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Dear L,



I love you. This year has been great. After 16 years you still inspire and amaze me every day. Recently it's been your programming projects -- I think I never would have guessed that you, an art student who used to go on and on about your hatred for math, would be releasing android apps... WUT? Maybe I can take some credit??



Of course to your credit this hard-core engineer is beginning to understand that software is pretty pointless without people (whoda thunk)! Thank you for your design lessons, inspiration and guidance as I struggle to... erm... (pain)research 'people' and... (pain)'draw' things.



Hey! Today is Valentine's day and I know you don't eat chocolate or care much for flowers, so I'm going to give you something much better. It's a really good gift but there is a catch, to get it you have to use your programming skills. HAHAHA! ;)



Care to give it a try?



Here are the instructions:

"Use the KEY to claim the PRIZE"



You can solve this part of the puzzle using these three online tools:



String to hex encoder: https://goo.gl/WNrFB3

Hex to string encoder: https://goo.gl/g9zYpK

XOR encoder: https://goo.gl/GWVmsx



I recommend you use these ones because I tested things with these tools. Other online tools didn't give me the same results. Also, you can probably ignore the 'Decrypt' button on the XOR encoder... one more thing -- make sure you set Type correctly.



Hint: you'll need to learn about Hexadecimal and XOR in order to succeed.



==================================================================== KEY START (ASCII) =========================================

oo

oo OOOOOOOO: OOOOOOOO!

oOOOO!!!!;;;;O OO.......:;!O

'OOO!!!;;;;;;;;O O.......: ;!O

OOO!!!!;;::::::.OO........: ;!O

OO!!!!;;:::::..............: ;!O

OOO!!!;::::::..............: ;!O

OO!!;;::::::.............: ;!O

OO!;;::::::......oo.....::::!O

O!!;::::::........oo..:::O

!!!;:::::..........ooO

!!;:::::.......O oo

;;::::.....O oo ,o

:::..O ooo

::. oooo

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KEY END ===================================================



PRIZE START (HEX) ================================

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Love,



Ya-boiiiii





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