Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
Yesterday, 07:50 AM
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February 15
Spreading the Message of Love
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February 15
Spreading the Message of Love
I had trust issues and didn't want to go into a room full of people that I didn't know. It took me a long time to be able to join a group and be honest...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
Yesterday, 07:46 AM
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Replies: 18
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February 15
More positive future
You...
February 15
More positive future
You don’t know what will happen tomorrow. Yet you do know what you can get done today to keep yourself strong and prepared.
You cannot anticipate the exact...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
02-14-2025, 08:09 AM
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Replies: 17
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February 14
Go to the truth beyond the mind....
February 14
Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.
~Stephen Levine
Our best thinking often got us in trouble. We convinced ourselves that doing the absolutely wrong thing was...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
02-14-2025, 08:08 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 3,854
February 14
Fresh inspiration
Don’t...
February 14
Fresh inspiration
Don’t wait to be inspired before you do the work. Get involved in the work and your inspiration will begin to flow.
A lack of inspiration never serves as a good...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
02-12-2025, 07:39 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 3,854
February 12
Inspired by hope
Hope is...
February 12
Inspired by hope
Hope is nice to have, but it can disappoint when it’s based on a flimsy foundation. Hope works best when you work with it.
Be inspired by hope. But don’t make...
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Forum: Newcomers Recovery Help and Support
02-11-2025, 09:49 AM
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Replies: 0
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Normal
All of us who suffer long for normalcy whatever that may be, but whatever it is, none of us knew how we could get that into our life instead of the mess that all of us have been living with as the...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
02-10-2025, 01:01 PM
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Replies: 18
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
02-10-2025, 07:38 AM
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Replies: 17
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February 10
Study sickness when you are...
February 10
Study sickness when you are well.
~Thomas Fuller
Now is the time to learn about our sickness - addiction. It is a chronic illness. That means it never goes away. We have to live...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
02-10-2025, 07:37 AM
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Replies: 18
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February 10
Engage yourself
Don’t...
February 10
Engage yourself
Don’t merely see what’s going on. Be what’s going on.
Look for how you can participate in a meaningful and significant manner. Then immerse yourself in giving...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
02-09-2025, 01:28 PM
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Replies: 17
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
02-09-2025, 07:28 AM
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Replies: 25
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February 16
Daily Reflections
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February 16
Daily Reflections
COMMITMENT
Understanding is the key to right principles and attitudes, and right
action is the key to good living.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 125
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
02-09-2025, 07:19 AM
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Replies: 17
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February 9
Say what you like: say I'm ill, ...
February 9
Say what you like: say I'm ill,
Say I broke my leg on the stairs,
Say we've had a fire.
~T.S. Elliot
Think of the trouble of excuses and lies. They force us to make ourselves...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
02-08-2025, 07:23 AM
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Replies: 17
Views: 4,064
February 8
AA Thought for the Day
The...
February 8
AA Thought for the Day
The new life can't be built in a day. We have to take the program slowly, a little at a time. Our subconscious minds have to be re-educated. We have to learn...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
02-08-2025, 07:20 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 3,854
February 8
Complain once
Complain once,...
February 8
Complain once
Complain once, with clarity and specificity. Then, armed with all the details about what’s wrong, work to improve the situation.
It’s a mistake to assume complaining...
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Forum: Newcomers Recovery Help and Support
02-06-2025, 09:26 AM
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Replies: 0
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Being Perfect
Many of us will enter into our recovery with high ideals about ourselves and about what it's going to take for all of us to succeed in our life and in our recovery. None of which are true for any of...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
02-06-2025, 06:26 AM
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Replies: 17
Views: 4,064
February 6
Believe the best in yourself....
February 6
Believe the best in yourself. Then it is easier to believe the best in others.
~Mardy Kopischke
Most of us have struggled - perhaps for years - trying to see the best in...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
02-06-2025, 06:24 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 3,854
February 6
Purposeful intention
Are...
February 6
Purposeful intention
Are there things you do every day out of habit that don’t accomplish anything? Let them go.
Are there choices you make again and again that you always come to...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
02-05-2025, 07:40 AM
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Replies: 25
Views: 5,244
February 15
Daily Reflections
TAKING...
February 15
Daily Reflections
TAKING ACTION
Are these extravagant promises? We think not. They are
being fulfilled among us--sometimes quickly, sometimes
slowly. They will always...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
02-05-2025, 07:40 AM
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Replies: 25
Views: 5,244
February 14
Daily Reflections
...
February 14
Daily Reflections
EXPECTATIONS vs. DEMANDS
Burn the idea into the consciousness of every man that
he can get well regardless of anyone. The only condition
is that he trust in...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
02-05-2025, 07:39 AM
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Replies: 25
Views: 5,244
February 13
Daily Reflections
WE CAN'T...
February 13
Daily Reflections
WE CAN'T THINK OUR WAY SOBER
To the intellectually self-sufficient man or woman,
many A.A.'s can say, "Yes, we were like you--far too
smart for our own...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
02-05-2025, 07:28 AM
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Replies: 17
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
02-05-2025, 07:25 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 3,854
February 5
Beyond discouragement
It’s...
February 5
Beyond discouragement
It’s natural and understandable to become discouraged. The feeling of discouragement is normal and healthy in response to adverse, disappointing developments.
...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
02-04-2025, 06:33 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 3,854
February 4
The courage to answer
Will...
February 4
The courage to answer
Will you say yes or will you say no? You’ll have plenty of opportunities to say both.
When those opportunities arise, give serious consideration to your...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
02-03-2025, 07:39 AM
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Replies: 17
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February 3
God delays but doesn't forget.
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February 3
God delays but doesn't forget.
~Spanish saying
It's frustrating to get sick, lose a job, or encounter financial setbacks. We suddenly feel curtailed, with the rhythm of our lives...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
02-03-2025, 07:37 AM
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Replies: 18
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
02-02-2025, 07:32 AM
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Replies: 25
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
02-02-2025, 07:31 AM
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Replies: 25
Views: 5,244
February 11
Daily Reflections
THE...
February 11
Daily Reflections
THE LIMITS OF SELF-RELIANCE
We asked ourselves why we had them [fears]. Wasn't it
because self-reliance failed us?
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p.68
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
02-02-2025, 07:31 AM
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Replies: 25
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February 10
Daily Reflections
I DON'T...
February 10
Daily Reflections
I DON'T RUN THE SHOW
When we became alcoholics, crushed by a self-imposed
crisis we could not postpone or evade, we had to
fearlessly face the proposition...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
02-02-2025, 07:30 AM
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Replies: 25
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February 9
Daily Reflections
GETTING...
February 9
Daily Reflections
GETTING THE "SPIRITUAL ANGLE"
How often do we sit in AA meetings and hear the speaker declare,
"But I haven't yet got the spiritual angle." Prior to this...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
02-02-2025, 07:26 AM
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Replies: 17
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February 2
Dealing with them is like dealing...
February 2
Dealing with them is like dealing with a porcupine in heat.
~Anonymous
Some days we wake up angry at the world. Everyone annoys us. We try to tell ourselves that we're spiritual...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
02-01-2025, 11:44 PM
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Replies: 18
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
02-01-2025, 06:21 AM
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Replies: 17
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Today's Thought - February
February 1
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime.
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Few of us ever...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
02-01-2025, 06:19 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 3,854
Daily Motivator - February
February 1
Expect a positive outcome
Think of all the blessings that first arise as troubles. Consider how many opportunities initially appear in the form of problems.
If you give up the...
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Forum: Newcomers Recovery Help and Support
01-31-2025, 09:45 AM
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Replies: 0
Views: 1,227
The Same But Different
There are so many different kinds of people in this world therefore the same thing is true and can be said about recovery as well, and it's a good thing that we're all not the same, how boring it...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-29-2025, 10:34 AM
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Replies: 34
Views: 16,433
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-29-2025, 05:22 AM
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Replies: 25
Views: 5,244
February 8
Daily Reflections
CONVINCING...
February 8
Daily Reflections
CONVINCING "MR. HYDE"
Even then, as we hew away, peace and joy will still elude us. That's
the place so many of us A.A. oldsters have come to. And it's a hell...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-29-2025, 05:22 AM
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Replies: 25
Views: 5,244
February 7
Daily Reflections
A PATH TO...
February 7
Daily Reflections
A PATH TO FAITH
True humility and an open mind can lead us to faith, and every A.A. meeting is an
assurance that God will restore us to sanity if we rightly...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-29-2025, 05:21 AM
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Replies: 25
Views: 5,244
February 6
Daily Reflections
A RALLYING...
February 6
Daily Reflections
A RALLYING POINT
Therefore, Step Two is the rallying point for all of us. "Whether agnostic, atheist, or
former believer, we can stand together on this Step....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-29-2025, 05:12 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 18,423
January 29
Reflection for the Day
Why...
January 29
Reflection for the Day
Why do I do what I do? Why did I say what I said? Why on earth did I put off an important responsibility? Questions like these, best asked of myself in a quiet...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-29-2025, 05:08 AM
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Replies: 34
Views: 16,433
January 29
Desirable destination
How do...
January 29
Desirable destination
How do you energize yourself in the present? Take action that’s oriented toward improving the future.
How do you sustain that elevated energy level? Continue...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-28-2025, 07:53 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 18,423
January 28
Leave No One Behind
In the...
January 28
Leave No One Behind
In the military, you hear, "Leave no one behind." But the reality is, we get left behind all the time. Especially women.
I was left behind. I was left behind...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-28-2025, 07:52 AM
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Replies: 34
Views: 16,433
January 28
Goodness you can create
The...
January 28
Goodness you can create
The way forward is to focus on what you can do. Dedicate yourself to the good things that matter most to you.
Self pity is not an effective strategy....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-26-2025, 07:07 AM
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Replies: 25
Views: 5,244
February 5
Daily Reflections
A GLORIOUS...
February 5
Daily Reflections
A GLORIOUS RELEASE
"The minute I stopped arguing, I could begin to see
and feel. Right there, Step Two gently and very
gradually began to infiltrate my life. I...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-26-2025, 07:06 AM
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Replies: 25
Views: 5,244
February 4
Daily Reflections
WHEN FAITH...
February 4
Daily Reflections
WHEN FAITH IS MISSING
Sometimes A.A. comes harder to those who have lost or
rejected faith than to those who never had any faith
at all, for they think they...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-26-2025, 06:54 AM
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Replies: 25
Views: 5,244
February 3
Daily Reflections
FILLING...
February 3
Daily Reflections
FILLING THE VOID
We needed to ask ourselves but one short question. "Do I now
believe, or am I even willing to believe, that there is a Power greater
than...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-26-2025, 06:53 AM
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Replies: 25
Views: 5,244
February 2
Daily Reflections
RESCUED BY...
February 2
Daily Reflections
RESCUED BY SURRENDERING
Characteristic of the so-called typical alcoholic is a narcissistic
egocentric core, dominated by feelings of omnipotence, intent
on...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-24-2025, 06:29 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 18,423
January 24
AA Thought for the Day
To...
January 24
AA Thought for the Day
To grasp the AA program, we have to think things out. Saint Paul said: "They are transformed by the renewing of their minds." We have to learn to think...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-24-2025, 06:25 AM
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Replies: 34
Views: 16,433
January 24
What and why
When there’s...
January 24
What and why
When there’s something you really want to do, you’re sure to get it done. Indeed, you’re likely to do it relatively quickly and effectively.
The trick is zeroing in...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-23-2025, 06:28 AM
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Replies: 34
Views: 16,433
January 23
Opportunity of now
Within...
January 23
Opportunity of now
Within arm’s length of where you are right now, exist limitless opportunities to create value. Breathe deeply, smile lovingly, and just do it.
The moment you’re...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-22-2025, 03:22 PM
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Replies: 34
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