diff --git a/graph/Node.py b/graph/Node.py
index 9aad726..5c4a05d 100644
--- a/graph/Node.py
+++ b/graph/Node.py
@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@ class Node:
 
     def __init__(self, node_id, description):
         self.id = node_id   # it's an int
-        self.description = json.dumps(description).replace('"', '')
+        # self.description = json.dumps(description).replace('"', '')
+        self.description = description
         self.nodeCount = 0
         self.edgeCount = 0
         self.mentionCount = 0
@@ -82,7 +83,7 @@ class Node:
             print "There's a problem with the column number"
             return None
         nodeId = int(dataList[0])
-        nodeDesc = dataList[1]
+        nodeDesc = unicode(dataList[1])
         nodeCount = int(dataList[2])
         nodeEdgeCount = int(dataList[3])
         nodeMentionCount = int(dataList[4])
diff --git a/merge_wordcount_with_edge_features.py b/merge_wordcount_with_edge_features.py
index b111b97..169d77b 100644
--- a/merge_wordcount_with_edge_features.py
+++ b/merge_wordcount_with_edge_features.py
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ def mergeBlackList(city, cityFile, minfreq):
             inputFile = codecs.open(fileDir+"/"+filename, "r", "utf-8")
             for line in inputFile:
                 lines += 1
-                node = Node.parseString(unicode(line))
+                node = Node.parseString(line)
                 if node.nodeCount > minfreq:  #!!! this restricts a lot the dataset
                     if node.description in tokenDict:
                         # update node
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