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Consider, for a moment, dear listener, the sequin.

A tiny round piece of plastic.

Smaller than a dime, a little bigger than the head of a screw.

If you find one on the ground or at the bottom of a drawer,

you should probably just toss it, right?

But you get a thousand of them together, it's something else.

You can put them on a shoe or a little matador jacket, Or how about this, Shares outfit from the Oscars in 1986?

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