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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:By the 1960s , the performing art was basically extinct . Sentence 2:However , these folkloric motives and fairy tales inspired the literary works of Stepan Pisakhov and Boris Shergin , who were both natives of Arkhangelsk .
Output:
however