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99 Words About … The secrecy surrounding ‘Mad Men’

In honor of creator Matthew Weiner's legendary fear of plot leaks, here's your spoiler-free preview of the return of "Mad Men" (9 p.m. Sunday, AMC):

It begins ____ ____ after last season's finale.

Sterling Cooper Draper Price seems to be doing ____ without the Lucky Strike account.

Don's relationship with ____ is ____.

Joan ____ her baby.

Betty is ____, Roger is feeling ____, and Pete is angling for a new ____.

But the highlight, the scene that most feels ripped from a time capsule, involves ____ giving ____ a ____ for his ____.

It will leave you ____.

-- CHRISTOPHER LAWRENCE

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