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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jul 20, 2014 - 04:55pm PT
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Florida Keys staring at the moon.
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Jul 20, 2014 - 05:02pm PT
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Greatest photo ever taken.
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JOEY.F
Gym climber
It's not rocket surgery
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Jul 20, 2014 - 05:07pm PT
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Sitting on the deck of the dads Chris craft Connie in the Delta looking up and listening to the doins on the radio.
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Flip Flop
Trad climber
Truckee, CA
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Jul 20, 2014 - 05:23pm PT
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10 weeks old. Made it just under the wire.
I Love Ekat. Said it.
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Jul 20, 2014 - 05:31pm PT
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Smoking weed & drinking cheap wine with friends, while glued to the TV.
It seemed like something we needed to watch & have a party.
I remember a little suspense, about whether they could pull off something that seemed so normal from all the science-fiction I had read.
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Edge
Trad climber
Boulder, CO
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Jul 20, 2014 - 05:42pm PT
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8 years old and splitting time between staring at the TV (and the accompanying fidgeting with the rabbit ears) and racing outside to look up.
The single greatest accomplishment of mankind. That and creme brûlée.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Jul 20, 2014 - 05:47pm PT
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I was seven years old in 2nd grade. we had no TV I thought we watched it in school on a black an white TV but that must have been a different moon landing? wrong time of year for school?
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WBraun
climber
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Jul 20, 2014 - 05:52pm PT
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Where were you 45 years ago tonight?
Same place everyone else on the planet was.
Inside my body ......
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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Jul 20, 2014 - 06:03pm PT
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In Stockholm in a residential district with a school friend from Santa Cruz, and yeah, looking up and realizing there were people walking around up there. A quietly monumental moment.
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HighTraverse
Trad climber
Bay Area
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Jul 20, 2014 - 06:08pm PT
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Me Mum and Dad threw a small garden party. Their friends Ron and Darlene were there for sure. Galen? Leedy? Gundry? Plenty to drink with that crew. Plenty of fine conversation.
I ran an extension cord out from the house and setup a portable B/W on a folding card table. We were awestruck.
The moon was brilliant that night, dancing with the stars in the clear (in those days) Salt Lake County sky.
We hung on every word and cheered mightily when Armstrong touched the lunar soil.
Took all of us several days to come down.
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TomKimbrough
Social climber
Salt Lake City
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Jul 20, 2014 - 06:15pm PT
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Drinking a beer in the Moose Bar in the Tetons.
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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Jul 20, 2014 - 06:36pm PT
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That is really freaking cool Ron!
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clinker
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
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Jul 20, 2014 - 06:41pm PT
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In Burlington, Massachusetts watching a color TV my dad made (he soldered all the parts together as one of his projects). We had a red VW bus with the Jolly Green Giant lacquered to the luggage carrier on top.
There were ponds, beavers, yellowjackets, fireflies, woods, tree swings, our black lab mix Onyx. Big Wheels, uh huh!
Life was way better than good as a kid, living there.
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LilaBiene
Trad climber
Technically...the spawning grounds of Yosemite
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Jul 20, 2014 - 06:41pm PT
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Er...in utero.
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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Jul 20, 2014 - 06:59pm PT
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I'd been dumped off at Westminster School in Atlanta for summer school, I think so I would not have to repeat 7th grade; maybe 8th. I watched the moon landing there with a left index finger that had been reattached after my roommate power kicked the door closed on it.
We were playing "in dorm" soccer. It got pinched between the strike plate and the metal door as I was chasing the ball. He thought it was funny til I opened the door and my finger was dangling from the last joint down by a few shreds of tissue.
Watching him toss his cookies was almost worth the pain; but not quite.
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overwatch
climber
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Jul 20, 2014 - 07:08pm PT
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I was 9 years old and would usually have been in Judo class which was canceled for that great event in human history
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apogee
climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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Jul 20, 2014 - 07:11pm PT
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In a hotel lobby on Catalina with a BIG crowd of people trying to watch everything on a black & white TV.
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little Z
Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
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Jul 20, 2014 - 07:19pm PT
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12 years old, at my parents home in N. Virginia with the whole family watching the events unfold on the tube. We also had a French exchange student staying with us that summer.
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Jul 20, 2014 - 07:22pm PT
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Working on my 68 Vw Bus at Judge Ottonello's house up behind Degnan's. I was working on a long time project of building a camper into my van. A walk in the Park and a walk on the moon!
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xtrmecat
Big Wall climber
Kalispell, Montanagonia
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Jul 20, 2014 - 07:42pm PT
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Watching the only channel we received on our black and white set just outside of Columbia Falls, Montana. Remember it as a huge accomplishment that was so out on the edge of what we thought could be done.
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Evel
Trad climber
Nedsterdam CO
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Jul 20, 2014 - 07:54pm PT
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Glued to the new-fangled contraption called a TV with the rest of my family.
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Jul 20, 2014 - 08:04pm PT
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Watching a scratchy b&w TV to see Neil Armstrong step on the moon.
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Tricouni
Mountain climber
Vancouver
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Jul 20, 2014 - 08:16pm PT
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Part way through a 3 week solo spell in the Coast Mountains. No radio, no TV. I didn't know anything about it until a few weeks after I got out.
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bhilden
Trad climber
Mountain View, CA/Boulder, CO
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Jul 20, 2014 - 08:24pm PT
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Sitting outside the sound stage in Hollywood where the whole thing was filmed.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 20, 2014 - 09:19pm PT
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Was OJ in on that one too?
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Jul 20, 2014 - 10:05pm PT
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Watching the moon landing in Camp 6 in Yosemite Valley on a black and white tv that used a coat hanger for an antenna... high tech.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Jul 20, 2014 - 10:10pm PT
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watching on TV, I was in highschool at the time...
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Rollover
climber
Gross Vegas
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Jul 20, 2014 - 11:28pm PT
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In utero.
8 days away from birth.
This was both ballsy and highly ambitious.
NASA had some amazing brains, and an amazing
endowment.
It seems to be the penultimate progression of human
exploration.
Less than 70 years from the first commercial vehicle
to landing men on the moon...
Really incredible!
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Anxious Melancholy
Mountain climber
Between the Depths of Despair & Heights of Folly
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Jul 20, 2014 - 11:41pm PT
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On the alcan somwhere in a camper van. Mom made dad pull over at a house in the middle of now where and ask if we could watch. Nice memmory. Even better, our neighbor in San Diego was on the UDT recovery team and sent me a scrap of heat shield (?) peelings (like gold tinfoil) in an envelope post marked form the recovery aircraft carrier (Nimitz?)
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Jul 21, 2014 - 12:14am PT
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Glued to the boob-tube with the rest of the family. Grandma was visiting and she was 69 at the time. She was speechless, which got my attention.
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Anastasia
climber
Home
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Jul 21, 2014 - 12:31am PT
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My Dad was embarking on a trip to Greece, the one that he meets my Mom and gets her pregnant with my older brother. I... I was still unborn but the wheels were turning in the right direction.
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Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
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Jul 21, 2014 - 05:47am PT
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Camp 4
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yanqui
climber
Balcarce, Argentina
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Jul 21, 2014 - 07:13am PT
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I really identified with the modern-day explorer spirit and had a moon map and a solar system map up on my bedroom walls. I still remember excitedly watching the event live in my parent's living room.
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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Jul 21, 2014 - 08:44am PT
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Playing kick the can with neighbor kids and my cousins in Applewood (Golden) Co. Our parents called us in to watch the actual step off of the ladder. I don't know if it was our cheap tv or the bad signal, but I remember not being able to really tell what was going on from the image. It didn't look as clear as the archival footage that they show of that moment nowadays.
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yanqui
climber
Balcarce, Argentina
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Jul 21, 2014 - 08:58am PT
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Yeah, Sketch. I think it was that moon map
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Jul 21, 2014 - 10:08am PT
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Most likely Kimbrough posted while drinking a beer in the Moose Bar!
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Magic Ed
Trad climber
Nuevo Leon, Mexico
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Jul 21, 2014 - 10:50am PT
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I was at home in Mexico City, tripping on LSD, watching the moon landing on our old b&w, with the sound off and the Grateful Dead's Anthem of the Sun blasting through the speakers.
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Jul 21, 2014 - 12:24pm PT
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Climbing Church Bowl Chimney in the morning, then racing back to Fresno to see the landing. Unfortunately, when I got to Chinquapin, my water pump went out. I got towed back to the Valley, the garage was (amazingly) open, and installed a new water pump for $22.00, parts and labor. I got back in time to watch Armstrong step down the ladder.
It was an unforgettable day, although I think I marvel now as much about the $22.00 water pump replacement as I do about the moon landing.
John
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SC seagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, or In What Time Zone Am I?
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Jul 21, 2014 - 12:54pm PT
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Ummm,....I was a super serious student on a summer internship at the Museum of Natural History in New York. We we're enthralled by what was happening. However, I was deeply torn because I was hugely involved in anti war activities and found it hard to reconcile the two government-funded activities. I'm not so serious anymore.
Susan
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fear
Ice climber
hartford, ct
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Jul 21, 2014 - 01:01pm PT
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Where's the arc in that picture?
On the right, just under the face of Zeus.
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Klimmer
Mountain climber
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Jul 21, 2014 - 07:50pm PT
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Watched the live grainy b&w egress and step onto the moon and walk like so many others. Absolutely amazing. We travelled to another planetary body landed safe walked around, picked up lunar rocks, set up a few experiments and came back safe. We have accomplished great things.
However, we should have a moon base already, man should have walked on Mars by now, and we should be mining asteroids. We are behind. I'd like to see us step it up. We can do this! I really want to see all this in my lifetime.
I didn't play with Major Matt Mason and my Lunar base station and Moon crawler for nothing. He was mining the Moon and encountering Mars aliens! Lol
Edit:
Good post gobee!
By the way I was 7 when Armstrong made a small step for a man, and one giant leap for mankind. Perfect age.
And the Mothership is still up there!
Lol
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Bruce Morris
Social climber
Belmont, California
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Jul 21, 2014 - 11:33pm PT
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In Devil's Tower campground with David Lunn and the late John Luz watching the moon landing on a TV in one of the tourist's trailers parked there. A lot of generous old retirees staying out there that summer. Treated us climbers like royalty and served us a free dinner to celebrate the moon landing. The next summer John fell down the south face of McKinley. That summer evening Devil's Tower seemed like the age of innocence.
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Sioux Juan
Big Wall climber
Costa mesa
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Jul 22, 2014 - 08:11am PT
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jail
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 22, 2014 - 11:22am PT
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Anybody see Iron Sky?
Hilariously funny and well made film with zero big stars. In the opening we learn that late in WW2 the Nazis colonized the far side of the moon,...
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Radish
Trad climber
SeKi, California
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Jul 22, 2014 - 11:55am PT
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The Gift Shop in Mesa Verde watching it on the TV they had in there. A most spiritual place to see the moon landing for sure! Or, was it a live shot from the mojave desert somewhere??
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