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My first Caesar

This is a Caesar cipher: every letter has moved by one fixed shift. Do not begin by running all 26 shifts. Use the preserved spaces and punctuation to make a plaintext guess: a one-letter word must be A or I, and a repeated three-letter word may be THE. Compare one guessed plaintext letter with its ciphertext letter; their alphabet distance is the candidate shift. Open Caesar shift, use the Challenge Ciphertext, choose Decrypt, enter that shift, and Run. Accept it only if the same shift produces several independent words and grammatical sentences. If it fails, reject the guess and calculate a new shift from a different clue. Submit the complete readable result.

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The Flag is the first 64 non-whitespace characters of the recovered Solution, or all of them when there are fewer. Keep cipher fillers.