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"text": "Good girls do bad things sometimes / But we get by with it / Good girls do bad things sometimes / But we get by with it",
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{
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{
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},
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},
{
"code": "fi",
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},
{
"code": "fr",
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"word": "tenir le coup"
},
{
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},
{
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"word": "megél"
},
{
"code": "it",
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"sense": "subsist",
"word": "sbarcare il lunario"
},
{
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"word": "ir tirando"
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},
{
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"word": "tenir le coup"
},
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{
"code": "de",
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"sense": "subsist",
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"sense": "subsist",
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"code": "ht",
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"word": "pyange"
},
{
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "subsist",
"word": "megél"
},
{
"code": "it",
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"sense": "subsist",
"word": "sbarcare il lunario"
},
{
"code": "it",
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"sense": "subsist",
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