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20th Century Ghosts

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20th Century Ghosts	label	20th Century Ghosts
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20th Century Ghosts	comment	20th Century Ghosts is a short story anthology written by Joe Hill. While the stories are predominately horror, there are some other genres as well.Stories in 20th Century Ghosts: "Best New Horror": A jaded editor of an annual horror anthology discovers a disturbing short story and attempts to track down its elusive author. "20th Century Ghost": An old-style movie theater is haunted by the spirit of a young woman who died there. "Pop Art": A young outcast befriends another boy who is made out of inflatable plastic. "You Will Hear the Locust Sing": A young man wakes up and finds that he has turned into a giant insect. "Abraham's Boys": Set after Dracula, Abraham Van Helsing has moved to the United States and tries to teach the sons he fathered with Mina Harker about vampires. "Better Than Home": About a troubled boy (strongly hinted to have autism) whose father manages the Boston Red Sox. "The Black Phone": A young boy is kidnapped by a child murderer and held in a basement with a mysterious black phone hanging on the wall. At night, the phone rings. Has been adapted into a feature film released in June 2022; later printings of the collection were released under the title The Black Phone to capitalize on this. "In the Rundown": A videostore clerk discovers a grisly scene on a weedy dirt lane. "The Cape": A young boy discovers that he can fly with the use of a cape, until he and his brother suffer severe injuries using it. Years later, as a literal Basement-Dweller living with his mother, he finds the cape again. It was adapted into a comicbook series. "Last Breath": An old man runs a museum which contains the last breaths of various notable individuals. "Dead-wood": Can trees have ghosts? "The Widow's Breakfast": A hobo comes across a good Good Samaritan. "Bobby Conroy Comes Back from the Dead": Two ex-lovers meet each while working as extras on the set of George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead. "My Father's Mask": A family goes on a strange trip where everyone is forced to wear masks. "Voluntary Committal": A story of two brothers, one of whom is an Idiot Savant who builds vast cardboard forts that connect to different worlds. "Scheherazade's Typewriter": A daughter discovers that her dead father's typewriter is still writing stories.
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20th Century Ghosts / int_12f58a7b	type	Supernatural Phone
20th Century Ghosts / int_12f58a7b	comment	Supernatural Phone: "The Black Phone" can transmit the voices of the dead.
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20th Century Ghosts / int_1592e954	type	Man Bites Man
20th Century Ghosts / int_1592e954	comment	Man Bites Man: Finney bites Al during the kidnapping attempt but doesn't manage to get away.
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20th Century Ghosts / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
20th Century Ghosts / int_1777688d	comment	Genre Savvy: One benefit to Eddie Carroll, the jaded horror anthology editor in "Best New Horror".
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20th Century Ghosts / int_19102429	type	Twist Ending
20th Century Ghosts / int_19102429	comment	Twist Ending: Discussed in "Best New Horror." Carroll opines that one reason why Kilrue's story got such a negative reception is that the "shock ending" has gone out of fashion.
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20th Century Ghosts / int_211c82f5	type	Don't Make Me Take My Belt Off!
20th Century Ghosts / int_211c82f5	comment	Don't Make Me Take My Belt Off!: Van Helsing in "Abraham's Boys" disciplines his sons with a quirt, which is pretty rough even for that era.
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20th Century Ghosts / int_27ab0123	type	Offing the Offspring
20th Century Ghosts / int_27ab0123	comment	Offing the Offspring: Implied to be what's happening in "In the Rundown" when the main character discovers a woman whose children's throats have been slashed.
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20th Century Ghosts / int_2969dda7	type	Nightmare Fetishist
20th Century Ghosts / int_2969dda7	comment	Nightmare Fetishist: Deconstructed in "Best New Horror." Carroll's attraction to the gruesome and the macabre drives off his wife and eventually leads him to go alone to the Kilrues' remote farmhouse despite the abundant warning signs that they could be dangerous.
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20th Century Ghosts / int_36de2703	type	Superheroes Wear Capes
20th Century Ghosts / int_36de2703	comment	Superheroes Wear Capes: Deconstructed in "The Cape".
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20th Century Ghosts / int_3c3f28a5	type	Blessed with Suck
20th Century Ghosts / int_3c3f28a5	comment	Blessed with Suck: The inflatable people in "Pop Art" have it rough. They can't talk (they communicate by writing on notepads with crayons - only crayons, because pens or pencils could pop them), their motor dexterity is limited due to their rubbery exteriors, and even the slightest injury can kill them.
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20th Century Ghosts / int_3ce914fb	type	Macabre Moth Motif
20th Century Ghosts / int_3ce914fb	comment	Macabre Moth Motif: In "20th Century Ghost", a ghost in a movie theater appears friendly and normal at first, but after people interact with her for a little while strange things start happening, including creepy white moths gathering all around her.
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20th Century Ghosts / int_3eb0f889	type	Pun-Based Title
20th Century Ghosts / int_3eb0f889	comment	Pun-Based Title: "Pop Art," about a boy named Art who's in danger of popping.
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20th Century Ghosts / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
20th Century Ghosts / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: In "20th Century Ghosts", Alec is kept from having to shut down the theater when a major film star interested in classic film houses decides to preserve it. The first film shown after the renovations is The Wizard of Oz, which means Imogene finally gets to see the ending and fulfill her Unfinished Business. Alec dies during the screening, but he dies content and is implied to be Together in Death with Imogene. In "Pop Art," the narrator helps Art commit suicide after Art is left disabled and suffering after a dog attack. The narrator is left traumatized and grief-stricken for years, and his life gets much worse. Eventually, however, the narrator is able to leave his abusive father and go to college on a scholarship, where he meets and falls in love with an inflatable woman- the first inflatable person he's seen since Art. They marry and the narrator is finally able to find peace.
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20th Century Ghosts / int_48463e95	type	Not the First Victim
20th Century Ghosts / int_48463e95	comment	Not the First Victim: As soon as Finney is kidnapped and taken to the basement, he realizes that Al is the ripper who kidnapped and murdered three other boys.
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20th Century Ghosts / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
20th Century Ghosts / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: "You Will Hear the Locust Sing."
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20th Century Ghosts / int_508d91a2	type	Pre-Mortem One-Liner
20th Century Ghosts / int_508d91a2	comment	Pre-Mortem One-Liner: From "The Black Phone": "It's for you."
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20th Century Ghosts / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
20th Century Ghosts / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: Child murderer Al in "The Black Phone" acts like a fairly normal person most of the time, even to his captive. Possibly a case of Split Personality, as he claims that "someone else" committed the murders.
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20th Century Ghosts / int_5c059fbd	type	Twin Telepathy
20th Century Ghosts / int_5c059fbd	comment	Twin Telepathy: Finney and his older sister Susannah were born on the same day but several years apart and it's implied they have a psychic bond.
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20th Century Ghosts / int_6841f7f5	type	Evil Phone
20th Century Ghosts / int_6841f7f5	comment	Evil Phone: Subverted in the short story "The Black Phone". The circumstances and nature of the phone are fairly dark, but the phone's actually not so evil at all.
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20th Century Ghosts / int_69906c41	type	Menacing Museum
20th Century Ghosts / int_69906c41	comment	Menacing Museum: In "Last Breath," a family of three explores a "museum of silence" run by the strange Dr. Alinger, consisting of a series of apparently empty sealed jars with headphones attached. Alinger explains that each jar contains someone's dying breath, from the famous (Edgar Allan Poe, Roald Dahl), to the everyday (Alinger says the most exquisite breath in his collection came from a janitor), although he mentions he has no housewives' breath. While the father and son are impressed, the mother is unnerved by a breath from a woman who died in a plane crash; after she wanders in front of a moving car while leaving the museum, she ends up being added to Alinger's collection.
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20th Century Ghosts / int_6ccb6be	type	My Car Hates Me
20th Century Ghosts / int_6ccb6be	comment	My Car Hates Me: Lampshaded by Carroll in "Best New Horror" when he discovers that he's lost his car keys:
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20th Century Ghosts / int_72d31973	type	Surreal Horror
20th Century Ghosts / int_72d31973	comment	Surreal Horror: Many but particularly "My Father's Mask". The narrator describes a weekend spent with his parents in a cabin, running from "the playing card people." His parents play a strange psychosexual game in masks, he possibly encounters younger versions of them in the woods, there's a sinister boy in an angel costume riding around on a pennyfarthing bicycle... and that's all before a playing card woman shows up.
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20th Century Ghosts / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
20th Century Ghosts / int_74f57438	comment	Cell Phones Are Useless: In "Best New Horror," Carroll finds that there's no cell reception at the Kilrue house, because of course there isn't.
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20th Century Ghosts / int_77538ed4	type	Admiring the Abomination
20th Century Ghosts / int_77538ed4	comment	Admiring the Abomination: When Francis becomes a giant locust in "You Will Hear the Locust Sing," everyone who sees him is terrified — except Francis' best friend, who just says, "Awesome!" For that matter, Francis' own reaction to his transformation is basically the same.
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20th Century Ghosts / int_79a0e313	type	Bolivian Army Ending
20th Century Ghosts / int_79a0e313	comment	Bolivian Army Ending: Both "You Will Hear the Locust Sing" and "Best New Horror" end with the protagonist in the midst of a pretty serious confrontation.
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20th Century Ghosts / int_8c5f5c97	type	The Movie Buff
20th Century Ghosts / int_8c5f5c97	comment	The Movie Buff: The title character of "20th Century Ghost," who saw every movie on opening day when she was alive. Her ghost seems to pick out kindred spirits among the living to appear to.
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20th Century Ghosts / int_93399c3c	type	Patricide
20th Century Ghosts / int_93399c3c	comment	Patricide: Max at the end of "Abraham's boys" ends up killing his father.
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20th Century Ghosts / int_93789581	type	Elder Abuse
20th Century Ghosts / int_93789581	comment	Elder Abuse: In "Best New Horror," the Kilrue brothers' mother is Chained to a Bed in a filthy room while they live off her Social Security checks.
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20th Century Ghosts / int_96a33f11	type	Riddle for the Ages
20th Century Ghosts / int_96a33f11	comment	Riddle for the Ages: The narrator of "Voluntary Committal" never learns if he and his friend Eddie seriously injured someone (or worse) in the car wreck they caused.
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20th Century Ghosts / int_9aeabf25	type	The Family That Slays Together
20th Century Ghosts / int_9aeabf25	comment	The Family That Slays Together: Van Helsing wants to teach his sons to become vampire killers. Or maybe just killers, depending on your point of view.
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20th Century Ghosts / int_9afd34de	type	Slow Clap
20th Century Ghosts / int_9afd34de	comment	Slow Clap: Carroll's speech at a horror convention in "Best New Horror" brings this response: a smattering of applause in the back swells into a standing ovation.
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20th Century Ghosts / int_9b3c14cb	type	Van Helsing Hate Crimes
20th Century Ghosts / int_9b3c14cb	comment	Van Helsing Hate Crimes: "Abraham's Boys" plays off this although it also implies that Van Helsing is just crazy.
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20th Century Ghosts / int_9d67ad5c	type	Nuclear Mutant
20th Century Ghosts / int_9d67ad5c	comment	Nuclear Mutant: It's implied in "You Will Hear the Locust Sing" that Francis' transformation has something to do with living near an atomic test site.
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20th Century Ghosts / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
20th Century Ghosts / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: In "Best New Horror," Carroll reminisces about reading a horror book called I Love Galesburg in the Springtime, whose plot is never described but includes something about "Jack Finney's impossible Woodrow Wilson dime." Subsequent story "The Black Phone" takes place in Galesburg and centers around a boy named John Finney, though there's no mention of a dime.
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20th Century Ghosts / int_a07afea2	type	Random Events Plot
20th Century Ghosts / int_a07afea2	comment	Random Events Plot: "Better Than Home" is a series of vignettes from a boy's life.
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20th Century Ghosts / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
20th Century Ghosts / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: Al inhibits Finney (and Finney speculates, his other victims) by spraying him in the eyes with wasp poison.
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20th Century Ghosts / int_aa0ed8a9	type	Look Both Ways
20th Century Ghosts / int_aa0ed8a9	comment	Look Both Ways: At the end of "The Last Breath," the mother is so distressed that she runs off into the street and gets hit by a car.
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20th Century Ghosts / int_ae050352	type	Conveniently Timed Attack from Behind
20th Century Ghosts / int_ae050352	comment	Conveniently Timed Attack from Behind: Inverted in "The Black Phone." Al's brother is just about to free Finney, when Al suddenly appears behind him with an ax.
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20th Century Ghosts / int_af3ea0e3	type	Faceâ€“Heel Turn
20th Century Ghosts / int_af3ea0e3	comment	Faceâ€“Heel Turn: The ending of "The Cape".
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20th Century Ghosts / int_b80899f2	type	Comic-Book Adaptation
20th Century Ghosts / int_b80899f2	comment	Comicbook Adaptation: IDW published a comicbook adaptation of The Cape which later garnered a sequel and prequel miniseries.
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20th Century Ghosts / int_bd1faab9	type	Accidental Hero
20th Century Ghosts / int_bd1faab9	comment	Accidental Hero: The reason Finney survives long enough to hear the phone ring is due to Al's brother being in the same house, preventing Al from killing him.
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20th Century Ghosts / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
20th Century Ghosts / int_bef696dd	comment	Mind Screw: "My Father's Mask" is a story about a family haunted by "playing-card people" visiting a lake house with woods out back, a Creepy Child in an angel costume riding a bicycle, and a bunch of masks that visitors have to wear. Have fun figuring out what it all means.
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20th Century Ghosts / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
20th Century Ghosts / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: "You Will Hear the Locust Sing" is a open riff on Franz Kafka's story The Metamorphosis. It also mentions '50s giant-monster movies such as Them!, its other obvious inspiration. "20th Century Ghost" contains a number of shout-outs to classic films, including a lengthy description of Fantasia that never actually mentions its name.
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20th Century Ghosts / int_c89f0472	type	Troperiffic
20th Century Ghosts / int_c89f0472	comment	Troperiffic: The final scenes of "Best New Horror" deliberately invoke a bunch of horror tropes (Old, Dark House, Hillbilly Horrors, Chained to a Bed, etc.), leading Carroll to believe (hope?) that he's in an actual horror story.
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20th Century Ghosts / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
20th Century Ghosts / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: It's never made clear whether vampires actually exist in the world of "Abraham's Boys," or if it's Van Helsing's delusion.
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20th Century Ghosts / int_df7137e7	type	Barbaric Bully
20th Century Ghosts / int_df7137e7	comment	Barbaric Bully: Several of them, most notably in "Pop Art," where schoolyard bullies subject Art to abuse that could easily kill him.
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20th Century Ghosts / int_e384c244	type	Phone Call from the Dead
20th Century Ghosts / int_e384c244	comment	Phone Call from the Dead: The children that Al murdered use "The Black Phone" to communicate with him and Finney.
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20th Century Ghosts / int_e6132e31	type	Old Flame
20th Century Ghosts / int_e6132e31	comment	Old Flame: The title character of "Bobby Conroy Comes Back From the Dead" runs into his high-school girlfriend and wishes that he hadn't let her go.
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20th Century Ghosts / int_e6ab61d	type	Magic Realism
20th Century Ghosts / int_e6ab61d	comment	Magic Realism: "Pop Art" features the titular character Art who is a biologically-born inflatable person in a world where it's a rare but occurring genetic disorder.
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20th Century Ghosts / int_e90aeea2	type	Sci-Fi Ghetto
20th Century Ghosts / int_e90aeea2	comment	Sci Fi Ghetto: Discussed in-universe in "Best New Horror." Carroll argues that, though literary folk turn up their noses at fantasy and horror, every work of fiction is a fantasy and every conflict brings potential horror.
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20th Century Ghosts / int_ea2e9f2d	type	No Ending
20th Century Ghosts / int_ea2e9f2d	comment	No Ending: "In the Rundown" ends without any resolution to its set-up. "Better Than Home" doesn't really have an ending either, but that's more due to its having a Random Events Plot.
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20th Century Ghosts / int_eaae04eb	type	Museum of the Strange and Unusual
20th Century Ghosts / int_eaae04eb	comment	Museum of the Strange and Unusual: The short story "The Last Breath" features of collection of famous people's last breaths.
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20th Century Ghosts / int_ead9bc9	comment	Dog Stereotype: The pit bull in "Pop Art" is mean, ferocious and untameable.
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20th Century Ghosts / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
20th Century Ghosts / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: The narrator's father in "Pop Art." He abuses his son and lays around all day doing nothing. When his son befriends an inflatable boy named Art, he instantly dislikes him, to the point of getting a vicious pit bull who immediately almost kills Art. When the dog ends up being poorly-trained and a hassle, he locks him in a small cage outside where he wallows in his own excrement. All of this is just the buildup to the climax of the story, where he intentionally lets the dog loose when Art comes over and the narrator isn't there to protect him.
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20th Century Ghosts / int_ec4b148	type	Old, Dark House
20th Century Ghosts / int_ec4b148	comment	Old, Dark House: The farmhouse where the Kilrue brothers in "Best New Horror" are staying is such a classic example that Eddie half expects to hear the theme from The Addams Family playing.
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20th Century Ghosts / int_ee9877ea	type	Too Good for This Sinful Earth
20th Century Ghosts / int_ee9877ea	comment	Too Good for This Sinful Earth: The narrator's view of Art in "Pop Art." At one point he even compares him to Jesus.
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20th Century Ghosts / int_eff65ef6	type	Chained to a Bed
20th Century Ghosts / int_eff65ef6	comment	Chained to a Bed: In "Best New Horror," Carroll finds the Kilrues' mother tied to a bed with wire, apparently neglected while they live off her Social Security checks.
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20th Century Ghosts / int_f3626b09	type	Mercy Kill
20th Century Ghosts / int_f3626b09	comment	Mercy Kill: More like "Mercy Assisted Suicide," but still counts. In "Pop Art," the titular Art is left disabled and suffering after an encounter with the narrator's father's dog. He decides he wants fulfill his dream of flying as high as he can to see if he can reach outer space. Art and the narrator go to the beach and tie balloons on him, and after an emotional hug the narrator lets him go.
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20th Century Ghosts / int_f3d5d15f	comment	Creepy Child: "My Father's Mask" features a strange boy in an angel costume from whom the narrator instinctively hides. Also the three daughters in "The Widow's Breakfast."
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