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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

This morning i got the milk in and a bird had busted the top with its beak

. i made a brew and smiled thinking that always used to happen in the olden days, not so much now. birds must be lactose intolerant or something nowdays.

Anyhow, what little day to day things give you a blast from the past feeling?

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By *heel markMan
over a year ago

beside the sea

When i smell a coal fire, reminds me of lying infront of ours as a kid.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"When i smell a coal fire, reminds me of lying infront of ours as a kid."

Yes! Oh that reminds me of my grandma & grandads house, that smell and baking hot feeling

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By *ny1localMan
over a year ago

READING

I saw a mum walking with her child that had a harness on,..something you rarely see now.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Wood burning. Reminds me of my Dad making bonfires in our garden as a child but also when I lived in a house without electricity or gas and my beautiful wood burner was my winter lifeline.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I saw a mum walking with her child that had a harness on,..something you rarely see now. "

They were a great idea too

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Wood burning. Reminds me of my Dad making bonfires in our garden as a child but also when I lived in a house without electricity or gas and my beautiful wood burner was my winter lifeline."

Was the house a of the grid type home?

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By *yron69Man
over a year ago

Fareham

"This morning i got the milk in and a bird had busted the top with its beak

. i made a brew and smiled thinking that always used to happen in the olden days, not so much now. birds must be lactose intolerant or something nowdays.

Anyhow, what little day to day things give you a blast from the past feeling?

Boil the milk to prevent risk of Campylobacter

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When I get my plus 4s caught in my penny farthing.

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By *inger_SnapWoman
over a year ago

Hampshire/Dorset

"When i smell a coal fire, reminds me of lying infront of ours as a kid.

Yes! Oh that reminds me of my grandma & grandads house, that smell and baking hot feeling

Same! Going up to my nans at Christmas, smell of the coal fires burning.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Wood burning. Reminds me of my Dad making bonfires in our garden as a child but also when I lived in a house without electricity or gas and my beautiful wood burner was my winter lifeline.

Was the house a of the grid type home?

It was off grid before I'd even heard that phrase ! In the Spanish countryside far from any mains connections.

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By *pellboundCouple
over a year ago

Derby and North Wales

The smell of imperial leather soap

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"This morning i got the milk in and a bird had busted the top with its beak

. i made a brew and smiled thinking that always used to happen in the olden days, not so much now. birds must be lactose intolerant or something nowdays.

Anyhow, what little day to day things give you a blast from the past feeling?

just before Xmas I discovered I have a local milkman... ditched supermarket milk etc immediately and now get milk / orange / eggs delivered to the front door... miles better stuff, and takes me back to when I was a kid with putting the empties out the night before etc.

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By *ny1localMan
over a year ago

READING

The smell of paraffin, reminds me of the bloke coming around every week selling it from a big tanker, and all our clothes smelling of it every winter.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

People smoking indoors and ashtrays in every house

BMX's with croggy pegs on the back. I never see kids giving each other croggies these days.

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By *olden PoleMan
over a year ago

London

There’s a guy down the road who has a 3.0l Capri. He starts it up once in a while and walking past I can smell the smell of years ago carb engine.

Can’t explain it but it just takes me back.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"This morning i got the milk in and a bird had busted the top with its beak

. i made a brew and smiled thinking that always used to happen in the olden days, not so much now. birds must be lactose intolerant or something nowdays.

Anyhow, what little day to day things give you a blast from the past feeling?

Isnt it just. The milk is amazing, its not been 'recycled' like supermarket milk

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By *pellboundCouple
over a year ago

Derby and North Wales

I think the health and safety gestapo have banned in on the latest risk assessment

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By *aomilatteCouple
over a year ago

Midlands

Alan Carrs game show on a Saturday night. They're games from the the 1980s when we only had 3 (then 4) channels.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"People smoking indoors and ashtrays in every house

BMX's with croggy pegs on the back. I never see kids giving each other croggies these days."

Ah, I've never smoked but the smell still reminds me of my Grandad who I loved very much.

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By *ark ph0enixWoman
over a year ago

Teesside

"When i smell a coal fire, reminds me of lying infront of ours as a kid."

Makes me smile and remember making jam on toast on our coal fire as a kid with a wicked big toasting fork. Then laying on my tummy munching and reading in front of flames

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By *aomilatteCouple
over a year ago

Midlands

"People smoking indoors and ashtrays in every house

BMX's with croggy pegs on the back. I never see kids giving each other croggies these days.

Ah, I've never smoked but the smell still reminds me of my Grandad who I loved very much."

Coming back from the Pub stinking of smoke even though you don't smoke. Youngsters will never have to do that!

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Alan Carrs game show on a Saturday night. They're games from the the 1980s when we only had 3 (then 4) channels."

Oh i love it, alan carr is brilliant too

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"People smoking indoors and ashtrays in every house

BMX's with croggy pegs on the back. I never see kids giving each other croggies these days."

I think bmx have been replaced with joysticks!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

that heat smell from a twin tub washing machine

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Another one, ive been restoring my childhood car, my dads ford sierra rs, its 90% done and i sit in the back of it in the garage it still smells the same, sounds the same reminds me of being a child it never fails to cheer me up

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By *emorefridaCouple
over a year ago

La la land

The smell of tobacco smoked in a pipe.

The smell of a Rayburn on full whack. And Welsh cakes and scotch pancakes cooked on the stone on it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Watching Countdown. I remember watching it after school, followed by Deal or No Deal and an episode of The Simpsons on channel 4

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The smell of tobacco smoked in a pipe.

The smell of a Rayburn on full whack. And Welsh cakes and scotch pancakes cooked on the stone on it

when I proper got into baking a few months ago I bought a baking stone... now I'd hate to brag, but I reckon my welsh cakes could be award winning now

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By *olden PoleMan
over a year ago

London

Two stroke engines transport me back to Brands Hatch watching the open class 250’s or weekends away racing moto cross.....ah think I’m going to cry.

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By *ark ph0enixWoman
over a year ago

Teesside

"that heat smell from a twin tub washing machine"

Hot rubber? Why doesn't that surprise me

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"The smell of tobacco smoked in a pipe.

The smell of a Rayburn on full whack. And Welsh cakes and scotch pancakes cooked on the stone on it

when I proper got into baking a few months ago I bought a baking stone... now I'd hate to brag, but I reckon my welsh cakes could be award winning now

Ill swing by for one mark

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By *ny1localMan
over a year ago

READING

I just smelled a lemon air freshener, it was exactly the same smell you got when you went into the loo on a train in the days when they had a wee bar bar of soap in them.

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By *emorefridaCouple
over a year ago

La la land

"The smell of tobacco smoked in a pipe.

The smell of a Rayburn on full whack. And Welsh cakes and scotch pancakes cooked on the stone on it

when I proper got into baking a few months ago I bought a baking stone... now I'd hate to brag, but I reckon my welsh cakes could be award winning now

Can't beat cooked on a stone, but nobody will beat my mamgu's ones. They were amazing

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By *emorefridaCouple
over a year ago

La la land

"that heat smell from a twin tub washing machine"

God transfering sheets from the washing side to the spin side was a workout in itself

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By *luebellRacerCouple
over a year ago

Shropshire

Seeing old shears or push mowers, alongside metal files. My dad was super lawn proud and did the lines the lot!

Also, allotments, our dear old neighbour grew rhubarb, potato, onions, beans, strawberries. He was so kind and turned a blind eye to me and my sisters as kids stealing pea pods to snack on!

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By *rder66Man
over a year ago

Tatooine

"Watching Countdown. I remember watching it after school, followed by Deal or No Deal and an episode of The Simpsons on channel 4

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Watching channel for start on the first ever broadcast.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Mums Grattan catalogue.

Women’s underwear section.

So many memories.

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By *sylockeWoman
over a year ago

East Anglia

Running after an ice cream van. That sounds dodge but it is not meant to be!

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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago

Dubai & Nottingham

"When i smell a coal fire, reminds me of lying infront of ours as a kid.

Yes! Oh that reminds me of my grandma & grandads house, that smell and baking hot feeling

Same! Going up to my nans at Christmas, smell of the coal fires burning."

Smells are such a powerful link to the past. There’s a certain type of plant in summer, no idea what it is , but every time i smell it I’m instantly transported to Darwin in 1995 getting off a plane in the middle of the night to a red hot wind blowing on my face , and that smell

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

Creosoted fences and the smell from PVC paddling pools happy memories.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Running after an ice cream van. That sounds dodge but it is not meant to be! "

was anyone else told that when the ice cream van played its song it meant they had run out of ice creams?

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By *ed VoluptaWoman
over a year ago

Wirral.

"Running after an ice cream van. That sounds dodge but it is not meant to be!

was anyone else told that when the ice cream van played its song it meant they had run out of ice creams?

OMG!! I was! And I believed it, too

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By *eliWoman
over a year ago

Wild garlic. My grandma has a beautiful house with a little wood with lots of wild garlic growing in it. Whenever I smell it I think of happy summers spent there.

And those brightly coloured gel pens remind me of my angst ridden emo diaries of my youth.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Running after an ice cream van. That sounds dodge but it is not meant to be!

was anyone else told that when the ice cream van played its song it meant they had run out of ice creams?

OMG!! I was! And I believed it, too

always closely followed by 'but we have got choc ices in the freezer'

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By *ed VoluptaWoman
over a year ago

Wirral.

"Running after an ice cream van. That sounds dodge but it is not meant to be!

was anyone else told that when the ice cream van played its song it meant they had run out of ice creams?

OMG!! I was! And I believed it, too

always closely followed by 'but we have got choc ices in the freezer'

Those awful ones from KwikSave with the plastic tasting chocolate on them

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Running after an ice cream van. That sounds dodge but it is not meant to be!

was anyone else told that when the ice cream van played its song it meant they had run out of ice creams?

OMG!! I was! And I believed it, too

always closely followed by 'but we have got choc ices in the freezer'

Those awful ones from KwikSave with the plastic tasting chocolate on them

confession time for me... I quite like cheap chocolate

don't get me wrong - I like nice chocolate, and that's what I normally eat (way too often)... but absolutely love any excuse to eat Xmas tree chocolates etc too.

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By *ed VoluptaWoman
over a year ago

Wirral.

"Running after an ice cream van. That sounds dodge but it is not meant to be!

was anyone else told that when the ice cream van played its song it meant they had run out of ice creams?

OMG!! I was! And I believed it, too

always closely followed by 'but we have got choc ices in the freezer'

Those awful ones from KwikSave with the plastic tasting chocolate on them

confession time for me... I quite like cheap chocolate

don't get me wrong - I like nice chocolate, and that's what I normally eat (way too often)... but absolutely love any excuse to eat Xmas tree chocolates etc too."

Noooooo! I've quite a sophisticated palate for choccie now, after all the cheap shite I had as a kid!

(Though not so sophisticated that I'll eat very dark choc....)

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By *ensuallover1000Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

I had some Ready Brek the other day and was immediately engulfed by a glowing amber aura.

It were fooking awesome it were

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By *ed VoluptaWoman
over a year ago

Wirral.

"I had some Ready Brek the other day and was immediately engulfed by a glowing amber aura.

It were fooking awesome it were

Never did like it. But was a tad disappointed when my brother had it for the 1st time & didn't glow.

I learnt then & there that adverts lie!

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By *ob Carpe DiemMan
over a year ago

Torquay

"Running after an ice cream van. That sounds dodge but it is not meant to be! "

Mum sent me out with the money to buy an ice cream once when the van pulled up outside, there was a queue of kids there and Mr Whippy serving them, needless to say it was my off duty fireman dad with another part time job, great fun when you are five years old though

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By *ensuallover1000Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

"I had some Ready Brek the other day and was immediately engulfed by a glowing amber aura.

It were fooking awesome it were

Never did like it. But was a tad disappointed when my brother had it for the 1st time & didn't glow.

I learnt then & there that adverts lie!

I learnt the same harsh lesson after watching the old Milk Tray adverts.....

I decided to mimic them by stealthily creeping into a lady’s apartment to place the box down but was promptly arrested for breaking and entering and she took out a restraining order against me

To add insult to injury, it turned out the lady in question was lactose intolerant to boot

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By *ollycouple71Couple
over a year ago

manchester

Using a outside toilet in you're back yard it was freezing. Xx

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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago

East London

I smelled something yesterday that reminded me of childhood holidays to Leysdown.

I can't remember what it was though.

It's going to drive me mad trying to remember

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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago

East London

"Creosoted fences and the smell from PVC paddling pools happy memories."

Creosote reminds me of my dad standing in the back garden, shirt off, suit trousers on, creosoting the fence on a hot day.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Untangling your TDK C90 from your ghetto blaster so you could put a new one in to record the top 40

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By *ensuallover1000Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

What about the glorious (BIG!) old VCR’s with the massive push down buttons.

Some even had remote controls featuring about four buttons. Simpler times

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

White dog poo

Used to be everywhere

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"What about the glorious (BIG!) old VCR’s with the massive push down buttons.

Some even had remote controls featuring about four buttons. Simpler times

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remote control on a 2 ft wire

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By *ensuallover1000Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

"White dog poo

Used to be everywhere

It was indeed glorious (and highly beneficial as you could see it in the dark)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Stale beer and smoke.

Seems weird, but I was brought up in pubs, and the smell of drip trays and fags (a distinct combination) will send me back to my childhood

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By *hatYorkLadMan
over a year ago

York

The smell of coal fires, growing up in a rural village in the 80's everyone had one and it reminds me of playing out with my mates on a night in winter where you could see and smell all the smoke in the air.

I certainly don't miss it being at home when the wind would occasionally blow the smoke back down the chimney and it would fill the living room though!!

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

"White dog poo

Used to be everywhere

It was indeed glorious (and highly beneficial as you could see it in the dark)

That's what Sam Tyler said in Life on Mars.

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By *partharmonyCouple
over a year ago

Ruislip

"This morning i got the milk in and a bird had busted the top with its beak

. i made a brew and smiled thinking that always used to happen in the olden days, not so much now. birds must be lactose intolerant or something nowdays.

Anyhow, what little day to day things give you a blast from the past feeling?

Do you still have a milkman? (or milkperson)

I quite like putting a record on and hearing that gentle crackle before the music starts. It reminds me of my grandpa. I inherited his record player and hundreds of classical albums. Luke

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By *luebellRacerCouple
over a year ago

Shropshire

"This morning i got the milk in and a bird had busted the top with its beak

. i made a brew and smiled thinking that always used to happen in the olden days, not so much now. birds must be lactose intolerant or something nowdays.

Anyhow, what little day to day things give you a blast from the past feeling?

Do you still have a milkman? (or milkperson)

I quite like putting a record on and hearing that gentle crackle before the music starts. It reminds me of my grandpa. I inherited his record player and hundreds of classical albums. Luke "

Yeah! We have a milkman! Brings us bread, eggs and OJ too! (And extra treats at xmas! Kids get elf biscuits!)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The smell of tobacco smoked in a pipe.

The smell of a Rayburn on full whack. And Welsh cakes and scotch pancakes cooked on the stone on it

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oh yes this takes me back

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By *wlmanMan
over a year ago

Rugby

"The smell of tobacco smoked in a pipe.

The smell of a Rayburn on full whack. And Welsh cakes and scotch pancakes cooked on the stone on it

oh yes this takes me back"

Absolutely. My Uncle smoked cigars that had been soaked in whiskey or port, that takes me back.

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By *rank speakerMan
over a year ago

Worcester

I hate to say this but most of the posts here are from what I consider puppies. You wouldn't believe the changes my age group have seen!

I go back to two t.v. channels!)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I hate to say this but most of the posts here are from what I consider puppies. You wouldn't believe the changes my age group have seen!

I go back to two t.v. channels!)"

Just because I am young doesn't mean I havn't seen alot of change.

Don't be that guy

The change from cassette tapes to streaming music

Video tapes to streaming apps

The beginning of household internet

Concords

The smoking ban in pubs

Gay marriage made legal

I could go on and on and on and that is just my small 31 years

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I hate to say this but most of the posts here are from what I consider puppies. You wouldn't believe the changes my age group have seen!

I go back to two t.v. channels!)

Just because I am young doesn't mean I havn't seen alot of change.

Don't be that guy

The change from cassette tapes to streaming music

Video tapes to streaming apps

The beginning of household internet

Concords

The smoking ban in pubs

Gay marriage made legal

I could go on and on and on and that is just my small 31 years "
.. Well said.. Change is certainly not age dependent.. The world changes so fast... That damn covid is proof of that.

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