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In this task, you're given a story (which contains five sentences only). Your task is to find all the characters which are available in the given story.
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Sentence1: Alex owned a lot of money to a loan shark. Sentence2: He was desperate to make money as fast as he could to repay the loan. Sentence3: He went to the casino and gambled everything he had left. Sentence4: In a lucky strike, he quadrupled his earnings. Sentence5: He then paid the loan shark and swore to never borrow money again.
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Alex

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Sentence1: Ed's dream was to be a published author. Sentence2: He sent in many manuscripts to different publishers. Sentence3: Every time, his work was rejected. Sentence4: He decided to try one last time to get published. Sentence5: On his last try, the publisher finally accepted his work!
answer:
Ed, Publisher

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Sentence1: Devon was proud to be a nobody. Sentence2: His ambition was to be the most inconspicuous man alive. Sentence3: He succeeded very well most of his life. Sentence4: But one day when he caught a thief with one hand, he was a sensation. Sentence5: He was in all the papers and he was miserable.
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Devon, Thief