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#MorningPages 21 June 2025
3. Messidor honoring the Onion, St. Lazarus, Willakuti, Midnight Sun Festival #Notebook Chronicle Go-To w/ Mohawk paper, dotted & Col-o-ring swatch booklet
#FountainPen Pilot kakuno - clear, EF
#ink J. Herbin Poussière de Lune
#tarot or #OracleDeck Occult Strategies (a riff on #ObliqueStrategies) #CardOfTheDay Silence! The beasts are speaking.

Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at the top of the page with additional text: “Mythologists relate that the goddess Latona, having, during an indisposition, lost her appetite, regained it by eating an Onion, and thenceforth adopted this vegetable, which was accordingly consecrated to her. — The disciples of Pythagoras abstained from eating Onions, ostensibly because they grew during the falling moon, but probably because, like Beans, they were considered too stimulating in their effedts. Among the Greeks, it would seem that the Onion was considered symbolic of generation, since we find that at the nuptials of Iphicrates with the daughter of King Cotys, he received, among other presents, a jar of snow, a jar of Lentils, and a jar of Onions.” — Richard Folkard, Plant Lore, Legends, and Lyrics, 1892. Below the text is a white card with “Silence! The beasts are speaking.” Printed in black in a 10-point serif font. Below the card is a clear plastic pen lying across the page. Below the pen is a swatch of dark purple ink and squat, square bottle with a built in dip for a pen rest of said ink.

#MorningPages 20 June 2025
2. Messidor honoring the Oat, Summer Solstice, Cronia* #Notebook Chronicle Go-To w/ Mohawk paper, dotted & Col-o-ring swatch booklet
#FountainPen TWSBI Eco - black, 1.1 stub
#ink Diamine Best Wishes
#tarot or #OracleDeck Lineages of Change Tarot #CardOfTheDay The Mutha of Air - perceptiveness, directness, determination — herb: catnip (Apologies for higher than average typos — Covid brain fog sucks)

Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at the top of the page with additional text: “The only important festival of Cronus in classical times was the Cronia, celebrated as a typical harvest festival with class distinctions abolished, in Athens, Rhodes, and Thebes. Cronus was represented holding a curved object, perhaps the reaping-hook, the castration of Uranus being an explanatory story. The Greeks identified him with such foreign gods as Moloch; the Romans with their own Saturn. The name was in later times etymologically linked to Chronos, time, but there is no justification for this linkage.” — Maria Leach and Jerome Fried, Funk and Wagnall’s Standard Dictionary of Folklore, 1972. Below the text a black fountain pen with silver trim and a clear plastic body lies across the page. Below the pen is a card with the image of a ghostly alien face in black and white on yellow with smoke like tendrils above a sprig of catnip, a swatch of a dark green ink with red sheen and green shimmer, and a rectangular bottle with an old-fashioned type label of said ink.

#MorningPages 19 June 2025
1. Messidor honoring Rye, Juneteenth, Minerva Temple Festival #Notebook Chronicle Go-To w/ Mohawk paper, dotted & Col-o-ring swatch booklet
#FountainPen Lamy AL-star - turmaline, EF
#ink Lamy Petrol
#tarot or #OracleDeck Tarot of the Cosmic Seed #CardOfTheDay 3 of Coins (reversed) - solitude, fear of missing out

Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at the top of the page with additional text: “Lift every voice and sing/ Till earth and heaven ring./ Ring with the harmonies of Liberty;/ Let our rejoicing rise/ High as the listening skies,/ Let it resound loud as the rolling sea./ Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us,/ Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us;/ Facing the rising sun of our new day begun,/ Let us march on till victory is won.” — “Lift Every Voice and Sing” by James Weldon Johnson written in 1920, aka the Black National Anthem. Below the text is a card with a collage of three women with 1920 Marcel wave hairstyles wearing cheongsams. Two in red dresses are seated with a coin beneath them and the third is standing as if on the arms of their chairs forming a pyramid and is crowned by the third coin. Four enormous looking irises are being held by the two seated women. Next to the card is a turquoise colored pen with a swatch of dark teal ink and a sample tube of the same.

#MorningPages 18 June 2025
30. Prairial honoring the Handcart, St. Calogera #Notebook Chronicle Go-To w/ Mohawk paper, dotted & Col-o-ring swatch booklet
#FountainPen Lamy AL-Star - silver, EF
#ink Wearinguel Sedna
#tarot or #OracleDeck Nocturna Oracle #CardOfTheDay Dusk - duality, cycles, beginning

Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at the top of the page with additional text: “Virtually nothing is known of Saint Calogero before his arrival in Sciacca, Sicily. Legend has it that he came from afar, fleeing persecution. Calogero was a Black man, and it is theorized that he was originally from Ethiopia. He lived as a hermit on the mountain now named for him, Mount San Calogero, dying there in 486 CE of natural causes…Calogero is a very beloved saint, venerated wherever Sicilians have emigrated. He is invoked for all kinds of healing, but especially for joint disorders. He continues to perform miracles and is renowned for healing the lame and disabled. Calogero is the guardian of the summer harvest. His festival coincides with a Sicilian festival dedicated to bread…San Calogero bread is a special ritual bread that is cut into anatomical shapes —arms, legs, so forth—like an ex-voto, then blessed on his feast day and preserved to be eaten in times of need…Bread prepared for Saint Calogero’s feast is traditionally studded with fennel, sesame, and poppy seeds.” — Judika Illes, Encyclopedia of Mystics, Saints and Sages, 2011. Below the text is a card with an image of sunset over the ocean, a silver fountain pen, a swatch of a medium blue ink and square bottle of said ink.

#MorningPages 16 June 2025
28. Prairial honoring Thyme, Bloomsday #Notebook Chronicle Go-To w/ Mohawk paper, dotted & Col-o-ring swatch booklet
#FountainPen Lamy Studio - dark brown, M
#ink Diamine Yule Log (reddish brown with copper shimmer)
#tarot or #OracleDeck Mildred Payne’s Oracle of Black Enchantment #CardOfTheDay 26 The White Cat - Ignoring your intuition at your own peril — or, Making an ally out of a former enemy

Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at the top of the page with additional text: “The medical library of Ashurbanipal, for exam- ple, is a veritable Physician’s Desk Reference, listing some 250 vegetable substances and some 120 mineral ones with ascribed medicinal properties. The most common mineral agents were potassium nitrate (or saltpeter), a known astringent, and sodium chloride (or salt), a recognized antiseptic. In addition, sulphur and alum are cited. Modern medicine also acknowl- edges the curative powers of many Mesopotamian extracts derived from seeds, fruits, roots, leaves, branches, barks, and gums. This natural pharmacopeia included asafoetida, belladonna, cannabis, cardamon, cassia, castor oil, cinnamon, colocynth, coriander, date, fig, fir, garlic, henbane, juniper, licorice, mandragora, mint, mustard, myrrh, myrtle, pear, poppy, thyme, and willow. Even the right time to pick herbs was noted in order to assure their maximum efficacy. The extraction and purification of minerals, moreover, points to an early but sophisticated understanding of chemistry.” — Stephen Bergman, Handbook to Life in Ancient Mesopotamia, 2003. Below the text is a brown fountain pen with silver trim and a large landscape format card of a cat making friends with three birds.

#MorningPages 15 June 2025
27. Prairial honoring Vervain, Marie Laveau d. 1881, St. Vitus, Father’s Day* #Notebook Chronicle Go-To w/ Mohawk paper, dotted & Col-o-ring swatch booklet
#FountainPen ystudio Resin - red, F
#ink Kyo no oto Adzukiiro
#tarot or #OracleDeck Inner Eye Oracle #CardOfTheDay 5 of Clubs - Obstacles

Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at the top of the page with additional text: “Vitus, patron saint of Bohemia (d. c.303?). One of the Fourteen Auxiliary Saints. He is believed to have been a child martyr, from Lucania or Sicily; later legend has him, together with his tutor Modestus and his nurse Crescentia, successively boiled in oil, thrown to the lions, and stretched on the rack, yet emerging unscathed to die peacefully at home in Lucania. He was said to cause, or cure, the Tanzwut or dancing mania in which wild leaps and gyrations, often to music specially requested for the purpose, led to mass fainting especially among girls and young women; the phenomenon has been compared with proceedings at modern rock concerts. Its Italian counterpart was the tarantella, which particularly affected the garishly clad young; it is recalled by the 'tarantellas' of nineteenth- and twentieth-century music. This was unjustly blamed on the bite of the tarantula; no doubt the saint was as innocent as the spider, but the name 'St Vitus' dance' has not only remained in use but annexed the nervous disease technically known as 'Sydenham's chorea'. He is patron saint of dancers and by extension actors and comedians.” — Blackburn & Holford-Stevens, Oxford Canpanion to the Year, 1999. Below the card is a red fountain pen, a large 5 of clubs card with an old padlock image, a swatch of oxblood ink and curved rectangular bottle of said ink.

#MorningPages 14 June 2025
26. Prairial honoring Jasmine, Ember Day*, Laurie Colwin b. 1944, Libations to Zeus* #Notebook Chronicle Go-To w/ Mohawk paper, dotted & Col-o-ring swatch booklet
#FountainPen Lamy LX - Au Black, M
#ink J. Herbin Caroube de Chypre
#tarot or #OracleDeck House of Seven Gables playing cards #CardOfTheDay 6 of Hearts - Road of the heart, unexpected happiness

Open notebook w/ handwritten text of the post w/ more text: “Dinner alone is one of life’s pleasures. Certainly cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest. People lie when you ask them what they eat when they are alone. A salad, they tell you. But when you persist, they confess to peanut butter and bacon sandwiches deep fried and eaten with hot sauce, or spaghetti with butter and grape jam. I looked forward to nights alone. I would stop to buy my eggplant and some red peppers. At home I would fling off my coat, switch on the burner under my teakettle, slice up the eggplant, and make myself a cup of coffee. I could do all this without moving a step. When the eggplant was getting crisp, I turned down the fire and added garlic, tamari sauce, lemon juice and some shredded red peppers. While this stewed, I drank my coffee and watched the local news. Then I uncovered the eggplant, cooked it down and ate it at my desk out of an old Meissen dish, with my feet up on my wicker footrest as I watched the national news.” — Laurie Colwin, “Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant,” Home Cooking, 1988. Below the text are two 6 of hearts cards, one red on black & one a standard one altered w/ cartomancy meanings in Sharpie & a double line through the middle for a road. There is a gold fountain pen in the gutter of the notebooks & laying off the bottom of the page is a swatch of red brown ink w/ green sheening & copper shimmer next to a square bottle of the same ink.

#MorningPages 13 June 2025
25. Prairial honoring Tench, W. B. Yeats b. 1865, Lesser Quinquartria of Minerva, Gerald Gardner b. 1884, St. Anthony of Padua, St. Aquilina, Ember Day*, Ides of June #Notebook Chronicle Go-To w/ Mohawk paper, dotted & Col-o-ring swatch booklet
#FountainPen Conklin Herringbone Signature - silver, F
#ink Diamine Chilly Nights
#tarot or #OracleDeck Mystic Storyteller Tarot #CardOfTheDay VI Cups - Friendship, nostalgia, volunteering

Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at the top of the page with additional text: “The tench was commonly called the physician, for it was believed by our forefathers that when the other fish were in any way hurt and required the aid of surgeon or physician, they healed themselves by rubbing against the tench, finding the slime of his body to be a ‘soveraigne salve’ for their needs. For the sufferings of humanity the beasts, birds, and plants appear to have supplied a sufficient materia medica, and the less accessible creatures of the waters were but rarely pressed into the mediæval pharmacopœia.” — F. Edward Hulme, Natural History Lore and Legend, 1895. Below the text is a card with artwork of two children standing behind a row of four gold chalices filled with white flowers. One child is handing the other another chalice and the six is on a balustrade behind them. Next to the card is a chiseled silver-tone pen, a swatch of dark blue ink with heavy silver shimmer, and a small square bottle of the same ink.

I'm salivating over an oracle deck. Anyone out there have "The Cerulean Sequence deck"? I wantzzzzzz it! #WitchSky #OccultSky #OracleDeck #OracleSky prismavisions.com/products/the...

The Cerulean Sequence

#MorningPages 11 June 2025
23. Prairial honoring Honeysuckle, Mother Shipton Day*, Ember Day*, King Kamehameha I Day, Matralia, Offerings to Amun, Full Moon in Sagittarius  #Notebook Chronicle Go-To w/ Mohawk paper, dotted & Col-o-ring swatch booklet
#FountainPen Lamy AL-Star - sage green, F
#ink Diamine Weeping Willow
#tarot or #OracleDeck Folkloric Forest Tarot #CardOfTheDay 0 The Fool - chance, limitless, bravery

Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at the top of the page with additional text: “According to popular belief, Mother Shipton lived in Tudor times and foretold many major events in English history. A chapbook of 1641 alleges she was born at Knaresborough (Yorkshire) in 1488 and died in her seventies; however, these details may be inaccurate. A later one (1684) is frankly fabulous, making her a devil’s child and a witch. Prophecies attributed to her were exploited in the Civil War. In 1862 Charles Hindley, a hack writer and publisher, reprinted one of the old chapbooks, adding some rhyming ‘prophecies’ of his own invention, concluding dramatically: ‘The world then to an end shall come/ In eighteen hundred and eighty-one.’ These verses caused considerable alarm among the lower classes. Hindley later confessed he had written them himself. Even so, there was panic when the Doomsday year arrived, especially around Brighton (Sussex), where Hindley’s pamphlet had been printed.” — Jacqueline Simpson, A Dictionary of English Folklore, 2000. Below the text is a card of the painting “Trompe l’Oeil with Falconer’s Bag and other Equipment for Falconry” (1671) by Cornelius Norbertus Gijsbrechts (Flemish, c.1630-c.1675). Next to the card is a light green fountain pen with a swatch of yellowish green-brown chroma-shading ink and a small square bottle of said ink.

#MorningPages 10 June 2025
22. Prairial honoring Chamomile, Bridget Bishop hanged in Salem 1692 #Notebook Chronicle Go-To w/ Mohawk paper, dotted & Col-o-ring swatch booklet
#FountainPen Kaweco Student - rock, M
#ink Diamine Cashmere Rose
#tarot or #OracleDeck The Literary Witches Oracle #CardOfTheDay Agatha Christie - trickery, deception, suspicion, the missing piece

Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at the top of the page with additional text: “Certainly there was abundant factional hostility in Salem Village. And sexual hostility, or at least conjugal hostility, is very clearly present in many of the more important cases. Bridget Bishop was alleged to have bewitched her first husband to death. Edward Bishop accused his wife Sarah of being ‘familiar with the Devil.’ Martha Corey’s, Sarah Good’s, and Sarah Osburn’s husbands testified against them at their hearings. ‘Indeed,’ said Sarah Good’s husband, in one of the more memorable lines in the legal testimony, ‘I may say with tears that she is an enemy to all good.’ John Procter was alleged to have contemplated suicide because of his wife’s quarreling with him, and he left her out of the will that he made in prison. George Burroughs was alleged to have been cruel to his wives, and John Willard to have beaten his wife.” — Chadwick Hansen, “Andover Witchcraft and the Causes of the Salem Witchcraft Trials,” Articles on Witchcraft , Magic and Demonology edited by Brian P. Levack, 1992. Below the text is a card with a folk art style image of Christie sitting at a table with a pot and cup of tea, a noose, a bun with a knife stuck in dripping blood and a clock on the wall behind her that only goes to 10. Next to the card is a blue and white fountain pen with gold tone trim and a swatch of dusty rose ink under a small square bottle containing said ink.

J'aimerais bien faire des ateliers de poésie à partir de cartes oracles à #toursmaville #toursmetropole #poesie #écriture #cartomancie #oracledeck #tarot #lenormand

#MorningPages 09 June 2025
21. Prairial honoring the Cornflower, St. Medard, Vestalia begins #Notebook Chronicle Go-To w/ Mohawk paper, dotted & Col-o-ring swatch booklet
#FountainPen Platinum Prefonte - dark emerald, M
#ink Colorverse NGC 2264
#tarot or #OracleDeck Hedgewitch Botanical Oracle #CardOfTheDay Samphire • Crithmum maritinum - Adventure

Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at the top of the page with additional text: “Among its names are blue bottle, blue cap, blue bonnet, blue bow, bluet, flake flower, bachelor’s button, and hurt sickle. In its name it commemorates the centaur Chiron who, poisoned by an arrow dipped in the blood of the hundred-headed hydra, covered the wound with its flowers and so recovered. The hydra legend persists vaguely in a belief that if cornflower is burned snakes will fly the premises. The qualifying adjective, kyanus, commemorates a Greek youth who worshipped Flora with ardor and was forever gathering flowers for her altars. When he died, in a field, with unfinished garlands strewn about him, the goddess gave his name to the blossoms, and they were known as the kyanus [Centaurea cyanus].” — Charles M. Skinner, Myths and Legends of Flowers, Trees, Fruits, and Plants in All Ages and in All Climes, 1911. Below the text is a card with a line drawing of spindle samphire with a few green succulent leaves and the yellow flowers colored in. Next to the card is a dark green, translucent plastic fountain pen and a teardrop-shaped bottle of pine green ink with a swatch showing the color underneath it.

#MorningPages 08 June 2025
20. Prairial honoring the Pitchfork, Whitsun*, Skira* #Notebook Chronicle Go-To w/ Mohawk paper, dotted & Col-o-ring swatch booklet
#FountainPen Lamy AL-Star - purple, EF
#ink Monteverde Smoke Noir
#tarot or #OracleDeck Nocturna Oracle #CardOfTheDay Owl • Strix varia - ancient wisdom, intuition, observation, guidance

Open notebook with handwritten text from the post in the middle of the page with additional text: “The 12th day of the month of Skirophorion - Scira (Skira), a predominantly, but not exclusively, women's festival. A procession included the priestess ofAthena, priest of Poseidon and possibly the priest of Apollo, all under a large parasol. The festival included a women's fertility ritual in honor of Demeter. The Tritopatores were worshiped at Marathon on the eve ofthis festival.” — Lesley Adkins and Roy A. Adkins, The Handbook of Life in Ancient Greece, 1997. Above the text is a black card with a brown and white owl sitting on a branch, another branch above it. Next to the card is the swatch of a medium gray ink and an almost empty bottle of Smoke Noir ink both lying on top of a card with a crescent moon on the back. Under the text purplish, wine-colored fountain pen lies across the page.

Happy Pride!

This is "Transformation and Change," an air card from the Everyday Witch Oracle deck I created with
Deborah Blake and Llewellyn Worldwide.

This is also my Caturday post because these cats booping noses are precious!!

#witch #pride #caturday #fediart #mastoart #oracledeck #divination

Ink and watercolor illustration of a witch walking on a stone path with storm skies behind them, and sunlight coming from in front of them. They have sparkles coming off them, there's a magical butterfly flying nearby, and there are two cats booping noses on the path.

#MorningPages 07 June 2025
19. Prairial honoring Linden, Ludi Piscatorii, a Tycho Brahe day #Notebook Chronicle Go-To w/ Mohawk paper, dotted
#FountainPen Pilot kakuno - clear blue, F
#ink Pilot tsuki-yo
#tarot or #OracleDeck Enchanted Foraging Deck #CardOfTheDay Horse Radish - strong medicine

Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at the top of the page with additional text: “Tycho did not long survive his exile. Twoyears later, when at a party at Count Rosenborg's, he was suddenly taken ill, and expired, after five days' suffering, on the 24th of October, 1601, aged fifty-four. The Emperor quite forgot his promise of providing for his family, but gave him a splendid funeral, and a marble monument was erected to his memory by his relatives, on which he lies extended in full armour, as a gentleman should be, with his motto, ‘Non videre sed esse.’ No allusion to the stars—nothing so vulgar; a skue penge was later struck in his honour. Tycho Brahe was not free from the superstition of the age; indeed, at one time he turned his attention to astrology. Thirty-two days in the year did he consider as unlucky; one for matrimony (some folks consider many), another to fall sick upon, a third to set out on a journey, and so forth; these days were known under the name of ‘Tycho Brahe's days.’” — Horace Marryat, A Residence in Jutland, the Danish Isles, and Copenhagen, Volume 1, 1960. Under the text a clear blue plastic fountain pen lies across the page. Below the pen is a large format card with an image of several spindly horseradish roots with the large leaves still attached and a large rectangular bottle of dark greenish blue ink with a silver cord tied around the neck.

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#MorningPages 06 June 2025
18. Prairial honoring the Poppy, Alex Sanders b. 1926, a Tycho Brahe day #Notebook Chronicle Go-To w/ Mohawk paper, dotted & Col-o-ring swatch booklet
#FountainPen Monteverde Mountains of Earth, stub
#ink Diamine Fireside Snug
#tarot or #OracleDeck The TreeLore Oracle #CardOfTheDay Juniper - Expansion, return, solar energy

Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at the top of the page with additional text: “When I first began making slow-rise bread, I discovered a pleasure within the pleasure of the bread making. As a novice baker, I found every batch somewhat experimental; each loaf was an adventure toward some type of holy grail I romantically called the perfect loaf. My kitchen assistant and I would taste each bread before sending it out to the dining room where thirty or forty members of our brotherhood would happily devour every version. This led to a first corollary in my thinking: Freshly baked bread is always a hit no matter how it turns out. On one particular occasion, and I remember it as if it just occurred though it happened more than ten years ago, we took our customary sample bites and heard the crust crackle in what I now think of as the Moment. | said to my assistant, ‘That’s it! That’s the sound! It’s as important as the taste. It’s the sound of perfection and it is so deeply satisfying!’ Then I stopped my exclamations because my eyes were watering and I was beginning, in this perfect bread moment, to cry.” — Peter Reinhart, Brother Juniper’s Bread Book: Slow-rise as Method and Metaphor, 1991. Below the text is a large format card featuring a bio print of the frondy, evergreen needles of a juniper tree, a black fountain pen with gunmetal trim, and a swatch of a burnt standard orange ink.

#MorningPages 05 June 2025
17. Prairial honoring the Elderberry, Nones, Night of the Watchers #Notebook Chronicle Go-To w/ Mohawk paper, dotted & Col-o-ring swatch booklet
#FountainPen Lamy Safari - scarlet, F
#ink Diamine Bah Humbug
#tarot or #OracleDeck The Sibyls Oracles #CardOfTheDay#CardOfTheDay Miliatarium • Strategy - “Admitting how far you are willing to go and how much you are willing to sacrifice should precede all plans.”

Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at the top of the page with additional text: “SINCE its very first issue The Witches' Almanac has always commemorated the Night of the Watchers, which falls on June 5. But who are these Watchers and what is their Night? And why does it fall on June 5? Only brief answers to these questions can be found in The Witches' Almanac. In the Almanac for 1973-74, the Watchers were briefly deflned as ‘the sleepless ones or “fallen angels” of Hebrew Legend who mated with the daughters of men to whom they taught the forbidden arts." Three decades had to pass before readers of The Witches' Almanac could find out more about the Watchers. The Almanac for 2004/5 devoted a single page to their legend as it is found in the apocryphal Book of Enoch. That page ended with the sentences, ‘the tale of the Watchers was popular during the Middle Ages. Their arrival date of June 5 was noted on calendar manuscripts of the period."…Elizabeth Pepper said that she had taken it on trust from another person when she was putting together the very first issue [of] The Witches' Almanac in 1970 or 1971.” — Robert Mathiesen, “The Night of the Watchers”, The Witches’ Almanac Spring 2008–Spring 2009. Below the text is a card with an image of a cat and mouse made to look like a deteriorated Roman era mosiac. Next to the card is a burgundy-colored fountain pen and a swatch of burgundy ink with red shimmer.

#MorningPages 04 June 2025
16. Prairial honoring the Carnation, St. Mary of Bethany #Notebook Chronicle Go-To w/ Mohawk paper, dotted & Col-o-ring swatch booklet
#FountainPen Lamy AL-Star - marron, EF
#ink Diamine Walnut
#tarot or #OracleDeck Mildred Payne’s Oracle of Black Enchantment #CardOfTheDay 20 The Demon Ship - (dark meaning) Trouble on the way! Invaders or trespassers, (light meaning) Exposure to foreign ideas & new groups of people

#oracledeck

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