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"glosses": [
"Initialism of forever alone."
],
"links": [
[
"forever alone",
"forever alone#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"abbreviation",
"alt-of",
"countable",
"initialism",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"word": "FA"
}
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