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Dave, Melbourne,Australia
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General Discussion
07-01-2022, 05:40 PM
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Manitouwoc, WI (June 19, 2022)
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Dave, Melbourne,Australia
Re: Manitouwoc, WI (June 19, 2022)
Seafarer John,
Thanks for another well-written review. I notice Manitowoc is only 30 miles from Appleton WI where I met you and Debbie before my one and only Gord concert on 30Mar2008.
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Small Talk
05-18-2022, 01:35 PM
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And 2 Gord songs on an Aussie's 60th birthday album
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1,805
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Dave, Melbourne,Australia
Re: And 2 Gord songs on an Aussie's 60th birthday album
It's May19 in Australia and today is my actual 60th birthday. I feel lucky when I think of a few friends and relatives who died in their 50s and younger. Looking back on the "60th birthday" album I...
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General Discussion
05-18-2022, 01:07 PM
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Des Moines Set List (May 16, 2022)
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96
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Dave, Melbourne,Australia
Re: Des Moines Set List (May 16, 2022)
Seafarer John,
Thanks for another excellent concert review. Pleased to hear Gord and the band were in good form. You and the other audience members must have appreciated it even more knowing the...
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Small Talk
02-21-2022, 08:50 AM
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A gord song for my friend Steve (12Dec1962-12Feb2022)
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Dave, Melbourne,Australia
A gord song for my friend Steve (12Dec1962-12Feb2022)
One of my closest friends, who went to school with me in the 1970s, passed away this month from prostate cancer, aged 59. He was never happier than when on his modest boat on the modest Nicholson...
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Small Talk
02-04-2022, 08:47 PM
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A Gord song for Mum (16Jan1931-4Feb2022)?
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318
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Dave, Melbourne,Australia
A Gord song for Mum (16Jan1931-4Feb2022)?
My beloved mum Jude passed away peacefully at home last night, aged 91. I tried to find a Gordon Lightfoot song to dedicate to her (as I did with "End Of All Time" for Dad in 2017), but I instead...
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Small Talk
12-07-2021, 07:31 AM
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My club wins Australian Football League title after 57 years
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Dave, Melbourne,Australia
Re: My club wins Australian Football League title after 57 years
FormerlyLavender and BillW,
Thanks for your kind thoughts. On Sunday 5Dec2021, ten weeks after the Melbourne Football Club won that Australian Football League Grand Final in Perth and broke its...
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General Discussion
11-18-2021, 01:10 AM
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HAPPY 83rd Gordon
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760
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Dave, Melbourne,Australia
Re: HAPPY 83rd Gordon
Last week when a plasticsurgeon said he had booked me into hospital on Nov17 to remove a melanoma on my nose, my first thought was "That's Gord's birthday." The operation went well, by the way,...
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Small Talk
10-03-2021, 03:48 AM
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My club wins Australian Football League title after 57 years
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1,373
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Dave, Melbourne,Australia
My club wins Australian Football League title after 57 years
On my previous Small Talk thread "And 2 Gord songs on an Aussie's 60th birthday album", I mentioned James Taylor's song "Angels Of Fenway", which described how in 2004 the Boston Red Sox broke their...
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General Discussion
09-06-2021, 05:48 PM
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Tony Rice
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2,991
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Dave, Melbourne,Australia
Re: Tony Rice
And for my final YouTube offering, here is Tony Rice's studio performance of Lightfoot's "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctrhodBCXv4
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General Discussion
08-03-2021, 05:37 PM
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Tony Rice
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2,991
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Dave, Melbourne,Australia
Re: Tony Rice
Tony Rice's studio performance of Gord's "Whispers Of The North":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsUJGTsNXOA
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General Discussion
07-22-2021, 06:39 PM
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Iowa Concerts (July 19-20)
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1,870
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Dave, Melbourne,Australia
Re: Iowa Concerts (July 19-20)
Thank you, Seafarer John, for another excellent Gord Road Trip report. Considering the Jul19 and Jul20 venues were 200 miles apart (3-and-a-half hours by car) and therefore not many people would...
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General Discussion
07-02-2021, 04:07 AM
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Tony Rice
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2,991
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Dave, Melbourne,Australia
Re: Tony Rice
A live Tony Rice version of Lightfoot's "Ten Degrees And Getting Colder":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nikO4Yls52Y
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General Discussion
06-24-2021, 04:49 AM
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Gord still getting played on Australian radio
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875
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Dave, Melbourne,Australia
Gord still getting played on Australian radio
Around lunchtime on a recent weekend I heard Gordon's "If You Could Read My Mind" played on Melbourne easy-listening radio station MAGIC 693. Joveski in Melbourne would be interested to know that. He...
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General Discussion
06-05-2021, 05:32 AM
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Tony Rice
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2,991
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Dave, Melbourne,Australia
Re: Tony Rice
A live Tony Rice version of Lightfoot's "Bitter Green":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQmx-0Ziwq8
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General Discussion
04-03-2021, 07:04 PM
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Tony Rice
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2,991
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Dave, Melbourne,Australia
Re: Tony Rice
A live Tony Rice version of Lightfoot's "Song For A Winter's Night":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oonDSMMj88
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General Discussion
03-02-2021, 06:32 AM
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Tony Rice
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2,991
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Dave, Melbourne,Australia
Re: Tony Rice
A live Tony Rice version of Lightfoot's "Early Morning Rain":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=608tDKO6aL0
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General Discussion
02-03-2021, 06:05 AM
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Tony Rice
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2,991
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Dave, Melbourne,Australia
Re: Tony Rice
And here's a live Tony Rice version of Lightfoot's "Cold On The Shoulder":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPiOAK08-a4
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General Discussion
01-31-2021, 06:34 AM
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THanks for posting and replying while I couldn't log on!
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Dave, Melbourne,Australia
Re: Thanks for posting and replying while I couldn't log on!
Welcome back, Char. But the thanks are to Imported Next Saturday for leading all of us to Firefox.
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General Discussion
01-02-2021, 09:54 PM
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Tony Rice
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2,991
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Dave, Melbourne,Australia
Re: Tony Rice
A live Tony Rice version of Lightfoot's "Shadows":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9rR1bPgKOA
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General Discussion
12-31-2020, 05:57 AM
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Tony Rice
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2,991
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Dave, Melbourne,Australia
Re: Tony Rice
For those interested in video of Tony performing a Lightfoot song, here is a live version of "Home From The Forest":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRNeLb2tkWE
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General Discussion
12-30-2020, 07:25 AM
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Tony Rice
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2,991
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Dave, Melbourne,Australia
Re: Tony Rice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVl1ibykWZU
I just discovered this live video of "Freeborn Man". An awesome set of talented musicians, led by Tony Rice. He has often been called the greatest...
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General Discussion
12-28-2020, 08:27 PM
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Tony Rice
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2,991
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Dave, Melbourne,Australia
Re: Tony Rice
I am very sad hearing that. Tony Rice's album of Gordon Lightfoot covers triggered my love of bluegrass music. He died suddenly on Christmas Day aged 69 while making his morning coffee....
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General Discussion
09-04-2020, 09:31 AM
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Two Gord songs on an Aussie's funeral album
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5,722
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Dave, Melbourne,Australia
Re: Two Gord songs on an Aussie's funeral album
Two-and-a-half years later, I have just posted a sequel thread titled "And 2 Gord songs on an Aussie's 60th birthday album", but this time I was less self-indulgent and relegated it to the Small Talk...
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Small Talk
09-04-2020, 08:54 AM
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And 2 Gord songs on an Aussie's 60th birthday album
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1,805
Posted By
Dave, Melbourne,Australia
And 2 Gord songs on an Aussie's 60th birthday album
Back in Mar2018, self-indulgently using the General Discussion forum, I posted a thread titled "Two Gord songs on an Aussie's funeral album". It described the CD I had compiled with 4 tracks to be...
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General Discussion
06-08-2020, 01:45 AM
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Favourite Song on "Solo" Album
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2,755
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Dave, Melbourne,Australia
Re: Favourite Song on "Solo" Album
My CD of "Solo" arrived a week ago with an "80 Years Strong" t-shirt which is several sizes too small (because I didn't realise there was a drop-down size menu!)
My favourite songs on it are...
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General Discussion
04-18-2020, 08:11 PM
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Authorized online lightfoot store
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1,284
Posted By
Dave, Melbourne,Australia
Re: Authorized online lightfoot store
And I just ordered the "Solo" CD and an "80 Years Strong" t-shirt. I wish the Richard Harison Book "Once upon a Red Eye: Life on the Road with Gordon Lightfoot" had been available too.
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General Discussion
04-11-2020, 09:13 AM
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Favorite 'Harmony' Song
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5,685
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Dave, Melbourne,Australia
Re: Favorite 'Harmony' Song
1. End Of All Time
2. Clouds Of Loneliness
3. River Of Light
A big thank-you to those of you who have been resurrecting such interesting threads from before 2008 when I discovered the Corfid...
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General Discussion
03-24-2020, 06:07 AM
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The first time I ever heard Gordon Lightfoot
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2,519
Posted By
Dave, Melbourne,Australia
Re: The first time I ever heard Gordon Lightfoot
Mike in MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA,
I remember 3XY (1420 and later 1422 on the AM band) and it was one of the radio stations in the 1970s playing "Sundown" which first got me noticing Lightfoot's music...
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General Discussion
03-14-2020, 04:39 AM
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Postponement of Royal Oak Concerts
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968
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Dave, Melbourne,Australia
Re: Postponement of Royal Oak Concerts
I assume that's because of the worldwide coronavirus crisis. Many music tours and stage shows in Australia have been postponed or cancelled too, along with the Australian Formula 1 Grand Prix (at...
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General Discussion
01-21-2020, 04:29 AM
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The first time I ever heard Gordon Lightfoot
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2,519
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Dave, Melbourne,Australia
Re: The first time I ever heard Gordon Lightfoot
I can't remember the first time I heard a Gordon Lightfoot song, but it must have been "Sundown" in 1974 when Australian radio stations were playing it constantly. It reached No 4 in Australia. The...
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Small Talk
01-05-2020, 05:04 AM
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Photos from daughter's visit to "Massey Hall"
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2,394
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Dave, Melbourne,Australia
Re: Photos from daughter's visit to "Massey Hall"
Thanks, Char. She said she walked around "several blocks" and got too cold to keep looking. Can't blame her for giving it less priority than I would have.
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Small Talk
12-31-2019, 08:20 PM
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Photos from daughter's visit to "Massey Hall"
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2,394
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Dave, Melbourne,Australia
Re: Photos from daughter's visit to "Massey Hall"
And a happy new year to you, FL. South-eastern Australia is already 11 hours into 2020 and 1 month into summer. Raging bushfires in New South Wales, South Australia and my state Victoria have killed...
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Small Talk
12-31-2019, 05:19 AM
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6
Photos from daughter's visit to "Massey Hall"
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2,394
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Dave, Melbourne,Australia
Photos from daughter's visit to "Massey Hall"
My daughter just had a 5-week holiday in the USA and Canada, including Toronto. Before she left Australia, she asked what I would like her to bring home for me. I said a photo of Massey Hall. She...
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General Discussion
12-30-2019, 02:11 AM
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IYCRMM heard at Australian bar 28Dec2019
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1,067
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Dave, Melbourne,Australia
Re: IYCRMM heard at Australian bar 28Dec2019
Yep, I think it was that one. Today I also googled the Viola Wills version. So I've heard each of them once, and once was more than enough for a lifetime.
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General Discussion
12-28-2019, 08:36 PM
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IYCRMM heard at Australian bar 28Dec2019
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1,067
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Dave, Melbourne,Australia
IYCRMM heard at Australian bar 28Dec2019
Last night as I was leaving the Dandenong RSL club in outer Melbourne, I heard "If You Could Read My Mind" playing throughout the building. It wasn't Gord's original, but a disco recording with a...
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