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"text": "Almost everyone there eats rice every day, but there are different local customs about how to cook it."
},
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"text": "My mother's custom is to have breakfast in the garden with her newspaper."
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"text": "It was a custom in medieval times a woman could not marry without her parents consent."
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"text": "He only wears custom suits, made to fit him perfectly."
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