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The Things That Stay by Underscoreryan_wears_all_black
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Titans (Comics), Nightwing (Comics)
22 Jun 2026
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If Dick had known that was the last moment, he would’ve pulled Wally back into bed and given him something to remember. Made it a goodbye for the ages. He wouldn’t have let him leave at all.
Because he hadn’t said goodbye.
A chaste kiss wasn’t goodbye. It was see you later.
I should’ve said goodbye.
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Grief doesn’t arrive all at once.
Sometimes it waits. Sometimes it lingers. Sometimes it rewrites the rules of your body before you’re ready to face them.
After losing Wally West, Dick Grayson struggles to hold himself together under Bruce’s watchful eye; until a routine investigation, a delayed truth, and a choice that can’t be made cleanly force everything into the open.*Updated every Friday
**Or when I get excited. There's no rules hereBookmarked by Sarah_Reads
24 May 2026
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Next time, draft a contract by dragleban_deubra
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Nightwing (Comics)
08 Jun 2026
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Dick is covering for Batman at a League meeting when they are called out to deal with an emergency unexpectedly. Barry contracts a contagious virus, and the League has to stay quarantined until the vaccine is finished. The only problem is, the League doesn't know that Batman doesn't work alone, or that the Batman they're working with right now isn't the Batman they know at all.
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- English
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- 35,971
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- 5/8
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22 May 2026
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Stars Shining in the Darkness by LadyDae
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), DCU (Comics), DCU, Teen Titans - All Media Types, Justice League - All Media Types, Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010), Batman: Death in the Family (Movie 2020)
19 May 2026
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"There was no way Dick was going to convince Jason he was wrong. And frankly, pissed as he was at Jason for this entire charade, at the end of the day, Dick didn't want to be right. He didn't want to be his brother's enemy. He didn't want to one day have to cart his brother to Blackgate for going too far.
Dick just wanted his brother to come home.
He let go of Jason. Let his hands fall to his sides.
"Fine," Dick finally said. "You wanna kill Joker. Go ahead. Kill him."
A father and son went to Ethiopia.
The father didn't come back.
In the wake of Bruce Wayne's death, his family has to figure out how to live in a world without him... and somehow manages to grow bigger even without his chronic adoption habit.
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- English
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- 108,514
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- 12/?
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18 May 2026
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(I'd Better Not) See You On The Other Side by aether_mae
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Danny Phantom
22 Jun 2026
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“I’m Phantom. I’m this town's hero,” Danny introduced, extending an open hand. “You just came through the portal today, right?”
“Yeah,” the vigilante nodded, eyeing the gloved hand warily before reaching out to grasp it in his own. “I’m Robin.”
“Robin?” Danny’s eyes widened and he actually looked at the uniform the hero wore. Yellow cape, red armour and the goddamn ‘R’ emblem over his heart. “Shit, really? But I thought Robin was in Gotham?”
The teen scoffed, turning away from Danny. “Yeah well, shit happens. Now Robin’s dead.”
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OR: When the warehouse blows up, Jason finds himself adrift in the Infinite Realms, alone, angry and searching for a way back home. Instead, he finds a portal to Amity Park, with a pair of mad scientists and their reclusive kid, as well as a spritely ghost vigilante haunting the town.
With the help of Phantom, and a newfound mentorship with the Fright Knight, Jason intends to bring himself back to life (and to Gotham) by whatever means necessary.
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18 May 2026
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Body, Mind and Soul (plus all the other broken pieces) by ForeverWhelmed
Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types, Teen Titans - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics)
07 Jul 2020
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A year after Deathstroke is reportedly killed by the Justice League, the mercenary formerly-known-as Renegade takes the name Nightwing and strikes out on his own. He has two goals; protect the innocent, and try to wash the blood off his hands. He knows it won't be easy. He just doesn't know what to do with the fact that, after he rescues a group of heroes from Brother Blood's clutches, they decide it's their job to look out for him too.
This work is an unofficial sequel to Forestfire34720 's incredible fic "i'm no hero / starting from zero" and it might not make much sense without reading that first.
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- 16,082
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- 1/1
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- 2
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- 93
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30 Apr 2026
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Lieutenant Marton holds his breath. Strains his ears. If anyone were to come across him standing there, he knows, they would be extremely concerned about his impossibly wide eyes and the fingers he's digging into his own arm, but this is important. It's amazing.
Dame Isabella Camherst is confessing her love to Suhail ibn Ramiz in the room right behind him.
He can't make a sound. They might remember that he can hear them.
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28 Apr 2026
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25 Apr 2026
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“What do you want, my son?” Talia asked him. “What do you truly want?”
And when Jason pushed aside his obsession with Bruce, the answer was so clear. He knew exactly what he wanted. He knew what he’d always wanted, ever since he was that little street rat who spent money he needed for food on making himself look clean. Because he’d needed to look clean and presentable to get into the public libraries. Because they wouldn’t have let a dirty homeless kid touch the books.
“I want to go to college.”
And Talia had made that happen for him.
(AU where, at the end of his League of Assassins training, Jason decides to go to Metropolis for college instead of going back to Gotham for revenge. Things spiral from there. The title is so sarcastic by the way. There’s nothing regular about Jason Todd.)
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- English
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- 51,139
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- 23/23
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- 50
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25 Apr 2026
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“This is where I take nutritional breaks and sleep. I have training scheduled in 24 minutes,” he explains, a little uncertain.
“Oh,” she adds, an automatic vocal filler that often gets interviewees to continue.
“Of course, if you need anything done now, I’ll do it,” he adds, with just a slight undercurrent of a rush.
His face may be smooth, his tone blandly professional, but this boy is terrified.
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Lois Lane rescues a teenager who looks a lot like someone she knows...
Featuring Kon angst and hurt/comfort!
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- English
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- 37,296
- Chapters:
- 15/17
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25 Apr 2026
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The ghosts we don't grieve by BronzeLining
Fandoms: DCU, DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics)
08 May 2026
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Your world is gone. Your life is forfeit. Those are two things I cannot change, the voice warned him gently. I can give you another version of your family. But I must tell you, this world and the people you will see won't be the same. A silent death may be better than this fate.
Once, Tim had dreamt of silent death. Once, Tim had yearned for unearned peace.
Tim didn’t speak, and still the voice sighed. I see. I will choose a good world for you. You will fall in love with it. It will break your heart. It spoke with certainty that rang with great weight. Do you still want it?
Tim thought of family. Of loneliness. Of all that lay in between.
Forcibly, painfully, Tim parted his lips. Breath rattled free, and he croaked out, “Yes.”
Oh, child, it mourned, and then a hand pressed against his chest and a scream ripped free from his body. Like the howling of a beast.
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Tim's family, planet, and universe are destroyed in a matter of years. He dies, too, in the end, but is given a second chance at existence in a different world. A world where Damian is the first Robin and everything is backwards.
He takes it.
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- Part 1 of Don't Ghost Me
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24 Apr 2026
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Hope Is the Thing With Feathers by UnsweetenedTea
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU, DCU (Comics)
23 Apr 2026
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Jason knew how things were supposed to happen.
He'd planned on heading back to Gotham to stir up a storm — tear the city down and build it up again. No one would ever again forget who he was least of all Bruce. Jason was going to carve his name all over the city.
But this was how things did happen.
Talia refused to let him burn out. Not taking no for an answer, she sent him to college and told him to watch over his little brother. She made him promise that he would live, not just fight.
So he found himself taking six classes at Gotham University, pretending like he was just another college freshman. And maybe he could’ve kept on acting, but Gothic Poetry and Horror had other plans.
(Or, Jason goes to college and ends up in a semester-long group lit project featuring literal and figurative ghosts, people willing to risk it all for the A, and Gotham City's cursed weirdness. Somehow, this ends up being more stressful than his original plan for revenge.)
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- Part 1 of And Sore Must Be the Storm
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- English
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- 27,115
- Chapters:
- 9/32
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- 2
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23 Apr 2026
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The Stories of Timothy Drake's Accidental Roadtrip… by 19lwede
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
05 May 2026
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After a blowout fight with Jack Drake, Tim finds himself abandoned in Arizona with no phone, no money, and no way home. He could call Batman, but Bruce isn't Tim's father, and Robin isn't the one in Arizona. This is Timothy's problem, and Timothy will handle it.
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- Part 1 of The Stories of Timothy Drake
- Language:
- English
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- 31,386
- Chapters:
- 5/5
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- 168
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- 809
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- 186
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21 Apr 2026
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take all the light (and make it go black) by CrystalSelkie
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
24 Jun 2026
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His face is pale. Lips curled up in a grotesque smile. Torn up the cheeks, oozing blood that drips onto the cement floor. One hand rips at his dark hair, greasy and limp over manic eyes. The other hangs at his side, limply clinging to a gun. “Ha ha ha-” Half frantic laughter, half distraught sobs that rattle through his chest.
Between them, the Joker’s body. Blood blossoming around his head. Brain matter spattered on the floor. Smiling. Eyes vacantly staring up at the ceiling.
“Hahahahaha-”
Bruce approaches slowly. Like he’s approaching a skittish animal. “Tim,” he says softly, and the boy blinks at him, still laughing, still sobbing. There are tears in his eyes. “Tim, put down the gun.”
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- 87/?
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21 Apr 2026
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Jason listens to everything that Talia has to show him about the imposter who replaced him. He listened to everything she had planned, for him and for Damian.
And then he decides, fuck it.It spirals from there.
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- 100,635
- Chapters:
- 70/70
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- 3,550
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18 Apr 2026
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it takes and it takes and it takes by StormySkiesAhead
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
11 Sep 2022
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It’s been a week.
Tim and Cass, they’re still holding out hope, but Dick- Dick knows.
His dad is gone.
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Or: Bruce dies before Jason makes it to Gotham, and, in the few intervening weeks between, Dick Grayson kills a man.
Granted, it is the Joker, but the point still stands.
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- Part 1 of it paints me and all my mistakes
- Part 1 of the chronicles of luna (unconnected works)
- Language:
- English
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- 56,404
- Chapters:
- 19/19
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- 4
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- 573
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12 Apr 2026
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Don’t Let Me Down by Graphic_Nobody
Fandoms: DCU, Robin (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Wayne Family Adventures (Webcomic)
20 Jun 2026
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When ten year old Tim Drake is paired with the freshly adopted, thirteen year old Jason Todd for a school project, he is ecstatic. He just hopes he can keep his inner fanboy under control. At the same time, his parents’ trips are increasing in length, and Tim is handling it like a champ! Who needs parental supervision? Not him! Although, a little company might be nice…
Meanwhile, Jason is still half convinced that his adoption is an elaborate human trafficking scheme, but this Robin gig is pretty cool. And his new school may be full of rich jerks, but the neighbor kid isn’t too bad. Having an adult trying to take care of him is a bit of an adjustment, but one he might just be able to get used to.
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- Part 1 of School Buddies verse
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 57,260
- Chapters:
- 14/14
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- 744
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- 1,064
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- 268
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- 18,078
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12 Apr 2026
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Hell and High Water by ghibly101
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
30 Apr 2026
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Percy had, briefly, entertained a fantasy of a triumphant return to Gotham. He’d get a blessing for the Waynes and finally prove he wasn’t fucking crazy, and come home to Jason and get to know Dick and get a chance to try again and, and, and—
And Jason Todd is dead.
Years later, adrift after Tartarus, Percy finds himself pushed back to the city he once called home. All he has to do is keep his head down. This is obviously a flawless plan.
[Tim Drake is running on three cups of coffee, two hours of sleep, and a rapidly-waning belief in the value of a diploma when the most suspicious transfer student in the world walks in. Tim nearly chokes on his own tongue when he notices the white streak in his hair.]
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- 32,506
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- 9/?
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- 523
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11 Apr 2026
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Jason Todd is really good at his job. He's not so good at... well... being good.
Instead of surviving on the streets, Jason finds himself trafficked to Two-Face's gang, where his small size and breaking and entering skills keep him valuable. Three years later, with all his escape attempts frustrated and his future looking bleak, Jason is hand-picked for a suicide mission into Cadmus. Jason could maybe figure out a way out if it were just him. Maybe. But now Batman is shot and cuffed in his cell, and things just got much more complicated.
TLDR: Jason Todd is a twelve-year-old criminal genius, which leads to him getting adopted last of the Wayne brood.
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- English
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- 130,177
- Chapters:
- 50/50
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- 1,069
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- 289
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- 34,012
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11 Apr 2026
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Blood, Soul, and Other Ties That Bind by Bog_Witch_Green
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics)
17 May 2026
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When someone first touches their soulmate, another whose very essence and spirit matches theirs, they receive a mark.
Parental marks are purple. Romantic marks are red. Friendship marks are pink.
Sibling marks are blue.
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Tim doesn't have any siblings. He never wanted any.
Which is why he never thought he'd find one at the circus.
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- English
- Words:
- 35,657
- Chapters:
- 10/25
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- 309
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- 247
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10 Apr 2026
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A Matter of Logistics by Asidian
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), DCU (Comics)
24 Apr 2026
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"Did you see?" says Dick, and he lets go of Tim's shoulders to take him by the arm, tugging him toward the kitchen instead of the Batcave. "Alfred made cookies."
"Think he's trying to lure you in," says Tim, with a huff of a laugh. "Like one of those traps they bait for raccoons."
"Raccoons are too smart for that, baby bird," says Dick, blithely, and swipes up one of the bait-cookies anyway, biting into it with an appreciative little hum.
Tim finds somewhere else to look — fixes his gaze on a spot on the far wall, trying hard to ignore the way the kitchen smells of cinnamon and nutmeg and sugar. His stomach twists a little, hopeful, and he tells it firmly that these aren't for him. They're Dick's welcome-home cookies.
- Language:
- English
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- 38,367
- Chapters:
- 11/11
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- 1
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- 740
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- 1,635
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- 385
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06 Apr 2026