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			'collapse' => '<span class="screen-reader-text">' . __( 'collapse child menu', 'neel' ) . '</span>',
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function neel_google_fonts() {

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			$social_media_icons_html.= '</ul></div>';
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		return wp_kses_post( $social_media_icons_html );
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}

if ( ! function_exists( 'neel_excerpt' ) ) {

	function neel_excerpt( $limit = 54 ) {
	    echo '<p>'. wp_kses_post( wp_trim_words( get_the_excerpt(), $limit) ) .'</p>';
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}

/**
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require get_template_directory() . '/inc/template-tags.php';

/**
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require get_template_directory() . '/inc/extras.php';

/**
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/**
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require get_template_directory() . '/inc/sanitize-functions.php';
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