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- 1 2 Riku Laakkonen: Kohtaaminen Esa Pakarinen Jr:n kanssa (in Finnish)
- ↑ He saivat taiteilijaeläkkeet - katso lista! Archived 2015-12-08 at the Wayback Machine (in Finnish)
