wordpress templating get the content of parent page

how do i get the_content for the parent page when templating in WP?

(pages-only structure)

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<?php $page = get_page(); // gets current page ID
      $parentID = $page['post_parent']; // gets parent ID, if there is one
      if($parentID != '0') {
        $parentPage = get_page($parentID);
        $parentContent = $parentPage['post_content']; // gets raw content
        $parentContent = apply_filters('the_content', $parentContent); // filters content
      } ?>

That's one way to do it.

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$parent = get_post($post->post_parent);

then you can do

$parentContent = $parent->post_content

FYI, get_page() wraps get_post()