December 31, 2025 • 12 mins
What happens when a seasoned physician examines a frightening, melanoma‑like lesion on his own father’s foot… only to discover something so unexpected it becomes a brand‑new “diagnosis” in medical history?
This unforgettable holiday story swings from fear to laughter in the blink of an eye—and the lesson it reveals might just change how you think about your life and your health.
In this special year‑end episode of Wellness Connection MD, Dr. McMinn shares a hilarious and true Christmas tale from the family farm. What begins as a deeply concerning medical mystery quickly unravels into one of the most surprising—and comical—diagnoses of his career: McMinn Raisinoma Syndrome.
But this episode isn’t just about the laugh (though you’ll definitely get one). Dr. McMinn uses the experience to explore how easily our minds leap to worst‑case scenarios, both in medicine and in everyday life. He reflects on why things aren’t always what they seem, how curiosity can prevent unnecessary fear, and why functional and integrative medicine invite us to look beneath the surface for root causes rather than settling for symptom‑pill thinking.
You’ll hear:
- A suspenseful and hilarious holiday medical mystery
- How a raisin, a barefoot walk, and a few dog hairs created the perfect diagnostic illusion
- Why paradigm shifts matter in life and in medicine—and how they can transform your health
- The four major root causes of disease and why they matter
- A heartfelt invitation to bring curiosity, intention, and kindness into your health journey this coming year
This episode will leave you smiling, thinking, and maybe even re‑examining the “raisins” in your own life.
Stay curious. Stay open.-minded, and remember—sometimes the scariest problems turn out to be nothing more than a sticky raisin.
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SPEAKER_00 (00:00):
Welcome to the Wellness Connection MD Podcast
(00:03):
with Dr.
McMinn and Coach Lindsay, wherewe bring you the latest
up-to-date evidence-basedinformation on a wide variety of
health and wellness topics,along with practical take-home
solutions.
Dr.
McMinn is an infant andfunctional entity.
And Lindsay Matthews is aregistered nurse and IIN
certified health coach.
Together, our goal is to helpyou optimize your health and
(00:24):
wellness.
Mind, body, and spirit.
To see a list of all of ourpodcasts, visit.com.
And to stay up to date on thelatest topics, be sure to
subscribe to our podcast on yourfavorite podcast player so that
you'll be notified when futureepisodes come out.
The discussions continue thispodcast for educational purposes
only.
Diagnose or treatment disease.
(00:46):
Do not apply any of thisinformation without approval
from your personal doctor.
And now, on to the show with Dr.
McMahon and Coach Lindsay.
SPEAKER_01 (00:54):
Hello and welcome to Wellness Connection MD, the
evidence-based podcast.
We thank you so much for joiningus today.
I'm your host, Dr.
Jim McMahon.
Today we're going to wrap up ourpodcast here by telling you a
funny and true personal holidaystory that surprised me.
And if I'm honest, I gotta admitit even scared me a little bit
for a moment.
If you get nothing out of thispodcast other than a chuckle
from an amusing true Christmasstory to close out your holiday
(01:17):
season, then missionaccomplished.
But if you want to stick aroundto the end for the real
punchline, you might also enjoysome take-home lessons for life,
health, and medicine.
I hope you enjoy the story.
So here we go.
Even though I lived in somefar-flung corners of our
country, I always try to comehome to the family farm for
Christmas, the wonderful home ofmy beloved parents.
(01:37):
One particular year, everythingwas going great, lots of
Christmas cheer, a cracklingfire, lots of shiny colorful
packages under the tree, and waytoo much food.
Then one day I won't say who,since she's not here to defend
herself, but let's just say aclose family member approached
me with a very concerned look onher face.
She pulled me aside and statedthat she was very concerned
(01:57):
about my dad.
She had noticed a nasty lookinggrowth on the bottom of his
foot, and she wanted me to takea look at it.
So I asked him when it started.
He said he first noticed itabout a week earlier, but that
it was getting more irritatedevery day, and it was starting
to become just a bit painful.
So I took a look at it, and whenI saw it, oh my gosh, my heart
just sank.
It was indeed a very worrisomelooking lesion.
(02:18):
For those of you not in themedical field, a lesion is just
a fancy medical term for an areaof abnormal or damaged tissue in
the body.
Anyway, it was large, about aquarter inch in diameter,
raised, dark, multicolored, andwith irregular borders.
Everything about it screamedthat it might be an advanced
melanoma, which is a super badkind of skin cancer that can
spread to other places and evencan kill you.
(02:40):
In my mind, I was alreadythinking about all the work up
he would need, the extensivesurgery, and his impending
demise.
At that moment, the prognosisseemed very poor.
Our Christmas cheer suddenlyturned into worry and sadness.
So I took a deep breath andpaused for a moment to collect
my thoughts.
I tried my best not to look tooconcerned in front of my dad,
and then I got out a magnifyingglass and a bright lamp to get a
(03:02):
better look up close.
Under magnification, I noticedthat there was something very
strange about this lesion thatpuzzled me, something I'd never
seen before in my many years ofmedical practice.
It had multiple dark hairsgrowing right out of it.
Whoa, where'd this come from?
It was very strange.
Now I don't claim to be adermatologist, but I was pretty
good at diagnosing skin stuff.
But this time I was stumped.
(03:23):
A hairy melanoma?
Go figure, where'd that comefrom?
Was there even such a thing?
And then I noticed that one edgeof the mysterious lesion had a
slightly raised lip, and I'm notsure what possessed me to do
this, but I got out a Q tip andvery gently I started to probe
at that edge.
Quite frankly, I had no ideawhat I was doing, but I was
hoping and praying that I wasn'tdoing more harm than good.
To my surprise, the edge startedto lift off a bit, with no
(03:46):
bleeding, which was a hugerelief.
I was worried that it couldbleed profusely.
I continued to slowly tease itup millimeter at a time until
finally, lo and behold, theentire lesion just popped off
into my hand, and there I was,staring down at this tumor
sitting in the palm of my hand.
We all just stared at eachother, completely dumbfounded.
What had just happened?
So then I began to examine whatused to be this deadly lesion
(04:09):
just a few minutes earlier, andnow it was just a hairy,
flattened, dark brown blob in myhand.
Upon close inspection, it hitme, and I had what I can only
call a eureka moment.
What was this strange blob?
It was a sun made naturalCalifornia raisin, to be exact,
the kind that you might eat inyour raisin bran cereal, which
(04:30):
my dad ate every morning.
Turns out about a week earliermy dad sat down for his usual
breakfast of raisin bran.
Evidently, he dropped a raisinon the floor, and then later on,
as he was walking through thekitchen barefoot, he stepped on
it, and the sticky raisin stuckto his skin and lodged into a
crack in the ball of his foot.
Over the next week as he walkedaround it flattened out and
adhered even more to his skin.
(04:51):
Ultimately, the skin beneath theraisin started to become
irritated.
Oh, and then I mentioned thathe's a dog lover with several
chocolate labs, which are knownfor copious hair shedding.
So as he walked across the floorday after day, dog hairs kept
sticking to the raisin, whichexplains the dark hairs I've
never seen on any other skinlesion before.
So I'm proud to announce thatI've discovered a new medical
diagnosis.
(05:12):
And following the tradition ofmany great scientists, I've
named it after myself.
It's called McMahon Raisinomasyndrome.
And by the way, for those of younot in the medical field, any
word that ends in oma usuallydescribes a mass which is often
cancerous.
And along with this title, Ihave also described the
appropriate treatment protocol,which tends to be 100% curative.
(05:32):
And that is a completerasonectomy, although it is
admittedly a small sample size.
Needless to say, we had a goodbelly laugh about all this, and
the relief was palpable.
We dodged a bullet, in a blinkof an eye, everything changed so
drastically.
We went from a life-threateningmetastatic melanoma to a benign
raisinoma, from catastrophe tocomedy, from worst case scenario
(05:53):
to a piece of cake.
So I got to thinking, is there atake-home lesson from this?
Many of us, including me, whenwe get some sort of an ache or
pain or lesion, our mind wandersto the worst case scenario and
we just lock onto it.
We can't get it out of ourminds.
But when we just take our timeto let it play out or we look
into it, it often turns out tobe something pretty benign, a
true nothing burger.
(06:13):
That silly little razor remindedme that sometimes in medicine
and honestly in life, things arenot what they seem to be at
first glance.
And such a paradigm shift isalso at the heart of a
functional approach to medicine,both in terms of its fundamental
philosophy and its practicalapplication.
In medical school and residency,I was always taught sort of a
symptom pill or disease pillapproach to medicine.
(06:34):
The patient has UTI, you startantibiotics.
The patient has arthritis, youget them on anti-inflammatory
meds, and on and on adinfinitum, symptom pill over and
over all day long, all careerlong.
Like many things in life,medicine is a belief system.
When we providers go off for ourtraining, we are being
indoctrinated into a certainbelief system.
For instance, the same patientwith the exact same problem, for
(06:58):
instance, let's talk about lowback pain, might see a
chiropractor and the patientwould be told that they are out
of alignment and need anadjustment.
The patient might then see anacupuncturist for the same back
pain, and she might be told thatshe needs to have needles
placed.
She might then consult aninternist who starts her own
motrin and a muscle relaxer.
And then finally she might get asurgical consult and be told
(07:18):
that she needs to have anoperation.
Again, same patient, samecomplaint.
All these doctors are honorable,smart, hardworking physicians
who look at the world throughtheir own set of glasses based
on their personalindoctrination.
But when you think about it,everything really has a cause.
None of our illnesses are justcaused by bad karma, not at
least in the world ofevidence-based science.
Certainly as providers, weshould be humble enough to admit
(07:40):
that sometimes we just don'talways have the answers, and we
just have to call it idiopathic,which means that we don't have a
clue what's causing the problem.
But we owe it to the patient toat least look.
Sometimes that skin rash isreally an expression of a gut
problem.
As I discussed in a recentpodcast, sometimes profound
depression is really anexpression of a nutrient
deficiency, and the list goes onand on.
It's all connected.
(08:01):
In our current medical system,we see an oldist for this and
anologist for that, but in factwe are one big matrix mind,
body, and spirit organism.
And every part affects the otherparts.
But unfortunately, doctors arenever taught to think different
and to peel back the layers andconnect the dots and to look for
the underlying root cause.
When you think about it, thereare really only four major
(08:22):
causes of all diseases thegenome, the exposome, the
microbiome, and the mind.
And where these four factorsoverlap is where we find
disease.
I won't go into that in greatdetail.
If you'd like to learn moreabout that, then check out my
podcast called The Root Causesof Disease.
And by the way, you can find abeautiful illustration of that
at McMinMD.com under the Documusmenu entitled Causes of Disease.
(08:46):
Embracing functional andintegrative medicine allowed me
to break free of anyindoctrination, belief system,
or bias towards any particulartreatment modality and open up
the options to whatever I feltwas the best treatment regimen
for a particular patient, barnone.
For example, a lady presented tome with severe headaches, which
she'd had for years.
She had seen an excellentneurologist for quite a while
(09:07):
without any significant relief,so I figured there's no reason
to just try more drugs or repeatthings that had already been
done.
So I turned to my expandedintegrative medicine toolbox and
I tried acupuncture.
Lo and behold, she had completerelief of her headaches.
Had I not seen it with my owneyes, I would have said it was
too good to be true.
And quite frankly, before Iopened my mind to integrative
and functional medicine, I wouldnever have considered
(09:28):
acupuncture.
I might even have placedacupuncture in the quackery
wastebasket.
I'm grateful that theapplication of functional and
integrative medicine has allowedme to help patients that
otherwise had fallen through thecracks of modern medicine, like
this headache lady.
And along the way, I thinkfunctional medicine has made me
a better physician and has mademedicine much more interesting
to me.
So here's my invitation topatients and to providers as we
(09:51):
head into the new year.
Bring intention and curiosity tohealthcare, and while you're at
it, maybe throw in a little bitof loving kindness.
If you're dealing with fatigue,brain fog, digestive issues, or
whatever else is bothering you,before you fall for the symptom
pill trap or accept theexplanation that, oh, you're
just stressed out or you're justgetting old, ask yourself, could
this be a racinoma?
Is there something underneaththat we're missing?
(10:13):
A root cause that once addressedcould change everything as
quickly as pulling off thatraisin.
In closing, I hope that thisstory brought a smile to your
face, and I hope that it plantsa seed of possibility in your
health journey as we head intothe new year.
Remember, paradigm shifts canhappen.
We just have to stay curious,open-minded, seek truth, and be
intentional.
Things are not always what theyseem to be at first glance.
(10:35):
So be a great captain of yourship and look for the raisins in
your health and in your life.
So to wrap this up, I wish youand yours a wonderful close to
your holiday season and a happy,healthy, vibrant new year.
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make recommendations for futuretopics, you may do so at drmcmin
at yahoo.com.
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Well, that should do it.
(11:37):
Until next time, stay curious,stay informed, keep it real, and
remember small actions can leadto big changes.
Take that first step towardsbetter health.
This is Dr.
McMinn signing out.
Take care and be well.
Welcome to the Wellness Connection MD Podcast
(00:03):
with Dr.
McMinn and Coach Lindsay, wherewe bring you the latest
up-to-date evidence-basedinformation on a wide variety of
health and wellness topics,along with practical take-home
solutions.
Dr.
McMinn is an infant andfunctional entity.
And Lindsay Matthews is aregistered nurse and IIN
certified health coach.
Together, our goal is to helpyou optimize your health and
(00:24):
wellness.
Mind, body, and spirit.
To see a list of all of ourpodcasts, visit.com.
And to stay up to date on thelatest topics, be sure to
subscribe to our podcast on yourfavorite podcast player so that
you'll be notified when futureepisodes come out.
The discussions continue thispodcast for educational purposes
only.
Diagnose or treatment disease.
(00:46):
Do not apply any of thisinformation without approval
from your personal doctor.
And now, on to the show with Dr.
McMahon and Coach Lindsay.
SPEAKER_01 (00:54):
Hello and welcome to Wellness Connection MD, the
evidence-based podcast.
We thank you so much for joiningus today.
I'm your host, Dr.
Jim McMahon.
Today we're going to wrap up ourpodcast here by telling you a
funny and true personal holidaystory that surprised me.
And if I'm honest, I gotta admitit even scared me a little bit
for a moment.
If you get nothing out of thispodcast other than a chuckle
from an amusing true Christmasstory to close out your holiday
(01:17):
season, then missionaccomplished.
But if you want to stick aroundto the end for the real
punchline, you might also enjoysome take-home lessons for life,
health, and medicine.
I hope you enjoy the story.
So here we go.
Even though I lived in somefar-flung corners of our
country, I always try to comehome to the family farm for
Christmas, the wonderful home ofmy beloved parents.
(01:37):
One particular year, everythingwas going great, lots of
Christmas cheer, a cracklingfire, lots of shiny colorful
packages under the tree, and waytoo much food.
Then one day I won't say who,since she's not here to defend
herself, but let's just say aclose family member approached
me with a very concerned look onher face.
She pulled me aside and statedthat she was very concerned
(01:57):
about my dad.
She had noticed a nasty lookinggrowth on the bottom of his
foot, and she wanted me to takea look at it.
So I asked him when it started.
He said he first noticed itabout a week earlier, but that
it was getting more irritatedevery day, and it was starting
to become just a bit painful.
So I took a look at it, and whenI saw it, oh my gosh, my heart
just sank.
It was indeed a very worrisomelooking lesion.
(02:18):
For those of you not in themedical field, a lesion is just
a fancy medical term for an areaof abnormal or damaged tissue in
the body.
Anyway, it was large, about aquarter inch in diameter,
raised, dark, multicolored, andwith irregular borders.
Everything about it screamedthat it might be an advanced
melanoma, which is a super badkind of skin cancer that can
spread to other places and evencan kill you.
(02:40):
In my mind, I was alreadythinking about all the work up
he would need, the extensivesurgery, and his impending
demise.
At that moment, the prognosisseemed very poor.
Our Christmas cheer suddenlyturned into worry and sadness.
So I took a deep breath andpaused for a moment to collect
my thoughts.
I tried my best not to look tooconcerned in front of my dad,
and then I got out a magnifyingglass and a bright lamp to get a
(03:02):
better look up close.
Under magnification, I noticedthat there was something very
strange about this lesion thatpuzzled me, something I'd never
seen before in my many years ofmedical practice.
It had multiple dark hairsgrowing right out of it.
Whoa, where'd this come from?
It was very strange.
Now I don't claim to be adermatologist, but I was pretty
good at diagnosing skin stuff.
But this time I was stumped.
(03:23):
A hairy melanoma?
Go figure, where'd that comefrom?
Was there even such a thing?
And then I noticed that one edgeof the mysterious lesion had a
slightly raised lip, and I'm notsure what possessed me to do
this, but I got out a Q tip andvery gently I started to probe
at that edge.
Quite frankly, I had no ideawhat I was doing, but I was
hoping and praying that I wasn'tdoing more harm than good.
To my surprise, the edge startedto lift off a bit, with no
(03:46):
bleeding, which was a hugerelief.
I was worried that it couldbleed profusely.
I continued to slowly tease itup millimeter at a time until
finally, lo and behold, theentire lesion just popped off
into my hand, and there I was,staring down at this tumor
sitting in the palm of my hand.
We all just stared at eachother, completely dumbfounded.
What had just happened?
So then I began to examine whatused to be this deadly lesion
(04:09):
just a few minutes earlier, andnow it was just a hairy,
flattened, dark brown blob in myhand.
Upon close inspection, it hitme, and I had what I can only
call a eureka moment.
What was this strange blob?
It was a sun made naturalCalifornia raisin, to be exact,
the kind that you might eat inyour raisin bran cereal, which
(04:30):
my dad ate every morning.
Turns out about a week earliermy dad sat down for his usual
breakfast of raisin bran.
Evidently, he dropped a raisinon the floor, and then later on,
as he was walking through thekitchen barefoot, he stepped on
it, and the sticky raisin stuckto his skin and lodged into a
crack in the ball of his foot.
Over the next week as he walkedaround it flattened out and
adhered even more to his skin.
(04:51):
Ultimately, the skin beneath theraisin started to become
irritated.
Oh, and then I mentioned thathe's a dog lover with several
chocolate labs, which are knownfor copious hair shedding.
So as he walked across the floorday after day, dog hairs kept
sticking to the raisin, whichexplains the dark hairs I've
never seen on any other skinlesion before.
So I'm proud to announce thatI've discovered a new medical
diagnosis.
(05:12):
And following the tradition ofmany great scientists, I've
named it after myself.
It's called McMahon Raisinomasyndrome.
And by the way, for those of younot in the medical field, any
word that ends in oma usuallydescribes a mass which is often
cancerous.
And along with this title, Ihave also described the
appropriate treatment protocol,which tends to be 100% curative.
(05:32):
And that is a completerasonectomy, although it is
admittedly a small sample size.
Needless to say, we had a goodbelly laugh about all this, and
the relief was palpable.
We dodged a bullet, in a blinkof an eye, everything changed so
drastically.
We went from a life-threateningmetastatic melanoma to a benign
raisinoma, from catastrophe tocomedy, from worst case scenario
(05:53):
to a piece of cake.
So I got to thinking, is there atake-home lesson from this?
Many of us, including me, whenwe get some sort of an ache or
pain or lesion, our mind wandersto the worst case scenario and
we just lock onto it.
We can't get it out of ourminds.
But when we just take our timeto let it play out or we look
into it, it often turns out tobe something pretty benign, a
true nothing burger.
(06:13):
That silly little razor remindedme that sometimes in medicine
and honestly in life, things arenot what they seem to be at
first glance.
And such a paradigm shift isalso at the heart of a
functional approach to medicine,both in terms of its fundamental
philosophy and its practicalapplication.
In medical school and residency,I was always taught sort of a
symptom pill or disease pillapproach to medicine.
(06:34):
The patient has UTI, you startantibiotics.
The patient has arthritis, youget them on anti-inflammatory
meds, and on and on adinfinitum, symptom pill over and
over all day long, all careerlong.
Like many things in life,medicine is a belief system.
When we providers go off for ourtraining, we are being
indoctrinated into a certainbelief system.
For instance, the same patientwith the exact same problem, for
(06:58):
instance, let's talk about lowback pain, might see a
chiropractor and the patientwould be told that they are out
of alignment and need anadjustment.
The patient might then see anacupuncturist for the same back
pain, and she might be told thatshe needs to have needles
placed.
She might then consult aninternist who starts her own
motrin and a muscle relaxer.
And then finally she might get asurgical consult and be told
(07:18):
that she needs to have anoperation.
Again, same patient, samecomplaint.
All these doctors are honorable,smart, hardworking physicians
who look at the world throughtheir own set of glasses based
on their personalindoctrination.
But when you think about it,everything really has a cause.
None of our illnesses are justcaused by bad karma, not at
least in the world ofevidence-based science.
Certainly as providers, weshould be humble enough to admit
(07:40):
that sometimes we just don'talways have the answers, and we
just have to call it idiopathic,which means that we don't have a
clue what's causing the problem.
But we owe it to the patient toat least look.
Sometimes that skin rash isreally an expression of a gut
problem.
As I discussed in a recentpodcast, sometimes profound
depression is really anexpression of a nutrient
deficiency, and the list goes onand on.
It's all connected.
(08:01):
In our current medical system,we see an oldist for this and
anologist for that, but in factwe are one big matrix mind,
body, and spirit organism.
And every part affects the otherparts.
But unfortunately, doctors arenever taught to think different
and to peel back the layers andconnect the dots and to look for
the underlying root cause.
When you think about it, thereare really only four major
(08:22):
causes of all diseases thegenome, the exposome, the
microbiome, and the mind.
And where these four factorsoverlap is where we find
disease.
I won't go into that in greatdetail.
If you'd like to learn moreabout that, then check out my
podcast called The Root Causesof Disease.
And by the way, you can find abeautiful illustration of that
at McMinMD.com under the Documusmenu entitled Causes of Disease.
(08:46):
Embracing functional andintegrative medicine allowed me
to break free of anyindoctrination, belief system,
or bias towards any particulartreatment modality and open up
the options to whatever I feltwas the best treatment regimen
for a particular patient, barnone.
For example, a lady presented tome with severe headaches, which
she'd had for years.
She had seen an excellentneurologist for quite a while
(09:07):
without any significant relief,so I figured there's no reason
to just try more drugs or repeatthings that had already been
done.
So I turned to my expandedintegrative medicine toolbox and
I tried acupuncture.
Lo and behold, she had completerelief of her headaches.
Had I not seen it with my owneyes, I would have said it was
too good to be true.
And quite frankly, before Iopened my mind to integrative
and functional medicine, I wouldnever have considered
(09:28):
acupuncture.
I might even have placedacupuncture in the quackery
wastebasket.
I'm grateful that theapplication of functional and
integrative medicine has allowedme to help patients that
otherwise had fallen through thecracks of modern medicine, like
this headache lady.
And along the way, I thinkfunctional medicine has made me
a better physician and has mademedicine much more interesting
to me.
So here's my invitation topatients and to providers as we
(09:51):
head into the new year.
Bring intention and curiosity tohealthcare, and while you're at
it, maybe throw in a little bitof loving kindness.
If you're dealing with fatigue,brain fog, digestive issues, or
whatever else is bothering you,before you fall for the symptom
pill trap or accept theexplanation that, oh, you're
just stressed out or you're justgetting old, ask yourself, could
this be a racinoma?
Is there something underneaththat we're missing?
(10:13):
A root cause that once addressedcould change everything as
quickly as pulling off thatraisin.
In closing, I hope that thisstory brought a smile to your
face, and I hope that it plantsa seed of possibility in your
health journey as we head intothe new year.
Remember, paradigm shifts canhappen.
We just have to stay curious,open-minded, seek truth, and be
intentional.
Things are not always what theyseem to be at first glance.
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So be a great captain of yourship and look for the raisins in
your health and in your life.
So to wrap this up, I wish youand yours a wonderful close to
your holiday season and a happy,healthy, vibrant new year.
If you'd like to reach out to meto comment on the show or to
make recommendations for futuretopics, you may do so at drmcmin
at yahoo.com.
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Well, that should do it.
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Until next time, stay curious,stay informed, keep it real, and
remember small actions can leadto big changes.
Take that first step towardsbetter health.
This is Dr.
McMinn signing out.
Take care and be well.
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