{"title":"Lupercalia 2026","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrowse our Lupercalia 2026 collection. Hot Sale.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"etz-ha-daat-tov-va-ra-perfume-oil","title":"Etz Ha-da’at Tov Va-ra Perfume Oil","description":"\u003ch2 class=\"afterpay-paragraph\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eETZ HA-DA'AT TOV VA-RA\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"woocommerce-product-details__short-description\"\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBehind the woman stands the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, heavy with the fruits of wisdom and temptation. A serpent winds through its limbs, whispering, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eYou shall not surely die; for God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes shall be opened\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Knowledge, like desire, is double-edged: it can awaken, but can also destroy. But without the serpent’s gift, we cannot achieve self-determination, autonomy, or free will, and without those, love and life itself are meaningless.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBlack fig dipped in spiced pomegranate syrup.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Black fig dipped in spiced pomegranate syrup.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59041347436869,"sku":"tkt1788054969127","price":22.78,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1061\/0183\/4053\/files\/etz-ha-daat-tov-va-ra-perfume-oil_1.jpg?v=1788054973"},{"product_id":"fancy-pups-perfume-oil","title":"Fancy Pups Perfume Oil","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"summary entry-summary\"\u003e\n\u003ch2 class=\"product_title entry-title\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFANCY PUPS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"woocommerce-product-details__short-description\"\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA genteel affair that presses against the constraints of common decency: tumescent black silk, pink sugared patent leather, rich tobacco leaf, sunrise papaya, and mango cream with crystalline trickles of clean pup sweat.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIllustration by Maximiliano Pino.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eInstagram: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e@jugodepapaya\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003ePatreon\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cform enctype=\"multipart\/form-data\" method=\"post\" action=\"https:\/\/blackphoenixalchemylab.com\/shop\/lupercalia-2026\/puppy-love\/fancy-pups-perfume-oil-2\/\" class=\"cart\"\u003e\u003c\/form\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"social-share\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"A genteel affair that presses against the constraints of common decency: tumescent black silk, pink sugared patent leather, rich tobacco leaf, sunrise papaya, and mango cream with crystalline trickles of clean pup sweat.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59041347502405,"sku":"nmj1788054969417","price":25.41,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1061\/0183\/4053\/files\/fancy-pups-perfume-oil_1.jpg?v=1788054973"},{"product_id":"juliet-and-romeo-perfume-oil","title":"Juliet and Romeo Perfume Oil","description":"\u003ch2 class=\"afterpay-paragraph\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJULIET AND ROMEO\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"woocommerce-product-details__short-description\"\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Lovers suspended beneath hostile stars; innocent, youthful love caught in profound celestial tension. Two households, both alike in dignity, are bound by ancient grievance, and beneath their banners walk two young hearts caught in the inexorable turning of the spheres. “A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life whose misadventured piteous overthrows,” and the heavens themselves draw down to witness and grieve the dazzling catastrophe of first love. Their passion is as swift as lightning, tender as dawn, perilous as prophecy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThey move as mirrored flame, twin spirits divided by inherited hatred, Gemini energy refracted through vendetta and family saga. In one another they glimpse completion, a reflection unmarred by the violence of the world beyond the balcony that hems them in. The polarity that surrounds them only sharpens their longing. Night and day, Montague and Capulet, poison and potion, oath and silence: each intrinsic, fated duality entwines them closer together.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe “black-brow’d night” shelters their whispered promises and heart-rending declarations of love, wrapping them in a darkness that protects and consecrates, while the “garish sun” exposes, divides, and drives them back into the machinery of blood feud and overweening pride. In this reversal, shadow is mercy and daylight is threat, and their passion flourishes in secrecy as though it were a nocturnal bloom opening only when the world’s vigilance sleeps. Night gathers them into momentary wholeness, but the harsh light of dawn demands polarity. Their struggle is not only against their families but against time itself, against the relentless return of morning that tears them from the refuge of darkness and thrusts them toward consequence. Their love is not permitted to grow and thrive, and instead it burns brief, bright, and absolute with the shattering, pure conflagration of a supernova.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the long, shadowed sleep of death they accomplish what life denied them, and the warring houses, confronted by the cost of enmity, lay down their arms. Love as transmutation, sorrow as reconciliation, and what was divided is brought, through tragedy, into uneasy harmony.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is the Lovers as one soul divided, as the soul split and reunited through fate and consequence, union under celestial tension, and devotion that outlives breath and fundamentally alters the world that sought to forbid it. 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In The Divine Comedy, Beatrice is not simply muse or lover, but a guide. She is radiant Sophia, living wisdom, the luminous intelligence that draws the soul upward through ever-widening spheres of divine light. Beatrice’s eyes are mirrors that reflect the radiance of Heaven itself, “with eyes of light more bright than any star.” Her gaze does not return to the pilgrim but lifts him upward, directing his sight beyond her to the splendor of the Eternal. “Then to the eyes of beauty my eyes turned,” Dante says, and the beauty he sees there is “far more beautiful than the vast universe beneath his feet.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe beloved is not held but beheld, and in that gaze the soul is altered. Though she is one of the Lovers, she also rises above them, not to inflame desire but to purify it. Through her presence, longing is refined from appetite into ascent. The earthly self, heavy with burdens, is gradually transmuted.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eL’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e In these Lovers exists adoration that moves the sun and stars. Longing clarifies, burns, and rises, and the anima lifts the earthly self toward its red perfection, where desire is no longer hunger but illumination. Love that is hope, love that is divine, love that reflects the radiance of the highest heavens.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eWhite rose and scarlet iris, beeswax smoke and frankincense tears, vellum and sacred myrrh, and a thread of red saffron steeped in luminous amber.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product_meta\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"White rose and scarlet iris, beeswax smoke and frankincense tears, vellum and sacred myrrh, and a thread of red saffron steeped in luminous amber.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59041350680901,"sku":"bbr1788054984317","price":24.14,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1061\/0183\/4053\/files\/beatrice-and-dante-perfume-oil_1.jpg?v=1788054991"},{"product_id":"rose-quartz-phallus-perfume-oil","title":"Rose Quartz Phallus Perfume Oil","description":"\u003ch2 class=\"product_title entry-title\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eROSE QUARTZ PHALLUS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"woocommerce-product-details__short-description\"\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA talisman of pleasure carved from the stone of the heart.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBlushing rose cognac, sugared pink grapefruit, iced strawberries, and creamy sandalwood warmed by skin musk, vanilla bourbon, and glowing pink amber.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cform class=\"cart\" action=\"https:\/\/blackphoenixalchemylab.com\/shop\/lupercalia-2026\/luper-main-2026\/rose-quartz-phallus-perfume-oil\/\" method=\"post\" enctype=\"multipart\/form-data\"\u003e\u003c\/form\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product_meta\"\u003e\u003clabel class=\"screen-reader-text\" for=\"quantity_69b19c3991b0d\"\u003e\u003c\/label\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Blushing rose cognac, sugared pink grapefruit, iced strawberries, and creamy sandalwood warmed by skin musk, vanilla bourbon, and glowing pink amber.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59041350746437,"sku":"qpp1788054984583","price":19.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1061\/0183\/4053\/files\/rose-quartz-phallus-perfume-oil_1.jpg?v=1788054991"},{"product_id":"eve-and-adam-perfume-oil","title":"Eve and Adam Perfume Oil","description":"\u003ch2 class=\"afterpay-paragraph\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEVE AND ADAM\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"woocommerce-product-details__short-description\"\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the book of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBook of Genesis\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the first pair stand in untested unity, formed of earth and breath, innocence and possibility. “And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him” (Genesis 2:18), and from that declaration arises polarity as gift rather than fracture, difference as the condition of communion. Bone of bone and flesh of flesh, they are not rivals but reflections, two aspects of one living mystery: the soul and the spirit of humankind.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eYet the drama of the Lovers is not stasis but choice. When the fruit is taken and shared, consciousness deepens and the seamlessness of Eden gives way to the currents of history. “Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken” (Genesis 3:23). Through Eve’s invitation and Adam’s consent, spirit and soul descend into the rivers of Time, entering the full measure of embodied existence with its labor and ecstasy, its birth pangs and graves. Mortality becomes their teacher, and the dust from which Adam was shaped becomes the destiny to which he must return, “for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return” (Genesis 3:19).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEsoterically, she may be seen as the animating impulse, the quickening spirit that urges experience, while he embodies the ensouled humanity that must walk the path she opens. Their so-called fall is also initiation, the necessary passage from unconscious unity into lived duality, where joy and sorrow are known rather than merely imagined. The Lovers here are not simply the bliss of Eden but the courage to enter time together, to face consequence side by side, and to seek, through exile and return, the restoration of a higher garden not of innocence but of awakened wholeness.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the first dawn of consciousness, before history clothed itself in shame, stand Adam and Eve as archetypes of a polarity not yet divided against itself. She is the descending brilliance, arching her consciousness towards the world itself, the soul drawn upward toward gnosis. He turns toward her, embodied will answering its own reflection. Above them burns the stark, pure radiance of unity and within them sleeps the yet-unforged Stone.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe serpent coils at the axis of the Tree. It is the mercurial spirit, subtle and ascending, the luminous volatility of both knowledge and growth that refuses stasis. Through its whisper the fruit becomes the tincture that awakens innocence into awareness.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSulfur awakens in desire, Mercury stirs in receptivity, salt forms in the tears of exile. The expulsion is the separation required for conjunction, solve preceding coagula. What was unconsciously whole must become consciously divided so it may one day reunite in wisdom. In these Lovers, unity dissolves into duality, and in that darkening begins the opus. This is not the loss of Eden; it is the ignition of the Great Work.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSkin musk, fig sap, pomegranate, apple skin, and the smoke and warmth of humankind’s newly-kindled fire.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product_meta\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Skin musk, fig sap, pomegranate, apple skin, and the smoke and warmth of humankind’s newly-kindled fire.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59041351172421,"sku":"ebf1788054986755","price":24.82,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1061\/0183\/4053\/files\/eve-and-adam-perfume-oil_1.jpg?v=1788054993"},{"product_id":"the-white-queen-and-the-red-king-perfume-oil","title":"The White Queen and The Red King Perfume Oil","description":"\u003ch2 class=\"afterpay-paragraph\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHE WHITE QUEEN AND THE RED KING\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"woocommerce-product-details__short-description\"\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe ultimate personification of the Lovers, the crowned White Queen and Red King appear as personifications of solar and lunar forces, opposing currents poised before their great meeting. Here the King extends his branch and the Queen hers, and in the symbolic imagery the sun and moon stand beside them in the watery vessel where their union will be enacted, reflecting the ancient alchemical principle that the opposites must enter the prima materia if transformation is to occur.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the illuminated plates of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRosarium Philosophorum\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the crowned King and Queen stand facing one another beneath a descending dove, sovereign and sovereign, fixed and volatile, their bodies poised at the threshold of sacred union. He burns with solar tincture, sulfurous and red, the embodied heat of will and form; she gleams with lunar pallor, mercurial and receptive, the shining mirror that receives and transforms. Their meeting is courtship through coniunctio, the deliberate joining of opposites beneath divine blessing. They are the Lovers stripped to archetype, the sun and the moon brought into perfect equilibrium. The King must surrender his isolated dominion, the Queen her cool separateness, and in their embrace the sealed vessel becomes a womb of transmutation. Above them, the spirit descends; below them, the bath and tomb await. What appears as union is also dissolution, for each must die to solitary sovereignty in order to be reborn as unified essence.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlchemically, their conjunction generates the Stone, the filius philosophorum, the radiant third that arises when polarity is neither denied nor allowed to dominate. From red and white emerges the tincture that perfects, the hermaphroditic child crowned in both suns and moons, embodying the reconciliation of sulfur and mercury within a single body of light. The Lovers here transcend flesh and narrative, becoming emblem and equation, the purest symbolic revelation of the card’s mystery: that true union is the marriage of contraries under spirit, and that from such sacred joining comes incorruptible gold.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCrimson musk and white amber twined with solar frankincense and lunar myrrh, warm saffron steeped in cool iris root, gold-threaded honey darkened by silvered benzoin, a marriage of fire and pearl beneath a rain of distant stars.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Crimson musk and white amber twined with solar frankincense and lunar myrrh, warm saffron steeped in cool iris root, gold-threaded honey darkened by silvered benzoin, a marriage of fire and pearl beneath a rain of distant stars.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59041351729477,"sku":"goc1788054991275","price":24.14,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1061\/0183\/4053\/files\/the-white-queen-and-the-red-king-perfume-oil_1.jpg?v=1788054995"},{"product_id":"blissful-relaxation-perfume-oil","title":"Blissful Relaxation Perfume Oil","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"summary entry-summary\"\u003e\n\u003ch2 class=\"product_title entry-title\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBLISSFUL RELAXATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0716\/7891\/8812\/files\/blissful_relaxation_-_shunga_2026_WEB.jpg?v=1773085475\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"woocommerce-product-details__short-description\"\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCardamom, bourbon cream, white sandalwood, and incense.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"social-share\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Cardamom, bourbon cream, white sandalwood, and incense.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59041352319301,"sku":"gjl1788054994489","price":19.84,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1061\/0183\/4053\/files\/blissful-relaxation-perfume-oil_1.jpg?v=1788054998"},{"product_id":"by-candlelight-perfume-oil","title":"By Candlelight Perfume Oil","description":"\u003ch2 class=\"product_title entry-title\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBY CANDLELIGHT\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0716\/7891\/8812\/files\/by_candlelight_-_shunga_2026_WEB.jpg?v=1773085542\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"woocommerce-product-details__short-description\"\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBeeswax, wildflower honey, copal resin, vanilla bean, balsam, and frankincense.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product_meta\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Beeswax, wildflower honey, copal resin, vanilla bean, balsam, and frankincense.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59041352679749,"sku":"kwv1788054996448","price":20.48,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1061\/0183\/4053\/files\/by-candlelight-perfume-oil_1.jpg?v=1788055001"},{"product_id":"apricot-vulva-perfume-oil","title":"Apricot Vulva Perfume Oil","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"woocommerce-product-details__short-description\"\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAPRICOT VULVA\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0716\/7891\/8812\/files\/apricot_vulva_-_shunga_2026_WEB.jpg?v=1773085557\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cspan\u003eApricot, cream musk, bourbon vanilla, and golden bergamot.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product_meta\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Apricot, cream musk, bourbon vanilla, and golden bergamot.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59041353367877,"sku":"nhx1788055000466","price":23.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1061\/0183\/4053\/files\/apricot-vulva-perfume-oil_1.jpg?v=1788055004"},{"product_id":"doggone-it-perfume-oil","title":"Doggone it! 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