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+> Note that, from this point forward, all communications include an exclusion for several members of the Ode clade. I trust that, with the clade-eyes-only permissions, there really isn't a way that Hammered Silver and In Dreams' stanzas would be able to read these anyway, but we felt it prudent to build up that habit with our communications all the same. That we all received the same request on the same day made it an easy decision.
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 ## Aurel Bălan --- The Bălan clade
 
 The Bălan clade,