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              <text>&lt;a href="https://archive.spirit.gmu.edu/archives/spring08/wendy_ross.html" title="A Five-Minute Interview: Wendy M. Ross, Creator of the George Mason Statue"&gt;https://archive.spirit.gmu.edu/archives/spring08/wendy_ross.html&lt;/a&gt;</text>
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