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Roary47

Roary47

Joined December 2019

Happy Wifey. Mama of 2 girls and my baby boy. Pet mom to 18🐓,17 🐣, 3🦆, 4 🐶, and 3 🐈‍⬛. Teacher to teenagers. Reading is my peace!
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The Deep | Rivers Solomon
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2✨ Let me start with the good. The afterword really brought what the author was going for to light. I think this was a beautiful imagining of the strong minds of women who had to face slavery while they were pregnant. Now with that said much of the story was confusing. Creating a world very unique in only a handful of pages was the main issue. I felt lost and questioned a lot. I‘m glad I read the afterword, but would have appreciated this sooner.

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1.) Being outside on a beautiful day just enjoying the breeze. 2.)🧟‍♀️🎉🤣3.) My son getting a kick out of him forcing me to kiss his stuffy. 🥰. Thank you for the tag @Eggs if anyone still wants to play this late in a Wednesday. Consider yourself tagged. 🎉

Eggs Love #3❣️ 12h
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Every Breath You Take | Mary Higgins Clark, Alafair Burke
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4✨ What an interesting mystery! We start by going three years in the past to learn a little bit about our victim, and then we meet our MC who is a TV producer looking into the murder from the Met Gala. Was it the fiancé, or maybe one of her family members? With no arrests our MC has a lot of digging to do. That ending was really suspenseful! ? Now I‘m going to need to read the rest of the series.

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The Spellshop | Sarah Beth Durst
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I couldn‘t resist this when I got the email that it was the Barnes and Noble pick for the month. I already added it to my TBR, but when I saw the purple edges. 😍

AkashaVampie I'm currently listening to the audio of this. I love that it's so purple!! 💜💜💜 2d
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3✨ This was a fun read. We have Nancy looking into a missing twin who happens to have the other half of a treasure map provided by their father before he died. This was is not without Nancy getting in danger, but this time the villain(s) of the story seemed smarter and sometimes one step ahead of Nancy. #NDBuddyRead

Librarybelle Good review! 2d
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Curse for True Love | Stephanie Garber
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3 ✨ First I love how this story ended up playing out. There were many surprises that kept me guessing. However, the main plot was pretty predictable. Not that it was a bad thing because that is how I wanted it to play out. I liked the we got Apollo‘s POV as well this time. After all he has been asleep or “dead” for a lot of the series. Overall, I enjoyed the series. #SeriesLove 🥰

TheSpineView Great job! 2d
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My kids got a Lisa Frank sticker book. I‘m in love with my June bingo sticker selections. 🥰😍🤩

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Bailedbailed

I got 11% through this and there were some funny jokes, but most of the time I just didn‘t find the jokes funny. It‘s time to unhaul this book.

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BookSpinBingo | Untitled
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Yes! I finally got a bingo for once. 🤩

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Finally watching the movie! 😍

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I have a lot moving over to June, but I have high hopes for good numbers in June. Plus I caught up reading all the series I was reading with my #HTBookClub 😍

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Yeah… I know I read them, but I didn‘t have them. 😅🤣

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Sheets | Brenna Thummler
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4✨ A very quick read with a cozy autumn feel. There is a young ghost so there is a sad back story. A struggling family trying to keep their business, and naturally a guy trying to take that business from them. I really enjoyed this cute story. It is more of a kids graphic novel so it was easy to predict what would happen. @Littlewolf1

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5✨ I could not put this down! I‘m glad that Asher dropped everything to know his daughter. It might not have been in the plans for him, but after getting to know each other he wouldn‘t have had it any other way. Iris was in a bad spot and helping the new father as a nanny helped her too. I loved how not only the relationship between father and daughter developed, but the love story as well. #SeriesLove

TheSpineView Fantastic! 🤩📖📚 6d
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When your nephew needs help with a spare for their tire 45 minutes out of town. You throw on your next interesting read. 😬🥰

Ruthiella You are a good aunt! 🤩 7d
Roary47 @Ruthiella It helps I‘m married to the mechanic. 😅 His spare was flat and he needed a better air compressor. We brought two extra spares just in case though. 7d
Bookwormjillk Aunt of the year!! 7d
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2✨ I wouldn‘t say this book is bad, but I was expecting more. It was a nice cozy read with a bit of a mystery. It seemed to repeat itself a lot, especially in when Lydia should tell her daughter the truth about her dad. I really enjoyed the atmosphere this book provided of small town life close to the ocean. #ReadYourKindle

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An Orange in January | Dianna Hutts Aston
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2✨ Okay, my four year old is telling me that she liked how they shared the orange in the end, but from tree to store did not win her over. I liked the farm to table knowledge a kid can gain from this picture book while the writing was simple, yet poetic. I would give it a 3✨

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The Matchlock Gun | Walter D. Edmonds
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3✨This was an interesting and quick read about a family and their farm. This part of American history is hard because Native born people had their lands taken from them. Yet, they are portrayed as the bad guys and when our young MC‘s mother is struck from behind a young boy defends his family with a gun his father had never even fired. #Roll100 @PuddleJumper

PuddleJumper Great progress! 1w
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When Among Crows | Veronica Roth
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Read in a Fable group. 🥰 @Littlewolf1

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Elphie: A Wicked Childhood | Gregory Maguire
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Mehso-so

3✨ I had a fun time reading this, but wouldn‘t say it was all new material. However, I feel like I‘ve over OZed myself lately so that may be all it is. Ive always been a fan of stories about a villain origin story, but I feel like I may have read some or parts of this one in Wicked.

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Update on my daughter‘s shopping cart! I‘m glad I sent the email. 😍🥰💛

ImperfectCJ Thank you for posting this update, and hooray for you standing up for your family and sending the email! You've done a brave thing not just for your family but for everyone with small children. Hopefully this means you and other families will have a better time at this library branch in the future. 1w
kspenmoll Yay for you Mom! We should encourage, not discourage children from using the library! 1w
Ruthiella Yay! I‘m glad you let the library know. I‘ll bet you are not the only patron that particular employee has upset. 👏👏👏 1w
5feet.of.fury Yay! I‘m glad they gave a good response! 1w
Bookwormjillk Yay!!! 1w
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Hello Everyone,
@Littlewolf1 and I are trying to look for more interest in our Horror Reads Fable Book Group. If you are interested in reading more horror titles with a group please follow this link: https://fable.co/club/roaringwolf-fright-night-with-roary47-202125311454 I‘m putting up a new poll for June. 👻🧟‍♀️🧙‍♀️🐺 @LitsyEvents

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Fragile Sanctuary | Catherine Cowles
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My latest book haul. I love that I got the whole current set of Sparrow Falls and they all have colored edges. 🥰😍💛

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2✨ I wasn‘t a huge fan of this one. It has good depth and a lot of hard topics, but for me it didn‘t flow and I felt lost. There were pictures that were a little too much as well. With that said it wasn‘t bad. The growth in this story is one you want to hear based on what happens in the beginning. It just wasn‘t for me.

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This Will Be Fun | E B Asher
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3✨ Cute and fantasy did deliver, and I found myself really liking the world built by the author. The issues I had with it was 10 years past, but they felt like teens. It was also spicier than I personally like, and the romances felt very YA. While it did bring a lot of fun elements to the table the ending I appreciated, but also felt like everything the characters went through didn‘t matter anymore. #HTBookClub

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This Will Be Fun | E B Asher
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Listening to my HT Bookclub book and enjoying my birds. I have way too many roosters, but man are they handsome. 🥰🐓💛

AmyG Mornings must be interesting…and loud! 🤣 2w
Roary47 @AmyG 😂🤣😂 It was with the other 3 that we had to dispatch. They ended up killing a female and were loud (not these guys they are more timid). These guys aren‘t as bad. Mr Nibbles crow is pretty weak. 😬… sorry Mr Nibbles. 🤣 (edited) 2w
AmyG Awww Mr. Nibbles. They are kind of cute. ❤️ 2w
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My daughter brought this cart to get her books at the library and carry them herself. I didn‘t see a problem with it since she is 4 and can‘t carry the books herself while I‘m dealing with her really squirrely brother. As we were leaving the librarian I know personally stated we couldn‘t bring it to the library. Was it because the wheel was a little squeaky, because he knows me, or it‘s actually not allowed at the library?

Ruthiella Interesting. I would ask the librarian why? Is it because outside toys aren‘t allowed? What if it were a wheeled backpack? Or an adult wire cart? 🤔 2w
Roary47 @Ruthiella I was already overwhelmed so I just walked out faster. Everytime I go to the library closest to me and he‘s there he has to say something to me. 2w
Librarybelle That seems very odd. That would not have been an issue when I worked in public libraries; in fact, I could see us loving the idea that it was a “cart for books.” 2w
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ImperfectCJ I agree with @Librarybelle ...that seems odd. I can definitely relate to not wanting to get into it while wrangling two small children, but it would be interesting to hear the reasoning if you're in a position to ask in the future. For years my kids and I walked the 2.5 miles from our house to the library, and we always had the most ridiculous setup we brought with us (stroller, cart, backpacks, Skuut bike, stuffed toys). 2w
Bookwormjillk Agree with others that‘s weird 2w
dabbe Totally weird. 2w
Roary47 @ImperfectCJ I made an inquiry via email. I‘ll be honest I got my kids in the car cried for a bit, got home cried some more. I explained I had three kids my 7 year olds been to school and knows to be quiet, my 1yr old was having a meltdown because he was tired. We were leaving when he made the comment about my 4yo‘s cart. I would like to know the reason too so made the inquiry, but don‘t plan on going back to that library if he is there. 😞 2w
Roary47 @Librarybelle @Bookwormjillk @dabbe I wish this was the first time. Literally every time we are there he makes a comment. One time he complained to my kids (not me) that they were loud, but didn‘t say anything to the other kids that were actually making the noise. I know him so I‘m just guessing he doesn‘t like my kids or me. 😓 2w
dabbe @Roary47 He needs to find another job. No one who works in a library should be snotty, snobby, or rude in any way. He sounds like an arrogant asshole IMHO. 😘 2w
Princess-Kingofkings @Roary47 I hate this! I wish I could go to the library with you and be your advocate!! You exhibited such courage to take your whole family to the library and your daughter‘s creativity is amazing. I‘m celebrating you and I‘d be delighted to stand in the gap for you. 2w
Roary47 @dabbe Thank you! I‘m not completely naive my children are a bit much and have trouble with impulse control. That is why we stay 30-45 minutes to get their books play a game or two, check out and leave. I‘m not there to be disruptive like I know my kids to be but man… a mom by herself with three challenging kids show a bit of compassion that I‘m there to ensure my kids find a love for literacy. 😮‍💨 2w
Roary47 @Princess-Kingofkings Thank you! 🥹 💛 2w
dabbe @Roary47 🎯🩵🎯! 2w
5feet.of.fury I agree with @dabbe this guy stinks. He‘s on a power trip or something. Sorry his hassling you put a dark cloud on your trip! I hope your email gets a positive response! 2w
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The Crash | Freida McFadden
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My recent book haul books from birthday, Mother‘s Day and the last day of school. 🥰

emz711 How's the Maaa? 1w
Roary47 @emz711 The Maaa? (edited) 1w
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Night of the Ninjas | Mary Pope Osborne
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3✨My son loves to listen to the story and then gets excited about the pictures each time. The treehouse is back and they need to look for some things for Morgan to help her.

dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 2w
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5✨This book nearly broke me,and then gave me some hope. The ending… so amazing! I originally thought this was a trilogy and am so happy to see that I get to continue reading! 🤩 #SeriesLove @Andrew65 @TheSpineView #DogsofLitsy “Monica” @Littlewolf1

TheSpineView Fantastic! 🤩📖📚 2w
dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 2w
Andrew65 Loved the initial trilogy, but yet to read on. Well done 🎉🎉🎉 2w
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Readathon: Occasional List : Geleentheidslys | Gauteng (South Africa). Education Media Service
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Let‘s catch up on some reading shall we? 🥰 #JumpStartSummer @TheSpineView My goal is to read: My Book Club Book, catch up on my Les Mes chapters, catch up on the count of monte cristo, read my Nancy Drew book, and catch up on Way of the kings. It‘s a lot, but can hopefully make it happen.

TheSpineView Great plan. Enjoy 2w
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This was a long, long school year. I made it! I can read and be on Litsy more again. Well, at least after graduation tomorrow, and summer school in a week. I ended up with only 3 students not passing. That is my all time record out of 148 students! I‘ll take it!

TheBookHippie 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 (edited) 2w
5feet.of.fury Awesome! 2w
staci.reads Congrats on another year in the books! Enjoy your well earned break! 2w
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TheSpineView Kudos to you for another year! Happy summer! 2w
Roary47 @staci.reads @TheSpineView Thank you!! 💛 2w
dabbe Congrats! Here‘s to a well-earned break! 🤩 2w
Roary47 @dabbe Thank you! 🥰 2w
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This book is cutting deep… I literally don‘t want to continue I‘m hurting too bad from that loss. 💔

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Lightlark | Alex Aster
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3✨ I personally feel this was an overhype. I also recognize that I read this after a master world builder so I was being over judgy. However, there is a lot going on and quite a bit of characters. The storyline was interesting, but I felt I wasn‘t understanding the finer points being made. I really enjoyed the big reveals near the end and am interested to continue reading. I just expected more with all the drama this book caused. 😅

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Warbreaker | Brandon Sanderson
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4✨ I read this a while ago, but never got to review it. The world building of breath, color, and gods was beautifully written. Vivenna was not my favorite, but I appreciate an outside look at what was happening in the castle. The god king and Siri was my favorite POV and I was rooting for them the whole time. Lightsong brought a lot of humor to the book, and the ending for him was unexpected, but much appreciated!

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Bailedbailed

I haven‘t really been into this book for a while. I struggled with the last one, and I just don‘t care about the characters anymore.

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My favorite Mother‘s Day gift this year made by my 4 year old at her preschool. 🥰 I hope all the mothers of all walks had a relaxing and loved day. 💛

dabbe 🤩😍🤩 3w
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3✨ I always struggle when there is a lot of characters and time jumping. This book had both, and for the most part I think I followed along. The biggest struggle was his current wife and fifth wife had similar names. Plus situations that happened 8 years ago seemed to be happening again. There was a lot going on with all of the characters, but I really enjoyed the ride.

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4✨ The war parts of this were not as interesting, but some big truths are revealed, and the cliffhanger at the end makes me glad I got the next book ready to go! #SeriesLove @Andrew65 @TheSpineView

TheSpineView Enjoyed this series! 1mo
Andrew65 Loved these books. Well done 🎉🎉🎉 1mo
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3✨There was a lot of mini stories in here, and a large bird presence as they are the ones helping to deliver the letters. I really liked how Dr Dolittle helps to create a written language for the animals so they can communicate through mail. With that I finished the first Volume! 😍 #DolittleDiscussion

TheAromaofBooks The chapters where different animals were telling random stories definitely felt like filler. But also seemed like something I would have enjoyed as a bedtime story when I was a kid haha 1mo
Roary47 @TheAromaofBooks That is true. I read a chapter book to my son (1 year old) who likes to just lay and listen and 1 chapter a day is pretty much his limit. 4w
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Pirates Past Noon | Mary Pope Osborne
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3✨A pirate adventure where we finally get to know who the M person is.

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The Tea Dragon Society | Katie O'Neill (Cartoonist)
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4.5✨This was such a warm and sweet graphic novel. It left me feeling relaxed and inspired. I felt it was too short and could have had more depth. I‘m interested to see what the next book has to offer. @Littlewolf1

oddandbookish I‘ve been wanting to read this one! 1mo
Roary47 @oddandbookish It was pretty awesome. If you do soon let me know what you thought. 💛 4w
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The Secret History | Donna Tartt
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The secret history is still in the lead for my worst book of the year.

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My best April book knocked out some really good books in the battle for my best book of the year. 🤩

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The Ballad of Never After | Stephanie Garber
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3✨This had an interesting transition from continuing from the first book to the cliffhanger for the next book. It continued to bring up the archer and the Fox consistently along with other concepts that were over used. The story itself became really interesting and I‘m not sure I completely understand the wish that may or may not have been made. The time jumping gets me confused everytime! The ending! Where‘s the next book! 🤣

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3✨I really appreciated how different this was from other vampire stories. It was more zombie like which I loved. There was quite a bit of back in forth in the timeline, which I always struggle with. There was one character I absolutely didn‘t like, and others that I just didn‘t remember. Overall, it had a good storyline and characters that matured (for the most part). #HTBookClub

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The Nightingale | Kristin Hannah
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I took the dust jacket off the tagged so you can appreciate the edges and ribbon bookmark. 🥰😍 My April Book Haul! 💛

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3✨ I thought this was pretty interesting that Nancy was helping to solve coded messages. She has close encounters with dangerous wild animals, and tear gas. Then her boyfriend‘s mom is trying to convince her to talk to her dad about buying the house next door to them. 🤣 #NancyDrewBR @Librarybelle

Librarybelle 😂 2mo
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3✨ A great early reader chapter book that teaches a bit about ancient Egyptian customs. They even solve a puzzle to help the queen whose eye sight is hindering her from going to the afterlife. Read to my son for bedtimes. #SeriesLove

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Sunbringer: A Novel | Hannah Kaner
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3✨Still struggling with all the POVs and characters, but a little easier to follow along this time. I‘m not sure I comprehended everything that was going on, but I really like Skedi and Inara. We learn more about her in this book. There is a lot more power seen by some of the characters, and Kissen still really strong and awesome! #HTBookClub #SeriesLove

TheSpineView Great job! So hard to finish books that are lackluster. 2mo
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