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+# ruben's "i wanna be cool but i also have no experience with html css" website
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+personal thing i work on because i learned that [pages.gay](https://pages.gay) exists and felt liek that was enough encouragement for me to make this.
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+should be viewable over at [sneexy.pages.gay](https://sneexy.pages.gay).