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  • J Jolly
    8 Aug 2022, 13:56

    I'll take y'all's word for it. Seems like a nice lady he's married to, so he must have some redeeming qualities.🙂

    Me, I'm just me. I write like I talk, except it's hard to convey the redneck accent in text. I try to have manners, have known to be cordial on occasion, tend to say what I think and if I think you are trying to intimidate me, I'll rip your ears off and feed them to you.

    I'm just a big teddy bear 🧸.

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    Axtremus
    wrote on 8 Aug 2022, 17:05 last edited by
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    @Jolly said in Dewey's post:

    I'm just a big teddy bear 🧸.

    With lots of guns and ammo.

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      Jolly
      wrote on 8 Aug 2022, 17:05 last edited by
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      I used to have a few guns and a couple of boxes of ammo.

      Sadly, I lost them in a boating accident...

      “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

      Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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        Horace
        wrote on 8 Aug 2022, 21:23 last edited by
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        There appears to be an unfortunate consensus forming amongst the Dewites that Larry was a nearly complete fiction. That the life narratives he wove online were largely invented. Personally, I suspect the narrative that Larry was almost complete fiction, is more fictitious than the stuff he wrote about himself. But confirmation bias, as always, rules the day in the minds of many.

        Education is extremely important.

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          Copper
          wrote on 8 Aug 2022, 21:26 last edited by
          #131

          These are Trump haters you are talking about

          Alternate reality is not a problem

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            Jolly
            wrote on 8 Aug 2022, 21:28 last edited by
            #132

            Amen.

            “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

            Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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              Jolly
              wrote on 8 Aug 2022, 22:15 last edited by
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              But at least we have a cool nickname....The Wolfpack.

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              “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

              Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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              • J Jolly
                8 Aug 2022, 22:15

                But at least we have a cool nickname....The Wolfpack.

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                Aqua Letifer
                wrote on 8 Aug 2022, 22:50 last edited by
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                @Jolly said in Dewey's post:

                But at least we have a cool nickname....The Wolfpack.

                alt text

                I'm not part of that bullshit, though, right? I could never abide any clique so crass and irreverent that it'd have the likes of me as a member.

                Please love yourself.

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                • A Aqua Letifer
                  8 Aug 2022, 22:50

                  @Jolly said in Dewey's post:

                  But at least we have a cool nickname....The Wolfpack.

                  alt text

                  I'm not part of that bullshit, though, right? I could never abide any clique so crass and irreverent that it'd have the likes of me as a member.

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                  Catseye3
                  wrote on 8 Aug 2022, 22:54 last edited by Catseye3 8 Aug 2022, 22:54
                  #135

                  @Aqua-Letifer

                  Why does that sound so familiar?

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                  Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka

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                  • H Horace
                    8 Aug 2022, 21:23

                    There appears to be an unfortunate consensus forming amongst the Dewites that Larry was a nearly complete fiction. That the life narratives he wove online were largely invented. Personally, I suspect the narrative that Larry was almost complete fiction, is more fictitious than the stuff he wrote about himself. But confirmation bias, as always, rules the day in the minds of many.

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                    jon-nyc
                    wrote on 8 Aug 2022, 22:55 last edited by
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                    @Horace said in Dewey's post:

                    There appears to be an unfortunate consensus forming amongst the Dewites that Larry was a nearly complete fiction. That the life narratives he wove online were largely invented.

                    It’s a shame you never met Vince.

                    Only non-witches get due process.

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                    • J jon-nyc
                      8 Aug 2022, 22:55

                      @Horace said in Dewey's post:

                      There appears to be an unfortunate consensus forming amongst the Dewites that Larry was a nearly complete fiction. That the life narratives he wove online were largely invented.

                      It’s a shame you never met Vince.

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                      Klaus
                      wrote on 8 Aug 2022, 22:56 last edited by
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                      @jon-nyc What about Vince?

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                        Mik
                        wrote on 8 Aug 2022, 22:59 last edited by Mik 8 Aug 2022, 23:02
                        #138

                        Vince was a grade a hoot. I was lucky enough to meet him in a belly dancing restaurant in DC, along with Aqua, Ax and his family, Lufin, M&Ms and their family, Improv...

                        He nearly got me into a fight with the neighboring party who I suspect were relatives of the dancers. Vince was the friend who comes to town to party with you. You all end up in jail and you can't wait for him to come back and do it again.

                        “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                        • J jon-nyc
                          8 Aug 2022, 22:55

                          @Horace said in Dewey's post:

                          There appears to be an unfortunate consensus forming amongst the Dewites that Larry was a nearly complete fiction. That the life narratives he wove online were largely invented.

                          It’s a shame you never met Vince.

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                          Horace
                          wrote on 8 Aug 2022, 23:02 last edited by
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                          @jon-nyc said in Dewey's post:

                          @Horace said in Dewey's post:

                          There appears to be an unfortunate consensus forming amongst the Dewites that Larry was a nearly complete fiction. That the life narratives he wove online were largely invented.

                          It’s a shame you never met Vince.

                          Vince is a convincing arbiter of this question, but not in a way you’re comfortable posting about publicly? Is that the take home message?

                          Education is extremely important.

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                          • M Mik
                            8 Aug 2022, 22:59

                            Vince was a grade a hoot. I was lucky enough to meet him in a belly dancing restaurant in DC, along with Aqua, Ax and his family, Lufin, M&Ms and their family, Improv...

                            He nearly got me into a fight with the neighboring party who I suspect were relatives of the dancers. Vince was the friend who comes to town to party with you. You all end up in jail and you can't wait for him to come back and do it again.

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                            Aqua Letifer
                            wrote on 8 Aug 2022, 23:05 last edited by
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                            @Mik said in Dewey's post:

                            Vince was a grade a hoot. I was lucky enough to meet him in a belly dancing restaurant in DC, along with Aqua, Ax and his family, Lug=fin, M&Ms and their family, Improv...

                            he nearly got me into a fight with the neighboring party. Vince was the friend who comes to town to party with you. You all end up in jail and you can't wait for him to come back and do it again.

                            I sat beside Vince for that dinner. I remember being sorry for that for Vince's sake. After all, this is at its core a piano forum, Vince was an institution in his world and I don't know shit about pianos or his industry. Kind of a waste to hang with the likes of me was my feeling on it. But he was very kind and accommodating.

                            And Vince... had some stories. 😄

                            Please love yourself.

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                            • M Mik
                              8 Aug 2022, 22:59

                              Vince was a grade a hoot. I was lucky enough to meet him in a belly dancing restaurant in DC, along with Aqua, Ax and his family, Lufin, M&Ms and their family, Improv...

                              He nearly got me into a fight with the neighboring party who I suspect were relatives of the dancers. Vince was the friend who comes to town to party with you. You all end up in jail and you can't wait for him to come back and do it again.

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                              Axtremus
                              wrote on 8 Aug 2022, 23:45 last edited by
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                              @Mik said in Dewey's post:

                              Vince was a grade a hoot. I was lucky enough to meet him in a belly dancing restaurant in DC, along with Aqua, Ax and his family, Lufin, M&Ms and their family, Improv...

                              Also had lunch with Vince once in an Italian restaurant in Philly. A vivacious and gregarious gentleman of a bygone era, proud of his Italian heritage and his hometown, Vince was very much a delight. Vince offered to give me a tour of Cunningham's old Germantown shop, but I did not take him up on it because by that time I have already toured that Cunningham shop twice -- silly me, I thought there would be more time and more opportunities to meet up with Vince again in the future.

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                              • A Axtremus
                                8 Aug 2022, 23:45

                                @Mik said in Dewey's post:

                                Vince was a grade a hoot. I was lucky enough to meet him in a belly dancing restaurant in DC, along with Aqua, Ax and his family, Lufin, M&Ms and their family, Improv...

                                Also had lunch with Vince once in an Italian restaurant in Philly. A vivacious and gregarious gentleman of a bygone era, proud of his Italian heritage and his hometown, Vince was very much a delight. Vince offered to give me a tour of Cunningham's old Germantown shop, but I did not take him up on it because by that time I have already toured that Cunningham shop twice -- silly me, I thought there would be more time and more opportunities to meet up with Vince again in the future.

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                                Mik
                                wrote on 8 Aug 2022, 23:56 last edited by
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                                @Axtremus yeah, I expect a tour by Vince would be a rich experience. I’m sorry yo did not do it. I bet it would be fun.

                                “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                                • J Jolly
                                  8 Aug 2022, 13:56

                                  I'll take y'all's word for it. Seems like a nice lady he's married to, so he must have some redeeming qualities.🙂

                                  Me, I'm just me. I write like I talk, except it's hard to convey the redneck accent in text. I try to have manners, have known to be cordial on occasion, tend to say what I think and if I think you are trying to intimidate me, I'll rip your ears off and feed them to you.

                                  I'm just a big teddy bear 🧸.

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                                  89th
                                  wrote on 9 Aug 2022, 12:25 last edited by
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                                  @Jolly said in Dewey's post:

                                  Me, I'm just me. I write like I talk, except it's hard to convey the redneck accent in text.

                                  Wow did you hear how many syllables he had when he said “redneck”? I counted 4.

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                                  • 8 89th
                                    9 Aug 2022, 12:25

                                    @Jolly said in Dewey's post:

                                    Me, I'm just me. I write like I talk, except it's hard to convey the redneck accent in text.

                                    Wow did you hear how many syllables he had when he said “redneck”? I counted 4.

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                                    Jolly
                                    wrote on 9 Aug 2022, 14:52 last edited by
                                    #144

                                    @89th said in Dewey's post:

                                    @Jolly said in Dewey's post:

                                    Me, I'm just me. I write like I talk, except it's hard to convey the redneck accent in text.

                                    Wow did you hear how many syllables he had when he said “redneck”? I counted 4.

                                    You missed one.

                                    “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                                    Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                                    • J Jolly
                                      8 Aug 2022, 11:59

                                      @Tom-K said in Dewey's post:

                                      @Horace said in Dewey's post:

                                      He wasn't really a religious person at all; the whole subject only mattered to him insofar as it bolstered his extreme right-wing politics.

                                      One of the little peccadillos of (some/many) Protestants is to step into the shoes of God Almighty and declare judgement on some other Protestants that aren’t in full theological agreement as “unsaved” and “unbelieving.” This may be the case with Dewey here. I didn’t follow the Larry-Dewey wars all that closely but I’m sure Larry had a similar pronouncement. (As a Catholic I don’t get into these internecine arguments and actually the one thing that just about all these Protestants agree on is that Catholics are “unsaved” and “unbelieving.”) Anyway, I do take issue here with Dewey’s appraisal. I remember when Wacky Iraqi was on the board and had terminal cancer Larry stopped his usual harangue, changed his whole demeanor, and tried to convert Wacky to the Gospel and save his soul before he died. It is exactly what Christians are supposed to do. Larry really impressed me by how he took his faith and Wacky’s salvation so seriously. It didn’t even occur to me to do something similar. And not that I would have even if it did. But Larry did it and that would be a Christian.

                                      Well, there’s that. As to the tone of Dewey’s missive—Dewey was butt hurt by Larry and he’s just expressing what he feels. Larry, I’m sure would do something similar is the shoe was on the other foot. Next door the people there are pretty much dancing on Larry’s grave. They were sometimes on the wrong end of Larry’s personal invectives and are venting. The gleefulness is a bit troubling, but that is the sandbox we all play in. But those over there tend to see the mote in Larry’s eye and not see the plank in their own—right from the beginning they expected to lecture the poor conservatives on the error of our ways with equal measures of condescension and pity and they expected us acquiesce to their wisdom, but instead to their surprise they got one hell of a fight. All good.

                                      One think that troubles me though: Steve Miller said over there:
                                      "The most memorable thing about that visit was learning that Larry in person was exactly the same as Larry on line."
                                      I really wonder if that is true.

                                      Missing your target a bit.

                                      Most protestants don't think Catholics are unsaved or unbelieving. We do reject sacerdotalism and don't understand how y'all got so hung up on that Mary thing. And we'll just mark that building the Church on Peter idea, down to a reading comprehension problem. 😛

                                      As for protestant vs. protestant, most don't sweat the small stuff. I don't care if Pentecostals believe they need to speak in tongues, or Baptists abhor taking an alcoholic drink, etc. Where I do have a problem with any Christian or somebody who identifies as Christian, is when they portray something irrefutably sinful as being okey-dokey. It just doesn't work that way.

                                      And be we whatever shade of Christianity, those pastoral letters still apply to the leadership of the church. The clergy is held to a higher standard. They don't always meet it, but they must strive to do so.

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                                      Tom-K
                                      wrote on 9 Aug 2022, 21:31 last edited by
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                                      @Jolly said in Dewey's post:

                                      @Tom-K said in Dewey's post:

                                      @Horace said in Dewey's post:

                                      He wasn't really a religious person at all; the whole subject only mattered to him insofar as it bolstered his extreme right-wing politics.

                                      One of the little peccadillos of (some/many) Protestants is to step into the shoes of God Almighty and declare judgement on some other Protestants that aren’t in full theological agreement as “unsaved” and “unbelieving.” This may be the case with Dewey here. I didn’t follow the Larry-Dewey wars all that closely but I’m sure Larry had a similar pronouncement. (As a Catholic I don’t get into these internecine arguments and actually the one thing that just about all these Protestants agree on is that Catholics are “unsaved” and “unbelieving.”) Anyway, I do take issue here with Dewey’s appraisal. I remember when Wacky Iraqi was on the board and had terminal cancer Larry stopped his usual harangue, changed his whole demeanor, and tried to convert Wacky to the Gospel and save his soul before he died. It is exactly what Christians are supposed to do. Larry really impressed me by how he took his faith and Wacky’s salvation so seriously. It didn’t even occur to me to do something similar. And not that I would have even if it did. But Larry did it and that would be a Christian.

                                      Well, there’s that. As to the tone of Dewey’s missive—Dewey was butt hurt by Larry and he’s just expressing what he feels. Larry, I’m sure would do something similar is the shoe was on the other foot. Next door the people there are pretty much dancing on Larry’s grave. They were sometimes on the wrong end of Larry’s personal invectives and are venting. The gleefulness is a bit troubling, but that is the sandbox we all play in. But those over there tend to see the mote in Larry’s eye and not see the plank in their own—right from the beginning they expected to lecture the poor conservatives on the error of our ways with equal measures of condescension and pity and they expected us acquiesce to their wisdom, but instead to their surprise they got one hell of a fight. All good.

                                      One think that troubles me though: Steve Miller said over there:
                                      "The most memorable thing about that visit was learning that Larry in person was exactly the same as Larry on line."
                                      I really wonder if that is true.

                                      Missing your target a bit.

                                      Most protestants don't think Catholics are unsaved or unbelieving. We do reject sacerdotalism and don't understand how y'all got so hung up on that Mary thing. And we'll just mark that building the Church on Peter idea, down to a reading comprehension problem. 😛

                                      As for protestant vs. protestant, most don't sweat the small stuff. I don't care if Pentecostals believe they need to speak in tongues, or Baptists abhor taking an alcoholic drink, etc. Where I do have a problem with any Christian or somebody who identifies as Christian, is when they portray something irrefutably sinful as being okey-dokey. It just doesn't work that way.

                                      And be we whatever shade of Christianity, those pastoral letters still apply to the leadership of the church. The clergy is held to a higher standard. They don't always meet it, but they must strive to do so.

                                      I can't agree with you more, other than the part about who has the reading comprehension problem. 😉

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                                      • Tom-KT Tom-K
                                        9 Aug 2022, 21:31

                                        @Jolly said in Dewey's post:

                                        @Tom-K said in Dewey's post:

                                        @Horace said in Dewey's post:

                                        He wasn't really a religious person at all; the whole subject only mattered to him insofar as it bolstered his extreme right-wing politics.

                                        One of the little peccadillos of (some/many) Protestants is to step into the shoes of God Almighty and declare judgement on some other Protestants that aren’t in full theological agreement as “unsaved” and “unbelieving.” This may be the case with Dewey here. I didn’t follow the Larry-Dewey wars all that closely but I’m sure Larry had a similar pronouncement. (As a Catholic I don’t get into these internecine arguments and actually the one thing that just about all these Protestants agree on is that Catholics are “unsaved” and “unbelieving.”) Anyway, I do take issue here with Dewey’s appraisal. I remember when Wacky Iraqi was on the board and had terminal cancer Larry stopped his usual harangue, changed his whole demeanor, and tried to convert Wacky to the Gospel and save his soul before he died. It is exactly what Christians are supposed to do. Larry really impressed me by how he took his faith and Wacky’s salvation so seriously. It didn’t even occur to me to do something similar. And not that I would have even if it did. But Larry did it and that would be a Christian.

                                        Well, there’s that. As to the tone of Dewey’s missive—Dewey was butt hurt by Larry and he’s just expressing what he feels. Larry, I’m sure would do something similar is the shoe was on the other foot. Next door the people there are pretty much dancing on Larry’s grave. They were sometimes on the wrong end of Larry’s personal invectives and are venting. The gleefulness is a bit troubling, but that is the sandbox we all play in. But those over there tend to see the mote in Larry’s eye and not see the plank in their own—right from the beginning they expected to lecture the poor conservatives on the error of our ways with equal measures of condescension and pity and they expected us acquiesce to their wisdom, but instead to their surprise they got one hell of a fight. All good.

                                        One think that troubles me though: Steve Miller said over there:
                                        "The most memorable thing about that visit was learning that Larry in person was exactly the same as Larry on line."
                                        I really wonder if that is true.

                                        Missing your target a bit.

                                        Most protestants don't think Catholics are unsaved or unbelieving. We do reject sacerdotalism and don't understand how y'all got so hung up on that Mary thing. And we'll just mark that building the Church on Peter idea, down to a reading comprehension problem. 😛

                                        As for protestant vs. protestant, most don't sweat the small stuff. I don't care if Pentecostals believe they need to speak in tongues, or Baptists abhor taking an alcoholic drink, etc. Where I do have a problem with any Christian or somebody who identifies as Christian, is when they portray something irrefutably sinful as being okey-dokey. It just doesn't work that way.

                                        And be we whatever shade of Christianity, those pastoral letters still apply to the leadership of the church. The clergy is held to a higher standard. They don't always meet it, but they must strive to do so.

                                        I can't agree with you more, other than the part about who has the reading comprehension problem. 😉

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                                        AndyD
                                        wrote on 10 Aug 2022, 08:59 last edited by
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                                        So I never met Larry.

                                        Could someone here who actually met and talked to him write a few words about him, a eulogy?

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                                        • A AndyD
                                          10 Aug 2022, 08:59

                                          So I never met Larry.

                                          Could someone here who actually met and talked to him write a few words about him, a eulogy?

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                                          wrote on 10 Aug 2022, 09:51 last edited by
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                                          @AndyD said in Dewey's post:

                                          So I never met Larry.

                                          Could someone here who actually met and talked to him write a few words about him, a eulogy?

                                          No one here at TNCR has met Larry in real life, but a WTF regular has met Larry in real life.

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