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How do I release a slug taken by a username?

I'm getting a message "slug already taken by username" when trying to create a short slug.  This hasn't been a problem before, and I have printed materials I need to match.  I have no users with the listed name. 

It's possible that there was a username matching the slug I want to use.  Do username slugs last forever?

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Once the slug is taken by a user for their profile it cannot be used by a page. For example my NationBuilder profile is http://nationbuilder.com/taylorpineiro. If I wanted to create a page with the slug taylorpineiro I would need to go in and change the current page with that slug (my profile) to something else. So I could go into my profile > profile > settings (in the dashboard) and change the slug to something like taylorpineiroprofile so that would release taylorpineiro. 

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