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Is it?

My head is hurting. Still trying to figure out that "12". Time to take a nap, and come back to this later.

Thanks for the puzzle Tim.

I had a spelling error: use it

I tried switching the letters around in the cipher you provided. Still can't come up with a plain text result.

Very good idea! There is the key