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Speaker 1: read this one right here, right now. Buckle up and

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Speaker 1: is Strawberry Letter. Thank you enough you subject. Does he

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Speaker 1: have a problem or am I the problem? Dear Stephen Shirley,

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Speaker 1: I'm married to a wonderful man that is thirteen years

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Speaker 1: older than I am. He is my everything, everything, and

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Speaker 1: in the beginning of our marriage, we were very active

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Speaker 1: and traveled a lot. Now it's like he's settled into

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Speaker 1: being old and boring, and I can barely get him

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Speaker 1: to take a walk with me. I asked him if

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Speaker 1: he was depressed and advised him to see a doctor.

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Speaker 1: He went to the doctor and got a clean bill

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Speaker 1: of health. We used to enjoy a martini in the

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Speaker 1: evening too unwind and re connect, But lately he's turned

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Speaker 1: to drinking brown liquor, and I've noticed a change in him.

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Speaker 1: He is grumpier now, and he snores like a wild

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Speaker 1: man in the bed. I have to admit that his

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Speaker 1: sex game is better if he's had the brown liquor,

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Speaker 1: but right afterwards he passes out. My biggest problem with

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Speaker 1: him is kind of embarrassing, and I don't know how

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Speaker 1: to handle it. He's been urinating in his sleep and

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Speaker 1: the smell of the brown liquor has saturated our mattress

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Speaker 1: and reeks throughout our bedroom. At first, it would be

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Speaker 1: just a few drops, and the more he drank in

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Speaker 1: the evening, the more he'd urinate in his sleep. He

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Speaker 1: was already ashamed. By the fifth time he did it,

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Speaker 1: I brought it to his attention and he downplated by

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Speaker 1: saying he was too comfortable to get up to use

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Speaker 1: and he refused. He told me I could sleep in

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Speaker 1: to me, Why would he ask me to leave our bedroom.

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Speaker 1: It makes me wonder if he's doing this on purpose

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Speaker 1: because he's lost interest in me. Please advise, well, he

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Speaker 1: definitely has lost interest in the bathroom for some reason,

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Speaker 1: and we don't know why yet. This is a great

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Speaker 1: testimonial for depend though. I think I don't understand anything

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Speaker 1: about this letter. I really don't. I think you should

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Speaker 1: definitely invest in some depends. I didn't know brown liquor

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Speaker 1: made your urinate on yourself. I've never heard this before,

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Speaker 1: and in your sleep. I just I have never ever

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Speaker 1: we're all people that have had that dream, you know,

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Speaker 1: the one where we almost go on ourselves in the bed,

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Speaker 1: to bed. Some don't make it, but most do. We

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Speaker 1: weren't even drinking brown liquor. Was just dreaming that you

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Speaker 1: were going to the bathroom. And I think your husband

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Speaker 1: is just lazy. I'm gonna say it. I think he's

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Speaker 1: But I do agree with you that he wants you

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Speaker 1: freedom to pee in peace. Yes, so if you're in

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Speaker 1: the other bedroom, he could do it by himself. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I don't know how you could stand this for five

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Speaker 1: times before you said something. But you know, I'll give

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Speaker 1: you credit. What a woman, what a wife? I mean

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Speaker 1: And that's ashamed. But he didn't sound like he was.

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Speaker 1: He wasn't ashamed. This is not normal, though, it really isn't.

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Speaker 1: I think he needs to leave the brown liquor alone.

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Speaker 1: And I think he definitely should get back to the doctor.

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Speaker 1: Take your advice on that. Get back to that doctor immediately,

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Speaker 1: because it sounds like something is wrong medically. Um. And

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Speaker 1: that's all I have for you, Steve. Now, now that

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Speaker 1: ain't it all. It's all this is wrong. All this

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Speaker 1: this is what my initial reaction to this letter was.

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Speaker 1: He tired of her. M he tired of her. He

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Speaker 1: thirteen years old. In you, he's everything in the beginning,

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Speaker 1: very active travel. Now it's like he's suddenly into being old.

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Speaker 1: He's thirteen years old, and he is probably settling into

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Speaker 1: with your stuff that's something else. Then you thought he

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Speaker 1: billy him. He's not depressed. He he wasn't depressed at

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Speaker 1: Remember y'all used to drink a martini. They're unwinding and

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Speaker 1: reconnect in the evening. See that that that that clear

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Speaker 1: look ain't getting it no more. He didn't had to

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Speaker 1: resort to brown liquor something harder than a martini. What

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Speaker 1: does this mean he didn't he tired of her? Oh wow, No,

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Speaker 1: I'm telling you this woman is not discussing a problem

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Speaker 1: that they have. That's a major information missing out of this.

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Speaker 1: I can tell by another he didn't just stop drinking

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Speaker 1: Martinez and all of a sudden just started drinking Ian jade,

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Speaker 1: y'all with hennessy and crime. He'd been there trying to

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Speaker 1: wash it down with some markers. What y're all up

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Speaker 1: in the bourbon and everything. He's trying to forget something.

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Speaker 1: And he's grumpier now, and he snores like a wild man.

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Speaker 1: He is drowning you out. He don't want to hear

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Speaker 1: nothing you got to say at night or in the daytime.

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Speaker 1: Hang on Steve, come back. I'm gonna tell you the

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Speaker 1: other thing that's happening in the Okay, that was part one,

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Speaker 1: coming up, you heard it part two of Steve's respond

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Speaker 1: to twenty three minutes after the hour, today's subject, Does

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Speaker 1: he have a problem or am I the problem? We'll

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Speaker 1: get back into it right after this. You're listening, all right, Steve,

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Speaker 1: come on, let's recap today's strawberry letter. Does he have

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Speaker 1: a problem or am I either problem? Does he have

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Speaker 1: a problem or am either problem? Whenever there's a problem,

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Speaker 1: there's two reasons it's a problem. It's your side of

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Speaker 1: the story and he's his side of the story. Now

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Speaker 1: you're saying he was finding the beginning. He's thirteen years old,

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Speaker 1: and now he just acting old. He don't even want

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Speaker 1: to take a walk with you no more. And y'all

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Speaker 1: switched drinking from martinis, and he just switched over the

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Speaker 1: wrong with him. He's I know, it's just when I'm home.

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Speaker 1: He only depressed when he's at the house with hush shilling.

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Speaker 1: But he's pay I'm gonna tell you about that. Listen

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Speaker 1: to me now the second part it is, she say,

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Speaker 1: it's the most embarrassing. I don't know how to handle it.

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Speaker 1: He been yuinating in his sleep, and the smell of

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Speaker 1: brown liquor has saturated our match brown looking strong. You

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Speaker 1: put brown, look penicilla college, green juice, what ox oxtail,

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Speaker 1: your hands. So when he year natan, that's another sign

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Speaker 1: that he's sick of you. Any time you roll over

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Speaker 1: and touching, he peel a little and just a touch

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Speaker 1: of your hand on his back. Now, you even said

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Speaker 1: the brown liquor made him better in bed, but as

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Speaker 1: soon as he gets through, he falled right asleep. Fella,

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Speaker 1: sound familiar, sound familiar. Fellas as soon as this over,

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Speaker 1: it's over boom. Now. Then you said he would get

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Speaker 1: let's hear it. He downplayed it by saying he was

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Speaker 1: too comfortable to get up to use the tarlet girl,

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Speaker 1: let me explain something to you. You ain't ever too

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Speaker 1: comfortable to pee on yourself. You ain't ever too comfortable

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Speaker 1: to lay up there and just pee on yourself. What

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Speaker 1: are you talking about? Brown ass? Man told you he

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Speaker 1: just comfortable? What you ain't that comfortable? You think, brown?

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Speaker 1: Look a smell it burned too. He ain't set up

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Speaker 1: there comfortable, laying in that squish your ass mattress talking

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Speaker 1: He is trying to accomplish something, y'all. Y'all ain't listening

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Speaker 1: to me. He's trying to accomplish something. Ain't No grown

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Speaker 1: man laid up in that bed, peete on himself, stayed

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Speaker 1: act like ain't nothing wrong to guess what, to guess what?

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Speaker 1: To guess what? She'll five times to She said something

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Speaker 1: And then he said, if you don't like it, go

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Speaker 1: sleep in the other room. That was the objective the

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Speaker 1: whole damn time. He sick of huge, he'd have started

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Speaker 1: peeing in the bed. No, it's making her mad. He'd

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Speaker 1: the other bed. Do that sound like somebody that loves somebody?

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Speaker 1: Or do that sound like somebody that's sick of somebody?

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Speaker 1: It sounds like somebody's here. Surely ain't nothing wrong with

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Speaker 1: this dude. But I mean there are many other ways

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Speaker 1: to get her out of the bedroom. Yeah, yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: come on, five. Yeah, this is disgusting. It is all

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Speaker 1: another reason. I think he has a medical condition. Damn

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Speaker 1: medical condition depends is for people who can't make it

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Speaker 1: nate on your damn self. He's lazy and that lazy.

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Speaker 1: Ain't nobody that damn lazy to put brown liquor pe

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Speaker 1: on your fat? He wanted divorce? U bro, bro, Why

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Speaker 1: don't you just ask for a divorce? Do you have

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Speaker 1: to pee on me to? I don't understand this? What

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Speaker 1: is going on here? Yeah? I don't. I'm sorry. I

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Speaker 1: don't follow your logic. You don't have to follow my logic.

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Speaker 1: It's no logic to follow. How did this sound logical

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Speaker 1: to you? No? This is crazy us. Why y'all pick

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Speaker 1: peing on himself. We can't help him wet, No, damn doctor.

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Speaker 1: I think he needs to get back to the doctor. Sure, Lee,

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Speaker 1: if your wife asks you to go see about yourself,

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Speaker 1: he said, he ain't going back down to the doctor.

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Speaker 1: And if you don't like it, go sleep in the

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Speaker 1: other bed room. That's not a medical condition. He's sick

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Speaker 1: of her. I keep telling y'all, I don't know why

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Speaker 1: she's not sick at him with you in the other

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Speaker 1: don't he walking there and be on the other bed.

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Speaker 1: He really is ridiculous. All right, Look, post your comments

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