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Note 1
First Luke and Palpatine Note written after AOTC came out

Emperor Palpatine,

I assume that you want me because you think I’ll turn. I want to tell you something…you’re wrong. You won’t convert me as you did my father. Your overconfidence is your weakness. You think that everything will always work out the way you want it to. One of these days it won’t work out like that. Soon this battle station will be destroyed, and everyone one it will be dead.


Luke Skywalker
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Note 2
Luke Skywalker,

I assure you that I am not wrong. You will turn or you will die. It’s as simple as that.

What makes you think that I am overconfident? I am the Master of the Sith. You are just a weak farm boy. I’ve killed thousands of Jedi and turned more than you could imagine. Yet, you believe that your pitiful rebels can defeat me. The only one with a weakness is you. Your faith in your friends shall be your downfall.


The Emperor
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Note 3
Emperor Palpatine,

I will not turn. If you have to kill me, then so be it, but I will not turn. I’ve seen what the Dark Side has done to the citizens of the galaxy…I’ve seen what it has done to my father. I’m not going to give in to it. But once my friends get the shield down on Endor, your battle station will be vulnerable to our attack. We (the Rebels) have something far greater to fight for. We are fighting for the justice and the freedom from your rule. We have a determination, and we have a strong will. We don’t give up either; we will fight until death.

In all the years of your existence, didn’t you ever feel guilty for the terrible wrongs you have caused in this galaxy? Don’t you have any human quality inside that withered body of yours? What pleasure do you get out of all your killings, out of use the Dark Side for your own gain?

You asked me why I think that you are overconfident? Well many people have told me the things you have done to the galaxy, what you did to the Old Republic, and what you did to the citizens. I know all about how you used my mother when she was the queen of Naboo (which was your planet), and had a group called the Trade Federation invade it. You were hoping to kill her, but two Jedi protected her, so you had to change your plans. You USED her to get you elected Supreme Chancellor so that you could become Emperor. You created this Invasion so that you could create sympathy for yourself…that was your whole goal, so don’t even try to argue that.

Then you created the clone army so that you could have a group to oppose the Separatists, a group that you had your own Sith person pretend to create, so that there would be an excuse for a war. You then were granted emergency powers, and you became Emperor.

My mother and Obi-Wan told me all about those events. In each step, you always assumed that your way was right, and that you would always prevail. Then you found out how Force Sensitive my father was, and you wanted him for yourself! You made him feel important, and you eventually got him to join with you. That was a weak decision on my father’s part…that he couldn’t stand up to you. But I will. You think no one will oppose you just because no one ever has. You think only your way will work out (just because that’s basically what has happened so far.) But your first Death Star was destroyed, and things will not always work out the way you want it.

The more corruption and tyranny that you pour into the Empire, the more people will pop up to oppose you. Those that already have opposed you will have a stronger reason to oppose you. Eventually, the Rebellion will have enough support and strength to win over you.

Besides that, you might think you have driven out all of the good that was once my father. I would like to tell you that you are wrong. In his letters that he wrote me, although he didn’t mean it, he expressed a loving affection for me. He cares about me deep down inside. I’d be careful if I were you…if you try to harm me. He also has expressed his love for both my mother and my grandmother. He feels like he doesn’t want to oppose you right now, because of his respect for you. But if you cause harm to me or any other member of my family, you better watch out. I don’t think Anakin Skywalker will be able to take all the evilness that you are. Even your most trusted Imperial officers feel that you are doing wrong, and would like to oppose you, although they are scared. If you drive them to a certain point, I’m sure they will not hesitate to oppose you.

You cannot rule this galaxy forever. Your time as Emperor is limited, just by the way you run this government. It is inevitable that someone will oppose you. Good will prevail, because it is just and right.

And just so you know, I am not JUST a weak farm boy. I may not have a big build, but I have a lot of strength inside of me. I have been trained as a Jedi Knight, and I will use that strength to help do what is right. I am more than just a farm boy, too. I am a Jedi, and I am a person that is valued. I am a member of the Rebellion, and am also a pilot.

You don’t understand the strength of friendship because you do not understand friendship. You have no real friends on the Dark Side. If my friends fail, then sooner or later, someone else will oppose you. I have faith that good will prevail over evil. I trust my friends to do what they can. My friends are true friends, though. They value me as a person, they would give their lives for me, and I would do the same for them, and they care about me. You have no true friends.


Padmé and Anakin’s son,
Luke Skywalker
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Note 4
Luke Skywalker,

Please leave spare me your preaching. Good versus evil, a fairy tale theme. History, which you seem to think you know so much about, should have taught you that good does not always prevail and to the victor goes the spoils.

If you are interested in what benefits the Dark Side brings, I’m sure your father would be more than willing to tell you.

As to the rebellion gaining support, I don’t believe it shall last long enough for anyone else to join. Indeed, I think this shall be the last battle. After I crush the rebels, the others will be to frightened to oppose me. After all, only an idiot would throw away his life for a cause doomed to failure.

Darth Vader has served me faithfully for more than twenty years. He has slayed thousands of men and women alike for no more than they irritated him. What makes think he is no less evil than eye? Do you think a bond between a father and a son that have never even met before means that much to a Sith? As I recall, Vader had little trouble slicing off your hand. Next time, it could be your head.

My ruling the galaxy forever is none of your concern. If you join your father by my side, you may live to learn of my plan.


The Emperor
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Note 5
Emperor Palpatine,

I was not trying to preach to you; I was only telling you my opinions and views. Well, your evilness may have ruled the galaxy for my entire lifetime, but remember the battle is not yet over. We (the Rebels) have a fleet that is trying to blow up your Death Star, even as I am writing this. Only time will tell whether you are finally defeated, or if you triumph. Don’t assume that just because no one has ever been able to defeat your plans that no one ever will.

The entire galaxy is tired of your rule. Even if we don’t win this battle, someone will eventually win…it is inevitable that someone will eventually take you down. You are far too evil to rule forever. Maybe you’ll even be assassinated by one of your officers…or even one of your red guards. Citizens can only stand so much corruption; so much evilness…until people become desperate for something…some change.

You made my father a slave to you. He was corrupted by your teachings and your manipulation. I’m sure he would be willing to tell me “the benefits of the Dark Side.” I see no benefits in evilness. I will not join with you, no matter what you and my father tell me.

Well if our rebellion fails, another rebellion will rise up, and it will be a constant battle for you. People might be scared at first, but I’m sure someone would dare oppose you again. You can not rule so corruptly without losing.

What makes you so certain that our cause is doomed to failure? You think you’re all-powerful? Well you’re not. You cannot control everything in this galaxy.

And as for my father, I cannot pretend to say or think that what he did was right. His actions were wrong, and I cannot justify them. I know he has killed people many, many people, but I also believe that there is some of Anakin Skywalker still in him. That’s why he couldn’t kill me before, and I don’t believe he’ll do so right now in your throne room.

I’m not sure what makes me think that he is less evil than you are…it’s just something that I have felt…he was such a good person at one time. You could not have driven it fully from him…no matter what he does now. I believe that he loves me…deep down inside.

I cannot pretend to know what a Sith is thinking or feeling. I could be wrong about how he feels towards me. Maybe family relationships don’t mean anything to a Sith…but I guess I am saying this because I still have hope for my father…because I love him. I want him to be good. I feel there is still hope for him.

Actually what happened…Vader meant to slice off my hand, but just before the lightsaber touched my arm, I lost my balance and fell off the ledge and broke my arm. I still have my real arm. He would have cut it off, I know, but because of my accident, he didn’t.

If he really would slice off my head, or kill me…then my father is truly dead. That’s all I can say. If he really hates me and feels nothing for me…then good job in ridding him of his old self. There isn’t much I can say about that. Either I’m right or I’m wrong.

I know that I cannot mean much to him…because he wasn’t there when I was born…but that had mostly to do with the fact that my mother HID from him when she was pregnant with me. I don’t think he even knew about me until after the first Death Star battle. After he found out about me, though…he sent out all those thousands of probe droids to find me…and he sent out an entire Imperial fleet to go with him to take our Rebel Base, just because of me. He also went all the way to Cloud city and tortured my friends so that I would feel their pain through the Force and come to him…for that battle. With this evidence, you cannot deny that I mean something to him. Maybe he just wanted me because of how Force Sensitive I am…I’m aware of that possibility…and that’s why he went to so extremes to find me. If that’s the case, and he just wants me for the Empire, then, like I said before, my father is truly dead.

Get over it, Palpatine, I’m never going to join you. I know right from wrong. As I told you before, I am a Jedi Knight. I’m not going to back down from that.


Luke Skywalker
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Note 6
Luke Skywalker,

I’m disappointed in you. What “Jedi” looses his balance in a fight? A broken arm…Ha! I’m sure that caused you much pain, but it shall be a pin-prick to the agony you’ll feel should you choose death over darkness.

You’re fleet of rebels shall be dealt with accordingly. I’ve prepared a surprise for them.

What does being evil have to do with ruling the galaxy? One has to do with morality, the other with leadership. The assumption that I would actually let myself be murdered by one of my guards shows just how foolish you are. None of my guards possess the power it would take to destroy me, and neither do you.

There is one and only one reason Darth Vader spared you at Cloud city. You could be great with us. He saw that, as I do. All you need to do is join us. We can show you the way.

Right and wrong is not as rudimentary as you believe. I’ve killed because people oppose me. You’ve killed because you wish to end the Empire. Isn’t killing wrong? Doesn’t that make you as bad as I am? Or do you believe the ends justify the means?


The Emperor
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Note 7
Emperor Palpatine,

Okay, so you want to know how/why I lost my balance during the Cloud City fight. Vader and I were fighting near the edge of a platform. My lightsaber hit his shoulder, and he got a little hurt. That event angered him, so he thought he needed to end to fight. He tried to distract me by moving this piece of equipment with the Force. I glanced at it, but when I glanced at it, I took a step backwards, and I slipped. And another piece of information…just so you know…my legs aren’t exactly straight. I was born with very crooked legs, but I had braces when I was little, and now they’re pretty much straight, but they’re still a very tiny bit crooked. I can walk perfectly fine, and I do not have a limp or anything. That might have had something to do with it, but I think I felt through the Force that I was in danger, and I tried to move out of the way of the lightsaber, and that’s why. I think that had more to do with it than the distraction or the legs.

So don’t try to cut me down just because I lost my balance in the fight. It was actually a good thing because I still have my arm. I know you’re trying to make me angry at you by trying to cut me down.

Yes, I broke my arm in the fight. It DID hurt a lot…and I don’t doubt that however you will kill me will not hurt more. You’re not going to get me to join the dark side. You’re not going to scare me into joining you.

And to be honest with you, I think you’re scared of me. I think you’re afraid that I could kill you.

I’m also sure you have some kind of plan for the Rebel Fleet. What is this “surprise” you have for them? I really would like to know, since you seem so confident of our defeat.

What does being evil have to do with ruling the galaxy? Hmm…let me see. First of all, how can an evil ruler (which you are) rule a government without corruption? If the leader has no morals, and is all out for himself/herself, the citizens are going to be exposed to all kinds of corruption. You are not out to help anyone. A good leader cares about his/her citizens, and does everything he/she can to help them. A good leader enforces laws that are morally right, and lives as an example to others. Good leaders are role models to citizens. All you care about is power…and how you can force everyone to do whatever you want. That is not the right way to approach good leadership. A person shows the same kind of leadership which reflects the kind of person they are. I do not know how to explain it any further…it is just clear to me, and it seems so obvious. You do not want what is just and right.

Okay, fine…whatever you say. So the only reason my father didn’t kill me on Cloud City was that he thought I would make a great Sith. I’ll just leave it at that then. I have information for both you and Vader: I’m not going to become a Sith. I don’t care how force sensitive I am. I am not interested in becoming an agent of evil. I am not interested in gaining power either. I will not join you, ever. Is that clear? I don’t want to know how to become evil. Yoda and Obi-Wan have taught me to be better than that.

And my belief about killing people? Okay first of all…I don’t go out and try to purposely kill people. That is not my goal. But it is yours. My intent is to fight for what is just and right. Your intent is to force people to do whatever you say, and to kill all those that are a threat to you. Killing is wrong when that is your purpose…to kill. I have shot down Imperial TIE fighters, Imperial officers, and stormtroopers, but that was because I was in a battle. Sometimes you kill in battle, but many more times you kill innocent citizens.

Looking through the window in your throne room, I can see the Rebel fleet coming to destroy this battle station.


Luke
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Note 8
Luke Skywalker,

I hope you enjoy the sight you’re about to see, because, despite what your rebel spies have informed you, the Death Star is completely operational. Do you know what that means?

Your legs are crooked? So, not only are you a farmer boy, but your crippled as well. I’m sure that must have been a flaw you inherited from your mother.

So you admit that the ends justify the means. It doesn’t matter how many people you kill just because you fight for what is “just and right”. Tell me, isn’t it your duty to oppose evil and protect the innocent. Many of the people you kill are innocent of any crime. Despite what Obi-Wan has undoubtedly taught you, I don’t serve evil. I merely purpose a system of order and unity. The Old Republic was neither. The Senate was controlled by squabbling fools. Emergencies would go through months of debate before a solution could be presented and that solution would be declined. There was n one to stop it either. No one to force them to come to a decision. Don’t you think any leadership is better than none? I believe what I fight for is “just and right”. So really, you’re no better than I.


The Emperor
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Note 9
Emperor Palpatine,

I saw the blast come from the Death Star, “at your command.” I believe the Death Star is bad…evil…unethical…I don’t know how to describe what I mean. It’s just WRONG to me…the entire concept. I’ll tell you why. It’s because the Death Star is a giant killing machine, but we (the Rebellion) have no way of fighting back against that magnitude. With it, you can blow up fleets, or entire planets, just because the people living on the planets don’t agree with you. You are ruling this galaxy using military force to control it. Yes, the government is effective, but that doesn’t make it right.

And for your information, I’m no idiot. I DO know what the Death Star being completely operational means.

Our talk is getting us nowhere. If you want to fight, let’s have it. Get out your lightsaber, and I’ll fight you.

Yes, my legs are crooked, but only a TINY bit…not much at all. I don’t appreciate you using it as a way of insulting me. When I told you about it, I didn’t expect you to mock me…you should know you shouldn’t do that. And I suppose you have a PERFECT body? How come your skin looks so wrinkled and so white? You’ve never had anything wrong with your body at all? I told you about my legs because I thought you would respect me as a person enough to know not to insult me. I admit that I don’t have a perfect body, and that I do have faults. Everyone has faults.

For your information, I’m not crippled. I told you I can walk perfectly fine. If I were crippled, I wouldn’t be able to walk, now would I? I wouldn’t be standing here right before you, and I wouldn’t be walking around. I can walk, run, jump, and train to be a Jedi Knight with my legs. I was born crippled, I’ll admit that, but my legs got fixed, and now I can do everything a normal person can do. As I said before, they’re VERY SLIGHTLY crooked now…so slight that no one can even tell, and that that fact doesn’t affect my walking, or what I can do.

Another thing, I know you were trying to insult me by insulting my mother…saying that it was a flaw inherited from my mother. I didn’t inherit it from either of my parents. I’ll tell you why I was born like that…in Obi-Wan’s opinion. He told me that when a Force sensitive person turns to the Dark Side, any male children they have will be affected…I don’t know exactly how it works, but it’s part of the Force’s way of ensuring that Sith aren’t passed on from one generation to the next. Any male child conceived after the person has used any little bit of the Dark Side, will be affected….based on the amount of Dark Side the person had used. So if the person only used a little of the Dark Side, the child will be affected a little bit (and it’s something deliberate…like using the Force for revenge in a large amount), and if they did a lot of bad things…like killing thousands of people, the child would probably die. Obviously Vader used a little of the Dark Side before I was conceived, but it wasn’t enough to affect me that much.

Okay, Mr. Emperor, let’s see….I don’t purposely decide to make people suffer or kill innocent people. The people that I have killed have been part of battles…soldiers of your Imperial Army. They are military, and with any war, it is expected that there will be casualties. It is okay for military to kill military on the opposite side of the battle…that’s part of war. But you deliberately go out and kill people who are not even in our military. You kill innocent people…people who have not chosen to fight….people without weapons.

You are just trying to deceive me. You are a deceiver and a liar. You always have been. You deceived my mother, and all the Senators in the Old Republic.

It is clear to me that you do serve evil. I don’t need to ask for Obi-Wan or anyone else’s opinion on that matter. What you do is just wrong.

I’m not saying I’m perfect…I’m far from being perfect. Everyone does wrong sometimes, but it’s when you make it your goal in life…that’s what makes you evil.

Maybe the Old Republic wasn’t perfect, but I’m sure the flaws could have been improved upon…besides that, you manipulated a lot of the situations in the Old Republic. My mother and Obi-Wan have told me all about it.

I wasn’t trying to say that I was better than you. I meant that I was striving for good.


Anyway, like I said, if you want to fight, let’s have it.


Luke Skywalker
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Note 10
Luke Skywalker,

Did you know that the Death Star is not actually a weapon of mass chaos? The builder was as ethical as you claim to be…She built it for the purpose of mining large asteroids. All good, can be used for evil. Good is blinded by their code of nobility. Only when you lift that blindfold can you see the truth, can you see the power you can have…

If you want to kill me so bad why don’t you attack. I am capably of defending myself. You want to hurt me, make me pay for all the wrongs I’ve committed, all the lives I’ve taken.

Here’s your chance. Strike me down, if you can.


The Emperor
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Note 11
Emperor Palpatine,

You say the Death Star was built for the purpose of mining large asteroids? Funny because that’s not what I heard. I heard Darth Vader designed it for you, as an improvement on the original Death Star. I also heard that some guy named Count Dooku and you designed the original Death Star, as the ultimate plan…about 20 years ago.

However, I can’t argue that things can either be used for good or for evil. I have long held that opinion too. It depends on the person’s intent with something. The Force is the same way. The force is a wonderful resource, but it can also be a dangerous weapon. The Jedi use the force as a resource, and you Sith use it as a weapon. Computers are tools that help a person, but they can also be made to do stuff for you…

If you had been a kind man…and had the right ideas in mind, the Empire could have work. You could have been a just leader, but instead you were a Sith and power hungry…so the Empire turned out to be a bad thing.

However, if you think all good is run by a code of nobility, you are wrong. It’s not a set of rules that I strive to follow…but my values, my morals, my ideas, are a part of me…something that I strive to put in all parts of my life.

Unlike you, I am not motivated by power. I know if I chose to have power, I could have it…and sometimes I slip up and am focused on the wrong motives. I always have to think about why I am doing something…and if I am wrong, I move in the opposite direction.

So you do have a weapon? Where is it? I want to see it…is it just the force, or is it something else?

Your offer is very tempting…to attack you…I would love to…and I just might…but I want to know what I’m facing. Do you have a weapon. I want your lightsaber in plain sight before we start fighting. Get off your throne, and we can start fighting.


Luke
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Note 12
Luke Skywalker,

Despite what you may believe, lightsabers are not the only weapons available to a master of the force. Lightsabers are really just tools for those who are too weak to wield the true power of the Force.

Don’t worry. I’m quite capable of defending myself. All you have to do is attack.


The Emperor
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Note 13
Emperor Palpatine,

How come you never use your name Palpatine when you sign your letters? I’m just wondering. Is it because you think you’re above others, and should just be called The Emperor? I know your last name is Palpatine.

To use the Force itself as a weapon, that is just wrong. The Force should never be used as a weapon. Of course, you’re on the Dark Side, and I’m not surprised you use it that way. My father, then, is too weak to wield the true power of the Force because he uses a lightsaber instead of the Force? Is that what you’re implying when you said, “Lightsabers are really just tools for those who are too weak to wield the true power of the Force.” I’ll tell him you said that! Actually it takes a stronger person to hold back what they could use as a weapon, and to use something harder, such as a lightsaber.

Well, since you had given me your permission to attack you, and for a split second I wanted nothing better than to kill you…so I took my lightsaber and swung it at you. However, my father took out his own lightsaber and blocked it.

I’m sure you’re enjoying watching our fight from where you are.

As soon as I realized that I attacked you, I started using my lightsaber as a defense against my father. I even turned off my lightsaber during the fight, but he swung at me, so I had to defend myself. Than he threw his lightsaber at me while I was on that ledge. Fortunately it hit the wall and one of the supports, and I fell to the ground. Vader’s looking for me now. I refuse to fight him anymore.


Luke Skywalker
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Note 14
Luke Skywalker,

I sign The Emperor, because that’s what I am, THE EMPEROR. I am not A Emperor, I am THE Emperor.

I do enjoy your fighting and you don’t know how disappointed I am that you stopped.

If you do not join us then perhaps…your sister would.


THE EMPEROR
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Note 15
Emperor Palpatine,

You’re very overconfident; you know that? You should, I already told you!

I am not trying to please you. If I were trying to please you, you would have succeeded in turning me to the Dark Side. Do you think I really care what you think? Or whether I do something that displeases you?

You know about my sister? I guess that shouldn’t surprise me since Obi-Wan told me that you had one of your spies kidnap us after we were born, so that you could kill us. Luckily, he rescued us. At any rate, you are NOT going to turn her. Don’t even suggest it. Just leave her out of this. She hasn’t been trained in the Force…and she’s far away from here.

Vader tried using my sister as a threat too…saying that he would turn her. I’m sure you didn’t hear that, as we were talking underneath that fallen ledge. That did anger me, I will admit it. The minute he suggested it, I grabbed my lightsaber and started fighting him again.

As you can see, my father had a hard time fighting me, and he kind of fell and is on the ground now. I have my lightsaber over him now, and I just cut off his arm, which had already been cut off previously…because it was a mechanical arm, his right arm.


Luke Skywalker
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Note 16
Luke Skywalker,

I am impressed. Not many people can defeat a trained Sith. Now, finish your father. All you have to do is flick your wrist. Join me in the Dark Side!


The Emperor
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Note 17
Emperor Palpatine,

Never. I’ll never turn to the Dark Side. You have failed, Your Highness. I am a Jedi, like my father before me.

I’m not going to kill my father. I realized what anger can do to a person…and I don’t want to become like my father. Besides that, my friends will soon have the shield down, and we’ll all be dead anyway.

I’ll NEVER join you!

As you can see, I have already flung away my lightsaber. That is how determined I am that I am not going to turn.


Luke Skywalker
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Note 18
Luke Skywalker,

So be it. If you shall not turn than you shall DIE!!!

The Emperor
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Note 19
Emperor Palpatine,

I can see that you do not value life. You must get no joy from it. I am not afraid to die.

You have been zapping me through the Force, but suddenly you have stopped. I looked up and I saw my father coming towards you, and he is now dragging you to your death. I hope that you will learn something in your last few seconds of life.

I want you to know that I was right about my father. He DID have good in him yet, you did not drive out the good from him fully. He loves me, as I suspected that he did. He saved my life, and he will kill you.

That means that what everyone said about him being the Chosen One was correct. In killing you, he will bring balance to the Force.

Your reign as Emperor will only last less than a second more. Good always triumphs over evil.


Luke Skywalker
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To the readers of this fic,

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Thank you very much!!! It was a lot of fun!

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