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March 7 
I feel so good knowing that I am
a power of example for future generations today
as I walk on my new path of truth.
I am making a difference not only in my own life
but in the lives of those who follow me.
written by ~ Ruth Fishel
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Disease ( The Promises Of )

Keep yours knees bent to me
And I’ll vow to these things
They will come true you’ll see
While you dance on my strings………

I’ll steal away your life
And the will to live
Take from you double
What you’re willing to give

Make you do things 
That make you feel cheap
And quickly take what
You will to keep

Darken the colors
Of your many dreams
I’ll entangle you
In chaotic schemes

Make you a slave
Left with no hope
Continually feeding you
Suicides rope

Set you apart from your families
All alone and estranged
Thought process calamities
This side of deranged

Until you’ve ulterior motives
That are wove in deceit
Until you’re ashamed
Of what you thought was discrete

I’ll take your ambitions and securities
And turn a deaf ear
When you scream “Help me please”
I’ll pretend I don’t hear

You’ll ride the ejaculation
Of your many fears
Each day in the dark
Accumulating the years

Leave you seeking 
The elusive hand full of gold
That's found in psychosis
Where most lies are told

Paint your hair and your days
And make them all gray
Submission, contrition
The way to decay

Left with no options
Beg, borrow and steal
The guilt and the lies
You will fight to conceal

All my lies you’ll believe
They are coated so sweet
With your life in my hands
The promise is fulfilled,…. And death is complete

Mark Thomas Spitler
March 22nd 1998 ©

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would like to share with us please copy and paste it into the body
of an email and send it to me, Thanks for your support and contributions.
What I can't do alone, We do together.
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Just For Today 
March 7                                                      Priorities

"The good times can also be a trap; the danger is that we
may forget that our first priority is to stay clean."
Basic Text, p. 42

 Things can get really good in our recovery. Perhaps we've found our
"soul mate:' built a rewarding career, started a family. Maybe our
relationships with our family members have healed. Things are going so
well, we barely have time to attend meetings. Perhaps we begin to
reintegrate into society so successfully that we forget that we don't
always react to situations like others do.

Maybe, just maybe, we've put some priorities ahead of themselves. Is
meeting attendance still a priority with us? Do we still sponsor? Do we
phone our sponsor? What step are we working? Are we still willing to
drag ourselves out of bed at some ungodly hour for a Twelfth Step call?
Do we remember to practice principles in all our affairs? If others in
N.A. reach out to us, are we available? Do we remember where we came
from, or have the "good times" allowed us to forget?

 To stay clean, we must remember that we are only one drug away from
our past. We stay grateful for the good times, but we don't let them
divert us from our continuing recovery in Narcotics Anonymous.

Just for today: : I'm grateful for the good times, but I've not
forgotten from where I've come. Today, my first priority is staying
clean and growing in my recovery.

Just For Today Daily Meditation is the property of Narcotics Anonymous ©
1991 by World Service Office Inc.

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The Challenge Of Failure

      In God's economy, nothing is wasted.  Through failure, we learn a
lesson in humility which is probably needed, painful though it is.
AS BILL SEES IT, p.  31

How thankful I am today, to know that all my past failures were necessary
for me to be where I am now.  Through much pain came experience and, in
suffering, I became obedient.  When I sought God, as I understand Him, He
shared His treasured gifts.  Through experience and obedience, growth
started, followed by gratitude.  Yes, then came peace of mind -- living in
and sharing sobriety.

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Twenty-Four Hours A Day by Hazelden/ March 7th

A.A. Thought for the Day

There are two important things we have to do if
we want to get sober and stay sober.  First,
having admitted that we're helpless before
alcohol, we have to turn our alcoholic problem
over to God and trust Him to take care of it for
us.  This means asking Him every morning for the
strength to stay sober that day and thanking Him
every night.  It means really leaving the problem
in God's hands and not reaching out and taking
the problem back to ourselves.  Second, having
given our drink problem to God, we must
cooperate with Him by doing something about it
ourselves.  Am I doing these two things?

Meditation for the Day

I must prepare myself by doing each day what I
can to develop spiritually and to help others to do
so.  God tests me and trains me and bends me to
His will.  If I am not properly trained, I cannot
meet the test when it comes.  I must want God's
will for me above all else.  I must not expect to
have what I am not prepared for.  This
preparation consists of quiet communion with God
every day and gradually gaining the strength I need.

Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may really try to do God's will in all my
affairs.  I pray that I may do all I can to help others
find God's will for them.

"Twenty-Four Hours A Day" is a © Copyrighted book of
Hazelden Foundation.  No portion of this publication may
be reproduced in any manner without the written
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Today's Thought
MARCH 07

You are reading from the book The Language of Letting Go.
Melody Beattie©

Fulfillment

Everything I need shall be provided today. Everything. Say it, until you
believe it. Say it at the beginning of the day. Say it throughout the day.

Sometimes, it helps to know what we want and need. But if we dont, we can
trust that God does.

When we ask, trust, and believe that our needs will be met, our needs will
be met. Sometimes God cares about the silliest little things, if we do.

Today, I will affirm that my needs will be met. I will affirm that God cares
and is the Source of my supply. Then I will let go and see that what I have
risked to believe is the truth.

©1990, Hazelden Foundation. All rights reserved. No portion of this
publication may be reproduced in any manner without the written permission
of the publisher.

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~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Keep It Simple*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Meditation 

For the First Time
SEE AS IF FOR THE FIRST TIME A BEAUTEOUS
PERSON OR AN ORDINARY OBJECT.

Some basic things first; then you can do this technique. We look at things
always with old eyes. You come to your home; you look at it without looking
at it. You know it -- there is no need to look at it. You have entered it
again and again for years together. You go to the door, you enter the door;
you may unlock the door. But there is no need to look. This whole process
goes on robot-like, mechanically, unconsciously. If something goes wrong,
only if your key is not fitting into the lock, then you look at the lock. If
the key fits, you never look at the lock.

Because of mechanical habits, repeatedly doing the same thing again and
again, you lose the capacity to look; you lose the freshness to look.
Really, you lose the function of your eyes -- remember this. You become
basically blind, because eyes are not needed.

Remember the last time you looked at your wife. The last time you looked at
your wife or at your husband may have been years ago. For how many years
have you not looked? You just pass, giving a casual glimpse, but not a look.

Go again and look at your wife or at your husband as if you were looking for
the first time. Why? Because if you are looking for the first time, your
eyes will be filled with a freshness. They will become alive. You are
passing through a street, and a beautiful woman passes. Your eyes become
alive -- lighted. A sudden flame comes to them. This woman may be a wife to
someone. He will not look at her; he may become as blind as you have become
seeing your wife. Why?

For the first time eyes are needed, the second time not so much, and the
third time they are not needed. After a few repetitions you become blind.

We live blindly. Be aware. When you meet your children, are you looking at
them? You are not looking at them. This habit kills the eyes; the eyes
become bored -- repeatedly there is the old again and again. And nothing is
old really, it is just that your habit makes you feel that it is so. Your
wife is not the same as she was yesterday, she cannot be; otherwise she is a
miracle. Nothing can be the same the next moment.

Life is flux, everything is flowing, nothing is the same. The same sunrise
will not happen again. In a sense also, the sun is not the same. Every day
it is new; basic changes have occurred. And the sky will not be the same
again; this morning is not going to come again. Every morning has its own
individuality, and the sky and the colors, they will not gather in the same
pattern again. But you go on moving as if everything is just the same.

They say nothing is new under the sun. Really, nothing is old under the sun.
Only the eyes become old, accustomed to things; then nothing is new. For
children everything is new: that is why everything gives them excitement.
Even a colored stone on a beach, and they become so excited. You will not be
excited even seeing God himself coming to your house. You will not be so
excited! You will say, "I know him, I have read about him."

Children are so excited because their eyes are new and fresh. And everything
is a new world, a new dimension. Look at children's eyes -- at the
freshness, the radiant aliveness, the vitality. They look mirror-like,
silent, but penetrating. Only such eyes can reach within. So this technique
says,

SEE AS IF FOR THE FIRST TIME A BEAUTEOUS
PERSON OR AN ORDINARY OBJECT.

Anything will do. Look at your shoes. You have been using them for years,
but look as if for the first time and see the difference: the quality of
your consciousness suddenly changes.

I wonder whether you have seen Van Gogh's painting of his shoe. It is one of
the rarest things. There is just an old shoe -- tired, sad, as if just on
the verge of death. It is just an old shoe, but look at it, feel it, and you
will feel what a long, boring life this shoe must have passed through. It is
so sad, just praying to be taken away from life, tired completely, every
nerve broken, just an old man, an old shoe. It is one of the most original
paintings. But how could Van Gogh see it?

You have even more old shoes with you -- more tired, more dead, more sad,
depressed, but you have never looked at them, at what you have done to them,
how you have behaved with them. They tell a life story about you because
they are your shoes. They can say everything about you. If they could write,
they would write a most authentic biography of the person they had to live
with -- every mood, every face. When their owner was in love he behaved
differently with the shoes, when he was angry he behaved differently. And
the shoes were not concerned at all, and everything has left a mark.

Look at Van Gogh's painting, and then you will see what he could see in the
shoes. Everything is there -- a whole biography of the person who was using
them. But how could he see? To be a painter, one has to regain the child's
look, the freshness. He can look at everything -- at most ordinary things
even. He can look!

Cezanne has painted a chair, just an ordinary chair, and you may even
wonder... why paint a chair? There is no need. But he worked on that
painting for months together. You may have stopped for a single moment to
look at it, and he worked for months on it because he could look at a chair.
A chair has its own spirit, its own story, its own miseries and happinesses.
It has lived! It has passed through life! It has its own experiences,
memories. They are all revealed in Cezanne's painting.

But do you look at your chair? No one looks at it, no one feels it. Any
object will do. This technique is just to make your eyes fresh -- so fresh,
alive, radiantly vital, that they can move within and you can have a look at
your inner self.

SEE AS IF FOR THE FIRST TIME. Make it a point to see everything as if for
the first time, and sometime, suddenly, you will be surprised at what a
beautiful world you have been missing.

Suddenly become aware and look at your wife as if for the first time. And it
will be no wonder if you feel again the same love you felt the first time,
the same surge of energy, the same attraction in its fullest. But look as if
for the first time at a BEAUTEOUS PERSON OR AN ORDINARY OBJECT.

What will happen? You will regain your eyesight. You are blind. Just now, as
you are, you are blind. And this blindness is more fatal than physical
blindness, because you have eyes and still you cannot look.

Jesus says many times, "Those who have eyes, let them see. Those who have
ears, let them hear." It seems that he was talking to blind men or to deaf
men. But he goes on repeating it. What was he -- a superintendent in some
institute for the blind?

He goes on repeating, "If you have eyes, look." He must be talking with
ordinary men who have eyes. But why this insistence on, "If you have eyes,
look"? He is talking about the eyes which this technique can give you.

Look at everything you pass as if for the first time. Make it a continuous
attitude. Touch everything as if for the first time. What will happen?

If you can do this, you will be freed from your past. The burden, the depth,
the dirtiness, the accumulated experiences -- you will be freed from them.
Every moment, move from the past. Do not allow it to enter within you; do
not allow it to be carried -- leave it. Look at everything as if for the
first time.

This is a great technique to help you to be freed from the past. Then you
are constantly in the present, and by and by you will have an affinity with
the present. Then everything will be new. Then you will be able to
understand Heraclitus' saying that you cannot step twice in the same river.
You cannot see a person twice -- the same person -- because nothing is
static. Everything is river-like, flowing and flowing and flowing.

If you are freed from the past and you have a look which can see the
present, you will enter the existence. And this entry will be double: you
will enter into everything, into its spirit, and you will enter into
yourself also because the present is the door.

All meditations in one way or the other try to get you to live in the
present.

So this technique is one of the most beautiful techniques -- and easy. You
can try it, and without any danger. If you are looking afresh even when
passing through the same street again, it is a new street. Meeting the same
friend as if he is a stranger, looking at your wife as you looked for the
first time when she was a stranger, can you really say that he or she is not
still a stranger? You may have lived for twenty years or thirty years or
forty years with your wife, but can you say that you are acquainted with
her? She is still a stranger: you are two strangers living together. You
know the outer habits of each other, the outer reactions, but the inner core
of the being is unknown, untouched.

Look freshly again, as if for the first time, and you will see the same
stranger. Nothing, nothing has become old; everything is new. This will give
a freshness to your look.

Your eyes will become innocent.

Those innocent eyes can see.

Those innocent eyes can enter into the inner world.

This article was excerpted from The Book of Secrets, by Osho. Reprinted
with permission of Osho International Foundation.  ©Osho International
Foundation. All rights reserved.

About The Author:
Osho is one of the best-known and most provocative spiritual teachers of the
20th century. Beginning in the 1970s he captured the attention of young
people from the West who wanted to experience meditation and transformation.
Even since his death in 1990, the influence of his teachings continues to
expand, reaching seekers of all ages in virtually every country of the
world. For more information, visit www.osho.org where these is an "Ask Osho"
section where people can write their question and the web editors will find
the nearest answer to the question from Osho, who has answered thousands of
questions from seekers over the years.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*One Day At A Time*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

The Rainbow Bridge

   The little dog arrived at the Rainbow Bridge, and a pack of dogs
rushed up to greet him.  He braced himself, expecting a fight, but
this was the first pack that wagged their tails and kissed him
instead of attacking him.

 It was beautiful here, and everyone was nice to him.  None of
them had been born in a puppy mill, like he had, and used as dog-bait
for fighting or left to die in a shelter because of being a mix-breed,
battle-scarred cur who wasn't cute.  They explained why they were
waiting... for their humans who loved them.
"What is love?" he asked, and God let him go back to earth and find out.

  Warm, and dark, he squeezed in with the others and waited for
the day to be born. Scared, he held back as long as he could, but
finally got dragged out, by his hind feet.  Hands without fur held him
gently and rubbed him dry and opened his mouth and guided him to a
warm nipple with milk.  He didn't get a good hold on it, because one of
his big fat brothers pushed him aside.  The human hand moved the
other puppy to another nipple and held his body, so he could drink.

"Ahhh, that's better, " he thought, and drank until his jaws got
tired and he curled up to sleep next to his warm hairy mother.  "I
remember  this," he mused... "Too bad I'll have to grow up to be hit,
left out in the cold and rain, and used for dog-bait fighting, and die
as an unclaimed rescue dog. I remember what it's like, being a dog,"
he thought sadly.

  That night, he crawled up to his mother and tried to nurse, but
he kept getting pushed off to the side.  When they were full, the
big brothers and sisters got their bottoms cleaned and he finally
latched on to a nipple, but the human hands weren't there to hold
him up, and there wasn't any milk in any of the nipples, anyway.
He was weak and so tiny.  It was even hard to stay upright, and he
fell over on his back and couldn't right himself.

 So he began to cry, and suddenly the human hands were there,
holding him up and putting a rubber thing in his mouth. It didn't taste
or feel like mother, but it was warm and made the ache in his tummy
go away.

  He was having trouble breathing as his lungs weren't fully developed
because he had waited too long to join the others in the womb, as he
took one last romp at the Rainbow Bridge.  He could feel the heartbeat
of the human, who had laid him on her chest and covered him with a soft
cloth, keeping him warm, and soothing his bony body with gentle circling
touches.

  He kept thinking of his new friends who had been so nice to him at the
bridge and asked God if he could go back. God said, "Yes, but not just yet.
You wanted to experience Love."

  So for several hours (seemed like days, but it was dark and he couldn't
tell what time it was), the human supplemented his feeding and let him
experience the warmth of his mother's body and tongue, and the pile of
warm soft littermates.  He got weaker, and the human held him more
often, leaving the littermates to sleep in a pile while he got caressed,
kissed, and got to listen to the heartbeat which was so very strong and
loving.

  Finally God came back and asked, "are you ready to come back to the
Rainbow Bridge?"

  "Yes, he responded," with a little sorrow, because the human didn't
want to let him go and was crying.

  He pushed the air out of his lungs and floated back to the  Rainbow
Bridge and looked back at the human, who was still crying and holding the
limp body that he had borrowed for his trip.

  Thank you, God," he said.  "Love is beautiful, and I will wait near the
Bridge and let the human know, when she arrives, that I loved her, too."

by Joy LaCaille  (You have my permission to share it, but please keep
my name as the author and my e-mail address attached to it.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*First Things First*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Poor Me

Have you ever not liked yourself very much?
Put yourself down for being a dummy and such?

I grew up and lived most of my life wondering why I had been born.
Seeking attention anyway I could get it if only to be scorned.

Always wanting to be someone else or any other place.
Having these feelings inside, life I didn't want to face.

Seems I was always day dreaming that someday things would be changed.
Not knowing that all this time my life was already being rearranged.

God had not made a mistake when He created me.
He took great pains, it was I who had failed, not He.

But with all "my" defects it was so much easier to blame
God and others than to blame me.
It was much easier to run from life, because then,
I just couldn't handle any responsibility.

So since I was to be in this world, I would try to exist.
I would try to please others especially when they would insist.

When I finally got tired of existing and tried to bring it to an end,
the arranging had came about.
God stepped in and life was about to begin.

He sent me to a place where there were people who had felt just like me,
They said, "come let us help you to feel happy, joyous and free".

I looked at them and then at me and thought they'll never understand,
but they kept calling and saying, "let us help you, here take my hand."

It took a long time for me to understand,
I can't blame anyone but me,
My problems are of my own making and that's hard to accept,
but I have to you see.

I don't want to go back the way I used to be, full of self-loathing and
fear.  
But I had to have this all happen to me so I could appreciate
all the things I now hear.

If I can remain grateful for just one day,
The rewards that I reap would cause some people dismay.

There are those days when poor lil ole me will try to think,
I better be careful, it could cause poor me to pour me another drink.

But as long as I keep in touch with God and my friends to show me how,
To have the awareness to overcome the poor me's, it brings me back to the
now.

This is the answer to all my prayers,
all I ever wanted was to be happy you see,
And all I had to do was listen to these people and work 12 steps,
and God took away all the misery.

Fiji B. 8-7-75/9-6-99


~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Easy Does It*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Experience

I want something whimsical to wear today
A  rainbow, perhaps
or a stray strand of golden silk

I'll wear  something whimsical
So I don't harden my heart with
life's sharp  edges, confines
So I open my soul to feel
gauzy silk
shimmering  sequins
A magical wand glinting light
A crown to ground me in my  place
The castle of my dreams
In union with 
In synch with  heaven

I will let what has evolved
manifest itself in a creative  context
I am protected and embraced
by my dreams
safe in realms  of my imagination

Love,
Stella
© 2004 Raymonde Stella Savoie Johnson

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Live And Let Live*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Gift

Not a problem comes to you ,
Without a gift in its other hand.
Although it is a problem ,
On faith you must stand ,
And reach out to take the gift ,
That’s in the other hand.

Mark Thomas Spitler
February 19th 1997  ©

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Keep The Focus On You*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

You can't always control the wind,
but you can control your sails.
Anthony Robbins

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Let God and Let Go*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

There is no exercise better for the heart than
reaching down and lifting people up.
John Andrew Holmes

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Come*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Pain is inevitable.
Suffering is optional.
Kathleen Casey

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Come To*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

A coincidence is when God performs a miracle
and decides to remain anonymous.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Come To Believe*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

I am not using and living the way
that I used to be living
and for that I am grateful.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Look For The Beauty*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

The little things are the BIG things.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Today Is A Gift*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Look at life through a telescope instead of a microscope.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Keep Stepping*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Stop looking through the peephole
and open up the door.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Stay In The Light*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

You can carry the message,
but not the addict.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Take A Moment To GIVE (NO COST)*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

FREE Click to GIVE @ to STOP Violence Against Women
FREE Click to GIVE Rice
FREE Click to GIVE @ the STOP HIV SiteFREE Click to GIVE @ the Hunger SiteFREE Click to GIVE @ the Breast Cancer SiteFREE Click to GIVE @ the Rain Forest SiteFREE Click to GIVE @ the Animal Rescue SiteFREE Click to GIVE @ the Children in Need
FREE Click to GIVE @ to Save Our Oceans

Track Your Impact in GIVING

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*One Promise, Many Gifts*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

IN THE ROOMS (ITR), is the premier FREE online social network dedicated to the global recovery community for people seeking help, in recovery and their family, friends and allies of recovery worldwide.  Our mission is to augment or enhance traditional 12 step and other recovery programs by offering a place to not only find like minded people but also people who share the same interests, passions and hobbies. Our mantra is the acronym HITCH which is the Help, Inform, Touch, Connect and Heal. 
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Created in 1997 , "12 Step Soul Food for the Spirit" is intended to give readers , inspiring and thoughtful messages. To help fulfill our primary purpose which is to carry the message to the alcoholic/addict who still suffers. A spiritual adventure, a journey inwards this has a vision of opening and touching, each and everyone, with the Loving Power and Presence of the Spirit within." We invite you to share the writings by forwarding today's message to others. Share "12 Step Soul Food for the Spirit" with friends and loved ones: Please keep passing this along to online recovery friends  "We can only keep what we have by giving it away." 

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By the grace of God and through your efforts of passing on this email, we are reaching many recovering people in different areas of the world. If you are receiving this, from a country outside of the USA please send me an email and tell me where you are receiving this. So far we reaching over 17,000 recovering people in 66 countries including Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Bermuda, Brazil, Canada , Columbia, Costa Rica, China , Cyprus, Denmark, Egypt, England, Finland, France, Guatemala, Germany, Greece, Honduras, Hong Kong, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Mali West Africa, Mozambique, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Philippines, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia , Saudi Arabia, Scotland, Singapore, South Africa , Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Trinidad, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, U.S.A., Venezuela, Wales, West Indies, Zimbabwe.

Even if your country is listed please email me, and let me know where you are from

When we hug we pray,
Stay in the Light, 
In loving service,
Scott H. from N.Y. ~ cleandate 10/27/88
YOUn...@gmail.com
    

       ==  ==      "we are each of us angels 
  <^\()/\()/^>       with but one wing,  
      \/  \/  \/       and can only fly by 
       /  \/  \        embracing each other"
       `""``""`

Scott’s Daily Blog
http://intherooms.com/younmenhp

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