUR. IN 1952, AN 8-YEAR-OLD KNIGHT FORMED "THE PIPS" WH HER BROTHER AND SISTER, MERALD ("BUBBA") AND BRENDA, AND TWO S, ELENOR AND WILLIAM GUT (ANOTHER , EDWARD PATTEN, AND LANGSTON GEE LATER JOED THE GROUP, AFTER BRENDA AND ELENOR LEFT TO GET MARRIED; GEE LEFT BY 1960). WH YOUNG GLADYS SUPPLYG THE THROATY VOLS AND THE PIPS PROVIDG IMPRSIVE HARMONI AND SPIRED DANCE ROUT, THE GROUP SOON EARNED A FOLLOWG ON THE SO-LLED "CHL CIRCU" THE SOUTH, OPENG FOR POPULAR ACTS SUCH AS JACKIE WILSON AND {-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:#A00000;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;}{LOR:#595959;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}SAM COOKE.THE PIPSWHILE THEIR FIRST SGLE, "WHISTLE MY LOVE," WAS RELEASED BY BNSWICK 1957, THE PIPS DIDN'T SRE A BONA FI H UNTIL 1961 WHEN THEY RELEASED "EVERY BEAT OF MY HEART.” BUT WAS WHEN THE GROUP BEGAN RERDG WH MOTOWN RERDS THE MID-1960S, AND WERE TEAMED WH SONGWRER/PRODUCER NORMAN WHFIELD, THAT THEIR REERS REALLY TOOK OFF. IN 1967, THE PIPS' VERSN OF WHFIELD'S "I HEARD THROUGH THE GRAPEVE"—LATER A HUGE H FOR MARV GAYE—CROSSED OVER OM THE RHYTHM AND BLU CHARTS TO THE POP CHARTS. THEIR POPULARY CREASED WH THE SUCCS OF SGL LIKE "NTY GRTY," "FRIENDSHIP TRA" AND "IF I WERE YOUR WOMAN," BED WH TOURG PERFORMANC WH THE MOTOWN REVUE AND NUMERO TV APPEARANC. KNIGHT AND THE PIPS LEFT MOTOWN 1973 FOR BUDDAH RERDS, A SUBSIDIARY OF ARISTA (THE GROUP LATER TOOK MOTOWN TO URT FOR UNPAID ROYALTI). IRONILLY, THEIR LAST MOTOWN SGLE, "NEHER ONE OF US WANTS TO BE THE FIRST TO SAY GOODBYE," BEME THE PIPS' FIRST NO. 1 CROSSOVER H AND A GRAMMY WNER FOR BT POP VOL PERFORMANCE 1973. THE GROUP — NOW KNOWN OFFICIALLY AS GLADYS KNIGHT AND THE PIPS — WAS RIDG HIGHER THAN EVER DURG THE MID-1970S WH A SMOOTHER, MORE ACCSIBLE SOUND, A H ALBUM, IMAGATN (1973) AND THREE GOLD SGL: "I'VE GOT TO USE MY IMAGATN," "BT THG THAT EVER HAPPENED TO ME" AND THE GRAMMY AWARD-WNG NO. 1 H "MIDNIGHT TRA TO GEIA" (BT R&B VOL PERFORMANCE). IN 1974, THE GROUP RERD THE SOUNDTRACK FOR THE FILM CLDE, WH SONGS WRTEN BY CURTIS MAYFIELD; THE SOUNDTRACK ALBUM SPAWNED THE H SGLE "ON AND ON." THEIR NEXT ALBUM, I FEEL A SONG (1975), CLUD KNIGHT'S H VERSN OF MARV HAMLISCH'S "THE WAY WE WERE," ALSO POPULARIZED BY BARBRA STREISAND; THE ALBUM'S TLE TRACK BEME A NO. 1 SOUL H. KNIGHT AND THE PIPS HOSTED THEIR OWN TV SPECIAL THE SUMMER OF 1975, AND 1976, KNIGHT MA AN APPEARANCE THE FILM PIPE DREAMS, FOR WHICH SHE AND THE PIPS ALSO RERD THE SOUNDTRACK ALBUM. SHE LATER -STARRED OPPOSE EDIAN FLIP WILSON ON THE 1985-86 S CHARLIE & CO. DUE TO LEGAL PROBLEMS WH BUDDAH, KNIGHT AND THE PIPS WERE FORCED TO RERD SEPARATELY THE LAST YEARS OF THE 1970S, ALTHOUGH THEY NTUED PERFORMG TOGETHER LIVE GIGS. AFTER SIGNG A NEW NTRACT WH COLUMBIA, THE GROUP RELEASED THREE RNN ALBUMS DURG THE EARLY 1980S, ABOUT LOVE (1980), TOUCH (1982) AND VISNS (1983), SRG HS WH SUCH SGL AS "LANDLORD" (PRODUCED BY THE ACE SONGWRG TEAM ASHFORD AND SIMPSON), "SAVE THE OVERTIME FOR ME" AND "YOU'RE NUMBER ONE". MOVG TO MCA RERDS 1988, KNIGHT AND THE PIPS RELEASED THEIR FAL ALBUM TOGETHER, ALL OUR LOVE, WHICH CLUD THE GRAMMY-WNG SGLE "LOVE OVERBOARD." THE NEXT YEAR, KNIGHT LEFT THE PIPS TO LNCH A SOLO REER, RERDG THE TLE SONG FOR THE JAM BOND FILM LICENCE TO KILL (1989) AND THE ALBUM A GOOD WOMAN (1990), WHICH FEATURED GUT STARS DNNE WARWICK AND PATTI LABELLE.LATER PROJECTSTHROUGHOUT THE 1990S, KNIGHT NTUED TO TOUR AND RERD, PRODUCG THE SUCCSFUL 1994 ALBUM JT FOR YOU AND EARNG ACCLAIM FOR HER NSISTENTLY STRONG VOLS AND HARDWORKG PERFORMANCE STYLE. IN ADDN TO HER MIL REER, SHE ALSO ACTED A RECURRG ROLE ON THE 1994 TV SERI NEW YORK UNRVER. KNIGHT HAS ALSO APPEARED ON LIVG SGLE AND JAG. ON THE BIG SCREEN, SHE HAD A ROLE TYLER PERRY'S I CAN DO BAD ALL BY MYSELF 2009. WHILE NO LONGER A CHART-TOPPG SUCCS, KNIGHT, KNOWN FONDLY TODAY AS THE "EMPRS OF SOUL," HAS NTUED TO MAKE RERDS. SHE ONCE STATED, "SCE I'VE BEEN SO WONRFULLY BLSED, I REALLY WANT TO SHARE AND TO MAKE LIFE AT LEAST A LTLE BETTER. SO EVERY CHANCE I GET TO SHARE THE GOSPEL OR UPLIFT PEOPLE, I WILL TAKE FULL ADVANTAGE OF THAT OPPORTUNY." KNIGHT LLABORATED WH THE THE SATS UNED VOIC FOR HER 2005 GOSPEL ALBUM ONE VOICE, WHICH DID WELL. KNIGHT'S 2006 ALBUM BEFORE ME ALSO RECEIVED A WARM RECEPTN. IN 2012, KNIGHT CID TO TAKE ON ANOTHER KD OF ROLE BY JOG THE ST OF DANCG WH THE STARS, THE POPULAR TELEVISN PETN, AND STTTG HER STUFF AGAST THE LIK OF ACTRS MELISSA GILBERT, ACTOR JALEEL WHE AND TV PERSONALY SHERRI SHEPHERD. TWO YEARS LATER, SHE RELEASED ANOTHER STUD ALBUM, THE GOSPEL-FED WHERE MY HEART BELONGS.IN EARLY 2019, WAS ANNOUNCED THAT KNIGHT WOULD SG THE NATNAL ANTHEM BEFORE SUPER BOWL LIII.PERSONAL LIFE AND SPOKNIGHT MARRIED HER FIRST HBAND, AN ATLANTA MICIAN NAMED JIMMY NEWMAN, AT AGE 16. THE MARRIAGE PRODUCED TWO CHILDREN, JAM AND KENYA, BEFORE NEWMAN, A DG ADDICT, ABANDONED THE FAY AND DIED ONLY A FEW YEARS LATER. HER SEND MARRIAGE, TO BARRY HANKERSON, END ACRIMONLY 1979 AFTER FIVE YEARS A PROLONGED CTODY BATTLE OVER THEIR SON, SHANGA. KNIGHT MARRIED THOR AND MOTIVATNAL SPEAKER L BROWN 1995; THAT MARRIAGE END 1997. IN ADDN TO A TUMULTUO LOVE LIFE, KNIGHT SUFFERED THROUGH A SER GAMBLG PROBLEM THAT LASTED MORE THAN A . IN THE LATE 1980S, AFTER LOSG $45,000 ONE NIGHT AT THE BACRAT TABLE, KNIGHT JOED GAMBLERS ANONYMO, WHICH HELPED HER QU THE HAB. SCE 1978, KNIGHT HAS LIVED LAS VEGAS, CLOSE TO HER MOTHER, ELIZABETH, AND TWO OF HER CHILDREN AND THEIR FAI. SHE NTU TO PERFORM EQUENTLY LAS VEGAS AND BEYOND, AND PUBLISHED A MEMOIR, BETWEEN EACH LE OF PA AND GLORY: MY LIFE STORY, 1997. WH THE PIPS, SHE WAS DUCTED TO THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME 1996 AND RECEIVED A LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD OM THE RHYTHM & BLU FOUNDATN 1998. IN APRIL 2001, KNIGHT MARRIED WILLIAM MCDOWELL, A RPORATE NSULTANT SHE HAD REPORTEDLY MET 10 YEARS EARLIER, BUT HAD ONLY BEGUN DATG THE PREV {BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK FACTS

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