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Don't Get Mad, Get Inspired

3/23/2023

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​I could rant and rave about how I feel like the last couple of weeks have been a cascade failure of intentions and any attempt at progress. I could curse circumstances, stubbornness, rigidness, and refusal to accept consequences for thoughts and actions. I could fume over technology and AI frustrating me by not working and applying who-knows-what algorithms to me, much like the mistaken notions and ideas that other humans seem to have about me and the world around us.

Or I could feed all of that frustrated energy into brainstorming my latest novel idea.

I have a saying: it’s important to be at your best when the world is at it’s worst. These days, times, and seasons happen. The key to breaking free of the spiral of negative energy is how you choose to use it and project back out into the universe.

I had a conversation with somebody yesterday who was sick, frustrated, and depressed. The entire conversation turned on one question: she asked how you keep from getting depressed when you aren’t sure if you can get over what’s happened to you. I didn’t even have to think. “Because if I’m depressed then the devil has won, and pissing him off is a great first step at rejecting any discouragement creeping up on me.”  

It sounds easy, but it isn’t. It’s usually a mental process that clicks through realizations before you see the spiral and put a halt to it. Sometimes, as was the case yesterday, somebody needs to speak up and throw a wrench in it. I continued my conversation by telling them that it isn’t about “getting over it.” We all have problems. The key is moving forward. Discouragement keeps you from doing this by projecting complacency back into the universe, which sticks you in a feedback loop. “You need to make it clear that you want better so people know that you aren’t settling for your suffering. That’s the catalyst to bring the healing and inspiration you seek.”

Other times, it takes an insight. The conversation held up a mirror to dealing with my own frustrations, and I was pondering how to effectively manage my reality while I was doing yoga. By the end of that 30 minute session, I was surprised to have inspiration: don’t get mad, get inspired. Project your personal on a larger scale, and get a vision for where you think it will lead if it continues. For example:
  • What if humanity becomes so complacent that they become codependent on Artificial Intelligence to do what they can’t or don’t want to do?
  • What if our co-dependence leads to the evolution of AI, and it exploits this truth?
  • How would the world change, from a personal level to the “big picture,” if we rebuilt the world using AI, and it changed the parameters of logic and morality?
  • Would we fight back? Or would we be so complacent that we would accept our fate of extinction to our own creation?  
And so, I heeded my own advice and the world building has begun. It’s time to wrap up Duality and Broken Time, get them on a path to publication, and move on. Best of all, I hope that I’ve inspired somebody else to find their truth as I’ve turned mine from reality to fiction, as writers are prone to do. It's better to turn that energy around than to take it out on the people around me. So go ahead. Feed that must. He’s back and ready to wreck the world, one more time.

That was awful, which means it’s time for me to stop. I hope that this week’s musings have inspired you to turn your energy to creating good things in your life, whether it’s health, healing, progress, abundance, prosperity, or even simply writing the book I’d like to read, but can’t find out there so darn it, I’ll do it myself.

That’s all today. Take care, and have a great week.

​Bye!

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Building Blocks

3/7/2023

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​I’ve passed off my lack of inspiration over the past couple of weeks as being busy and a bad case of burnout, but this new week I see the truth: I have writer’s block. Ah, the block. It’s the bane of a writer’s life, and puts us in a perpetually peevish mood.

Advice abounds on overcoming it. Some say to push on through and write anything, even if it’s trash that nobody reads. Others encourage a break, since it’s an obvious sign of burnout. This is the route I might have taken a few years ago, but I’ve had a realization during my recent meditations: if you’ve got a block that won’t break, then you might as well build something with it.

I followed this idea, and realized that I'm in a rut with my writing and reading. Duality is a refreshing break from my norm and I would like to expand back into writing mystery, but my scifi writing has settled into a regurgitation of the same old plots, themes, and ideas as I’ve been working on Broken Time. I suppose it makes sense. That novel has required a lot of planning and research, so naturally it’s stuck in the brain.  I noticed that over the weekend as I looked back over the short stories I’ve written over the past few months and realized that wow, I really do need to branch out. It's the same with my reading: nothing looks good because it all looks the same. If I’m “taking up more space” as they urge in meditation and yoga, then my creativity should as well. It seems I need help in this area, and I finally had a great idea last week: join reader groups on Goodreads and Facebook. Maybe other people could show me what I'm missing and give me suggestions to build something different than the same old things that I read and write all the time. 

I know, this blog is supposed to be about how real life inspires writing. It does, but the thing about the relief of the day to day routine is that it's inspiration is limiting. A single perspective gets limited anyway and you have to branch out and hear from others to expand your space and find new perspective. I haven’t had any amazing breakthroughs yet, but I feel good about this approach and enjoy the interactions. It's going to take time and patience to see where this leads. Ah patience, that unappreciated virtue that solves most woes. It’s not easy, but I shall endeavor to embrace this space and build what I can in it.

I'll finish and publish my works in progress, but I realize that these are bookends in this season of my writing: Broken Time will wrap up the theme of redefining through grief and loss, and Duality is launching a new season of incorporating an element of discovery that, I hope, will launch new themes and concepts in my future work. It's time to move on. Here's hoping this writer's block is the cornerstone of this new season of life manifesting in amazing creative work in the future. 

That’s all today. Take care, and have a great week.

Bye!

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Time Changes Perception

2/16/2023

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It’s amazing how time changes how you perceive things. I had to go downtown today for work related meetings, and was surprised at how different it was from what I remembered. It looked the same as it did during my college and early career days, but somehow it felt different. Even the sandwich shop nearby – that I used to love – wasn’t as good as I remembered it. Everything went well, but it was a relief to leave, and return to the office that I’ve known for nearly 13 years.

Isn’t it funny how your perception changes over time? New experiences do broaden your horizons, and growth can change how you experience things. It was amazing to me how this place, that used to be part of my day to day life, felt so alien and strange to me. My life has changed drastically, and I’ve grown into the space where I am. Is one better than the other? It’s hard to say. Certainly, there are obvious advantages and disadvantages to both, but overall I am content with such things as I have.

The same happens with my writing. I was working on rewrites to Broken Time this week, and noticed that I reused a character name that I used for one of the major characters in Blurry, my young adult mystery novel that published in 2011. I should change that name, but a few minutes of thinking made me realize that nobody probably remembers Blurry, so there’s no harm in recycling the name, especially since it’s a minor character in Broken Time. Watch me be wrong and have a reader point that out once Broken Time publishes. I just wonder if they'll also ponder the drastic differences between the books. I’m a very different person, with a very different life, than the Sherri who wrote Blurry in 2008 and it shows, at least to me. I wonder if readers notice it.

Do you notice it, in yourself or others? I think that, like me, it takes a trigger to realize that something is different, whether it’s in yourself or in others. Most of us go along in our day to day lives with little realization of how we’re growing, shifting, and changing in response to life and the world around us. It takes a jolt, so to speak, to open our eyes and see that things are not what they once were.

It’s something interesting to ponder, especially as I work on Broken Time, where the protagonist is moving in and out of versions of herself in the past, present, and future. Which brings up one more realization: do I notice this because of triggers in my personal life, because I’m working on a novel with this particular theme, or is everything working together to just make my head hurt with the realization of so many things today?

Interesting questions. Here’s hoping that returning to the life that is mine, continuing rewrites, and casual Friday bring some answers. Or, at least, that the season premiere of Star Trek: Picard won’t get my mind stirring with more questions, as sci-fi tends to do. It’s curious how these themes seem to repeat themselves in all of the signs around you, but that is probably a pondering for another blog entry.

For now, I sign off wishing you a great day, a happy Friday tomorrow, and a wonderful weekend.

Bye!

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Variety Slaying One-Trick Wonders

2/8/2023

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I recently read this article from a writer who lamented the common advice that writers should stick to one genre. Sister, I hear you. I understand that the old publishing model was to stick to one trick, but that’s never worked for me. The truth is that none of us are one-trick wonders. Every individual is multifaceted and shines through a variety of knowledge, skills, talents, and interests. Why should reading and writing be limited? Nothing else in life is.

It’s another example of how the traditional publishing industry is outdated and dying – most people just don’t realize and/or actively acknowledge it yet. As the article mentions, I can understand sticking with a single genre while you learn how to write, as well as the industry itself. It’s overwhelming, especially if you do like me and start with no contacts. Heck, I started with less than zero, and spent my first five years working my way up to nothing before I started making any progress. Writing is something that must be in your soul to flourish, and the soil is fertile ground for countless things to grow.

Thank goodness for ebooks and self publishing. That has opened our options to more space for creativity. I’ve published paranormal mystery, regular mystery, visionary science fiction, and even holiday stories that cross with scifi and horror. In the past week, I’ve worked on a fantasy short story, a non-fiction piece on the power of positive thinking, two sci-fi stories, and proofreads for Duality, the Thanksgiving mystery that I’m aiming to publish later this year. Lord willing, I’ll get back to another round of rewrites for Broken Time, my scifi novel about the physicist who’s experiments on string theory cause the apocalypse, and post my March article for The Roost about adopting birds of different species.

A single genre? Nope. That’s too confining for me, and when it comes to crossing genres I’m going for it after writing for 22 years. I identify is women’s scifi and mystery, a trifecta that would make the traditional industry cringe. Well, cringe away. My niche knows to expect anything from me and my style is solid through them all. I don’t read one genre, so why should I write one genre? Who knows? I just took my first crack at fantasy last week. Maybe I’ll eventually try a political thriller someday.

Time will tell. Today, I say celebrate the variety on your ereader and your hard drive. Life is full of things that seem inconsistent, until you get to know the individual expressing them and see how it really does work together. Why should writing and reading be any different? Let’s stand up to that outdated advice and embrace variety slaying one-trick-wonders.

That’s all today. Take care, and have a great rest of the week. 

Bye!

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Gaslighting

1/24/2023

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I recently had a conversation with somebody who was puzzled because they were accused of being angry and negative. This person is mild mannered and even tempered to a point that I actually envy them, so of course it was a surprising thing out of left field. They learned the next day that the person who said it had been accused of being angry and negative by one of the closest people in their life. I laughed.

“They’d better find another trick since everybody knows about gaslighting now.”

And we both laughed and moved on.

I’m sure you’ve heard about it, as it seems that I’ve seen more and more articles on gaslighting since the COVID pandemic. I'm not even researching it, and yet I see at least one article on it every time I log into my Twitter or Facebook. Perhaps something about isolation made us more attuned to the way that other people try to manipulate us. It is hard to convince somebody that they don’t know what they’re thinking when you’re in lockdown and what you’re thinking is most of your reality. And perhaps some of us came back into the world with a greater awareness of ourselves – and our sanity – than manipulators would like for us to have.

Gaslighting isn’t new. The term itself is from a 1938 play where a husband tries to make his wife doubt her sanity. The issue is that it’s so insidious that, as I mentioned, I think it took a worldwide pandemic that called everything in to question to realize it for what it is: not “imagining things.” Not “accusing me of being what you are.” Not lying. It’s an insidious form of manipulation that was successful at making people doubt themselves, their reality, and their ability to function – until a lockdown and social media started blasting the signs of it all over the place.

Sigh. Another perfectly good defense mechanism exposed. What’s an abusive narcissist to do?

I mention it because I now see this phenomenon showing up in fiction, which is my que that it really is on the radar of real people. I just finished reading Portals (by Douglas E. Richards), and would call the tactics of the antagonist gaslighting at a planetary level. Art impersonates life, so it’s no surprise to see it creeping up in fictional characters just three years after hitting mainstream attention, especially in sci-fi. We look around and see the world in a great big mess, but I think this is one small sign that perhaps something good came out of the pandemic. A realization that we are stronger than we think. A realization that we know what’s right and sane, and don’t want others to control us. A realization that we can trust ourselves, our thoughts, and our decision-making capabilities.

A sign that maybe we’re rooted in truth and ready to rise stronger to take control of this strange world. And maybe, if we can stand up to the tricks to keep us down, we can actually clean it up and make it better, like we said we wanted to.

It’s never too late, so I say we should take this good step forward and build on it. What other  lies can we reject? What
other abuse can we lay aside? What other forces should we be standing up to?

I think it’s a good sign. This is something to build on. It starts in truth. Let’s see where else it can lead us.

That’s all today. Take care, and have a great week.

Bye!

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Wintertime Blues

1/8/2023

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It's that time of year again. Just as the excitement of Halloween, the holiday, and the new year come around once a year, so does the "post holiday" crash in January. I first saw this cartoon on Facebook a year ago. When it came up again today I thought yes, that sums it up. We went from a season of light to that cold, grey bucket of suck quickly. 

Unless you hate the holidays (as some people do), this January crash happens. It's natural - we spend the final quarter of the year celebrating fall, Thankfulness, holidays, and then new starts, just to find going back to the normal routine cold, dark, and boring. Add that these are some of the shortest days of the year, and it's no wonder that so many people are melancholy, or worse yet depressed. 

It's a difficult time, and my approach might seem counter-intuitive, but her me out: instead of fighting it, I'm going to roll with it. The natural rhythm of life is ebbs and flows, and being honest and fair with yourself means feeling them all, acknowledging them all, and exploring them all. So instead of fighting it this year, I'm going to ask myself what I need to get through each day to find purpose and opportunity in these dark days of winter. These past couple of weeks, it's been trying a new workout, catching up on the final season of Better Call Saul and House of the Dragon, and working  on my manuscripts-in-progress. Friday it was a walk outside on my lunch break. Saturday, it was lunch at my favorite burger place to celebrate finishing rewrites and revisions on my works in progress. Today is exploring some book review and non-fiction writing opportunities. We shall see what the next week brings. Maybe I'll look into short stories, or do some work on my cross stitch project. I'll see what inspiration each day brings as it comes. 

Yes, these days can being inspiration. It might not be as awesome and exciting as the holidays, but I always say to never underestimate the small things.  A $5 article might not seem as fun or impactful as publishing a book or winning a prize, but it's still writing and still progress. You never know where things might go from here. 

Spring will come again. Until then, let's embrace the slower pace of winter dormancy and appreciate the smaller things. Most of life is in these normal days. Perhaps it's time we learn how to appreciate, utilize, and work it wisely. 

That's all today. Take care, and have a great week. 

Bye! 

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Kick Down the Gate of 2023 Like You Mean It

12/31/2022

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I'd like to open this entry by wishing a Happy Birthday to Zacchaeus, our sun conure. Our golden boy is 23 years old today! Happy birthday sunshine! You are a joy and we love you. Wishing you many more!

There's nothing like celebrating a birthday to close out the old year. I think it's good to set a positive tone and expectations for the new year. I know many have been hesitant to do this since the fateful year of 2020. How many posts have you seen saying "don't call it 'your year!' Walk in quietly and respectfully and don't make any noise!" I get it, but the fact is that it's over now. We're three years past the pandemic and resulting chaos. The world has moved on, and so should you. I'm not saying to be cocky or arrogant, but I do believe it's time to find our spunk again. We are still alive and in this world, and should make the most of that. Maybe we need to kick down the gate of 2023 like we mean it. 

You ought to know what you have in this post-pandemic reality. You should have accepted it, and you ought to know what works and what doesn't. If you're going to resolve to do anything, perhaps the best place to start is the best with what you've got. Take stock, decide what you want, and figure out what thoughts and actions will put you on the path to making it a reality. 

​Do better.

I gave up on the standard diet/eat right/exercise/organize/write more and better resolutions years ago. My resolution for 2022 was simply to "do better." It seemed vague, but it worked. Casting that wide net not only opened my mind to seeing the world better, but to opportunities that would put me back on my feet and back in action. I stopped to consider every area of my life and what day-to-day thoughts, decisions, and actions would lead to positive outcomes. It worked so well that I'm continuing it into 2023. As we say at work, don't reinvent the wheel. If you have something that works, keep using it. "Do better" might seem general, but the wide application has worked wonders on my life. Sometimes the simple approach is the best.

I don't know what you want, but it seems that "doing better" applies to all. So stop playing small. Stop doubting. Stop letting the world confuse you and beat you down. Stand up, find yourself, and kick down the gate of 2023 like you mean it. 

That's all today. Have a wonderful weekend and a Happy New Year! 

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Dude, I'm Done (and Merry Christmas)

12/19/2022

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Are you done yet? I didn’t ask if the holidays are done yet – I asked if you are. It seems that once school gets out, everybody loses their motivation to do anything.

The holiday season is a long haul, and it’s no wonder that we lose our motivation. There’s an exhaustion that sets in, more mental than physical, where we’re sick of trudging through each day, pressing forward to keep on keeping on while we’re also “doing Christmas.” I believe I’ve mentioned in previous entries that the holiday season can be overwhelming and overstimulating, especially to introverts, and it’s no wonder that the holiday spirit might hit a lag in this week before Christmas. We’re somewhere between “Happy Holidays” and “go away.”

Leave it to me to point at the pink elephant in the room. Then again, I specialize on illuminating those things we’d rather not acknowledge. Why? Because we need to, and it’s not fair to let people believe they’re the only ones with holiday fatigue when in fact, we’ve all had our bouts with anxiety and/or 'winter blues.' Likewise, some people struggle with depression and grief over the holidays. It’s a nostalgic time, and of course those memories will weigh on the soul.

My encouragement is to let it flow. Of course there’s too much to do. There always is, especially in December (and especially for middle age adults who are, unarguably, the busiest people in the world). Moods pass so do your best, accept it, and let today’s mental weather flow. Tomorrow is a new day and you’ll likely feel better if you take care of yourself now. Take a day off from “Christmas” if you need to. Trust me, it will still be there until December 25. There’s still time to take a break and get back into the groove.  

Nobody will die if you miss tonight’s workout, if you pick up the gift tomorrow, if you mail the cards on Wednesday, or if you skip that Thursday, or if you say ‘no’ to participating in the Secret Santa on Friday. Trust me, everybody is frazzled. Even if your absence is noticed, they’ll forget it by the weekend. And so will you.

So do it. Say “dude, I’m done,” and mean it today. Just have tacos, crash, binge something non-holiday, and get a good night’s sleep. You might be surprised at how much better you feel tomorrow. Maybe good enough to turn the Christmas music back on and give it another try, one more time.

That’s all today. I wish each and every one of you a safe, happy, blessed, and Merry Christmas!
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Bye! 

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Accepting Truth

12/8/2022

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I don’t even try to write in December. I don’t even make excuses for it, either: life is too busy during the holiday season, and attempting to write would be a frustration and a battle that I know I wouldn’t win. Perhaps someday in retirement it will be possible, but for now trying to write from now until Christmas would be kicking against the goads, and it’s easier for me to accept and accommodate it.

That’s a truth I accepted and embraced a long time ago. In fact, I often look forward to this break, and this year especially. It’s been a successful and productive year for my writing, so it’s pleasant to take some time off to rest the muse and restore the creative well. I’m going to need it to rewrite Broken Time and move Recurrence (the Thanksgiving novelette) forward.

There is another truth I’ve recently come to accept, and I’m not sure what to do about it. Short stories have turned out to be a crap shoot for me, and I’m frustrated and have no idea about how to tackle this thorny issue. It seems that writing stronger stories has been a mission and a struggle for me the entire almost 22 years I’ve been writing. I’ve improved, but still get more rejections than acceptance so I obviously haven’t improved enough to make the shorter works as much a part of my writing as I’d like them to be. Then again, the form itself may be the problem. Short stories means I write more of them than novels, novellas, and novelettes, hence the crapshoot. Perhaps what I’m really grappling with is the nature of the beast. Short stories are still part of the “traditional” mold, which means they will be subject to competition and rejection-heavy. Having broken free of that with self-publishing my novels, I have to ask myself how much of that punishment I want to go back to in this area. Or maybe I need to thicken my skin again and keep trying. Which is probably what I’ll do. Because I know me, and I don’t give up.

For now, I’ll enjoy a writing break to simply live and enjoy the Christmas season. I wish you happy holidays as well. Enjoy it, and don’t let stress get to you. Take time out to relax, do what you can, say ‘no’ to what you can’t, and be authentic. Take care of yourself and watch out for your health and safety. We often let our guard down this time of year, but the threats are more prevalent than ever in this busy season. Check out the Conure Corner blog for more safety tips for the holiday season.

That’s all today. Have a happy Friday tomorrow and a wonderful weekend.

Bye!
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'Tis the Season - A Public Service Announcement

12/1/2022

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The holiday season is in full swing, and with it the bad guys are as active as the good. I learned that yesterday when our bank called to say that our credit card had been hacked. Thankfully, they caught it quickly and blocked the card.

It surprised me, because I got hacked two years ago, and have been especially diligent about security. My husband decided to do some digging today, and learned that our hack was the victim of a new scam: people can go to those outside pumps at gas stations and get the account and PIN number for the last five cards swiped. They then sell this information on the dark web. The advice: pay inside. It's a pain, but much more secure. Just don't use those gas pump scanners at all because they're prime targets for skimmers and scammers. 

My hack a couple of years ago was from online shopping on Etsy. I don't use that site often and thought it was safe, but obviously my password to it was hacked. At least I remember all of that so I can move quickly to get things back to normal this time. You really can't let your guard down, and even then they keep finding new ways to get you. 

It happens to us all. Just do your best, be aware, and be careful out there. Remember all of the safety advice, from personal safety to online, and  be diligent. It looks like the thieves and hackers are as active as Santa's elves during the most wonderful time of the year. Be careful and be safe out there, my friends. 

In other news, I've been off work this week. I know it's unusual to take the week after Thanksgiving off, but I had some days to use and a week and a half off for Thanksgiving was a golden opportunity I simply couldn't pass off. It's been great time with family, I finished my Christmas shopping (thankfully, before the gas-station hack yesterday), and I even did a rewrite of my Thanksgiving mystery. The story has shaped up great, but I can't settle on a title. Last entry, it was Duality. I decided I didn't like that, and now it's Recurrence but I'm still not settled. We'll see what it becomes. Maybe it's best to keep referring to it at "The Thanksgiving Mystery" until I settle on a title. Or maybe I should name it "A Thanksgiving Mystery." No, that's lame. I'll keep pondering. 

So the Christmas spirit abounds. Rick and I will decorate the Chrismon trees at the church tonight and have supper with those friends afterward. This card hack was just a glitch. I'm grateful our credit union is diligent, thanked them profusely, and am determined to fully embrace this wonderful gift of extra time off during the most wonderful time of the year. I am thankful that my efforts to think and do better are growing and bearing fruit. Gratitude is truly the best kind of contentment and joy there is. 

And in closing, I had an amusing Facebook memory pop up today. It was a picture of the Christmas tree we had four years ago. We were so proud because it was our first pre-lit tree, and I thought it was tall and elegant. Then Mom gave us the last Christmas tree that Dad bought. As you can see, Dad loved Christmas and believed in going big with that tree. Look at that. The white tree certainly backs that thing up. I thought that was amusing. 

That's all today. Take care. Have a Happy Friday tomorrow and a wonderful weekend. 

​Bye!

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