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Read the paragraph below and answer the questions that follow.
(1) Emoticons are the face-like symbols made of keyboard characters in e-mail messages. (2) Meant to be read sideways, with the head tilted 90 degrees, these symbols help to overcome the lack of facial expressions and body language that are present in face-to-face communications but missing from written communications. (3) Specifically, emoticons make the emotions of the person sending the message clearer so that the receiver of the message will not misinterpret the meaning of the words. (4) For example, a smile is made with a colon, a dash, and a parenthesis, forming :-) , and a frown with the other parenthesis :-(. (5) Other common emoticons are the wink ;-) , surprise :-o , and laughing hard with eyes closed XD. (6) The symbols for a clown face, :o) , can indicate that a statement was made tongue-in-cheek.
Select the number of the topic sentence in the paragraph above.

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