Lewis structure for IF3 missing bonded pairs

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Trying to draw Lewis structure for IF3. There's four atoms, so 32 electrons needed minus the 28 availabe (7 valence each) give 4 electron bonded pairs, which is 2 bonds... but there has to be at least 3. I'm stupid, what am I missing?

edit: never mind i got it
 
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You're missing nothing...except the fact that it needn't always be possible to have octets everywhere.