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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">FYI<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Lora;color:#222222">USA - Women's Rights Quotes
</span></b><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Lora">for<span style="color:#222222"> National Women's Equality Day 2018<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222">By
</span><a href="https://www.bustle.com/profile/jr-thorpe-1907488"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.55pt;text-decoration:none">JR Thorpe</span></a><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222">Sunday, August 26, is USA
</span><a href="http://www.nwhp.org/resources/commemorations/womens-equality-day/10-ideas-for-womens-equality-day/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none">National
Women's Equality Day,</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222">
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222">the anniversary of the day in 1920 when the 19th Amendment, giving women the right to vote, was ratified in the U.S. Constitution.. The words of the people who fought for women's
equality are powerful and deserve to be heard this Sunday.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222">However, it's also worth remembering that the British suffragettes had as their motto
</span><a href="https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/electionsvoting/womenvote/overview/deedsnotwords/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none">the
creed "Deeds, not words"</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222">
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222">— aka, put your money where your mouth is. Put these powerful sentences in places where they'll inspire you and others, and use them to fuel your action — by registering to vote,
making sure everybody you know has too, signing petitions, calling your representatives, joining protests, making signs, or however else you choose to exercise your civic power. These words aren't the end of the commemoration; they're the beginning. Now get
out there and use your voice. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222">The Simple Edict Of Susan B. Anthony<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:37.5pt"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lora;color:#222222"><img border="0" width="378" height="500" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image004.jpg@01D43C63.58459110" alt="https://imgix.bustle.com/uploads/image/2018/8/15/eef3221a-7c92-4782-b59b-5c94ef9b30ff-800px-susan_b_anthony_amer-pol-hist.jpg?w=646&fit=max&auto=format&q=70"></span></i><i><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lora;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=susan+b+anthony&title=Special:Search&go=Go&searchToken=626f44z72py8f8qffdivglfuc#/media/File:Susan_B._Anthony_amer-pol-hist.jpg"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:windowtext;letter-spacing:.4pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none">Library
of Congress/Wikimedia Commons</span></a><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222">Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222">Susan B. Anthony was one of the main engineers behind the suffrage movement and women's rights in the United States in general, but her efforts can be summed up in
</span><a href="https://www.womenofthehall.org/inductee/susan-b-anthony/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none">this one powerful
sentence</span></a><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222">, the motto of her newspaper with Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222">This 1971-Inspired Declaration<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222">NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that [Your name] recognizes the commemoration of that day in 1920, on which the women of America won their right to vote, as an opportunity
to continue to work for equal rights for ALL citizens.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222">This one is suggested by the
</span><a href="http://www.nwhp.org/resources/commemorations/womens-equality-day/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none">National
Women's History Project</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222">
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222">as an individual declaration to recognize National Women's Equality Day, using the language of the 1971 Resolution that made it an official day in the American calendar.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222">The 19th Amendment Itself<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222">“The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:24.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:24.0pt;margin-left:0in">
<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222">The text of the 19th Amendment itself, which was ratified in 1920, shouldn't be forgotten. It looks simple on the face of it, but made a huge wave through American consciousness and the
rights of women. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222">Sojourner Truth's Creed Of Equality<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:37.5pt"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lora;color:#222222"><img border="0" width="368" height="436" id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image005.png@01D43C63.58459110" alt="https://imgix.bustle.com/uploads/image/2018/8/9/b2aa7616-3103-4868-a010-b2bd9ae71b8c-sojournertruth_1850_olivegilbert.png?w=646&fit=max&auto=format&q=70"></span></i><i><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lora;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SojournerTruth_1850_OliveGilbert.PNG"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:windowtext;letter-spacing:.4pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none">Olive
Gilbert/Wikimedia Commons</span></a><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222">I feel that if I have to answer for the deeds done in my body just as much as a man, I have the right to have just as much as a man.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:24.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:24.0pt;margin-left:0in">
<a href="https://www.teenvogue.com/story/womens-suffrage-leaders-left-out-black-women" target="_blank"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none">Sojourner
Truth's famous speech in 1867</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222">
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222">demanded equal rights for Black women, including the vote.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222">Ida B. Wells' Demand For Truth<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:37.5pt"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lora;color:#222222"><img border="0" width="388" height="553" id="Picture_x0020_4" src="cid:image006.jpg@01D43C63.58459110" alt="https://imgix.bustle.com/uploads/image/2018/8/9/8f26bb95-4567-41dc-a8e1-3a77ea8234fe-mary_garrity_-_ida_b_wells-barnett_-_google_art_project_-_restoration_crop.jpg?w=646&fit=max&auto=format&q=70"></span></i><i><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lora;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mary_Garrity_-_Ida_B._Wells-Barnett_-_Google_Art_Project_-_restoration_crop.jpg"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:windowtext;letter-spacing:.4pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none">Mary
Garrity/Wikimedia Commons</span></a><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222">The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222">Ida B. Wells was one of the most important journalists and agitators for human rights in U.S. history, and her</span><a href="https://www.vox.com/2015/7/16/8978257/ida-b-wells" target="_blank"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none">
belief in the power of truth and history </span></a><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222">rings very true today.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222">Emmeline Pankhurst's Incitement To Rebellion<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222">I know that women, once convinced that they are doing what is right, that their rebellion is just, will go on, no matter what the difficulties, no matter what the
dangers, so long as there is a woman alive to hold up the flag of rebellion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/pankhurst_emmeline.shtml" target="_blank"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none">Emmeline
Pankhurst </span></a><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222">was one of the architects behind British suffrage, and advocated militant rebellion to achieve the vote.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222">Audre Lorde's Declaration Of Purpose<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:37.5pt"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lora;color:#222222"><img border="0" width="377" height="376" id="Picture_x0020_5" src="cid:image009.jpg@01D43C62.FBF97C00" alt="https://imgix.bustle.com/uploads/image/2018/8/9/cf67cea6-7742-44ab-bb55-b4c1e4a867e3-audre_lorde.jpg?w=646&fit=max&auto=format&q=70"></span></i><i><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lora;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=audre+lorde&title=Special:Search&go=Go&searchToken=6ewq9l9m28ids6i09nddb9epd#/media/File:Audre_lorde.jpg"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:windowtext;letter-spacing:.4pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none">Elsa
Dorfman/Wikimedia Commons</span></a><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222">I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222">Audre Lorde
</span><a href="https://www.bustle.com/articles/149555-17-inspiring-quotes-from-feminist-writers-of-color"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none">made
this famous declaration in her text </span></a><a href="https://www.bustle.com/articles/149555-17-inspiring-quotes-from-feminist-writers-of-color"><i><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none">Sister
Outsider</span></i></a><i><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222">,
</span></i><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222">and it remains pertinent and powerful today.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222">Fannie Lou Hamer's Testimony<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222">I question America. Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hooks because our lives be
threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings, in America?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/sayitplain/flhamer.html" target="_blank"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none">Fannie
Lou Hamer's testimony in 1964 </span></a><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222">about the fight to vote in the South as Black activists is one of the most vivid documents of the civil rights movement.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222">Victoria Woodhull's Rebellion<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:37.5pt"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lora;color:#222222"><img border="0" width="340" height="490" id="Picture_x0020_6" src="cid:image007.png@01D43C63.58459110" alt="https://imgix.bustle.com/uploads/image/2018/8/9/3d13a38c-e261-4253-ae91-6bfd938dcdf1-victoria-woodhull-by-bradley-rulofson.png?w=646&fit=max&auto=format&q=70"></span></i><i><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lora;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=victoria+woodhull&title=Special:Search&go=Go&searchToken=5x5f30ij0vqakct1yiowd327c#/media/File:Victoria-Woodhull-by-Bradley-%26-Rulofson.png"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:windowtext;letter-spacing:.4pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none">Wikimedia
Commons</span></a><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222">I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222">Woodhull was the</span><a href="https://www.biography.com/people/victoria-woodhull-9536447" target="_blank"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none">
first woman to attempt to run for President in 1872, </span></a><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222">and though she was unsuccessful in making any political headway, she remains an important figure in the pursuit of women's
political power in America. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222">Roxane Gay's Ambition And Choice<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222">Women might be more ambitious and focused because we’ve never had a choice. We’ve had to fight to vote, to work outside the home, to work in environments free of
sexual harassment, to attend the universities of our choice, and we’ve also had to prove ourselves over and over to receive any modicum of consideration.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222">Gay, who authored<i>
</i></span><a href="https://www.bustle.com/articles/34344-roxane-gays-bad-feminist-august-editors-pick"><i><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none">Bad
Feminist</span></i></a><i><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222">,
</span></i><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222">is one of the most influential modern thinkers about feminism, choice, and the body, and her reflections on the continuing power of the vote ring true.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222">Sarah Moore Grimké's Demand<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:37.5pt"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lora;color:#222222"><img border="0" width="346" height="476" id="Picture_x0020_7" src="cid:image010.jpg@01D43C63.58459110" alt="https://imgix.bustle.com/uploads/image/2018/8/9/515ddcc7-5f75-4e12-b9bf-868b543b4bc1-sarah_moore_grimke.jpg?w=646&fit=max&auto=format&q=70"></span></i><i><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lora;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=sarah+grimke&title=Special:Search&go=Go&searchToken=e63ul9uwa0vgalh8w6ve0fkgr#/media/File:Sarah_Moore_Grimke.jpg"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:windowtext;letter-spacing:.4pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none">Wikimedia
Commons</span></a><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222">I ask no favors for my sex. I surrender not our claim to equality. All I ask of our brethren is, that they will take their feet from off our necks, and permit us
to stand upright.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="https://www.biography.com/people/sarah-moore-grimk-9321349" target="_blank"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none">Abolitionist and suffrage
activist Sarah Moore Grimke </span></a><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222">and her sister Angelina were powerful speakers for anti-slavery and the right for women to vote in the late 18th century.
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222">Remember these iconic words from famous feminist thinkers on National Women's Equality Day and every day!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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