 Solution (source code)

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= Solution

Take a <context-free grammar> for $L$ with start symbol $S$, rename nonterminals if necessary, and add a fresh start symbol $S_0$ with
$$
S_0\to\epsilon\mid SS_0.
$$
Every derivation concatenates finitely many words of $L$, and every finite concatenation can be derived. \b[The resulting grammar generates $L^*$], proving <closure of context-free languages under Kleene star>.

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