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		<title>Farah Yurdozu talks about her new book, &#8216;Love In An Alien Purgatory&#8217;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Farah Yurdozu A Shocking Story, Bravely Told Love between humans and Extra Terrestrial visitors is not a rare concept in close encounter and alien abduction cases. UFO literature offers us a very rich variety of similar cases. My new work, Love in an Alien Purgatory: The Life and Fantastic Art of David Huggins, is [...]


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<p><em>By Farah Yurdozu</em></p>
<p><strong>A Shocking Story, Bravely Told</strong></p>
<div id="attachment_329" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 210px"><a href="http://www.flickeringtorches.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Farah-Yurdozu-200px.jpg" onclick="return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickeringtorches.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2010%2F04%2FFarah-Yurdozu-200px.jpg','Farah-Yurdozu-200px')"><img class="size-full wp-image-329" title="Farah-Yurdozu-200px" src="http://www.flickeringtorches.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Farah-Yurdozu-200px.jpg" onclick="return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickeringtorches.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2010%2F04%2FFarah-Yurdozu-200px.jpg','Farah-Yurdozu-200px')" alt="Farah Yurdozu" width="200" height="233" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Farah Yurdozu</p></div>
<p>Love between humans and Extra Terrestrial visitors is not a rare concept in close encounter and alien abduction cases. UFO literature offers us a very rich variety of similar cases. My new work, <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.flickeringtorches.com/l/Love_in_an_Alien_Purgatory_The_Life_and_Fantastic_Art_of_David_Huggins/327/2" onclick="return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickeringtorches.com%2Fl%2FLove_in_an_Alien_Purgatory_The_Life_and_Fantastic_Art_of_David_Huggins%2F327%2F2','Love+in+an+Alien+Purgatory%3A+The+Life+and+Fantastic+Art+of+David+Huggins')">Love in an Alien Purgatory: The Life and Fantastic Art of David Huggins</a>, is the pictorial book about such a love story featuring paintings by David Huggins, the abductee.</p>
<p>I met David Huggins in a UFO group meeting in New York City around 2002. During that meeting I found out that he has been visited by some interdimensional beings since he was 8 years old.</p>
<p>Different types of Extra Terrestrials became a very important part of David’s life in all these years up today. His childhood, his early younger years and even his adult life were controlled and shaped by them. While he was looking for answers to these strange encounters, David decided to paint every experience that he was having as an abductee. In the process of creating this very unusual art collection, David started to live a double life.</p>
<div id="attachment_330" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 210px"><a href="http://www.flickeringtorches.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Love-in-an-Alien-Purgatory-September-2009-200px.jpg" onclick="return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickeringtorches.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2010%2F04%2FLove-in-an-Alien-Purgatory-September-2009-200px.jpg','Love-in-an-Alien-Purgatory-September-2009-200px')"><img class="size-full wp-image-330" title="Love-in-an-Alien-Purgatory-September-2009-200px" src="http://www.flickeringtorches.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Love-in-an-Alien-Purgatory-September-2009-200px.jpg" onclick="return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickeringtorches.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2010%2F04%2FLove-in-an-Alien-Purgatory-September-2009-200px.jpg','Love-in-an-Alien-Purgatory-September-2009-200px')" alt="" width="200" height="253" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">The book cover.</p></div>
<p>During the day he was a “normal” man, an intellectual artist in New York City.  But in the night he was falling in love with an Extra Terrestrial hybrid woman and having sex with her. He became the father of almost sixty hybrid children. David was chosen and used in a genetic experiment just like many other female and male abductees all over the world. This is the remarkable story that he brings to life with the paintings in Love in an Alien Purgatory.</p>
<p>David’s contact story starts in a farm where he was living with his family in Georgia in 1951. The first contacts were in the daytime and outdoors, where 8 year old David used to play as a normal and healthy boy.</p>
<p>During the early contacts, David was neither sleeping nor experiencing a sleep paralysis. He remembers very well the little hairy being with large glowing eyes who came out of the woods. David named him “Little Hairy Guy”.  On another visit he had an encounter with a large praying mantis type being which would become a regular companion to David in the UFO encounters for many years. What any other children could see only in science-fiction movies or in fantasy books became a daily part of David’s life.</p>
<p>Soon, the beings started to come in the night time as well. And he was taken to a UFO to meet with the hybrid woman, Crescent. Crescent was a teacher and a guide to David at the beginning. But over the years she became his woman, his lover and the mother of his many hybrid children.</p>
<div id="attachment_331" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 610px"><a href="http://www.flickeringtorches.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/71-Getting-ready-to-remember-600px.jpg" onclick="return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickeringtorches.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2010%2F04%2F71-Getting-ready-to-remember-600px.jpg','71-Getting-ready-to-remember-600px')"><img class="size-full  wp-image-331" title="71-Getting-ready-to-remember-600px" src="http://www.flickeringtorches.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/71-Getting-ready-to-remember-600px.jpg" onclick="return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickeringtorches.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2010%2F04%2F71-Getting-ready-to-remember-600px.jpg','71-Getting-ready-to-remember-600px')" alt="Getting ready to remember." width="600" height="315" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Getting ready to remember.</p></div>
<p>David had his close encounters with Extra Terrestrial visitors in different places. After he moved to New York City, his visitors came into his apartment through an opening in his bedroom wall. It was an interdimensional gate, maybe a stargate that was opening to a completely alien world. When they entered, David says it was as if time stopped. Were these beings controlling time in order to enter in our physical dimension? Were they time travelers? (Also, while David was getting older, the hybrid woman Crescent never changed in their 50 years of friendship.)</p>
<div id="attachment_332" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://www.flickeringtorches.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/10-Crescent-300px.jpg" onclick="return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickeringtorches.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2010%2F04%2F10-Crescent-300px.jpg','10-Crescent-300px')"><img class="size-full  wp-image-332" title="10-Crescent-300px" src="http://www.flickeringtorches.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/10-Crescent-300px.jpg" onclick="return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickeringtorches.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2010%2F04%2F10-Crescent-300px.jpg','10-Crescent-300px')" alt="Crescent." width="300" height="437" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Crescent.</p></div>
<p>Love in an Alien Purgatory is a very brave book where both David Huggins and I share some very intimate details experienced between the interdimensional lovers. David tells the story without censorship in his paintings. And I bring my own interpretation from the view of a UFO investigator based on my own studies.</p>
<p>My investigations show that the concept of having sex with interdimensional beings existed long before the UFO and Flying Saucer age started. The very early Sumerian gods and goddesses were visiting humans with the same purpose. According to the legends, gods were not able to have children. But in order to continue their race, they started to use human females and males. They needed a new hybrid race that has both human and Extra Terrestrial characteristics. How successful were they, we don’t know?</p>
<p>Being touched by Extra Terrestrials or Interdimensional Beings, Jinns, Angels or Demons is never an easy experience in human life. The side effects vary with each individual. While some contactees and abductees are very happy to have this bond, others suffer deeply and suffer for generations. Many of the times abductees and contactees, and even the abduction and close encounter investigators, may face serious problems in their private life, marriage and relationships with their life partners. And in many cases ET contact goes from one generation to another as if the abductee’s DNA is coded or stigmatized by the visitors. When human DNA or human soul is stigmatized, a person can face and deal with a very unhappy karma shaped in the hands of the abductors.<br />
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Alien Abductions Today</strong></p>
<p>Today we still don’t know the real purpose of ET abductions. According to abductees and contactees Extra Terrestrial beings avoid to give detailed explanation and information on the process. Based on the limited testimonials it seems that many of the abductions are serving a scientific-genetic related goal such as creating a new hybrid generation using both human and alien parents. Just like it happened in David’s case, thousands of abductees were shown their hybrid babies in the UFOs.</p>
<div id="attachment_333" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://www.flickeringtorches.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/19-Baby-in-the-tube-300px.jpg" onclick="return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickeringtorches.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2010%2F04%2F19-Baby-in-the-tube-300px.jpg','19-Baby-in-the-tube-300px')"><img class="size-full wp-image-333" title="19-Baby-in-the-tube-300px" src="http://www.flickeringtorches.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/19-Baby-in-the-tube-300px.jpg" onclick="return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickeringtorches.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2010%2F04%2F19-Baby-in-the-tube-300px.jpg','19-Baby-in-the-tube-300px')" alt="Baby in the tube." width="300" height="425" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Baby in the tube.</p></div>
<p>Ancient history and mythology from Sumer to Mesopotamia, to my native country Turkey and to America show that a group of powerful and superior beings from the sky and from the underground always visited this planet for thousands of years.</p>
<p>There is nothing that we can do for the ancient cases, but we need to pay more attention to modern alien abduction and contact reports as these incidents are effecting human society both in emotional and physical ways. Although we hear more cases from The United States, alien abductions are happening almost in every country of the world.</p>
<p>Millions of individuals are describing being visited by Grays, Reptilians, Praying Mantis type beings or Hybrids. Many of these witnesses never paid attention to UFO sightings, science fiction or fantasy movies prior to their own experiences. They may be from every age or gender,  from all different kinds of professional backgrounds.</p>
<p>On the first glance they have nothing to do with each other. But they share a very solid link between each other; almost all of them are inserted microchip implants. Implants for what? General tendency says that implants are used in order to monitor abductees’ physical and emotional conditions. Some of the implants were removed by surgeons who work in alien abduction field in United States.  But the number of abduction researchers are very little all over the world comparing the vast number of abductees.</p>
<p>Medical doctor, surgeon, hypnotherapist, or psychiatrist abduction researchers have been trying to solve the puzzle with their own resources without getting any support from anywhere. Medical research also shows that abduction causes some physical changes in the organism of the abductee. These are the basic physical aspects of the alien abduction. But what about the psychological effects?</p>
<p>Not everybody’s response is same, not every abduction case or every Extra Terrestrial being is same. Some of the abductees come out from the experience with a very positive feeling. They don’t feel any fear and they believe that they are guided by positive beings. But for some of them the abduction is a very painful process overall.</p>
<p>After the abduction they develop fears, phobias, depression and obviously all these problems reflect their professional and private life. It seems that we are dealing with two very different sides of the coin. Yes alien abduction can offer both paradise or hell. David Huggins also had the similar type of unhappy incidents in his life. He didn’t have a paradise of alien contact, he wasn’t sent to the hell, but he was kept in a purgatory of aliens during all these years.</p>
<p>The alien purgatory still exists in his life, and the aliens will never fully leave him. Just like his love and passion for them. But isn’t that what love often is: a purgatory between two worlds, a place of desire, hope and fear?</p>


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		<description><![CDATA[While taking pictures with a digital camera at pastoral Tewin Bury Farm, a country retreat in Hertfordshire, UK, about half an hour from London,  Neil Sandbach captured what is arguably one of the best ghost photos in years. Set along the river Mimram, five minutes from Welwyn Garden City, Tewin Bury Farm has been owned [...]


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<div id="attachment_198" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 298px"><img class="size-full wp-image-198" title="tewin-bury-farm-LR142694" src="http://www.flickeringtorches.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/tewin-bury-farm-LR142694.jpg" alt="Tewin Bury Farm, England. Photo courtesy Britain Express" width="288" height="214" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Tewin Bury Farm, England. Photo courtesy Britain Express</p></div>
<p>While taking pictures with a digital camera at pastoral Tewin Bury Farm, a country retreat in Hertfordshire, UK, about half an hour from London,  Neil Sandbach captured what is arguably one of the best ghost photos in years.</p>
<p>Set along the river Mimram, five minutes from Welwyn Garden City, Tewin Bury Farm has been owned and operated by the Williams family since 1932. The property includes a 490-acre farm, a 31-bedroom country house hotel, the Tewin Bury Restaurant, and nine conference rooms, including the new Meadow Marquee that can accommodate up to 400 delegates for a meeting, a carriage company with several cars, and two fully renovated period buildings offering the perfect wedding venue.</p>
<div id="attachment_101" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 281px"><img class="size-full wp-image-101" title="Tewin-Bury-Farm-Tythe-Barn" src="http://www.flickeringtorches.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Tewin-Bury-Farm-Tythe-Barn.jpg" alt="17th century Tythe Barn set for a wedding meal. Photo courtesy Tewin Bury Farm" width="271" height="234" /><p class="wp-caption-text">The 17th century Tythe Barn, set for a wedding breakfast. Photo courtesy Tewin Bury Farm</p></div>
<p>Sandbach, a web designer from Leeds, was at the farm to photograph the wedding of his friends Jonathan and Nikki at the time he snapped the photo. He showed it to them prior to the wedding, and they inquired of the farm, without telling them of the photo, whether there were any reports of people seeing anything &#8220;spooky&#8221; at the farm.</p>
<p>&#8220;They went white and described what they and some cleaners had seen: the ghost of a young boy dressed in white night clothes, appearing close to the main barn,&#8221; Sandbach said, a fair description of what&#8217;s in the photo, taken at 4:52pm, the afternoon of January 1, 2006.</p>
<p>The Tythe Barn is 43 feet long by 26 feet wide, making the alleged ghost image proportional to normal human dimensions. The barn had undergone restoration several years ago, possibly accounting for the sightings, as construction work is known to rustle up the paranormal attributes of a location.</p>
<p>More details about the photo are available on the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.flickeringtorches.com/l/Flickr_page/98/1" onclick="return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickeringtorches.com%2Fl%2FFlickr_page%2F98%2F1','Flickr+page')" target="_blank">Flickr page</a> for it on Sandbach&#8217;s portfolio. The color plate of this location is from a 2004 event not connected to the Sandbach photos.</p>
<div id="attachment_199" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 250px"><img class="size-full wp-image-199" title="tewin-bury-farm-200154319_9d02d29612_m" src="http://www.flickeringtorches.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/tewin-bury-farm-200154319_9d02d29612_m.jpg" alt="Tewin Bury Farm photo by Neil Sandbach" width="240" height="180" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Tewin Bury Farm photo by Neil Sandbach</p></div>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Breckenridge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The paranormal world got a jolt when British media outlets released a startling photo of a ghost staring from the barred windows high in Tantallon Castle in North Berwick on the East Lothian Coast of Scotland. The photo, taken at 3pm on May 26, 2008, by Christopher Aitchison, was submitted as part of a project [...]


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<div id="attachment_130" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 310px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-130" title="tantallon-castle-ghost-aitchison-photo" src="http://www.flickeringtorches.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/tantallon-castle-ghost-aitchison-photo-300x233.jpg" alt="The ghost of Tantallon Castle. Photo by Chris Aitchison (PA Wire)" width="300" height="233" /><p class="wp-caption-text">The ghost of Tantallon Castle. Photo by Chris Aitchison (PA Wire)</p></div>
<p>The paranormal world got a jolt when British media outlets released a startling photo of a ghost staring from the barred windows high in Tantallon Castle in North Berwick on the East Lothian Coast of Scotland. The photo, taken at 3pm on May 26, 2008, by Christopher Aitchison, was submitted as part of a project for the Edinburgh International Science Festival, examining alleged ghostly images.</p>
<p>&#8220;It is certainly very curious,&#8221; Hertfordshire University professor and confirmed skeptic Richard Wiseman told Metro, a London newspaper.</p>
<div id="attachment_133" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 160px"><img class="size-full wp-image-133" title="Richard-Wiseman" src="http://www.flickeringtorches.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Richard-Wiseman.jpg" alt="Richard Wiseman" width="150" height="183" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Richard Wiseman</p></div>
<p>&#8220;We ran it by three photographic experts and they said it hadn&#8217;t been &#8216;Photoshopped&#8217; at all. The figure appears to be in period costume, but we know 100% that Tantallon Castle is not the sort of place that has dummies or costumed guides; they just don&#8217;t go in for that sort of thing. I suppose it could be a visitor looking a little bit strange. Perhaps someone will come forward. The explanation is not obvious.&#8221;</p>
<div id="attachment_132" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 211px"><img class="size-full wp-image-132" title="King-James-V-of-Scotland" src="http://www.flickeringtorches.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/King-James-V-of-Scotland.jpg" alt="This painting of King James V of Scotland is thought to resemble the ghost in the window. Photo courtesy Wikipedia" width="201" height="282" /><p class="wp-caption-text">This painting of King James V of Scotland is thought to resemble the ghost in the window. (Wikipedia)</p></div>
<p>The ghost is wearing courtly clothing known as a ruff, the dress of the Tudor era. The castle itself is a ruined fortress dating back to the 14th century. It was badly damaged in an attack by Oliver Cromwell&#8217;s forces in 1651, which accounts for its crumbling appearance.</p>
<p>Some have suggested it may be King James V of Scotland who once lived there. The ghost does bear a resemblance to a painting of the king. Tantallon was retained as a royal fortress until James V&#8217;s death in 1542. James had besieged the castle in 1528, regained control of it the following year, and extensively rebuilt it. It had been his childhood home, and he had returned to it. Perhaps he never really left.</p>
<p>&#8220;The image doesn&#8217;t show any signs of being altered at all,&#8221; said Steve Sayers, Art Editor of BBC Focus. &#8220;I&#8217;ve checked the RGB channels which is usually a give away, and also the level of noise, grain and focus. However, after enhancing the shadows it looks like it could be somebody coming down the spiral staircase.&#8221;</p>
<div id="attachment_131" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 214px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-131" title="tantallon-castle-ghost-grace-lamb-photo" src="http://www.flickeringtorches.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/tantallon-castle-ghost-grace-lamb-photo-204x300.jpg" alt="The Lamb family photo, taken in 1976" width="204" height="300" /><p class="wp-caption-text">The Lamb family photo, taken in 1976</p></div>
<p>After the first photo was published, Mrs. Grace Lamb of Edinburgh came forward with her own photo of the same location, taken 32 years prior. It shows her late husband Hugh and her two children, Paul and Kelly. Behind them is what looks like a person in historical dress staring out of an opening above the window in the Aitchison photo.</p>
<p>&#8220;We saw the other photo in all the papers, and it was my daughter who remembered the one we had taken,&#8221; Lamb told The Scotsman, a newspaper in Edinburgh. &#8220;We went to Tantallon a few times when the children were younger. As soon as we got it home we all spotted this weird image in the background, and it has been quite a talking point for us.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;The (Lamb) photo is in my opinion a pretty good one,&#8221; said Brian Daily of the Spokane Paranormal Society. &#8220;Although I do see where matrixing could be there &#8211; look at (the location of) the eyes and nose.&#8221; They are set along the edges of the wire screen. &#8220;There&#8217;s still more there than can be accounted for by the extreme digital zoom needed to expand [the] face.</p>
<p>&#8220;I wish the person had used a high definition camera. [The figure's] face seems really close to the mesh and parts of [the] collar line up with the wire mesh.&#8221; All of these are red flags in photographic analysis. Matrixing is the misidentification of something ordinary as something unusual.</p>
<div id="attachment_134" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 310px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-134" title="tantallon-castle-ghost-aitchison-photo-comparison" src="http://www.flickeringtorches.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/tantallon-castle-ghost-aitchison-photo-comparison-300x224.jpg" alt="Comparison of the original Aitchison photo with one of Wiseman in the location of the ghost. Photo by Chris Aitchison" width="300" height="224" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Comparison of the original Aitchison photo with one of Wiseman in the location of the ghost. Photo by Chris Aitchison</p></div>
<p>&#8220;How do you explain the jaw line and cheek bone, not to mention the color,&#8221; Daily said. It makes him skeptical. &#8220;I am happy to see another photo rise from this place. I remind myself that I need to get my passport and take a holiday to Europe because they&#8217;ve got crazy haunted places there.&#8221;</p>
<p>Neither Aitchison nor Lamb recalled seeing a face when they took their respective pictures. The figures were only noticed when the photographs were developed.</p>
<p>&#8220;I am skeptical about ghosts, but this is a great find,&#8221; Wiseman said. &#8220;There has been a huge number of people visiting the project website and I have received hundreds of images, but this is one of the most curious,&#8221; he said of the second photo.</p>
<div id="attachment_135" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-135" title="tantallon-castle-ghost-photo-staircase" src="http://www.flickeringtorches.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/tantallon-castle-ghost-photo-staircase-300x200.jpg" alt="Ghost POV - how the opening in the castle wall looks from the staircase inside. Photo by Richard Wiseman" width="300" height="200" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Ghost POV - how the opening in the castle wall looks from the staircase inside. Photo by Richard Wiseman</p></div>
<p>&#8220;It was fascinating to be sent this, as even though it is a higher part of the castle it is very similar to the original.&#8221;</p>
<p>Subsequently, Aitchison, Wiseman, and his colleagues went to Tantallon and conducted their own investigation.</p>
<p>&#8220;Chris brought along the same camera that he had used to take the original picture,&#8221; Wiseman said. &#8220;After much experimentation, we managed to find exactly where he had been standing. By chance, the lighting conditions were almost identical to those in May 2008, when the ‘ghost’ pic was snapped.&#8221;</p>
<p>Their conclusion, as shown by their photographic comparison from that day, was that a person &#8211; or ghost &#8211; could actually have been seen from that window, just as the original Aitchison photo suggests.</p>
<p><em>This is a complete rewrite of an article by Brian Daily and appears re-bylined with permission of the original author.</em></p>


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