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In this task, you are given two sentences in the English language (Sentence 1 and Sentence 2). Your task is to identify the connecting word between the two sentences.

Sentence 1:The film begins with the scenic beauty of the Himalayas , and in the backdrop Anuradha ( Rituparna Sengupta ) was reading out letters to her never - to - be-born child . Sentence 2:Then , a sudden telephone ring breaks the silence of an early December morning .
Output:
then