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"text": "What do I do if someone faints during the worship service? It's only natural as an usher or greeter to have questions like these.",
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},
{
"ref": "2024 January 14, Tim Adams, “The big picture: layers of nostalgia on London’s Oxford Street”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
"text": "But it is the combination of the self-consciously vintage HMV sign – with all its vinyl associations – and the bowler-hatted man at the kerbside (a now redundant Oxford Street “greeter”) that properly opens up those possibilities.",
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},
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