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From: Logan Minter via Pollinator <pollinator@lists.sonic.net><br>
To: Margarita Lopez Uribe <mayalopez@gmail.com>; Pollinator <Pollinator@lists.sonic.net>; Margarita Lopez Uribe <mm_lopezu@yahoo.com><br>
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Subject: Re: [Pollinator] A strange phenomenon reported<br>
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<div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Monday, July 21, 2014 11:51 AM, Margarita Lopez Uribe via Pollinator <<a removedlink__286101406__href="mailto:pollinator@lists.sonic.net">pollinator@lists.sonic.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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