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Financing Activities - Distributions (Details) - $ / shares | 1 Months Ended | 3 Months Ended | 6 Months Ended
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Feb. 28, 2021 | Jun. 30, 2021 | Jun. 30, 2020 | Jun. 30, 2021 | Jun. 30, 2020
Distributions (Numeric) [Abstract] |  |  |  |  |
Current quarterly common stock dividend (in dollars per share) | $ 0.415 | $ 0.415 | $ 0.830 | $ 0.415 | $ 0.830
Annualized current quarterly common stock dividend (in dollars per share) | $ 1.66 |  |  |  |

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