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        <footnote id="F1">The Common Units are exerciseable on a 1 to 1 ratio with no exercise price.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F2">The Reporting Person owns a limited partnership interest in CBL &amp; Associates Limited Partnership, a Delaware limited partnership, that may be exchanged at any time for an aggregate of 503,272 shares of the Issuer's Common Stock (on a one-for-one basis) or cash, at the Issuer's election.</footnote>
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