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Amaya Hendricks, 8, right, waves a bubble wand as her friend Melissa Souza, 7, left, looks on during the opening of a new playground at South Memorial School in Peabody on Wednesday. The playground is named in honor of Ella Jade O'Donnell, a local 10-year-old who died of brain cancer last year.

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