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Dialectics Of Motion And Stillness: The Theoretical Foundation Of Zong Baihua's Construction Of “Chinese Aesthetics”, Haoyue Zheng Oct 2025

Dialectics Of Motion And Stillness: The Theoretical Foundation Of Zong Baihua's Construction Of “Chinese Aesthetics”, Haoyue Zheng

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Zong Baihua's “Chinese aesthetics” argued for the legitimacy of traditional Chinese painting in the modern world. However, it was not a simple “incorporation” of traditional Chinese aesthetic viewpoints, but a modern interpretation of classical Chinese arts centered on the “dynamic” spirit. His work benefited from Europe's longing for Chinese culture after the outbreak of World War I, as well as domestic opposition to the idea of “wholesale Westernization”. Moreover, Guo Moruo's interpretation of the debate between motion and stillness in Confucian and Daoist philosophy was highly inspiring and laid important theoretical groundwork for the construction of Zong Baihua's “Chinese aesthetics”. …

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On The Construction Of Contemporary Literary Historiography And Related Issues, Xiuming Wu Oct 2025

On The Construction Of Contemporary Literary Historiography And Related Issues, Xiuming Wu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The construction of contemporary literary historiography, within the context of the “historiographical turn” and supported by the national academic framework, warrants significant attention in the present era. It involves the conceptual relationship between historical materials, materials, data and documents, necessitating careful differentiation, and is predicated on specific conditions and foundations. Based on the current state of research, it is both possible and feasible to construct a systematic framework by drawing on the scholarly experience of modern literature, philosophy, historiography, and other disciplines. Furthermore, there is an urgent need to develop an appropriate hierarchical theory based on the “three-in-one” model. The …

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Attention Mapping For Hallucination Reduction In Arabic Financial Using Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems, Hasan Abdulameer Hasan, Khaldoun H. Al-Hussayni, Ali Z. K. Matloob Oct 2025

Attention Mapping For Hallucination Reduction In Arabic Financial Using Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems, Hasan Abdulameer Hasan, Khaldoun H. Al-Hussayni, Ali Z. K. Matloob

Journal of Intelligent Informatics, Networking, and Cybersecurity

This research introduces a customized attention visualization framework for mitigating hallucinations in Arabic Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems tailored for financial document analysis. The proposed architecture extends MarBERT with a dual-stage attention supervision mechanism and a hallucination-aware loss formulation, trained on a newly constructed dataset of 7,000 annotated Arabic financial query-context pairs. A grounding alignment score is computed over attended tokens, and generated responses are rejected when falling below a dynamically adjusted precision-aware threshold,serving as the core decision-making approach for hallucination detection. The system achieves 95.04% classification accuracy, 95.84% precision, 94.12% recall, and an F1 score of 94.97%, outperforming AraELECTRA and …

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The Construction And Reflection Of The Theoretical Knowledge System Of Chinese Literature And Art:Summary Of The 16th Annual Conference Of The Chinese Association For Theory Of Literature And Art, Qianpeng Gu Oct 2025

The Construction And Reflection Of The Theoretical Knowledge System Of Chinese Literature And Art:Summary Of The 16th Annual Conference Of The Chinese Association For Theory Of Literature And Art, Qianpeng Gu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

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Différance, Transparency And Truth: Jean-Luc Nancy On Beauty, Zhizhong Zhang Oct 2025

Différance, Transparency And Truth: Jean-Luc Nancy On Beauty, Zhizhong Zhang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

In God, Justice, Love, Beauty, Jean-Luc Nancy thoroughly elucidates his perspectives on beauty, extending beyond the confines of conventional epistemological aesthetics by introducing deconstructionism to the discourses on aesthetic issues. Specifically, Nancy reinterprets the legend of Narcissus, positioning its theme as the movement of beauty's self differentialspacing, and unveiling the différance inherent in beauty. However, as a generalized spacing movement, différance cannot highlight the singularity of beauty. Consequently, through an analysis of douard Manet's painting Reading, Nancy contends that beauty, as a motion of meaning that transcends signification, can only be represented as being of near-nothingness, that is, as a …

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Edward Said On Religion: The Counterpoint Between The Sacred And The Secular, Sheng Li Oct 2025

Edward Said On Religion: The Counterpoint Between The Sacred And The Secular, Sheng Li

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Deeply involved in religion, Edward Said's intellectual image may not be depicted fully if the significance of religion to him remains unclarified. Religion has two dimensions in Said's writings: one refers to specific religions such as Islam, Christianity, and Judaism, which concern his religious identity, religious experience and the religious environment in which he grew up; the other is the metaphorical “religion” of culture, nation and state, or a secularized religion. Said is more tolerant of the former, but more critical of the latter because it always acts as a reductive measurement of differentiation that identifies a particular “we” by …

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Rita Felski's Critique Of Contextualism: Taking Rem Koolhaas And Bruno Latour As A Clue, Lijun Su Oct 2025

Rita Felski's Critique Of Contextualism: Taking Rem Koolhaas And Bruno Latour As A Clue, Lijun Su

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

With a special nested structure, Rita Felski follows and finalizes Rem Koolhaas and Bruno Latour's manifesto of “Context Stinks!” The three theorists of different disciplines such as architecture, sociology and literature take context as a conservative proposition. In response to the contextualist paradigm that is threatened by self-limitation, self-exclusion and generalization, Koolhaas creates space for innovation through the strategy of “bigness”, while Latour questions the theory of social entities, introducing non-human actors into a new coordinate system. Based on them, Felski tries to remold the future of literature within the framework of actor-network theory, in order to forestall text from …

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Dufrenne's Genetic Phenomenological Explanation Of “Affective A Priori”, Ziming Huang Oct 2025

Dufrenne's Genetic Phenomenological Explanation Of “Affective A Priori”, Ziming Huang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The discussion on the nature of the affective in phenomenology can be traced back to the debate on the universality of the aesthetic affective in modern epistemological aesthetics. Dufrenne interpreted it from the perspective of genetic phenomenology and identified it as a problem of “affective a priori.” The “affective” is an object of feeling triggered by the work and constituted by the subject; and “a priori” is a means of preforming the object within the subject. As the constituent structure of the object, the affective a priori indicates the unity of the objective cosmological a priori and …

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Derrida's Theory Of Sovereignty—And His Criticism Of Robinson Crusoe, Jinlong Xiao Oct 2025

Derrida's Theory Of Sovereignty—And His Criticism Of Robinson Crusoe, Jinlong Xiao

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The 20th century has witnessed an unprecedented exploration and development of the concept of human essence in the Western theoretical community. In the early 20th century, Heidegger proposed that human essence was existence. Later, Foucault argued that human essence was power. By the end of the 20th century, Derrida clearly pointed out that human essence was neither pure existence as advocated by the existentialists, nor pure power, as claimed by the power theorists. Instead, it is something between existence and power: the “powerization” of existence, which Derrida termed “sovereignty.” The operating rhythm of sovereignty involves the autonomy of automation, specifically …

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Atmosphere And Artistic Appeal (Qi Yun): An Unfinished Reflection On The Modern Interpretation Of “Artistic Appeal And Rhythmic Vitality” From The Perspective Of Atmosphere Aesthetics, Lei Li Oct 2025

Atmosphere And Artistic Appeal (Qi Yun): An Unfinished Reflection On The Modern Interpretation Of “Artistic Appeal And Rhythmic Vitality” From The Perspective Of Atmosphere Aesthetics, Lei Li

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Drawing from the traditional binary thinking of subject-object division and confrontation, the modern interpretation of “artistic appeal and rhythmic vitality” since the twentieth century considers it either as an aesthetic feature or the overall spirit of the artwork, or as the painter's inner harmony and resonance, failing to fully realize that the ideal effect of “artistic appeal and rhythmic vitality” can only be generated by the two-way communication and resonance between the creator and the object. In the light of the aesthetics of atmosphere, “artistic appeal” is a special category or an advanced state of atmosphere that arises from the …

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A Study Of The Historical Formation Of The “Fengyao” Pattern And The “Touchun” Pattern In Five-Character Metrical Poetry, Zhao Zhang Oct 2025

A Study Of The Historical Formation Of The “Fengyao” Pattern And The “Touchun” Pattern In Five-Character Metrical Poetry, Zhao Zhang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Since the Song dynasty, the touchun pattern has referred to the five-character metrical poetry in which the antithesis is used in the first couplet rather than the second; the fengyao pattern has referred to those in which the antithesis is only used in the third couplet. These two patterns began to flourish in the works of Shen Quanqi and Song Zhiwen. During the High Tang dynasty, they were equated in number with the standard format of metrical poetry. It was not until the Dali era that they were finally confirmed as variant formats of five-character metrical poetry. This trend of …

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Mirroring: A Study Of The Relationship Between Weng Fanggang's Poetics And Ming Dynasty Poetics, Yanjun Kong Oct 2025

Mirroring: A Study Of The Relationship Between Weng Fanggang's Poetics And Ming Dynasty Poetics, Yanjun Kong

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The relationship between Weng Fanggang's poetics and Ming dynasty poetics has been largely overlooked, primarily due to Weng Fanggang's critical stance toward Ming poetry. However, Weng Fanggang's poetic criticism and theoretical framework clearly exhibit characteristics of “using Ming poetry as a reference”: he gradually developed a poetic genealogy and restructured classical poetry through the themes of “learning from the ancients” and “inheriting the ancients,” based on a critical approach that viewed Ming poetry as a negative example. In his critique of Ming poetry criticism, Weng Fanggang also drew clear distinction between “true poetry” and “pseudo-styles”, thereby constructing a logical foundation …

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A New Explanation Of The Connotation And Poetic Significance Of “Poetry Springs From Emotions And Hence Reads Beautifully” In Rhapsody On Literature, Yanfeng Cai, Xiaoli Wei Oct 2025

A New Explanation Of The Connotation And Poetic Significance Of “Poetry Springs From Emotions And Hence Reads Beautifully” In Rhapsody On Literature, Yanfeng Cai, Xiaoli Wei

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Traditionally, “poetry springs from emotions and hence reads beautifully” in Rhapsody on Literature has been interpreted primarily within the poetic context of expressing emotions and aspirations, often overlooking the broader connotation of “emotion” and the logical relationship between “springing from emotions” (yuanqing) and “beautiful” (qimi). Two key concepts are essential in understanding of this sentence. The first is “emotions”, which has been widely used to denote an objective state, essence, and reality since the pre-Qin era. Recognizing the objective meaning of “emotion” is crucial for a correct understanding of the poetic connotation of “springing from emotions”. …

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New Changes In The Theater Ecology In The Late-Qing Shanghai: A Study Based On Wang Guifen's Contract Payment Lawsuit, Chunning Zhao Oct 2025

New Changes In The Theater Ecology In The Late-Qing Shanghai: A Study Based On Wang Guifen's Contract Payment Lawsuit, Chunning Zhao

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Contract payment lawsuits discussed in this paper were disputes over rights and interests arising from the operation of modern xiqu (Chinese opera). During Wang Guifen's performances in Shanghai, he was involved in such lawsuits with quite a few theaters, including Xin Dangui, Tianxian, Liuchun, Tianfu, and Guixian. The practice of inviting and recruiting famous actors with high contract payments was a common form of commercial competition in Shanghai's theaters, and it was also the direct cause of job-hopping by well-known actors and their involvement in legal disputes. The high contract payments intensified malicious competition between theaters, hindered the healthy development …

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A Semiotic Interpretation Of Landscape Painting And Its Limitations: A Focus On Duan Lian, Yiqing Liu, Zhijie Sun Oct 2025

A Semiotic Interpretation Of Landscape Painting And Its Limitations: A Focus On Duan Lian, Yiqing Liu, Zhijie Sun

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Duan Lian has offered a semiotic interpretation of the history of landscape painting. He argues that the formation, development, divergence and decline of landscape painting are all conveyed through the form of images. This constitutes an interaction of image symbols from form to concept, providing new perspectives and paradigms for the study of landscape painting and semiotics. However, regarding the transcendence of landscape painting, we contend that Duan Lian's semiotic interpretation of landscape painting cannot fully capture its intrinsic aesthetics and spirit, as this approach may lead to an underestimation and weakening of the artistic essence of landscape painting. Semiotics, …

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Education For The Average Person And The Celestial-Human Strategy In Ancient Poetry Education: Pedagogical Choices In The Context Of The Li-Du And Su-Huang Debates, Shugong Zhao Oct 2025

Education For The Average Person And The Celestial-Human Strategy In Ancient Poetry Education: Pedagogical Choices In The Context Of The Li-Du And Su-Huang Debates, Shugong Zhao

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

As early as the Wei and Jin dynasties, Chinese literary culture developed a marked adulation of genius. Yet, poetry education took a distinct approach, which favored models not solely based on genius. In discussions contrasting Li Bai and Du Fu, Li Bai was esteemed for his rare natural gift, while Du Fu was valued for his profound intellectual insight. Similarly, in the Su-Huang debates, Su Shi was praised for innate talent, while Huang Tingjian was noted for his disciplined scholarship. Despite these distinctions, poetry education consistently recommended emulating figures like Du Fu and Huang Tingjian. This choice reflects the ancient …

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“The Poetics Of Graphite Stone Paintings” And The Quality Of Modern Scholars' Paintings: Wu Changshuo And Pan Tianshou As Examples, Zhongyi Xia Oct 2025

“The Poetics Of Graphite Stone Paintings” And The Quality Of Modern Scholars' Paintings: Wu Changshuo And Pan Tianshou As Examples, Zhongyi Xia

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

To identify why only “the poetics of graphite stone paintings” in Wu Changshuo and Pan Tianshou's works deserve to be referred to as representative of “modern scholars' paintings,” several issues need clarification. First, what is the boundary between “paintings by scholars” and “paintings by literati?” Second, how does one identify Wu's “stubborn stone” not only as a kind of “scholarly painting,” but also as “modern?” Third, how does one recognize Pan's “massive rock” as a “scholarly painting” worthy of being called “modern?” The response is as follows. Firstly, “scholarly painting” is rooted in tranquility and introverted in the self-sanctity of …

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Yi-Xia Distinction And Cultural Identity In The Reception Of Calligraphy In The Northern Dynasties, Xingcheng Zhang Oct 2025

Yi-Xia Distinction And Cultural Identity In The Reception Of Calligraphy In The Northern Dynasties, Xingcheng Zhang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The fluctuating recognition of Northern dynasties' calligraphy within Chinese calligraphic history stems not only from aesthetic considerations but also from complex cultural identity issues, which profoundly reflects the interaction between calligraphy and cultural politics. The Tang dynasty's reverence for Wang Xizhi and the trend toward “southernization” in calligraphic studies initiated the decline of Northern dynasties' calligraphy, while the Song Dynasty's rejection of Wei steles and related Northern styles reflected the orthodoxy of Jin and Tang, based on the Yi-Xia distinction and the divide between civilization and barbarism. Since the mid-to-late Qing dynasty, the transformation of academic thought, the demands of …

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On “Posthumanism”, Martin Crowley Oct 2025

On “Posthumanism”, Martin Crowley

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The label “posthumanism” identifies neither a doctrine, nor an intellectual or analytical approach with a defining set of protocols. Rather, we may take “posthumanism” as a term loosely applied to a range of contributions and approaches, on the basis of a generally under-specified collection of sympathies and commitments. Approximately stated, these sympathies and commitments would entail the claim that — with due allowance for historical variation — the category of “the human” has long played a key role at the centre of Western thought; that this role has included serving to justify the promotion of human beings above other forms …

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A New Dimension Of Posthumanism: A Study Of Cyborg Subject And Subjectivity, Yuqin Jiang Oct 2025

A New Dimension Of Posthumanism: A Study Of Cyborg Subject And Subjectivity, Yuqin Jiang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Posthumanism, as an emerging theory in twenty-first-century technology and humanities, simultaneously challenges and expands the traditional humanistic conception of subjectivity in the era marked by rapid advances in information technology and biotechnology (post-humanism). It also actively explores new perceptions of the world emerging from novel bodily senses and forms (posthuman-ism). The cyborg, representing a human-machine integrated bodily form and cultural construct, reflects the evolution and development of human subjectivity. Cyborg subjectivity is a form of existence that spans the understanding of both transhumanism and posthumanism. It is a comprehensive and open sprawling form that embodies the integration of technology and …

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The Invention Of Tradition: From Ancient “Articles” To May Fourth “Literature” — A Concurrent Explanation Of The Connotation Of “Chinese Literary Theory”, Xu Xu Oct 2025

The Invention Of Tradition: From Ancient “Articles” To May Fourth “Literature” — A Concurrent Explanation Of The Connotation Of “Chinese Literary Theory”, Xu Xu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

This article focuses on the relationship between literary views and article studies of May Fourth scholars from the perspective of hermeneutics, in order to re-explain the connotation of “Chinese literary theory” and consider the construction of a Chinese literary theory discourse system. Rooted in interpretations of the interplay between literature and dao, May Fourth scholars reshaped the traditional framework, shifting the focus to the relationship between literature and humanity, through the integration of ideals and dao. Their commitment to broad, applied literary views led to a progression from a simple division between cultural traits and literary function to a more …

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The Advent Of The Posthuman Era And The Rise Of Posthumanist Criticism, Ning Wang Oct 2025

The Advent Of The Posthuman Era And The Rise Of Posthumanist Criticism, Ning Wang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

As a living condition and state in the process of human development and evolution, a posthuman era has indeed arrived, which has brought about fundamental changes in the role and value of humanity. In the past, in the era of high humanism, the status of humanity as the “primate of all things” and the “elite of the universe” was challenged and resisted by various postmodern trends. In particular, the deconstruction of anthropocentrism by ecocriticism, the challenge posed by animal studies to the power and role of human domination, and the attacks launched by various viruses in nature on human survival …

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Reflections On The Origin And Development Of The Discourse Of The Chinese School Of Comparative Literature, Zhen Zhang, Xiaopeng Lu Oct 2025

Reflections On The Origin And Development Of The Discourse Of The Chinese School Of Comparative Literature, Zhen Zhang, Xiaopeng Lu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

In the past few decades, the discourse of a “Chinese School of Comparative Literature” has received much attention among Chinese scholars of comparative literature. The notion of a Chinese school is in reference to the “French School” and “American School” in the historical development of comparative literature as a discipline. However, those Western-centric frameworks of comparative literary studies such as the French School and the American School have been widely challenged and largely abandoned in Western academia. Nowadays methods and perspectives on conducting comparative literary studies have become more diverse. This essay questions the discourse of a Chinese school, calls …

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A Study Of Zhu De's Literary And Artistic Thought In The Early Period Of The Liberated Areas, Linfang Qin Oct 2025

A Study Of Zhu De's Literary And Artistic Thought In The Early Period Of The Liberated Areas, Linfang Qin

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

In the early period of the liberated areas, Zhu De developed a literary and artistic thought centered on revolutionary utilitarianism. Its main contents are as follows. In terms of nature and function, the literature and art in the liberated areas must become a weapon to suport the Anti-Japanese War. Regarding subject matter, they should correctly deal with the issues of praise and exposure. In terms of artistic form, it is essential to extensively utilize the forms of folk art favored by the masses so as to achieve “popularization and vernacularization.” For the literature and art in the liberated areas to …

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What Kind Of Literature And Art Can Enhance People's Spiritual Strength?, Yugang Fan Oct 2025

What Kind Of Literature And Art Can Enhance People's Spiritual Strength?, Yugang Fan

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

As the global order shifts with the rise of the East and the decline of the West, and human civilization reaches new heights, cultural competition has intensified, and the clash of cultural ideologies has become increasingly fierce. The question of what kind of literature and art can enhance the spiritual strength of the people has become a crucial issue of our times. Experience has shown that only literature and art that are deeply rooted in the context of the new era, that fully grasp and express its consciousness, and that remain aligned with the “nation's core interests” can effectively strengthen …

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College Council Minutes (October 28, 2025), Dmacc Oct 2025

College Council Minutes (October 28, 2025), Dmacc

College Council

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Bearing Witness, Jenni Breems Oct 2025

Bearing Witness, Jenni Breems

Staff Work

No abstract provided.

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Fs Personnel Committee Minutes 2025-10-28, Northern Illinois University Oct 2025

Fs Personnel Committee Minutes 2025-10-28, Northern Illinois University

Faculty Senate Archives

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Senate Resolution 2025-02, Skylar Moe Oct 2025

Senate Resolution 2025-02, Skylar Moe

Approved Senate Bills, Resolutions, and Documents

Resolution supporting the adoption of graduation stoles

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The Life Of A Copyright, Annabel Haddock Oct 2025

The Life Of A Copyright, Annabel Haddock

Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal (AELJ) Blog

On August 23rd, 2021, stand-up comedian Caroline Timoney posted a TikTok video where she stated, “I fear I may have girl bossed a little too close to the sun.” The video went viral and, to this day, it is her most viewed post on the platform, with upwards of seven and a half million views as of October 13, 2025, and over twenty-four thousand videos reposted using her audio. Taylor Swift’s twelfth and most recent album, The Life of a Showgirl, was released on October 3rd, 2025, and includes a song titled “CANCELLED!” featuring the lyric “Did you girlboss …

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