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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query-continue>
    <alllinks galcontinue="Boyer_Communications_Corporation|17" />
  </query-continue>
  <query>
    <pages>
      <page pageid="1" ns="0" title="Main Page" />
      <page pageid="5" ns="0" title="Portal:People:Henderson" />
      <page pageid="10" ns="0" title="Joseph Amos Henderson" />
      <page pageid="17" ns="0" title="Contents" />
      <page pageid="21" ns="0" title="Portal:Business" />
      <page pageid="32" ns="3" title="User talk:MichaelGagnon" />
      <page pageid="116" ns="0" title="Hanna Alice Sims" />
      <page pageid="120" ns="0" title="Portal:People:Mitchell" />
      <page pageid="303" ns="0" title="Portal:People:Dowell" />
    </pages>
  </query>
</api>