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I don't who to address this question to, so I'm putting it here. I received an email saying that someone had added me as their friend. There was a link I could click on to accept their request, but when I clicked on it all it did was take me to my own friends list. The member who added me was not on that list. I couldn't find anything to click on to accept her request. I looked up her name on the…