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  • And to top it all off, he'd turned his last will and testament into the greatest videogame contest of all time.†   (source)
  • It is part of his last will and testament.†   (source)
  • Her voice is husky, testament to their missed hours of sleep.†   (source)
  • If he had found it six months before, it would have been an innocent thing, a testament to undying hope, evidence of bravery, however secretive, on my part, as well as of my commitment to our future.†   (source)
  • That The Idaho should show The Ten Commandments so close to Easter was another example of what my grandmother called the poor "seasonal" taste of nearly everyone in the entertainment business: that we should see the Exodus of the Chosen People on the eve of our Lord's Passion and Resurrection was outrageous—"ALL THAT OLD-TESTAMENT HARSHNESS WHEN WE SHOULD BE THINKING ABOUT JESUS!" as Owen put it.†   (source)
  • Jem and I were accustomed to our father's last-will-and-testament diction, and we were at all times free to interrupt Atticus for a translation when it was beyond our understanding.†   (source)
  • Brown bags-humble testament to suburbia, or terminal geek gear?†   (source)
  • They used to call it the New Tenements, but now everybody mostly calls it the New Testaments, which Gram told me has nothing to do with the Bible.†   (source)
  • Badges and medals glitter on his breast, a testament to things he's never done.†   (source)
  • 'The Last Will and Testament of Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore'… Yes, here we are… 'To Ronald Bilius Weasley, I leave my Deluminator, in the hope that he will remember me when he uses it.'†   (source)
  • I guess I thought my father had told him one of the embarrassing anecdotes he saw merely as loving testaments to his children.†   (source)
  • In a testament to the power of fatigue, I managed to fall asleep quickly, convinced that the shrieking of dying monsters and Alaska's delighted squeals upon killing them were nothing more than a pleasant sound track by which to dream.†   (source)
  • "It is a testament that every ruler strives for," said Torin.†   (source)
  • It's a sort of testament.†   (source)
  • "Someone's last will and testament is an official statement of the wishes of the deceased.†   (source)
  • She had also been rewarded with a Testament.†   (source)
  • Her hair, bleached blond with black streaks, was a testament to her attitude.†   (source)
  • There, against Murtagh's tanned and muscled skin, was a knotted white scar that stretched from his right shoulder to his left hip-a testament to some terrible agony.†   (source)
  • That Michael's fortune might come to him from the game of football, rather than the last will and testament of Sean Tuohy, was suddenly thinkable.†   (source)
  • That he happened to have found a way to make disposal both efficient and profitable was simply a testament to his power.†   (source)
  • Northrop Frye, one of the great literary critics, said in the 1950s that biblical typology—the comparative study of types between the Oldand New Testaments and, by extension, out into literature—was a dead language, and things haven't improved since then.†   (source)
  • It was a testament to Annie's inner will, some mysterious and core sense of destiny.†   (source)
  • When he woke, he had opened his Bible and his eyes had fallen on the testament of Peter.†   (source)
  • A MIGHTY FORTRESS IS OUR DOG, in identical script, screams at innocent bystanders from the driver's side, a testament to Ellerby's lifelong commitment to his family's rottweiler, Dick.†   (source)
  • The fact that she's still sane and whole these many hours later is testament to her strength of will.†   (source)
  • I lay the coins on his desk, they clattered slightly as I set them down, testament to my shaking hands.†   (source)
  • I wondered at first if her behavior was a testament to how deeply she felt about Granny; but later I realized what it really meant: practically all of Gion would come tramping through our okiya to pay respects to Granny, and would attend the funeral at the temple later in the week; Mother had to put on the proper kind of show.†   (source)
  • I've made my last will and testament; I'll be giving the bulk of my fortune to the World Wildlife Fund.†   (source)
  • Bits of ham, cheese, and potato splattered her feathery cloak, giving testament to the brave enchanted meatpies that had given their brief lives to delay her.†   (source)
  • Alyosha the Baptist was reading the Testament under his breath (perhaps especially for Shukhov--those fel lows were fond of recruiting).†   (source)
  • It was not a judicial appeal at all but a political testament.†   (source)
  • I assured Jason that it met both the spirit and the letter of Red Stevens' final will and testament.†   (source)
  • The final outcome of the Chicago study is further testament to the power of incentives: the following year, cheating by teachers fell more than 30 percent.†   (source)
  • A two-meter segment of the whale's rib was now a permanent fixture at the officer's club in Severomorsk, dramatic testament to the strength of Soviet submarines; in fact the damage had taken over a year to repair, and by the time the Politovskiy sailed again there were already two other Alfas in service.†   (source)
  • Slowly, the marble freezes them into silence, their angry faces and open mouths the only testament to what has just happened.†   (source)
  • It was a testament to American resilience.†   (source)
  • By the time the final bell had rung, Vlad had mentally prepared his last will and testament.†   (source)
  • I wandered around, trailing my fingers over the spines of books written in Hebrew and Greek, Old Testaments and New Testaments, books on theurgy and theology and philosophy.†   (source)
  • Is there a last will and testament?†   (source)
  • That the Arabs had managed to bring life out of this desolate land served as a testament to their resourcefulness.†   (source)
  • The receptionist was magnificently breasted, a testament to the salon's figure sculpting techniques.†   (source)
  • Lavier's flat was a testament to the world of haute couture chic.†   (source)
  • I"—here Mr. Mompellion, in a moment of mental darkness, had written his own name instead of Jakob Merrill's and then had scored it out with a series of loopsbefore inscribing the name of the farmer—"Jakob Merrill in ye county of Derby, yeoman, on this"—here the rector's mind had failed him again, for he had left the date blank, probably because he wasn't able to recall it—"being sick and weak but in good memory, do make this my last Will and Testament.†   (source)
  • Each of the twelve was a testament to the car as art: chopped, channeled, sectioned, grafted, some on dropped spindles, with custom grilles, reconfigured hoods, frenched headlights, raised and flared wheel wells, hand-formed fender skirts.†   (source)
  • Your past lives are a testament to that.†   (source)
  • He could feel her scars under his fingertips, and he wanted to tell her he thought of them as ornaments, testaments to her bravery that only made her more beautiful.†   (source)
  • The great fireplace there was an object of pride — not vain pride, of course; more a matter of being conscious of having given worthy treatment to the excellent materials that the Lord had provided : a kind of testament, really.†   (source)
  • There were more, too, some that went back to their infancy, and though the pictures weren't arranged chronologically, it was a testament to how the family had grown and changed over the years.†   (source)
  • It was like she was asking me to write out my last will and testament.†   (source)
  • But Christ's testament asks for patience, harmony.†   (source)
  • If there is a testament to a belief in listening, it will be found in these essays.†   (source)
  • And the surest testament to the magnificent and horrifying level of my virtuosity was that neither had I. When I got to the flat Jack was waiting inside.†   (source)
  • Both Testaments are full of pundits, prophets, disciples, favorite sons, Solomons, Isaiahs, Davids, Pauls—but, my God, who besides Jesus really knew which end was up?†   (source)
  • And innocence with innocence is join'd, A wedlock whose sole child is miracle: A life's base lie, rewritten into truth That truth it is, we all bear testament.†   (source)
  • This would be a considerable sum of money in itself but as you know the terms of your grandmother's testament state that the amount shall be divided equally among all of her grandchildren.†   (source)
  • He rises, towering above his tormentor—rather like a clumsy, lumbering bear that is baited by an agile dog) Extend the Testaments!†   (source)
  • You're never satisfied to let the Testament alone.†   (source)
  • They were, in effect, his last will and testament.†   (source)
  • All night I read your testament— And found my consciousness returning.†   (source)
  • It covers the flyleaves of two Testaments, Bob's and Georgia's.†   (source)
  • His Holiness asks only that in your last will and testament you ensure it finds its way home.†   (source)
  • They had found a last will and testament that had asked that this be done.†   (source)
  • A letter, along with his last will and testament in which he names you as his executor.†   (source)
  • The second and third pages purport to be his last will and testament.†   (source)
  • In the matter of the last will and testament of Henry Seth Hubbard, Jake was aiming for ten minutes.†   (source)
  • Seth left behind a last will and testament that gives you a million bucks.†   (source)
  • You think sex could be behind Mr. Hubbard's last will and testament?"†   (source)
  • Do not mention my last will and testament until after the funeral.†   (source)
  • Do not mention my last will and testament until after the funeral.†   (source)
  • It's about Mr. Hubbard and his last will and testament."†   (source)
  • Do you currently have a last will and testament?†   (source)
  • It read: LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF HENRY SETH HUBBARD†   (source)
  • As my last will and testament, I leave you three in the care of Captain Sham, a kind and honorable men.†   (source)
  • I, James Donovan Halliday, being of sound mind and disposing memory, do hereby make, publish, and declare this instrument to be my last will and testament, hereby revoking any and all wills and codicils by me at any time heretofore made….†   (source)
  • So the real jaw-dropping news that January morning, the news that had everyone from Toronto to Tokyo crapping in their cornflakes, concerned the contents of Halliday's last will and testament, and the fate of his vast fortune.†   (source)
  • Everyone thought you were dead, and you wrote in your will and testament that we should he placed in the care of Captain Sham.†   (source)
  • And John Paul's medicines mysteriously vanished from his bedside, as did his glasses, slippers and his last will and testament.†   (source)
  • As my last will and testament, I leave you three in the care of Captain Sham, a kind and honorable men.†   (source)
  • I have, for this reason, made amendments to my last will and testament, ensuring your destruction, Dear Diary, should anything happen to me.†   (source)
  • I turned to Jason and said, "Young man, this box was given to me by your great-uncle, Red Stevens, on the day he prepared his last will and testament.†   (source)
  • If you will just sit back down, I will discharge my final duty with regard to Red Stevens' last will and testament.†   (source)
  • Ladies and gentlemen, as you know, we are here to read the last will and testament of Howard 'Red' Stevens.†   (source)
  • Since the arrival of Mr. Hubbard's last will and testament two weeks earlier, the morning mail had become far more interesting.†   (source)
  • Judge Atlee said, "Now, moving along, the last will and testament in question was written by a man named Seth Hubbard, now deceased, of course.†   (source)
  • …. herein you will find my last will and testament, every word written by me and signed and dated by me.†   (source)
  • The last will and testament of Seth Hubbard was now a public record and would be scrutinized by every lawyer in town within twenty-four hours.†   (source)
  • " Jake said, "You all have copies of the letter Seth Hubbard wrote to me when he mailed along his last will and testament.†   (source)
  • The last will and testament of Seth Hubbard, written last Saturday in thoughtful consideration of what he was about to do on Sunday.†   (source)
  • I, Seth Hubbard, being 71 years old and of good mind but decaying body, do hereby make this my last will and testament:†   (source)
  • Finally, she said, "Yep, got a petition to probate the last will and testament of Mr. Henry Seth Hubbard, filed at 4:55 yesterday afternoon."†   (source)
  • In his letter to Jake, his exact words were: "Do not mention my last will and testament until after the funeral.†   (source)
  • Enclosed herein you will find my last will and testament, every word written by me and signed and dated by me.†   (source)
  • It was time to establish proper roles, and since their client was the beneficiary of the quite valid last will and testament of Seth Hubbard, they would stake their claim.†   (source)
  • As the executor I would be required to take an oath in which I swear that this is the valid last will and testament of Seth Hubbard, and I simply refuse to take that oath.†   (source)
  • He said, "My name is Lucien Wilbanks and I'm well known to Judge Atlee and the lawyers involved in the contest over the last will and testament of Seth Hubbard.†   (source)
  • When they arrived there on that Saturday morning, Seth Hubbard had a last will and testament prepared a year earlier by a fine firm of lawyers in Tupelo, lawyers he had trusted for years, and that will gave almost everything to his two adult children and four grandchildren.†   (source)
  • It was the highest of spiritual honors, he said, to be made a living testament of God's power.†   (source)
  • When we get to the Testaments, though, Freak shuts right up.†   (source)
  • That was, in her perspective, a simple testament to their making and delivering the best product.†   (source)
  • "The lady won't have much money if she lives in the Testaments," I say.†   (source)
  • When she has crossed safely, her likeness will appear in the immortal stones as testament.†   (source)
  • The deeds of the children are a testament of the upbringing they received from their parents.†   (source)
  • They were a testament to her courage and a visible sign of her devotion to the Varden.†   (source)
  • You can't make a valid will if you lack testamentary capacity."†   (source)
  • In summary, he lacked testamentary capacity.†   (source)
  • The legal term is 'testamentary capacity.'†   (source)
  • Nevin continued: "Next, and the big one, testamentary capacity, or sound and disposing mind.†   (source)
  • "Testamentary capacity," Dewayne said from deep within the menthol fog.†   (source)
  • Second, what Seth did five years ago has nothing to do with his testamentary capacity last October.†   (source)
  • They claim that Seth lacked testamentary capacity.†   (source)
  • I am of clear mind and have full testamentary capacity.†   (source)
  • Wade Lanier was right: Ancil had nothing to say about his brother's will or testamentary capacity.†   (source)
  • That America coded in Inverarity's testament, whose was that?†   (source)
  • The driveway was neatly plowed, a testament to the fact that she did indeed use the blade, but he could not see the road , the house cut off the view.†   (source)
  • Not to mention, the greatest treasures were architectural-the Sistine Chapel, St. Peter's Basilica, Michelangelo's famed spiral staircase leading to the Museo Vaticano-priceless testaments to man's creative genius.†   (source)
  • When I looked hack at the house, lights were on but no one was outside yet, a testament to the brilliant simplicity of the well-Vaselined doorknob.†   (source)
  • The kids were still enjoying the time spent with their cousins—the laughter rattling the house was testament to it.†   (source)
  • There are wrinkles in his pale skin, and his hair is as white as his clothing, a testament to his true age and his house.†   (source)
  • It is a testament to the content of Louie's childhood that his stories about it usually ended with "…. and then I ran like mad.†   (source)
  • The hospital itself was a gleaming low-rise building, the immaculate reception area more like that of some modernistic hotel, perhaps testament to private insurance.†   (source)
  • His dark hair is still closely shaved in the army style, and there are scars on his arms and face, testaments to his time fighting.†   (source)
  • It is testament to the reputation of the Japanese that of all the men in one fatally damaged B-24 falling over Japanese forces, only one chose to bail out.†   (source)
  • That Og could afford to charter three different jets to retrieve us without batting an eyelash was a testament to just how insanely wealthy he must be.†   (source)
  • We're coming up on the Testaments and they look almost pretty with the new snow coating the roofs and making the yards clean and white and soft.†   (source)
  • Something about the way he says it, or maybe it's all that nervous stuff left over from the New Testaments.†   (source)
  • On the other side of the alley is this boarded-up building, it used to be part of the Testaments until a fire burned it out, and my father decides we'll hide there until Iggy gets a car for us.†   (source)
  • It's not like I wanted to go into the Testaments, so it was real easy to keep that promise, and then the day after we pull that soggy purse out of the sewer Freak explains how it's okay to break a promise if you're on a quest.†   (source)
  • The New Testaments.†   (source)
  • Here was one of the guardians of old resurrected from the depths of time to guide him, a living symbol, and a testament to the legends he had been raised with.†   (source)
  • The fact that I never even noticed it was missing was a testament to the fact that I must have learned how to live again.†   (source)
  • They stand as testament that life is a constant heartbeat, pulsing everywhere at once, and we are but a small part of that eternal ebb and flow.†   (source)
  • In stark contrast to the rest of her apparel, linen bandages encased her forearms, a testament to her astounding courage during the Trial of the Long Knives.†   (source)
  • It was sad testament that my last memory of him was going to be the sight of him dragged off by Kagan's knights.†   (source)
  • The issues have been boiled down to what we expected, to those , always in play in a will contest; to wit, testamentary capacity and undue influence.†   (source)
  • "That's it—testamentary capacity.†   (source)
  • When he couldn't think of anything, he said, repeatedly, "Seth Hubbard lacked testamentary capacity."†   (source)
  • If a person has testamentary capacity, then that person can make all the wild and unreasonable bequests he or she wants.†   (source)
  • It would be used as evidence to establish Seth Hubbard's testamentary capacity, and for a moment Jake was paralyzed with indecision.†   (source)
  • Lanier said, "It has nothing to do with Seth Hubbard's testamentary capacity on October 1 of last year."†   (source)
  • They claimed that the handwritten will was invalid because (1) Seth Hubbard lacked testamentary capacity and (2) he was unduly influenced by Lettie Lang.†   (source)
  • To make a valid will, one that is handwritten on the back of a grocery bag or one typed by five secretaries in a big law office and signed before a notary public, one has to have testamentary capacity.†   (source)
  • "6 Testaments "2 Peace of the Flame "1 Koran "1 Book of Mormon "1 Oxford Book of English Verse, Centennial Edition "1 steel bow and 3 hunting arrows "1 boiler made from a wave shield and quite a bit of metal and plastic junk (worth its weight in uranium, I admit) from the Thunderbolt Jackie salvaged.†   (source)
  • That is the reason my friends gather To be with me in early spring And why our evenings serve as farewells And our little feasts as testaments, So that the secret stream of sorrow May impart some warmth to the chill of being.†   (source)
  • He might have written the testament only to harass a onetime mistress, so cynically sure of being wiped out he could throw away all hope of anything more.†   (source)
  • But before I go I want to make my last will and testament—I want to leave you the Brys.†   (source)
  • See and do that; and take out the topmost paper—Last Will and Testament—big printed.†   (source)
  • The millionaire then read out her last will and testament, in which she left the whole of her fortune to the Chancellor of the Exchequer.†   (source)
  • This is my last will and testament.†   (source)
  • At Trafalgar, Nelson, on the brink of opening the fight, sat down and wrote his last brief will and testament.†   (source)
  • You will receive, without the slightest trouble, by the last will and testament of your aunt, a very large sum of money indeed.†   (source)
  • That's my judgment in the matter; and if old Tom here wishes to make his last will and testament in a manner favorable to his darters, he'll say the same."†   (source)
  • At old Roger Chillingworth's decease, (which took place within the year), and by his last will and testament, of which Governor Bellingham and the Reverend Mr. Wilson were executors, he bequeathed a very considerable amount of property, both here and in England to little Pearl, the daughter of Hester Prynne.†   (source)
  • All the rest he died possessed of, he bequeathed to Peggotty; whom he left residuary legatee, and sole executrix of that his last will and testament.†   (source)
  • 'In the act, my dear Annie,' repeated Mrs. Markleham, spreading the newspaper on her lap like a table-cloth, and patting her hands upon it, 'of making his last Will and Testament.†   (source)
  • By Uncle Jaffrey's last will and testament, as you are aware, his entire property was bequeathed to me, with the single exception of a life interest to yourself in this old family mansion, and the strip of patrimonial estate remaining attached to it."†   (source)
  • I have also done some Hesiod, a little scrap of Thucydides, and a lot of the Greek Testament….†   (source)
  • He found Joe Harper studying a Testament, and turned sadly away from the depressing spectacle.†   (source)
  • He went back to the room and brought out a little brown Testament.†   (source)
  • The friend in whose house he was located witnessed his testament.†   (source)
  • It is so, with testamentary dispositions.†   (source)
  • That name he had worn on his heart, inscribed in his father's testament!†   (source)
  • Should he ignore his father's testament, or allow the perpetration of a crime!†   (source)
  • Says I to myself, something's up; it ain't natural for a girl to be in such a sweat about a Testament.†   (source)
  • Nothing, unless it were such strange titles as the Testament de Cesar Girodot, or Oedipe-Roi, inscribed not on the green bills of the Opera-Comique, but on the wine-coloured bills of the Comedie-Francaise, nothing seemed to me to differ more profoundly from the sparkling white plume of the Diamants de la Couronne than the sleek, mysterious satin of the Domino Noir; and since my parents had told me that, for my first visit to the theatre, I should have to choose between these two…†   (source)
  • The raw morning air whetted his resolute piety; and often as he knelt among the few worshippers at the side-altar, following with his interleaved prayer-book the murmur of the priest, he glanced up for an instant towards the vested figure standing in the gloom between the two candles, which were the old and the new testaments, and imagined that he was kneeling at mass in the catacombs.†   (source)
  • The first was a will, drawn in the same eccentric terms as the one which he had returned six months before, to serve as a testament in case of death and as a deed of gift in case of disappearance; but, in place of the name of Edward Hyde, the lawyer, with indescribable amazement, read the name of Gabriel John Utterson.†   (source)
  • He was in dreadful earnest and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever happened I would always be true to him.†   (source)
  • Lastly, to put all the elements of this affair before you, here is the testamentary letter itself, superscrived by the own hand of our departed brother.†   (source)
  • And they made a mistake there: the prizes were a lot of folderols and doodads like poetry books and illustrated Testaments, instead of something a real live kid would want to work for, like real cash or a speedometer for his motor cycle.†   (source)
  • When he had told us so much he went on, "Frankly we did our best to prevent such a testamentary disposition, and pointed out certain contingencies that might leave her daughter either penniless or not so free as she should be to act regarding a matrimonial alliance.†   (source)
  • When school went out Anne marched to her desk, ostentatiously took out everything therein, books and writing tablet, pen and ink, testament and arithmetic, and piled them neatly on her cracked slate.†   (source)
  • Then she said she'd forgot her Testament, and left it in the seat at church between two other books, and would I slip out quiet and go there and fetch it to her, and not say nothing to nobody.†   (source)
  • Ruby Gillis smuggled three blue plums over to her during testament reading; Ella May MacPherson gave her an enormous yellow pansy cut from the covers of a floral catalogue—a species of desk decoration much prized in Avonlea school.†   (source)
  • Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening on the very morning of the wedding.†   (source)
  • She pulled me in and shut the door; then she looked in the Testament till she found the paper, and as soon as she read it she looked glad; and before a body could think she grabbed me and give me a squeeze, and said I was the best boy in the world, and not to tell anybody.†   (source)
  • During the whole bygone week he had been resolving to set this afternoon apart for a special purpose,—the re-reading of his Greek Testament—his new one, with better type than his old copy, following Griesbach's text as amended by numerous correctors, and with variorum readings in the margin.†   (source)
  • …from the open windows of the theatre across to this quiet corner, at which there seemed to be a smile of some sort upon the marble features of Jude; while the old, superseded, Delphin editions of Virgil and Horace, and the dog-eared Greek Testament on the neighbouring shelf, and the few other volumes of the sort that he had not parted with, roughened with stone-dust where he had been in the habit of catching them up for a few minutes between his labours, seemed to pale to a sickly…†   (source)
  • I was a-studying over my text in Acts Seventeen before breakfast, and I reckon I put it in there, not noticing, meaning to put my Testament in, and it must be so, because my Testament ain't in; but I'll go and see; and if the Testament is where I had it, I'll know I didn't put it in, and that will show that I laid the Testament down and took up the spoon, and—"†   (source)
  • At one side of the table was a small carpet with various figures worked upon it, at the other was something resembling an altar on which lay a Testament and a skull.†   (source)
  • It may seem strange that of all men sailors should be tinkering at their last wills and testaments, but there are no people in the world more fond of that diversion.†   (source)
  • Some priest who could pronounce the Greek itself taught him to read his verse in the Testament in his native parish far away; and now I must translate to him, while he holds the book, Achilles' reproof to Patroclus for his sad countenance.†   (source)
  • In the Middle Ages, testamentary power had, so to speak, no limits: amongst the French at the present day, a man cannot distribute his fortune amongst his children without the interference of the State; after having domineered over a whole life, the law insists upon regulating the very last act of it.†   (source)
  • Marius was convinced that "Monsieur Gillenormand"—from that day forth he never alluded to him otherwise—had flung "his father's testament" in the fire.†   (source)
  • The Dover mail was in its usual genial position that the guard suspected the passengers, the passengers suspected one another and the guard, they all suspected everybody else, and the coachman was sure of nothing but the horses; as to which cattle he could with a clear conscience have taken his oath on the two Testaments that they were not fit for the journey.†   (source)
  • The testament was necessarily referred to Augustus, the emperor, who ratified all its provisions with one exception: he withheld from Archelaus the title of king until he proved his capacity and loyalty; in lieu thereof, he created him ethnarch, and as such permitted him to govern nine years, when, for misconduct and inability to stay the turbulent elements that grew and strengthened around him, he was sent into Gaul as an exile.†   (source)
  • Though he was not a fortune-hunter, the possibility that Lucetta had been sublimed into a lady of means by some munificent testament on the part of this relative lent a charm to her image which it might not otherwise have acquired.†   (source)
  • Mr. Krook and his lodger, and the fact of Mr. Krook's being "continually in liquor," and the testamentary prospects of the young man are, as usual, the staple of their conversation.†   (source)
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