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"text": "He's a poster child for militant vegetarianism."
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"text": "I think he smile could have opened the door by itself. It seemed to have a life of it’s own with snow-white teeth below sparkling blue eyes. Its owner could be the poster child for the expression “grinning from ear to ear.”",
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