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- my plan to throw her a surprise party backfired when she ended up thinking that everyone had forgotten her birthday
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“Backfires.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/backfires. Accessed 22 May. 2022.
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