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Francesco Polizzi
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The answer is no, in fact there exist examples of non-reduced projective curves whic are non smoothable.

Perhaps the easiest example is the double line, i.e. the scheme $X=2L$, where $L \cong \mathbb{P}^1$.

Francesco Polizzi
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