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We show that a White Dwarf-White Dwarf (WD-WD) binary with semi-major axis a=1-300 AU, which is orbited by a stellar mass outer perturber with a moderate pericenter r_{p, out} \sim 3-10 x a, has a few percent chance of experiencing a head-on collision within ~5 Gyr.
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