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Shadow Sisters

By: Shelley Davidow

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A brave, heartrending memoir of family, love and longing in the turbulent era of Apartheid in South Africa. During the terrifying years of Apartheid in South Africa, Shelley Davidow’s family was a crime. At a time when it was illegal for black and white people to live together, Shelley’s social activist parents took in Rosie, an abandoned black three-year-old. Rosie grew up as a beloved daughter and sister in a white household. Against the backdrop of racist laws and ever-present threats of violence, Shelley’s parents did all they could to provide a safe, happy home for their five children. But when Rosie was sixteen, devastating truths came to light, shattering the family’s understanding of the past. In this haunting memoir, Shelley Davidow sifts through the memories of her early life, searching for hope and reconciliation. Shadow Sisters leaves us with a deeper understanding of family love and of how, sometimes, that love is not enough.

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Univ. of Queensland Press

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Whisperings in the Blood

A Memoir

By: Shelley Davidow

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Whisperings in the Blood

A Memoir

By: Shelley Davidow

An exquisitely compelling story of courage, destiny and the search for home When orphan girl Bertha Frank gets onto a ship in New York in February 1937 to go to South Africa to marry a man she's never met, she doesn't know that she is repeating a journey to escape poverty and the persecution of the Pogroms made by her father from Lithuania to America in 1913, or that she is foreshadowing a journey Shelley Davidow, her granddaughter, will make from South Africa to America decades into the future. In 1937, she doesn't know that it will be fifty years before she returns to visit her home, nor that she will live through tumultuous social upheaval in an Africa on the brink of transformation. As a hopeful young adult, she cannot imagine the beauty, the love and the irreparable loss she will experience as a Jewish migrant in South Africa. Nor does she know that far in the future, her grandchildren will retrace her steps backwards to escape the violent, decaying outpost of white colonialism. In the 1980s, at the height of Apartheid in South Africa, Shelley Davidow decides to run from her country, and spends the next two decades searching for home. Then, in 2012 she discovers a box of Bertha's letters and diaries. Shelley realises that her life is an echo of patterns and repeating journeys; that there is a whispering in the blood of our forebears that tells the story of all our lives. From the Pogroms of Eastern Europe, to America's Great Depression, to the rise and fall of Apartheid South Africa and finally to Australia in the 21st century, Whisperings in the Blood explores the emotional legacy that we inherit from our immigrant ancestors and the complex heartache of leaving the land of one's birth.

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Writing the Radical Memoir

A Theoretical and Craft-based Approach

By: Paul Williams,Shelley Davidow

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Writing the Radical Memoir

A Theoretical and Craft-based Approach

By: Paul Williams,Shelley Davidow

For those that have mastered the basics of memoir and wish to probe this brand of creative nonfiction further, Writing the Radical Memoir uses salient theories about memory and the self to challenge assumptions about how we remember and tell the truth of our lives when we write about it. Innovative in approach and making new critical ideas accessible, each chapter maps out the key principles of such writers as Barthes, Lacan, Derrida, Lewis Mehl-Madrona, Philippe Le Jeune and Joseph Campbell, invokes literary examples to show how other writers have mastered the idea before reflecting on how you can practically apply the theory to your writing. With original exercises and prompts for further reading that bridge the gap between the theoretical and how it might be put into practice, the book is attentive to the multiple facets of the genre of nonfiction writing generally, covering such topics as: - The writer/ reader contract - How to embark on a thematic/ symbolic exploration of themes and incidents in your life - How neuro-scientific theory can inform our understanding of memory and recall and what happens to our memories when we remember them - Character development and the ethics of writing about real people - How constructing your identity in memoir offers a chance to push back against traditional structures - That memoir might not be preservation of your past but a process of self-erasure - How J. M. Coetzee's Autrebiography trilogy challenges traditional biography By bringing together lived experience, post-structuralist and postmodernist theories, praxis and artistic vision as a unique approach to writing memoir, this book encourages you to think the self, how it is portrayed, created, erased and made strange through the process of writing and remembering.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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Whisperings in the Blood

A Memoir

By: Shelley Davidow

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A Memoir

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Playing With Words

A Introduction to Creative Craft

By: Shelley Davidow,Paul Williams

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Playing With Words

A Introduction to Creative Craft

By: Shelley Davidow,Paul Williams

Drawing on years of experience of writing, teaching and publishing, this book offers essential tools for writers interested in honing their craft. Whether you're a poet, non-fiction writer, novelist, journalist, student or simply a lover of words, it will take you on an exciting and challenging journey to becoming a sophisticated writer. As in the learning of any true craft or art, first the focus is on specific skills, then on consolidating those skills, which by the end will be innate. Through a variety of exercises and freewriting prompts, Playing with Words will help you develop your writing, trying out new styles and approaches along the way. Use this book in a class, in a group, or alone in a writer's attic.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1137532548

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Fail Brilliantly

Exploding the Myths of Failure and Success

By: Shelley Davidow,Paul Williams

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Fail Brilliantly

Exploding the Myths of Failure and Success

By: Shelley Davidow,Paul Williams

An “immensely intriguing” new approach “that can successfully combat the shame, anxiety, and blame that failing induces too readily in our society” (Laurie Hollman, PhD, author of Unlocking Parental Intelligence). We spend much of our lives trying to cope with failure. For many of us, adults and children alike, the prospect of failure looms as a debilitating concept in our minds. It can not only stop us from succeeding—it can stop us from even trying. Fail Brilliantly proposes a radical shift: erase the word and concept of failure from the realms of education and human endeavors. Replace it with new words and concepts. This shift in position has the potential to transform our lives . . . and ultimately reshape our definition of success.

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Workman Publishing

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1945547618

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Raising Stress-Proof Kids

Parenting Today's Children for Tomorrow's World

By: Shelley Davidow

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Raising Stress-Proof Kids

Parenting Today's Children for Tomorrow's World

By: Shelley Davidow

A must-read for every parent who wants to raise smart, emotionally stable, responsible, stress-proof kids! Stress is rising alarmingly in our children, both at school and at home. Across the world, hearts are racing, faces are pale — and most of the time we’re unaware that many of our children are chronically stressed. Drawing on cutting-edge research from the Institute of HeartMath, California, as well as Shelley Davidow’s extensive experience in working with children and teens, Raising Stress-Proof Kids explores the powerful and potentially long-term effects of stress on our children. Most importantly, it offers simple but effective steps that parents can take to minimise the impact of stress at home and at school. These include tools from the author’s ‘Restorative Parenting Toolbox’, empowering parents with the necessary skills to: • resolve behaviour issues • deal with temper tantrums • resolve sibling rivalries • handle bullying • cope with teenagers testing their independence • navigate the challenges posed by the virtual world, and • provide firm, effective guidance when problems arise. ‘A compelling, practical and informative guide for every parent …’ — Rollin McCraty PhD, Institute of HeartMath

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Exisle Publishing

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1775591352

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Spirit of the Mountain

By: Shelley Davidow

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Spirit of the Mountain

By: Shelley Davidow

The hot South-African summer is getting to Emily. She escapes to her Uncle Tim's farm where she meets green-eyed Joey and can relax. But Emily has an eating disorder, and each day she slips further away from those around her. Only Anna can help her--Anna the healer, the herbalist, who possesses the wisdom of ancient customs and traditions. Anna offers Emily knowledge of a world she could scarcely imagine. "Somewhere she could hear water dripping. There was a hollow echo after each splash and Emily followed the curve of the rock, walking on the small path that now appeared, worn and sandy beneath her feet. Anna kept some distance behind, Sipho's small cry resounding off the rocks. Suddenly Emily rounded a bend and found herself facing a huge overhang. The rock formed a massive, flat ceiling that seemed to retreat right into the mountainside.

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SteinerBooks

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1621511111

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Raising Stress-Proof Kids

Parenting Today's Children for Tomorrow's World

By: Shelley Davidow

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Raising Stress-Proof Kids

Parenting Today's Children for Tomorrow's World

By: Shelley Davidow

Drawing on cutting edge research from the Institute of HeartMath, California, as well as Shelley Davidow’s extensive experience in working with children and teens, Raising Stress-Proof Kids explores the powerful and potentially long-term effects of stress on our children. Most importantly, it offers simple but effective steps that parents can take to minimize the impact of stress at home and at school. These include tools from the author’s "Restorative Parenting Toolbox," empowering parents with the necessary skills to: resolve behavior issues deal with temper tantrums resolve sibling rivalries handle bullying cope with teenagers testing their independence navigate the challenges posed by the virtual world and provide firm, effective guidance when problems arise.

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Abrams

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1942672055

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A Handbook on Stuttering, Seventh Edition

By: Oliver Bloodstein,Nan Bernstein Ratner,Shelley B. Brundage

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A Handbook on Stuttering, Seventh Edition

By: Oliver Bloodstein,Nan Bernstein Ratner,Shelley B. Brundage

The revised edition of A Handbook on Stuttering continues its remarkable role as the authoritative, first-line resource for researchers and clinicians who work in the field of fluency and stuttering. Now in its seventh edition, this unique book goes beyond merely updating the text to include coverage of roughly 1,000 articles related to stuttering research and practice that have been published since 2008. This extended coverage integrates the more traditional body of research with evolving views of stuttering as a multi-factorial, dynamic disorder. Comprehensive, clear, and accurate, this text provides evidence-based, practical information critical to understanding stuttering. By thoroughly examining the intricacies of the disorder, A Handbook on Stuttering, Seventh Edition lays the foundation needed before considering assessment and treatment. New to the Seventh Edition: * A completely reorganized table of contents, including two new chapters. * The deletion of approximately 1,000 non-peer-reviewed references from the previous edition to assure discussion of the highest quality evidence on stuttering. * New content on the development of stuttering across the lifespan and assessment. * Given the Handbook’s historic role as a primary reference for allied professionals, a new chapter that addresses myths and misconceptions about stuttering * Expanded coverage on the role of temperament in childhood stuttering * Expanded coverage of brain-based research, genetics, and treatment findings. * A thoroughly updated chapter on conditions under which stuttering fluctuates * Brief tutorial overviews of critical concepts in genetics, neuroimaging, language analysis and other relevant constructs, to better enable reader appreciation of research findings. * A greater selection of conceptual illustrations of basic concepts and findings than in prior editions * Integrated cross-referencing to content across chapters

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Plural Publishing

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1635503183

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Shadow Sisters

By: Shelley Davidow

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Shadow Sisters

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Remington Education Pharmaceutics

By: Shelley Chambers Fox

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Remington Education Pharmaceutics

By: Shelley Chambers Fox

Remington Education: Pharmaceutics covers the basic principles of pharmaceutics, from dosage forms to drug delivery and targeting. It addresses all the principles covered in an introductory pharmacy course. As well as offering a summary of key information in pharmaceutics, it offers numerous case studies and MCQs for self assessment.

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Pharmaceutical Press

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0857110705

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9780857110701

The Wise Enchanter

A Journey Through the Alphabet

By: Shelley Davidow

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The Wise Enchanter

A Journey Through the Alphabet

By: Shelley Davidow

As his days grow short and the Cloud of Ignorance suddenly becomes more dense, the Wise Enchanter sends his daughter, Gadrun, to find four children who can defeat Urckl, the Master of Ignorance and Shadows, by rediscovering the alphabet and stories.

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SteinerBooks

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0880105623

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9780880105620

High Infidelity

By: Shelley Davidow

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High Infidelity

By: Shelley Davidow

At forty-four, loyal English wife Lara Winters discovers that Brock, her husband of 21 years, has been cheating on her. Devastated, desperate, she flees her home in London and heads for the farthest place she can imagine, from her old, blinkered life. She escapes to Byron Bay, Australia. On her first day in the laid-back town, Lara almost runs over the red-haired, slightly raddled Ruby in the car park. Relieved to be still alive, the warm-hearted Aussie leases Lara a small cottage on her semi-rural property where Lara's adventures of self-discovery begin...

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Aurora Softcover

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1787827151

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9781787827158

Placing Women's Studies

An Introduction to Women's Studies

By: Roger Adkins,Judith L. Raiskin,Shelley Kowalski,Kathleen Sullivan

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Placing Women's Studies

An Introduction to Women's Studies

By: Roger Adkins,Judith L. Raiskin,Shelley Kowalski,Kathleen Sullivan

This text, a comprehensive introduction to women's studies, marks the culmination of over twenty years of collaboration at the University of Oregon's Women's Studies Program. The text is suitable for any one quarter or one semester introductory course in women's studies. Each chapter begins with Preview Questions and Concepts and concludes with Reading and Review Questions.

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McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages

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0074312871

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9780074312872

Raising Stress-Proof Kids

By: Shelley Davidow

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Raising Stress-Proof Kids

By: Shelley Davidow

Chronic stress is robbing children of their childhoods with far-reaching negative physiological, emotional, and cognitive consequences. "Raising Stress-Proof Kids" shows parents that there s a lot we can do to mitigate the effects of our often too-stressful lives on our children s growing bodies and brains.

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Familius

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1942672780

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Freefalling

By: Shelley Davidow

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Freefalling

By: Shelley Davidow

Big Christopher, small Shelley. Like the tiny curly shell I'd found on the beach long ago. I could only see up the spiral to a certain place. I broke the shell with a stone, but then the spiral was gone. I saw that Christopher was big and small, and I was only small. How could I be like him? This is a story about two friends growing up in the Cape and experiencing a magical childhood - and the reality of a divided society. As time passes, their friendship deepens into love.

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Hippocrene Books

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0636016056

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Playing With Words

A Introduction to Creative Craft

By: Shelley Davidow,Paul Williams

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A Introduction to Creative Craft

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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The Wise Enchanter

A Journey through the Alphabet

By: Shelley Davidow,Krystyna Kurzyca

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The Wise Enchanter

A Journey through the Alphabet

By: Shelley Davidow,Krystyna Kurzyca

5 lectures, Stuttgart, April 8-11, 1924 (CW 308) These talks were given during an educational conference in 1924. They are the last public lectures given by Rudolf Steiner in Germany. According to one member of his audience, "Seventeen hundred people listened to him; the prolonged applause from this great crowd at the end of every lecture was deeply moving, while at the end of the last lecture the applause became an ovation that seemed as if it would never end." This kind of adoration was the result not only of who Steiner was as an individual but of what he accomplished as well. People had already begun to realize the potential and the promise for the future that Waldorf education held out to the children of the world. The Essentials of Education, together with its companion book, The Roots of Education, present a remarkable synthesis of what Waldorf education is and what it can become. The Waldorf "experiment" had matured for five years since 1919, when Steiner helped to establish the first Waldorf school. He had guided that school from its beginning, observing very closely all that happened. As a result, he was able to distill and present the essentials of Waldorf education with elegance as well as with the urgency he felt for the coming times. German source: Die Methodik des Lehrens und die Lebensbedingungen des Erziehens (GA 308).

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0880109971

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Writing the Radical Memoir

A Theoretical and Craft-based Approach

By: Paul Williams,Shelley Davidow

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A Theoretical and Craft-based Approach

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The Girl with the Violin

The unmissable, inspiring and gripping new novel of winter 2024, for readers of ALL THAT I AM and ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE

By: Shelley Davidow

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The Girl with the Violin

The unmissable, inspiring and gripping new novel of winter 2024, for readers of ALL THAT I AM and ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE

By: Shelley Davidow

A powerful love story in which one woman's quest for identity and healing also becomes the single way she can honour her grandparents, whose lives were irreversibly shattered by the Holocaust. Perfect for readers of Anna Funder and Megan Rogers. It's 1989 and for a young Jewish-Australian violinist, a scholarship to Berlin is the chance of a lifetime. Germany is on the verge of change as the wall is torn down, and Susanna is swept along by the tumultuous event. Under the careful guidance of Stefan Heinemeyer, her renowned violin teacher and the grandson of a Nazi, she begins a composition in memory of her grandmother, Mirla, who died in the Buchenwald concentration camp during the Second World War, and Susanna is inspired to retrace Mirla's final footsteps. It's a journey that reconnects Susanna to her heritage and propels her musical gift to extraordinary heights. Yet as a forbidden yearning for Stefan begins to unfurl, Susanna's life is forever changed, and the repercussions will echo through decades and across continents. In a world where history, society and inherited traumas threaten to silence Susanna and prevent her from ever becoming her true self, can she find the courage to reclaim her power as a woman, a musician, and a composer, and in so doing, lay her haunted past to rest? PRAISE: 'The Girl with the Violin has deep emotional truths running throughout, bringing together major historical events in modern history, the Holocaust and the Berlin Wall. The poetic musicality of the storytelling captures the emotion, which at times can be raw and gripping ... Highly recommended.' - Good Reading magazine 'Davidow's poetic writing style allows her to sensitively reflect upon these topics, and vividly explore themes of resilience, loss, love, grief and triumph... A must read for any historical fiction fans, The Girl with the Violin is a deeply moving novel.' - Better Reading

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HarperCollins Australia

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1867286424

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Fail Brilliantly

Exploding the Myths of Failure and Success

By: Shelley Davidow,Paul Williams

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Exploding the Myths of Failure and Success

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1945547618

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Red Shadow

By: Shelley Davidow

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Red Shadow

By: Shelley Davidow

In these stories young readers meet children whose lives are disrupted by war and disaster. They will discover how understanding and generosity can bring people together and build a foundation for peace. A girl and her mother return to their devastated village after civil war.

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MacMillan Education, Limited

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0333748638

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