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Aflac seeks new voice for its duck

NEW YORK -- Aflac is opening the field to people who want to take a quack at doing the new voice of the insurer's ever-abrasive duck mascot. Aflac Inc. will begin accepting submissions on Wednesday in the search for someone to replace Gilbert Gottfried, who was ousted last week after voicing the duck for more than 10 years after insensitive remarks about the earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

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