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From: markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark)
Subject: Re: Las Vegas
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 19:24:13 GMT

In <ZekgqB5w165w@wildrose.infoserv.com> rkf@wildrose.infoserv.com (Ray Fink) writes:
>>rkf@wildrose.infoserv.com (Ray Fink) writes:
>>>Now, shall we check the fit on those lycra tights?
>>
>Besides, some women just don't look their best in lycra tights.
>Followups to alt.lycra.exploding ....
		
In article <ewillims.715535552@unix1.tcd.ie> ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie (Emma Williams) writes:
>	Well what do you suggest they wear?  Nowadays the majority of 
>tights have at least 4% lycra in them to keep a neater fit than 100%
>cotton tights.  It isn't the tights, it's the legs underneath...if a 
>woman has truly hideous legs ( very very rare!) then she should just 
>not wear mini skirts, but she can still wear tights under longer skirts!
>In fact if she doesn't then she is going to freeze in winter!

Is this accepted now?  Can you now wear those hot black tights with (oh say)
a navy miniskirt and (oh, let's say) mid length high heels to a job interview
and get comments about your fascinating qualifications??   Maybe I oughta take
on a couple employees to help with the sales revenues.  Interested in
relocating, by any chance? :)
>
From: barry@netcom.com (Kenn Barry)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Exactly what I mean by "unattached"...
Date: 24 Aug 92 01:56:21 GMT
Organization: QQQCLC

In article <kiran.714606874@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes:
>The only control one has over one's emotions is to repress them, and
>(a) eventually they all go and (b) someday they all come back at once.
>
>People are, i think, indeed unable to control their feelings.  

	No, only partly unable. You don't change feelings by "deciding",
the way you change opinions, you change 'em by practise and repetition,
same way you learn a new skill. Like many skills, emotions work mostly
below the conscious level. But they can certainly be influenced.
Have a lot of fun, exciting times with someone, and you'll grow to
like 'em, more'n likely. It's a kind of brainwashing, self-applied.

	Most of the emotions we wish to control are negative ones:
fear, embarrassment, anger, hatred, etc. While one may be unable to
erase such feelings from our natures, it is quite possible to
decondition oneself, to disconnect the emotion from inappropriate
reflex evocations. Simple operant conditioning has a good track
record with such things. Maybe you can't learn to be fearless in
the middle of a battle, but mostly fearless in dating situations?
Sounds possible to me.

						Kayembee
From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Cooking for 1!
Date: 3 Sep 92 17:42:03 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <715511277.16803@minster.york.ac.uk> aaron@minster.york.ac.uk writes:
|: Why don't I ever find people who love to cook?  I don't really mind cooking
|: per se, but after 8-10 hours at work, I certainly don't want to spend an
|: hour cooking.  I'd rather sit here and read soc.singles :-)
|: 
|
|   The answer is to find a few other people and take it turns to cook,
|   after all it doesn't take much more effort to cook for four than one
|   and it seems much more worthwhile.

That's how I got the interest in cooking.  I was in a "cooperative" like
living situation with three other people.  Each person would have to do
the cooking one night a week, so Mon., Tue., Wed., and Thu., we all ate
together, and ate whatever the person was cooking that night.  The remaining
days everyone was on their own.  A competition sort of developed such that
each person would try to outdo each other.  It was also kind of nice that
each person sort of specialized in a different kind of meal (mine was
seafood).  It was a real good arrangement and some of the heaviest days
of my life.

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| John Fereira            "Is that all you ever think about?"                |
| johnf@auspex.com                                                           |
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From: markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark)
Subject: Powerful forces of nature conspire
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 21:06:04 GMT

   Oh Lord.  Thank you for conspiring to make this, the first day of in-person
registration at a University with one of the largest coed student populations in
the nation, a sweltering hot day.  I will never again ask for anything again.
My life is truly fulfilled. :)
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From: nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci)
Subject: The Chocolate Urgies
Organization: AT&T
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 18:48:38 GMT

In article <ewillims.715020955@unix1.tcd.ie> ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie (Emma Williams) writes:
>
>	Hey, you're in for a treat then when they finally import
>hand made Irish chocolates! You think the Belgian ones are good?
>These will make you think you've died and gone to heaven!:>
>Butler's Irish chocolates or Lir chocolates are the best...full of 
>Baileys Irish Cream Liqueur and Irish Mist Liqueur, coffee and praline
>mixtures, marshmallow, coconut and kiwi fruit in white chocolate,
>cappuccino and cream mixtures, dark truffles....oh god!  I can't go
>on.....excuse me while I rush out and buy some! (*Licks her lips
>in anticipation*)

Macadamia nuts ... please tell me they import macadamia nuts ...
and pistachios.  If you tell me they also fill them with pistachio
paste I'm on a plane this afternoon.

Baileys?  Irish Mist?  Oh, it hurts.
>
>	Forget York! (Sorry Aaron:)  Go for the real stuff as
>recommended by an all time connisseur (or should that be connisseuse?)

Yes.  Send a nice assortment to Maxwell Millie's in Aurora, Illinois
and have them arrive on Monday.  Specify that they should be
delivered to the table occupied by Marianna and Nancy and the guy
with red pigtails.  :-)

-Nance
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att!ihlpk!colucci            _.>/               | Stay fit for life.
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From: wjb@moscom.UUCP (Bill de Beaubien)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Where the best posts come from
Date: 2 Sep 92 22:22:36 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Moscom Corp., Pittsford, NY
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Larry 'Purple' Hays (hays@TECHNET.NM.ORG) wrote:
: In article <1992Sep1.193918.12045@cbfsb.cb.att.com>, jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton) writes:
: >In article <14405@auspex-gw.auspex.com> johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
: >>In article <gwjn7=j@lynx.unm.edu> hays@TECHNET.NM.ORG writes:
: >>>
: >>>Well, *I* think that it's pretty hard to beat that 'Purple hays' guy...
: >>>He's really entertaining.
: >>
: >>Anyone that has the balls/gall/chutzpah/ability to suck up to himself 
: >>deserves a perfect 10.0 on the suckup scale.
: > 
: >And the judge from chicago concurs.
: >What precision. What flair. What ambidextrousity.
: 
: Well, Hell.  Nobody *ELSE* was gonna do it.

Hey, you never know.  Some of us are open to bribes.
-- 
"Bless me, Father; I ate a lizard."
"Was it an abstinence day, and was it artificially prepared?"
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From: taina@cs.Helsinki.FI (Juha Taina)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Lurkers...
Date: 27 Aug 92 06:14:00 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki, Finland

In <l9nsr9INNpln@news.bbn.com> dhardin@bbn.com (Dawn Hardin) writes:

[... about s.s people who never reply emails ...]

>I've
>gotten to many looney letters in the past, and some of them have been
>very unfriendly.  Yeah, I know, I always took the hate mail as being part
>of a big joke and sometimes even went looking for it.  But it just occured
>to me one day that the next guy who shows up on my doorstep might not be
>as friendly and reasonable as my visitors so far have been.  Some of the
>women who post here have some real horror stories to tell.  

That's sad but true.  I talked about this with one of my email
friends.  She said that she has been contacted by a few really strange
men in the past.  So far she's been lucky, none of them have come to
see her in person.  She also said that there are a few weird women on
the net too.

>So it may not be cliquiness or unfriendliness, but a lack of time or a
>touch of paranoia, justifiable or not.  There's a couple of regulars here
>who never answer my letters either.

IMO, It's more wisdom than paranoia.

>Dawn

Juha

BTW, one good reason to contact someone on the other side of the world
(like me for Americans) is that it's not probable that they would
spend thousands of dollars for a visit :)
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: Ross Ridge <ross@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Re: Las Vegas
Organization: ZOOiD BBS
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 09:36:16 GMT

randy@elk.imagen.com (randy scofield) writes:
>ross@zooid.guild.org (Ross Ridge) complains about people who enjoy mountains 

No, I'm complaining about people expecting me to enjoy mountains.

>Since when is life required for beauty anyway?

It is pretty much for me.

>I bet you really hate art galleries.

Art in art galleries are often images of life.  I'd wouldn't be interested
in a picture of a mountain peak, but I might be of a forest.

>Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.  Don`t concern yourself with the
>fact others find things beuatiful that you do not.

I could care less what others think of mountains, I just wish people
wouldn't act like I should have my head examined when I say, "No, I
don't think that mountain is very beautiful."

							Ross Ridge

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From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Lurkers...
Date: 28 Aug 92 01:03:15 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <1992Aug26.220818.3650@cs.ucla.edu> gds@cs.ucla.edu (Greg Skinner) writes:
>In article <14306@auspex-gw.auspex.com> johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
|>The thing is we were all once soc.singles.neophytes.
|
|If you were a net.singles regular, chances are you were never a
|soc.singles neophyte.

Actually, I got in just after the great newgroup renaming.  So I suppose I'm
sort of a soc.singles founder.  


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| John Fereira            "Is that all you ever think about?"                |
| johnf@auspex.com                                                           |
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: Ross Ridge <ross@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Re: Las Vegas
Organization: ZOOiD BBS
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 20:25:46 GMT

ross@zooid.guild.org (Ross Ridge) writes:
>Bah, I'd take Northern Ontario (or even any place north of Barrie), over
>the Rockies.  I've never understood the appeal of mountains like that,
>they're so dead and lifeless.

johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
>Lifeless?  Your kidding, right?  How much time have you actually spent in
>the Rockies? 

I'm talking about when someone points large snow capped hunk of granite
and says, "Oooooo, how beautiful."  To me it's just a lifeless hunk of rock.
I don't think you'll even find much lichen where they're pointing.

>I've found that the higher elevations of the Sierras are
>similar to the Rockies and I've spent a lot of time in the Sierras.  They
>certainly aren't lifeless.  Sometimes you have to look a little harder and
>sometimes a sparcity of life is welcome.  Why do you think they call it 
>"getting away from it all"?

The mountains simply don't add anything for me, I'd rather get away from
it all in some place where all I can see from horizon to horizon are trees.
Now to me, that's a beautiful sight.

							Ross Ridge

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From: puter@no1home.nashvil.ingr.com (PuterDude)
Subject: Re: Why lurkers lurk ...
Organization: None, today. Thank you.
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 17:44:56 GMT

 kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes:
>Ross Ridge <ross@zooid.guild.org> writes:
>
>>I have a policy of not saying something that I would regret 
>>if everybody heard.
>
>This is, of course, a good way to avoid being open to blackmail.

It's also an excellent way of _not_ provin' to the world that
joe@his.net.domain is a fool.

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From: thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Powerful forces of nature conspire
Date: 30 Aug 92 05:08:09 GMT
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

In <4067@moscom.UUCP> wjb@moscom.UUCP (Bill de Beaubien) writes:

>... blizzards are generally expected anytime between September and 
>May in Upper Michigan :-)

I just heard an unsubstantiated rumor (from my nephew) that they
has 12 inches of snow in Lethbridge, Alberta on Friday, Aug. 28.

Hey Emma, wanna go make a snowman?  :-)

Rob T
--
Rob Thurlow, thurlow@convex.com
Across the evening sky, all the birds are leaving
But how can they know it's time for them to go?		- Sandy Denny
From: wjb@moscom.UUCP (Bill de Beaubien)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Powerful forces of nature conspire
Date: 4 Sep 92 18:55:48 GMT
Organization: Moscom Corp., Pittsford, NY
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Robert Thurlow (thurlow@convex.com) wrote:
: In <4083@moscom.UUCP> wjb@moscom.UUCP (Bill de Beaubien) writes:
: >I thought size wasn't important? :-)  
: 
: I've never heard this, you know.  I guess that's what they tell all
: the small guys :-)

That, or the big 'uns when they want to cut 'em down to size. :-)
-- 
"Bless me, Father; I ate a lizard."
"Was it an abstinence day, and was it artificially prepared?"
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton)
Subject: Re: men in their thirties who never dated & shave their legs.
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 14:06:02 GMT

In article <1992Aug29.124142.17545@uwm.edu> markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark) writes:
>In article <1992Aug28.220334.7795@hpcvca.cv.hp.com> watson@hpcvcah.cv.hp.com (Jeffrey Watson) writes:
>>One of the biggest fears I have is that I won't know what to say.  What
>>I usually do is to compliment them on some feature that I found
>>particularly attractive--their smile or their eyes for instance.
>
>That's a nice miniskirt your have on.  Terribly sexy and short.  I have one
>just like it at home (proceed to giggle, blush, and turn head away).
 
Bwahaaaa

 
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: cfg@cray.com (Cindy Glass)
Subject: Re: Hark tis it the wind.
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Distribution: na
Date: 26 Aug 92 23:35:57 CDT

In article <1992Aug25.191949.20413@cbfsb.cb.att.com> jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton) writes:
>In article <l9khviINNjfn@news.bbn.com> dhardin@spcink.bbn.com (Dawn Hardin) writes:
>>In article <1992Aug25.084901.21032@walter.cray.com> cfg@cray.com (Cindy Glass) writes:
>>(Unless 'down the road' means at *LEAST* a 2 hour drive away!!)  You 
>>can keep the glitzy neon out of my dreams - thank you very much James!!
>>
>>Hey Cindy, this is james on *good* behavior.  You haven't heard yet about
>>the cat-house, the used motorcycle lot, and the target shooting field.
>>And he did tell you that you were going to be babysitting his kids when
>>he's interviewing prospective employees, right?  (And james is very
>>thorough when it comes to interviews.)  And you wouldn't mind
>>putting up a couple of his biker friends when they come to visit, right?
> 
>Biker friends would be nice. Friends wouldn't be bad either.(As james goes
>for the sympathy boink. Sly - no?).

NO - better luck next time. 
 
>>They're almost no trouble at all, when they're not drunk.  Don't worry,
>>I'm sure you and james will get along just fine.
>>
>>Dawn
> 
> No no Dawn don't try to set me up out of the gutter. 
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 Excuse me James - just what were you implying here?!

>You where the only one that really understood me. *SNIFF* *GURGLE* *BLUBBER* 

 By the sounds of it - she understood you *VERY* well!!  Congrats Dawn!! :)

>Its, its, OK, I'll be fine. No, no you've got your own life to lead. Don't
>worry your pretty little head about me. Nor your calves/calfs whatever.
>I'll (squeezes one sole tear that roles down cheek before casting
>itself to ground, obliteratingly shattering into a thousand points of
>.... I lost track for a minute) manage somehow.

You have to stop eating those raw onions James!

>Go. Go now before we both do what we know will be wrong.
>Thats it. Don't turn back. Parting is such sweet....
>Hi Cindy. What be shakin.

My hands - it's been too many days of 16+ hours of work a day - software
problems, hardware problems - and here I am - dreaming of being able
to retire in less than 6 years (AND *STILL* be under 40!!!! :)  )  Go
for my dreams of some place in the woods...YESSSSSSSSSSS!!  No more
computers/errant software for me!!!


Cindy :)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle)
Subject: Re: Desperation (was Re: Commitment--The C-word?)
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 00:21:30 GMT

lana@magenta.corp.sgi.com (Lana Mountford) writes:

>I tend to feel the same way.  "Need" implies (to me, anyway) a *lack* of
>something.  I'd rather feel that I'm spending time with someone (and he
>with me) because we *want* to be together, and that we add something to
>each others lives.

Um... well, it seems whatever you _add_ to each other's lives would be
lacking when you are not involved?
-- 
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From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Homesickness!
Date: 28 Aug 92 16:35:49 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <1992Aug27.225109.27562@watson.ibm.com> motani@vnet.ibm.com (Muiz Motani) writes:
>In  <thurlow.714947137@convex.convex.com>  thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow) writes:
>even my machine on the LAN is named after one of them: GABRIOLA!
>
>> Anybody got a real good homesickness remedy?
>
>Yes......just bake yourself a batch of Nanaimo Bars and enjoy!

Are these from the town of Nanaimo (east coast of Vancouver Island)?  I was
there once.  Did I miss something by not getting a Nanaimo bar?  Actually
I did hit one Nanaimo bar.
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| John Fereira            "Is that all you ever think about?"                |
| johnf@auspex.com                                                           |
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
Subject: Re: DEFORMITIES AND PERVE
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 04:57:17 GMT

In article <71601@apple.Apple.COM> stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones) writes:
>
>I've read that men's sexual orientations/preferences are in general more
>rigid than women's. What do you guys say? Do you have a single "type
>preference" that has existed unchanged since your first sexual experience?

Physical type, no--as far as I can tell, I've never really had a "type"
from a physical standpoint (seems that there's plenty to do with just
about any shape)--but the things that figure more importantly in 
attraction (attitude, voice, openness, being physically affectionate)
have remained very much the same as long as I can recall. 
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark)
Subject: Re: Hark tis it the wind.
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 19:09:40 GMT

In article <1992Aug27.152445.9256@walter.cray.com> cfg@cray.com (Cindy Glass) writes:
>Unfortunately James, I don't want to be near *ANY* interstate - nor do 
>I want a tourist trap.

I know of a secret place in the United States with only 20000 people in a 100
square mile area, warm yearround, wonderful beaches, a couple nice mountains,
not a single other human being for 100 miles, with Congressional representation
and no Federal Income taxes.

Oh yeah, and no interstates, and hardly any cars.

Hee hee, and I'm not telling anyone where it is!  It's all mine.  Stay away.
From: lams@acfcluster.nyu.edu
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Thank you all for helping!
Date: 3 Sep 92 18:14:09 GMT
Organization: New York University

Hi,

I'm posting to Thank all the people who had responed to
my friends posting.  He is feeling a lot better and a lot
happier now.  From the look of things, he seems to have
his current situation well in hand and he is looking
forward to life.   He no longer look depressed!

Thank you all for responding to his help.

-Steve
From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Oh, no! Statistics! Run!! :-)
Date: 26 Aug 92 20:30:20 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <1992Aug26.143159.2075@wetware.com> diana@wetware.com (CatWoman ) writes:
|kevin@nuchat.sccsi.com (Kevin Brown) writes:
|
|] margoli@watson.ibm.com writes:
|] >kevin@nuchat.sccsi.com (Kevin Brown) writes:
|] >> Hmm...wonder if women go for guys with Sears Craftsman tools.  :-)
|] >
|] >No, women like men with Snap-On tools.  :-)
|
|Personally, I'd say women like men with Skil tools...
|
|] Ouch!  That wouldn't be because Snap-On tools are so expensive, and thus
|] a guy with Snap-On tools has a lot of money, would it?  :-)
|
|No - the quality, and the idea you can't just pick them up
|at your local department store...

I would have figured the Snap-off quality was pretty desirable as well.

Is anyone sending this thread to Mel?
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| John Fereira            "Is that all you ever think about?"                |
| johnf@auspex.com                                                           |
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From: swann@acsu.buffalo.edu (Stephen Swann)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Las Vegas
Date: 27 Aug 92 20:53:05 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: UB

In article <71743@apple.Apple.COM> stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones) writes:
>
>>:  Monks do it more profoundly.
>
>>Hunh.  I thought monks did it with spirit. *shrug*
>
>Maybe there is hope for John Jung after all.
>(Steve Swann's advice to him: "You're already a monk, try the libido 
>instead.")

Haven't seen him for a while around here.  Maybe he's out taking
our advice?  :-)

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Steve Swann                 |    Speak to me in many voices; make
swann@acsu.buffalo.edu      |      them all sound like one...  -BOC
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