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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="e07b04ef7c37908e5d647d8e99f6b59d"Caroline give her mother a look, her mother ignored her expression and continued. " Your father is inviting the king to pay Mystic Falls a visit"./p
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