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Two more from the Valentino erasure. The new text reads: "thousands / do not know / this stuff / inside the covers of books / determined to fight / his skillful uses / didn’t understand / exploitation / made appropriate / elimination / Their petition / a component of // an / intolerable situation / whose day-to-day / evaluation fluctuated wildly / the advantages of harmony had been ignored / throughout / he had been praised for doing the best / promotion / he could have stepped / away / no sane man / should have / resigned, he could not block / irony”