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Speaker 1: Well, wow, we're all just I mean, just devastated, very

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Speaker 1: very sad to hear about the passing of musical legend

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Speaker 1: in icon Frankie Beverly.

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Speaker 2: Frankie was seventy seven years old.

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Speaker 1: He was from Philadelphia and a founding member of his

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Speaker 1: group's Made Yeah. Their music inspired us for generations. Our

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Speaker 1: home station in Philly WDAS one oh five point three

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Speaker 1: FM shared a statement from Frankie's family on social media.

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Speaker 1: It said, quote, Grieving the loss of a loved one

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Speaker 1: is a deeply personal and emotional experience. During this time,

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Speaker 1: as we are navigating feelings of sorrow, reflection, and remembrance,

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Speaker 1: we kindly ask for privacy and understanding, allowing us the

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Speaker 1: space to grieve in our own way. The family continued,

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Speaker 1: this period is for one of healing, and your respect

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Speaker 1: for our need for solitude is appreciated as we honor

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Speaker 1: the memory of our loved Howard Stanley Beverly, known to

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Speaker 1: the world as Frankie Beverly. He lived his life with

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Speaker 1: pure soul, as one would say, and for us, no

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Speaker 1: one did it better.

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Speaker 2: He lived for his music, for.

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Speaker 1: His family, and for his friends love one another as

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Speaker 1: he would want that for us.

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Speaker 2: All end quote, Steve.

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Speaker 1: I mean you know, I know you knew Frankie what

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Speaker 1: a legacy of music legacy he left.

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Speaker 2: I mean, tell us about some of your fondness memories.

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Speaker 3: I don't even I don't even really, I don't even

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Speaker 3: know the words. Yeah, about what Frankie Beverly was to

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Speaker 3: us culturally. Yes, if you are forty years old, you understand.

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Speaker 3: I don't even have to explain this to you. Right,

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Speaker 3: If you are forty years old, I don't even have

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Speaker 3: to explain this to you. But if you are not

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Speaker 3: forty years old and you don't know, then you should know.

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Speaker 3: What you should do. What you should do is go

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Speaker 3: on Apple Music and download everything you can from Frankie Bellley,

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Speaker 3: and I want you to listen to it. And I

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Speaker 3: want you to understand why this man could sell out

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Speaker 3: Arenas having not put out an album in twenty years.

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Speaker 3: I want you to go see why. I want you

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Speaker 3: to see why, for years he closed out the biggest

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Speaker 3: musical festival in America for us, the Essence Musical Festival.

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Speaker 3: I want you to understand why he I didn't care

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Speaker 3: who was on the show. I don't care who you

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Speaker 3: bought down there, Frankie Belly and Mays was the show

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Speaker 3: Closer period.

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Speaker 2: Yes, sir, I don't.

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Speaker 3: Know if you even understand what how entrenched in the

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Speaker 3: souls of soul music lovers that Frankie Beverley and Mays was.

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Speaker 3: You can't know, but you have to hear the songs

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Speaker 3: now listen. I know if you're young, y'all have a

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Speaker 3: propensity sometimes to overlook old school and think it's old.

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Speaker 3: If it wasn't for that, you don't exist today. If

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Speaker 3: you don't think Frankie Beverly bad ass Beyonce, ask the

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Speaker 3: Queen be I am telling you you cannot call yourself

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Speaker 3: a music connoisseur and not know what this man did.

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Speaker 3: Frankie Beverly, and then on top of that was just

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Speaker 3: a beautiful soul. He was a cool ass dude. Many

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Speaker 3: I'm talking about when we talk about cool. He wasn't hard,

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Speaker 3: he wasn't no gangster, he wasn't no thug. When I'm

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Speaker 3: telling you the epitome of cool.

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Speaker 2: Yeah cool with.

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Speaker 3: A capital old capital C O O L all caps,

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Speaker 3: Frankie Bevy all caps, all white.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yeah with the cap Yeah, this is how deep

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Speaker 2: he was.

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Speaker 3: No introduction necessary, The only person and excuse me for

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Speaker 3: I take this flex moment. Only person ever introduced Frankie

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Speaker 3: Beverly at essence was Steve Harvey. Only one nobody else.

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Speaker 3: You just you just walked off the stage. He left

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Speaker 3: it black. Nobody Frankie Frankie walked out there. I'm just

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Speaker 3: saying me though, because Frankie had a Frankie had a

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Speaker 3: set thing. I'm just telling you Frankie had at essence.

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Speaker 3: I said, at essence, Frankie had a set thing. Everybody

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Speaker 3: leave the stage, stage go black. The band walk out,

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Speaker 3: the band don't say nothing. Two dun two three don't

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Speaker 3: and then they start. After that, Frankie Beverly walked out.

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Speaker 3: There was no introduction. Just one time I asked him,

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Speaker 3: could I do it? He says, Steve, I'm gonna let

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Speaker 3: you do it. I just wanted to. I just wanted

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 3: But this dude right here, he it was no introduction necessary.

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Speaker 3: He was Frankie to us. He was Frankie our soundtrack

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Speaker 3: that his voice changed as he got older. For us,

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Speaker 3: he would Frankie Beverly Yes for us, man, and what

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Speaker 3: he meant to us immeasurable unbelievable to the culture. Yes,

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Speaker 3: you can't go to a family union, they still electric slide, No, Frankie.

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Speaker 5: Yes to a family wedding, wedding, barbecue.

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Speaker 6: People, Frankie playing.

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Speaker 2: Yes, that's right, that's right.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, yeah, amazing that that the news was shocking.

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Speaker 1: He just completed his farewell tour too.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Now, let me tell you something. He wasn't a prince

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Speaker 3: or Michael Jackson global icons, right, but to us though,

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Speaker 3: in our culture, he was.

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Speaker 2: All of that, all of that and all of that, yes, sir, Yes.

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Speaker 3: To black folks. And you got to be bad to

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Speaker 3: black people, to be bad anyway, So suck.

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Speaker 2: That's right, that's right.

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Speaker 3: No disrespecting nobody else, but you got to be bad

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Speaker 3: to us.

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Speaker 2: That's right. Thank you for that reflection.

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Speaker 1: Coming up in twenty minutes after the hour, we'll have

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Speaker 1: more of the Steve Harvey Morning Show.

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Speaker 2: Right after this. You're listening Steve Harvey Morning Show.

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Speaker 1: So we're here celebrating the legend and icon Frankie Beverly.

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Speaker 1: You know what, we need to talk more about Frankie

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Speaker 1: because we had a relationship with him. He would come

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Speaker 1: on our show, Steve. Sometimes you would go on Big Cation.

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Speaker 1: He would host for you and those were some of

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Speaker 1: our greatest shows when Frankie Beverly, because people love him,

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Speaker 1: like you say, he's the culture.

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Speaker 2: People loved him so much. What were some of you

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Speaker 2: guys's favorite memories of Frankie Beverly.

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Speaker 4: Oh God, I didn't know. I Frankie had a sense

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Speaker 4: of humor when he came on the show. Yeah, he

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Speaker 4: didn't know how to act. I ain't. No, I don't

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Speaker 4: know what kind of man you He was laid back,

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Speaker 4: he was a cool cat, and he had a hell

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Speaker 4: of a sense of humor.

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Speaker 2: Yes he did, he did. He was very funny.

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Speaker 1: I remember when in Chicago I worked for wgc I

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Speaker 1: and we had a giveaway. We were sending our listeners

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Speaker 1: to London to see Frankie Beverly perform in London Live concert.

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Speaker 1: And I went, That's how I got to go to

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Speaker 1: and went over there and saw Frankie Beverly and it

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Speaker 1: was an amazing trip. I was in London watching Frankie

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Speaker 1: Beverly on Stay. That was just an awesome, awesome trip

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Speaker 1: for me. I'll never forget that as long as I

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Speaker 1: the people over there loved him too.

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Speaker 2: They loved him.

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Speaker 5: I think for me, it's the same thing what Tommy

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Speaker 5: was saying when Frankie would guest host with us, and

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Speaker 5: it was like, you're speechless because we love him so much,

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Speaker 5: and talk, you gotta talk, and he watched in the

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Speaker 5: studio and you just you want.

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Speaker 2: To sing every song while I'm alone before I let go. God,

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Speaker 2: the time of day.

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Speaker 4: I feeling love phone, yeah, yes, a feeling.

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Speaker 5: Just hit after hit after him and of course essence fest.

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Speaker 5: Of course to see that super Dome and the lights

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Speaker 5: go down, like Steve was saying, early and everybody in white.

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Speaker 2: Everybody in white. Yes, yeah, Junior, I know it's not

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Speaker 2: jo to see.

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Speaker 6: No, no, no, let me tell you something. Two thousand

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Speaker 6: and eight, The Convicted City in New Orleans. In New Orleans,

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Speaker 6: all New Year's Eve. I got to open for Frankie.

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Speaker 2: Oh wow, there you go.

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Speaker 6: I did it about four times with it. But at first,

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Speaker 6: but that's what, OK say, you ain't you ain't got

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Speaker 6: to introduce him. I did my jokes and they just

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Speaker 6: told me, you know, to walk off stage.

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Speaker 3: I did.

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Speaker 2: I'm just off the front of the stage.

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Speaker 6: I want to be upfront. My grandmother's hero. Right here,

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Speaker 6: I'll finish.

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Speaker 2: Getting his music live.

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Speaker 5: He inspired generations, generations for us and our culture for black.

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Speaker 2: People, he did for sure.

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Speaker 1: Coming up in thirty four minutes after the hour, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna check your voicemail Steve eight seven seven twenty nine, Steve.

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