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Maine photographer Tanja Alexia Hollander is shooting formal portraits of all 626 of her Facebook friends in their homes for a project called "Are you really my friend?" Some Face-friends she has never met in person, others she'd long stopped talking to. There are also exes with new partners, ex-partners of friends and friends from grade school. Since starting in Feb. 2011, Ms. Hollander has photographed 200 of her pals -- the project involves travel across four continents

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