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Speaker 1: Episode four, The Widening Gyre, Part three of three. Morris
Speaker 1: and Guy watched from the back of the kitchen, along
Speaker 1: with Peggy and Margaret, as Janet sat in silence at
Speaker 1: the table with a look of extreme concentration on her face.
Speaker 1: In front of her lay a thin strip of metal
Speaker 1: on which an electrical sensor known as a strain gage
Speaker 1: had been attached, which in turn fed out to pulse counter.
Speaker 1: Sat beside Janet was David Robertson, a student of physics
Speaker 1: at London's Burkbeck University, who kept his eyes fixed firmly
Speaker 1: on the counter reading. David had joined the investigation at
Speaker 1: the Hodgson's home in early December nineteen seventy seven at
Speaker 1: the request of Professor John holsted one of his teachers
Speaker 1: at Burkebeck. Holstedt had been contacted by Guy on account
Speaker 1: of the work he'd done a few years earlier examining
Speaker 1: the apparent psychic abilities of paranormal celebrity Uri Geller, in
Speaker 1: particular his supposed ability to bend metal with his mind. David,
Speaker 1: who'd agreed to spend a week living with the family
Speaker 1: to monitor the strange activity, had designed the metal strip
Speaker 1: test to see if Janet had similar powers. After five
Speaker 1: minutes of trying, however, the reading remained unchanged. Janet sighed loudly.
Speaker 1: I'm bored, she said, turning to leave the table, when
Speaker 1: suddenly a metal tin on top of the fridge bounced
Speaker 1: into the air, causing them all to flinch. Did you
Speaker 1: see it, said David with excitement. Yes, said Morris. It
Speaker 1: happens all the time. But David wasn't talking about the
Speaker 1: tin jumping. He was pointing to the counter. Just when
Speaker 1: the tin moved, he explained, the reading went up. Then,
Speaker 1: thinking quickly, David instructed Janet and Margaret to go upstairs.
Speaker 1: As the girls duly disappeared out of the door, The
Speaker 1: others looked on with amazement as the reading on the
Speaker 1: counter began to fluctuate the further away they got. Then,
Speaker 1: just as the girl's footsteps could be heard entering the
Speaker 1: bedroom above. As they drew closer and closer to the
Speaker 1: area by the kitchen table, the reading began to fluck
Speaker 1: eight once again. David Robertson's arrival at two hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty four Green Street marked a renewed effort to uncover
Speaker 1: the true nature of what exactly was happening there, as
Speaker 1: Guy and Maris continue to invite people to the house
Speaker 1: provided they had a scientific interest in the case. Though
Speaker 1: many of the events seemed to suggest to Guy and
Speaker 1: Morris the Janet was somehow psychically responsible, the recent knocking,
Speaker 1: communications and strange mutterings of Margaret in her sleep had
Speaker 1: for them considerably strengthened the other tantalizing possibility that they
Speaker 1: were potentially dealing with genuine spirits of the dead. On
Speaker 1: the night of December tenth, it was the turn of
Speaker 1: psychologists Anita Gregory and doctor John Beloff, who were also
Speaker 1: members of the Society for Psychical Research, to make their
Speaker 1: assessment of the events. Things began routinely enough, with the
Speaker 1: usual knocking sounds and objects being flung about the place,
Speaker 1: then later with Gregory and Belof joining the others on
Speaker 1: the landing outside the bedrooms, they all listened to the
Speaker 1: sound of Janet and Margaret being seemingly flung out of
Speaker 1: the bed by an invisible force, since nothing happened in
Speaker 1: any one's direct line of sight. However, Gregory and Belov
Speaker 1: remained deeply unimpressed throughout, even less so when the barking began.
Speaker 1: It had started a few days previously after Janet agreed
Speaker 1: to undergo a session of hypnosis, during which she claimed
Speaker 1: to have heard the sound of a dog barking while
Speaker 1: she and the family were away in Clacton on Sea.
Speaker 1: Not long after this session, the barking was then heard
Speaker 1: in the Hodgson's house, occurring intermittently whenever Janet was around.
Speaker 1: As yet another bark was heard coming from the girl's bed,
Speaker 1: Morris couldn't help but feel frustrated by Gregory and Belov's
Speaker 1: distinct lack of interest. Of course, he knew how suspicious
Speaker 1: it all seemed, the way they were always forced to
Speaker 1: be out of the room whenever anything substantial happened, but
Speaker 1: to dismiss it all on account of one evening's observations
Speaker 1: seemed distinctly unscientific to him. Having finally had enough, Morris
Speaker 1: headed into the bedroom and demanded that Charlie, the name
Speaker 1: they decided to give, whatever it was that was communicating
Speaker 1: with them, make the sound of the bark in a
Speaker 1: different bedroom. Maurice stood completely still, keeping both Janet and
Speaker 1: Margaret in his sights, as the others outside the room
Speaker 1: waited with bated breath for the sound to come again.
Speaker 1: After a few minutes of silence, however, Maurice gave up
Speaker 1: and then turned to leave the room, but just then
Speaker 1: another two bark rang out from behind him. It came
Speaker 1: from under Janet's bed, said Margaret, looking suddenly scared. Well,
Speaker 1: if you can whistle and bark, maybe you can speak,
Speaker 1: said Morris into the air. Gone say my name. The
Speaker 1: girls stared blankly up at Morris from under their covers
Speaker 1: as he waited expectantly for a reply, but nothing came back.
Speaker 1: Back on the landing, Morris was in the process of
Speaker 1: filling Gregory and Belof in on what else had been
Speaker 1: happening when a strange gruff sound was heard coming from
Speaker 1: the other side of the door. It said Morris shouted Janet.
Speaker 1: This was followed by a flurry of activity as Janet's
Speaker 1: bed was heard creaking and rattling. Telling the others to
Speaker 1: quiet and down, Morris called out again for the boys
Speaker 1: to say something gross came back. The reply in a strange,
Speaker 1: doglike rasp. Then Morris asked Charlie to tell them their
Speaker 1: actual name. Joe came back the rough barked reply, Joe Willikins.
Speaker 1: It was the same name that Margaret had said out
Speaker 1: loud the week before when apparently talking in her sleep,
Speaker 1: the name of a man who'd supposedly died in the
Speaker 1: house twelve years before. Though Anita, Gregory and doctor Beloff
Speaker 1: remained convinced that the girls were merely playing a trick
Speaker 1: on everyone, Morris and Guy persisted with their questions to
Speaker 1: the voice as it came to be known, which only
Speaker 1: seemed to grow in confidence as the days went by.
Speaker 1: At first, the exchanges only took place at night, and
Speaker 1: always from outside the bedroom. Over time, however, they were
Speaker 1: able to into the bedroom to continue speaking with it.
Speaker 1: It quickly became clear that the voice was coming from Janet. However,
Speaker 1: both Morris and Guy were adamant that when it came,
Speaker 1: the shape of her mouth never corresponded to the words
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Speaker 1: Although it was hard not to suspect Janet was merely
Speaker 1: making the raspy voice herself Morris and Guy were continually
Speaker 1: perplexed at how a child could keep up such as
Speaker 1: charade for three hours at a time without any hint
Speaker 1: of wear on her vocal courts. It was all the
Speaker 1: more strange when the children started talking to it too,
Speaker 1: including Janet, who seemed to switch seamlessly from her own gentle,
Speaker 1: higher voice to the other, strange and unnerving rasp. The
Speaker 1: voice's language was often coarse and explicit, to a marked
Speaker 1: contrast to Janet's far more childish manner. In time, the
Speaker 1: voice would claim to be other identities, including a man
Speaker 1: called Fred and a five year old boy called Tommy. Mostly,
Speaker 1: it would claim to be a seventy two year old
Speaker 1: man named Bill Wilkins, who explained that he traveled to
Speaker 1: the house from nearby Durrance Park Cemetery to see his family,
Speaker 1: but had been left saddened when he arrived to find
Speaker 1: they'd all gone. While Morris and Guy debated the significance
Speaker 1: of the bizarre voice, David Robertson, who was still staying
Speaker 1: with the family at the time, set his sights on
Speaker 1: another experiment. Having been intrigued by Margaret and Janet's claims
Speaker 1: that they were being molested by invisible forces. David asked
Speaker 1: Janet to try and harness the force somehow, either through
Speaker 1: her own power or that of whatever apparent entity was
Speaker 1: doing it to her, and see if she could use
Speaker 1: it to levitate. With Janet in the bedroom and David outside,
Speaker 1: David suggested she begin by bouncing up and down on
Speaker 1: her bed to see what might happen. After a short
Speaker 1: bout of jumping, Janet cried out that it was working.
Speaker 1: When David tried to get into the room to witness it, however,
Speaker 1: the door suddenly refused to budge. By the time he
Speaker 1: made it inside, Janet was back sitting down on the bed.
Speaker 1: It was Peggy, Nottingham's idea, who joined soon after from
Speaker 1: next door to give Janet a red pen, suggesting that
Speaker 1: she draw a line around the light fitting on the
Speaker 1: ceiling Janet couldn't possibly reach from the bed, as proof
Speaker 1: that she had indeed levitated. With David, Peggy and Margaret
Speaker 1: back out on the landing, David gave Janet the signal
Speaker 1: to try it again, then pressed his ear to the
Speaker 1: door and listened intently to the creeks and strains of
Speaker 1: the bed as Janet began to bounce. Once more. At
Speaker 1: the same time, two doors down, a neighbor's dog became
Speaker 1: suddenly agitated and ran to the back door, barking wildly.
Speaker 1: Unable to get the dog to calm down, the neighbor
Speaker 1: opened the door and watched with confusion as it ran
Speaker 1: straight out into the garden toward the fence they shared
Speaker 1: with the hodge Sun's garden. As the dog started to
Speaker 1: scrape at the fence and continued barking in the direction
Speaker 1: of the Hodgson's house, the neighbor gazed into their garden,
Speaker 1: but no one was there. Back upstairs on the Hodgson's land, David, Peggy,
Speaker 1: and Margaret listened as the creaks and strains continued from
Speaker 1: the other side of the door. When suddenly they stopped.
Speaker 1: Janet asked David, but there was no reply. David hurriedly
Speaker 1: tried the handle, but once again the door wouldn't budge Janet.
Speaker 1: He cried out again, when suddenly they heard the sound
Speaker 1: of something heavy falling to the ground and the door
Speaker 1: finally opened. Inside the room, they found a breathless Janet
Speaker 1: lying exhausted on her bed, while up on the ceiling,
Speaker 1: a red line had now appeared around the light fitting
Speaker 1: I've been through the wall, said Janet. Finally, as Janet
Speaker 1: later explained, after apparently leather tating in the air, she'd
Speaker 1: suddenly found herself inside what she took to be Peggy
Speaker 1: Nottingham's bedroom, so there was no way to verify this.
Speaker 1: When Peggy went back home soon after, she found the
Speaker 1: book Fun Games for Children, last seen sitting on the
Speaker 1: mantelpiece in Janet and Margaret's bedroom on her bedroom floor.
Speaker 1: Unsure what to make of it all, David then handed
Speaker 1: Janet a small red cushion, asking her or the entity
Speaker 1: to try and do something with that too. Taking the cushion,
Speaker 1: Janet headed back to the bedroom as David and the
Speaker 1: others took their places on the landing. Moments later, out
Speaker 1: in the street, local resident John Rainbow was just about
Speaker 1: to walk past the Hodgson's home when out of nowhere,
Speaker 1: he saw something appear suddenly at the corner of the roof.
Speaker 1: It took a moment to comprehend what he was looking
Speaker 1: at before he realized it was a small red cushion
Speaker 1: that appeared to have materialized out of thin air. Hazel Short,
Speaker 1: the road crossing supervisor for the school opposite the house,
Speaker 1: was also nearby. At the time, Hazel was collecting her
Speaker 1: stop sign, which she kept in the Hodgson's front garden,
Speaker 1: when she noticed the cushion, too, sitting red and stark
Speaker 1: against the dull gray of the slate roof, when all
Speaker 1: of a sudden a clattering from above drew her attention
Speaker 1: to Janet's bedroom window, from behind which a number of
Speaker 1: books were being flung against the glass. John Rainbow had
Speaker 1: seen them two only from his perspective, they hadn't just
Speaker 1: hit the window, they'd also circled in mid air around
Speaker 1: the room, having crossed the road. Hazel then looked back
Speaker 1: up to Janet's window, just in time to catch sight
Speaker 1: of the young girl seemingly bouncing up and down on
Speaker 1: her bed. What was strange, however, as Hazel recounted it
Speaker 1: a few days later, was that she was lying completely horizontal,
Speaker 1: as if she was asleep in mid air. It was weird, too,
Speaker 1: thought Hazel, how the curtains seemed to be blowing up
Speaker 1: into the room at the time, even though the window
Speaker 1: was shut. Arriving later in the afternoon of the fifteenth,
Speaker 1: Morris and Guy were understandably disappointed to have missed all
Speaker 1: the drama. Themselves before long. However, with David Robertson's help,
Speaker 1: they quickly turned their attention to first trying to figure
Speaker 1: out if Janet had simply thrown the cushion on to
Speaker 1: the roof herself. Interestingly, while the men found the window
Speaker 1: to be incredibly stiff and loud to open, David claimed
Speaker 1: not to have heard it opening at all in the
Speaker 1: time between Janet receiving the cushion and it ending up
Speaker 1: on the roof, and when they tried to throw the
Speaker 1: cushion out themselves, neither of them were able to get
Speaker 1: it to reach the spot where it had eventually been found.
Speaker 1: As for the apparent bursts of levitation, the addition of
Speaker 1: Hazel Short and John Rainbow's accounts of what they'd seen
Speaker 1: to add to Janet's own version of events certainly made
Speaker 1: for compelling listening. Still suspicious, however, that Janet was responsible
Speaker 1: for the voice, which was talking more and more each day,
Speaker 1: The men attempted a number of crude experiments to see
Speaker 1: if they could allay their suspicions once and for all.
Speaker 1: Over the next few days, they tried everything from taping
Speaker 1: up her mouth to having her keep water in it
Speaker 1: for long periods of time, none of which stopped the
Speaker 1: voice from speaking throughout it all. With Morris and Guy
Speaker 1: remembering why they agreed to help the family in the
Speaker 1: first place, they did their best to rear sure them
Speaker 1: at each turn that things would one day return to normal.
Speaker 1: In truth, however, they could make no such promises, having
Speaker 1: assumed the activity would end after only eight weeks. By
Speaker 1: late December, they were approaching a fifth month of incessant activity,
Speaker 1: and the most troubling moment of all was still yet
Speaker 1: to occur. Despite everything, spirits were high in the Hodgson's
Speaker 1: home as Christmas approached, with Peggy doing her best to
Speaker 1: make things as cheery and exciting for the children as possible. Certainly,
Speaker 1: the tinsel covered Christmas tree and shiny decorations that hung
Speaker 1: throughout the house did much to mask the turmoil of
Speaker 1: the last few months. This homely facade was soon punctured, however,
Speaker 1: when on the morning of December twenty third, Janet to
Speaker 1: feed her two goldfish, only to find them both floating
Speaker 1: at the top of the tank. Two days later, on
Speaker 1: Christmas Day morning, the children awoke to find their pet Budrigar,
Speaker 1: also dead in its cage. It wasn't long after the
Speaker 1: family had finished Christmas lunch with them once again gathered
Speaker 1: together in the living room when Janet, who was sitting
Speaker 1: by the window, gave out a horrified scream as she
Speaker 1: clawed desperately at her neck. It took a moment for
Speaker 1: the others to realize that one of the curtains was
Speaker 1: now completely wrapped around it, as if it were trying
Speaker 1: to strangle her. Terrified, Peggy rushed over to help, and
Speaker 1: together with Janet, they finally managed to pull the curtain away,
Speaker 1: leaving a stunned Janet seemingly gasping for breath. Then a
Speaker 1: few days later, it happened again, this time apparently witnessed
Speaker 1: by Peggy and Margaret, who both claimed to see the
Speaker 1: curtain come right off its wire before it once again
Speaker 1: wrapped itself around Janet's neck. The attacks continued in Janet's bedroom,
Speaker 1: where as Peggy and Margaret also later described it, from
Speaker 1: out of nowhere, Janet was grabbed by her bedsheets and
Speaker 1: dressing gown, which then wrapped tightly around her, as the
Speaker 1: rest of the family could only look on in utter horror.
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Speaker 1: and with the rest of the strange phenomena appearing to
Speaker 1: have died down, the family had cause for optimism as
Speaker 1: they approached the new year together. In the evening of
Speaker 1: New Year's Eve, as midnight drew near, Peggy watched with
Speaker 1: joy as her children danced around the living room forgetting
Speaker 1: for a moment or the trouble of the last year,
Speaker 1: when she felt a strange, ominous feeling come over her
Speaker 1: and the familiar slight pressure at the front of her head.
Speaker 1: It was something she'd become aware of more and more
Speaker 1: in the last few months, like an early warning sign
Speaker 1: that something strange was going to happen. Then she heard
Speaker 1: the banging. Looking up with dread, she saw the cupboard
Speaker 1: was now rocking back and forth, banging loudly against the wall.
Speaker 1: With the weary sense of inevitability, Peggy sent Margaret next
Speaker 1: door to apologize to the Nottinghams for the noise. Moments later,
Speaker 1: Margaret returned with Vic Nottingham and a friend of his
Speaker 1: who had come to see if they could help. As
Speaker 1: she later told it to Morris and Guy. When Vic
Speaker 1: went upstairs to investigate further. Peggy and the children were
Speaker 1: stood in the living room with Vic's friend when suddenly
Speaker 1: the seven foot long sideboard crashed to the floor, followed
Speaker 1: immediately by the sofa and two armchairs being tipped over.
Speaker 1: The next thing, Peggy knew she was being bombarded with
Speaker 1: fruit from a bowl that had also crashed to the floor,
Speaker 1: while the curtains began rattling so hard they came down
Speaker 1: at one end. With a peculiar sense of embarrassment as
Speaker 1: much as anything else, a weary Peggy told Vic and
Speaker 1: his friend to go back next door and enjoy the
Speaker 1: rest of their New Year's celebrations. Then, turning back to
Speaker 1: the room, she and the children simply cleared up the mess.
Speaker 1: Then the voice started up again, claiming that Tommy, the
Speaker 1: five year old boy, had done it all. No sooner
Speaker 1: had it spoken than the Christmas tree was suddenly flung
Speaker 1: from its stand on the table right across the room.
Speaker 1: By the end of the night, the rest of the
Speaker 1: Christmas decorations had been torn down to the litany of
Speaker 1: events that played the Hodgson's at two hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: four Green Street stretched well into the New year, and
Speaker 1: though they never quite reached the extremes of that tumultuous December,
Speaker 1: they did continue to evolve. In mid January, Margaret claimed
Speaker 1: she found the word shit written in excrement on the
Speaker 1: bathroom wall after something tapped her on the shoulder when
Speaker 1: she was in there. A number of similar incidences continued
Speaker 1: over the next few months, in a particularly vulgar ratchet
Speaker 1: up of bizarre occurrences. More self described mediums were also
Speaker 1: brought in, with varying degrees of apparent success, though nothing
Speaker 1: seemed to bring an end to the seemingly endless disturbances.
Speaker 1: After visiting the family again over the festive period to
Speaker 1: give them some presents, Daily Mirror senior reporter George Fallows
Speaker 1: was surprised to see how things had escalated since writing
Speaker 1: that first article about the family. A second article was
Speaker 1: duly commissioned, this time to be written by features writer
Speaker 1: Brian Rimmer. During his interviews with the family, to which
Speaker 1: it took an expert ventriloquist to assess if Janet was
Speaker 1: indeed responsible for the strange voices. It was claimed that
Speaker 1: Margaret admitted to them finally that she and Janet had
Speaker 1: been making the whole thing up all along. No sooner
Speaker 1: had this occurred. However, Janet and Margaret was said to
Speaker 1: have then run round to their abor's house, where they
Speaker 1: complained through tears to Peggy Nottingham about how the men
Speaker 1: from the Mirror had bullied them into saying things they
Speaker 1: didn't really mean a number of further attempts were made
Speaker 1: by Morris and Guy to have the strange voices analyzed,
Speaker 1: but nothing concrete was ever determined, and still the strange
Speaker 1: events continued, with Peggy Hodgson recording as many as one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty five different incidences of knockings, voices and
Speaker 1: objects being thrown in April alone, all the while Janet
Speaker 1: was becoming more and more despondent. In June nineteen seventy eight,
Speaker 1: it was decided that the best course of action would
Speaker 1: be to have her removed from the environment entirely and
Speaker 1: placed in the care of a group of Roman Catholic nuns,
Speaker 1: where she'd stayed when her mother, Peggy collapsed back in November.
Speaker 1: In late July, Janet was then admits to the Maudesley
Speaker 1: Institute of Neuropsychiatry for further investigations. Four days later, Guy
Speaker 1: and journalist Rosalind Morris from the BBC went to speak
Speaker 1: with Janet, having not seen her for the past six weeks.
Speaker 1: When Janet was brought out to meet them, they found
Speaker 1: her completely unrecognizable, appearing far healthier and relaxed than they'd
Speaker 1: ever seen her before. As they talked to her about
Speaker 1: the events of the last year, it was clear that
Speaker 1: she had little interest in what had happened, preferring to
Speaker 1: change the subject at any given opportunity and promising them
Speaker 1: both that nothing more would happen. In one candid moment, however,
Speaker 1: she pondered the origins of her unusual power, if that's
Speaker 1: what it was, believing it only manifested when other people
Speaker 1: like her mum were around to make her frustrated and angry.
Speaker 1: Since coming to stay at the hospital, she said, the
Speaker 1: power had no opportunity to build up. After undergoing months
Speaker 1: of tests, Janet was found to be completely physically normal,
Speaker 1: with no sign of damage to the brain or evidence
Speaker 1: of epilepsy as some had suspected. In September, after three
Speaker 1: months away, she returned home replenished and demonstrably happier than
Speaker 1: when she'd left, and despite some minor flare ups of activity,
Speaker 1: including apparent sightings of old men, and the occasional piece
Speaker 1: of furniture being knocked over. By the end of October,
Speaker 1: the unusual events that had so plagued the Hodgson family
Speaker 1: for over a year finally came to an end. For
Speaker 1: Guy Playfair, it was to be the last of his
Speaker 1: major efforts investigating such phenomena. Though many have questioned the
Speaker 1: veracity of its contents, his nineteen eighty book This House
Speaker 1: Is Haunted, The True Story of the Enfield Poltergeist, remains
Speaker 1: the most prominent on the matter. For Maurice Gross, the
Speaker 1: events at Enfield proved only the beginning in what would
Speaker 1: become a lifelong search for evidence of the paranormal. Having
Speaker 1: been thoroughly inspired by everything he'd seen, and throughout it all,
Speaker 1: never far from his mind were thoughts of his daughter Janet,
Speaker 1: having noticed a number of strange things happening at his home.
Speaker 1: During the investigation at Green Street, he'd even come to
Speaker 1: wander if Janet had somehow been guiding him throughout the
Speaker 1: whole process, perhaps even using it as a way to
Speaker 1: communicate with him. And though he never did receive concrete
Speaker 1: proof that his daughter's spirit had somehow survived her tragic accident,
Speaker 1: one final moment at Enfield gave him care to remain hopeful.
Speaker 1: It came after the last of the apparent mediums called
Speaker 1: in to help the family had made their assessment of
Speaker 1: the situation. Dono Gamelig Mailink came over from the Netherlands
Speaker 1: to visit the family, along with journalist Peter leif Heber,
Speaker 1: the editor of a magazine about psychical research that Guy
Speaker 1: had been a fan of. Though Morris and Guy didn't
Speaker 1: think much of the shy Donoh at first, after he
Speaker 1: spent a few quiet hours in the house and some
Speaker 1: time with Janet Hodgson, he eventually gave his thoughts on
Speaker 1: the matter. Strangely, as he told Morris and Guy later,
Speaker 1: he couldn't help but feel that Morris, who he apparently
Speaker 1: knew nothing about, was somehow connected with it all in
Speaker 1: a way they hadn't yet realized. As he went on
Speaker 1: to explain, he'd sensed many things in the Hodgson's home,
Speaker 1: amongst them the presence of a twenty four year old
Speaker 1: woman who's being there he couldn't quite explain. Then it
Speaker 1: suddenly occurred to Morris his Janet had been twenty two
Speaker 1: years old when she died in nineteen seventy six, which
Speaker 1: would have made her twenty four when Donno visited the house.
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