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September 14, 2017 at 7:27 pm #98106
Graham Park
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You could shorten the months to make it query easier to read.

FIND
(Ja.+|Fe.+|Mar.+|Ap.+|May|June|July|Au.+|Se.+|Oc.+|No.+|De.+)\r(.*?)\r
Replace
$1$2\r

Then

FIND
((Ja.+|Fe.+|Mar.+|Ap.+|May|June|July|Au.+|Se.+|Oc.+|No.+|De.+).+$)\r((Ja.+|Fe.+|Mar.+|Ap.+|May|June|July|Au.+|Se.+|Oc.+|No.+|De.+).+$)
REPLACE
$1

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