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[…]</p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160305145450/https://duyouth.duke.edu/staff-voices-zac-workun/" title="Staff Voices: Zac Workun" class="plus hvr-icon-spin"></a> </li> <li id="column" class="stories equal"> <a class="transit" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160305145450/https://duyouth.duke.edu/student-voices-rob-lee/" title="Student Voices: Rob Lee"><img width="600" height="400" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160305145450im_/https://duyouth.duke.edu/cms/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/P1040885-600x400.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="Dr. Willie Jennings instructs DYA '10 students, including Rob Lee (third from the right)."/></a> <h2><a class="transit" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160305145450/https://duyouth.duke.edu/student-voices-rob-lee/" title="Student Voices: Rob Lee">Student Voices: Rob Lee</a></h2> <p>In the 2003 hit musical Wicked, there’s this wonderful song describing the friendship between the Wicked Witch Elphaba 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