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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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So with today's talk, here's Richard Ellis.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
The title today's message is twenty three and Me. My
sister gifted me a twenty three and me packet. It's
an ancestry analysis where you spit in a tube and
they figure out what part of the world your ancestors
came from. Pretty interesting. I've been spit on before and
it didn't accomplish anything. So I got my results back

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and I'm going to read them to you. Twelve percent picker,
eight percent grinner, nine percent lover seven percent, center fourteen
percent player of music in the Sun, thirteen percent, Joker,
eight percent, Smoker, sixteen percent, Midnight Tooker, and thirteen percent

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Get My Lovin on the Run. So I was I thought,
this is a complete waste of time and money. But
that's what came back. So if you're not old enough
to know that song, you're staring at me, going what
is he talking about? Look it up. It's all right. So,
as it turns out, there's only one race, the human race.
And I'd like to start in Genesis chapter one, and

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we're going to go through some scripture today. I can't
promise all of this will be pleasant, but there's an
exit on this side of the building and I'll be okay.
So Genesis chapter one, verse twenty six. Then God said,
let us interesting word us. He said, well, what does
that mean? It's the Father's son Holy Spirit. He said, well,
how can there be one God and three people? And

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you know what ask you when you get there. It's
just the way it is. Then God said, let us
make man in our image. Okay, so there has never been,
never will be a person, a man, a woman on
the planet who was not made in the image of God. Okay,
that is a big deal. Keep reading. According to our likeness.

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Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea,
over the birds of the aar, and over the cattle,
over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that
creeps on the earth. So God created man in his
own image, in the image of God. He created him
male and female. He created them. Then God blessed them,
and God said to them, be fruitful and multiply, fill

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the earth and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish
of the sea, over the birds of the air, and
over every living thing that moves on the earth. So
game on, we got a male, we got a female.
That's the only way you're going to be able to multiply.
Here you go, go to Genesis chapter three, verse twenty,
and Adam called his wife's name Eve because she was
the mother of all living. So God makes Adam from dirt,

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which makes perfect sense to most women. But he makes
Adam from dirt and brings him to life. And then
he takes a rib from Adam and makes a woman.
So these are the only two people who were not born.
And then they are fruitful and multiply, and here come
the kids. Now this is a little mind boggling for people.
And get some questions on this. You say, well, how

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can seven billion plus people whatever the counts up to now,
how can all of these people come from two people? Okay?
And how can they come from these two people? And
we look totally different? If you just looked around this
room right here, right, we got different. You know, eyes
are different, ears are different, skin color different. But what

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is so fascinating is that most people, if you peel
all this exterior away, we're all the same. Right. Blood
different types of blood, but blood is blood. You got
a heart, You pull a heart out, sayble, is that
a black heart, a Mexican heart, Ethiopian heart? You know
what kind of heart is it? It's a heart? Okay, so

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let me read. You're going to think you at school,
but here we go. The genes are grouped into collections
called chromosomes. Most humans have twenty three pairs of chromosomes.
You get all your genes from your parents. For each
pair of their chromosomes, you get one chromosome from your
mother and one from your father. When the egg and
sperm cells come together, they create the full set of

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forty six chromosomes, or twenty three pairs. So why aren't
your genes exactly the same as your siblings. Like you,
your parents each have two copies of their chromosomes, which
they got from their parents. When sperm and eggs are created,
pairs of chromosomes separate independently and sort themselves at random
at random into two egg cells in your mom or

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two sperm cells in your dad. You might get one
chromosome in one pair from your mom, and your sister
might get the other chromosome from that pair. This means
that there are eight million, three hundred and eighty eight thousand,
six hundred and eight possible variations of egg and sperm.
It's really a wonder we look like our parents at all.

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So God builds this into the system and things start changing,
people start looking different. Go to Genesis chapter seven. It
doesn't take just but a few chapters for everything to
go terribly wrong, and God goes too much violence in
the earth. It's a do over, and he tells Noah
to build a boat. Noah builds this arc spends it

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one hundred years building it, and Genesis chapter seven, let's
go down to verse tells him to load up on
the Let's see verse ten. And it came to pass
after seven days that the waters of the flood were
on the earth in the six hundredth year of Noah's life,
in the second month, the seventh day of the month.
On that day, all the fountains of the Great Deep

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were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened,
and the rain was on the earth forty days and
forty nights. On the very same day, Noah and Noah's sons,
sham Ham and Japoth, and Noah's wife and the three
wives of his sons with them entered the arc. Okay,
so there's eight people. That's all that's going to be left.
You start with two, fruitful and multiply. God says, I'm

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done wiping it all out. And by the way, it
was animals, people, everything wiped out. All that survives are
these eight people. So now we're traceable to two. And
after that we're traceable to eight. Okay, and down in
verse twenty two, all on whose nostrils was the breath
of the spirit of life, all that was on the
dry land died a few verses down. We'll just keep reading.

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So he destroyed all living things which were on the
face of the ground, both the man and cap, little
creeping thing and bird of the air, they were destroyed
from the earth. Only Noah and those who were with
him in the arc remained alive, and the waters prevailed
on the earth one hundred and fifty days. Okay, so
we're traceable now to these two people, but specifically these
eight people Genesis chapter ten. So God gives you the

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genealogy here of Noah, and I'm not going to read
you all of chapter ten, but it lays out kind
of who they were. Start having kids. Now, this is
the genealogy of the sons of Noah, Shimham, Jacob. The
sons were born to them after the flood, and so
their families start to expand day with their wives. Verse
thirty two. Go to the very bottom. These were the
families of the sons of Noah according to their generations

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in their nations, and from these the nations were divided
on the earth after the flood. Okay, so now people
start to move around. But go to Genesis chapter eleven
to see what contributes it. And Genesis eleven is basically
kind of a looking back to what happened before ten.
And for whatever reason, this is what God did. Verse one.

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Now the whole earth had one language in one speech, Okay,
very fascinating. You say, well, what language did they speak?
I don't know. But they spoke one language, one speech,
so everybody could speak to everybody. And it came to
pass as they journeyed from the east, that they found
a plane in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there.
Then they said to one another, come, let us make

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bricks and bake them thoroughly. They had brick for stone,
and they had asphalt for mortar. And they said, come,
let us build ourselves a city and a tower whose
top is in the heavens, in other words, a skyscraper.
Let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be
scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth. So
let's make a name for ourselves before we just end

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up all over the place. But the Lord came down
to see the city in the tower which the sons
of men had built. And the Lord said, indeed, the
people are one, and they all have one language. And
this is what they begin to do. Now, Nothing that
they propose to do will be withheld from them. They're
taken off on a path that I did not intend
for them. Come let us again to us, let us

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go down and they're confuse their language that they may
not understand one another's speech. And he said, well, why
would God do this? When you get there, you can
ask him. You can see what happens. So the Lord
scattered them abroad from there over the face of all
the earth, and they ceased building the city. Therefore its
name is called Babel, because there the Lord confused the

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language of all the earth. And from there the Lord
scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth. Okay,
so what happens after that? Their languages are confused. Some
people can understand each other, others can't. You got everybody
talk in these different languages. So what do people tend
to do? We separate out sometimes by the way that

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we look ethnicity. But when you can't communicate, you start
separating out with people that you could communicate with. All right,
So people get scattered over language. So what happens? You say, well,
who ended up in Africa? Who end up wherever? If
you end up somewhere long enough, the geography, the climate, sun,

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no sun light, skin, fair skin, all of a sudden
that group of people starts to change. You say, well,
you go to South Korea. Everybody in South Korea looks
South Korean crazy. How that happens? You say, well, how
did that happen? The families that were there, that spoke
that language, they just they are being fruitful and multiplying,
and pretty soon those chromosomes and those people tend to
look the same way. When are we going to figure

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out that there's nothing but people on the planet. They're
just people. Well, that Chinese guy married that Mexican girl,
Well they gonna have They're gonna have a people, right,
They're gonna make a person. Well, but I don't know
who I am. The only way, and this is a
little early in the message, the only way you're ever
going to really figure out who you are is not

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by looking in are You got to get in the
scriptures and find out who God says you are right
as a person. Keep reading with me, Oh, let me
read you my results. This will be shocking to some people,
I'm sure. Northwestern European ninety six point one, British and

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Irish fifty three point nine, French and German sixteen point seven,
Scandinavian four point four. Finish, that's what a lot of
people pray. I'm more of in the sermons, But one
point three, broadly Northwestern European nineteen point eight, Southern European
one point six. Then it gets really interesting racist nineteen percent.

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You said, if that couldn't have come back from your spit,
listen to this. Scientific racism, sometimes termed biological racism, is
the pseudo scientific belief that empirical evidence exists to support
or justify racism, racial discrimination, racial inferiority, or racial superiority. Historically,

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scientific racism receive credence throughout the scientific community, but it
is no longer considered scientific. Dividing humankind into biologically distinct
groups is sometimes called racialism or race realism by its proponents.
Modern scientific consensus rejects this view as being irreconcilable with

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modern genetic research. Nelson Mandela. No one is born hating
another person because of the color of his skin, or
his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate.
If they can learn to hate, they can be taught
to love. Now go to Psalm one thirty nine. Now,
I understand this is intense, and it's going to keep

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being intense. And I'm going to give you scripture, and
I get some great emails, I get some tough emails.
I get some emails I don't ever read again. My
job is to not make you happy. My job is
to read your scripture and to challenge you and help
you figure out who God is, who you are, and
how you're going to live in this world okay, and
not what the world says about you, or what the

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world says is going to happen or not going to happen.
Saw'm one thirty nine thirteen. For you formed my inward parts.
You covered me in my mother's womb. You covered me.
I will praise you for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Marvelous are your works, and that my soul knows very well.

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My frame was not hidden from you when I was
made in secret and skillfully wrought in the lowest parts
of the earth. Your eyes saw my substance being yet unformed.
And in your book they all were written. He's got
you a book, Steve Bob Alan you the day's fashion
for me, when as yet there were none of them.

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So what's he writing down your substance not being informed?
And in your book they were all written the day's
fashion for me, when as yet there was none of them.
So God already knows your life now let me tell
you how you can screw up your only life you're
ever going to have on this side is to argue
with God. Well, this isn't fair, this isn't right. Part

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of my genetic makeup, whatever chromosome hooked up with whatever chromosome,
I got me these ears. Now, I kind of grew
into these ears. But when I was a little kid,
I don't know what's up with ears, But they jump
out there before the rest of you does, you know,
So you know now I don't care. I'm told to care.
But you know, when you're a kid, you know I

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had a little nose, big ears, People calling me names.
This isn't fair, you know what. This is how God
made me. I got ears. People don't have ears. So somehow,
before I'm even born, God knows I'm coming and he
has designed me exactly the way he intended. And he's thinking,
you know what, I'm I put this kind of white body,

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but I'm gonna put this guy in a black body,
and I'm gonna put this one in a Hispanic body,
and I'm gonna put this one in a mixed body.
I'm gonna have a lot of fun with this. And
they're gonna figure out who they are because they're gonna
meet me and realize they're made in my image. And
it doesn't matter what color of the race car is.
It can either run or it can't. Who goes to
dashgar and goes, ah, that pink car is never gonna win.

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It's pink. What Oh, it's pink. Pink can't go fast?
Have you lost your mind? It either has an engine
or it doesn't. It either has a driver or it doesn't.
And if it's got an engine, in a driver and
get some fuel, it's gonna run. It doesn't matter what
color it is. Well, we're saying that pink cars can't win, Well,
guess what, pink car's gonna show you. It can win,
whether you think it can or not. Get you some

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of that. In history, not just our country. History is
replete with story after story of people who despite all
the stuff the world threw out him and told him
you can't and it'll never happen whatever whatever, And God said,
watch this, because this person's gonna find me. I'm gonna
reveal myself to him. They're gonna choose me, They're gonna

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let me move in, and I'm gonna take over I'm
gonna be the engine. I'm gonna be the driver. I'm
gonna show you what you can do with any color car.
Get people around you who are telling you what God
can do, not what the world tells you you can't do,
even if everything they're telling you, well, look around, there's
all this stuff. I get it. It's been this way
since Adam ate this fruit. Right. This has been jacked

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up ever since then. But Jesus showed up in a
jacked up world and changed it all. So find out
who he is, who he says you are, and move
in that. Keep reading this one, because this is a
good little this, a little stretch here. The scriptures in
your book, they were all written the day's fashion for
me one is yet there was none of them. How precious?
Also are your thoughts to me? Oh God, how great

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is the sum of them? If I should count them,
they would be more in number than the sand. They think, well,
that's a lot the sand. God thinks about me more
in number than the sand. Is God thinking about you?
I don't think he thinks about me. Read your Bible.
He's thinking about me, and he's thinking about you. Whether
you think he's thinking about you or not. It's in

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the scriptures. When I awake, I'm still with you, Oh,
that you would slay the wicked. Oh God, depart from me, therefore,
you bloodthirsty men, For they speak against you wickedly. Your
enemies take your name in vain. Do I not hate
them a Lord, who hate you? And do I not
loth those who rise up against you? I hate them
with perfect hatred. I count them my enemies. But then

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look at verse twenty three. I'm recommending you pray this
in light of whatever you're processing. Search me, oh God,
and know my heart. Try me and know my anxieties.
So what are your anxieties? Say God, try me, see
what my anxieties, and see if there is any wicked
way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

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So God, if I'm jacked up too and something's wrong,
deal with me. But I'm asking you to move I
moved through my heart, my mind, my life, and lead
me in the way everlasting. The last verse in that
Psalm one thirty nine is about starting on the inside
and saying, Lord, am I reflecting you from the inside out,
not just made in some image, but my inward most

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parts are not reflective of you. The Latians three twenty
six before I read this one. When I went to
Brazil as a ten year old child, moved there when
I was nine. Got there, my dad put us in
Brazilian schools. Didn't speak any Portuguese. I'm ten years old,
don't know anybody. I spoke more English than my English teacher, okay,

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But part of that experience was I learned festo junina.
I learned songs, I learned culture. I learned things about
Brazil that I would never have learned once I got
to an American school where they didn't teach me any
of that. Is there anything wrong with that? Absolutely not.
So am I saying, oh, well, you had a band

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in your culture. Nobody said that. But if your culture
trumps Christ, you're in trouble. So to this day, I
can meet a Brazilian and all I gotta do is
break out in one of those festa's unina songs and
they look at me like, how in the world does
he know that about us? Because you don't know that

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unless you're Brazilian. So bring your culture, bring whatever you bring.
But there is a new culture that has formed in Christ.
It's a new family. We're gonna spend eternity together. You
better figure this out. And what I tell white people
is there ain't no South Heaven. As much as you
dream and hope there is, Certainly God is not gonna

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have us all living in that same neighborhood together. I
got a verse about that too, Galatians three twenty six.
For you are all sons of God through faith in
Christ Jesus. For as many of you as we're baptized
into Christ have put on Christ verse twenty eight. And
people hate these verses. There is neither Jew nor Greek.

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There is neither slave nor free. There is neither male
nor female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Now does it mean if you're a woman, you're not
a woman. No. If you're a man, you're not a man. No.
It just means that we are one in Christ. Being
one in Christ is bigger than these individual distinctions. See

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I say white. If I say it this way, white
man who happens to be a Christian, something wrong about
that black woman who happens to be a Christian? How
about Christian woman who's black. I'm good with that as
long as you don't strust screwing with the sequence One

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Timothy two three. For this is good and acceptable in
the sight of God, our Savior, who desires all men
to be saved and to come to the knowledge of
the truth. I've pointed out before the word and the
Greek all means all. So here's a little word for
people that are not in the room. Because the people

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in the room, they may leave and never come back,
but they're in the room for the moment. There are
people out beyond here. And you hear all this if
you're still listening and go ooh, there might be something
to that. But I'm white, I'm black, I'm Mexican, I'm Asian,
I'm whatever I am, and I hold it on to
that you're missing out on this. So I'm going to
challenge you and encourage you. If you do not have

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a church. I'm not saying this because your church you
got to come and stay here. But you need to
find you a church, and you need to find you
a church that is practicing for heaven. This is our
little rehearsal. See, when you get to heaven, you're not
going to have an option. You're going to be glorified,
new everything. Now you get a choice to live it
by faith. We have bikers that come here once in

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a while, and somebody will come and say that biker
had a patch on his vest. It was a racial something. Pat,
go talk to the guy. Ooh, well, go talk to
the guy. That's biblical. Go to him first. Wow, I
just probably you know, we're in church together and just
want to run this by you. And he may be clueless.

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Maybe he is clueless. Maybe he knows exactly what it means.
Then we got to talk to him or her. Well,
what are you gonna do? I'm leaving here? Are you nuts?
You're gonna leave everywhere? The son goes poorly?

Speaker 1 (22:24):
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Last one Revelation seven. If I'd said, you know twenty something,
you'd like, ooh, there's really no hope for anymore. Because
that's the last chapter, Revelation seven. This is what's coming
Verse nine. After these things, I looked and behold a
great multitude which no one could number, of what all nations, tribes, peoples,

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and tongues standing before the throne and before the lamb,
clothed with white robes and with palm branches in their hands,
and crying out with a loud voice, saying, salvation belongs
to our God, who sits on the throne and to
the lamb. Finished with that. So that's good. That's where
I'm headed, you say, but we're still here. Yeah, I'm

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still here. I took another twenty three and me tests,
a spiritual test, and you know what, it came back
one hundred percent Christian. One hundred percent. He said, Well,
you don't live like that doesn't matter. I'm a Christian
before I'm anything else. Now I'm a Christian and so
now between today and the day I stand before Jesus,

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I'm going to work that out. And when I get
in a situation where I'm impatient or I look at
somebody and don't treat them like a human being, which
I have capacity for this, I say, Lord, search me,
try me. It's not then what's wrong with me? And
you hammer that stuff out and you grow up and
you grow on and God uses us. And it's messy.

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It's not always fun. Somebody's going to do you wrong.
It's just it's a mess. It's not a fair place.
And if you want to talk about it not being
a fair place, ask Jesus about that. You come down
here for one reason, and the very reason he came
down was the suffering down across be buried raised from
the dead, and that was unjust. An innocent man dies

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on a cross for what me for you, whosoever ruled.

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