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    I Once Cried To Be Stardust In Your Eyes

    I once cried to be stardust in your eyes,
    lighting your tender heart with heavenly glow
    as treasure to you, fallen from bright skies
    for blessed kindness, sweet love you would sow;
    yet such gift was simply never to be
    my passionate embrace you never felt
    I sorrowed alone in my empty sea
    while upon gold altar of fame you knelt.

    Tis this great burden I must stalwart bear
    for in my fear I dared not pursue
    a goddess of beauty and raven hair,
    more I feared, farther away you flew.

    I once cried to be stardust in your eyes.
    As treasure to you, fallen from bright skies.

    Robert J. Lindley, 6-23-2020
    Sonnet, ( The Many Sorrowing Paths That Fate Spins )


    Note: 6/23/2020
    This was originally written for a contest.
    I never entered it because it became a sonnet
    instead of the seven verse as required
    by the contest stipulation.
    I simply could not bear to shorten it..


    Copyright © Robert Lindley | Year Posted 2020
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    Moonlit Rays Bounce On Jasmine Scented Hair

    She first came to me in the setting sun
    her long searching soul wondrously agape
    that June night dancing having youthful fun
    in her arms, I begged for no escape.

    Moonlit rays bounce on jasmine scented hair
    as earth, time itself stood silently still
    none matched or could her bluest eyes compare
    for beauty's truth and grace of that night's thrill.

    Days glory resplendent, hours were treasure
    morns set each soft and deep romantic kiss
    her heavenly touch was beyond measure
    we sought heart's every moment not to miss.

    She coming to me with the setting sun
    I would again race to in a mad run.

    Robert J. Lindley, Aug 3rd, 1979
    edited and presented 6-27-2020
    Sonnet, ( Romantic fervor and sensual delights )
    ( Where In Youth A Great Treasure Was Once Found )

    Note:
    From a memory thus was born
    feast of love and youthful kissing
    she from my arms fatefully torn
    heart shall forever be missing....


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    Eternity Exists That We May Love

    I hide not our love, its fathomless deep,
    rising fevers from heart that never sleeps.
    I love you, as morn's dew kisses the rose
    a blessing and gem that forever grows.

    I love you dear and your enduring grace,
    that radiant smile on your lovely face.
    Your voice, your soft, tender kisses given
    for such love, all my life I have striven.

    Your beauty, this willing heart truly slays
    and in our hearts, romance so gaily plays.
    Never shall world's dark our love interfere
    for truth is, our love is always so dear.

    Eternity exists that we may love.
    I the eager hands, you the silken gloves.

    Robert J. Lindley, 7-08-2020
    Romanticism (sonnet),
    ( When Greatest Treasure Has Been Found )

    Note:
    This sonnet was composed in 1973,
    I was then only 19 years old.
    recorded it in my private journal.
    Later edited it again and recorded it
    in another current journal in 1984.
    I have edited to post it here today
    with only very minor changes to the
    last two verses. (7/08/2020)


    Copyright © Robert Lindley | Year Posted 2020

    edit:
    At age 19 I thought I had found the truest love,
    and I had on my part. Sadly my beautiful wife
    loved another- that love was for partying and drugs.
    That weakness (that drug addiction) eventually destroyed
    everything. Sad but true..
    Youth and learning the hard way goes together.
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    Aphrodite, In Sweet Dreams Of Bliss I Cry Out To You


    Aphrodite
    Greek mythology
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    Aphrodite, ancient Greek goddess of sexual love and beauty, identified with Venus by the Romans. The Greek word aphros means “foam,” and Hesiod relates in his Theogony that Aphrodite was born from the white foam produced by the severed genitals of Uranus (Heaven), after his son Cronus threw them into the sea. Aphrodite was, in fact, widely worshipped as a goddess of the sea and of seafaring; she was also honoured as a goddess of war, especially at Sparta, Thebes, Cyprus, and other places. However, she was known primarily as a goddess of love and fertility and even occasionally presided over marriage. Although prostitutes considered Aphrodite their patron, her public cult was generally solemn and even austere.

    Venus de Milo
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    Some scholars believe Aphrodite’s worship came to Greece from the East; many of her attributes recall the ancient Middle Eastern goddesses Ishtar and Astarte. Although Homer called her “Cyprian” after the island chiefly famed for her worship, she was already Hellenized by the time of Homer, and, according to Homer, she was the daughter of Zeus and Dione, his consort at Dodona. In Book VIII of the Odyssey, Aphrodite was mismatched with Hephaestus, the lame smith god, and she consequently spent her time philandering with the handsome god of war, Ares (by whom she became the mother of Harmonia, the warrior twins Phobos and Deimos, and Eros, the god of love).

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    Of Aphrodite’s mortal lovers, the most important were the Trojan shepherd Anchises, by whom she became the mother of Aeneas, and the handsome youth Adonis (in origin a Semitic nature deity and the consort of Ishtar-Astarte), who was killed by a boar while hunting and was lamented by women at the festival of Adonia. The cult of Adonis had underworld features, and Aphrodite was also connected with the dead at Delphi.

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    Aphrodite’s main centres of worship were at Paphos and Amathus on Cyprus and on the island of Cythera, a Minoan colony, where in prehistoric times her cult probably originated. On the Greek mainland, Corinth was the chief centre of her worship. Her close association with Eros, the Graces (Charites), and the Horae (Seasons) emphasized her role as a promoter of fertility. She was honoured by the Roman poet Lucretius as Genetrix, the creative element in the world. Her epithets Urania (Heavenly Dweller) and Pandemos (Of All the People) were ironically taken by the philosopher Plato (in the Symposium) to refer to intellectual and common love; rather, the title Urania was honorific and applied to certain Asian deities, while Pandemos referred to her standing within the city-state. Among her symbols were the dove, pomegranate, swan, and myrtle.

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    Venus Genetrix
    Venus Genetrix (or Aphrodite Genetrix), Roman marble copy of a Classical Greek statue by Callimachus, c. 475 BCE; in the collection of the Louvre, Paris.
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    Representations of Aphrodite in early Greek art are fully dressed and without distinguishing features that differentiate her from other goddesses. She first attained individuality at the hands of the great 5th-century-BCE Greek sculptors. Perhaps the most famous of all statues of Aphrodite was carved by Praxiteles for the Cnidians. The first full-scale female nude, it later became the model for such Hellenistic masterpieces as the Venus de Milo (2nd century BCE).


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    Aphrodite
    Greek mythology
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    Aphrodite, ancient Greek goddess of sexual love and beauty, identified with Venus by the Romans. The Greek word aphros means “foam,” and Hesiod relates in his Theogony that Aphrodite was born from the white foam produced by the severed genitals of Uranus (Heaven), after his son Cronus threw them into the sea. Aphrodite was, in fact, widely worshipped as a goddess of the sea and of seafaring; she was also honoured as a goddess of war, especially at Sparta, Thebes, Cyprus, and other places. However, she was known primarily as a goddess of love and fertility and even occasionally presided over marriage. Although prostitutes considered Aphrodite their patron, her public cult was generally solemn and even austere.

    Venus de Milo
    Venus de Milo
    Aphrodite, known as Venus de Milo, marble sculpture, 2nd century BCE; in the Louvre, Paris.
    © Bizoon/Dreamstime.com
    mythology. Greek. Hermes. (Roman Mercury)
    BRITANNICA QUIZ
    A Study of Greek and Roman Mythology
    What is the name of the Roman goddess of grain?
    Some scholars believe Aphrodite’s worship came to Greece from the East; many of her attributes recall the ancient Middle Eastern goddesses Ishtar and Astarte. Although Homer called her “Cyprian” after the island chiefly famed for her worship, she was already Hellenized by the time of Homer, and, according to Homer, she was the daughter of Zeus and Dione, his consort at Dodona. In Book VIII of the Odyssey, Aphrodite was mismatched with Hephaestus, the lame smith god, and she consequently spent her time philandering with the handsome god of war, Ares (by whom she became the mother of Harmonia, the warrior twins Phobos and Deimos, and Eros, the god of love).

    Aphrodite
    Aphrodite
    Sculpture of Aphrodite.
    AdstockRF
    Of Aphrodite’s mortal lovers, the most important were the Trojan shepherd Anchises, by whom she became the mother of Aeneas, and the handsome youth Adonis (in origin a Semitic nature deity and the consort of Ishtar-Astarte), who was killed by a boar while hunting and was lamented by women at the festival of Adonia. The cult of Adonis had underworld features, and Aphrodite was also connected with the dead at Delphi.

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    Aphrodite’s main centres of worship were at Paphos and Amathus on Cyprus and on the island of Cythera, a Minoan colony, where in prehistoric times her cult probably originated. On the Greek mainland, Corinth was the chief centre of her worship. Her close association with Eros, the Graces (Charites), and the Horae (Seasons) emphasized her role as a promoter of fertility. She was honoured by the Roman poet Lucretius as Genetrix, the creative element in the world. Her epithets Urania (Heavenly Dweller) and Pandemos (Of All the People) were ironically taken by the philosopher Plato (in the Symposium) to refer to intellectual and common love; rather, the title Urania was honorific and applied to certain Asian deities, while Pandemos referred to her standing within the city-state. Among her symbols were the dove, pomegranate, swan, and myrtle.

    Venus Genetrix
    Venus Genetrix
    Venus Genetrix (or Aphrodite Genetrix), Roman marble copy of a Classical Greek statue by Callimachus, c. 475 BCE; in the collection of the Louvre, Paris.
    G. Dagli Orti—De Agostini Editore/age fotostock
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    Representations of Aphrodite in early Greek art are fully dressed and without distinguishing features that differentiate her from other goddesses. She first attained individuality at the hands of the great 5th-century-BCE Greek sculptors. Perhaps the most famous of all statues of Aphrodite was carved by Praxiteles for the Cnidians. The first full-scale female nude, it later became the model for such Hellenistic masterpieces as the Venus de Milo (2nd century BCE).

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    Aphrodite
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    Alternative Titles: Pandemos, Urania
    Aphrodite, ancient Greek goddess of sexual love and beauty, identified with Venus by the Romans. The Greek word aphros means “foam,” and Hesiod relates in his Theogony that Aphrodite was born from the white foam produced by the severed genitals of Uranus (Heaven), after his son Cronus threw them into the sea. Aphrodite was, in fact, widely worshipped as a goddess of the sea and of seafaring; she was also honoured as a goddess of war, especially at Sparta, Thebes, Cyprus, and other places. However, she was known primarily as a goddess of love and fertility and even occasionally presided over marriage. Although prostitutes considered Aphrodite their patron, her public cult was generally solemn and even austere.


    Aphrodite, In Sweet Dreams Of Bliss I Cry Out To You, Sonnet Doubles

    Aphrodite, princess of my romantic dreams
    burning flames to my heart's inner desires
    your beauty gifted, a poetic soul redeems
    goddess of love, true love that never tires.

    Underneath moon's golden rays and heavenly nights
    we meet, in a dreamland made just for two
    your vision bringing forth love's most sensual light
    passionate touch, Cupid's arrows shot true.

    Aphrodite, no heart can your deep love deny
    or satisfaction from your every kiss
    you are soft twinkle of stars in radiant sky
    epitome of love, life, joyous bliss.

    Within this heaving breast, is your heart to now hold.
    Your passionate embrace, I am forever sold.

    Robert J. Lindley, 7-11-2020
    Sonnet, ( Forever Lost In The Sweet Depths Of A True Love )


    Copyright © Robert Lindley | Year Posted 2020
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Remember All That Glitters Is Not Gold

    Within a silken tapestry of dreams
    are golden orbs of glittering treasures
    life is too often not what it may seem
    if we in haste seek only our pleasures.
    Far better to view Nature, its beauty
    as if a mere child just learning to walk
    knowing life is a gift not a duty
    we oft may learn more without idle talk.

    Cease snatching up offerings this world casts
    those tempting traps that look to be so free
    Ulysses was pleading, bound to ship's mast
    to jump overboard into raging seas.

    Remember all that glitters is not gold.
    Bountiful are worldly lies we are told.

    Robert J. Lindley, 7-11-2020
    Sonnet, ( If it looks to good to be true, almost always it isn't)


    Copyright © Robert Lindley | Year Posted 2020
    I was reminded yesterday of a collaboration poem I did with
    a poet friend several years back. The subject was Aphrodite.
    This morn I decided to write another poem about that
    mythical goddess. I wrote the poem as a longer piece-then
    decided to shorten it to be a sonnet.
    Last edited by Tyr-Ziu Saxnot; 07-11-2020 at 11:52 AM.
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    In Silent Hours, When Hope May Truly Touch

    In that Silent hour, reflecting on life
    Its bitter and sour, constant daily strife
    That slow aching darkness of midnight black
    Woes of destiny that throws us off track
    Cast into swollen streams surging along
    Weeping melody from life's sadder songs,
    A stab, a cut against the growing pain
    Loss, where we say never, never again!

    In Silent hours, pondering sweeter gifts
    Of Love, Friendship, Dawn's Glow that so uplifts
    Dare we this thought thus gratefully embrace
    We are all brothers, in this human race.

    In Silent hours, when Hope may truly touch
    Faith joins Love's power, when Life seems too much!

    Sonnet, 6/23/2020

    Reflection in Silence Poetry Contest
    Sponsored by: Silent One



    Copyright © Robert Lindley | Year Posted 2020
    This was awarded second place in the contest.
    I am sorry that I most often do not remember to come back and list the placements my poem get in contests.
    I just get far too busy with new poems and my other writings.
    I very likely have about 40 or more poems with first place awarded that I have not came back to list here.--Tyr
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    Discovery Of What Sadness Lies Just Behind The Curtain

    Like a pale vapor, time flieth away
    whose invisible hands each season make
    some heavenly glory, others dark gray,
    such blindness, causing ones love to forsake.

    Like a raging wind, life oft sorrows bring
    with harsh nights, as God fails to intervene
    clock slow sounding, as its sad tick-tocks sing,
    of love's deep hurts, where tragedy convenes.

    Like a weary road, where dusty clouds rise
    to embrace epic loss and sweet sorrows
    none so tragic as traps our minds devise,
    in darkest of hours and hopeless tomorrows.

    O'lord, will better days ever again return.
    As we pray for sweet gifts, we did nothing to earn.

    Robert J. Lindley, 7-21-2020
    Sonnet, ( Dark And Tragic, Are The Great Woes Of Man )

    Note:
    Composed today as I have this morn learned of another
    dear and lifelong friend's sad passing. RJL



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    Will She Shed Tears On My Headstone

    When my ghost and I fade away
    into earth's breast that final day
    shall I rest in paradise hills
    or as a fish among the rills
    lay beneath blue of foaming seas
    leaving these olden bones in me?

    When this earthen spirit takes flight
    flying from worry and world's blight
    can looking back it then realize
    life and love were the greatest prize
    or would sorrows its sight then blind
    love's sweet remnants from mortal mind.

    When body is laid underground
    music plays, yet heard is no sound
    could her image and love give aid
    to heal the wounds regrets have made?

    When life flees and I rest alone.
    Will she shed tears on my headstone?

    Robert J. Lindley, 8-10-2020
    Sonnet, ( Pondering Thoughts Born Before Death Arrives )


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    Wouldst I Become, Last Gasp Of Dying Star

    Wouldst I become, last gasp of dying star
    brighter glow in Heaven's majestic sky
    existing as hope's promise from afar
    gifting inspiration before I die.

    Wouldst I become, pure as sweet love affirms
    a soft flame, warmth to sooth a hurting soul
    true warrior to defeat world's evil terms
    an illumination to sacred scroll.

    Wouldst I become, saving grace to my love
    waiting shelter in times of sad despair
    golden rays of tenderness from above
    alleviating woes too hard to bear.

    Wouldst I become, light to life's dark defeat.
    Lover, your destiny sets you to meet.

    R.J. Lindley, 4-25- 1979
    Sonnet, ( From Starlit Sky, A Magnificent Dream Was Born )


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    Within Hope And Revelation, Conversation With Dawn's Promise, Double Sonnets
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    Robert J. Lindley, 8/30/2020
    Double sonnets

    Syllables Per Line:
    0 10 10 10 10 10 10
    0 10 10 10 10 10 10
    0 10 10

    0 10 10 10 10 10 10
    0 10 10 10 10 10 10
    0 10 10
    Total # Syllables:280
    Total # Words:220
    ( Each sonnet is exactly 140 syllables, 110 words )
    Setting the total at 280+220= 500
    In February of 1980 ( 2-80 ), I had finished exactly 500 poems
    recorded in journals since my start of logging my
    poems in since 1974. That was with my first six years of writing....
    In February of this year (2-20), I started again composing poems
    in a private journal. Poems not to be seen by anybody until after
    my passing. I decided this morn at 3 am to compose these two sonnets,
    in a positive and uplifting shift now to steer myself into seeing
    life for what it is-- "a truly precious gift".
    And hope with my doing so, that my recent blues shall be diminished
    and even eventually be cast completely away. If so, this will be a fruitful
    8 hours spent composing... And a joy celebrated.. God bless....
    Such explains the numbers I set to reach when I started this task.
    I have always loved Math, History, Nature, Poetry and Reading.-RJL.

    Within Hope And Revelation, Conversation With Dawn's Promise,
    Double Sonnets


    I. - (The Questioning, Man's Sad Blindness)

    Dawn have you come again bearing sweet gifts
    to dance anew as this earth's sunlight shifts,
    welcome friend, ever glowing boldly bright
    dear relief from former darkness of night,
    as morning's first call, to wake- be alive
    ponder this spinning realm, seeking to strive.

    Dawn do you soft cry as you fade away
    bemoan loss of joy brought by break of day,
    dread the arrival of sun-cast high noon
    envy night's beauty with its golden moon,
    alas, 'tis your heart bursting all the more
    for worship of you, as sad souls implore?

    Dawn will you, this blessed day, watch me pray.
    Begging God's love in this my life, please stay?

    ~~~

    II. - (The Revelations And Light Shone)

    I am dawn's truth, to you I now reply
    from me you seek more, may I ask you why,
    why my resplendent glowing, sweetest gifts
    are not enough to your sad soul uplift,
    dare I change, in error my dance alter
    because within you sorrows now falter?

    I dawn proclaim, light's power is my fame
    you must now see, living is not a game,
    in brilliant new rays, jewels are thus cast
    inspiration- seek love's touch, joy that lasts,
    revelation, learn to love life anew
    allow brighter glows take away your blues.

    I dawn to you, this solemn vow now make.
    Gifting you gems, as my light - darkness breaks!

    Robert J. Lindley, 8/30/2020
    Double sonnets- ( Hoping To Inspire Others When Life beats Them Down)



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    Here In The Now, Amidst Fleeing Of Twilight

    Here in the now, amidst the pale twilight
    that fleeting moment, - dying of the night
    that most precious air, - dying of the light
    cometh, morn's breath, - its beautiful new sight.

    Here in the now, within mind's newest eye
    that pondering thought, - let my spirit fly
    that exquisite joy, - sweetest tears I cry
    cometh, renewed hope, - truth I'll not deny.

    Here in the now, as that whisper so thrills
    that divine promise, - love needing no pills
    that merciful vow, - relief from world's ills
    cometh, beautiful truth, - love over-spills.

    Here in the now, amidst fleeing of twilight
    That stirring moment, - waking God's divine might.

    Robert J. Lindley, 9-01-2020
    Sonnet, ( A dream, A promise, A sweet renewing of faith )

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    Total # Syllables:142
    Total # Words:112

    Note (1.):
    Poem born from a dream last night
    awakening to a day so bright
    as twilight's new rays therein gift,
    sweet poetic words to uplift,
    heart and soul into joyous praise
    relief was born from dark malaise.

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    A new month, a vow to have a new and positive new start.
    To attempt to compose more positive and uplifting verse.
    To deny the dark clouds that attempts to overcome
    To walk in the light and deny the dark that seeks to destroy....



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    You've been doing some nice and contemplative writing lately, Robert. Really nice.
    Ecclesiastes 10:2 - A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but a foolish man's heart directs him to the left.
    Wise men don't need advice, and fools won't take it - Ben Franklin
    "It's not how you start, it's how you finish."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Russ View Post
    You've been doing some nice and contemplative writing lately, Robert. Really nice.
    Thank you my friend. Writing keeps my mind off of my worries and is a many decades old habit of mine.
    Lately it has been a true godsend and an even more important exercise to me to vigilantly be engaged in..
    God bless..-Tyr
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    The new poem titled, "Here In The Now, Amidst Fleeing Of Twilight", I wrote it just yesterday,
    this morning it was awarded Poem Of The Day at my home poetry site.
    Seems it was a huge hit and connected with the poets there very well.
    I was very shocked to find that it scored that fast, and that well... -Tyr
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tyr-Ziu Saxnot View Post
    The new poem titled, "Here In The Now, Amidst Fleeing Of Twilight", I wrote it just yesterday,
    this morning it was awarded Poem Of The Day at my home poetry site.
    Seems it was a huge hit and connected with the poets there very well.
    I was very shocked to find that it scored that fast, and that well... -Tyr

    Nice, Robert!
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    Beyond The Horizon, Dwelling In Sunset's Red

    Beyond the horizon, dwelling in sunset's red
    all is right - no compromising, silk sheets, soft bed
    Cool streams leading to good, world exists with no stains
    love wins just as it should, nights holding no dark pains.

    Beyond the horizon, hell's wrath can not invade
    new morn's rising, magnificent life hope has made
    Days spent in wonder, sworn to promises of more
    ships sailing on seas of splendor, from shore to shore.

    Paradise there seeing, Nature's hidden palace
    glory in being, free of man's dark and malice
    Earth's sweet pleasures, love over-filled beyond measure
    time spent in leisure, where true love is the treasure.

    Red skyline's glow, looms castles of eternity.
    Wrapped in love's, sincerest hope and serenity.

    R.J. Lindley
    July 9th, 1971
    Sonnet

    Note- Written long ago-centuries it now seems..


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