Decorating A High School Dance With A Winter Theme
Jessica from Michigan
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We did 'superman's ice castle'. See attachment. This is the Ice Cave set design we did for Simon Posford and Hallucinogen after party in Nyc 2001
Copyright Burning Elf. Feel free to use inspiration.
Post By Lori NYC (Guest Post)
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Hey guys I am pretty much in the same boat and I'm running out of ideas but a great website that helps is called shindigz.com they have themed balloons with snowflake patters and there really neat. I ordered a bunch for our school. They also have really cheap gossamer. I saw a picture of pillars and the idea is great I kinda just stole it from them but it helps.
Best of luck to all I know how stressful decorations can be. Laura!
Post By Laura L. (Guest Post)
high school dance with casual! help!
What are some ideas we could do or wear for this dance!
Post By vinnie (Guest Post)
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I am a 35 yr. old mom with five little children and I decorate for a lot of youth activities. I actually have a Senior from my church coming over today for ideas for their Homecoming. I saw your post so I just thought I would respond.
For a winter theme you could do white batting from the fabric store (comes in rolls) for snow. A inexpensive way to add drama is rolls of vinyl table covering that you get at a party store. You can get it in any color on big rolls from about $13.00 - $16.00 per roll and it looks like
fabric when you drape it (and it goes a long ways).
You could do whites, silvers, soft blues. Paper lanterns (they take batteries) could be hung from ceilings and they start at $2.50 per lantern. You could mix snowflakes among the lanterns.
If you want to go inexpensive you could hang snowflakes around with glitter on them, just hang them from fish wire. Something that would be cool is hang strands of lights from ceiling straight down through out the gym. Most people would let you borrow them from their christmas decor. You could cut branches from trees that don't have leaves and use plaster from the hardware store and find some inexpensive pots and put the branches in pots and cove branches with lights. You could also paint the branches white for a real white winter look.
Hopefully some of these ideas helped. If you need any more ideas I could think of some more. Good Luck!
Shanna
Post By shanna (Guest Post)
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I think you should make posters for all over the hall ways. I also think that you should go to thrift shops and find all these tacky things for a winter theme. Any thing could work since it is cheap.
Post By bonnie (Guest Post)
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Hey guys. Our student council does a WinterBall every year. And as president I am the one who does just about everything for it! We fist start with our colors. This year we are doing blue, purple and white. We put white icicle lights on our bleachers in our gym and then over them with white fabric. It always looks great! Then on the other two bleachers we loop dark blue fabric and have silver spray painted wreaths in the middle. That looks great too and its pretty cheep (other then all the fabric costs) Then we set up table with table covers and have flower in glass vases in the middle. Then candles around the flowers and glider on the tables. We also hang stars from the ceiling of the gym with some help. It always looks great. Just make sure you have lots of help and plan way ahead so your all ready to do day of. Best of luck everyone! peaceee
Post By Lauren (Guest Post)
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Hello!
I am a freshman in high school and we just got done with our Winter Formal. Our high school schedule is that the sophomores have to set-up the Winter Formal for this year. Well, this year they did a bad job. To make yours better, my tips are:
1. Don't have the decorations too dark, no one wants to be depressed while at a formal dance.
2. Have a casual theme like: Winter in Times Square or Winter in London, or something casual and classy.
3. Stick with warm colors for decorations: blue and white I think work the best!
4. Have a lot of hanging balloons and archways-they are cheap and fun!
5. Don't have black-out or white-out for a dance, if you have a tight time limit. The hardest thing to do is find a dress based on the theme of the dance. If you already have a black-out or white-out dance, post-it and advertise it soon. The sooner is better!
6. Have lots of people help and make the best out of it! I hope I was helpful!
Post By Michaela (Guest Post)
help! dance! aahh!
our school is having an informal. so there is gonna be no dresses. and such. but what ideas can we do to spice up a cafeteria. entrance is 2-3 dollars. if you have any ideas just write back. thanks.
Post By jessica (Guest Post)
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I went on line and printed off snowflake templates and had people cut them out, we had about 3000 I then hung 2-3 on one long string of fishing line and tacked them to the ceiling at varying lengths. So it looks like its snowing. I also got beanbag filler (tiny little polystyrene balls) and covered the floor with it and sheets of cotton wool to look like snow and put that around door ways tables etc.
we had loads to artificial trees colored in snow, I also sprayed snow on the windows. We also had Christmas wreaths everywhere. We strung bean bag filler balls together like a necklace onto fishing line, and hung them from the ceiling too. We had a ball, and it is so cheap.
Post By Michelle (Guest Post)
NAMES FOR OUR WINTER FORMAL DANCE
We have names for our winter dance and yes, it's formal. People are saying "let it snow" but it's to simple. People didn't go last year, but this year we want people to go. So please tell me good names for our dance asap!
Thanks, Adriana
Post By ADRIANA (Guest Post)
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Check out www.Shindigz.com They have great pictures for themed parties. I get a magazine at my house. It's awesome.
Post By Julie (Guest Post)
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i need help i need kinda cheap but not tacky ways to decorate an all white winter wonderland formal for my sophomore class. i need ideas to decorate the main floor and the VIP section. also some tasty treats to serve. so if you could please help me!
Post By neri ambriz from IL (Guest Post)
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Try these beautiful paper snowflakes. We sprayed them with white glitter, made huge mobiles, hung them from balloons, etc. and the room looked like a winter wonderland. At $15 for 50 9" snowflakes...you can't beat the price:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Snowflakes-50-H ... ssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem. Good luck everyone!
Post by Lorraineqcl
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I went to the Newberg winter wonderland and it was beautiful. I love this idea!
Post By Ayla (Guest Post)
decorations 4 8th n 7th grade winter dance
I need some help with some decorations for a winter dance theme.
Post By junior (Guest Post)
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I think that lots of snowflakes and a great Dj will really help you with a balloon archway as soon as you walk in the doors that would look really good!
Kelly from New York
Post By Kelly (Guest Post)
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In order to raise money, our student council has guys and girls sign up to run for Mr. and Mrs. Merry Christmas. The boy and girl who collect the most money are crowned at the Winter Formal. Last year we raised over $1000 from this, not including ticket sales.
Post By Jan (Guest Post)
Decorating A Winter Wonderland!
Hey! I NEED help badly on decorating our winter wonderland them! if anyone has any ideas it would be GREAT! i also have a few ideas for a x-mas or icy formal, you could have an Ice king and Ice queen, make the floor out of plexiglass or something shinny to make it look like ice, a walkway or archway made of lights, icicles, or baloons, an ice sculpture where you are having your supper, have winter songs such as ice ice baby-vanilla ice, 12 days of christmas-beyonce, make a little hut thing made of icecubes (plastic ones!) and sell snow cones or slush drinks there and call it the north pole or something!, hang snowflakes made of paper from the cealing, have booths to take photos and paint murals on big sheets of paper to put on the wall for display, you could have a sled to sit in and get your pictures taken with santa and charge a buck or two for each picture !?! well lets all my ideas :P! if you have any others please add them! Thankyou !
Post By Viola (Guest Post)
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Our Spirit Council is having a Semi-Formal dance before Christmas and to decorate we're getting helium filled balloons and attaching long strings with tin foil stars at the end and letting the balloons float to the cieling and so the stars will hang down!! And we're going to have a balloon drop in the middle of the cieling to drop about 100 balloons in the middle of the dance!! In the entry way we're going to make a skating pond scene and having stars and lights everywhere!!
Post By emily (Guest Post)
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Hey everyone! I was reading all of this. It's all so interesting. I have an assignment, for a final, in my leadership class. We have to create a dance, from start to finish. We have to plan everything and stuff. I got some ideas from here. Incase anyone wants a different winter name you can use Peppermint Paradise. Another idea is a circus theme. It's a reallly good idea, have like popcorn and cotton candy machines. One thing you shouldn't ever do is a space dance, its a total bomb. it stinks. well yes, I am planning a fake dance and Im not sure what I want to do, b.c I want this dance to actually be able to use. So I am thinking about doing a Valentine one, the only thing is, it cannot be formal. so I need help
Post By Lindsey (Guest Post)
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We as well are having a "Snow Ball" for sadies. If your council has money, go to Stumps, it's a decoration place to buy stuff from and they have a ton of winter decor. For our dance we are getting fog machines for the dance floor so its like dancing in the snow. also lights on the floor is a BAD IDEA. Students step on it and with girls going barefoot, it gets ugly. We also have connections with ice sculpting companies who are making us large ice snowmen for blockades. Have a day where your council just cuts out snowflakes, you will need lots of them and making them yourself with paper saves money. If you have high ceilings, try draping it out of reach from the ceiling. You can use dowel rods to drap it over, it makes the ceiling lower and a little more homey. You can use that plastic table cloth which is cheap. Another thing we have learned is less is more. Don't waste time on small projects students wont see but big things everyone will be amazed by.
Post By STUCO REP (Guest Post)
Christmas Themed Dance
My school is already having a "Snowball" in January. We'd like to have a Christmas themed dance. I'm trying to think of decorations...All I can come up with is a christmas tree, christmas lights...
Our school likes to have contests too, but no costumes are allowed...I was thinking the winners could be named Mr. and Mrs. Clause or something..? Maybe the contest could be the ones wearing the most festive attire, most green and red..?? I don't know, but I want it to be an all out Christmas theme! If anyone has any ideas please post. Thanks! -Mel
Post By Melissa (Guest Post)
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Hey there my school is planning on having a "Classic Christmas"(Like with Christmas trees and such) themed semi formal and I was wondering if anyone had any ideas as to what kind of decorations and stuff we could have. Any feedback would be much appreciated, thanks!!
Post By J MAC (Guest Post)
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Maybe get a snow machine hang fake snowflakes on the walls and ceiling you see im decorating my bedroom with a winter wonderlaned theme and thats what im doing oh and put some snow blanket anywhere you like
Post By Kyli (Guest Post)
School Dance
We're having an enterance of an ice castle. I'm having art paint ite. It's really big. The door will be cut out, and it will be placed outside the gym doors. Then inside it will be like the inside of a castle decorated for winter. The colors are blue, white, and gold. It's really beautiful.
Post By Danicca (Guest Post)
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I'm doing a fundraiser for a camp that works with kids from bad neighborhoods and foster homes. We're considering putting together a winter dance and inviting a bunch of different schools to participate. The only problem is, we have to basicly work on donations. Any ideas on how to decorate on a teeny tiny budget?
Post By *Lauren* (Guest Post)
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Hi there, I'm in 8th grade in the middle of nowhere and im class rep. We are prolly having a winter formal, dresses and all, and 8th graders would love that because they changed the graduation this year so we arnt all fancy and 8th graders really wanted that. I would love to hear how to decorate the "Winter Ball" so its like amazing but my school isnt very rich. We are also using the money as a fundraiser. I would love snowflakes and my two student council teachers that help with it were thinking of a balloon archway. And also there might be like King and Queen, i would like good names for them too, and a good title for the dance. Includes ball cause that gives it a cool ring to it.
Post by Katiedoobee
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Hey! Our school is having a winter semi formal...in order to raise some money....anyways...I'm really glad I found this...you guys have some great ideas! Hehehe*
Here are themes names I thought of....hahaha*
Winter Wonderland <<
Frozen in Time
Another Snowy Evening
Frosty Fairytale
Dancing in the Snow
Sweet Snowy Surrender?Serenade?Social?
Icy Impressions
Post By Mary (Guest Post)
Italian vineyard theme for Winter Formal
Our SC is sick of boring winter dance themes, so this year we're spicing it up with An Italian Themed Dance. First of all, we need a slogan for this dance, any ideas? Secondly, I need decorating ideas! This dance used to be called the Christmas Dance...but we ran out of ideas so now it is held in January. Now this isn't just any normal dance, this dance is just as big as prom at my school, and all grades can attend. So it needs to be big! Please Please Please post some ideas for me!!!!!!!
Post by kukubarru13
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you could decorate the main dance floor as an ice rink. blue lights, pictures of people as if they're looking over the gaurdrail and a little "booth" where there's a picture of someone distributing ice skates. Or there's "the north pole". W/ polar bears, penguins, and other little winter creatures. Its pretty much a good idea for the more relaxed scene of a cafeteria, or dining area. If you have any more problems, questions, or comments you can contact me at janellesabelle AT hotmail.com
Post By janelle (Guest Post)
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I need help on thinking of a name for our winter dance this year....we can not call it winter formal or anything that has to do with Christmas.
Ideas???
Post By Enter your name. (Guest Post)
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It's so nice to see other student council members on this site!! Still looking for winter wonderland/blackout ideas...still hated by the rest of student council...still up to me to save the school from banality. *sigh* Oh well. I can handle it. After the next student council meeting, I'm gonna talk to my class about the dance. Even though it is in mid-December, it will creep up on us fast. I think we will use blacklights, white snowflakes, blue white & green glowsticks, white streamers. I need some help with ideas for food & drinks. If you put up a reply post, be sure to address me (like Hey Riv! or something.) ALL HELP IS GREATLY APPRECIATED!!
Post by Acid Rain
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winter theme gym
wreaths blue/white pine cones with gumpaste and flour on them cheap biodegadeable, snowfklakes lots ,silver/blue sprakle tinsle in sheets for walls , forest of xmas trees on stage decorate to theme or each on different, make winter sleigh out of cardboard 1 sides, igloo from inslatuslation board, candles made from ice,blue/white table cloths, white/blue paper with trees paintered on then art class can do,ice rink made from plexiglass, balloons,whte silver to fill space, archway made of light icles, table wreathcandles collect freash from outside use florist tape/wire for form put candle in middle or lighted bulb, make snowballs from styrofaom, lie gym with fake snow, disco ball foor added tinkle just a few ideas that work in a gym
Post By jmatthews (Guest Post)
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we had our first annual winter ball this year and it was a great success we made it semi formal so no jeans. our dj was great we got him at a discount and we had some seasonal music mixed with a lot of music that kids normally listen to. Tables were set with blue and white tablecloths and christmas cookies. we had blue glow bracelets tons of christmas lights and tons and tons of tinsel and fake snow sprinkled all over the floor. yea it made a mess but it looked great. we found plastic snowflakes at the dollar store and hung them everywhere along with the usual crape paper. everything was blue and white. our king and queen crowns were made out of that christmas wire with stars coming off of it and garland. lots of fake snow really helps get the message across.
Post By Lorabora321 (Guest Post)
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I am president of my school and we have a huge gym to decorate and only like 300 people show up!
I need some ideas for decorationa on a lil budget... Plz feel free to e-mail me at bsinger321@aol.com thx much - horrible dessigner!!~~
Post By b man (Guest Post)
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It may be cool do have a song theme, so for a winter dance, it could be Ice Ice Baby! If you guys think of any other winter song themes, tell me!!!
Post By Alicia (Guest Post)
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HEY! My friends and i r plannin our semi winter ball at my skool. Well you should use like lots of white and blue lights mix um up they look really sweet.
Post By Taylor S. (Guest Post)
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Hey for the person needing archway ideas, we rented an archway and then draped blue shimmery fabric around the posts, and then strung white mini lights over the fabric, and attached little silver snowfalkes to it as well. It looked really good!
Post By allie (Guest Post)
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WOW~ RiGHT MOW iS OUR SET-UP FOR OUR SEMi FORMAL! THE THEME iS A SNOWY NiGHT. WE HAVE USED GLiTTER AND FAKE SNOW AND WE ARE MAKiNG CENTERPiECESZ! TRY USiNG LOTS OF SiLVER && BLUE TONES. && GOLD iS A GREAT COLOUR TO MiX W/. MAKE SURE TO HAVE FOOD THATSZ APROPRiATE! REMEBER MESSY FOODSZ DONT WORK WELL B/C EVERYONEiS ALL DRESSED UP. TRY MAC && CHEESE FOR THE MAiN DiSH. iT WORKSZ REALLY WELL! WELL...GOOD LUCK AND iF YOU NEED MORE HELP EMAiL ME AT kieraz1 @ localnet.com (remove spaces)
Post By Kiera (Guest Post)
A Winter Wonderland Theme
welll... our school is doing a winter wonderland semi formal theme too i am the president and we decided to make a tunnel whn you first walk into the cafe. the tunnel will be white and decorated with all kinds of glitter and snowflakes and such but our cafe is really big and we are kind of running out of ideas for the rest of the area! help? anyone?
Post By Danna (Guest Post)
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ya i was just wondering if this is a good idea...i'm vp for my school....ok so i'm decorating for the winter dance..(it's a blue whit and silver theme)..it will have a shiny blue sheet on the floor (as ice....like a pond or lake) and around that intire area will be fake snow...there will be white light up trees on the fake snow....there will also be realy cute big snowflake (colors of matalic blue, white and sliver) hanging from the ceiling....the enetrance will have a baloon arch with the theme colors. and there will be fake but realistic street lanterns......so how does that sound?!!?
Post By jackie (Guest Post)
A Winter Theme
Hey i'm looking for great ideas to decorate our high scool gym. Since i'm head of the decoration commitee i was wondering if i could get some cool ideas. Please help me 911
Post By aleena (Guest Post)
Ice Castle Decor for Snowball dance.
So I'm dance decorations head on Student COuncil at my highschool and I need some decorating Ideas for our Ice Castle themed winter dance. The idea is all icy and sparkly, we have tons of white lights and snowflakes does anyone have any inexpensive ice themed ideas? The Ice lantern idea is great but Candles are definately not an option ( we have more thana few pyrostudents) I was hoping to make a ton of like *icecubes or bricks* from plastic and then put lights behind them but im not sure how plexyglass is too expensive and hard to manage for this. Any input is greatly appreciated.
Post By Tammi (Guest Post)
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hey, at my school we are doing our semi formal as a winter wonderland theme and I decided to build a partial igloo as the entrance to the dance. im using xerox boxes and spray on snow to give it a realistic look. the plan is to have the students walk through the igloo tunnel part into the gym. its very time consumming though. good luck and have fun!
Post By Jenny (Guest Post)
RE: Decorating A High School Dance With A Winter Theme
Our Drama Club is having their annual Ice Castles dance, and it has a Winter theme with it. I'm the President and it's driving me insane. I'd like to find a place that will send you an inexpensive kit full of everything you would need to decorate with. We're thinking of hanging some kind of fabric around the gym to (hopefully) "transform" it into a different place. Of course, there will be plenty of paper snowflakes (I think the art class is helping out with making those) and maybe even glitter, even though it is horrible stuff to clean up. We'll probably have a lot of balloons in our theme colors. I don't really know, but I think we decided on lavender, silver, white. I say brown, but nobody likes that color. lol jk Anyway, I need to know how to make a balloon arch for pictures. Supposively, my STUCO rep says she knows how, but I just want to be safe.
Post By Audrey (Guest Post)
We Did A Winter Dance Instead Of A Valentines Day Dance
Huge GIGANTIC snowflakes
Post By Mara (Guest Post)
RE: Decorating A High School Dance with an Arabian night the
We are having a freshmen sophmore dance and we have pretty much decided on an arabian night theme but we dont really know what to decorate the gym with. Also the gym is really large and we kind of want to make the gym smaller we just dont know how to do that. I need some advice as soon as possible PLEASE!
Post By Renee (Guest Post)
RE: Decorating A High School Dance With A Winter Theme
hey..for anyone looking for a theme for a winter dance I have one. I am the vic pers. of my class and we are in charge of the semi formal for the high school. Our theme is the Black and White Affaire. Every one will come dressed in black and white and we will decorate in black and white and we are also having black lights. For the entrance to the gym (where the dance will be held) we are having a black and white checkered runway. So it should be fun!!..if u have any other ideas for this theme let me know!---Tara
Post By Tara (Guest Post)
RE: Decorating A High School Dance With A valentines Theme
jamie... i have an idea...you can have a medieval banquet/dance and the different classes can dress up and whoever does get like class points or something...i think it would be fun...you should have a artist there cuz back then they ain't have pics... and if food it should be served in bread bowls ... do some studying on medieval festivities... i hope you like the idea...( you should get a photographer though) bye
Post By Benz (Guest Post)
Theme for a High School Valentines Dance
I'm Student Council President, and I'm so sick of having traditional "Valentines" dances. I know that the whole romance theme is implied, but I'm trying to figure out a cool, new theme for this year's. I'm gradding too, so I want to go out with a bang! HELP!
Post By Jamie (Guest Post)
RE: Decorating A High School Dance With A valentines theme
Wassup and how are you...I'm on student council and I need some help on decorating the cafe. it is my first dance (helping and going to) so I want to make it nice and also on advertising too because I want the kid to want to comeand we need at least 100 people... we are on a budget so we have to home make the decorations...i need new and a variety of ideas I can use... your help is really and very much appreciated. thanks!!!!
Post By Benz (Guest Post)
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This is more of a decorating idea. You can make Ice Lanterns from Ice cream buckets. Fill the ice cream buckets full of water and place in the freezer. You can put pine branches and such in there also to add to the decor. You will need to freeze them for 12-15 hrs.. Place them in a deep freeze with the lids on. When the 12-15 hrs have passed, open the lid and punch a hole in the top of the ice and drain out the excess water. The water should have frozen to the sides of the bucket and the bottom. Carefully carve out a opening on the top. Let sit for a bit on the counter top and take out of the ice cream bucket. These will need to be placed in the freezer to "cure" for at least 24 hrs.
If you live in a cold climate these are nice to line the walkway up to the door. Place a candle in each one and light. These can be place indoors for decorations also. You will need to place them on a tray or cookie sheet to catch the water. You can also use disposible diapers under each of the lanterns on top of the cookie sheet to catch the water. COver the diapers or cookie sheets with shredded paper and VOLIA! A unique and inexpensive decoration!
Post By SAndy (Guest Post)
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