A Chinese girl wearing a mask holds a lotus lantern as she stands near a store selling lanterns, ahead of the Lantern Festival in Nanjing in east China's Jiangsu province Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012. The festival, which falls on Feb. 6, 2012, marks the 15th and final day of the Spring Festival, the annual celebration of the beginning of the Lunar New Year. (AP Photo) CHINA OUT
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