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It's not really correct to use the plural 'their' when you mean the singular 'his' or 'hers'. However, English does not, unfortunately, have a singular possessive pronoun for someone whose gender is not known. So 'their' is used to get round the problem. Someone needs to coin a suitable word. I'm surprised they haven't already.

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