It’s easy to do
The things I wanted
Forsaken for you
I would never change anything
our love was so true
It will not be our end
I will always love you
Truly…
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Category: PHOTOGRAPHY
No-one ever said life would be easy
Arizona lemon trees have a great struggle to bear fruit…I love them for they never give up:)
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No arms no peace
As a sign of peace without arms
A message cannot convey
Its profound meaning
So is a town without truth
Only anguish will be its end
As the sun continues bleeding
No truth
No peace
No meaning…
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The two shall become as one…
Eventually…
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Tones of repetition
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The gathering…
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Cacti passion…
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Regarding Trees
Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
(Zora Neale Hurston)
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My… my… my…
Said the cactus to the?…
Jump right ahead and your …
…
…
Your not a fly…!
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My rubicund thorn
Your beauty is without measure
In wrath you change
A protection I blame…
A sacrifice in pain…
Your softness returns reluctantly…
…
…
…
I missed you…
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Regarding marriage…
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that creates an unhappy marriage.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Pastels
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silhouettes
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He may feel like he’s unappreciated…
But to the contrary, he’s a lovely aesthetic environmental masterpiece to the definition of life, death, and rebirth.
Environmental appreciation day is every day.
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Extension platform
And yet another bridge to cross
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Reflections…
Of the clouds in our eyes
Reflections of a roadmap rid of lies
Reflections of our nation’s constant cries
Reflections of the beauty of our skies
Reflections of a mirror for us to see truth
Love
Peace
To
set
our
spirits
free
Eternally
brilliant
light
inside
You
And
Me
…
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Today’s Brunch photos
Out door malls in Arizona
Palm decor
Brunch time with misting lines 108° today….we ate inside. We’re not seasoned Arizonaian’s yet. Outside dinning in this weather is for guys like poncho and lefty. {{{{Laughs}}}}
In Arizona misting lines are hung above out door dining, for a refreshing mist that slightly caresses you while you’re enjoying your brunch.
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Trainscapes
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Comparisons of tone
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The road will narrow
But stay on the path and keep moving forward. Do not give up, for it will be worth it in the end.
Always remember, God is love and love never fails.
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Desiderium
His Shadows
One of his clone
The other unknown
He looks to the horizon for home
His shoulders carries
His last song
He moans…
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Another reminder
I’m not alone…
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The only time you truly loose…
Is when you give up.
There are moments, sometimes hours, and at times, days that I feel like I can’t, or maybe that I don’t want to continue to do the things I love, and I feel like giving up.
I know this mindset is nothing but a self-defeating attitude that is a result of looking back at my life, and wishing that I would have done things differently.
I have said it before, and I’ll say it again, for a self confirmation in order to rid myself of pride and futile thoughts.
“I give up all hope of having a better past.” There.
“Now, I must do the thing I think I cannot do.” –Eleanor Roosevelt-
The only one thing that I know to be effective at times like these, is to make a gratitude list for everything I have, and forget about everything I want.
My serenity is directly proportional to my ability to, “Accept the things I cannot change, and the courage to change the things I can.” –Bill W.-
I won’t give up, I will continue to be present in my life, and love myself, in spite of myself.
I pray that His will be done, refusing mine.
True serenity is to find peace in the midst of the storm.
I’m grateful that I am willing to see that I’m stuck, and I am able to take action in order to rid myself, of self.
I will never give up on love.
GOD help me this day.
Dawnasong
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IN BETWEEN LINES
Lifeless I sit in a frozen mind
The only escape bold fonts
Between spaces of time
Paralyzed without reason
Italic letters absent of lines
To be sent without render in Braille
A type of a therapeutic rhyme
Dawnasong
Knots of Nets
I absolutely love tying knots. It’s therapeutic, rewarding and serene.
What more could I ask for this evening?
Life is good and it keeps getting better.
I love peace, love, WordPress, and all of you wonderful bloggers that continue to enhance my understanding of our world in which we create through.
Nostalgic Vibrations – 1960’s
Bob Dylan and his seemingly endless ability to capture his audience by his insightful lyrics, has and will continue to impact our understanding of poetry forever.
Each poetic note flows harmoniously through my mind and down into my heart with lasting profoundness.
*Dawna Bowles*
Blowing In The Wind – by Bob Dylan
How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man ?
How many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand ?
Yes, how many times must the cannon balls fly
Before they’re forever banned ?
The answer my friend is blowin’ in the wind
The answer is blowin’ in the wind.
Yes, how many years can a mountain exist
Before it’s washed to the sea ?
Yes, how many years can some people exist
Before they’re allowed to be free ?
Yes, how many times can a man turn his head
Pretending he just doesn’t see ?
The answer my friend is blowin’ in the wind
The answer is blowin’ in the wind
*Bob Dylan*
Love and peace
“If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliché that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal”
– John Lennon
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Enlightenment
“The mind once enlightened cannot agin become dark.”
(Thomas Paine)
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Comparing
“Do not compare your insides to other people’s outsides.”
It only leaves you feeling empty.
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Shared from WordPress
http://ajleonephotography.wordpress.com/2014/04/19/masks/
Absolutely fabulous!
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Arizona Dating
There are high expectations for dating in Arizona 🙂
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I love you
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Hi
What’s your name?
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Life is wonderful
My happiness depends on my ability, to become willing, to accept that things are exactly the way they are supposed to be.
Nothing happens by mistake.
Adversity is sent to teach us to practice patience, tolerance and love.
Life is wonderful
And so are you
Just believe
The truth, it frees…
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Love
My happiness depends on my ability, to become willing, to accept that things are exactly the way they are supposed to be.
Nothing happens by mistake.
Adversity is sent to teach us to practice patience, tolerance and love.
Life is wonderful
And so are you
Just believe
The truth, it frees…
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To touch you…
Oh I wish you would get closer just so I could touch you…
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Arizona colors
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Sun goddesses
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How many fingers am I holding up
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Desoto
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Bittersweet
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Sunset
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Dear John…
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You are my sunshine…
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The Cinema
“Cinema is the ultimate pervert art, It doesn’t give you what you desire, it tells you how to desire.
Slavoj Zizek
My cobalt bottle
Was lonely so I made him a new friend
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Desert Boneyard
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Life is like walking through a
Catus garden
They can be painful if your not careful
As life can be…
But pain is a great motivator
Pain is a teacher to keep you safe
And to bring you home
You are loved beyond measure
Come home…
Dawnasong
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Locomotion Transparency
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Just for fun…
“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
Mark Twain
(Winter Haven California)
(Jessica Stacylee Jones)
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Choose light
As a flower in the rain
I continue to glow because
I know the truth
If I choose to only exist
Negative energy lives
When I choose to live
Negative energy only exists
Light is a choice
Believe…
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Serenity
Winter Haven California
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When your door closes
There’s always a window of opportunity
Do not quit. Continue to believe and you will find what you’re looking for.
Be still and listen to the light inside of you.
Remember our wants are not met, our needs our.
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Farming
“The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.”
Masanobu Fukuoka
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Macrame the sailors artistry…
I thought I would start macraming again. I have been perfecting this art since 1970.
It’s been a few months since I have indulged myself, for I have been ill; however, I’m better now and I have missed tying my hemp knotts terribly!
I absolutely love the ocean and anything that reminds me of it.
A message in a bottle…
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Side Sliding
Sometimes it’s not easy to follow the road that you know to be true. Today I slipped side ways, but I soon realized it and straighten my perspective.
And things seemed to appear brighter.
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Beautiful!
Check out @NBCNewsPictures’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/NBCNewsPictures/status/492811047011880960
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A must see
http://flip.it/5SEwk
I absolutely love this picture!
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It’s a long way home…
Two roads diverged in the woods, and I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
–Robert Frost-
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There ain’t no mountains high enough
To keep me from you…
I know that you are the alpha and the omega
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Alone but not lonely
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California Dreamscape
You’re always in my dreams, Good night:)
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WATER WAGON
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Clouds in my skies
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Locomotive
310 to Yuma….
Ben Wade: Mind telling me where we’re going?
Dan Evans: No, I don’t mind telling you. We’re going to Contention City. We’re going to wait in a house by the station and wait until the 3:10 comes and we’re going to put you on it.
Ben Wade: Thanks. Now if we get separated I’ll know where to wait for you.
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You are where you are supposed to be
keep walking forward, and do not look back. Even if you take two steps forward and one step back, you are still moving forward. Follow the light.
(Katelynn Fishback’s feet)
Stand for truth and justice
Regardless of the consequences.
Thomas Paine did and he possessed the ability to be just and true regardless of wether it was popular or not. I loved his spirit of integrity!
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
(Leonardo da Vinci)
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Isolation
My humans deserted their home
My sky is onfire
I thirst in vain
My bird left her wire
Isolation a
familiar
Desert
Tone
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Train Art
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Come home…
Come home..
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Regarding law
“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.”
– Plato (427-347 B.C.)
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NEVER JUDGE
Before I retire for the evening, I thought I would share something that Is important in regards to judging others. 
Many years ago when I was a substitute teacher for the Matanuska Susitna school district in Palmer Alaska. I remember this particular morning that I was sent to Burchell High School.
This school was a continuation school. It was a school for troubled teens, if you will, or maybe teens with behavioral problems.
When I arrived at the school the attending counselor greeted me and asked if I had ever worked with these kinds of teens.
I told him I had, and his reply was music to my ears. He said, “I just want you to know that all of our students are not bad, to the contrary, they’re all good students, they have just made some bad choices.” He went on to explain that our job was to get them back on track. I was instructed to gently guide them and to always treat them with respect.
The staff and the students worked in unison. It was, and still is one of the finest schools I have subed for in my life.
It just goes to show that society’s opinion isn’t always accurate.
“Those who deserve love the least need it the most.”
My Truths…
I know there is a journey
Which lies ahead
It is clouded by doubt
And but for a moment
I am a prisoner in the eye of her storm
At times I see my radiance
I long to touch it only to find
My reach exceeds my grasp
I turn my head and cry
One thing I know for sure
If I continue to run
Love will never catch me…
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A few things I know to be true
I know what I feel
Deep inside that only I can hear my screams.
One day, I will reach so high.
I will catch all my dreams as, many as there are stars in the sky.
They will be mine.
I know that 0the weight of this world sits so heavily upon my chest that it is breaking my heart.
I know It is imperative that I not only sit in the rain but, taste it as well.
I know that sometimes I capture a photograph of love and it hurts.
And when I reach for it,
I discovered that it is only a negative.
And I sigh.….
Love, why must you hide your face from me?
I bleed.,.
[Dawna Bowles (C) 07/22/2014]
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I have friends
2 of them…
“A friend is someone who knows everything about you and loves you anyways. “
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Ideas Create Art 4 peace
“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”
( Eleanor Roosevelt)
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Never give up
“I have not failed, I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
Thomas A. Edison
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Do not judge Me…
Because I sin differently than you do
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Wisdom
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.” –
Galileo Galilei
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It’s okay to be different
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Wisdom
“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.”
(Helen Keller)
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A Hunger for love
When Christ said that man does not live by bread alone, he spoke of a hunger. This hunger was not the hunger of the body. It was not the hunger for bread. He spoke of a hunger that begins deep down in the very depths of our being. He spoke of a need as vital as breath. He spoke of our hunger for love.
Love is something you and I must have. We must have it because our spirit feeds upon it. We must have it because without it we become weak and faint. Without love our self-esteem weakens. Without it our courage fails. Without love we can no longer look out confidently at the world…
But with love, we are creative. With it, we march tirelessly. With it, and with it alone, we are able to sacrifice for others.
Chief Dan George
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Great Things
“Not all of us can do great things.
But we can do small things with great love.”
(Mother Teresa)
Have you hugged your dog today?
They would think that to be great!
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A dog’s loyalty
“Dogs are better than human beings because they know but they do not tell.”
(Emily Dickinson)
Tinker the precious
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Regarding Dogs
“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.”
(Will Rogers)
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Show your true colors
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GENIUS
“There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.”
(Aristotle)
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Holding down the fort
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Blacknights
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YOU WERE ALWAYS ON MY MIND
(Willie Nelson)
“you were always on mind.”
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Eye candy…
Smell it
color it
Feel it
Paint it
Dance through it
Absorb it
Taste it
Follow it
See it
Know it
Love it
Become it
And never stop creating peace love and art…
(L. W.)
Dawnasong
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Rain water tower train…
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CURIOSITY
“Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.”
(Samuel Johnson)
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007
Louis Armstrong said it best,
“What a wonderful world. ”
May peace, love, and art always be in your heart.
Dawnasong,
(L.W.)
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Summer Storm
Dawnasong
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Lunch Anyone?
I spotted this while I was out shopping today. I thought it to be interesting and simplistic. 🙂 okay and funny also!;)
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I love locomotives
This evening we went for a bike ride.
I was beckoned by a lovely train that was passing.
I got off my bike and walked slowly towards the train and watched it disappear into the sunset.
I felt as though I was an innocent child again. I decided to walk on the tracks in reminiscence of my childhood when a walk on the railroad took all my troubles away.
We started walking and it felt as though I was tapping upon piano keys. I could almost hear the melody of their great history along with my nostalgic experiences as a child.
With a gentle breeze caressing my face as I danced along, it felt absolutely amazing and greatly peaceful.
My memories as a child includes my brother Joe and I. We would wait on the tracks patiently for the train to come so we could watch the colorful box cars pass and receive a wave, and a smile from the conductor on the caboose.
He left us with a feeling that not only were we alright, but the entire world was alright and a peaceful place to live.
My love of trains is a therapeutic melody to my soul, and a healing for my spirit. I must admit that I believe I fell in love with locomotives as a child and we will be in love till the day i die.
Once again love wins.
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Engine Block I think…
“Don’t ask.”
For some strange unknown reason I have had this magnetic attraction to mechanical gadgets.
I passed this garage today and I had to stop to snap a few. I see their beauty and uniqueness.
Art is in the eye of the beholder! 🙂
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DOING TIME…
Is it a crime?
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Is starting over possible?
“allow them to take failure not as a measure of their worth but as a chance for a new start.”
(Wizard of Oz)
Sometimes we think because we failed miserably in our past that starting over is an impossibility.
We think that it’s hopeless for our families, friends, business associates, or neighbors to forgive our mishaps; however, the key for successfully starting over does not depend on the ability of others to forgive us, but on our ability to forgive ourselves.
Without forgiveness of our past mistakes there can be no future of tolerance of ourselves, or for others.
Remember being taught in Sunday school as a child, “Love thy neighbor as thyself?”
If we don’t love ourselves it’s an impossibility to love others. Forgiveness comes before love. Once we can forgive ourselves, we can love ourselves. Then, and only then can we share our love with others, regardless of how they respond.
Once we internalize this, we can slowly and gently start to love ourselves once again, or maybe for the first time.
We can completely make a new start.
A confirmation through my own life experiences is proof for me that we can absolutely rid ourselves of past guilt that had once been the keeper of our souls.
[Dawna Bowles ( C ) 07/14]
“I am who I am because of my past not in spite of it.”
“I give up all hope of having a better past.”
“We keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we at last come to look upon them as virtues.
(Heine)
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