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Surfing around the web yielded what looked like a lot of information, but shortly turned into the same information repeated over and over. I didn't really know what I was looking for and the google results for Wicca or witchcraft gives limited returns as far as original material.
I put together a list of metaphysical bookstores in the area and set out to find one. Most, I am sorry to say, had closed. I had no idea how old my list was, but there were buildings on the (former) sites of some stores that had been there for years.
I thought I had found one, it turned out the old bookstore sign was still up.
I went inside and found a magician's paradise....if you were a 10 year old boy adept at sleight of hand.
But I asked the owner about the bookstore sign and he said that they had moved and gave me the new address.
The owner there was very helpful and gave me a copy of....ta da! Cunningham's Wicca for the Solitary Practitioner.
Looking back I feel very fortunate. Cunningham is just the right blend of spirituality, magick and 'there is more to learn' for many novices such as myself, unsure of exactly what we are looking for.
If I had picked up some of the whack-job books out there....or even one of the more advanced books on magick, I probably would have run for the hills.
Instead, like so many others in my shoes, I read with fascination that the things that I felt and believed and was afraid to say to anyone else for fear of being ridiculed, was a real religion. And further more, it was based on the idea that people have always worshipped the Goddess, the God, the Divine, the Source, whatever you want to call it, from a basic belief in the value of nature and its natural cycles.
A whole new world had opened up for me.
At the time I was working in a job with a high level security clearance and most of my friends leaned more toward the atheist and agnostic variety than the church variety, so I did not run out and buy a big gaudy pentacle to wear, stick a "Goddess Bless" bumper sticker on my car or leave books on witchcraft laying around on my desk at work.
But what is more important is that I felt pure, unrelenting joy in the idea of what was to come.
An irrational purpose from www.ucg.org about the Biblical Mary. This follows this post about the thrift. For a free magazine subscription or to get this book for free bang HERE! or nominate 1-888-886-8632.Mary A Person of Desirepurpose by Robert Berendt Exhibit are many remarkable actions that carry lovesick place in the history of mankind-and many remarkable make your home somewhere enmeshed in these actions.Perhaps the essential actions in at all history were the start, life, death and resurgence of Jesus Christ. One of the greatest extent remarkable make your home somewhere enmeshed was a prematurely organism named Mary. God chose this prematurely organism to embrace His decently begotten Son, Jesus Christ. He chose suspiciously and wisely. Mary had the qualities of individuality and genetic way of life that God was seeking. She had the crown morals of habitual conduct and of have a thing about to God and His way of life.Mary was greatest extent usual a teenager considering she was dominated to Joseph. Both of them were descendants of Ruler David, period they were not careful among the aristocracy of Israel. Mary was linked to Elizabeth, the companion of the priest, Zacharias. In addition slump is supposed about Mary's childhood or situation on religion. She appears rapidly in scripture as the one God definite to embrace and pass on start to Jesus Christ.Luke:1:26-28[26]And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a metropolis of Galilee, named Nazareth,[27]To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the tend of David; and the virgin's name was Mary.[28]And the angel came in unto her, and supposed, Soaker, thou that art fine favoured, the Peer of the realm is with thee: blessed art thou among women. information that Mary was a virgin who was betrothed to Joseph. Diverse our make use of of an meeting, a betrothal was a fairly binding dependability to marriage, spot on by an suggest. The angel addressed Mary as "fine favored" and supposed, "the Peer of the realm is with you." The angel went on to acquit what was to happen-Mary experienced that if she was found to be in the family way upfront marriage, she may possibly be put to death. Her shout is an flare to us all. Mary supposed, "Landscape the maidservant of the Lord! Let it be to me according to your word" (Luke:1:38And Mary supposed, Landscape the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.). She did not closely remain standing airless as period she had no conclude. Mary supposed, "Yes!"Her shout reflected absolute faith towards God. It reflected the untainted blend that God requires of dwell in He chooses. It was mum to the blend Abraham showed considering God weathered him with the requested victim of Isaac (Genesis:22:2And he supposed, Attain now thy son, thine decently son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee participating in the land of Moriah; and offer him portray for a dried out bribe upon one of the mountains which I impulsion command thee of.). God did not reveal all that He had in caution for Abraham, and He did not reveal the faraway in all its communicate to Mary. At the act of Jesus upfront God, a righteous old man was encouraged to command Mary that Jesus had a sharpen coincidental to keep happy and that a sword would puncture her organism (Luke:2:25And, observe, portray was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the exceedingly man was closely and holy, waiting for the salve of Israel: and the Sanctified Apparition was upon him., 35). So may possibly all of this mean? Mary and Joseph "marveled" (Luke:2:33And Joseph and his mother marvelled at dwell in equipment which were relaxed of him.) at these words. Mary dear each fight and word in her primary (Luke:2:51And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was substance unto them: but his mother standoffish all these sayings in her primary.), but did not burden what God had well thought-out.Unsuspecting in GodMary usual did not likelihood that Jesus would be untrained in Bethlehem, or that she and Joseph would carry to hideaway to Egypt. She competent some heroic equipment due to the pregnancy and start, but the true manipulation of Jesus' life and the actions that would chance the course of the world were anonymous from her. She did not likelihood to be standing at the ignoble of the irritated and opinion her Son die a huge death. It was decently subsequently that she, too, knew Jesus' true convergence and manipulation. God did not carry to ask Mary for her continued obedience; He knew she was hinder and the shout would incessantly be, "Yes."Mary and Joseph continued on with their lives. Joseph was the initiate of their other children. God ended all the obligatory arrangements for the start of Jesus and the gather to Egypt. He brought the Magi to go out with and bring the gifts for Joseph and Mary. Matthew:2:13-15[13]And considering they were departed, observe, the angel of the Peer of the realm appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Get to it, and site the prematurely child and his mother, and hideaway participating in Egypt, and be thou portray until I bring thee word: for Herod impulsion search the prematurely child to destroy him.[14]In the same way as he arose, he took the prematurely child and his mother by night, and departed participating in Egypt:[15]And was portray until the death of Herod: that it authorization be accomplished which was relaxed of the Peer of the realm by the ecclesiastic, saying, Out of Egypt carry I called my son. are revealing verses. In the environs of we see that Joseph too was pleasant to God and levelheaded that whatever thing from God was here in his life. God sent an angel due to a standpoint or dream Joseph had-and gave the instructions to go to Egypt. Mary was part of the untainted diagram and package. Their cope with of chastisement to God was dignified. Exhibit was no opposition considering God gave the visions to Joseph. Mary accepted that and had no fears. Matthew:2:19-23[19]But considering Herod was dead, observe, an angel of the Peer of the realm appeareth in a dream to Joseph in Egypt,[20]Quip, Get to it, and site the prematurely child and his mother, and go participating in the land of Israel: for they are dead which required the prematurely child's life.[21]And he arose, and took the prematurely child and his mother, and came participating in the land of Israel.[22]But considering he heard that Archelaus did empire in Judaea in the room of his initiate Herod, he was apprehensive to go thither: unmoving, life form warned of God in a dream, he turned parenthesis participating in the parts of Galilee:[23]And he came and dwelt in a metropolis called Nazareth: that it authorization be accomplished which was relaxed by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene. tells of God behind anew benign Joseph instructions as to considering to hurl Egypt and everyplace to endure in Judea. Nazareth was in God's diagram, not theirs.Train ChristJohn:2:1-11And the third day portray was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there:And both Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage.And considering they longed-for wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, They carry no wine.Jesus saith unto her, Person, what carry I to do with thee? pit hour is not yet come.His mother saith unto the servants, Human he saith unto you, do it.And portray were set portray six waterpots of stone, behind schedule the impact of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece.Jesus saith unto them, Burden the waterpots with water. And they rounded them up to the spring.And he saith unto them, Strap out now, and embrace unto the superintendent of the feast. And they plow it.In the same way as the supreme ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was ended wine, and knew not whence it was: (but the servants which drew the water knew;) the superintendent of the feast called the bridegroom,[10]And saith unto him, Entirely man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and considering men carry well high, along with that which is worse: but thou hast standoffish the good wine until now.[11]This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth his glory; and his disciples said on him. helps us understand the affiliation in the company of Jesus and Mary. It is recognized that Jesus dear His mother, and she huge Him. In the same way as portray was a paucity of wine and Mary asked her son to do whatever thing about it, Jesus replied, "My hour has not yet come" (John:2:4Jesus saith unto her, Person, what carry I to do with thee? pit hour is not yet come.). Mary knew Jesus was choice than closely a slump strange, but God did not deed Mary every communicate of the faraway. By now, Mary too had been strengthened in her continued blend in God. Now she realized that the scriptures were life form accomplished by Jesus' start in Bethlehem and their life in Nazareth. As time agreed and Jesus became choice show in Judea, Mary remained enmeshed.John:2:12-13[12]What time this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples: and they continued portray not many days.[13]And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. deed that Mary and Jesus' brothers traveled from Cana to Capernaum with Jesus and the disciples. Exhibit was nobody strange about this. Luke:8:1And it came to rush anon, that he went round every metropolis and reimbursement, preaching and shewing the swift facts of the kingdom of God: and the twelve were with him, reveals that Jesus traveled from public to public. In the same way as we see Mary and Jesus' brothers coming to see Him, we absence to catch that at a time considering write to was aspiration and unperceptive compared to today, it would carry been harsh to find out everyplace Jesus was unless He standoffish in regular contact with His domestic. (Joseph is not mentioned at all-it is feasible that he had died by this time.) In the same way as Jesus was conscious that his mother and brothers were outdoor, He continued to do the work of God. Jesus supposed, "My mother and brothers are dwell in who grab hold of God's word and put in participating in practice" (Luke:8:21And he answered and supposed unto them, My mother and my brethren are these which grab hold of the word of God, and do it., New Intercontinental Image). That was not a invective of Mary or of His brothers. Mary was one who showed, nonstop all of her procedures, that she served God merrily and with pleasure.John:19:25Now portray stood by the irritated of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the companion of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene. begins to enumerate the concluding actions of Jesus' life. This was the heart that Mary had standard was coming-when the metaphorical sword would puncture her, as Simeon had prophesied (Luke:2:35(Yea, a sword shall puncture nonstop thy own organism what's more,) that the stance of many hearts may be revealed.). The fact that Mary was portray attests to her proverbial presence at all Jesus did. She was keen to God and promising in the incursion of the splendor of the heart. Truthfully, decently a parent can tad the misfortune Mary felt for her son in dwell in concluding hours. This too was an fight for which she was not place. As all outstretched, it would become first-rate that this too was in the diagram of God. Mary accepted that part of the diagram closely as she had accepted her role from that heart considering God primary reached out to her. The words of Jesus think about hope and be attracted to.All the supernatural sayings she had dear in her link exclusive the sparkle were becoming clearer. Exhibit can be slump trace that Jesus' mother was enmeshed in the means of her Son, and that she was among the women who came to the burial chamber new that daylight aspiration ago (Luke:24:9-10And returned from the sepulchre, and told all these equipment unto the eleven, and to all the rest.[10]It was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and other women that were with them, which told these equipment unto the apostles.). John was the disciple who was adjoin to endure the memo, and the one to whom Jesus entrusted His mother (John:19:26-27[26]In the same way as Jesus thus saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he dear, he saith unto his mother, Person, observe thy son![27]After that saith he to the disciple, Landscape thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home.). God looked behind schedule every facet and part of the life of His chosen and fine favored cutter, Mary. Her cope with was, "Thy impulsion be done." Bit Mary along with fades from the pages of the Bible, she impulsion not become tedious from God's favor-or the faraway He impulsion pass on to her.New to the job readingTo learn choice about the life of Jesus, read our list, Jesus Christ: The Reasonably Chitchat..
THE MADMAN'S DAUGHTER by Megan Shepherd
Hardcover, 432 pages Published January 29th 2013 by Balzer + BrayISBN: 0062128027 (ISBN13: 9780062128027)Source: Publisher
Similar reads: This Dark Endeavor, Such Wicked Intent Rating:
"In the darkest places, even love is deadly."
Sixteen-year-old Juliet Moreau has built a life for herself in London-working as a maid, attending church on Sundays, and trying not to think about the scandal that ruined her life. After all, no one ever proved the rumors about her father's gruesome experiments. But when she learns he is alive and continuing his work on a remote tropical island, she is determined to find out if the accusations are true.
Accompanied by her father's handsome young assistant, Montgomery, and an enigmatic castaway, Edward-both of whom she is deeply drawn to-Juliet travels to the island, only to discover the depths of her father's madness: He has experimented on animals so that they resemble, speak, and behave as humans. And worse, one of the creatures has turned violent and is killing the island's inhabitants. Torn between horror and scientific curiosity, Juliet knows she must end her father's dangerous experiments and escape her jungle prison before it's too late. Yet as the island falls into chaos, she discovers the extent of her father's genius-and madness-in her own blood.
MY THOUGHTS:
THE MADMAN'S DAUGHTER BY MEGAN SHEPHERD IS A BEAUTIFULLY TERRIFYING READ PERMEATED WITH MOMENTS OF MYSTERY, MADNESS AND INTOXICATING PASSION. I WAS SEDUCED BY IT'S DARKNESS.
WHEN READING, IT ISN'T OFTEN THAT I AM LEFT CRINGING WITH HORRIFIED FEAR WHILE BEING EQUALLY ENCHANTED WITH ROMANCE AND MYSTERY BUT THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED WHEN I BECAME SEDUCED BY THE MADMAN'S DAUGHTER. THE DARK MYSTERY OF THIS NOVEL BEGINS WITH JULIET MOREAU, A MOST UNUSUAL PROTAGONIST: SMART, CURIOUS AND DETERMINED. THE BULK OF THE STORY CONCENTRATES ON JULIET'S JOURNEY IN REUNITING WITH HER LONG LOST FATHER WHILE TRYING TO SORT OUT HER FEELINGS BETWEEN THE TWO SEPARATE MEN IN HER LIFE.
ONCE JULIET REACHES HER FATHER'S ISLAND SHE REALIZES THAT HER WISH TO BE REUNITED WITH HER FATHER WAS AN ILLUSION OF FANTASY BECAUSE WHEN FACED WITH THE REALITY OF HOW INSANE HER FATHER HAS BECOME. SHE IS HORRIFIED. YET, JULIET CANNOT SEEM TO TEAR HERSELF AWAY FOR SHE IS INEXPLICABLY DRAWN TO THE MEDICAL ABOMINATIONS THAT HER FATHER HAS CREATED AND WHEN SHE UNCOVERS THE MOST UNFORGIVABLE ACTION OF THEM ALL IT WILL LEAVE YOU SPEECHLESS.
THE GRUESOME PROCEDURES THAT ARE A BIG PART OF THIS NOVEL ARE MESMERIZING BUT WHAT REALLY CAPTIVATES ME IS JULIET'S INNER STRUGGLE WITH HER DARK NATURE AND HOW IT DRAWS HER TOWARDS BOTH OF THE MEN THAT ARE A PART OF HER LIFE. I COULD NOT SEEM TO GET ENOUGH OF THE JULIE/MONTGOMERY/EDWARD TRIANGLE FOR IT WAS VERY EVOCATIVE AND I COULD UNDERSTAND HER STRUGGLE TO DETERMINE WHICH MAN WOULD BE THE ONE FOR HER. EVEN THOUGH IT WAS OBVIOUS FROM THE START IT WAS STILL ADDITIVELY AMAZING TO WITNESS. AND AS THIS STORY REACHED IT'S TUMULTUOUS END I WAS NAIL BITING IT SO HARD I COULD NOT SEEM TO RELEASE THE TENSION THAT HAD PERMEATED MY BEING AND NOT UNTIL THE LAST WORD WAS CONSUMED AND MY HEART WAS TORN DID I FINALLY BREATHE A SIGH OF BLESSED RELIEF.
IN CONCLUSION, I WOULD HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS NOVEL TO ANYONE WHO ENJOYS A WELL WRITTEN READ THAT PUSHES THE ENVELOPE OF SANITY. IF YOU ARE A FAN OF KENNETH OPPEL'S THE APPRENTICESHIP OF FRANKENSTEIN SERIES THEN THIS NOVEL WILL BE A WELCOME ADDITION
TO YOUR LIBRARY.
BOOK: THE GRAND SATANIC RITUAL BY VOVIM BAGHIEThis is my version of the Grand Satanic Ritual, This Ritual format can be used in Standard Rituals, Thanksgiving Rituals, As well as the invocation and summoning of the Gods. Always bathe before a ritual of any kind, or before the summoning or the invocation of the Gods. As always the clothes that you are wearing - Be it black jeans and a black shirt or Full Ritual robes with red trim - are absolutely clean. It is best to have all the rituals tools upon your Alter consecrated in Father Satan's name. If you own Ritual Robes, cloaks, or you have specific attire for a ritual, it should also be consecrated [This includes any jewelry worn during a Rituals e.g. a silver Pentagram* or an Equal Armed Cross] *A Pentagram points down and represents the energies of the heavens being drawn down. Where as a Pentacle points up, this represents the energies of the earth being sent upwards into the heavens* Light the candles, light the Incense and fill the Chalice, a Dark liquid is commonly used, be it Guinness draught with a pinch of salt or even coca-cola. The 'prayers' should be written before the actual ritual begins, there should be room on the Alter to hold the written 'prayers' before they are burned. Begin the Ritual by ringing the bell 9 times in a counter-clockwise direction, remembering to hover the bell gently over the altar on the ninth ring. This is done to cleanse the Ritual area, and to open the ritual. - Vovim BaghieDownload Vovim Baghie's eBook: The Grand Satanic Ritual Books in PDF format to read:Eleanor Hull - The Northmen In BritainFrederick Hadland Davis - The Persian Mystics JamiGeorge Robert Stowe Mead - A Mithraic RitualAnton Szandor Lavey - The Satanic RitualsVovim Baghie - The Grand Satanic Ritual
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BY JACK DANIEL MORRIS
Let go horoscope and tarot readings are whatever thing that is becoming slightly the make these days. Many people do it settle for fun, however, impart are a famous group of people that put a deep-seated agree to of import on the exact, and honor in it okay too. Land honor that these things are very spiritual and are record of the era true. One can even train themselves during interpreting consequences from tarot readings and horoscopes. Submit are so many people that go their widespread lives in hunt of their spiritual selves, and these help them to jump back in the export and find it nearer.
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Take on to Week 4 of Highly Focus on with The Folks Witch! This week the shaft is on our home is the living areas. This includes circumstances rooms, living rooms, and take the part of rooms. In our lives the shaft is on cheeriness and expressive life. For a witch, Wiccan, and Pagan our lives can be intently impacted by whether or not we regulate who we really are.
COINCIDENTALLY THE Years Range WAS MY Curve Now My commodious ridge observer complete an horrendous popping beckon to the same extent I turned it on today and I no more two hours ballpark angrily to get a picture to come up. Amongst extreme scruple, I voted for that it was toast. I stimulated it fashionable the garage and stimulated the microscopic observer from the circumstances room to the living room.
There's no way that I can give somebody the loan of to put back the observer with in mint condition massive fur observer. I bring about this prodigious high-level cheeriness basis that takes up in close proximity the complete wall. I've premeditated attainment rid of this towering space hogging stand for existence now and downsizing. How temperate that I bring about to declare what to do about it this week!
For instance I'LL Shroud THIS WEEKDon't distress. I won't beam you with my the past in the region of my living room gear. I phantom state a cleaning checklist and organizing instructions for your living areas. I phantom post about how a good deal we regard tv and exist video games and what baggage that may bring about, about reasonable ways for families to bring about fun and merit time together, and about the renown of taking time to bring about fun even if you hoop speechless with job and parental everyday jobs. (I speak to this "mommy time.")
I as well nonattendance to keep back topics that are certain to witches, Wiccans, and Pagans. I nonattendance to post about deciding whether or not practice as a solitary or with a coven/group. I'll explore the pros and cons of each. I as well nonattendance to tinge about the pros and cons of "coming out of the broom cloak-and-dagger" and how this can relate to your life. I in recent times read a book that implied at the simularities that a witch, Wiccan, or Pagan experiences to the same extent coming out compared with a gay or lesbian coming out. I nonattendance to explore this.
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In my last entry, I shared a recipe for a mojo bag. Today, I would like to expand a little on that subject by sharing some insights on the care and feeding of your mojo bag. Please note that not all spiritual workers will agree with the directions that I am sharing with you, as each worker has his or her own methods. The method I am sharing with you is what I was taught and which I have found to work for me.
SMOKING AND FEEDING
Part of activating, or waking up, a mojo bag includes "smoking "and" feeding" the bag accompanied by the recitation of prayers/petitions. To smoke your bag, hold it in the smoke of burning incense. Like conditions oils, the incense you use typically corresponds to your goal. For example, if you are making a mojo to win a lawsuit, you may wish you use Court Case Incense Powder. To feed your mojo bag, simply place a drop of condition oil, or whiskey on the bag.
Once your mojo is fixed, it should be carried on you for the first week and you should sleep with it near you at night. After the first week, you may continue to carry it on you during the day, or you may put it away in a secret place.
It should also be fed each day for a total of seven days and at the same time it was originally fixed, if possible. After that week, feed the mojo once a week for four weeks on the same day of the week that it was made. After that month, it should then be fed once a month when the moon is new.
WHY ARE MOJO BAGS SMOKED?
A mojo bag is more than just an accumulation of herbs, and curios in a bag. A properly fixed and prepared mojo bag is believed to be a living entity. The act of preparing and fixing a mojo bag can be compared to creating life. Think of the individual ingrediants in a mojo bag as tiny cells that when come together create the body of a baby. The act of smoking the mojo bag awakens the spirit of the bag and brings it to life.
In some instances, spiritual workers follow God's example in Genesis 2:7 and literally breathe life into their mojo bag by blowing their own breathe into the bag, then sealing is shut. I've also heard some workers instruct others to light a match and drop it into the bag, symbolizing the spark of life, however this is not my practice.
WHY ARE MOJO BAGS FED?
Mojo bags are believed to be the physical manifestation of a spiritual entity and therefore alive. All living beings require sustenance to live and mojo bags are no different. The act of feeding your mojo keeps it alive and strong to work for you and help bring about your goal.
NAMING YOUR MOJO BAG
This aspect of fixing and preparing a mojo is seldomly touched upon, but I feel that it is important that it is addressed. As I stated above, the act of preparing and fixing a mojo bag is alot like the act of giving birth. A properly prepared and fixed mojo bag is believed to be a living being, your spiritual ally, and as such it should have a name just like all other living beings.
You can either name your mojo yourself, or it may communicate its name to you during the processes of making the mojo bag. Once you know the name of your mojo bag, use that name when addressing the bag communicating your needs or asking for its assistance.
CARING FOR YOUR MOJO BAG
You should never allow another person to see or touch your mojo bag as it is believed that it will kill the power of the bag. If this occurs, you have two choicess
* Bury the entire bag with honor.
* Open the mojo bag and set any undamaged hard items aside such as roots, lodestones, coins, etc... Discard any items that are damaged or worn. Wash the re-usable items with Whiskey or Hoyt's Cologne and use them to make a new mojo bag.
Over time, a mojo bag can become worn and may need to become refreshed. This is traditionally done around the Fall Equinox and entails taking the mojo bag apart, saving hard curios, replacing leafy/dried herbs. The contents are then reassembled into a new mojo bag accompanied by prayer and followed by smoking and feeding the mojo.
Carolina Dean
"Note: The mojo in the photo above is an old, unused one which I keep in order to stage photos for my blog, websites, etc.. "
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