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HTML

<p class="para1">This is paragraph 1:</p>
        <p class="a">This is paragraph 2:</p>
        <p class="para2">This is paragraph 3:</p>
        <p class="a">This is paragraph 4:</p>
        <p>This is paragraph 5:</p>

JavaScript

$("*").not('.para2').click(function(){
  $('.para2').hide();  
});