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Speaker 1: Hey, what's up, everybody. Jake Brennan here. I hope you've

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Speaker 1: been enjoying these stories about Amy Winehouse in season four

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Speaker 1: of Seven Club. While you're digging into the downfall of

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Speaker 1: one of the greatest modern divas, I wanted to share

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Speaker 1: a story about another queen of the pop realm, Taylor Swift.

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Speaker 1: You can hear all about Taylor's disgraceful fans and Interstate

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Speaker 1: Stockers in the season nine premiere of disgrace Land, my

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Speaker 1: other music and true crime podcast. You can hear that

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Speaker 1: episode on January eighth wherever you listen to podcasts, or

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Speaker 1: you can hear it along with every single other disgrace

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Speaker 1: Land episode right now exclusively at Amazon dot Com slash

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Speaker 1: disgrace Land. The Seven Club is a production of I

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Speaker 1: Heart Radio and Double Elvis. Amy Winehouse died at the

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Speaker 1: age of seven, and she lived a life that was

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Speaker 1: quickly running out of time. I can give you twenty

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Speaker 1: seven reasons why that statement is true. Eleven would be

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Speaker 1: the date in July of nine teen fifty one when

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Speaker 1: one of her musical heroes was briefly jailed for being

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Speaker 1: in the wrong place at the wrong time. Five more

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Speaker 1: release of her career making second album, five long years

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Speaker 1: during which she never delivered a follow up. Another two

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Speaker 1: would be the number of years her ex husband, Blake

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Speaker 1: four thousand pounds worth of someone else's stuff to support

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Speaker 1: his drug habit. Seven more would be the hour of

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Speaker 1: the evening when Amy sent what would be her final tweet,

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Speaker 1: a nebulous missive that got the Internet in the world talking.

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Speaker 1: And two would be the hour of the morning on Saturday,

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Speaker 1: July eleven, when her living bodyguard unsuspectingly saw her alive

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Speaker 1: episode of season four, the wrong place, at the wrong time,

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Speaker 1: four thousand pounds of someone else's stuff, getting the world

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Speaker 1: talking in Amy Winehouse, I'm Jake Brennan and this is

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Speaker 1: the twenty seven cars. Sara Van held the sheet music

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Speaker 1: in her hand and felt her heart sink. The song

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Speaker 1: pile of ship songs, songs that Columbia Records owned outright

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Speaker 1: and therefore could easily parlay into easy money. Frank Sinatra

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Speaker 1: one at Columbia was forcing Frank to slum it with

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Speaker 1: a song like the gas Pipe She's Leaking Joe, And

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Speaker 1: just look at that stupid goddamn title, the gas Pipe

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Speaker 1: She's Leaking Joe, condescending as hell offensive. Even more offensive

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Speaker 1: was that Columbia wanted her, Sara Van, a black woman,

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Speaker 1: The whole thing was a cluster. You know what would

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Speaker 1: happen if Columbia a and R man Mitch Miller told

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Speaker 1: Frank Sinatra to sing something like that, a song that

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Speaker 1: now the luxuries that Frank Sinatra had. Rosemary Clooney didn't either,

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Speaker 1: to replace her. Fine, Mitch Miller could make her sing

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Speaker 1: probably didn't even notice the difference. She claimed it as

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Speaker 1: at those on the other end of the spectrum, the

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Speaker 1: She didn't mind it when they called her by one

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Speaker 1: after that her fight not just fought, but one. Sara

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Speaker 1: Because maybe her generation didn't know who Saravan was, but

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Speaker 1: and they were never going to forget her. Honestly, at

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Speaker 1: her Saravant Stand, that defiant stand where she decided what

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Speaker 1: and her boyfriend, the English film director REDG Travis, We're

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Speaker 1: due to attend a wedding on Sunday, two days away.

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Speaker 1: It was leven. Amy and Redge had managed to patch

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Speaker 1: being pressured by others into doing things for them, like

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Speaker 1: was a terrorist attack. The news fucking sucked. He switched

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Speaker 1: the set off time didn't stretch that day. The hours

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Speaker 1: was still there, how cold, sleeping it off wellly. Amy

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Speaker 1: was still in the exact same position that she had

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Speaker 1: been in earlier in the morning. When Andrew checked on her,

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Speaker 1: Who's eerie like he was looking at a carbon copy

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Speaker 1: image five hours later, Amy's arms and legs and the

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Speaker 1: exact same spots as they were before. Absolutely nothing had changed. Fuck.

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Speaker 1: Andrew ran to her side. She wasn't breathing. Fuck, no pulse.

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Speaker 1: She was out cold still. Two Voca bottles around the

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Speaker 1: floor next to the bed. They were empty. Andrew grabbed

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Speaker 1: his phone and dialed emergency services, and when he got

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Speaker 1: through the dispatch, he couldn't believe the words coming out

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Speaker 1: of his mouth. Amy Winehouse was dead. On the evening

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Speaker 1: of July eleven, the news traveled fast, and so did

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Speaker 1: the rumors. Rumors that Amy Winehouse had taken her own life,

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Speaker 1: Rumors that the stale rock and roll adage hope I

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Speaker 1: die before I get old was very much alive and well.

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Speaker 1: There was also a rumor that quickly became conjecture in

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Speaker 1: both printed and television news, and it was this Amy's

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Speaker 1: death was due to a drug overdose. That one was

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Speaker 1: bolstered by a story told by a fifty six year

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Speaker 1: old London fixer, the kind of guy you went to

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Speaker 1: when the kind of people you were looking for weren't

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Speaker 1: simply listed in the white pages. And this story had legs.

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Speaker 1: Tony as her party said It was around eleven thirty

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Speaker 1: in the evening on Friday July, the day before Amy

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Speaker 1: was discovered dead. That was the last time he ever

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Speaker 1: saw her. He was walking past a pulp called the Eagle.

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Speaker 1: A taxicab rolled up, the window rolled down. Amy stuck

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Speaker 1: her head out. Tony has a party, knew people, so

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Speaker 1: of course he knew Amy Winehouse. Amy Winehouse knew that

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Speaker 1: Tony was the guy to get you what you were

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Speaker 1: looking for when you weren't exactly sure where to look

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Speaker 1: for it. Amy asked him to get in the cab.

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Speaker 1: She was looking to score, but Tony get the hook up.

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Speaker 1: Tony was a bit surprised. He thought she was off

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Speaker 1: of it. It was all over the papers how she

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Speaker 1: had kicked the stuff, not exactly, She told him she

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Speaker 1: still dabbled when she felt like it, and tonight she

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Speaker 1: most definitely felt like it. Tonight she had been fielding

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Speaker 1: phone calls from Blake from prison where he was currently

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Speaker 1: doing time for the whole fake gun burglary bullshit. It

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Speaker 1: was fucking annoying, straight up harassment was what it was.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, not exactly off of it, And there were

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Speaker 1: nights to dabble in. Tonight was sure ship one of them, right.

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Speaker 1: Tony could call this guy no sweat, Mr Big was

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Speaker 1: what they referred to him. As they drove to a

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Speaker 1: telephone box. When Tony stepped inside, it was like he

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Speaker 1: was stepping inside of a time machine or whatever the hell.

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Speaker 1: That doctor who thing was called Tony made the phone call.

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Speaker 1: Amy awaited impatiently in the cab. Soon after a car

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Speaker 1: pulled up, dealer stepped out. Amy handed over a lot

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Speaker 1: of bills pounds by Tony's count, and the dealer handed

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Speaker 1: or some crack and some heroin. Afterwards, Amy had the

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Speaker 1: cab dropped Tony off in the nearby Archwaye neighborhood of

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Speaker 1: North London. She gave him a kiss on the cheek,

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Speaker 1: on his way out the door. I want Amy's family

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Speaker 1: to know the truth about what happened, Tony said only

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Speaker 1: days later, when his story hit the press. I want

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Speaker 1: to help them out. Tony's story seemed credible, not only

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Speaker 1: due to Amy's history of drug use and re apps,

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Speaker 1: but because by telling it to the press and the police,

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Speaker 1: he faced retaliation from the dealer who came through with

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Speaker 1: the hook up that night he came Mr Big and

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Speaker 1: another anonymous source seem to back up the overdose theory.

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Speaker 1: This source told The Mirror that Amy's boyfriend reg Travis,

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Speaker 1: had discovered that Amy had been talking with Blake again

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Speaker 1: from his prison cell and the night before her death,

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Speaker 1: it led to a fight, which led to Redd storming

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Speaker 1: out of the house, which led to Amy shooting a

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Speaker 1: lethal dose of heroin. It was all very reminiscent of

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Speaker 1: the story Amy had told the years earlier about the

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Speaker 1: self harm she didn't flicted on herself after Blake allegedly

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Speaker 1: caught her with a call girl in their hotel room

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Speaker 1: about to get high together. But Tony has her party's story,

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Speaker 1: and the story told by the source and The Mirror

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Speaker 1: both bluntly contradicted the version of events told by Andrew Morris,

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Speaker 1: the bodyguard who lived in Amy's house and listened to

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Speaker 1: her talk, laugh and played drums into the wee hours

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Speaker 1: of Saturday morning. That version of events didn't involve fights

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Speaker 1: with her boyfriend or drug scoring odyssees. After midnight, further

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Speaker 1: contradiction came in the form of the toxicology report, and

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Speaker 1: that was scientific contradiction. The report showed that there were

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Speaker 1: no illegal substances in Amy's system when she died. Not

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Speaker 1: the narrative that the tabloids had pedaled for so long

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Speaker 1: didn't come to its expected conclusion. No crack pipes, no needles.

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Speaker 1: Some were shocked when the truth came out about Amy

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Speaker 1: Winehouse's death, while others found it sadly inevitable. But one

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Speaker 1: thing was for certain. The conclusion of Amy's twenty seven

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Speaker 1: years story wasn't as simple and tidy as you may think.

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Speaker 1: In some ways, it's not even over. M Jake Brennan

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Speaker 1: and this is the seven o'clock and the Club is

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Speaker 1: hosted and produced by me Jake Brennan for Double Elvis

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Speaker 1: in partnership with My Heart Radio. Zeth Lundie is the

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Speaker 1: lead writer and co producer, and the story and copy

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Speaker 1: ding by Pat Heally. This episode was mixed by Matt Boby.

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Speaker 1: Additional music and score elements by Ryan Spraker and Henry Luneta.

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