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Hello blogging world!  Welcome to SUPERstars in second!  I've been wanting to start a blog for a while now.  Now that it's summer I finally have time to figure out how all this blogging stuff works!  You'll have to bear with me though, it's still all very confusing.  I hope you find lots of fun ideas throughout the year on this blog and I hope you'll share your fun ideas with me!

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