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But the title shouldn't lean to the Met's official title just because the Met has the most material online. (This is also why I was drafting a separate article on the masks as a group rather than focus on the Met's mask, as that's how I see the source material working.) In going through the offline
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It's overkill to have section headings every paragraph—the ideal is to use headings that can contain multiple paragraphs. The thoughts in "Origins" are not so disparate as to need separate headings, and the other headings are too narrow for the scope of the article. I wish you would have waited on
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