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Thomas Jefferson said to John Adams in 1815,
"I cannot live without books."
Neither could I.
Welcome to my bookshelf.



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Whiteraven (KY)
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easterngirl71 (IL)
copchic905 (MO)





My dear Mother has end stage congestive heart failure plus end stage kidney failure. I was told by her doctor on Nov. 21, 2008 that she probably has 3 months left.
If anyone would like to help cheer her up with a card, postcard or Romance novel (her fave type of book), I would sincerely appreciate it.
Thank You.
UPDATE: May 2010
Mom is still with us which proves that Doctors don't know everything.
He recently put her on a morphine patch for the pain that she suffers daily.
Along with the patch she also takes pain pills. Along with a handful of other pills throughout the day.
Postcards, books, thinking of you type cards and notes are still sincerely appreciated.
Mom loves receiving anything that isn't another hospital or doctor bill.
Again, Thank you all for your kindness.

My Mothers mailing info.

Mrs. Hildegard Hall
364 W. County Rd. 925 N.
Batesville, IN.
47006
U.S.A.





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My favourite journal entry:

I saw a picher of a naked lady on page 26. (Kyle)

(Note from Kyle's teacher: "What an observant boy! It's a three-inch sketch of the Roman goddess Venus emerging from a scallop shell. But it caused such chaos in our second grade classroom, Venus now wears a modest Magic-Marker swimsuit.)

I'd sent an educational book, Fossil (Eyewitness Books), to the oakcrest-eagles to add to their collection of Dino books.
I was completely unaware that there is (was) a nekkid lady on page 26.
Thank you, Kyle, for pointing that out to everyone and thank you Kyle's teacher for your Magic-Marker.



Things that make me go WooHoo !!!

Wishlist Books
A book that you really loved and would like to share with me.
Vampire Books.
True Crime Books.
Nora Roberts Books.
World War 2 Books.
Any Ghost/Haunting/Paranormal/Supernatural type books
Any Fairy, Elf, Unicorn, Dragon type books
Bookcrossing labels, bookplates, stickers, etc. (Homemade is fine.)
Bookmarks or bookstrings ( Homemade ones are wonderful )
Return address labels. I would love some with a fairy on them. Or a Snowman.
Coffee or Tea ( flavored, unflavored, any kind but decaf.)
Chocolate or any kind of candy. Would love to try regional or international.
Homemade CD's of Your favorite music.
Christmas Music CD's.
A Book Light.
Tim Tams.
Wings.


Book Wishlist listed at bottom of page. Different than the one I have posted on Cliffs.

What I'm Reading Now

Utterly Ingenious Five-Minute Mysteries - Ken Weber
From The Corner Of His Eye - Dean Koontz




Books I've Read

2007

01. The Good Old Days ( The Holocaust as Seen by It's Perpetrators & Bystanders ) - Ernst Klee, Willi Dressen, Volker Riess
02. Knock Three Times - Marion St. John Webb
03. The Child From The Sea - Elizabeth Goudge
04. Garden Of Graves - Maria Eftimiades
05. Monica's Story - Andrew Morton
06. Ice In His Veins - Carole Mortimer
07. Killer Kids - Don Lasseter
08. The Season Of Passage - Christopher Pike
09. Sleepers - Lorenzo Carcaterra
10. Dirt - Stuart Woods
11. The State Boys Rebellion - Michael D'Antonio
12. Frustration - Charlotte Lamb
13. To See You Again - Betty Schimmel, Joyce Gabriel
14. My Favorite Bride - Christina Dodd
15. Night - Elie Wiesel
16. The Body Farm - Patricia Cornwell
17. Chocolat -Joanne Harris
18. Four Elements Of Murder - D.B. Borton
19. A Witch Alone - Margaret Higgins
20. A Little Magic - Nora Roberts
21. The Eyes of the Dragon - Stephen King
22. Snow In April - Rosamunde Pilcher
23. Bless Me, Ultima - Rudolfo Anaya
24. The Concrete Blonde - Michael Connelly
25. The Awakening - Kate Chopin
26. Wild Animus - Rich Shapero
27. Chateau of Flowers:The Romantic Story of Lily of the Valley - Margaret Rome
28. Beach Roses - Jean Stone
29. Twin of Ice/Twin of Fire: Two Classic Novels - Jude Deveraux
30. Pet Sematary - Stephen King
31. The Cigarette Girl - Carol Wolper
32. It's Me, Anna - Elbie Loetter
33. The Burning Bed - Faith McNulty
34. Perfect Victim: The True Story of "The Girl in the Box" by the D.A. That Prosecuted Her Captor - Christine Mcguire, Carla Norton
35. Vanished - Danielle Steel
36. Remember the Morning - Thomas Fleming
37. The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty - A. N. Roquelaure, Anne Rice
38. Sex, Sin & Mayhem: Notorious Trials of the '90s - Colin Evans, Penelope Petzhold, Bernie Ryan, Tom Smith
39. The Haunting of Toby Jugg - Dennis Wheatley
40. Story of O - Pauline Reage
41. Juice: The O.J. Simpson Tragedy - Larry Browne & Paul Francis
42. The Sea Hunters: True Adventures with Famous Shipwrecks - Clive Cussler
43. What Jamie Saw - Carolyn Coman
44. Are You Out There, God ? - Sister Mary Rose McGeady
45. Go Ask Alice - Anonymous
46. House of Dark Delights - Louisa Burton

Books I've Read
2008

01. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
02. Granny Dan - Danielle Steel
03. The Demon in the Freezer : A True Story - Richard Preston
04. I Choose to Live - Sabine Dardenne
05. Pretzel Logic: A Novel - Lisa Rogak
06. They Couldn't Say No - Harvey Fulton
07. Notorious Prisons: An Inside Look at the World's Most Feared Institutions - Scott Christianson
08. Faery Magic - Mary Jo Putney, Jo Beverley, Barbara Samuel, Karen Harbaugh
09. The Big Bounce - Elmore Leonard
10. Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original Psycho - Harold Schechter
11. The Necronomicon - Simon
12. Readers Digest Condensed Books Vol.1, 1956.
Containing the following: Andersonville, Island In The Sun, An Episode Of Sparrows, Minding Our Own Business & The Long Ride Home.
13. O Happy Day (The Happy Goodman Story) - Jamie Buckingham
14. Persuasion - Jane Austen
15. An Angel A Week - Compilation
16. Skinny Dip - Carl Hiaasen
17. Amphigorey Too - Edward Gorey
18. Demons Are Forever: Confessions of a Demon-Hunting Soccer Mom -
Julie Kenner
19. Lost In Your Arms - Christina Dodd
20. Property Of - Alice Hoffman
21. What Do You Do All Day? - Amy Scheibe
22. Whisper the Winged Unicorn in a Wish for Whisper - Christopher Brown
23. Beauty's Punishment - Anne Rice
24. Beauty's Release - Anne Rice
25. The Church Cat - Mark Bryant
26. Frank and I - Anonymous
27. A Private Disgrace: Lizzie Borden By Daylight - Victoria Lincoln (Library Book)
28. Ghost Girl - Torey L. Hayden
29. A Safe Place - Lorenzo Carcaterra (Library Book)
30. Lizzie Borden: A Dance Of Death - Agnes de Mille (Library Book)
31. Stolen Lives: 20 Years In A Desert Jail - Malika Oufkir & Michele Fitoussi
32. Say You Love Satan - David St. Clair
33. One Child - Torey L. Hayden (Library Book)
34. The Tiger's Child - Torey L. Hayden (Library Book)
35. Anne Frank: Beyond The Diary - Ruud van der Rol and Rian Verhoeven (Library Book)
36. Hitler Youth: Growing Up In Hitler's Shadow - Susan Campbell Bartoletti (Library Book)
37. Ghosts and Real-Life Ghost Hunters - Michael Teitelbaum (Library Book)
38. Seer Of Shadows - Avi (Library Book)
39. The Boys From Brazil - Ira Levin
40. Peter and The Starcatchers - Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson (Library Book)
41. Annie Pitts, Swamp Monster - Diane deGroat
42. How Can The Heart Forget - Emilie Loring
43. Ella Minnow Pea - Mark Dunn
44. The Night the Bells Rang - Natalie Kinsey-Warnock
45. Famous Ghost Stories - Various Authors
46. Twilight Children: The True Story of Three Voices No One Heard - Until Someone Listened - Torey L. Hayden (Library Book)
47. Dead Men Die - E.L. Larkin
48. Titanic Crossing - Barbara Williams
49. Dragonsdale - Salamanda Drake (Library Book)
50. Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants - Ann Brashares (Library Book)
51. Snow White, Blood Red - Various Authors
52. Wise Children - Angela Carter
53. The Second Summer Of The Sisterhood - Ann Brashares (Library Book)
54. A House Called Awful End - Philip Ardagh
55. A Labor Of Love - Anne Geddes (Library Book)
56. Unholy Sacrifice - Robert Scott (Library Book)
57. The Matisse Stories - A. S. Byatt
58. The Red Dahlia - Lynda LaPlante (Library Book)
59. Drink With The Devil - Jack Higgins (Audio Book)
60. The Haunting Hour: Chills in the Dead of Night - R.L. Stine
61. When the Ghost Screams: True Stories of Victims Who Haunt - Leslie Rule (Library Book)
62. Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones - Alvin Schwartz
63. Pleasing the Ghost - Sharon Creech
64. The Chocolate War - Robert Cormier (Library Book)
65. To Catch a King - Jack Higgins (Audio Book)
66. Dead Until Dark - Charlaine Harris
67. Sickened - Julie Gregory
68. Haunted Indiana - Mark Marimen (Library Book)
69. Haunted Indiana 2 - Mark Marimen (Library Book)
70. Haunted Indiana 3 - Mark Marimen (Library Book)
71. Haunted Indiana 4 - Mark Marimen (Library Book)
72. Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris
73. The Secret Lives Of The Sushi Club - Christy Yorke
74. Bruce Springsteen: The Boss! - Nancy Robison
75. Family Blessings - LaVyrle Spencer (Audio Cassette)
76. Nightmare In Wichita - Robert Beattie
77. Love's Executioner - Irvin D. Yalom, M.D. (Audio Cassette)
78. Dragonwyck - Anya Seton
79. I Have Lived In The Monster - Robert K. Ressler and Tom Shachtman (Library Book)
80. Bound Feet and Western Dress - Pang-Mei Chang
81. trash sex magic - Jennifer Stevenson
82. The Same Stuff As Stars - Katherine Paterson (Library Book)
83. The Pianist - Wladyslaw Szpilman
84. When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit - Judith Kerr
85. Whoever Fights Monsters - Robert K. Ressler and Tom Shachtman (Library Book)
86. Beyond The Chocolate War - Robert Cormier (Library Book)
87. A Time To Mourn, A Time To Dance: Help For The Losses In Life - Various
88. The Lottery Winner - Mary Higgins Clark (Audio)



Books Read 2009

01. Justice Is Served - Robert K. Ressler (Library Book)
02. House Of Evil - John Dean (Library Book)
03. Hunting Evil - Carlton Smith (Library Book)
04. Cellar of Horror - Ken Engalde
05. The Gift - Julie Garwood
06. Unsigned - Julie Kaewert
07. Enchanted - Nancy Madore (Bookring)
08. Pleasures - Anthology
09. The Crone's Book of Words - Valerie Worth
10. When Ghosts Speak - Mary Ann Winkowski (Library Book)
11. My Life Among The Serial Killers - Helen Morrison, M.D. (Library Book)
12. Living Dead In Dallas - Charlaine Harris (Library Book)
13. Weird Indiana - Mark Marimen, James A. Willis, Troy Taylor (Library Book)
14. Grave Sight - Charlaine Harris (Library Book)
15. Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure - Sarah Macdonald
16. Two Of A Kind : Impulse\The Best Mistake - Nora Roberts
17. Valentine - Tom Savage (Library Book)
18. Club Dead - Charlaine Harris (Library Book)
19. Many Bloody Returns - Anthology (Library Book)
20. Dead To The World - Charlaine Harris
21. Dead as a Doornail - Charlaine Harris (Library Book)
22. Definitely Dead - Charlaine Harris
23. The Color Of Magic - Terry Pratchett
24. A Mad Desire To Dance - Elie Wiesel (Library Book)
25. The Return of the Light: Twelve Tales from Around the World for the Winter Solstice - Carolyn McVickar Edwards
26. Grave Surprise - Charlaine Harris (Library Book)
27. Footsucker - Geoff Nicholson
28. An Ice Cold Grave - Charlaine Harris (Library Book)
29. All Together Dead - Charlaine Harris (Library Book)
30. Bonk - Mary Roach (Bookring)
31. From Dead To Worse - Charlaine Harris (Library Book)
32. Comes A Horseman - Robert Liparulo
33. Her Montana Millionaire - Crystal Green
34. The Pollen Room - Zoe Jenny
35. St. Joseph's Children - Terry Ganey
36. Pastime - Robert B. Parker
37. Carpe Demon: Adventures of a Demon-Hunting Soccer Mom - Julie Kenner (Library Book)
38. Chinese Cinderella - Adeline Yen Mah (Library Book)
39. Ghostland - Jean Hager (Library Book)
40. They Cage The Animals At Night - Jennings Michael Burch (Library Book)
41. All American Girl - Meg Cabot
42. Getting Away With Murder - Chris Crowe (Library Book)
43. California Demon - Julie Kenner (Library Book)
44. 101 Uses For A Bridesmaid Dress - Cindy Walker
45. Deja Demon - Julie Kenner (Library Book)
46. Falling Leaves - Adeline Yen Mah (Library Book)
47. Sleeping With A Stranger - Patricia Wiklund, Ph.D. (Library Book)
48. Dead And Gone - Charlaine Harris (Library Book)
49. Moon Walk - Michael Jackson (Library Book)
50. The Faery Reel: Tales From the Twilight Realm - Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling (Bookring)
51. The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields
52. The Vampire of New York - Lee Hunt
53. A Separate God - Lucinda Streiker-Schmidt
54. Things Pondered: From the Heart of a Lesser Woman - Beth Moore
55. Midnight In Death - J.D. Robb
56. The Little Book Of Revenge - Lucrece & Grenville Danvers
57. When We Were Very Young - A.A. Milne
58. A Spot Of Bother - Mark Haddon (Library Book)
59. Stray - Rachel Vincent (Bookring)
60. A Treasured Friendship -Carrie Bender
61. Once Dead, Twice Shy - Kim Harrison (Library Book)
62. Tortured for Christ - Richard Wurmbrand
63. Apocalypse 2012 - Gary Jennings (Library Book)
64. Home To Italy - Peter Pezzelli
65. Splendid Slippers - Beverly Jackson
66. The Girlfriends' Bible - Cathy Hamilton
67. Blue Bloods - Melissa De La Cruz (Library Book)
68. Escape The Night - Richard North Patterson
69. From the Heart of a Friend: 101 Words from the Heart - Brownlow
70. Ghosts In Irish Houses - James Reynolds (Library Book)
71. Evermore - Alyson Noel (Library Book)
72. Nasty Men - Jay Carter
73. The Ghostly Register - Arthur Myers
74. The Cat on My Shoulder - Lisa Angowski Rogak
75. Masquerade - Melissa De La Cruz (Library Book)
76. First They Killed My Father: a daughter of cambodia remembers - Loung Ung (Library Book)
77. I Believe In Ghosts - Danton Walker (Library Book)
78. I'm Your Santa - Anthology
79. Christmastime - Sandra Boynton
80. Revelations - Melissa De La Cruz (Library Book)
81. Oddkins - Dean R. Koontz
82. The Eleventh Victim - Nancy Grace (Library Book)
83. Can This Be Christmas ? - Debbie Macomber (Library Book)


Books read 2010

01. Blue Moon - Alyson Noel (Library Book)
02. Masquerade: Dancing Around Death In Nazi-Occupied Hungary - Tivadar Soros (Library Book)
03. Beyond The Body Farm - Dr. Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson
04. My Date With Satan - Stacey Richter
05. Sam Ellis's Island - Beatrice Siegel
06. Bound - Donna Jo Napoli
07. Castles Burning - Magda Denes (Library Book)
08. Witch-Hunt: Mysteries Of The Salem Witch Trails - Marc Aronson
09. The Van Alen Legacy - Melissa De La Cruz (Library Book)
10. A Christmas Blizzard - Garrison Keillor (Library Book)
11. Blackbird - Jennifer Lauck
12. When Do Fish Sleep? - David Feldman
13. Wolfsbane and Mistletoe - Anthology (Library Book)
14. Tituba: Reluctant Witch Of Salem - Elaine G. Breslaw (Library Book)
15. Still Waters - Jennifer Lauck (Library Book)
16. A Book Of Mermaids - Ruth Manning-Sanders
17. Hellion - Bertrice Small
18. The Hunter's Prey - Diane Whiteside
19. Sexing The Cherry - Jeanette Winterson (Bookring)
20. Faeries - Brian Froud and Alan Lee (Library Book)
21. Cue The Bunny On The Rainbow - Alan Rafkin (Library Book)
22. Out Of India - Michael Foss
23. Chicken Soup for the Soul - The Book of Christmas Virtues - Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen and Carol McAdoo
24. Gentle Harvest - Florence Jacobs
25. The Wicked, Wicked Ladies In The Haunted House - Mary Chase
26. If Only You Knew How Much I Smell You: True Portraits of Dogs - Valerie Shaff (photos), Roy Blount (text)
27. 50 Jobs Worse Than Yours - Justin Racz
28. Pinocchio, Vampire Slayer - Van Jensen, Dusty Higgins (Library Book)
29. Cirque Du Freak: A Living Nightmare - Darren Shan (Library Book)
30. The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks
31. Evil Beyond Belief: An A-Z Of Heinous Crimes - Charlotte Greig & John Marlowe (Library Book)
32. Animal Farm - George Orwell
33. Against Medical Advice - James Patterson & Hal Friedman (Library Book)
34. Nothing Natural - Jenny Diski
35. Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant - Darren Shan
36. Cirque Du Freak: Tunnels Of Blood - Darren Shan
37. Clutter's Last Stand - Don Aslett
38. Not For Packrats Only - Don Aslett
39. Cirque Du Freak: Vampire Mountain - Darren Shan
40. Once Upon A Christmas - Emilie Griffin
41. Growing Up Psyshic: From Skeptic To Believer - Michael Bodine
42. Survival In Auschwitz - Primo Levi
43. Notorious 92: Indiana's Most Heinous Murders In All 92 Counties - Andrew E. Stoner
44. Cirque Du Freak: Trials Of Death - Darren Shan
45. Dead In The Family - Charlaine Harris
46. Briar Rose - Jane Yolen
47. Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire Prince - Darren Shan
48. Ghostgirl: Rest In Popularity - Tonya Hurley
49. Slow Death - Jim Fielder
50. Celestine Prophecy: An Adventure - James Redfield
51. Moonstruck In Manhattan - Cara Summers
52. Out Of Control: The Clara Harris Murder Case - Steven Long
53. Ghostgirl: Homecoming - Tonya Hurley
54. Ghostgirl: Lovesick - Tonya Hurley
55. Cirque Du Freak: Hunters Of The Dusk - Darren Shan
56. Clutter Free Finally and Forever - Don Aslett
57. Anguished English - Richard Lederer
58. Of Midnight Tales Obsessed - George D. Kovach
59. Bite - Anthology
60. Werewolf - Bill Pronzini (Anthology)

2011

01. An American Haunting: The Bell Witch - Brent Monahan
02. Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears - Anthology
03. The Demonata: Lord Loss - Darren Shan
04. Vampire Hunter D - Hideyuki Kikuchi
05. Cat O' Nine Tales - Jeffrey Archer
06. The Hiding Place - Corrie Ten Boom
07. Return To The Hiding Place - Hans Poley
08. Vampire Hunter D: Raiser Of Gales - Hideyuki Kikuchi
09. Williamsburg: Cradle of the Revolution - Ron and Nancy Goor
10. Mister God, This Is Anna - Fynn
11. Auschwitz - David Robson
12. Marilyn Monroe: Confidential - Lena Pepitone, William Stadiem
13. But Inside I'm Screaming - Eliabeth Flock
14. I Am Legend - Richard Matheson
15. Children Of The Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele And The Untold Story Of The Twins Of Auschwitz - Lucette Matalon Lagnado and Sheila Cohn Dekel
16. I Was A Doctor In Auschwitz - Giselle Perl
17. A Prisoner and Yet... - Corrie ten Boom
18. Things I've Been Silent About: Memories - Azar Nafisi
19. Hana's Suitcase: A True Story - Karen Levine
20. Escape From Auschwitz: I Cannot Forgive - Rudolf Vrba & Alan Bestic
21. Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance With Death - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
22. This Way For The Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen - Tadeusz Borowski
23. The Devil's Workshop: A Memoir of the Nazi Counterfeiting Operation - Adolf Burger
24. Psychopath - Keith Ablow
25. The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers - Harry Bernstein
26. Haunted Happenings - Robert Ellis Cahill
27. Graveyard: True Hauntings From An Old New England Cemetery - Ed and Lorraine Warren
28. Panzram: A Journal of Murder - Thomas E. Gaddis & James O. Long
29. Lessons In Evil, Lessons From The Light: A True Story of Satanic Abuse and Spiritual Healing - Gail Carr Feldman
30. A Wolf At The Door and Other Retold Fairy Tales - Anthology
31. Holly - Jude Deveraux
32. The Christmas Eve Reader: Selections From A Christmas Feast - Anthology


2012

01. Extra Nutty: Even More Letters From A Nut - Ted L. Nancy
02. Introducing Hinduism - Malcolm Pitt
03. Okay, So I Don't Have A Headache - Cristina Ferrare
04. Everlasting - Nancy Thayer
05. Beaming Sonny Home - Cathie Pelletier
06. The Amsterdam Cops: Collected Stories - Janwillem van de Wetering
07. Adolf Hitler: My Part In His Downfall - Spike Milligan
08. Life Begins And Ends With Girlfriends - Judith B. Van Ginkel, Ph.D. and Betsy Kyte Newman
09. Black-eyed Suzie - Susan Shaw
10. Superstitious - R.L. Stine
11. He's Just Not That Into You - Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo
12. Bloodsucking Fiends - Chistopher Moore
13. Dayton Ghosts - Karen Laven (Library Book)
14. Burned Alive: A Survivor Of An "Honor Killing" Speaks Out - Souad
15. Every Woman's Nightmare - Steven Long
16. When Happily Ever After Ends - Lurlene McDaniel
17. Moondust - Thomas Burnett Swann
18. Herstory: What I Learned in My Bathtub and More True Stories on Life, Love and Other Inconveniences - Anthology
19. The Day Satan Called - Bill Scott
20.

My Wish List

I Escaped the Holocaust - A.M. Weinberger
Minion (A Vampire Huntress Legend) - L. A. Banks
Killer Clown - Terry Sullivan, Peter Maiken
The German Army and Genocide - Hamburg Institute
Spoken in Darkness: Small-Town Murder and a Friendship Beyond Death
- Ann E. Imbrie
Hellcatraz: the Rock of Despair - Roy Gardner
The Road of Lost Innocence - Somaly Mam
Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper - Diablo Cody
Heart Of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
Danse Macabre - Laurell K. Hamilton
Blood Noir - Laurell K. Hamilton

Books are kind of like a mixed box of chocolates,
you don't know if you're going to like the one you picked until you bite into it. :D



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Thanks Cliff.

Please don't send me emails or postal letters asking me to join a Book Chain.
I am not at all interested.
Thank you.



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