[blparent] blparent Digest, Vol 79, Issue 24
Jennifer Bose
jen10514 at gmail.com
Sun Dec 26 18:43:01 UTC 2010
Well, to add to the discussion of what Santa left: Abigail, who's
almost 14 months old now, got a few animal puzzles, a funny toy hippo
and a sweet little hand-sewn doll; a set of knitted gloves, hat,
sweater-vest and overcoat; and an enormous piggy-bank. She already has
two other piggy-banks! And she hasn't gone to visit my parents yet;
she's their only grandchild. Interestingly enough, she's still at that
very young stage where she's more interested in the box and wrapping
paper that things came in. Well, one thing she particularly does love
is a stuffed animal, a big dog wearing a reindeer costume with antlers
that have little lights on them. When she touches the dog in a
particular way, it lights up and dances while singing: "I'm getting
nothing for Christmas!" A friend of ours won that toy at work and
thought Abigail would like it. She likes to carry it around and talk
to it, which is beyond adorable.
Jen
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> Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 22:58:49 -0500
> From: Jennifer Bose <jen10514 at gmail.com>
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> Hi, fellow blind parents.
>
> I hope you're all having happy, healthy holidays.
>
> This year was so crazy for me that I almost lost sight of the meaning
> of Christmas. I was exhausting myself finishing my errand-running and
> shopping in preparation for our family Christmas dinner, toting my
> baby around in my backpack on trains, buses and whatever else we had
> to do to get where we were going. While all that was going on, my
> husband suddenly called to say he was inviting over one of our friends
> who's lost a lot of his sight. On top of that, this friend of ours is
> unemployed, his grown kids are busy with their lives and his wife's
> leaving him. Not a great year for him. My husband asked if he could
> show his friend around our house and how we, as blind parents do all
> kinds of things including cook. I thought: Oh, great. This will really
> mess up my plans for our dinner tonight if everyone's standing around
> cooking things while I'm trying to get our meal together. After about
> ten minutes of being put out because he had come up with this
> last-minute plan, I remembered that for those of us who celebrate it,
> Christmas is about the birth of a baby boy who grew up to teach us how
> to love and help out each other--not about planning perfect dinner
> parties. So I let them wander around in the kitchen as much as they
> wanted to and they even helped get everything out on the table for the
> six of us there at dinner tonight. We all really had a wonderful time!
>
> So, enjoy the rest of 2010 and all the best in the new year to you and
> your families!
>
> Jen
>
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>> Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 17:46:29 -0600
>> From: Eric Calhoun <eric at pmpmail.com>
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>> Merry Christmas from Eric Calhoun. I wish all of you blind parents
>> kindness, joy, love, and happiness. God bless all of you, as you continue
>> to raise your children to be productive citizens of America. And may your
>> New Year also be, a fresh start, and a Happy New You.
>>
>> Eric
>>
>>
>> Excuse me! Baseball has no offseason! What? I said!: There is no
>> offseason on the baseball list. You may sign up at eric at pmpmail.com, and
>> add me on Facebook: eric at pmpmail.com... Happy Holidays from the Baseball
>> List. Look at the calendar and put a little holiday in your heart! Eric
>> from Los Angeles!
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 2
>> Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 07:11:40 -0600
>> From: "Pipi" <blahblahblah0822 at gmail.com>
>> To: <blv-moms at googlegroups.com>, <blindparenting at googlegroups.com>,
>> <blind-singles-n-friends at yahoogroups.com>, "NFBnet Blind Parents
>> Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>,
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>> I wanted to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas! I hope y'all have a
>> wonderful day with family and friends!
>> Pipi
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> Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 23:00:25 -0500
> From: Jennifer Bose <jen10514 at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [blparent] blparent Digest, Vol 79, Issue 23
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> On 12/25/10, Jennifer Bose <jen10514 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi, fellow blind parents.
>>
>> I hope you're all having happy, healthy holidays.
>>
>> This year was so crazy for me that I almost lost sight of the meaning
>> of Christmas. I was exhausting myself finishing my errand-running and
>> shopping in preparation for our family Christmas dinner, toting my
>> baby around in my backpack on trains, buses and whatever else we had
>> to do to get where we were going. While all that was going on, my
>> husband suddenly called to say he was inviting over one of our friends
>> who's lost a lot of his sight. On top of that, this friend of ours is
>> unemployed, his grown kids are busy with their lives and his wife's
>> leaving him. Not a great year for him. My husband asked if he could
>> show his friend around our house and how we, as blind parents do all
>> kinds of things including cook. I thought: Oh, great. This will really
>> mess up my plans for our dinner tonight if everyone's standing around
>> cooking things while I'm trying to get our meal together. After about
>> ten minutes of being put out because he had come up with this
>> last-minute plan, I remembered that for those of us who celebrate it,
>> Christmas is about the birth of a baby boy who grew up to teach us how
>> to love and help out each other--not about planning perfect dinner
>> parties. So I let them wander around in the kitchen as much as they
>> wanted to and they even helped get everything out on the table for the
>> six of us there at dinner tonight. We all really had a wonderful time!
>>
>> So, enjoy the rest of 2010 and all the best in the new year to you and
>> your families!
>>
>> Jen
>>
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>>> From: Eric Calhoun <eric at pmpmail.com>
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>>> Merry Christmas from Eric Calhoun. I wish all of you blind parents
>>> kindness, joy, love, and happiness. God bless all of you, as you
>>> continue
>>> to raise your children to be productive citizens of America. And may
>>> your
>>> New Year also be, a fresh start, and a Happy New You.
>>>
>>> Eric
>>>
>>>
>>> Excuse me! Baseball has no offseason! What? I said!: There is no
>>> offseason on the baseball list. You may sign up at eric at pmpmail.com, and
>>> add me on Facebook: eric at pmpmail.com... Happy Holidays from the Baseball
>>> List. Look at the calendar and put a little holiday in your heart! Eric
>>> from Los Angeles!
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>>
>>> Message: 2
>>> Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 07:11:40 -0600
>>> From: "Pipi" <blahblahblah0822 at gmail.com>
>>> To: <blv-moms at googlegroups.com>, <blindparenting at googlegroups.com>,
>>> <blind-singles-n-friends at yahoogroups.com>, "NFBnet Blind Parents
>>> Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>,
>>> <singleblindparents at googlegroups.com>
>>> Subject: [blparent] Merry Christmas
>>> Message-ID: <AD99577C5A104D5895F3054B13E1AB0C at pipi0ade0e245b>
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
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>>> I wanted to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas! I hope y'all have a
>>> wonderful day with family and friends!
>>> Pipi
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 21:06:58 -0700
> From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
> To: "blind parents" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: [blparent] the best gift
> Message-ID: <000001cba4b2$575ce1f0$0616a5d0$@net>
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> Chuck and Gabriella got me the best gift this year; a Braille Uno card game
> and a tactile tic tac toe board. I have been winning and losing all day
> long.
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 21:14:44 -0700
> From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
> To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [blparent] it's a first!
> Message-ID: <000101cba4b3$6ce59e80$46b0db80$@net>
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> I am glad he is feeling better. Boy I know that feeling of having my nose
> powed. When my niece was tiny, she'd throw her head back when she was mad
> and heaven forbid your face was near. Smile! I hope your kids keep on
> trying new things and hopefully Jessie will communicate more often.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Barbara Hammel
> Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2010 5:14 PM
> To: blparent at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [blparent] it's a first!
>
> Those of you who understand about my children will appreciate this story.
> Paul was offered one of those garlic-flavored hard breadsticks to try. He
> liked it so was asked if he wanted more breadsticks--which he did. I walked
> over to the play room door and Jesse was crouched in the doorway. I asked
> him what he wanted and he took off for the table. He wanted some, too. He
> has never done that before. Consequently he had a second supper of french
> fries, breadsticks and s'more goldfish.
>
> It's so nice to see Jesse starting to try communicating with us. I knew the
> doctor would find an ear infection today because at therapy Tuesday he
> wanted the OT to put lots of pressure on the sides of his head and
> especially his right side. He'd just begun hitting himself in the head the
> day before. Let me tell you, he hits his head hard! He went to hit his
> head at the doctor's office and hit me in the nose instead because I was
> leaning my cheek on the top of his head. Almiost brought tears to my eyes.
> Barbara
>
> Through the sunny fields of yesterday
> Echo voices of children now grown,
> Their golden peals of laughter
> Ring upon the ivied stone.
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> Message: 5
> Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 21:19:20 -0700
> From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
> To: "blind parents" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: [blparent] another cool gift
> Message-ID: <000201cba4b4$11892420$349b6c60$@net>
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> Gab received a pair of binoculars that have a camera built in. So, for us
> totally blind folks, I'm not too sure how good they would work, but for
> those who have some vision, they are great. You look through the tubes and
> when you see something worth looking at, there are 2 buttons on top, one
> turns on the camera and the other takes the picture. If you push the on
> button twice, it turns on a video camera. Cool, huh! V
>
>
>
>
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>
> Message: 6
> Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 21:23:29 -0700
> From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
> To: "blind parents" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: [blparent] Walkie talkies
> Message-ID: <000301cba4b4$a5cd6100$f1682300$@net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
> I know it's too late for fun gifts, but Gab also received a pair of walkie
> talkies. I believe the range is something like 50 to 60 feet. You put a
> small ear pad in your ear which is attached to a long wire and then plugged
> into the walkie talkie. There is a round button on the side of the talkie
> which you push when you want to say something and release it when you want
> to hear the other person talking. Gab had so much fun with this yesterday
> evening. Of course, the pair she received are pink and have Hello Kitty on
> them, but they make dark colored ones for boys as well. My niece said she
> bought both items at Toys r Us. v
>
>
>
>
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>
> Message: 7
> Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 21:28:54 -0700
> From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
> To: "blind parents" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: [blparent] What did they get?
> Message-ID: <000401cba4b5$67e64090$37b2c1b0$@net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
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> I want to know, please, what did Santa bring to all your beautiful children?
> Santa left Gab a Mario Cart game for the WII, some earrings, some Junie B.
> Jones books, some candy, a Spongebob keychain, and a little Zoo pet rabbit.
> Mom and dad gave her way too much, a book light, a calendar, a new robe with
> peace signs on it, an American girl doll with pajamas, hair brush and dog,
> and we all got an Ipad to share. v
>
>
>
>
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>
> Message: 8
> Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 21:31:52 -0700
> From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
> To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [blparent] blparent Digest, Vol 79, Issue 23
> Message-ID: <000501cba4b5$d1c81e20$75585a60$@net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
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> Jen, Merry Christmas. I am glad you remembered the meaning of why we are
> all together. V
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Jennifer Bose
> Sent: Saturday, December 25, 2010 9:00 PM
> To: blparent at nfbnet.org
> Subject: Re: [blparent] blparent Digest, Vol 79, Issue 23
>
> On 12/25/10, Jennifer Bose <jen10514 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi, fellow blind parents.
>>
>> I hope you're all having happy, healthy holidays.
>>
>> This year was so crazy for me that I almost lost sight of the meaning
>> of Christmas. I was exhausting myself finishing my errand-running and
>> shopping in preparation for our family Christmas dinner, toting my
>> baby around in my backpack on trains, buses and whatever else we had
>> to do to get where we were going. While all that was going on, my
>> husband suddenly called to say he was inviting over one of our friends
>> who's lost a lot of his sight. On top of that, this friend of ours is
>> unemployed, his grown kids are busy with their lives and his wife's
>> leaving him. Not a great year for him. My husband asked if he could
>> show his friend around our house and how we, as blind parents do all
>> kinds of things including cook. I thought: Oh, great. This will really
>> mess up my plans for our dinner tonight if everyone's standing around
>> cooking things while I'm trying to get our meal together. After about
>> ten minutes of being put out because he had come up with this
>> last-minute plan, I remembered that for those of us who celebrate it,
>> Christmas is about the birth of a baby boy who grew up to teach us how
>> to love and help out each other--not about planning perfect dinner
>> parties. So I let them wander around in the kitchen as much as they
>> wanted to and they even helped get everything out on the table for the
>> six of us there at dinner tonight. We all really had a wonderful time!
>>
>> So, enjoy the rest of 2010 and all the best in the new year to you and
>> your families!
>>
>> Jen
>>
>> On 12/25/10, blparent-request at nfbnet.org <blparent-request at nfbnet.org>
>> wrote:
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>>> Message: 1
>>> Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 17:46:29 -0600
>>> From: Eric Calhoun <eric at pmpmail.com>
>>> To: blparent at nfbnet.org
>>> Subject: [blparent] Merry Christmas
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>>> Merry Christmas from Eric Calhoun. I wish all of you blind parents
>>> kindness, joy, love, and happiness. God bless all of you, as you
>>> continue
>>> to raise your children to be productive citizens of America. And may
>>> your
>>> New Year also be, a fresh start, and a Happy New You.
>>>
>>> Eric
>>>
>>>
>>> Excuse me! Baseball has no offseason! What? I said!: There is no
>>> offseason on the baseball list. You may sign up at eric at pmpmail.com, and
>>> add me on Facebook: eric at pmpmail.com... Happy Holidays from the Baseball
>>> List. Look at the calendar and put a little holiday in your heart! Eric
>>> from Los Angeles!
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>>
>>> Message: 2
>>> Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 07:11:40 -0600
>>> From: "Pipi" <blahblahblah0822 at gmail.com>
>>> To: <blv-moms at googlegroups.com>, <blindparenting at googlegroups.com>,
>>> <blind-singles-n-friends at yahoogroups.com>, "NFBnet Blind
> Parents
>>> Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>,
>>> <singleblindparents at googlegroups.com>
>>> Subject: [blparent] Merry Christmas
>>> Message-ID: <AD99577C5A104D5895F3054B13E1AB0C at pipi0ade0e245b>
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>>>
>>> I wanted to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas! I hope y'all have a
>>> wonderful day with family and friends!
>>> Pipi
>>>
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> Message: 9
> Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 11:42:33 -0600
> From: "sharon howerton" <shrnhow at att.net>
> To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [blparent] blparent Digest, Vol 79, Issue 23
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> What a great message, Jen, and wonderful sentiment.
> Sharon
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jennifer Bose" <jen10514 at gmail.com>
> To: <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Saturday, December 25, 2010 9:58 PM
> Subject: Re: [blparent] blparent Digest, Vol 79, Issue 23
>
>
>> Hi, fellow blind parents.
>>
>> I hope you're all having happy, healthy holidays.
>>
>> This year was so crazy for me that I almost lost sight of the meaning
>> of Christmas. I was exhausting myself finishing my errand-running and
>> shopping in preparation for our family Christmas dinner, toting my
>> baby around in my backpack on trains, buses and whatever else we had
>> to do to get where we were going. While all that was going on, my
>> husband suddenly called to say he was inviting over one of our friends
>> who's lost a lot of his sight. On top of that, this friend of ours is
>> unemployed, his grown kids are busy with their lives and his wife's
>> leaving him. Not a great year for him. My husband asked if he could
>> show his friend around our house and how we, as blind parents do all
>> kinds of things including cook. I thought: Oh, great. This will really
>> mess up my plans for our dinner tonight if everyone's standing around
>> cooking things while I'm trying to get our meal together. After about
>> ten minutes of being put out because he had come up with this
>> last-minute plan, I remembered that for those of us who celebrate it,
>> Christmas is about the birth of a baby boy who grew up to teach us how
>> to love and help out each other--not about planning perfect dinner
>> parties. So I let them wander around in the kitchen as much as they
>> wanted to and they even helped get everything out on the table for the
>> six of us there at dinner tonight. We all really had a wonderful time!
>>
>> So, enjoy the rest of 2010 and all the best in the new year to you and
>> your families!
>>
>> Jen
>>
>> On 12/25/10, blparent-request at nfbnet.org <blparent-request at nfbnet.org>
>> wrote:
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>>> 1. Merry Christmas (Eric Calhoun)
>>> 2. Merry Christmas (Pipi)
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>>> Message: 1
>>> Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 17:46:29 -0600
>>> From: Eric Calhoun <eric at pmpmail.com>
>>> To: blparent at nfbnet.org
>>> Subject: [blparent] Merry Christmas
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>>> Merry Christmas from Eric Calhoun. I wish all of you blind parents
>>> kindness, joy, love, and happiness. God bless all of you, as you
>>> continue
>>> to raise your children to be productive citizens of America. And may
>>> your
>>> New Year also be, a fresh start, and a Happy New You.
>>>
>>> Eric
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>>> Excuse me! Baseball has no offseason! What? I said!: There is no
>>> offseason on the baseball list. You may sign up at eric at pmpmail.com, and
>>> add me on Facebook: eric at pmpmail.com... Happy Holidays from the Baseball
>>> List. Look at the calendar and put a little holiday in your heart! Eric
>>> from Los Angeles!
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>>> Message: 2
>>> Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 07:11:40 -0600
>>> From: "Pipi" <blahblahblah0822 at gmail.com>
>>> To: <blv-moms at googlegroups.com>, <blindparenting at googlegroups.com>,
>>> <blind-singles-n-friends at yahoogroups.com>, "NFBnet Blind Parents
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>>> Subject: [blparent] Merry Christmas
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>>> I wanted to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas! I hope y'all have a
>>> wonderful day with family and friends!
>>> Pipi
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> Message: 10
> Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 12:44:07 -0500
> From: "Tammy" <tcl189 at rogers.com>
> To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [blparent] What did they get?
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> Hi,
>
> Well Colyn got lots of clothes, a lighthouse for his thomas set, a couple of
> dvd's, a dogsled with some animals with a north pole theme, a video camera,
> a parking garage with four levels and tons of cars to go with it, a slinky,
> a buildable remote control robot kit, some storeybook CD's, and a remote
> control car. Remus got a jack in the box, a weebles musical treehouse, a
> wackyball, a remote control car, a knitted clown, lots of clothes which he
> found very boring, a musical schoolbus, an animal shape sorter, some books
> and cd's, and a Thomas and Friends dvd. I know I'm forgetting things, but
> they really did get tons. Paul and I got an Apple Tv, which the kids love
> as well, and we found out that our newest edition will be due on or around
> June 26th, which is a month sooner than we thought. A good Christmas was
> had by all in this house, , and we hope it was the same for all of you.
>
> Tammy
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>
> From: Veronica Smith
> Sent: Saturday, December 25, 2010 11:28 PM
> To: blind parents
> Subject: [blparent] What did they get?
>
>
> I want to know, please, what did Santa bring to all your beautiful children?
> Santa left Gab a Mario Cart game for the WII, some earrings, some Junie B.
> Jones books, some candy, a Spongebob keychain, and a little Zoo pet rabbit.
> Mom and dad gave her way too much, a book light, a calendar, a new robe with
> peace signs on it, an American girl doll with pajamas, hair brush and dog,
> and we all got an Ipad to share. v
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