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Gifted

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Gifted	comment	Gifted is a 2017 American drama-comedy directed by Marc Webb (director of (500) Days of Summer and The Amazing Spider-Man Series), starring Chris Evans, Mckenna Grace, Lindsay Duncan, Jenny Slate, and Octavia Spencer.Following the suicide of his genius sister, Frank Adler (Evans) takes on the guardianship of his niece Mary (Grace). Frank attempts to raise Mary to be as normal a kid as possible, but she has clearly inherited her mother's intellectual abilities, especially in the field of mathematics. When Mary starts attending school at the age of seven, it is clear to her teacher Bonnie (Slate) that she is far beyond the other children in her class or even her own abilities as a teacher. A chain of events is set in place that draws Mary's grandmother Evelyn (Duncan) back into her and Frank's lives after seven years, in a battle over Mary's future.Not to be confused with Gifted, The Gifted (2014), or The Gifted (2017).
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Gifted / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Gifted / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: It's not obvious, but Frank was probably going through one for the entire movie as a result of his guilt over his sister's death and desire to rebel against everything that his mother stood for. Symptoms: renouncing his academic roots, giving up his presumably well-paid job as an associate-professor in philosophy at Boston University, making his living as a freelance boat repairer, obstinately refusing to put Mary in the kind of academic environment in which she would intellectually thrive. However, later on, with the revelation that his sister committed suicide after completing her life's work, likely due to the high pressure upbringing that Evelyn plans for Mary, then his reasoning becomes less about rebellion and more about his fear of history repeating.
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Gifted / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
Gifted / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: When Frank rhetorically asks, "Do I look gifted to you?" with reference to his intellectual ability, Bonnie looks down at him with probably a different idea of 'gifted' in mind.
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Gifted / int_1f7e9fb8	type	Teacher/Parent Romance
Gifted / int_1f7e9fb8	comment	Teacher/Parent Romance: This resulting in an embarrassing moment for Bonnie when Mary sees her after her one-night-stand with Frank.
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Gifted / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Gifted / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: In an early scene Mary is too busy writing to say good morning to her teacher in the classic sing-song voice with the rest of the class, so has to say it by herself. Later, the morning after Bonnie and Frank got drunk and slept together, Bonnie walks around the house in just a sheet and is spotted by Mary:
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Gifted / int_255cc9bd	type	Nephewism
Gifted / int_255cc9bd	comment	Nephewism: Frank has raised his niece Mary since she was a baby following the suicide of her mother, his sister Diane.
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Gifted / int_297ab1b9	type	Parental Abandonment
Gifted / int_297ab1b9	comment	Parental Abandonment: Mary's mother killed herself after dropping her off with her uncle Frank, who raised her after this. Her birth father had left her mother quickly. Later he never even tried to really find her and clumsily lies by claiming that he had, when it's shown if this was true she would have been located with ease.
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Gifted / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Gifted / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: Frank can pass for a person with a blue-collar job more or less successfully, but halfway during cross-examination it is revealed that he used to be an associate-professor in philosophy at Boston University seven years ago. Given that he is in his mid-thirties, that is an impressive achievement.
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Gifted / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Gifted / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: On Evelyn's part. Frank finally goes back for Mary when he finds out that Evelyn paid them to take Mary's cat Fred away (due to disliking cats and feeling Fred was a distraction for Mary. He finds Fred, and two other cats, minutes from being euthanized. Realizing Evelyn violated the custody agreement, he goes to confront her and take Mary back after rescuing Fred and the other two cats from being put down.
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Gifted / int_3cb6468e	type	Bad Liar
Gifted / int_3cb6468e	comment	Bad Liar: Mary's biological father is brought into the custody battle when Evelyn support her having custody. He claims that he could never find Mary, but Frank's lawyer provides a laptop and runs a quick search for Mary's name to demonstrate that it would have been easy for the man to find his daughter if he'd actually been interested in doing so.
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Gifted / int_445bc425	type	GreyAndGreyMorality
Gifted / int_445bc425	comment	Grey-and-Grey Morality: It's natural to side with Frank, given that he's likable, obviously cares deeply about Mary, and she's shown to be happy and flourishing with him. Nonetheless, Evelyn's points about Mary being an exceptional child who needs a specialized education aren't without merit. Evelyn may err on the side of ambition and pressure, but Frank is pretty stubborn in his insistence that Mary have a "normal" education, even when that means taking lessons that are far beneath her abilities. At the end, while Frank is back in charge of making decisions, he appears to strike a more reasonable balance, putting her in advanced study arrangements, while also encouraging her to pursue activities and friendships that are appropriate to her age.
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Gifted / int_4d044580	type	Motive Rant
Gifted / int_4d044580	comment	Motive Rant: Evelyn gives one in court on the witness stand, ranting about how Frank is depriving Mary of a bright future.
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Gifted / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Gifted / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Right after the Wham Shot on the manuscript title, Evelyn has another hard truth to face about her estranged relationship to Diane:
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Gifted / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
Gifted / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: When Frank reveals to Evelyn that Diane had solved the Navier-Stokes problem by showing her a script with the respective title.
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Gifted / int_5073fed5	type	Childish Tooth Gap
Gifted / int_5073fed5	comment	Childish Tooth Gap: Mary, who's six at the start of the film, is missing multiple teeth. It highlights her youthfulness and energy as she grins when enjoying herself jumping around, showing them.
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Gifted / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Gifted / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: When she was seventeen, Diane ran off with a neighborhood boy whom she liked, to a resort town. When they came back, Evelyn had the boy arrested on charges of kidnapping and filed a suit, so that he could never call Diane again. Diane took it hard, since she attempted suicide a year later. Frank also mentions that Evelyn hated that Diane got pregnant, which explains why Evelyn only reappeared on hearing that Mary was a prodigy.
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Gifted / int_50ca4422	type	Unresolved Sexual Tension
Gifted / int_50ca4422	comment	Unresolved Sexual Tension: Subverted. For the first couple of scenes it seems like Frank and Bonnie's story arch is going down a familiar path of Will They or Won't They?... until they get drunk and sleep together with nearly disastrous consequences, and refrain from pursuing a sexual relationship for the rest of the film.
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Gifted / int_545d100b	type	Intelligence Equals Isolation
Gifted / int_545d100b	comment	Intelligence Equals Isolation: Mary shuns her classmates because they are boring. But she loves being around Roberta. Negated by the end, when we see Mary suddenly enjoying interacting with her mates on a playground.
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Gifted / int_55ee648c	type	MommyIssues
Gifted / int_55ee648c	comment	Mommy Issues: Clearly a problem for Frank. He believes that he is justified in keeping Mary away from the academic environment that will intellectually stimulate her and rejecting his own academic background despite his inherent intelligence. This is more of a reaction against everything that Evelyn stands for than an objective assessment of what's in his and Mary's best interests. However, he does have a point that Evelyn's drive is costing Mary's happiness and the normal childhood she desires. Also, while he originally rebelled against Mary's pursuit of Academia due to his mother ruining Diane's life and happiness, he is correct her ambition clouds her judgment regarding what's best for Mary.
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Gifted / int_5b9cf82b	type	Education Mama
Gifted / int_5b9cf82b	comment	Education Mama: Evelyn was this to Diane, and once she discovers Mary has inherited her mother's smarts she tries to become this to Mary too. For Evelyn this is also a case of Vicariously Ambitious — as her own career in mathematics was cut short by moving to America and having a family, she hopes to gain academic fame through her descendants.
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Gifted / int_64b2ff00	type	Jesus Was Way Cool
Gifted / int_64b2ff00	comment	Jesus Was Way Cool: Referenced. Frank declines to give his opinion on whether or not there's a God, but he does say, "Love that guy. Do what he says" when Mary asks about Jesus. He sidesteps her question of whether or not Jesus is divine.
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Gifted / int_6644ce2f	type	Adoption Conflict
Gifted / int_6644ce2f	comment	Adoption Conflict: The main conflict of the film is Mary's uncle and grandmother fighting over custody of her.
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Gifted / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
Gifted / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: When Mary asks Frank why he's leaving her with the foster family, Frank starts saying, "We've discussed this ad nauseam" but stops abruptly, remembering the time he used this phrase in happier days. Instead, he simply says, "We have discussed this."
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Gifted / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Gifted / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Mary's mother, Diane, killed herself when she was just a baby. It's indicated this was due to feeling that she was left without a purpose after having solved the math problem she'd worked on for most of her life, which her mother had caused further by controlling her life quite strictly, and became depressed as a result. She had previously attempted suicide before this as well.
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Gifted / int_75f612a3	type	Simple Country Lawyer
Gifted / int_75f612a3	comment	Simple Country Lawyer: Downplayed, but Frank's local attorney has a simple and unpolished style that the judge seems to respond to, in contrast to Evelyn's slicker, big city lawyer.
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Gifted / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Gifted / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Not explicitly stated, but implied; when Mary's biological father is brought into the custody case by Evelyn, Frank's lawyer neatly proves how poor he would be as a guardian for Mary by providing a laptop to demonstrate how easy it would have been for him to find his daughter if he actually wanted to find her, clearly demonstrating his disinterest.
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Gifted / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Gifted / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Mary reveals her mathematical talent to the audience by solving tough calculations with ease on her first day of first grade.
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Gifted / int_8151ec48	type	Driving Question
Gifted / int_8151ec48	comment	Driving Question: Who has Mary's best interests at heart? Is it her Cool Uncle Frank, who wants her to be a normal kid, or her grandmother Evelyn, who wants Mary to pursue her educational potential?
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Gifted / int_8e20ae0d	type	Child Prodigy
Gifted / int_8e20ae0d	comment	Child Prodigy: Mary is seven years old and fully able to work out advanced calculus problems, even noticing where the problems are deliberately written incorrectly.
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Gifted / int_91672d3e	type	Children Are Innocent
Gifted / int_91672d3e	comment	Children Are Innocent: Zig-Zagged. Mary clearly understands enough about "the facts of life" to figure out why Bonnie was walking around in Frank's home wearing nothing but a bedsheet — to the point that she smugly comments, "Awkward," when she and Frank meet for the first time after the incident. But she's also very trusting of the adults whom she loves, such as Frank and Roberta. That's why she places total faith in Frank's promise that he's not going to leave her which makes his decision to send her to a foster family all the more shattering for her.
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Gifted / int_92d2fe52	type	Tearful Smile
Gifted / int_92d2fe52	comment	Tearful Smile: Mary pulls the corners of Frank's mouth into a smile when he is in tears, resulting in this.
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Gifted / int_95c2a9dd	type	Outliving One's Offspring
Gifted / int_95c2a9dd	comment	Outliving One's Offspring: Evelyn outlives her daughter Diane who died before the movie's story.
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Gifted / int_96b89043	type	Not So Above It All
Gifted / int_96b89043	comment	Not So Above It All: Mary is usually serious and impatient at times, but when she catches her teacher Ms. Stevenson leaving her uncle's room with a Modesty Bedsheet, she smiles and can't resist a joke about it.
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Gifted / int_97ee3a58	type	Vicariously Ambitious
Gifted / int_97ee3a58	comment	Vicariously Ambitious: Evelyn gave up her dreams of becoming a world-famous mathematician after marrying and having kids, so her ambition became to ensure her daughter succeeded in becoming what she couldn't and, by failing that, her daughter's daughter.
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Gifted / int_9cbf01d6	type	Stay in the Kitchen
Gifted / int_9cbf01d6	comment	Stay in the Kitchen: Discussed by Evelyn when she said that she left most of her academic life after she's married, which resulting in her becoming Education Mama to her children, especially Diane.
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Gifted / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Gifted / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Frank tells Mary she has to go to regular school so she can learn what 'ad nauseum' means. We then learn that Frank used to be a philosophy professor until his sister died. Evelyn takes offense when Frank's lawyer suggests that by depriving Diane of having a normal life she emotionally abused her daughter and would do the same to Mary. Frank finds out that Evelyn broke the custody plea deal by helping out Mary's tutors and making the foster family give up her cat, thus doing exactly what Frank didn't want her to do. She cries uncontrollably after Frank gives her Diane's work on the Navier-Stokes equation and reveals that Diane wanted it published after Evelyn's death, before her mother could partake in the glory. For all her bravado, Evelyn likely knew that she had enabled her daughter's suicide, and cost her happiness.
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Gifted / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Gifted / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Bonnie apologizes to Frank on hearing that the principal's inquiries have led to the custody battle. She tells him she didn't tell anyone what she found out about his family, and he believes her. Frank when he finds out that Mary's foster family sent her cat away to be euthanized; he rescues Fred, goes back for her, and apologizes to her for going with the custody deal. Evelyn breaks down into tears when she reads that while her daughter had solved the Navier-Stokes problem, she didn't want it to be published until after Evelyn's death. Diane grew to hate Evelyn, her own mother, so much that she refused to give her the satisfaction of having solved one of the world's greatest equation problems; a purpose Evelyn gave her as a child.
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Gifted / int_a63f45d5	type	Cool Uncle
Gifted / int_a63f45d5	comment	Cool Uncle: Frank encourages Mary's academic interests while still encouraging her to act like a kid, and loves to take her to the beach or out for a ride on boats he's finished fixing. From an adult perspective, it doesn't hurt that he's played by Chris Evans.
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Gifted / int_a63fd70f	type	The Promise
Gifted / int_a63fd70f	comment	The Promise: Frank promises Mary that she would stay with him. Of course, the promise gets broken and she calls him out on it but things get better towards the end. Frank had also promised his sister not to publish her life's work until Evelyn died. He breaks that promise to regain custody of Mary.
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Gifted / int_aa79bac	type	Parting-Words Regret
Gifted / int_aa79bac	comment	Parting-Words Regret: Frank forever laments that he didn't want to talk to his sister one night that she showed up with her baby because he had a date. When he came back, she was dead on the bathroom floor. She had wanted her brother's advice after she had solved the Navier-Stokes problem, thus accomplishing what her mother wanted her to do since she was a child and now searching for a new purpose in life.
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Gifted / int_ac12cde1	type	Bully Hunter
Gifted / int_ac12cde1	comment	Bully Hunter: Mary injures an older boy on the school bus in retaliation for him bullying a peer.
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Gifted / int_b2ad812d	type	So What Do We Do Now?
Gifted / int_b2ad812d	comment	So What Do We Do Now?: The reason for Diane's suicide — she had solved the mathematical problem that had become the entire purpose of her life. Once it was done she had no idea what to do with the rest of her life.
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Gifted / int_b58c51d8	type	My Beloved Smother
Gifted / int_b58c51d8	comment	My Beloved Smother: Evelyn controlled every aspect of Diane's life and forbade her from pursuing any activity apart from mathematics; including skiing, watching baseball, and going on romantic dates. In fact, Evelyn insists math was the only thing Diane loved in life and she had no other interests, which is why she "nurtured" that love of math. She's stunned when it's brought up that Diana enjoyed sports as well, which she didn't even know about her daughter. Hence, Frank is terrified that she'll do the same thing to Mary if she were to gain custody of her.
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Gifted / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
Gifted / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: Roberta scoffs at Frank for not even being able to hire a white lawyer, although she is African American herself. Though this is probably less hypocritical than a world-weary assumption that a white lawyer would be taken more seriously in court. Given the easy rapport that Frank's local attorney seems to have with the judge, her concerns may be overblown.
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Gifted / int_b97c2cfb	type	Maybe Ever After
Gifted / int_b97c2cfb	comment	Maybe Ever After: Frank and Bonnie aren't in a relationship at the end but there seems to be a genuine connection.
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Gifted / int_c222dde4	type	TakingAThirdOption
Gifted / int_c222dde4	comment	Taking a Third Option: Evelyn's lawyer proposes that, instead of Mary living with either of them, she lives with a foster family that's close enough for Frank to visit regularly, Evelyn will receive visitation rights, and Mary will attend the gifted school. Frank's lawyer convinces him to take it, on the grounds that it's the only way to guarantee that Mary doesn't get sent to Boston. Subverted, when Evelyn then manipulates the foster family to give her effective control, and push Frank out. Frank comes up with another one, when instead of letting the court decide, Frank reveals that Diane had solved the Navier-Stokes problem, and uses her proof to bribe her into letting Mary stay with him again. Ultimately, Mary does take advanced math classes, but still lives with Frank and participates in extracurricular activities with kids her own age.
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Gifted / int_c5fe6c81	type	Strong Family Resemblance
Gifted / int_c5fe6c81	comment	Strong Family Resemblance: As seen from Diane's photograph, she looks just like her daughter.
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Gifted / int_d01a97fb	comment	E = MC Hammer: Mary is using multiple black boards to solve the big equation at her test.
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Gifted / int_e13156e1	comment	Mama Bear: Roberta stands in Evelyn's way when Frank chases after a grieving Mary, giving an icy Death Glare that stops the woman dead in her tracks.
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Gifted / int_e2de05e8	comment	Throw the Book at Them: When Mary chastises an older boy for bullying a classmate, he challenges her to do something about it. Mary responds by striking him in the face with a book, breaking his nose.
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Gifted / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: Evelyn, is she ever. She single-handedly ruined the life of her daughter, Diane to the point where Diane is Driven to Suicide, tried to steal Mary from Frank, goes out of her way to ruin her son's life, reneged the custody agreement by sending Fred to an animal shelter against Mary's wishes, and clearly sees her own granddaughter as a tool instead of a person. She's pretty much an easy target for the audience to root against.
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Gifted / int_eba6a077	comment	Cain and Abel: Averted; Frank loved Diane, and he regrets that he didn't talk to her the night she killed herself because he wanted to go out on a date and "get laid". While a lawyer suggests that Frank was The Unfavorite and that taking Mary away was revenge on their mother for not loving Frank more, he continually maintains that he wants to honor his sister's wishes.
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Gifted / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: Pretty much all of the main characters. Mary is enrolled in the Academy but also gets to enjoy a normal childhood in her primary school. It's implied that Frank is beginning to come out of his self-imposed exile from the academia, as Mary finds a philosophical treatise by Descartes in his car. Evelyn goes around fulfilling her lifelong dream of achieving fame in mathematics, not just for herself but also for her daughter posthumously. There are some indications that Frank and Bonnie might consider a relationship.
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Gifted / int_fdc1e848	comment	Will They or Won't They?: Frank and Bonnie. But this is dispensed with within the first third of the movie.
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