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Common Stock (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2020
Equity [Abstract] |
Share Repurchases of Common Stock | made the following share repurchases during the years indicated:
|  | Year Ended December 31,
|  | 2020 |  | 2019 |  | 2018
Aggregate purchase price |  | $ | 371,078 |  |  | $ | 698,417 |  |  | $ | 846,134 |
Number of shares repurchased |  | 96 |  |  | 221 |  |  | 301 |

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