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Dear Z100,
I love your music so much. I think you guys pick out the best music to play on the radio. I am positive everyone enjoys it. Anyway I was listening to your radio station and there was supposed to be a bad word in the song but you guys beeped it out. I understand there are younger viewers listening to the radio. The only thing is I don’t think it's fair that you bleep all the songs just because of younger viewers. What about all the other older viewers? Lots of people listen to your station and they expect curse words because without curse words songs become boring, it violates the first amendment, and people when they search for the song they can never find it. Songs become boring when curse words are bleeped out. The message

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