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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here it is your Channel nine first warning. Weather forecasts
going to be a sunny day to day, less humid
than yesterday eighty eight for the high, a few clouds
over night sixty six to low independence day, lots of
sun high in ninety one. Humidity they say will not
be an issue, which is good. Dust temperature eighty degrees
perfect for fireworks, and overnight low is sixty eight which
is mostly clear skies. Saturday, it's a hot one ninety
(00:23):
four for the high, with humidity climbing and currently sixty
eight degrees. Right now, let's get to trafic updating. Chuck Ingram, Chuck.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
From you see how traffic center. The University of Cincinnati
Cancer Center has the most comprehensive blood cancer center in
the nation. The future at cancer Care is here called
five one, three, five eight five U see c see
highway traffic doing just fine. I'm seeing no major time
delays to deal with it all, including northbound seventy five
slows just a bit into the cut. Cliway Bailey is
(00:55):
now open one millte in each direction. Once again, Chuck
Ingram on fifty five KARC the talk station say thirty
one and fifty five KRCD talk station. Hey, very happy
Independence Day Eve to you. Please to welcome to the
fifty five KRST Morning Show from a wonderful organization called
First Step Home, which you can find out information on
(01:17):
your own by going to the website first Step Home
dot com. And please to welcome to the firty five
KRC Morning Show, Morgan Gibson. She's part of the management team. Morgan,
Welcome to the fifty five Carsite Morning Show. It's a
pleasure having you on today.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Good morning, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Well, I'm excited to let my listeners know and let
you let my listeners know what you're doing there at
the First Step Home, which is I guess you're unique
in that you are an addiction treatment center, but you're
the only ones in the area that allow children up
to age twelve to live with their mothers while they're
getting treatment.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
We do, we do.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
We are providing gender specific care and we have specific
programming for our pregnant, postpartum and parenting women.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Well, I suppose, and you can correct me if I'm wrong.
A lot of the reason people I'll call it self
medicaid and quite often get addicted is because they had
some underlying psychological struggle or issue they're dealing with, and
so rather than trying to wrestle through it with therapy
or which is the kind of thing you're providing, it's
easier just to mask it with the booze or the drugs.
(02:20):
And I but along those lines, and again correct me
if I'm wrong in my understanding. But if you're a
mother and you're taking away from your children why you're
getting treatment, that seems it might exacerbate the underlying mental
health challenges you may be dealing with.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Definitely, And that's absolutely one of the reasons that women
don't come into treatment a lot of times is because
they don't have care for their children. And so for
them to get help, it's very important for them to
be able to bring their children and keep their children
with them.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Well as a component of them on the path to
getting rid of the addiction on their path to becoming well.
Don't the children provide some measure of help along those lines,
Because you're looking at someone who's dependent upon you. You're
in a situation where you found yourself in treatment because
you have addiction. I would think having those children there
(03:14):
would be an inspiration for you to stay on the
right path.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
It is absolutely a motivation for the women to do well,
and the women want their children with them, and their
children want to be with their moms.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Yeah. Yeah, now you arranged for or children are still
able to stay in school while they're living there with
their mothers.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Yes, And we do our best to keep the kids
in the schools that they're going to.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
But when that's not possible.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
We get the children into school and the schools that
are close to us.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Okay, and you are located in Walnut Hills, I guess
I should say that we are.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
We are in a nine building facility and we're located
all within one block in Walnut Hills.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
How many women do you serve generally speaking?
Speaker 4 (03:55):
On average nearly about two eighty annually and eighty Yeah,
and anywhere between thirty to forty children in our care
during that time. Wow.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Is there a sort of corollary between something underlying in
these women's life? Like you can say, okay, the most
of these women have experienced the following, whether it's poor childhood, upbringing,
socioeconomic issues, maybe family history, a genetic history of substance abuse.
(04:28):
I mean, have you seen a parallel or a trend
from your working with these women since nineteen ninety three, Rother.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Yes, absolutely, all the things that you've listed, in addition
to a significant history of trauma, lots of women who
have been in domestic violence relationships, physical abuse, sexual abuse,
sex trafficking, also homelessness.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Definitely, all the things that you listed as well.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Now in terms of addiction happens on every income level.
I'm just wondering you see a variety of socioeconomic mix
the women that you serve and help.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Yes, definitely, we've had pharmacists, nurses, doctors in our facility before.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Addiction definitely does not discriminate.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Fair enough, We'll pause. I want to bring you back
talk about some of the services you offer outreach and
this wonderful organization again first step home dot org, and
I'm sure they would be more than happy to take
a donation. Look right there, upper right hand corner of
the website, so you can help them out with these
wonderful services. We'll bring Morgan back after I mentioned affordable
imaging services so you don't have to pay crazy amounts
(05:32):
hospital imaging departments they're just profit centers, folks. I mean,
I know they're doing the image and I know it's
done on equipment that provides the image, and I know
there's a board certified radiologist is going to get a report.
You'll probably pay separate for that. But why is it
thirty five hundred bucks for an echo cardiogrammy? Why do
you have to wait around three weeks to a month
to get in there when you can go to Affordable
Imaging Services and get that exact same thing for five
(05:52):
hundred bucks without an enhancement or eight hundred with an enhancement.
The image price at affordable comes with the radiologist report,
so there's no sense wine items for that. Don't pay
five thousand for a CT scan. Do what I did.
Go to Affordable Imaging Service and get one for four
hundred and fifty with no contrast. I needed a contrast,
so it was six hundred bucks. Not a problem. Save myself.
(06:13):
He bloads the money and you can too. You have
a choice. So ultrasound, cts, MRIs, Echo cardiograms, Affordable Medimaging
dot com. That's where you find them online, all the
prices and information Affordable Medimaging dot com. Low overhead keeping
the price down five one three seven five three eight thousand.
That's seven five three, eight.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Thousand, fifty five KRC.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Channel nine tells us it's gonna be a sunny day, thankfully, Well, no,
slightly more humid. I was gonna say that's tomorrow. More
humidity today, eighty eight for the high. Sixty six overnight
with a few clowns, plenty of sun tomorrows and they're
saying humidity not an issue. Tomorrow. Ninety one will be
the high about eighty by dust for the fireworks beginning overnight.
Low is sixty eight clear sky Saturday hot one ninety
(07:00):
four degrees with humidity climbing. It's sixty eight degrees right now.
It's time for a traffic update.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Chuck Ingram from the uc HOW Traffic Center. The University
of Cincinnati Cancer Center has the most comprehensive blood cancer
center in the nation. The future of cancercars here called
five month three five eighty five U see see see
highway traffic not all back pads just to bid heaving
northbound seventy five Dixie to Kyle's and southbound two seventy
(07:26):
five Lawrence Burg Ramp to the bridge. There's a wreck
in Claremont County on Nordyke at nine mile Shuck Ingram
on fifty five KRS the talk station.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Fifty five KRC the talk station Ban Thomas pleased to
have Morgan Gibson, CEO of a wonderful organization called First
Step Home, which you can find online at first Tap
home dot org. And what they're doing is providing that's
a nonprofit, I should point interject. They're providing support for
women with substance abuse as well as their children, and
the only area facility that allows children to live with
(08:04):
their mothers while they're getting this residential treatment or inpatient treatment.
How does that work now? Do you is it exclusively
residential or do you provide also outpatient services for women
who are seeking to get help with their addiction.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
We provide a full continuum of care, so we have residential, intensive, outpatient,
and outpatient services as well as recovery housing.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Okay, and I guess you've been around since nineteen ninety three.
I did mention that my listeners could help donate to
your organization because of what the great work you're doing.
But how do you survive? Obviously, it's a very large
complex you have there, and that doesn't go without a
lot of overhead and maintenance and upkeep and salaries and
(08:46):
all that how do you generally cover the cost?
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Yeah, it's a mixture of things, for sure.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
We're definitely always looking at ways to diversify revenue. So
we're primarily Medicaid funded, but we are also supported by
by grants and foundations and individual donations.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Good. Obviously folks are aware about you, but to the
extent there's some business out there that wants to adopt
a charity, I would startally encourage them to reach out
to you. We do have a significant substance abuse problem.
I mean, I mean, are the numbers on the rise?
Do you see any positivity in the numbers or is
it a static thing over the years you've been doing this.
Where are we right now?
Speaker 4 (09:24):
So there's definitely been some increases in different substances, so
different substances will be higher at different points. For sure,
we're definitely seeing increase in alcohol use in the.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Community and.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Definitely trying to just help in any way that we
can with whatever that comes at us.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
For sure.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Now you involved with the court system, the family courts
for example, are you getting referrals from you know, women
that are in front of the judge because well, either
it was the substance itself that got them there or
a substance related problem that led them on some criminal enterprise.
It's got them involved in the criminal justice system. Do
they're aware of you in Hamilton County and elsewhere?
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
We're also connected with the local drug courts and the
family courts and change court and definitely with children's services.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Now, what type of treatments are involved and is there
sort of a generally accepted rough time frame that this
you'll be involved with counseling if you're a patient or
someone seeking counseling there.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
It's very individualized, so it really depends on how much
treatment someone's had.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
In the past, and.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
So they can be in treatment anywhere between thirty days
to a year or more.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Really, and in terms of overall long term success rate,
it's like a cancer diagnosis. You know, you're in remission
for five years and that's considered a success. Is there
a high recidivism rate in terms of the drug treatment
of people entering back into the program.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Definitely.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Statistically speaking, we're looking at individuals entering treatment anywhere between
four to seven times before getting long term recovery.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
All right, So as opposed to one on one therapy,
which and I don't know if you offer that considering
the number of women in the facility, but this group
being together, all similarly struggling, I imagine that creates a
very supportive environment for the women. They're not alone. There's
a woman sitting right next to them that's got the
same struggles. They talk and interact among themselves. If I
(11:25):
have sort of a picture of what's going on there.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Definitely, it's definitely a sisterhood in a community. These are
relationships that women are going to have for the rest
of their lives. And we do offer individual therapy and
group counseling, case management, psychiatric treatment, and all those things
while they're in treatment with us.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Now, as for the children, obviously children are quite impacted
if their mother has a substance abuse problem, they may
have been dealing with neglect or abuse themselves. Do you
offer services for the children that are staying with their
mothers there along those lines mental health or services.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
So we have a childcare on site to help support
the moms, but for treatment services, we are partnered with
wonderful agencies in the community, including Gladhouse and Cincinnati Children's Hospital,
to provide any ongoing care for the kids that they need.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Well that's great. Well, I can encourage, you know, to
keep up the great work, and I will strongly encourage
my listening audience out there to maybe pass a donation
along your way first step home dot org. I wish
you didn't have to be in in existence, but thank
god there are organizations like you that are out there, Morgan,
and keep up the great work on behalf of these
women who really I guess they really are truly interested
(12:37):
in turning their lives around.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
They are. Thank you so much for having me on.
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Here it is your Channel nine first warning. Weather forecasts
going to be a sunny day to day, less humid
than yesterday eighty eight for the high, a few clouds
over night sixty six to low independence day, lots of
sun high in ninety one. Humidity they say will not
be an issue, which is good. Dust temperature eighty degrees
perfect for fireworks, and overnight low is sixty eight which
is mostly clear skies. Saturday, it's a hot one ninety
(00:23):
four for the high, with humidity climbing and currently sixty
eight degrees. Right now, let's get to trafic updating. Chuck Ingram, Chuck.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
From you see how traffic center. The University of Cincinnati
Cancer Center has the most comprehensive blood cancer center in
the nation. The future at cancer Care is here called
five one, three, five eight five U see c see
highway traffic doing just fine. I'm seeing no major time
delays to deal with it all, including northbound seventy five
slows just a bit into the cut. Cliway Bailey is
(00:55):
now open one millte in each direction. Once again, Chuck
Ingram on fifty five KARC the talk station say thirty
one and fifty five KRCD talk station. Hey, very happy
Independence Day Eve to you. Please to welcome to the
fifty five KRST Morning Show from a wonderful organization called
First Step Home, which you can find out information on
(01:17):
your own by going to the website first Step Home
dot com. And please to welcome to the firty five
KRC Morning Show, Morgan Gibson. She's part of the management team. Morgan,
Welcome to the fifty five Carsite Morning Show. It's a
pleasure having you on today.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Good morning, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Well, I'm excited to let my listeners know and let
you let my listeners know what you're doing there at
the First Step Home, which is I guess you're unique
in that you are an addiction treatment center, but you're
the only ones in the area that allow children up
to age twelve to live with their mothers while they're
getting treatment.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
We do, we do.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
We are providing gender specific care and we have specific
programming for our pregnant, postpartum and parenting women.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Well, I suppose, and you can correct me if I'm wrong.
A lot of the reason people I'll call it self
medicaid and quite often get addicted is because they had
some underlying psychological struggle or issue they're dealing with, and
so rather than trying to wrestle through it with therapy
or which is the kind of thing you're providing, it's
easier just to mask it with the booze or the drugs.
(02:20):
And I but along those lines, and again correct me
if I'm wrong in my understanding. But if you're a
mother and you're taking away from your children why you're
getting treatment, that seems it might exacerbate the underlying mental
health challenges you may be dealing with.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Definitely, And that's absolutely one of the reasons that women
don't come into treatment a lot of times is because
they don't have care for their children. And so for
them to get help, it's very important for them to
be able to bring their children and keep their children
with them.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Well as a component of them on the path to
getting rid of the addiction on their path to becoming well.
Don't the children provide some measure of help along those lines,
Because you're looking at someone who's dependent upon you. You're
in a situation where you found yourself in treatment because
you have addiction. I would think having those children there
(03:14):
would be an inspiration for you to stay on the
right path.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
It is absolutely a motivation for the women to do well,
and the women want their children with them, and their
children want to be with their moms.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Yeah. Yeah, now you arranged for or children are still
able to stay in school while they're living there with
their mothers.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Yes, And we do our best to keep the kids
in the schools that they're going to.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
But when that's not possible.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
We get the children into school and the schools that
are close to us.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Okay, and you are located in Walnut Hills, I guess
I should say that we are.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
We are in a nine building facility and we're located
all within one block in Walnut Hills.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
How many women do you serve generally speaking?
Speaker 4 (03:55):
On average nearly about two eighty annually and eighty Yeah,
and anywhere between thirty to forty children in our care
during that time. Wow.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Is there a sort of corollary between something underlying in
these women's life? Like you can say, okay, the most
of these women have experienced the following, whether it's poor childhood, upbringing,
socioeconomic issues, maybe family history, a genetic history of substance abuse.
(04:28):
I mean, have you seen a parallel or a trend
from your working with these women since nineteen ninety three, Rother.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Yes, absolutely, all the things that you've listed, in addition
to a significant history of trauma, lots of women who
have been in domestic violence relationships, physical abuse, sexual abuse,
sex trafficking, also homelessness.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Definitely, all the things that you listed as well.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Now in terms of addiction happens on every income level.
I'm just wondering you see a variety of socioeconomic mix
the women that you serve and help.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Yes, definitely, we've had pharmacists, nurses, doctors in our facility before.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Addiction definitely does not discriminate.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Fair enough, We'll pause. I want to bring you back
talk about some of the services you offer outreach and
this wonderful organization again first step home dot org, and
I'm sure they would be more than happy to take
a donation. Look right there, upper right hand corner of
the website, so you can help them out with these
wonderful services. We'll bring Morgan back after I mentioned affordable
imaging services so you don't have to pay crazy amounts
(05:32):
hospital imaging departments they're just profit centers, folks. I mean,
I know they're doing the image and I know it's
done on equipment that provides the image, and I know
there's a board certified radiologist is going to get a report.
You'll probably pay separate for that. But why is it
thirty five hundred bucks for an echo cardiogrammy? Why do
you have to wait around three weeks to a month
to get in there when you can go to Affordable
Imaging Services and get that exact same thing for five
(05:52):
hundred bucks without an enhancement or eight hundred with an enhancement.
The image price at affordable comes with the radiologist report,
so there's no sense wine items for that. Don't pay
five thousand for a CT scan. Do what I did.
Go to Affordable Imaging Service and get one for four
hundred and fifty with no contrast. I needed a contrast,
so it was six hundred bucks. Not a problem. Save myself.
(06:13):
He bloads the money and you can too. You have
a choice. So ultrasound, cts, MRIs, Echo cardiograms, Affordable Medimaging
dot com. That's where you find them online, all the
prices and information Affordable Medimaging dot com. Low overhead keeping
the price down five one three seven five three eight thousand.
That's seven five three, eight.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Thousand, fifty five KRC.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Channel nine tells us it's gonna be a sunny day, thankfully, Well, no,
slightly more humid. I was gonna say that's tomorrow. More
humidity today, eighty eight for the high. Sixty six overnight
with a few clowns, plenty of sun tomorrows and they're
saying humidity not an issue. Tomorrow. Ninety one will be
the high about eighty by dust for the fireworks beginning overnight.
Low is sixty eight clear sky Saturday hot one ninety
(07:00):
four degrees with humidity climbing. It's sixty eight degrees right now.
It's time for a traffic update.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Chuck Ingram from the uc HOW Traffic Center. The University
of Cincinnati Cancer Center has the most comprehensive blood cancer
center in the nation. The future of cancercars here called
five month three five eighty five U see see see
highway traffic not all back pads just to bid heaving
northbound seventy five Dixie to Kyle's and southbound two seventy
(07:26):
five Lawrence Burg Ramp to the bridge. There's a wreck
in Claremont County on Nordyke at nine mile Shuck Ingram
on fifty five KRS the talk station.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Fifty five KRC the talk station Ban Thomas pleased to
have Morgan Gibson, CEO of a wonderful organization called First
Step Home, which you can find online at first Tap
home dot org. And what they're doing is providing that's
a nonprofit, I should point interject. They're providing support for
women with substance abuse as well as their children, and
the only area facility that allows children to live with
(08:04):
their mothers while they're getting this residential treatment or inpatient treatment.
How does that work now? Do you is it exclusively
residential or do you provide also outpatient services for women
who are seeking to get help with their addiction.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
We provide a full continuum of care, so we have residential, intensive, outpatient,
and outpatient services as well as recovery housing.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Okay, and I guess you've been around since nineteen ninety three.
I did mention that my listeners could help donate to
your organization because of what the great work you're doing.
But how do you survive? Obviously, it's a very large
complex you have there, and that doesn't go without a
lot of overhead and maintenance and upkeep and salaries and
(08:46):
all that how do you generally cover the cost?
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Yeah, it's a mixture of things, for sure.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
We're definitely always looking at ways to diversify revenue. So
we're primarily Medicaid funded, but we are also supported by
by grants and foundations and individual donations.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Good. Obviously folks are aware about you, but to the
extent there's some business out there that wants to adopt
a charity, I would startally encourage them to reach out
to you. We do have a significant substance abuse problem.
I mean, I mean, are the numbers on the rise?
Do you see any positivity in the numbers or is
it a static thing over the years you've been doing this.
Where are we right now?
Speaker 4 (09:24):
So there's definitely been some increases in different substances, so
different substances will be higher at different points. For sure,
we're definitely seeing increase in alcohol use in the.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Community and.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Definitely trying to just help in any way that we
can with whatever that comes at us.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
For sure.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Now you involved with the court system, the family courts
for example, are you getting referrals from you know, women
that are in front of the judge because well, either
it was the substance itself that got them there or
a substance related problem that led them on some criminal enterprise.
It's got them involved in the criminal justice system. Do
they're aware of you in Hamilton County and elsewhere?
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
We're also connected with the local drug courts and the
family courts and change court and definitely with children's services.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Now, what type of treatments are involved and is there
sort of a generally accepted rough time frame that this
you'll be involved with counseling if you're a patient or
someone seeking counseling there.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
It's very individualized, so it really depends on how much
treatment someone's had.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
In the past, and.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
So they can be in treatment anywhere between thirty days
to a year or more.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Really, and in terms of overall long term success rate,
it's like a cancer diagnosis. You know, you're in remission
for five years and that's considered a success. Is there
a high recidivism rate in terms of the drug treatment
of people entering back into the program.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Definitely.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Statistically speaking, we're looking at individuals entering treatment anywhere between
four to seven times before getting long term recovery.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
All right, So as opposed to one on one therapy,
which and I don't know if you offer that considering
the number of women in the facility, but this group
being together, all similarly struggling, I imagine that creates a
very supportive environment for the women. They're not alone. There's
a woman sitting right next to them that's got the
same struggles. They talk and interact among themselves. If I
(11:25):
have sort of a picture of what's going on there.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Definitely, it's definitely a sisterhood in a community. These are
relationships that women are going to have for the rest
of their lives. And we do offer individual therapy and
group counseling, case management, psychiatric treatment, and all those things
while they're in treatment with us.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Now, as for the children, obviously children are quite impacted
if their mother has a substance abuse problem, they may
have been dealing with neglect or abuse themselves. Do you
offer services for the children that are staying with their
mothers there along those lines mental health or services.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
So we have a childcare on site to help support
the moms, but for treatment services, we are partnered with
wonderful agencies in the community, including Gladhouse and Cincinnati Children's Hospital,
to provide any ongoing care for the kids that they need.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Well that's great. Well, I can encourage, you know, to
keep up the great work, and I will strongly encourage
my listening audience out there to maybe pass a donation
along your way first step home dot org. I wish
you didn't have to be in in existence, but thank
god there are organizations like you that are out there, Morgan,
and keep up the great work on behalf of these
women who really I guess they really are truly interested
(12:37):
in turning their lives around.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
They are. Thank you so much for having me on.
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(13:05):
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