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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query-continue>
    <links gplcontinue="1|0|Aldous_Huxley" />
  </query-continue>
  <query>
    <pages>
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      <page pageid="339" ns="0" title="Alan Watts" contentmodel="wikitext" pagelanguage="en" touched="2015-03-07T13:32:30Z" lastrevid="451" counter="5914" length="687" new="" />
      <page pageid="201" ns="0" title="Albert Hofmann" contentmodel="wikitext" pagelanguage="en" touched="2015-03-07T12:20:21Z" lastrevid="308" counter="2475" length="559" new="" />
    </pages>
  </query>
</api>