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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Kids Short Stories. Today's story comes to

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Speaker 1: us from one of our friends, Ellie. Hey, Ellie, she

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Speaker 1: sent us an awesome idea for Si Guy, and you

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Speaker 1: can too. Just head over to our Instagram page Kids

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Speaker 1: Send us your idea for a science discovery for Siguy

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Speaker 1: and maybe we'll turn into an awesome adventure. Are you

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Speaker 1: ready for this one? Me too? Let's go one day.

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Speaker 1: Ellie and her brother Ben, we're playing in the backyard

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Speaker 1: near a stream that was really cool. A stream is

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Speaker 1: a little bit of water that flows very quietly and

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Speaker 1: slowly down. It's not as big as a river, but

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Speaker 1: it's kind of like a small, a tiny mini river.

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Speaker 1: And streams are really cool because they have all kinds

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Speaker 1: of cool creatures like frogs and salamanders and bugs and

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Speaker 1: worms and maybe little minnows, and it's a really cool

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Speaker 1: place to explore. Well, Ellie was searching in the rocks,

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Speaker 1: looking for some really cool special rocks. Some of the

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Speaker 1: rocks were really shiny and smooth, and some of them

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Speaker 1: were really cool colors, and others were really poky, but

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Speaker 1: she really liked looking for rocks. She all of a sudden. Wait,

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Speaker 1: what is that? She picked up a rock and it

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Speaker 1: looked like there was a picture on the rock, like

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Speaker 1: have you ever seen that before? Like it looked like

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Speaker 1: a leaf hat was painted on the rock, but it

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Speaker 1: was bumpy. Like wait a second, like did the leaf

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Speaker 1: melt into the rock? Whoa that is? That's pretty strange?

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Speaker 1: And look over here, what is this? This one? This

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Speaker 1: rock has a big footprint in it. But it's like

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Speaker 1: some creature was so big that it like squashed the

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Speaker 1: rock and it made a footprint into the rock. Well,

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Speaker 1: I am not big enough to do that, Ellie said.

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Speaker 1: That must have been a huge giant creature. But the

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Speaker 1: footprint is not that big. It's smaller than my hand.

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Speaker 1: But how did he get it into the rock? And

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Speaker 1: same with this leaf? Did the leaf like was it

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Speaker 1: a lava leaf? Did it melt into the rock? This

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Speaker 1: is very strange, Ben, I think we gotta call side guy.

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Speaker 1: This is a question that only he can answer. Let's

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Speaker 1: go Ellian. Ben ran back inside to ask their parents

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Speaker 1: to call Mr. Sie Guy. Yeah. Mr Jim the science guy,

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Speaker 1: or we like to call him the side guy. He

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Speaker 1: was the best that answering all these cool science questions

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Speaker 1: and I bet he is going to know exactly what

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Speaker 1: this is. Let's call him ringing ringing. Hey Ellie, how

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Speaker 1: are you doing? Said the side guy, Mr Siguy. I'm

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Speaker 1: so glad you answered. We have a really important question

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Speaker 1: for you. And look at this. She showed him on

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Speaker 1: the screen the rock that she had found with the

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Speaker 1: leaf imprint on it. She said, I don't know what

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Speaker 1: kind of leaves are around here, but I think we

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Speaker 1: have lava leaves that melt into the rocks. Am I

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Speaker 1: in trouble? Like? Are those gonna hurt me? Are they

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Speaker 1: gonna melt into me? Too? And then you gotta see

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Speaker 1: this other rock. It was too big for me to grab,

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Speaker 1: but there's this footprint that melted into the rock like

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Speaker 1: it looked like a lava monster must have walked on it.

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Speaker 1: This is kind of freaking me out, and I don't

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Speaker 1: know what to do. Mr Saguy. Do you know what

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Speaker 1: these are? Hey? Ellie? Yeah, those are called fossils. What

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Speaker 1: is a fossil? Ellie said, Well, fossils are really cool

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Speaker 1: because they actually don't come from lavaman or lava leafs.

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Speaker 1: And hey, why don't I come over and we can

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Speaker 1: talk about it a little more. And maybe we can

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Speaker 1: go on an adventure with your parents. Does that sound fun? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: let's do it. Click. And so remember the side guy.

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Speaker 1: He had a transporter and so he could just show

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Speaker 1: up in like two seconds and all of a sudden, Oh,

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Speaker 1: that must be him. Ellie and her parents ran over

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Speaker 1: to the door, and sure enough, what's up, guys, it

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Speaker 1: was the side guy. He was there. Wow, that was

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Speaker 1: a record time. He was there in like two point

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Speaker 1: three seconds, super fast. All right, Ellie and Ben, let's

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Speaker 1: go to the backyard, and why don't you show me

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Speaker 1: exactly what you found and where you found it. Let's go.

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Speaker 1: So Ellie, her parents in Ben all walked to the

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Speaker 1: where she had found these things, and sage I said, yes,

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Speaker 1: that is a really cool fine. Those are very rare

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Speaker 1: think it must have been a lava man or a

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Speaker 1: But how did it get pushed into the rock? Ellie said, hmmm,

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Speaker 1: I think we need to go back in time to

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Speaker 1: win these fossils were first made. Should we go, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: let's go. So Ellie Ben entered, their parents, oh jumped

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Speaker 1: in Mr. Siguys teleporter and they zoomed off back to

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Speaker 1: the path. Soon when they arrived after a very bumpy ride,

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Speaker 1: they looked around and whoa, where are we? Ellie said,

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Speaker 1: we are back in dinosaur times. What They couldn't believe

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Speaker 1: their eyes. And they looked around and in the distance

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Speaker 1: they could hear Are those real dinosaurs? Elie said? She

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Speaker 1: was a little nervous, And the sad guy said, oh, yeah,

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Speaker 1: don't worry. They're really far away, and I brought some

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Speaker 1: dino repellent to keep them away, so we are very safe.

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Speaker 1: Don't worry. But look where we are. Wait a second,

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Speaker 1: is this my stream? You see they had gone back

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Speaker 1: in time, but they were still in the same place

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Speaker 1: and a very very very long time ago in Ellie's backyard.

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Speaker 1: They're used to be dinosaurs. What, no way, this is

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Speaker 1: my stream. This is my backyard. Where's my house? Oh, Elliott,

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Speaker 1: it actually hasn't been built yet. This is a very

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Speaker 1: long time ago, remember, and so there's no houses, and

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Speaker 1: but this is the same stream. So take a look

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Speaker 1: at this. Look look, look right there. That is the

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Speaker 1: leaf that made the fossil that you're holding right now.

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Speaker 1: What the rock that I'm holding? Oh? I see, let's

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Speaker 1: watch that leaf fall there goes as the leaf falls

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Speaker 1: down into the mud, don't touch it, don't touch it,

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Speaker 1: leave it there. You see, when something like an animal

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Speaker 1: and get stuck there, it eventually might turn into a fossil.

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Speaker 1: You see, mud does a really good job at overtime

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Speaker 1: turning into rocks. Yeah, mud like this squish squish, squish squish. Mud.

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Speaker 1: When it gets compacted down and pressed down really tight,

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Speaker 1: over time it can turn into a rock. And so

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Speaker 1: you see when the leaf leaves its leaf print in

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Speaker 1: rocks and other dirt, over time, water starts to seek down.

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Speaker 1: And do you know what water has inside of it? Uh?

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Well, you see, water has something called

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Speaker 1: minerals inside of it. What is a mineral, Ellie said.

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Speaker 1: A mineral is kind of like tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny,

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Speaker 1: tiny little rocks, little rocks. They are too way too

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Speaker 1: small to see. And these little minerals they seep down

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Speaker 1: and follow the water. You know, how water can can

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Speaker 1: find all the little cracks and fill up all the

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Speaker 1: little deep spots of the mud. Yeah, so the water

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Speaker 1: finds where that leaf is buried way deep down in

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Speaker 1: great job at fossilizing the leaf, so it creates a

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Speaker 1: mold or a footprint, and that is what you're holding.

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Speaker 1: You see over time, that leaf, that print, that impression

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Speaker 1: that the leaf made in the mud will turn into

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Speaker 1: a fossil. It is so cool, and the same goes

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Speaker 1: Wait a second, did you hear that? Ah? What was

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Speaker 1: that sound? It's coming from that bush. What is that?

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I think that is the creature that

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Speaker 1: left the footprint that you're looking at. Oh my gosh,

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Speaker 1: what what's that called? Well, that looks like a compson

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Speaker 1: an office. Yeah, they're really small dinosaurs with pretty small feet.

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Speaker 1: And look, he's walking right in the mud where you

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Speaker 1: found that fossil. There it is. There's the footprint that

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Speaker 1: he left. And now the same thing is going to

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Speaker 1: happen to that footprint that happened to the leaf. Over

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Speaker 1: the next long time, long, really really long time. That

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Speaker 1: footprint is going to be carefully covered by sand and

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Speaker 1: rocks and other dirt, and then the water is gonna

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Speaker 1: bring those minerals down to that footprint and make a

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Speaker 1: special fossil soul that you are going to find one day.

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Speaker 1: So that is what fossils are. They sometimes start as

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Speaker 1: a little you know, footprint or leaf in the mud,

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Speaker 1: and then over a very long time they turn into

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Speaker 1: rock and turn into the fossil that you are holding. Wow,

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Speaker 1: that is so cool, side guy, thanks for telling us.

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Speaker 1: All right, guys, let's head back to the future and

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Speaker 1: you can go look for more fossils. So the whole

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Speaker 1: crew jumped back in side guys teleporter and zoom back

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Speaker 1: to the future. What an amazing adventure. Isn't that so

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Speaker 1: cool that fossils come from real creatures a long time ago? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: So why don't you guys go outside and look for fossils.

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Speaker 1: Look for rocks that have little pictures inside of them.

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Speaker 1: They're really hard to find in very rare but when

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Speaker 1: you find one that is a very special find the

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