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Feb 2024
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Blair MacMillan and Carley Thorne
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Truthtanic is now Girl Historians! The Titanic is dead to us! Comedians and wannabe historians Blair MacMillan and Carley Thorne are back February 9th for the first episode of Girl Historians season 2: the Salem Witch Files.


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