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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    12:46 pm
    @@@@@I leaned against the mattress, making
    @@@@@I leaned against the mattress,
    making another crackleI tried to look relaxed
    She didn't come backIt had been one minuteHow far away was the water?
    Two minutes
    Had my lies been as obvious to her as they were to me?
    Sweat started to dew up on my foreheadI wiped it away quickly
    What if she brought back a Seeker?
    I thought of the small pill in my pocket, and my hands shookI could do it, though
    I heard quiet footsteps then, two sets, coming down the hall
    CHAPTER 45
    Succeeded
    Healer Knits Fire and Cerulean walked through the door togetherThe Healer handed me a tall
    glass of waterIt didn't feel as cold as the first–my fingers were cold with fear nowThe
    dark-skinned woman had something for me, tooShe handed me a flat rectangle with a handle
    “I thought you would want to see,” Knits Fire said with a warm smile
    The tension flooded out of meThere was no suspicion or fearJust more kindness from the
    souls who had dedicated their lives to Healing
    Cerulean had given me a mirror
    I held it up and then tried to stifle my gasp
    My face looked the way I remembered it from San DiegoThe face I'd taken for granted there
    The skin was smooth and peachy across my right cheekboneIf I looked carefully, it was just a
    little lighter and pinker in color than the tan on the other che
    8:30 am
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    I walked back to the van as slowly as I could stand to
    It was silent in the van as I reversed out from under the big shipI started back the way we'd
    come, my heart hammering too fastIn my mirrors, the hatch remained emptyI didn't see the
    man emerge Jimmy choo before the ship was out of sight
    Ian climbed into the passenger seat“Doesn't look too hard
    “It was very good luck with the timingYou might have to wait longer for an opportunity next
    time
    Ian reached over to take my hand“You're the good-luck charm
    “Do you feel better now that dior bag she's safe?”
    “Yes
    I saw his head turn sharply as he heard the unexpected sound of a lie in my voiceI didn't meet
    his gaze
    “Let's go catch some Healers,” I muttered
    Ian was silent and thoughtful as we drove the short distance to the small Healing facility
    I'd thought the second task rolex watches for sale would be the challenge, the dangerThe plan was that I would–if
    the conditions and numbers were right–try to lead a Healer or two out of the facility under the
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    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    12:46 pm
    @@@@@"This is a serious thing, Sergeant," he said
    @@@@@"This is a serious thing, Sergeant," he said quietly
    Major Binner glanced at the General for a momentThen he drummed on his desk and looked at the enlisted man who was standing at attention before himA few steps away, near one of the corner poles, Cummings paced a small circle back and forth
    "If you give us the facts, Sergeant Lanning, it will have a very important bearing on your court-martial," Binner said
    "Major, I don't know what to tell you," Lanning protestedHe was a short rather stocky man with blond hair and pale-blue eyes
    "The facts will be sufficient," Binner drawled in his sad voice
    "Well, we went out on patrol, and since we'd gone to the same place the day before yesterday, I just coudn't see any point to it
    "Was that for you to judge?"
    "No, sir, it wasn't, but I could see the men weren't too happy, and when we got out about halfway I just set my squad down in a little draw, and waited an hour, and then I came on back and gave my report
    "And the report was completely false," Binner intoned"You said you had been to a place to whichin which you hadn't even been within a mile of
    In the midst of his anger, Cummings felt a mild contempt at the way Binner had mangled the sentence
    "Yes, sir, that's true," Sergeant Lanning said
    "You got the idea in precisely that manner, it just occurred to you, so to speak?"
    Cummings restrained himself from interrupting the questioning to speed it up
    "I don't understand, Major?" Lanning asked
    "How many other times have you dropped the ball on patrol?" Binner asked sadly
    "This was the first time, sir
    "What other sergeants in your company or battalion have been giving false and misleading patrol reports?"
    "None, sir, I never heard of any
    The General walked up to him abruptly, and glared at him"Lanning, do you ever want to go back to the States or do you want to rot over here in a prison camp?"
    "Sir," Lanning stammered, "I've been with the outfit for three years, and
    "I don't care if you've been with us for twenty yearsWhat other sergeants have been giving false patrol reports?"
    "I don't know any, sir
    "Have you got a sweetheart?"
    "I'm married, si
    8:30 am
    @@@@@ When I was a little girl, I always used to
    @@@@@
    When I was a little girl, I always used to dream I'd have a little boy and I'd go out with him and paint, just like thisCome on, I'll teach you a funny song while we go back
    What is Boston like? he asks
    Oh, it's a big city, it's dirty, coooold, everybody's always dressed up
    Like Pa?
    She laughs doubtfullyNow, don't you say anything to him about what we did this afternoon
    Was it wrong?
    No, now you just march right on home with me, and don't say a word to him, it's a secret
    He hates her suddenly, and is quiet, moody, as they walk back to the townThat night he tells his father, listens with a kind of delicious glee and fright to the quarrel that follows
    I'm going to tell you that that boy is all your fault, you indulge him, you bring out the worst in him, you never could get over leaving Boston, now, could you, we're really not fine enough out here for you
    I'll be damned, I'm going to send him to military school, he's old enough to shift for himself, at nine years old a boy has to start thinking how to act like a manMilitary school's all right, that boy likes to listen to things about the war
    What is partially behind it all is the conversation Cyrus has had with the town doctorThe fabulous beard, the hard shrewd eyes have twinkled at him, got a little of their own backCummings, there ain't a damn thing can be done now, it's over my head, if he were a little older I'd say take the boy over to Sally's and let him git some jism in his system

    The basic good-bye at the age of ten, the railroad train, the farewell to the muddy roads at the periphery of town, the gaunt family houses, the smell of his father's bank, and the laundry on the lines
    Good-bye, Son, and do all right for yourself, do you hear?
    He has accepted the father's decision without any feeling, but now he shudders almost imperceptibly at the hand on his shoulderShe is weeping, and he feels a mild contempt, an almost lost compassion
    Good-bye, and he goes, plummets into the monastery and becomes lost in the routine of the school, in polishing his buttons and making his bed
    There are changes in himHe has never been friendly with other boys, but now he is cold rather than shyThe water colors, the books like Little Lord Fauntleroy and Ivanhoe and Oliver Twist are far less important; he never misses themThrough the years there he gets the best marks in his class, becomes a minor athlete, No3 man on the tennis teamLike his father, he is respected if he is not lo
    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    12:51 pm
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    sections had taken them more than an hourShe didn't mind meeting
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    things, thoughNot, she discovered, when she
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    blend
    of tastes that made her open her eyes wideShe'd never tasted
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    Of course! Now that she remembered it, Rhett had identified many of
    the
    dishes he ordered for them as one kind of seafood or another
    Scarlett had a second bowl of soup and relished every drop, then did
    full justice to the rest of the generous dinner, including dessert, a
    whipped-cream-topped, crusty nut and fruit confection that Cartier tank MrsButler
    identified as Huguenot TorteThat afternoon she had indigestion for
    the first time in her lifeEulalie and Pauline
    upset her"We're on our way to see Carreen," Pauline announced
    when
    they arrived, "and we figured Scarlett would want to go with usI didn't know you'd just be finishing dinner Her
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    8:30 am
    @@@@@See that clump of bushes? It's really an
    @@@@@See that clump of bushes?
    It's really an island, purpose built for the swans to nest onIt was
    all grass, of course, clipped when it wasn't nesting seasonAnd there
    was a miniature Greek temple of white marble
    Maybe the pieces are somewhere in the tangleA lot of people are
    afraid of swansThey can do terrible injury with their beaks and
    wingsBut ours let me swim with them once the cygnets were out of
    the
    nestMama used to read me The &gy ckbng sitting on a bench by the
    poolWhen I learned my letters, I read it to the swans
    "This path goes to the rose gardenIn May you could smell them for
    miles on the river before you ever got to the LandingInside the
    house, on rainy days with the windows closed, the sweetness from all
    the big arrangements of roses made me feel sick as a dog
    "Down there by the river was the big oak with the treehouse in it
    Rhett built it when he was a boy, then Ross had itI'd climb up with a
    book and some jam biscuits and stay for hours and hoursIt was
    much
    better than the playhouse Papa had the carpenters make for meThat
    was much too fancy, with rugs on the floors and furniture in my size
    and tea sets and dolls The cypress swamp is over
    thereMaybe there'll be some alligators to watch
    The weather's been so warm they're not likely to be in their winter
    dens
    "No, thank you," said Scarlett"My legs are getting tired
    I believe I'll sit on that big stone for a while The big stone
    turned out to be the base of a fallen, broken statue of a classically
    draped maidenScarlett could see the stained face in a thicket of
    brambles
    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    12:54 pm
    @@@@@Purview, shit, it was illegal The agent took
    @@@@@Purview, shit, it was illegal
    The agent took the steps three at a time, his soft double-soled rubber shoes reducing the noise to
    the inevitable creaks of an old staircaseHis back against the wall, he peered around the corner of
    the trash-filled hallway and watched the repairman insert three separate keys into three vertical
    locks, turning each in succession and entering the last door on the leftThings, reconsidered the
    agent, might not be so easy after allThe instant the man closed the door, he ran silently down the
    corridor and stood motionless, listeningNot wonderful, but not the worst, he thought as he heard
    the sound of only one lock being latched; the repairman was in a hurryHe placed his ear against
    the peeling paint of the door and held his breath, no echo from his lungs disturbing his hearing
    Thirty seconds later he turned his head, exhaled, then took a deep breath and went back to the door
    Although muffled, he heard the words clearly enough to piece together the meaning
    “Central, this is Mike up on a Hundred Thirty-eighth Street, section twelve, machine sixteenIs
    there another unit in this building, which I wouldn’t believe if you said there was The following
    silence lasted perhaps twenty additional secondsWe don’t, huh? Well, we got a frequency
    interference and it don’t make no sense to meThe what? Cable TV? Ain’t no one in this
    neighborhood got the bread for thatOh, I gotcha, brotherThe drug boys live high,
    don’t they? Their addresses may be shit, but inside them homes they got theyselves a pile of fancy
    crapSo clear the line and reroute itI’ll stay here until I get a clean signal, okay, brother?”
    The agent again turned away from the door and again breathed, now in reliefHe could leave
    without a confrontation; he had all he neededOne Hundred Thirty-eighth Street, section twelve,
    machine sixteen, and they knew the firm that installed the equipmentThe Reco-Metropolitan
    Company, Sheridan Square, New YorkThe lily-whites could handle it from thereHe walked back
    to the questionable staircase and lifted the collar of his army-surplus shirt“In case I get run over
    by a truck, here’s the inputAre you reading me?”
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    293
    “Loud and clear, Emperor Jone
    8:38 am
    @@@@@Somehow—God knows how—Jason Bourne
    @@@@@Somehow—God knows how—Jason Bourne negotiated with the
    Russians to pursue their common objective
    “For Christ’s sake, speak English or Italian, but with words that make sense! I didn’t exactly go
    to Harvard City College, gumballI didn’t have to, capisce?”
    “The Jackal stormed that country inn yesterdayHe’s the one hunting down Jason Bourne, who
    was foolish enough to come back to Paris and persuade the Soviets to work with himBoth were
    stupid, for this is Paris and Carlos will winHe’ll kill Bourne and your other targets and laugh at
    the RussiansThen he’ll proclaim to the clandestine departments of all governments that he has
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    352
    won, that he’s the padrone, the maestroYou in America have never been exposed to the whole
    story, only bits and pieces, for your interest in Europe stops at the money lineBut we have lived
    through it, watching in fascination, and now we are mesmerizedTwo aging master assassins
    obsessed with hatred, each wanting only to cut the other’s throat
    “Hey, back up, gumball!” shouted DeFazio“This slime Bourne’s a fake, a contraffazioneHe
    never was an executioner!”
    “You’re quite wrong, signore,” said the countess“He may not have entered the arena with a
    gun, but it became his favorite instrument
    “Fuck the Jackal!” cried DeFazio, getting up from the chair
    “Lou!”
    “Shut up, Mario! This Bourne is mine, ours! We deliver the corpse, we take the pictures with
    me—us—standing over all three with a dozen ice picks in their bodies, their heads pulled up by the
    hair, so nobody can say it ain’t our kills!”
    “Now you’re the one who’s pazzo,” said the Mafia count quietly, in counterpoint to the capo
    supremo’s raucous yelling“And please keep your voice down
    “Then don’t get me excited—”
    “He’s trying to explain things, Lou,” said DeFazio’s relative, the killer“I want to hear what the
    gentleman has to say because it could be vital to my approach
    “Please continue, CountYou don’t object to my calling you Mario
    “Perhaps you should visit Rome—”
    “Perhaps we should get back to Paris,” again choked the capo supremo
    “Very well,” agreed the Roman, now dividing his attention between DeFazio and his cousin, but
    favoring the latter“You might take out all three targets with a long-range rifle, but you won’t get
    near the bodiesThe Soviet guards will be indistinguishable from any other people in the area, and
    if they see the two of you coming in to the killing ground, they’ll open fire, assuming you’re from
    the Jack
    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    12:44 pm
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    you bring me a cookie?' - and the declarative -
    'Get me a towel, Rita, I think that last fart had
    a lump in it'"
    I burst out laughing
    Wireman scraped a sneaker through the shells,
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    shadows lay on Duma Key Road, which was paved and
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    great name, or what? And I'll tell you something:
    I actually like solving these problemsDefusing
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    little crisesI make folks a hell of a lot
    happier here on Duma Key than I ever did in
    court
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    air conditioning guy at 17the meter-reader at
    27the cable guy right here, if he ever shows
    up He pointed to the next house down the road,
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    "Wave of the future, that's what it isWave of the fatherraping,
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    "Whenever it was, viva the wave of the motherraping,
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    fact that I'm busier than a one-legged man in an
    ass-kicking contestYou
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    8:30 am
    @@@@@They would remain crated, I assumed, in the
    @@@@@They
    would remain crated, I assumed, in the storage
    area at the back of the gallery, until just before
    the show opened"These say different, my friend
    "Dario, these people know stuff! They've taken
    courses! I'll bet most of them were art majors,
    508
    for Christ's sake! What do you want me to do,
    stand up there and say duh?"
    "That's pretty much what Jackson Pollock did when
    he talked about his workAnd
    it made him rich Dario came over to me and took
    me by the stumpVery few
    people will touch the stump of a limb; it's as if
    they believe, down deep, that amputation might be
    catching"Listen, my friend, these are important
    peopleNot just because they have money, but
    because they're interested in new artists and each
    one knows three more who feel the sameAfter the
    lecture - your lecture - the talk will startThe
    kind of talk that almost always turns into that
    magical thing called 'buzz'"
    He paused, twiddling the strap of his camera and
    smiling a little
    "All you have to do is talk about how you began,
    and how you grew-"
    "Dario, I don't know how I grew!"
    "Then say thatSay anything! You're an artist,
    for God's sake!"
    I left it at thatThe threatened lecture still
    seemed distant to me, and I wanted him out of
    509
    thereI wanted to turn on The Bone, pull the
    cloth off the painting on the easel, and go back
    to work on Wireman Looks WestWant the dirty-ass
    truth? The painting was no longer about some
    hypothetical magic trickNow it was its own magic
    trickI had become very selfish about it, and
    anything that might come after - a promised
    interview with Mary Ire, the lecture, the show
    itself - seemed to be not ahead of me but somehow
    far above meThe way rain on the surface of the
    Gulf must seem to a fish
    During that first week of March, it was all about
    daylightNot sunset light but daylightHow it
    filled Little Pink and seemed to lift itThat
    week it was about the music from the radio,
    anything by the Allman Brothers, Molly Hatchet,
    FoghatCale beginning "Call Me
    the Breeze" by saying "Here's another of your old
    rock n roll favorites; shuffle on down to
    Broadway," and how when I turned the radio off and
    cleaned my brushes, I could hear the shells under
    the houseIt was about the ghostface I saw, the
    one belonging to a younger man who had yet to see
    the view from Du
    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
    12:44 pm
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    Icould save the Seeker's lifeIt would not endanger any of the lives hereI would have to trade thatelanie tried to be firm through her panic
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    I remembered our conversation when Jamie was illWhen we were making upI'd told her that
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    The actual lie had been given to JaredI'd told him, just seconds later, that I didn't know how
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    No, Wanda!
    Don't you want to be free?
    A long pause
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    8:30 am
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    She seemed to finally accept my decision
    Not accept,she disagreed just can't see any way to stop youAnd I can feel how close it isIsn't that funny? I'm absolutely terrified
    That makes two of us
    “Um… why?”
    “For trying to kill you,” he said casually“Please tell me you have some kind of recording device available, Doc“This moment should be preservedI never thought I'd live to see the day
    that Kyle O'Shea would admit to being wrongThat ought toshock you awake
    “Jodi, baby, don't you want to defend me? Tell Ian I neverhave been wrong beforeIt was nice to know that I'd earned Kyle's acceptance before I leftI hadn't
    expected that much
    There was no more I could do hereThere was no point in lingeringJodi would either come
    back or she would not, but neither outcome would change my path now
    So I proceeded to my third and final deed: I lied
    I stepped away from the cot, took a deep breath, and stretched my arms
    “I'm tired, Ian,” I said
    Was it really a lie? It didn't sound so falseIt had been a long, long day, this, my last dayI'd
    been up all night, I reali
    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    12:46 pm
    @@@@@ "They kept you pretty long for just a
    @@@@@
    "They kept you pretty long for just a scratch," Red said Minetta was silent for a moment and then added, "Well, you know how it is, hard to get in, hard to get out He swallowed a mouthful of Vienna sausage"I had a pretty soft time there
    Red piddled the dehydrated mashed potatoes and canned string beans with his spoonIt was the only eating utensil he owned; months ago he had thrown away his knife and fork"They treated you pretty good, huh?" He was annoyed with his own curiosity
    "Damn good," Minetta saidHe swallowed some coffee"Well, I had a run-in with a doctor there, the sonofabitchI lost my temper and told him where to get off, so I'm on company duty now, but outside of that it was okayThey continued eating in silence
    Red was uncomfortableFor weeks his kidneys had been growing more painful, and that morning on the road he had strained himself badly in lifting a pickA severe pain had seized him at the top of his swing, and he had ground his teeth, his fingers tremblingAfter a minute or so he had been forced to quit, and his back had throbbed for the rest of the morning with a dull constant acheWhen the trucks had come, he had hoisted himself with great difficulty over the tail gate"You're gettin' old, Red," Wyman had piped The jarring of the truck over the bumps had aggravated his pain, and he had been silentThe artillery was firing constantly and the men talked about an attack supposed to start soonThey're gonna be sendin' us out again, Red had thought, I better get fixed upFor a moment he had allowed himself to think, Maybe the hospital, and then he had repressed the thought with disgustI never run out on anything, and I won't nowBut he had kept looking uneasily over his shoulderI ain't over that week yet, he had told him
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    Sunday, December 26th, 2010
    12:54 pm
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    @@@@@"And I'm very, very pleased for you, too, RosemaryYou
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    "Hah! I hated it, Mama, you should know that
    But I'm so happy that I'm going to Europe that it didn't bother me to
    go to the silly BallHe was walking behind Scarlett
    and Rosemary, his mother's hand in his left armHis laughter was
    warm
    in the cold December nightScarlett thought of the warmth of his
    body,
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    said, "but I don't think it's funny She was walking backwards now,
    half-trampling the train of her gown"I didn't get to say two words
    to Miss Julia Ashley all night because I had to dance with all those
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    I've ever been afraid of in my adult lifeYou would have noticed Miss
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    looks like she's been drinking vinegar
    "Oh, you-!"
    Rosemary sputteredShe ran to Rhett and hit him on the chest with
    her
    fistsHe put his right arm around her and pulled
    her close to his sideScarlett felt the wind cold off the riverShe
    lifted her chin against it, turned forward and walked the remaining few
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    She was, in fact, more than a little frightened about her behavior at
    the
    8:30 am
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    The purity of them made her eyes fill with unexpected tears"Do you
    hear it?" she asked fearfullyWas she imagining things? "YesIt's
    a homesick sailor on the ship anchored out thereThe tune is 'Across
    the Wide Missouri They make those flute-like whistles themselves
    Some of them have a real gift for playingHe must have the watch
    See, there's a lantern in the rigging, that's where the ship isThe
    lantern's supposed to warn any other ship traffic that she's anchored
    there, but you always have a man on watch, too, to look for anything
    approachingMaybe two in busy lanes like this riverThere are
    always small boats, people who know the river moving at night when
    no
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    "Why would they do that?"
    "A thousand reasons, all of them either dishonest or noble, depending
    on who's telling the story
    Rhett sounded as if he were talking to himself more than to Scarlett
    She looked at him but it was too dark to see his face
    She looked back at the ship's lantern that she had mistaken for a star
    and listened to the tide and the music of the yearning, anonymous
    sailorSaint Michael's bells rang the three-quarter hourScarlett
    tasted salt on her lips"Do you miss the blockade running, Rhett?"
    He
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    laughed again, lightly mocking, amused at himself"I play with
    sailboats under the guise of being kind to confused young menIt
    gives me the pleasure of being on the water and feeling the wind
    blowing freeThere's nothing like it for making a man feel like a
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    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    306
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    xii
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    594
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