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grew up as a wahoo fan with my family working at UVA. Ever since I can remember, I would be in JPJ cheering on our boys. When I saw Kyle and Ty in the first game they played with us, I knew our team gained something so special. Tournament season is a big deal for the entire family. Some of our most memorable moments come from watching the hoos play! Watching the team last year made me so proud to be a wahoo, and seeing the connections on the team put a smile on every fans face. For the umbc game, Crozet Pizza was packed with confident fans. The loss was a big one, It was probably the hardest I’ve cried (except for when Kyle chopped off the man bun). Coming into this season, everyone could see the potential from a mile away. So many great games! All throughout March Madness, superstitions and traditions became a thing for every single game. I had to wear my lucky number 5 jersey, mom had to wear special virginia earrings and necklace, and we all needed to sit in our lucky spots on the couch. me being emotional is an understatement when trying to describe how that tournament went for me. One of the happiest moments was seeing all of the hoos in hooville, past players, coaches, and current players with smiles on their faces. proudest moment of being a wahoo, without a doubt.
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On championship day I woke up with a stomach full of nerves and excitement. As I packed my bag to head to my North Carolina high school, I prepared to face all my UNC and Duke friends who placed their bets on Texas Tech (and were sure to let me know). After school I finally got to embrace the true wahoo experience; My mom had “painted the town orange” or, in other words, spray painted v-sabers in our driveway and hung orange and blue streamers on our front porch. Watching the game was an even crazier experience because we were joined by two family friends who were UNC fans but wanted to be “supportive” (they were on twitter most of the night), and another UVA alumni who couldn’t name a single player on our team. As a superstitious 15 year old, this situation was not ideal, especially when our alumni friend decided she needed to head home to put her kids to bed in the last 20 seconds of regulation…yeah…that happened. It did end up being a fantastic night once Hunter dribbled the final dribble, and my mom shot streamers onto our living room ceiling (which still remain to this day). I hope you enjoyed this wildly true story about my championship experience, and I hope to have an even crazier one next year! #embracethepace
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Grew up a UVA fan after having surgeries there as a baby been a fan my entire life. I remember every moment of all the Marc madness games this year the buzzer beater by diakite then guy hitting the 3 free throws then all of the team going on a run in overtime to win I watched it at home being the only uva fan I was running around very happy when the final buzzer sounded. I will never forget them winning it and the excitement that came with it.
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I’m a life long HUGE fan of all sports… but basketball has my heart. I live in the Blacksburg area for starters, so life isn’t too fantastic being a Hoo in Chokieburg. For this past season I grew a superstition that I must be at home, on my couch to watch the games, because if I’m not, they lose. It’s 100% accurate. Last season… what games were I not home for…? On a cruise during the WVU game, watched the home vt game at a restaurant in Blacksburg, and I was AT the UMBC game. Every other game I was on the couch other than 1 game which I went to at JPJ but that was early in the season. So this season I said, I’m not going to another game and I’m watching from my couch. I went against superstition and watched both duke games at bars in Blacksburg (with my best friend who is a Duke/VT guy), and was on vacation for the FSU game in Hilton Head. KNOWING I shouldn’t, so I made my mind up that I was done… COUCH OR BUST! I would be in the same spot, for every game moving forward… and when I was in that spot, down in every tournament game… something told me that I KNEW they weren’t going to lose. I had faith and was confident in my location on the couch. This season to my friends and my wife is considered the Couch season… and I’ll never EVER get rid of that baby!! Wahoowa!
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My dad and his whole family went to UVA so I’ve been a fan my entire life. The UMBC game was one of the worst days of my life, literally my last bad panic attack happened right after that game. After losing to Florida State in the ACC tournament and sobbing over it being DeAndres last acc game, I watched all the games with a vengeance. The final minutes of Purdue were some of the most stressful of my life. When Mamadi hit that buzzer beater my mom, dad and I screamed like we were being murdered or something lol. The house hadn’t been that loud since Dre hit that bank shot against Louisville in 2018. Then my dad dug around and found the Final Four shirt he bought when he drove from Cville to Philly to watch it in 1981! For Auburn, I had the extreme misfortune of having a gymnastics competition at the same time. My parents dropped me off and went to a nearby bar to watch, which obviously I couldn’t blame them for. Both my meet and the game were ending at the same time, and one of my coaches had been reading my the live play by play. I didn’t even know Kyle was fouled, and when I found out we were going to the finals for the first time ever I rolled around the floor sobbing in front of probably 100 or more people. No shame. Even though I tried my best to convince my dad to drive to Charlottesville for Monday, We swatched the finals from our living room and I was just shaking the whole time. We FaceTimed the whole family throughout the last few minutes and we all screamed and cried way more than any of us would like to admit at the end. Literally one of the best nights of my life. I’ve never felt so good and I have never been so happy for a group of people that I’ve never met. So much love and pride for that whole team. Wahoowa forever, baby!
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There were 5.9 seconds left on the clock. We were down by 2. All we needed was for Ty to make the basket, and we’d be tied and head into OT. Ty shot the ball…and missed. My heart immediately sank, but before I could even fully process what had happened, Mamadi made his legendary shot as the clock hit 0, and all of Charlottesville BJ’s erupted in cheers. After we won the game against Purdue, my face was stained with tears, and I held onto my friends as we belted out the Good Ol’ Song at the top of our lungs. In that moment, I knew that somehow, some way, I just HAD to make it to Minneapolis the following weekend to watch us play in the Final Four. I had been cheering on the Hoos for 5 years at that point, ever since my first year of undergrad at UVA, and I knew it was a once-in-a-lifetime experience that I absolutely couldn’t miss out on.
Despite having an extremely jam-packed schedule, as it was the last semester of my Masters program at UVA (I’m a Double Hoo! UVA CLAS ’18 & UVA MPH ’19), I managed to find a way to the Final Four game. I completed my assignments early and emailed my professors about my absence. My friends and I rented a minivan, drove over 19 hours (The longest road trip of my entire life!!!) from Charlottesville to Minneapolis, and watched our Hoos play against Auburn. Our last minute win that night left me in tears once again, and I was absolutely elated over the fact that I’d get to watch my favorite team potentially win it all.
And two days later, I got to watch my Hoos make HISTORY. As blue and orange confetti poured down on us, the student section at the U.S. Bank Arena was the wildest I had ever experienced, and that’s saying a lot, considering how many games I attended at JPJ during my 5 years at UVA. I will never, EVER forget the immense pride and joy I felt watching my team be crowned the victors. The 19+ hour ride back home to Charlottesville barely felt like anything because I was on an absolute high from our incredible win. I was so awestruck by the fact that we were Natty Champs that when it was my turn to drive at 5 AM, and everyone else in the minivan had fallen asleep, I silently cried to myself. I was so, so proud. After everything we had been through, especially the major loss to UMBC, our boys totally deserved it. I was so happy, I even wrote this cheesy little parody of the Powerpuff Girls theme song, inspired by our phenomenal Big Three:
Class, virtue, and all things honor
These were the ingredients chosen
To create the perfect team
But Coach Bennett accidentally added an extra ingredient to the concoction—redemption
Thus, the National Champs were made
Using their ultra-super skills
Dre, Ty, and Kyle
Have dedicated their lives to the game
And proving critics wrong.
The Hoos mean everything to me, and I will forever cherish the memory of watching us make the biggest comeback of all time to become Natty Champs for the first time in UVA basketball history. I may have spent more time in a car than on my own two feet that weekend, and I may have gotten sick from the trip (one of my friends was sick at the beginning of the road trip and so kindly infected us all by the end), but I wouldn’t have traded that experience for the world because there’s nothing I wouldn’t do for my Hoos. WAHOOWA!
P.S. I even made my grad cap about the Natty Champ win:
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Ok so I actually don’t know how to begin, I guess the beginning makes sense. Both my parents are UVA alumni for starters. It’s where they met, so the school in in-beaded in my blood. I’ve been a UVA fan since birth. It’s where I have always wanted to go and as a rising Junior, I’m so close to making that dream possible. My family has UVA Football season tickets, and I’ve been going to those games since I was in diapers. There’s 2 UVA sports dreams I’ve always, UVA football beating VT, which will happen this year at home I know it, and the basketball team finally getting the recognition they deserve with a Championship.
Last year’s tourney was awful and amazing, cause well UMBC. We lost to the Airbud Team and made history. I was defeated for the team, it was so bad. But it was how Tony Bennett taught and handled that lost that will stay with me forever. His quote which I love, “If you learn to use it right (the adversity), it will buy you a ticket to a place you could not have gone any other way," is a quote I truly believe in.
I watched every basketball game I could this season, and for the NCAA tournament I was at home with my parents watching , except for the Auburn game where I went out to Buffalo Wild Wings; where whole everyone was panicking, I held strong to the Tony Bennett mentality of always having faith in our players. I was home when we won and my and my family were screaming and may have been tears of joy.
I even had a whole superstition during the tournament. During around 64 I was dressed out for PE, high school lol, when the first half was on. We were down and I heard all my friends joking UVA saying we gonna lose and everything. Can’t lie cause I wasn’t watching only following the score, I was a little nervous, but never lost hope. So 2nd half starts but this time I’m home and I’m now wearing this UVA jacket of mine. So I knew as long as I was wearing the jacket we would win. So I didn’t wash it, or wear it expect during the games, and sure enough we won.
I know you can’t but ask any of my friends and they’ll tell you how big of a fan of UVA I am. My parents still tease me and my younger sister by saying, “Orange and Blue!” Where we always respond, because they taught us this, “Go Hoos!” Sorry for the super long post, I honestly don’t care if I win this thing or lose, I’m just happy that we won.
I want to really just say thank you. Thank you to my parents to raising me right. Thank you to Bronco Mendenhall for reshaping UVA Football. Thank you to Tony Bennett for leading by example with his kindness, compassion, and his ability to stay level headed and stock in the most difficult of circumstances. Thank you to the Big Three, Kyle Guy, De’Andre Hunter, and Ty Jerome for the incredible years they’ve given this team and I wish them the best in the NBA cause now I got 3 new NBA Teams. Thank you to Kihei Clarke and Mamadi Diakite for always putting in 110% to prove to everyone what the team and fans already know, that you are great. Finally, Thank You to the rest of the Wahoo Nation, for not being a toxic fan base, for being a good one, who represents UVA with great values and poise. Go Hoos and Wahoowa!
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This was probably one of the best experiences of my life. Two years ago my grandpa died and he was one of the biggest wahoo fans I knew and who got me to become a wahoo myself. After he passed away I wanted Virginia to do something big just for him. Last year my dad surprised me with tickets to the UMBC game and I was so excited until… we’ll we know what happened. I was so upset that we didn’t do anything big when that was one of our best teams we’ve ever had. But, my grandpa had something in store for us. After we won the Purdue game, after I had a “heart attack”, I had a feeling we were gonna win this one, and I was exactly right. After we won I could just imagine my grandpa jumping for joy up in heaven and I wouldn’t want anything more. Oh and by the way I promise this isn’t just a fake story to win the shirt.
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This year has been the craziest of my life, so many emotions I thought I would never experience most being amazing while some have been extremely challenging. My earliest memories are of my dad on the edge of his seat watching Virginia football and basketball. As I got a little older I would join him and learn these sports and players names. I remember watching Chris Long run that football field from the d-line it was something special to watch.
I was so excited about Ty, D, and Kyle when they came to Virginia because all of us are from the 2016 class. I remember watching their high school highlights and telling my dad “Tony is making something special” but I had no idea how special.
I’m going into my senior year at VCU and one of my happiest memories as a wahoo was being at the Siegel center two years ago when Kyle dropped 29 and silenced the building. People I go to school with we’re talking shit to me and my family that entire game. I’ll never forget that game.
Fast forward a few months and we’re #1 seeds playing Gardner Webb. Me and my close friend (shoutout to Jesse) met up like we always do to watch the game at my apartment. Like everyone else after that game we were devastated sitting in silence together. I looked to my friend and said “The only way to come back from something as crazy as this is to win it all next year”.
Fast forward to the next season we have the greatest tournament run every. I watched every game this past season I possibly could. My favorite game of the regular season had to be the away win at UNC. When Kyle drained the and-one three at the end I lost my shit lol. The pic of Kyle walking off with Ty yelling in the background will forever be my google profile pic haha.
While watching each tournament game this year I was insanely nervous. That Perdue game will always be one of the greatest games in history. I’ll never forget running throughout my apartment screaming when Diakite nailed that shot. And it only got crazy from there.
The Auburn game I was at my parents watching with my Dad and friend (Jesse) whenever we all get real nervous we would have to go outside and watch from the garage. As Auburn made their run late in that game we all went to the garage. That play call with .6 left was pure gold by Tony! I know for a fact without contact on that shot Kyle would’ve hit nothing by net for the win. They made him earn that win the hardest way possible. When Kyle walked up to line my Dad, Jesse, and I had our arms locked. I thought to myself all the emotions from this past year as fans, players, and coaches is coming down to these 3 shots.
The Texas Tech game was the same story at the end of regulation all of us were in the garage. I told my family and friends all we need is 3 points. Seconds later Ty dishes it to DeAndre and I knew that shot was wet. For us to go into overtime and shoot 10/10 from the free throw line the championship was this teams destiny. That night we all cried tears of joy, laughed, and celebrated for hours(still celebrating).
Like everyone else here I know throughout that month of madness we all were juggling day-to-day life while also only thinking about Uva basketball. I’m so proud of this team, it’s hard to put it into words but I’m trying anyways haha if you read all of this I really appreciate you. I’m looking forward to watching Ty, Kyle, and DeAndre kill it in the pros! Go Hoos<3
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I’ve been a UVA fan since the Ralph Sampson days. Growing up outside of Ch’ville in Nelson County, UVA is the first team I fell in love with. So,being a fan for that long has had its hardships.
The years losing to MSU and then having Syracuse come back that year, I started to think we were cursed! Then finally we drew a bracket without MSU and to who I thought would be our biggest obstacle that year in our bracket, Arizona, got knocked out earlier that day. At that point, I said, this is our year! Little did I know what would be on the horizon, UMBC! I turned off my phone, and didn’t leave the house for 2 days after that game. My brother-in-law, who is a pastor had to call and check on me when I finally decided to turn my phone on. It was the worst feeling I’ve ever experienced over a sporting event ever!
Fast forward to this season and I’m liking what I’m seeing, but I’m also telling myself, we’ve been beating teams in the regular season like this for years. Can we put it together come tourney time? We lose to FSU in the ACC tournament, no big deal, we have several of those, lets regroup and get ready for the big one. First round game against Gardner-Webb and I’m thinking,no, not again! I’m at work so nervous that I told my supervisor I might have to go home because my stomach isn’t right and I might poop my pants. Thankfully, the fellas pulled through and won the game and saved me from having an embarrassing moment at work! Was more calm about the Oklahoma game, they pretty much handled business for that one. Oregon game me some what of anxiety. This is where my nerves started to kick in leading up to the Purdue game. Purdue has always been a good scrapping team since the Gene Keady, so I knew they weren’t gonna be a small task. I remember me and my wife were at Applebee’s eating supper. I purposely sat with my back to the TV so I couldn’t watch the game. I was too nervous! But I couldn’t stop turning around looking. Eventually, I told her that I could not finish my food, because my nerves were tearing my stomach apart! We get home and I tell myself I’m not turning the TV to the game until its done, I can’t take this pressure! So, I wait more than enough time for the game to be over, OVERTIME! Needless to say, I was really feeling it during the Auburn game. Auburn was like a buzz saw the way they were handling teams and I knew this was going to be a fight! But me being the glutton for punishment, I had to take looks at the game. I paced and spread my viewing out. Just so happens, I tuned in when Guy was getting fouled! He makes all 3 and I can breath until Monday night. That Sunday and Monday leading up to the National Championship game was excruciating! I was drained and all I could think about was the game that night! Once again, I could only watch bits and pieces. Luckily, I’m raising a daughter right, that’s just as much a die hard UVA fan as me(She’s 11)! Before the game, she asks, “daddy are you watching the game?” I replied, “I’m to nervous.” She said, “I’m gonna watch downstairs then, I’ll let you know what’s happening?” So, every TO, she’ll come up and give me the recap. Halftime comes, and it’s a school night, and I tell her that she has to go to bed, she was so disappointed. I told her that if we win I’ll wake her up and if we didn’t I’ll let her sleep. Now I’m forced to watch more of it, but still flipping back and forth and seeing what my friends was saying in texts until I forced to put my phone downstairs because I couldn’t take them anymore. So, I calmed myself down and told myself to be just prepared for any outcome. I turned the TV and I saw the fellas on the podium. They’d did it!!! It hit me like a ton of bricks! It sat down on the floor and couldn’t move, instantly I started to cry! It was the best feeling I’ve ever had! I’ve had other teams that i cheer for win championships, but this one was THE ONE!!! I guess being so close to the campus and actually being able to see these guys play in person and be at the same places they have, makes it extra special! My wife wakes up and says, “are you crying?” I said YES!!! She said, “you didn’t cry at our wedding!” I said, “YOU’RE NOT A NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP!” After that, I went to my daughters room and said baby, she turned over and said, “we won?” I said yeah, she smiled, rolled over and went back to sleep. GREATEST NIGHT EVER!!!
I’m crying now as I read people posts and write mines! I LOVE UVA!! WAHOOWA!!!
SN: I have went back and watch the game in its entirety! Still get nervous! Haha
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The 2019 Championship was like opening the biggest gift on Christmas Morning. Let’s go back to the UMBC game. I was on my way back from Charlottesville from winter break to go back to school at South Carolina. I go straight through Charlotte to get theee so it was a no brainer to see my #1 seed wahoos play in the first game of tournament. It was not what I expected. After the loss I was taunted and mocked by fans all over the spectrum center. I was in a state of absolute shock and disappointment. I didn’t watch a single game of the tournament after that and patiently waited for the next season to roll around. The Cavs had a great year, and I knew that South Carolina was set to host some first round games, and I prayed uva would be placed there. They were. As the day came I was filled with anxiety and jitters. I ubered from my house near my school to watch my hometown hoos at colonial life arena. As uva went down early, the building had the same vibe I had felt at the spectrum center against UMBC. I was shaking in my boots. It couldn’t happen again, and it certainly did not. After witnessing that comeback I had the utmost confidence in the wahoos all the way through the championship game. I watched the rest of the games in my living room, as only a broke college kid can. I remember screaming at the top of my lungs in celebration as I saw the wahoos come out and top with a sweet cherry on top of seeing my high school classmates Grant Kersey and Austin Katsra, and a good friend Jayden Nixon hoist that trophy and being on top of the world. Wahoowa. That one was one for the history books for every hoo in hooville
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I’m born and raised in the state of Virginia so that means that there is a high chance that I’m either a fan of Virginia or tech. Fortunately, both of my parents attended Virginia for college and I’ve been raised on Virginia athletics. I have season tickets to football and basketball games and I show my support any time I can. I’m 16 years old currently, and I’ve been a Virginia fan for every second of my life. Basketball was always my favorite sport to watch and I grew up playing basketball. I loved everything about the sport and I really enjoyed watching Sean Singletary, among other players like Mamadi Diane, JR Reynolds, etc. Of course, over the past 10+ years, Virginia basketball has been filled with post-season heartbreak. My earliest memory of experiencing a big heartbreak was the loss to Tennessee in the 2nd round of the tournament in 2007. Everyone knows about the continuous heartbreaks that followed from Michigan State twice, to Syracuse, and finally, to UMBC. Every loss seemed to hurt worse and worse until the UMBC loss, which cut me incredibly deep as a fan of Virginia. I was at the game where they lost since it was in Charlotte which isn’t that far from my home in Virginia. I remember crying almost the entire drive back to my house, as I know most Virginia fans did. I live and die by Virginia basketball and to witness that loss in person, crushed my spirits. Coming into the 2018-19 season, I knew that a new type of hunger was instilled in the team and I couldn’t wait for the season to begin. The thing about Virginia basketball that is so special, is that every starter, besides Kihei, witnessed that loss and grew from it together. I knew this season was going to be special because of how determined the team was to exorcise the demons of the previous year. Making it to the tournament this year as a 1 seed was incredible, but very nerve wracking as well. I was nervous once I saw that Virginia was going to hold that 1 seed yet again, but I knew that the team was hoping for it, to take the first step in quieting the critics. I watched the Gardner Webb game on my school computer in it’s entirety, and there have been very few Virginia games that have made me so nervous. But like Coach Bennett says, the most faithful win, and with Virginia advancing to the 2nd round, myself and every other Virginia fan let out a victorious sigh of relief. Fast forward a couple of games and the elite 8 comes around. That game might’ve been my favorite game of the tournament in the way that everything happened. Carson Edwards played an incredible game but with Kyle and Ty playing amazing as well, I felt as if there was no way Virginia could lose the game. When the miraculous shot by Mamadi was about to happen, I was afraid to look at my tv. I have missed out some incredible shots due to being too nervous to watch, such as Darius Thompson’s shot over Wake Forest or Dre’s shot over Louisville last year. With that in mind, I wasn’t going to miss whatever was going to happen next. When the game finally finished, it took me a few days to digest the fact that Virginia had made it to the Final Four for the first time in my lifetime. I’m unable to describe exactly how I felt during the next two games because of how many emotions I felt. I watched both games by myself because it’s tough for me to watch it around other people, including my family. My mom is a very large pessimist during the games. She herself is a huge Virginia fan, considering she went there, but I think she acts very pessimistic during games so that she will be somewhat prepared if by some chance the game ends in a loss for Virginia, but I’m not really sure if that’s true. While watching it by myself I was by no means silent, but I did feel a little less stressed out without being surrounded by other people. As much as I wanted to be at the National Championship game, I figured that watching the game on my tv alone was going to be the next best thing. I had cried in sorrow over several Virginia games in the past, but nothing had ever moved me to tears of joy like the National Championship game did. As soon as the final horn sounded and Virginia was officially National Champions, I hit the ground crying tears of joy. I had never felt so happy over Virginia basketball, and I’m not sure, no matter the circumstances, if I will ever be as moved by a win as I was then. The day after the championship, I arrived at JPJ to welcome the team back. Seeing the tired smiles on the team’s faces, as well as the smiles of the fans standing with me, was a sight I will never forget. I went to the main celebration at Scott Stadium that weekend and experienced the same feelings of joy and accomplishment. It’s crazy how many people are dedicated to Virginia basketball and how amazing every fan is. I love the University of Virginia and experiencing the first National Championship was one of the best things ever. I even got to see Coach Bennett about a month after winning the National Championship, at a Virginia tennis match. I shook his hand and congratulated him on winning the National Championship. I’m sure so many people did what I had done while shaking his hand, but he genuinely looked very appreciative of me congratulating him. Talking to him and shaking his hand reaffirmed my belief that Coach Bennett was as good of a person as he was a basketball coach, which is very rare and amazing to see. After reading this response over, I can’t believe how long it is, but I just couldn’t express how I felt about this championship in a few sentences. I’m not sure if anyone will get around to reading this or if they do, have the patience to read this incredibly long response but I just feel so happy writing this right now because I’m reliving some of the feelings I had while I was experiencing this win for the first time. I love this school and the basketball team it has and I have immense enthusiasm every time I scream the words GO HOOS!
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i’ve been a fan since tony bennett became the coach. i was at every single game right behind the bench!! winning was one of the happiest moments for me and my family. being a coach’s daughter has been an amazing experience, and it’s been such a blessing to see my dad and the team earn their way to top through hard work and unity.
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11am EST Tomorrow Friday 7-12-19
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How on earth do I get that shirt?
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