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AA...Teacher of English Teachers
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Columbia University First Edition 1941. Near Fine Hardcover in no Dustjacket. Nicely INSCRIBED by author. Front endpaper INSCRIBED by two editors. Frontispiece photograph of author. more information
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I'm Not Really Here
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Hyperion First Edition 1996. New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. more information
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I'm Not Really Here
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Hyperion First Edition 1996. New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. more information
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Don't Stand Too Close to a Naked Man
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Hyperion First Edition 1994. Near Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Slight, faint edge spotting. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. more information
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Wouldn't Take Nothing For My Journey Now
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Bantam 1994. Fine Mass Market Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. Maya Angelou, one of the best-loved authors of our time, shares the wisdom of a remarkable life in this best-selling spiritual classic. more information
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Hurry Up America & Spit
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Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich 1976. Near Fine Hardcover in Near Fine Dustjacket. Slight fading of top board edges. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with a small, closed tear of spine; in a clear protective cover. SIGNED by Pearl Bailey. Prescriptions for American society by the famous vocalist. more information
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There's a Country in My Cellar
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Avon Second Printing 1991. Near Fine Trade Paperback. Very slight edge of wear of wraps - else Fine. Spine uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. The author of Good Times and Growing Up. A large collection of his newspaper columns. more information
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Oil Notes
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Houghtin Mifflin / Seymour Lawrence First Edition 1989. Near Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. A trace of edge spotting - else fine. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. OIL NOTES is about the excitment of the earth below us, the passing of time, and oil...Rick Bass brings a lyric imagination to the oil geologist's craft. more information
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It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future
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Viking First Edition 1994. Fine Hardcover in Near Fine DJ. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ has a small dent - else Fine; in a clear protective cover. "Now, in his first nonfiction collection, Bellow's learned and original mind shines through over four decades of reflection on literature, on the state of the artist in the "violent uproar" of contemporary life, and on life itself, "the mysteries of our common human nature." more information
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When You Look Like Your Passport Photo,It's Time To Go Home
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Harper Collins First Edition 1991. New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. Cloth binding. DJ in a clear protective cover. more information
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Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing from America's Favorite Humorist
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Guideposts 1996. Fine Hardcover in Near Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with slight edge wear; now in a clear protective cover. "When Erma Bombeck died, she keft a legacy that few writers could hope to achieve - more than 4,500 columns and twelve bestselling books that deeply touched millions of readers and fans. Now, with this very special collection, Erma's fans can revisit some of their favorite moments." more information
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The Best of Bombeck: At Wits End, "Just Wait Till You Have Children of Your Own", I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression
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Galahad First Thus 1993. Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Erma Bombeck was one of America's foremost humorists, a fact confirmed by the millions of fans who followed her nationally syndicated column and by the thousands who made best sellers of her hilarious books. Included here in one giant volume are three of her original classics. more information
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Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist
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Andrews and McMeel First Thus 1996. Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. A treasury of her best-loved and most-requested columns. more information
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Desiring Italy
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Fawcett Columbine First Edition 1997. Fine Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. For centuries Italy has been many things to many people. In this brilliant anthology and traveler's companion, twenty-eight first-rate women writers reveal why the land that is the heart and soul of European civilization is so seductive to women. more information
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Try and Stop Me
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Simon and Schuster 1945. Very Good Hardcover in no Dustjacket. Top edge stained red. Faint spotting of spine; lettering remains bright. Book is tight and bright. more information
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What Am I Doing Here
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Viking First American Edition 1989. Very Good Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. Gift inscription and date on front endpaper - else Fine. Book is tight, bright and otherwise unmarked. DJ is price clipped-else Fine; in a clear protective cover. His personal selection of his own stories, profiles and travelogues by the author of In Patagonia and The Songlines. He died in 1989. more information
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The Death of Picasso: new & selected writing
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Shoemaker and Hoard 2003. New Unread Hardcover in no dustjacket as issued. Decorative laminated binding. Unmarked. A collection of essays and stories in the Davenport style ranging from aspects of the lives of Kafka, Van Gogh and others to scenes of erotic passion between young men. more information
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The Place Within: Portraits of the American Landscape by Twenty Contemporary American Writers
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W.W. Norton First Edition 1996. New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. Several tiny bottom edgespots. DJ in a clear protective cover. more information
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The Jane Addams Reader
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Basic Books 2001. Fine Oversized Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. Jane Addams, the pioneering founder of Hull-House, tireless anti-war activist and winner of the 1931 Nobel Prize for Peace, was one of the leading public intellectuals of her day and a prolific and elegant writer. In The Jane Addams Reader, Jean Bethke Elshtain, a philosopher and the author of Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy, introduces us to the impressive range of Addam's writings and the complexities of her thought. more information
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Enter Conversing
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World First Edition 1962. Fine Hardcover in Near Fine Dustjacket. Cloth binding. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with very mild edge wear; in a clear protective cover. more information
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Charles Kuralt's American Moments
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Simon & Schuster First Edition 1998. New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. "The project that Kuralt was working on before he died was An American Moment with Charles Kuralt, a series of brief television essays about the people, places, and ideas that define the national spirit..." Foreword by Charles Osgood. more information
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City Slickers
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Times Books First Edition 1987. Very Good Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Top edge remainder mark. Slight scuffing of binding. Book is tight, bright and otherwise unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. The Big Apple by a former New York Times columnist. more information
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Tigers & Ice: Reflections on Nature and Life
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Lyons Press 2000. New Unread Trade Paperback. Book has a lower edge remainder mark. Otherwise unmarked. A selection of essays from one of America’s most distinguished essayist-naturalists. more information
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A Certain Climate: Essays in History, Arts,and Letters
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Wesleyan University Press First Edition 1988. New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Cloth binding with gilt lettering. Unmarked. “This book by a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner treasures books and those who write them. It is a work of literature about literature.” more information
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The Peter Matthiessen Reader: Nonfiction 1959-1991
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Vintage First Edition 2000. Very Good Trade Paperback. Some wear of wraps and previous owner's last name printed small on front endpaper. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. Perhaps no writer has better articulated our relationship to the environment than Peter Matthiessen. Here are essays and excerpts that highlight the spiritual, literary, and political daring so crucial to Matthiessen's vision. more information
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From the Stump: Thoughts of a Naturalist
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Mary K. Oxley Nature Center. Fine Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. "In a gentle blend of the philosophies and literary styles of Henry David Thoreau, Aldo Leopold and Garrison Keillor, each essay takes us into the world of nature, a journey into a most personal and private experience." more information
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The Best of Barbara Johnson
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Inspirattional Press First Thus 1996. Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. A large volume containing: Stick a Geranium in Your Hat and Be Happy, Splashes of Joy in the Cesspools of Life, and Pack Up Your Gloomies in a Great Big Box, then Sit on the Lid and Laugh! more information
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Christopher Morley's Philadelphia
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Fordham University Press First Paperback Printing 1992. Very Good Trade Paperback. Non-authorial gift note on front endpaper - else Fine. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. Meditations upon the city of his birth by the author of Parnassus On Wheels. Gleaned from his writings by Ken Kalfus. Period illustrations by Walter Jack Duncan and Frank H. Taylor. more information
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Contemporaries
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Little,Brown First Thus 1962. Very Good Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. Cloth binding. Top edge stained green with some fading. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with edge wear with small chips and several small, closed tears; in a clear protective cover. "More than seventy essays are gathered together for the first time, in their shape and range making up a critical history of modern writing and thought from the Romantics to the present." more information
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Off Camera: Private Thoughts Made Public
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Alfred A. Knopf First Edition 2000. New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Here, closely observed from an insider's viewpoint, are the significant matters of 1999 - from the Clinton impeachment and the war in Kosovo to the mass-marketing of Viagra. more information
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Pure Drivel
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Hyperion First Edition 1998. New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. "In this ingeniously funny collection of humorous riffs, those who thought Martin's gifts were confined to the screen will discover what readers of The New Yorker magazine already know: that Martin is a master of the written word. more information
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Breaking the Crust of Custom
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McNamee First Edition 1975. Very Good Hardcover in no Dustjacket. Very slight wear of binding. Several pages with slight stains. Book remains tight and bright. Apparent Vanity Press publication of essays by an Oklahoma Catholic Priest. A unique book. more information
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Snakes and Ladders: Glimpses of Modern India
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Doubleday Anchor 1998. Near Fine Trade Paperback. Creasing of a few leaf tops from a paper clip - else Fine. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. "In thirty-five short essays Mehta facets the colossal gem that is India." more information
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In Defense of Women
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Time 1963. Near Fine Trade Paperback. Small area of sticker residue on front free endpaper. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. The thoughts of the "Sage of Baltimore" on women. more information
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In Defense of Women
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Time-Life 1982. Fine Trade Paperback in stiff paper wraps. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. The thoughts of the "Sage of Baltimore" on women. more information
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The Rants
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Doubleday Book Club Edition 1996. Fine Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with a tiny, closed tear; in a clear protective cover. Dennis Miller takes no prisoners. more information
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In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays
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Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich 1976. Near Fine Trade Paperback. Slight wear of wraps - else Fine. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. In more than twenty essays, Anais Nin shares her unique perceptions of people, places, and the arts. more information
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The O’Reilly Factor: The Good, the Bad, and the Completely Ridiculous in American Life
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Broadway Books First Edition 2000. New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. more information
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Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence and a Bad Haircut: Twenty-five Years of P.J. O'Rourke
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Atlantic Monthly Press First Edition 1995. Fine Oversized Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. "A quarter century of previously uncollected fulminations, diatribes, philippics, raspberries, animadversions, bullyrags, readings of the riot act, middle-finger flag downs, scoffings, slanders, calumnies, and licks with the rough side of the tongue." more information
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All the Trouble in the World
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Atlantic Monthly Press First Paperback Edition 1994. Fine Oversized Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. An hilarious and informative book which ensures that the concept of political correctness will never be the same again. more information
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Texas: A World in Itself
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Whittlesey House Second Printing 1942. Very Good Hardcover in no Dustjacket. Cloth binding with slight scuffing. A small, closed tear of one leaf. Very slight tanning of pages. Book is tight and unmarked. Illustrated by Arthur Fuller. more information
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Living Out Loud
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Fawcett Columbine 1994. Near Fine Trade Paperback. Very slight wear of wraps - else Fine. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. A collection of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's columns. more information
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Deadlines & Datelines
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William Morrow First Edition 1999. New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. For the first time, Deadlines and Datelines gathers together essays by the bestselling author and CBS Evening News anchorman. more information
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Deadlines & Datelines
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William Morrow First Edition 1999. New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. For the first time, Deadlines and Datelines gathers together essays by the bestselling author and CBS Evening News anchorman. more information
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The Inland Ground: An Evocation of the American Middle West
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University Press of Kansas Revised Edition 1991. Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. A montage of essays about the land between the coasts by one of the finest of contemporary writers. more information
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Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father
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Viking First Edition 1992. Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. In Days of Obligation, Mexico and the United States are portrayed as rivals upon the landscape of Mr. Rodriguez's beloved California. Mexico wears the mask of tragedy, the United States wears the mask of comedy. By the end of the book the reader recognizes an historical irony... more information
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Never Say Goodbye
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Doubleday First Edition 1991. Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. From the author of Jazz Cleopatra and Parallel Lives comes a fresh, eclectic collection of essays that chart one woman's journeys of discovery in New York, France, and New England. more information
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One More Time: The Best of Mike Royko
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University of Chicago Press First Thus 1999. Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. A selection of the best columns of the legendary Chicago newspaperman and columnist. Foreword by Studs Terkel. Illustrated. more information
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Sein Language
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Bantam 1993. Very Good Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book has fading of lower edge of spine cloth with slight bleeding onto lower edge. It is tight, bright and otherwise unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Illustrated. more information
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America on Six Rubles a Day: or How to Become a Capitalist Pig
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Comrade in America Second Edition 1993. Fine Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. SIGNED by Yakov. "With America on Six Rubles a Day, his hilarious observations on his adopted land, you'll understand why Yakov always says, 'What a Country'." Illustrated. more information
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