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The combination of a package and plural absorbent pads, e.g., pantiliners. Each of the pads is an elongated generally planar member having a body engaging surface and an opposed liquid barrier surface. Each of the pads is folded along a line extending transversely to the long dimension of the pad so that its body engaging surface forms the inner surface of the folded pad and its liquid barrier surface forms the outer surface of the folded pad. The folded pads are stacked on top of one another. The package can be of various shapes, e.g., a pouch, a parallelepiped gusseted member, etc., and is formed of a flexible sheet material, e.g., a plastic film. It has a hollow interior into which the stack of pads is located. The package includes an openable mouth, e.g., a weakened or breakable line in a portion of the material making up the package, two overlapping edges of the material making up the package, etc., that is located immediately adjacent the stack of pads so that the user can grasp one of the pads to remove it from the package through the openable mouth. The folded pads may be stacked one atop another within the package with the fold line of each pad being located closely adjacent the fold line of the other pads, and with the openable mouth located closely adjacent the fold lines of the stack so that the user can grasp one of the pads at its fold line to remove it from the package through the openable mouth. Alternatively the stack of folded pads may be interleaved so that removal of one pad from the package brings a portion of another pad to the location of the openable mouth to facilitate the removal of that other pad from the package, when desired.

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