The four-hour event ended with everyone holding hands and singing a song with the lyrics "You have to go through a thunderstorm to see a rainbow"--a reference to the dot-com bust and the dark days of the SARS virus scare as Taobao launched in mid-2003.

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They'd see me pull out of the Rainbow and they'd have a cop right there.

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