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Book I   Proposition 28
For, since
    the angle GHD is equal to the angle EGB,
while
    the angle AGH is equal to the angle EGB, [I.15]
    the angle AGH is also equal to the angle GHD;

and they are alternate;
therefore AB is parallel to CD. [I.27]
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