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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Past podcast. As Monday, May nineteenth,

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Speaker 1: the Ravens had a press conference today with running back

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Speaker 1: Derek Henry. He was in the building to put pen

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Speaker 1: to paper on a new contract extension that will keep

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Speaker 1: him here in Baltimore through the twenty twenty seventh season.

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Speaker 1: After signing that deal, Henry met with the media alongside

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Speaker 1: running backs coach Willie Taggert.

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Speaker 2: Welcome, thank you all for being here today for a

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Speaker 2: great announcement. As you can see, I'm excited. I know

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Speaker 2: Derek excited, and our entire organization is excited about Derek

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Speaker 2: being here with us for a few more years. You know,

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Speaker 2: so excited about it, Derek, I know you excited to

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Speaker 2: be here, and remember getting a text from you, fired

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Speaker 2: up about being back and looking forward to it.

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Speaker 3: First and foremost, we want to give a big thing

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Speaker 3: instead of a shotty family, Eric Tacassa and his staff

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Speaker 3: and Raven Nation, Flocked nation for all the support and

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Speaker 3: you know, a d C and Missa give me opportunity

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Speaker 3: to be able to get this extension, and you know,

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Speaker 3: I'm very grateful and blessed to be in this position.

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Speaker 4: Couldn't do it up my teammates who helped me.

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Speaker 3: Get in this position to receive a blessing like this,

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Speaker 3: and I'll give all the glory to God.

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Speaker 4: And you know, always keep God first.

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Speaker 3: State my family, my girl, my my daughter's my motivation,

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Speaker 3: and I'm just grateful to be able to be in

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Speaker 3: his lead this long and get another opportunity like this.

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Speaker 4: I mean, once you finally got it got it done.

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Speaker 4: What what does it mean to you to kind of

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Speaker 4: you know, for the reasons to.

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Speaker 5: Go and you know, commit to you for even more

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Speaker 5: than you know was last year as well.

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Speaker 3: You know, I'm just very grateful for this organization. You know,

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Speaker 3: just like last year, calling off the season I had,

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Speaker 3: you know, I wasn't really happy, and you know, I

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Speaker 3: wanted to prove myself and just get an opportunity, and

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Speaker 3: they gave me the opportunity. And you know, I very

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Speaker 3: appreciative of how much you know, they value me to

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Speaker 3: want to show them how much it means to me,

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Speaker 3: how much this organization means to me by the way

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Speaker 3: I work in what I do in the field.

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Speaker 5: Deer at this when we first talked to you last year,

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Speaker 5: after you initially signed. I'm sure you know this is

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Speaker 5: an eye opening experience for you after how long you've

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Speaker 5: been in Tennessee. At what point of your first season

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Speaker 5: in Baltimore did you kind of figure, Okay, this is

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Speaker 5: definitely where I want to be. I know my contract,

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Speaker 5: but we could extend this even more as this is

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Speaker 3: Right yeah, I think just embarking on a new journey.

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Speaker 3: You know, I was in Tennessee for eight years, so

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Speaker 3: come here. Everything was new and all I wanted to

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Speaker 3: do is is gained my respect from my form, my

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Speaker 4: And carried myself.

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Speaker 3: And over time as I got here, you know, I

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Speaker 3: And then getting to the seasons, it's like icing on

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Speaker 3: but it was it was a lot of fun. And

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Speaker 3: you know, we have a lot of great players, a

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Speaker 3: it's always fun when you got guys around you that

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Speaker 6: Derek along those lines, Uh, you mentioned I think you

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Speaker 6: know war was one of the reasons you came here

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Speaker 6: and so forth. I don't know if you've had thought

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Speaker 6: about it at all, but did you sort of look

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Speaker 6: back on the last year. What was that like in

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Speaker 6: terms of YouTube playing together from what you could do

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I really enjoyed last season a lot, you know,

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Speaker 3: cause like I said, I was in Tendesse for for

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Speaker 3: there's a lot of young guys on offense and on

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Speaker 3: And you know last year, Uh, it was a lot

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Speaker 6: Willie obviously this was a pairing that worked out really well.

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Speaker 2: If you were to summarize why, why is there such

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Speaker 2: a great fit here in Baltimore. Oh, I think he

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Speaker 2: I think he fits Baltimore at a s as a

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Speaker 2: And when you watch him play and you watch the

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Speaker 2: was always dominating and physical. And when you watch Derrick run,

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Speaker 2: We're dominating and physical. So I think he just fit

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Speaker 2: everyone I talked to about the raven organization before I

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Speaker 4: The Ravens organization is one of the best in the leagues.

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Speaker 2: And and then Therek came here and he's top notch

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Speaker 7: There.

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Speaker 5: Going about to playing with Lamar, you know, when you

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Speaker 4: And maybe he's some clusper in there. Yeah, I think definitely.

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Speaker 4: I mean he's just so dynamic.

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Speaker 3: You know, you gotta count from every single play and

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Speaker 3: So you know, I get more opportunities, and you know,

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Speaker 3: It's just as much as they they they account for me.

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Speaker 3: So it's fun playing al uh alongside him and all

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Speaker 3: And I know he has a lot of fun. I

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: I think if you get thirteen hun or thirteen hundred

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Speaker 4: I mean cause then you're getting into like a really

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: You know when you say something like that, it's just

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Speaker 3: God has best blessed me tremendously. And you know, since

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Speaker 3: I was five years old, you know, I fell in

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Speaker 3: You know, I always looked up to you know, great

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Speaker 3: it's it's so surreal. And you know, God is so good.

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Speaker 3: I've had a lot of people throughout my life to

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Speaker 8: Where can you in conversations with het An injustice or

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Speaker 8: what do youleve forward.

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Speaker 3: To building along with And yeah, then you know they

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Speaker 3: And we have so much fun in that room and

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Speaker 3: I like brothers to me. You know, we always try

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Speaker 3: And you know, coach coach Tag make sure that we

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Speaker 2: Lines in that room, For that h's who's played at

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Speaker 2: it sets an example for them. You know, they all young,

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Speaker 2: to see that he's just deep into his career and

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 2: Those guys come in and they want to be on

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Speaker 2: They don't want to take Derek off, you know. But

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Speaker 2: but more important, they wanna they wanna play at a level,

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Speaker 2: at a at a standard that Derek has set, has

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Speaker 7: Really, you know, the stereotypes about like backs when he hits.

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Speaker 4: Or why do you think Derek defies that?

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Speaker 7: When you look at a contract like business clear Baltimore,

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Speaker 7: the organization's not ready to Derek consumer, Why do you

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Speaker 7: think he kind of makes.

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Speaker 4: That not matter in a lot of hits.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think you if you watch his work ethic

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Speaker 2: then just to watch him out there, you don't see

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Speaker 2: and that's towards I mean that's nine years in that's

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Speaker 2: he wants to win the Super Bowl, you know, and

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Speaker 2: I know he's gonna do everything he can to help

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Speaker 6: Really, what does it mean a team sort of Baltimore.

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Speaker 7: Lay the best.

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Speaker 4: It's some of the reputation.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's just it's great and it g like I

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Speaker 2: and to continue to have good running backs come in

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Speaker 2: being able to to watch him go do what he

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Speaker 4: And especially now for you, you know, for you to

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Speaker 7: Stay two more years.

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Speaker 4: They are there. Now you're signed through twenty twenty seven.

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Speaker 6: Do you when you sign a contract, do you think, Okay,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's just, you know, focus on this

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Speaker 6: Mention those you know, not being happy with last season

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Speaker 5: They're a lot of prisons to do to I like,

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Speaker 3: What you use to do that? Yeah, I mean I

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Speaker 5: Derek, A lot of the Times sees press conference guy's

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Speaker 4: Go work out. You can stay from workout after New Yal.

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Speaker 6: Alright, how quick are you uh your work at routine?

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Speaker 4: Are you like back in the gym?

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Speaker 4: One big picture question for you.

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Speaker 8: You're from Yule. They take a lot of pride in you,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I take uh very much proud in

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Speaker 2: That's what you love as a coach. A guy that

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Speaker 2: wants to be great, want to work at it and

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Speaker 2: and want to be the best to help this football team.

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Speaker 4: Derek.

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Speaker 5: Overall offense, you lost stability in that group.

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Speaker 4: Most most of the.

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Speaker 5: Players are returning, you added DeAndre Hopkins.

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Speaker 7: What what do you feel like is.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I'm not gonna I mean get into

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Speaker 3: you know, any expectations because like I said before, everything

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Speaker 3: looks good on paper until you go out there and

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Speaker 3: and and actually do it. We know what we know,

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Speaker 3: what we're capable of on what we can do, but

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Speaker 3: we know the work we gotta put in to to

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Speaker 3: and be one of the top offices in the league.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's a lot of work we still gotta

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Speaker 3: gotta put in. Got a lot of great players around

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Speaker 3: around the offense, and you know, you gotta put the

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Speaker 3: work in individually, and then we all get together collectively

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Speaker 3: to to do those things to be a top team,

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Speaker 3: top offense and do things special that we that we

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