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- a gorgeous pink aurora aroused us out of our slumber
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“Aurora.” The Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aurora. Accessed 19 January 2020.
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The first known use of aurora was in the 14th century
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