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  "slug": "friendship-bracelets",
  "title": "Friendship Bracelets",
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    "overview": "A massive community work pairing my friendship-bracelet concept with [Alexis André](https://kanbas.art/artists/alexis-andr%C3%A9)'s generative algorithm, free to claim and made to be shared.",
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    "edition": {
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