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+# Exercise 8-9 Messages
+# Learning Objective: Pass a list to a function. 
+
+texts = ['hello', 'how are you?', 'i am well thanks']
+
+def show_messages(messages):
+    for message in messages:
+        print(message)
+
+show_messages(texts)
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