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50 free events take place on Thursday, November 5 in New York City. Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides! Exciting, high quality, unique and off the beaten path free events and free things to do take place in New York today, tonight, tomorrow and each day of the year, any time of the day: whether it's a weekday or a weekend, day or night, morning or evening or afternoon, December or July, April or November! These events will take your breath away!

New York City (NYC) never ceases to amaze you with quantity and quality of its free culture and free entertainment. Check out November 5 and see for yourself. Summer or Winter, Spring or Fall! Just click on any day of the calendar above and you'll find most inspiring and entertaining free events to go to and free things to do on each day of November . Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides!

Some events take place all year long: same day of the week, same time there are there for you to take advantage of. One of the oldest free weekly events in Manhattan is Dixieland Jazz with the Gotham Jazzmen, which happen at noon every Tuesday. Another example of an event that you can attend all year round on weekdays is Federal Reserve Bank Tour, which takes place every week day at 1 pm (but advanced reservations are required). You can take at least 13 free tours every day of the year, except the New Year Day, July 4th, and the Christmas Day. If you are classical music afficionado, you can spend whole day in New York going from one free classical concert to another. If you love theater, then New York gives you an option to attend plays and musicals free of charge, or at deep discount. You just need to have information about it. And we are here to make that information available to you.

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50 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, November 5, 2015

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City Walk | Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights and Dumbo Tour

This is a 3-hour tour that begins with a walk over the Brooklyn Bridge, an icon of New York City for over 125 years, with spectacular views of Manhattan and Brooklyn. The tour then moves on to a stroll of Brooklyn Heights, America’s and New York City’s first suburb. The tour then explores the neighborhood DUMBO before ending at the Fulton Ferry landing. This tour takes place every day at 10am.

New York City, NY; NYC

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10:00 am
Free

Tour | SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown Tour

You've seen the iconic skyscrapers, attended a Broadway show, visited Lady Liberty and relaxed in Central Park. Looking for a little more of the Big Apple? Maybe it's time to visit some of Manhattan's oldest and most enchanting historic districts. Take a relaxing stroll through SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown. This tour takes place every day at 10am, and Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays, Mondays and Wednesdays at 2pm.

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10:00 am
Free

Tour | Southern Park Welcome Tour

Travel from Grand Army Plaza, past the Pond and Gapstow Bridge, and stop at the Dairy on this trip through the southern Park highlights. Route involves moderate inclines and some stairs. 45 minutes.

New York City, NY; NYC

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11:00 am
Free

Workshop | Learn Juggling in the Park

Test your coordination and dexterity with free juggling lessons in the park. All skill levels are welcome to join in the fun. Equipment is provided. Lessons are weather permitting. This workshop occurs every day through December 31.

New York City, NY; NYC

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12:00 pm
Free

Tour | Federal Reserve Bank Tour

Learn about central banking functions that Federal Reserve System performs and see Bank's vault of international monetary gold on bedrock of Manhattan Island, five stories below street level. Learn why Federal Reserve has "Federal" in its name, while it's a private bank, not Federal at all. Tour times: 1:00pm, 2:00pm. This tour takes place Mondays through Fridays, except bank holidays.

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1:00 pm
Free

Tour | Federal Reserve Bank Tour

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1:00 pm
Free

Concert | Freedom Concert

Modeled after the "freedom concerts" presented by the late Coretta Scott King throughout her leadership in the civil rights movement, this concert will present poetry and prose along with a wide range of classical and contemporary music. A forum on Freedom will follow the concert.

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1:00 pm
Free

Workshop | Retro Board Gaming for Adults

Share your passion for checkers, chess, mahjong, Monopoly, or Scrabble. All levels of play welcome.

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1:00 pm
Free

Gallery Talk | Tour of the Exhibition: Art Brut in America: The Incursion of Jean Dubuffet

A tour led by the museum’s gallery guides. This tour repeats Thursday October 22, Thursday October 29, Saturday October 31, Thursday November 5, Thursday November 12, Saturday November 14, Thursday November 19, Saturday November 21, Thursday December 10, Saturday December 12, Thursday December 17, Saturday December 19, and Saturday December 26.

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1:00 pm
Free

Concert | The Angel and the Devil: A Concert by Arnie Tanimoto and Friends

Marin Marais and Antoine Forqueray were two of France’s greatest virtuosos of the viola da gamba. Their respective nicknames, “the angel” and “the devil” characterized their musical temperaments and playing styles, which have been imbued into their compositions. Arnie Tanimoto will present a program that showcases the greatest gamba rivalry of the Ancien Régime. Performers: Arnie Tanimoto, viola da gamba Doug Balliett, viola da gamba Patrick Jones, harpsichord

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1:15 pm
$10 suggested donation

**Film | David Butler's Calamity Jane (1953): Oscar for Best Song**

Stars: Doris Day, Howard Keel, Allyn Ann McLerie. The story of Calamity Jane, her saloon, and her romance with Wild Bill Hickok. 101 min.

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2:00 pm
Free

Tour | Harlem Tour

Although world famous, Harlem may be New York's best kept secret with some of the city's best architecture, food, music and people. Harlem's history is also one of the city's most dramatic, having gone through many ethnic, cultural and socioeconomic changes over the past roughly 400 years, which have resulted in a diverse array of places of worship, theaters, homes and eating establishments. This tour takes place Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays at 2pm, Wednesdays at 4pm, and Saturdays at 10am.

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2:00 pm
Free

**Film | John Huston's We Were Strangers (1949): Cuban Intrigue**

Stars: Jennifer Jones, John Garfield, Pedro Armendáriz. China Valdes joins the Cuban underground after her brother is killed by the chief of the secret police. 106 min.

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2:00 pm
Free

Workshop | Make Your Mark: Scratchboard Workshop

Join Roberto Reynoso for a scratchboard workshop. Sometimes called "The Art of Taking Away," scratchboard is a medium that most kids are familiar with but as adults you will learn the basic techniques that gives you amazing details while also being surprisingly forgiving and versatile. NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY. You take home your work

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2:00 pm
Free

Tour | New York Graffiti and Street Art Tour

New York City is a mecca for graffiti and street art, making it a very attractive playground for artists from around the world. Bushwick, in a working class district on the north side of Brooklyn adjacent to Williamsburg, has been attracting artists for some time now. The neighborhood has a fair collection of art studios and galleries, but it’s Bushwick’s industrial landscape that’s attracting the street artist. If you came looking for 1960′s Greenwich Village, you’ll find something brewing in Bushwick. This tour takes place Thursdays through Sundays at 2pm.

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2:00 pm
Free

Symposium | Rembrandt and Printmaking: New Views on a Golden Age

This symposium sparks a new and closer look at Rembrandt's astonishing print practice, its context and its contributions. Followed by a reception and viewing.

New York City, NY; NYC

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3:00 pm
Free

Concert | Student Recitals

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM Giorgi Mikadze, jazz piano 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Jie Chen, piano

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5:30 pm
Free

Opening Reception | 2 Art Shows: Irnina Sheynfeld / Jo-Ann Brody

Irnina Sheynfeld explores images of water and reflections, applying layers of dots and circular patterns to capture the mystery and wonder of nature. Jo-Ann Brody tells introspective, narrative, personal stories using image, word, and gesture. By manipulating the stories into visuals, details change; stories grow stronger and more true.

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6:00 pm
Free

**Opening Reception | Cayce Zavaglia's About-Face: Hand-Sewn Portraits**

Zavaglia's meticulously hand-sewn portraits are exclusively of friends and family. Each piece uses one-ply cotton, silk and wool to realize the figure with an acrylic paint background that separates the foreground from the background. These labor-intensive artworks read as photo-realistic paintings, and only after closer inspection is the work's true construction revealed.

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6:00 pm
Free

Author Reading | David Leopold reads from his book The Hirschfeld Century: Portrait of an Artist and His Age

Join author David Leopold as he takes us inside The Hirschfeld Century revealing how Al Hirschfeld both recorded and defined the performing arts of the 20th century. Leopold will show rarely seen images, as well as provide fresh insight into some of Hirschfeld’s most iconic work. For longtime Hirschfeld fans, or those who have only just learned of him, this talk will be full of surprises.

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6:00 pm
Free

Author Reading | Nina Ansary discusses her book Jewels of Allah: The Untold Story of Women in Iran

Ansary’s widely anticipated book shatters stereotypical assumptions and the often misunderstood story of women in Iran today. Challenging the dominant narrative of the demise of women and their downward spiral into passive submission since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, Ansary argues that “despite the current regime’s best laid plans to redirect women into the private domain, the female population in Iran is distinguished by an unprecedented surge in female literacy and a flourishing feminist movement against the boundaries of traditional religious prescription.”

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6:00 pm
Free

Opening Reception | Paintings by Bridget Riley

This will be the artist's first show in the city since 2007, and the only New York presentation since Bridget Riley: Reconnaissance at the Dia Center for the Arts in 2000 to feature new and older works. The exhibition marks fifty years since Riley’s participation in The Responsive Eye at The Museum of Modern Art, the highly influential group show which led to instant, international recognition for the young British painter.

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6:00 pm
Free

Opening Reception | Paintings: Nina Pandolfo's Little Things for Life

A new mural project and painting exhibition by São Paulo-based artist Nina Pandolfo. Alongside the mural, six new paintings will be presented and available for viewing.

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6:00 pm
Free

Book Signing | Photographer Ron Galella signs copies of his book Sex and Fashion

Ron Galella brought the work of the paparazzi, that step child of photojournalism, into the public eye, and with it the celebrity culture. With this exhibition "That's Great!" we enter the world of Andy Warhol and his circle which encompassed the celebrity, fashion, art, and social world of New York in the 1970's and 80's.

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6:00 pm
Free

Author Reading | Ruth Ben-Ghiat and Stephanie Malia Hom discuss their book Italian Mobilities

The Italian nation-state has been defined by practices of mobility. Tourists have flowed in from the era of the Grand Tour to the present, and Italians flowed out in massive numbers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: Italians made up the largest voluntary emigration in recorded world history.

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6:00 pm
Free

Author Reading | Sara Rzeszuket Haviland discusses her book James and Esther Cooper Jackson: Love and Courage in the Black Freedom Movement

“In this remarkable biography, Sara Haviland examines the ideas and activism of two of the most committed and significant freedom fighters in twentieth-century America.” ― Erik Gellman, author of Death Blow to Jim Crow: The National Negro Congress and the Rise of Militant Civil Rights

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6:00 pm
Free

Lecture | The Institution of the Law: Merleau-Ponty/Lefort

Bernard Flynn, adjunct faculty in the philosophy department, will give this talk.

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6:00 pm
Free

Lecture | Waste Not 6: Cyclifiers

In this talk, Jan Jongert presents Superuse Studios, developing from a design office using waste flows into a multidisciplinary creative studio exploring the circular economy. He shows how realizing small scale design, buildings, start-ups, collaborative networks, urban plans, and digital tools contribute to the development of a new resource-based design practice.

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6:00 pm
Free

Author Reading | Playwright-actor Eric Bogosian discusses his book Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide

2015 marks the 100 years since the Armenian Genocide. This reading and discussion crafts a masterful account of the conspiracy of assassins that hunted down and killed the perpetrators of the genocide. The killings are set in the context of Ottoman and Armenian history, and show the era's history, rife with political fighting and massacres.

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6:30 pm
Free

Poetry Reading | Poet Jeremy Sigler reads from his work

Jeremy Sigler will read a selection of new prose poems, including Not to Brag, which was written for the catalog accompanying Rashid Johnson: Anxious Men, curated by Claire Gilman, Senior Curator, and on view through December 20th.

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6:30 pm
Free

**Film | Spanish Cinema: Daniel Castro's Illusion (2013)**

A low-budget comedy and self-reflexive film about a filmmaker pursuing finance for his ambitious debut film. 65 min.

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6:30 pm
Free

**Film | Documentary: Darius Clark Monroe's Evolution of a Criminal (2015)**

How does a 16-year-old evolve into a bank robber? Filmmaker Monroe explores what led him to pull a heist as a teenager in Texas, and returns to the scene of the crime. 90 min.

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6:45 pm
$10 suggested donation

Author Reading | Oliver Wang discusses his book Legions of Boom

This is a story that’s never told. Not even by the people who scripted and lived it. It takes place from the mid-1970s to mid-1990s - at christening parties, school gym parties, weddings, church hall dances. It vibrates to a self-generated soundtrack of funk, disco, new wave, electro and hip hop created by teenage mutant ninja turntablists: “Many began so young that they could not yet apply for a driver’s license. Yet these same youth could install a performance stage, spin for a crowd of hundreds, earn thousands of dollars, and still be ready for Sunday Mass in the morning, plotting next weekend’s party while waiting for Communion.”

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6:45 pm
Free

**Discussion | Desert Island Discs, BBC Radio Show**

Desert Island Discs is a talk show radio programme, broadcast on BBC Radio 4. It was first broadcast on the BBC Home Service on 29 January 1942. Each week a guest, called a "castaway" during the program, is asked to choose eight recordings (usually, but not always, music) a book and a luxury item that they would take if they were to be cast away on a desert island, whilst discussing their lives and the reasons for their choices. It was devised and originally presented by Roy Plomley. Since 2006, the show has been presented by Kirsty Young. With with trumpeter David Weiss.

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7:00 pm
Free

Talk | Author Talk: Rick Moody

Faculty member Rick Moody’s most recent novel “Hotels of North America” is forthcoming from Little, Brown in November 2015.

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7:00 pm
Free

Author Reading | David Evanier discusses her book Woody: The Biography

Bestselling author David Evanier brings us the first biography in 20 years of award-winning writer and director Woody Allen, published to coincide with Allen's 80th birthday.

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7:00 pm
Free

Author Reading | Joseph Finder reads from his book The Fixer

Joseph Finder is one of those rare crime fiction writers, not just successful but a top-notch writer. A summa cum laude grad from Yale, two of his knockout novels have become major films, "Paranoia," with Harrison Ford and Gary Oldman, and "High Crimes," with Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman. His most recent novel "The Fixer" has gotten raves from The New York Times, Booklist and Library Journal, among others. Finder will tell how he balances the writing of his amazing novels with the nonfiction pieces about espionage and international affairs for such publications as The New York Times and the Washington Post, and more.

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7:00 pm
Free

Author Reading | Strong-Cuevas discusses his book Strong-Cuevas Sculpture: Premonitions in Retrospect

Strong-Cuevas discusses the superbly produced retrospective which spans the artist's work from early career to most recent pieces. Strong-Cuevas carves stone as well as models in wax sculpture that are then cast in bronze, stainless steel, and aluminum. Many pieces involve the human head; their planes and shapes resonate back to Egyptian and Mayan cultures.

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7:00 pm
Free

Concert | The Olympus Piano Trio performs works by Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Mendelssohn, Hatzis

Program: RACHMANINOFF Trio Elegiaque No. 1 RAVEL Piano Trio in A Minor CHRISTOS HATZIS Odd World (from Constantinople) MENDELSSOHN Piano Trio No.2 in C Minor, op.66 Heralded as “astounding. . .unbelievable magnitude of talent and maturity. . .unique in every sense" (Athens Estia), The Olympus Piano Trio combines the forces of three exciting young soloists-violinist Regi Papa, cellist Benjamin Capps, and pianist Konstantine Valianatos. Formed at Juilliard in 2010 to celebrate a common Hellenic heritage, the Olympus Piano Trio performs a wide repertoire of classical masterpieces and champions the music of native Greek and Diaspora composers.

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7:00 pm
Free

Author Reading | Warren Lehrer reads from his book A Life in Books: The Rise and Fall of Bleu Mobley

Warren Lehrer is an American author and artist/designer known mostly for his highly visual books and multimedia projects. Lehrer came to prominence in the 1980s and 90s for his attempts at capturing the shape of thought and speech on the printed page in his books and performance scores characterized by polyvalent narratives and expressionistic typography. His most recent book is an "illuminated novel" that contains 101 books within it.

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7:00 pm
$5

Performance | Workshop Theater: The Life of the Mind / That Awkward Issue

The Life of the Mind and its sequel That Awkward Issue will be presented with an Equity cast of actors for a limited two-week engagement. The evening includes two interrelated one act plays with a tale spanning three generations. In the first play, The Life of the Mind, a mother and daughter attempt to reconcile after nearly a decade of separation while the daughter’s ex-husband interferes. In the second play, That Awkward Issue, the daughter’s own fifteen year old daughter confronts the man who divorced her mother before she was born and who she believes is her biological father. Refreshments will be provided. This production occurs November 5-7 and November 12-14.

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7:00 pm
Free

Jazz | MSM Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra

The music of James Brown, The Brecker Brothers, Earth, Wind and Fire, and more.

New York City, NY; NYC

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7:30 pm
Free

Concert | Piano Works by Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Albeniz

Dazzling the public since age 9, now 16, Anastasia Rizikov is an accomplished international soloist. Sonatas by Russian composers Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev, and Triana by Albeniz.

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7:30 pm
Free

**Performance | Voices of A People’s History of the United States, with Viggo Mortensen, Peter Sarsgaard, and More**

This commission commemorates the 35th anniversary of Howard Zinn’s seminal book, A People’s History of the United States, with music and spoken-word performances that will bring to life the extraordinary history of ordinary people in the book: those who built the movements that made the United States what it is today, ending slavery and Jim Crow, protesting war and the genocide of Native Americans, creating unions and the eight-hour work day, advancing women's rights and gay liberation, and struggling to right the wrongs of the day. Actors Susan Pourfar, Brian Jones, Viggo Mortensen, and Peter Sarsgaard with musicians Allison Moorer, Stew, Teddy Thompson, and Hayes Carll bring to life original source materials from the rebels, dissenters, and visionaries of our past—and present. With narration by Anthony Arnove, author of the introduction to the new 35th-anniversary edition of A People's History of the United States.

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7:30 pm
Free

Master Class | Piano Master Class with Boris Slutsky

Boris Slutsky is with the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University. Piano master classes take place every Thursday from September 10 to December 10.

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7:45 pm
Free

**Theater | College Musical: Failure: A Love Story by Philip Dawkins**

By the end of 1928, all three Fail sisters will be dead – expiring in reverse order, youngest to oldest, from blunt object to the head, disappearance, and finally consumption. Tuneful songs, and a whimsical chorus follow the story of Nelly, Jenny June, and Gerty as they live out their lives above the family clock repair shop near the Chicago River, before their time unexpectedly runs out. A magical, musical fable where, in the end, the power of love is far greater than any individual's successes or failures. Performances run November 3-7.

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8:00 pm
Free

Concert | College Student Composers Concert

This concert will feature performances of new works by College Division composition students.

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8:00 pm
Free

Concert | NYU Philharmonia performs works by Mozart

Program: Mozart: Divertimento in F major Mozart (arr. Wendt): Excerpts from Marriage of Figaro for Harmonie Ensemble Mozart: Symphony No. 29 in A major

New York City, NY; NYC

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8:00 pm
Free

Master Class | Voice Master Class with Ira Siff

Ira Siff is an internationally renowned vocal coach and opera director.

New York City, NY; NYC

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8:00 pm
Free

Workshop | MS Excel 2010 for Beginners Workshop

Learn the basics of working with spreadsheets using Microsoft Excel 2010. Topics include entering data and formulas, moving and copying data, formatting & print previewing worksheets.

New York City, NY; NYC

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8:30 pm
Free

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