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Orlando Bloom, Sharon Stone, and Justin Theroux Help Launch Hip Cannabis Company Beboe

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Orlando Bloom, Sharon Stone, and Justin Theroux Help Launch Hip Cannabis Company Beboe

It was a star-filled night when Scott Campbell and Clement Kwan launched their upscale cannabis company Beboe at a posh mansion overlooking Los Angeles. Actress and artist Lisa Eisner was the evening’s hostess to celebrate the luxury weed brand with the likes of Orlando Bloom, Justin Theroux, Daniela Villegas, Sami Hayek, David Schill, Kate Butler, Sharon Stone, Alejandra Campoverdi, and more. Normally such luminaries gather to launch a champagne, a cognac, a new Hermes bag or a Democratic candidate, but this time they gathered for a marijuana company that caters to a “new, more sophisticated customer.”

Photo by Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images for beboe

Scott and Clement welcomed guests to an exclusive night where A-listers discussed politics, entertainment and, of course, the evolving world of cannabis. Scott’s stunning wife Lake Bell was spotted chatting with fellow actress Malin Akerman. Before dinner, Art Basel Miami maven Lauren Taschen, someone who knows a thing or two about marketing success, seemed to be engaged in a deep conversation with Lisa Eisner and power couple Philippe Vergne & Sylva Chivaratanond. Others spotted at the party included Kayne collaborator Wes Lang and the always interesting Angela Janklow.

Celebrity chef Nina Clemente curated a feast attendees savored while dining alfresco. China Chow, Liza Lou, Kenny Scharf, Benji Madden, and others swayed along to the music of DJ Mike Nouveau over the course of the evening. Former California Assemblyman and current principal of California Strategies Rusty Areias offered insights into the direction of the cannabis industry before dessert.

Photo by Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images for beboe

Campbell rose to fame as a tattoo artist and has handled more ink than the combined editors of Town and Country. Leaving a career as a biochemist, he quickly became THE artist to create body art on such screen idols as Heath Ledger and Penelope Cruz. Unable to restrain his art to skin, he has expanded into painting, sculpture and now cannabis. Of course, the perfect partner to make success for Campbell is Kwan, a known name in the luxury retail space as President of YOOX Corporation and as a former projects manager at Dolce & Gabbana. Together they should make a force in the industry and add a bit of hip to the hashish.

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It Seems That Yoga Pants Are Killing The Planet: Here’s Why

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It Seems That Yoga Pants Are Killing The Planet: Here’s Why

There’s something sinister hiding in those stretchy, comfy outfits that we all — yes, admit it — love to lounge in more than sweat in. Microfibers, the tiny synthetic materials that make up yoga pants and fuzzy outdoorsy jackets, are ending up in the Earth’s waterways.

Gulf Coast researchers found that microfibers are shedding their way from our washing machines to the world’s waterways. University of Florida researcher Maia McGuire and her team found the plastic fibers in waters from south Texas to the Florida Keys.

As the Associated Press reports:

Studies of the Great Lakes and New York Harbor and its surrounding waterways found high concentrations of plastics pollution, including microbeads. McGuire’s data from Florida waters, compiled from 1-liter samples run through filters fine enough to catch microfibers missed by the trawls used in the larger studies, adds to the growing amount of research focused on plastic pieces that degrade but never really disappear.

It’ll take more research to find out what effect these microfibers have on wildlife and the ecosystem, but previous studies have found synthetic fibers in the stomachs of marine life.

The researchers hope that washing machine companies will get on board with making their products more efficient at preventing the microfiber shed — because there are only so many fish in the sea.

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12 All-Too-Perfect Quotes Overheard During SXSW

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12 All-Too-Perfect Quotes Overheard During SXSW

SXSW throws people from the tech, business, film, music and more and expects the proceedings not to get weird. But here’s the thing: It gets weird. In such a large crowd, surrounded by others they assume are from their industry, someone might say something that seems ridiculous out of context.


So that’s exactly what we did. Disclaimer: Every individual deserves context and it’s fundamental to…

You get the point or either don’t care. Both are fine. We’re all here to enjoy the quotes. So enjoy.

“I don’t understand entertainment.” —A woman, dressed business casual, on the first day of SXSW.

“I promise my outfit will be better tomorrow.”  —A 20-something woman, outside Mashable House.

“Dude, I love excel!” —Some tech bro, wearing an Oxford button down, in the National Geographic lounge.

“Is there free booze in there?” —An honest man and his friend, seeing the line outside the IBM Lounge.

“Gee, Mike, way to quantify a film.” —Group of friends leaving Opening Night film Song to Song.

“Is it just me or is it anti-Buddhist to charge for meditation sessions?” —Man waiting in line for Win It All, examining the Modern Buddhism building across the street.

“You’re like the most popular person here.” —A girl at the parlor room party.

“Looks like it’s going to cost 2000 a night to stay here in town, with that money they could fly from Miami to New York and back again and still come out ahead” —A man in athletic attire on the phone walking down 2nd street.

“Saving $20, that’s what art’s all about.” —Two artists outside the Austin Convention Center.

“I’m between dogs, as they say. It’s okay. It is what it is.” —An older man at the Pet rescue lounge.

“The last time we played South By Southwest was 1999.” —Jimmy Eat World frontman Jim Adkins.

“My life is not content!” —Me, said entirely too earnestly.

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Getting Drunk Is No Longer An Excuse For Forgetting What Happened Last Night

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Getting Drunk Is No Longer An Excuse For Forgetting What Happened Last Night

The worst part of a hangover often isn’t the splitting headache or the feeling that only a large order of ramen will stop your stomach from churning: It’s remembering everything you said and did in acute detail. At least, until your memory quit on you after the fourth tequila shot.

But if you’re using the “I don’t remember, I was drunk” excuse when you’re confronted with your boozy ways in the broad light of brunch, scientists have some bad news for you.

A study published in the journal Pharmacology suggests that people who’ve witnessed a crime might be better at retaining their memories of details if they’re drinking immediately afterward.

The researchers studied this by dividing people into three groups of different levels of inebriation and showing them a robbery taking place. They explain in The Conversation:

Members of the first group were given alcohol and were aware that they had been given it. The second group were told they would be drinking non-alcoholic beer, but in fact did drink alcohol (the purpose of this was to ensure as far as possible that it was the effect of the alcohol itself and not expectations about the effect of alcohol that would cause any effects). And the third group did not get any alcohol and knew they were not drinking.

To pretty much everyone’s likely surprise, people who’d had a little to drink — not above the UK’s legal driving limit — were better at accurately describing details from the scene in a memory test the next day. Sober people, however, were “more suggestible to misinformation than our alcohol consumers” and more likely to agree to make these statements as witnesses in a court of law.

They think this is because alcohol blocks new information and misinformation from interfering with what you’ve already seen. The timing of the booze, after the event to be remembered, is important.

“Our research challenges the intuitive view that alcohol is bad for eyewitness memory recall by showing that, in fact, it can be the timing of alcohol consumption that is important when it comes to determining how accurate and reliable inebriated witnesses are,” the researchers write. “Although we still don’t know the effects of different volumes of alcohol on the reliability of eyewitness testimony.”

Next time your friend is brushing off their wild night, take it with a grain of salt. If it happened before getting too drunk, they might just remember. But it’s still a safe bet that more tequila = fewer accurate memories.

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Kardashians In Krisis! ‘KUWTK’ Ratings Plummet; Kim On The Verge Of A Breakdown

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Kardashians In Krisis! ‘KUWTK’ Ratings Plummet; Kim On The Verge Of A Breakdown

Not even Kim Kardashian’s robbery could save the sinking “Keeping up with the Kardashians” ship!

Just days after Season 13 of KUWTK premiered on E! network, RadarOnline.com has obtained the ratings for the ill-fated reality show – and they’re worse than ever!

According to same-day data, Sunday’s KUWTK drew a .70 for adults 18-49 rating and averaged 1.48 million viewers – meaning that it drew in markedly fewer viewers.

In contrast, the season 12 premiere drew a 1.05 rating and 2.19 million viewers on May 1, 2016.

As Radar previously reported, KUWTK matriarch Kris Jenner, 61, was banking on this season being the most explosive ever and even commission her 36-year-old daughter, Kim, to promote the season on her highly trafficked social media sites.

But clearly, the momager’s plan was an epic fail!

In fact, the premiere was the least watched show since the series aired!

Kim: Kardashian Secretly On The Verge Of A ‘Breakdown!’

Kim Kardashian is still struggling to heal from her Paris robbery, an insider told RadarOnline.com, and reliving it on Keeping Up with the Kardashians is pushing her to her limit!

“Kim is trying the best she can to work through this and yes, she has increased her therapy sessions,” a source close to the Kardashian clan said.

“She is having a really hard time sleeping this past week and her family told her that she needs to chill on doing anything that would cause her to have another breakdown!”

As Radar reported, the newest season of KUWTK shows Kardashian discussing her robbery, as well as the mental breakdown that her husband, Kanye West, had just one month later!

Adding to the pressure, the mother of North, 3, and Saint West, 1, insiders claimed that Kardashian has been arguing a lot with her baby-daddy since the new season started and the duo’s fragile marriage is on the rocks again!

And although Kardashian was offered a massive bonus to return for this current season by momager, Kris Jenner, 61, the insider insists that she is over it!

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Pizza Delivery Guy Gets Kitten As Tip, Still Has It 17 Years Later

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Pizza Delivery Guy Gets Kitten As Tip, Still Has It 17 Years Later

When you’re a college kid trying desperately to  make ends meet, getting tipped in animals instead of real money is not ideal. But it ended up working out for Reddit user Hyemp, who tells the story of how he was given a kitten as a tip when he delivered a pizza 17 years ago. Plot twist: he still has the cat.

His name is Mr. Tips. This is him.

Hyemp explains:

I was stoned in college delivering a pizza to a house on a farm. Some stoned 20 something answered the door and said he only had exact change and he was sorry for no tip. Then he proceeded to hand me a kitten as he said, “but you can have a kitten as a tip!” and I very highly said, “alright maaaan. cool” and here we are 17 years later.

So, they handed Hyemp the exact amount for the pizza. And a kitten, that subsequently cruised around delivering pies with his new owner throughout the duration of his shift.

At 17-years old, Hyemp says the cat’s health is starting to decline. One can only hope the cat had a good life and didn’t freak out, thinking he’d be traded, every time he was around pizza.

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Marijuana Legalization On The East Coast: 50 Million People Creating Tax Revenue

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Marijuana Legalization On The East Coast: 50 Million People Creating Tax Revenue

When it was announced that the state of Colorado had topped $1 billion in cannabis sales for the year of 2016, it gave credence to the fact that Americans not only support marijuana legalization, but really enjoy consuming it as well. The news also settled the nerves of potential industry investors.

With uncertainty swirling around the Trump administration’s plans of how it will deal with the fledgling industry, it seems foolish for the Justice Department to hamper its ascendancy by prosecuting businesses that are sanctioned in “legal” states. Furthermore, Colorado generated $200 million in tax revenue in 2016. Meddling with that kind of money, which is already earmarked for education, figures to be tremendously unpopular with politicians. A billion dollars is a staggering figure. But let’s examine some other eye-opening population stats.

Tourism, of course, is responsible for a large portion of cannabis sales in Colorado; the state’s population stands at just under six million residents. The three most populous states which have enacted legal, adult recreational cannabis use are California, Oregon and Washington. California has about 39 million residents, Oregon has approximately four million and just over seven million people live in the state of Washington. So, in time, these states can expect similar results.

But these population figures are dwarfed by the untapped eastern US. Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia make up the Northeast megalopolis, which boasts over 50 million residents.

The Northeast, in particular, represents a marketplace that can hardly be fathomed. In New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo still maintains that cannabis is a “gateway drug,” and, due to his Presidential aspirations, has firmly voiced his opposition to recreational use. (New York allows medical use, but its program is highly restrictive).


The states of New England are in the top ten of the highest number of cannabis users per capita in the nation, outdistancing the rate of use in California. But while the states that allow legal use have worked assiduously to create a workable system of commerce, the eastern US States have been resistant, even when medical laws have passed.

In Maine, voters passed recreational cannabis narrowly in November, but the measure still faces opposition from lawmakers. In fact, Maine Gov. Paul LePage has even remarked that voters “did not know what they were voting on.” The legislature has nine months to create a program for cannabis sales, but legislators are trying to delay implementation.

Massachusetts also passed recreational cannabis in 2016. Shops won’t open until 2018, but some lawmakers are seeking a tax rate above 37 percent—higher than Washington’s current rate—which critics believe would strengthen the black market for cannabis.

New Hampshire, with 70 percent of state residents in favor of changing marijuana laws, is looking closely at decriminalization. Currently in Vermont, a bill has been introduced that would legalize possession of up to 2 ounces or less and allow for the cultivation of up to two mature marijuana plants, and seven immature plants. But those arrested by police with more than specified amounts would still be subject to prosecution. Rhode Island is trying for the seventh time to pass recreational marijuana. It doesn’t want to lose ground to neighboring Massachusetts, where Rhode Island residents can travel over the border easily to purchase cannabis. Connecticut is also looking to legalize though passage is facing formidable opposition. But with the state facing a $1.7 billion projected budget deficit, the idea of regulating and taxing cannabis is gaining momentum.

The Northeast is arguably the most liberal-minded region of America. All of the states in the Northeastern Megalopolis supported Clinton, not Trump. Still, being a liberal doesn’t necessarily translate to rational views regarding cannabis—especially among lawmakers.

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Better Than Nutella: Homemade Chocolate Nut Spread With Marijuana

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Better Than Nutella: Homemade Chocolate Nut Spread With Marijuana

Despite being raised with a fair bit of Southern European influence, I never tried Nutella until my late childhood. Once I did, I was hooked. When I grew into adulthood and it became acceptable to admit to eating it by the spoonful, I rejoiced.

These days I don’t keep it around because of how dangerous it is for any semblance of healthy living, but boy is it fun to have when you’ve had a few puffs of something good. Spiking the world’s favorite flavors with weed gives me as much glee as a heaping tablespoon of creamy cocoa spread, so let’s dive into the specifics!

Making a nut spread from scratch is a task for only those with the proper hardware. A Vitamix is a little out of my price range, but there’s two ways you can hack this at home, and save a bit of excess washing up after. Choose between powdered peanut butter for a less-caloric choice or a store bought nut butter to skip the most labor intensive and messy part of the affair. Either way you’re adding the same things to make it chocolate and lifting, and if you have the mechanical chops to make homemade nut butter, go for it!

Photos by Danielle Guercio

Homemade Chocolate Nut Spread

Danielle Guercio 2016

Yield: 12oz prepared butter, estimated 7-8mg THC per tablespoon

  • 1 cup nut butter or peanut butter powder
  • 1 oz cannabis infused coconut oil*
  • ¼ c powdered sugar
  • ¼ c cocoa powder
Photos by Danielle Guercio

If you’re using peanut butter powder, it’s had the fat completely removed. This means you can control how much oil you want to use to get it spreadable again, and can omit some of the sugar if you want to get even more healthy.

Simply mix dry ingredients and drizzle in the coconut oil. Then stir until completely mixed, it’s that simple. Pretty cool huh? You may need to add more oil, which can be either infused or not depending on your feels.

Photos by Danielle Guercio

Mix the dry ingredients well so that they are ready to get saturated with the nut butter and cannabis oil.

Photos by Danielle Guercio

If you’re using nut butters, In a microwave safe container, soften the nut butter in short bursts, don’t overheat. Combine with dry ingredients and cannabis oil. Store in clean jars up to a week in the fridge, 3 months in the freezer.

Photos by Danielle Guercio

*Cannabis Infused Coconut Oil

Decarboxylate 3.5g of finely ground cannabis at 225 degrees for 20 minutes in a tightly sealed, oven safe container.

Put cannabis in lidded mason jar or vacuum sealed bag with cannabis and four ounces of coconut oil. Heat in water bath just under boiling for at least 1 hour. Strain and chill to use in recipes.

Photos by Danielle Guercio

Spread on toast, croissants, pancakes, or any sweets, it will brighten up your morning and your afternoon too. Having a spoonful in coffee or on ice cream is also a dreamy way to medicate.

This nut butter also makes an excellent base for other baked goods like cookies and cakes, using nut butters can also help you use less shortening or butter for a slightly lighter version of your fav.

Photos: Danielle Guercio

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The Quality Of Government Marijuana Is So Bad It’s Hindering Research

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The Quality Of Government Marijuana Is So Bad It’s Hindering Research

Before the scientific community can truly begin to examine the medicinal benefits of the marijuana, the federal government is going to need to step up its cultivation skills and provide researchers with government marijuana that doesn’t look like a pile of lawn clippings.

Earlier this week, Dr. Sue Sisley with the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) posted a series of photos of the marijuana given to her by Uncle Sam to study the effects of cannabis medicine on veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Based on appearances alone, the weed is not even remotely similar to the commercial marijuana being sold in dispensaries across the nation – it’s pale and full of stems.

In fact, Dr. Sisley recently told PBS News Hour that the government’s so-called research cannabis, which is produced at the DEA’s only licensed cultivation facility at the University of Mississippi, might not actually be marijuana by today’s standards.

“It didn’t resemble cannabis. It didn’t smell like cannabis,” she said.

Pot experts, like Jake Browne, a cannabis critic for The Denver Post says the weed provided by the federal government for scientific purposes is “flat out, not a usable form of cannabis.”

“In two decades of smoking weed, I’ve never seen anything that looks like that,” Browne told the Washington Post. “People typically smoke the flower of the plant, but here you can clearly see stems and leaves in there as well, parts that should be discarded. Inhaling that would be like eating an apple, including the seeds inside it and the branch it grew on.”

Although the government claims the marijuana its grows under the supervision of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) comes with around 13 percent THC, laboratory testing by Dr. Sisley’s crew determined the herb really only contains around 8 percent – comparable to the pot being sold on the black market in the 1970s.

To put this into perspective, the average THC content of the marijuana sold in retail pot shops in places like Colorado is around 19 percent, with the higher end strains sometimes reaching more than 30 percent.

Because of this, researchers say the government’s weed is not a high enough quality to use in medical testing. Furthermore, the federal herb is not tested for dangerous molds and yeasts that can cause people to suffer serious, even life-threatening illnesses.

“There’s no telling how many subjects in past studies were exposed,” Sisley told PBS.

However, the federal government recently suggested that the quality issue was on the verge of an improvement.

“There has been some emerging interest from the research community for a wider variety of marijuana and marijuana products. … NIDA does plan on growing some additional marijuana this year and harvest some high THC material that will likely be above 13 percent THC,” a spokesperson for NIDA told the Post in an emailed statement.

Gossip: Kendall Jenner Betrayed By Friends; Selena Gomez Explains Her Addiction

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Gossip: Kendall Jenner Betrayed By Friends; Selena Gomez Explains Her Addiction

Selena Gomez Explains Why She Needed to Go to Rehab

Last summer, Selena Gomez canceled more than 30 dates on her “Revival Tour” to seek treatment for her struggles with anxiety, panic attacks and depression stemming from her battle with Lupus. Now, she’s finally ready to explain why she chose to check into rehab.

In the her latest cover story for Vogue, the “It Ain’t Me” singer opens up about her mental health. Getting candid about her personal life, she reveals that — despite her legions of fans and having the most-followed account on Instagram — her “self-esteem was shot” last year.

“Tours are a really lonely place for me,” she shares. “I was depressed, anxious. I started to have panic attacks right before getting onstage, or right after leaving the stage. Basically I felt I wasn’t good enough, wasn’t capable. I felt I wasn’t giving my fans anything, and they could see it—which, I think, was a complete distortion.”

“At concerts I used to make the entire crowd raise up their pinkies and make a pinky promise never to allow anybody to make them feel that they weren’t good enough. Suddenly I have kids smoking and drinking at my shows, people in their 20s, 30s, and I’m looking into their eyes, and I don’t know what to say. I couldn’t say, ‘Everybody, let’s pinky-promise that you’re beautiful!’ It doesn’t work that way, and I know it because I’m dealing with the same sh*t they’re dealing with,” she continues, “What I wanted to say is that life is so stressful, and I get the desire to just escape it. But I wasn’t figuring my own stuff out, so I felt I had no wisdom to share. And so maybe I thought everybody out there was thinking, This is a waste of time.”

In August 2016, Gomez announced she was taking a hiatus to focus on her well-being. Soon after shuttering her tour, the 24-year-old admitted herself into a treatment facility outside of Nashville — where she gave up social media, surrendered her phone and underwent individual, group and equine therapy for 90 days.

These days, the former Disney Channel star continues to lay low, living out of an Airbnb somewhere in the Valley outside of Los Angeles.

“I think seventeen people have my phone number right now,” she admits. “Maybe two are famous.”

In fact, Gomez has even deleted Instagram off her phone. Though she’s still the most-followed person on the photo-sharing platform, she’s handed over the reigns to her assistant, who is the only person who knows the password to the account.

“As soon as I became the most followed person on Instagram, I sort of freaked out,” she admits. “It had become so consuming to me. It’s what I woke up to and went to sleep to. I was an addict, and it felt like I was seeing things I didn’t want to see, like it was putting things in my head that I didn’t want to care about. I always end up feeling like sh*t when I look at Instagram. Which is why I’m kind of under the radar, ghosting it a bit.”

As for her budding romance with The Weeknd, Gomez shares that she’s learning from her past relationships and keeping her mouth shut about her current boyfriend. She says, “Look, I love what I do, and I’m aware of how lucky I am, but—how can I say this without sounding weird? I just really can’t wait for people to forget about me.”

Kendall Jenner’s Home Burglarized, $200,000 in Jewelry Stolen

Kendall Jenner is the latest victim in a string of celebrities (Derek Fisher, Nicki Minaj, Nick Young) to have their homes burglarized.

According to TMZ, Kendall had more than $200,000 in jewelry stolen from her home on Wednesday.

Per TMZ:

Law enforcement sources tell TMZ, Kendall left her Hollywood Hills home Wednesday around noon and returned around 8 PM. We’re told she was hanging around the house for several hours, and noticed nothing amiss … that is, until she went into her bedroom just after 1 AM and realized some of her jewelry was missing. She called the cops, who responded quickly.

Our sources say there was no sign of forced entry, and so far no suspects.

Celebrity home burglaries are definitely on the rise in Los Angeles.

As it turns out, the theft wasn’t a random burglary — but an inside job.

Our law enforcement sources tell us what really went down. They say Kendall was having a party with a bunch of friends Wednesday night. At some point in the evening she heard an alarm warning that someone opened a door, but she thought nothing of it.

We’re told Kendall left at midnight, leaving her friends in the house. When she came back just after 1 AM she discovered her jewelry box was open, and that’s when she called the cops.

Our sources say there was absolutely no sign of forced entry and they are certain the thief knew exactly where Kendall kept her bling.

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