Dinner Is Served
Welcome everybody. There is wine, cocktails, Dr. Pepper, pomegranate juice, cranberry juice, and assorted beverages at the end of the porch. Help yourself. This is a loose occasion. Feel free to come and go at will, not come, or come late and hang out for a bit. I'll be here and up all night. Enjoy.
BTW, this is the backyard, daylight view, where the lightning bugs will be.
I'm also putting the Victory!!! thread underneath so we can continue that magnificent discussion.
BTW, this is the backyard, daylight view, where the lightning bugs will be.
I'm also putting the Victory!!! thread underneath so we can continue that magnificent discussion.
113 Comments:
Lovely setting, jm . . . lovely! Is that lavender in the foreground or some type of Salvia? I do so love lavender. . . always run my hand over it when passing to release the fragrance . . .mmmmmm
mmmm gorgeous the food the setting how fine, do you think we should awaken Aunt Jenny? would that be nurse Jenny?
i hope Swami Vishinu comes and how 'bout Myrtle Rae? Free tonight?
i forgot to ask what time zone guess mountain...
PS i slid some homemade strawberry popscicles into your freezer for you to enjoy later.
Hahah i note that Neith and i show up at the same time hej sister from the eastside.
Me too -loving lavender- one of the few things that grow here and salvias too. i have several varieties of both.
Btw Neith and all, as much as it's a danged thing i have a wonky keyboard tonight and an especially funky cursor, never-the-less we are here and hope for your forebearance with the technical zaniness that may pop out of here been a day, One of Myrtle Rae's i think.
Hej Tseka!!! So good to see you, my friend and sister!! Wonky keyboard & all . . . :-) I'm just dropping in briefly for now but will come back by for coffee & a cookie later . . . hugs to you all!!
Oh MY GODDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!
You are so much fun I can't believe it!!!!
I can't budge that Aunt Jenny! She's a goner till after the full Pisces Moon!
Yes! Myrtle Rae DID say she would be dropping by. As for Swami vish i nu, he's doing a special bell and song ceremony for the departure of Pluto, but might drop in later.
And tseka, you are the sweetest, most darling friend I could ever wish for. My popsicle jag is not over yet, and strawberry sounds fantastic!
Don't let me drink too much wine!
Everybody grab your glasses!!
First of all. I'd like to toast our amazing pal Pluto, for giving us the strength and confidence we will need to continue without his overblown, spooky, nuclear annihilation fearing, conspiracy promoting, destructive power mongering, end of civilization belief, and progress to the inner search for true knowledge and understanding, the healing of longstanding emotional wounds, and the integration of positive and ngeative experience into a magnificent whole.
Second, I'd like to drink to our frienship.
May we thrive in joy!
Typos be damned!!!!!
skål!!!!!
To healing
friendship
imagination
~~~~damn the typos (and the cursed cursor) and full speed ahead!
Wishing us all a fair wind.
Hey! How did you get that circle up ther above the a in ska?
A fair wind is a good one.
Full speed ahead! Ha ha!
We are riding our Sag stallions for certain. I just looked it up t. Mars in Virgo has just passed the square to our 20 degree Merc/Jup. My jupiter is outrageous. I can't believe you've got the reins on it.
i'm late...i'm late...so sorry, I've been over at the Ren-Ren's, helping her clean out her closet. Saying goodbye to her youth and she's so traumatized. I'm exhausted. I need a cocktail...maybe an icy cosmopolitan.
OMG, your backyard is GORGEOUS! mmmmm, breathe the lavender in. so heady. Did anyone bring salad? I need rabbit food.
oh, and I like the Italian toast,
cin cin (chin chin)! so festive feeling.
is it too much to hope for a hot tub? my muscles ache.
CASEY!!!!!!!!!
I'm so glad you're here!
I'll fix your drink pronto! You've had a rough week.
The mediterranean salad is on its way with the Armenian cucumbers and basil, would you believe, from my little garden!
Goddammit it all to hell!!!! I wanted to relax, have a cocktail or two, but I have to get my flat tire fixed right away on my little sports coupe! I picked up a nail, I believe.
So I'll be back shortly. Keep the ice iced.
I almost went to bed and almost missed this little party... but then I'm a few time zones earlier than most here. I worked like a madman all day making a nice salsa with the usual ingredients but with the subtle sweetness of those Colorado peaches that are currently everywhere (but not for long).
*yawn* I'll take a cup of wine, please. That will send me right to sleep, but wake me if Myrtle Rae should happen to do cartwheels after tippling just a bit too much.
Slán go fóill! (bye for now)
The salsa is delicious joe. Thank you ever so much. See you in a bit.
mmmm, mediterranean salad. I live on them in the summer. Healthiest diet in the world.
The bread looks yummy too.
I may scurry off for a few minutes to take a nice hot bath. muscles are really aching here. been standing up for hours, saying, throw it away...throw it away...are you EVER going to wear that again? throw it away.
Tseka, you wise one. Please pass the salt so we can let our sorrows flow out and into the earth.
I'm either fashionably late... or slightly early depending on the time zone, heck it's always 7:45 SOMEWHERE! Enjoying Mongoose IPA as a reward for a day well spent, helped my husband set up for a small event in the neighborhood, then I came home and changed every light fixture on the upper floor...place looks so much better now AND we made $180, can't beat that for a sat. afternoon. Don't know how long I'll last,I'm so worn out, but glad to be here...
Peach salsa! Brought some whole-grain tortilla crackers, they're probably a great combo!
The place looks great, and you're playing some wonderful music there...who is it?
Juno!!!!!!!!!! Congrats on a good day.
The music?
That's me!
Singing King of the blues.
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Hey! How did you get that circle up ther above the a in ska?
skål
character map if you have a pc follow this path...star menu-> progams ->accessories(we wanna look good at a party) -> system tools -> character map has all the letters and symbols.
On my old Mac you could just use alt keys same on my Unix/linux but this is an old laptop....
One of the spa treatments, the Ren-Ren was angsting over was something called the "Salt Glow." Sounds lovely to me.
Hej ya all, glad to see you!
Keep the ice iced hahahah oh dang, my sides..that Myrtle Rae can keep us in stitches.
i don't think i'll be able to stay long a patient just called in melt down she is on her way here.
We'll see how it plays. i was hoping for some dancing...and some listening to jm's music.
BBL
That mars just hit my moon in 7th, should not have answered the phone....
Tseka! Thanks. Didn't know you knew these things too.
Angsting. Great word.
Job done!
Well, this Pluto thing is amazing.
I was married to a Scorpio once, but I survived it. Fortunately he had a Venus in Sagittarius, so he was fun at times and a great traveling companion. Spoke Javanese too.
My worst experience, though, was a Scorpio mule I once had with a Moon in Aries. Damn! He was awful!
I need another drink!
BTW, this salsa is delicious.
They could pour me onto a table at a spa and do anything they wished to me, salt rubs, mud packs, long, deep massages, and of course, a pedicure, to get the pesky callus on the back of my heel that I can't reach very well...:) Oh, and a hot tub, I'm with ya there, Casey. I miss the one we had in CA. Maybe some time in a sauna, I could really use that...
Thanks for the computer lesson, Tseka, now I can put umlauts on everything!:)
Oh, my sim matriarch just passed on...Complete with Grim Reaper and hula girls. Sorry guys. A sad little simming moment. I knew it was about to happen...she had no more time left on her lifespan. Her husband should pass on at the end of the current day.
Hope it doesn't throw the toddler into aspiration failure. So sad when the little ones take it hard.
Simming...it covers it all from birth to death and even to ghosts. And zombies, if you like such things. sniff.
salsa, love salsa.
"They could pour me onto a table at a spa and do anything they wished to me, salt rubs, mud packs, long, deep massages, and of course, a pedicure, to get the pesky callus on the back of my heel that I can't reach very well...:) Oh, and a hot tub, "
See that's what I'm talking about. What in the world is there to stress about at a spa? It all sounds good to me!
Well we all could use a bit of relaxation. Popping Pluto out has done us in.
What in the world is there to stress about at a spa?
Ain't it the truth.
I once knew a Moon in Capricorn who did nothing but talk about her PHD in the hot tub, in the steam room, in the sauna, and in the eucalyptus room. some people stay stressed permanently.
STRESS!!
Don't get me started!
Jm, darling, please refresh my drink.
That was me, Myrtle of course.
I mean, that was me.
Just a little astro on this since it is important to me with my Taurus/Scorpio nodes.
Casey, your Taurus rising is all about relaxation. But the Moon/Mars Scorpio 7th is about other's stress. My nodes are 1st/7th too. If you can think of ways to be around stressful people but remain centered and calm, please let me know.
Years ago, in IL, when I worked at this deli, the counter maven was this lady named Marge. Nice enough woman, but very conventional in her worldview. She'd always get these migraines at work, and I , not really enjoying my life at work while Marge was in a bad mood, was more than happy to do some reiki and pressure point massage on the back of her neck to help ease things off. After a while, I got the sense that her problems were very much tension-related and suggested massage.
"Oh, no, I couldn't do that," she said.
"Why on earth not?" I asked.
"Because some woman would be touching me. I don't like the idea of that..."
"There are male massuses..."
"What! And have some strange man touch me....!"
I dropped it there, but I always felt sorry for her after.
It's incredible that people could have any anxiety about something that is so good and basic (and necessary) to the psyche as healing touch. But then, that's probably the Leo, I know I deserve it! :)
Feel like some wine, hey jm, I don't recognize this bottle, is this the wine you mentioned earlier?
Heh, if you find that secret, let me know too.:)
FOR CRYING OUT LOUD, next time could you please send out invitations?
I've been watching a documentary on the Ottoman Empire - that's right, TV!! - when I could have been partying.
I hate being late.
Sheesh.
Yeah, juno. It's from the hills of cental Portugal where the grapes are unique and the water is abundant and clean.
Delicious. I believe I'll have another. The lightening bugs are getting a little blurry though.
Right, Myrtle?
You bring up a very very interesting point. The migraines and touch. I know the headaches are associated with perfectionism, but I wonder if it has something to do with isolation and physical tenseness.
Pat!! But the Ottoman Empire is so timely! We need to know. Someone's gotta keep up with the real world.
Can I get you a libation?
Thanks, JM, got my own bottle of pino grigio here, $3.99 at Trader Joe's :-)
Plus some goat cheese and chocolate cookies.
I am definitely not a Virgo.
Oh, Pat, the invitation's on the front page a couple of days ago.
We're SO glad you're here. Though it's coming up on midnight here and these evening was SO stressful.
My mind just boggles but the Ren-Ren wasn't worrying about GETTING the massage. She was just afraid she would choose the wrong one. Or the wrong masseuse. I think that all comes under the heading of "making it worse than it has to be."
But we did have a long chat this evening while pruning the closet, and it turns out she doesn't like getting OLD. Doesn't want to give up her youth. Resents that she feels silly in her old goth get-ups. And doesn't feel attractive now.
And she's glaring at me and I'm thinking, YOU'RE TALKING TO ME about this? Me, who hasn't even looked in a mirror in 10 months? Whose hair is permanently in a ponytail?
Well, she was a perfectionist, the perfect little midwestern housewife with 2.5 kids and a little dayjob for some extra clothes money. I suspect she found me interesting because I am so not any of those things. She just couldn't concieve of going against her conditioning even if she was unhappy doing what she was doing...
Oh oh! ROFL! Trader Joe's! My man at $3.99. Right in the artist's budget.
Goat cheese and chocolate cookies? That sounds more like a Taurus SN.
Hey. Even after my praise of Virgos, I'm asking the good lord not to reincarnate me as one. Not unless Ceres takes over. Then I'd consider it.
LOL, goth clothes! I remember getting rid of all my old goth and punk items a few years after my pregnancys...slowly, one at a time, reconciling myself to having my grandmother's hips and how those weren't going to fit into that perfect kilt-mini skirt anymore...I do wish I hasn't been so hasty with my vintage stuff, now that I costume for theater occasionally...
Ha ha ha ha ha!
wasn't worrying about GETTING the massage. She was just afraid she would choose the wrong one.
I'm afraid I know that one.
The rigidity of the 2.5 mother. yup. Fertile migraine ground. Rage too in the headaches.
lovely party, jm...everything was delicious. the music (and your voice) was perfect. I could sit around all night listening to the blues, but I'm afraid I'm conking out.
watch for shooting stars. all you need is a lawn lounger and a bottle of wine. 'night all.
manana
Have a wonderful sound sleep casey. Thanks for coming. It was a joy.
Oh dear, I missed the invite . . . I have to plead overwork, stress and exhaustion. And it's still not over. Brought work home with me this weekend, have a ton of editing to do tomorrow.
Yep, know what it means to be getting older and wanting to look good in my clothes. There is no substitute for good taste, which includes dressing for one's age. No woman over 50 should be wearing mini-skirts - Tina Turner excepted. Elegance and grace go a long way, and they don't have to be boring.
Juno, your friend Marge needed a PEDICURE. To hell with the color, I go for the foot massage (Pisces Moon especially digs it). Half the cost of a massage and has wonderful effects on neck and shoulders via foot reflexology, without having to take your clothes off.
But I hear you about the fear. BTDT, one of the great victories of my life that I overcame a strict Catholic upbringing. Definitely a Pluto subject.
Well, everyone. I'm going to step out into the yard for a peek at the lightening bugs, have one more little cocktail, and then head off to the 24 hour gym for a little run on the treadmill. It's been wonderful!
And lightning bugs. If I miss anything from the midwest, it's a starry summer night, the air sweet with corn pollen and lightning bugs illuminating the night with their odd greenish twinkling....Hmmm, brings back old memories...
I'm a prude and have never felt comfortable in mini skirts. Plus I'm so active when I get going I coudn't do anything in them.
But I don't exactly dress like a middle ager. More like a teen in jeans actually.
Pat, You've got to tell us when time permits how you transcended Catholicism. Those priests are something scary to a young'un I
the air sweet with corn pollen,
That's poetry, juno. Oh that's nice. Goes so well with Portuguese wine. Maybe Pat could give me one of her chocolate cookies. Oooooooh. What a soft balmy summer night.
Night Casey, did see a shooting star just now as i hugged my patient a goodnight and sent her home.
Glad to be back. Crickets? humming in the lavender.
Hej Pat nice to see you could make it, i'll take one of those cookies if you are offering, TJ's don't ya love em?
Isn't it amazing? how complex life is. What a vast buffet.
Tonight people are getting murdered. people are making love. people are worried about Pluto. People are sleeping. People are talking. People are suffering, and people are enjoying themselves.
I still say the greatest gift in life is freedom of choice.
Thanks Pat! I'll remember the pedicure thing. I don't run into people that 'shy' out here much, but that is a very good suggestion.
Believe me, having grown up in IL, it took a couple of years in CA and experiencing people hugging each other for practically no reason at all to get over it...
Tseka! That was fast!
A shooting star? That is a good portent. Very good.
Juno, when i was a little girl living just south of where you do now i would see lightning bugs once in a while in summer...how about you Pat did you originally hail from WA?
We'll have to ask Neith too?
Yeah,(settling back into the grass, looking skyward)
Nice isn't it?
Really!!? I might just be in a place too woodsy for them, they seem to like grass and fields, towards Mt.Vernon maybe? A lot of farm and pasture there...
BTW...joe!
I never tipple too much! There's no such thing!
My altered state cartwheels are fabulous! I'll show you next time I see you.
Yes, have the cookies, or I will eat them all myself!
As for the Catholic priests. . . well I could tell you some stories, all of which happened before Pluto entered Sagittarius and blew the lid off the debauchery.
The answer, though, is pretty simple. I got into all the goddess stuff going on in the late 80s. While I've since progressed to a more unified view of the Universe, that period was extremely helpful at bringing me back to owning my body and my sexuality. Not very original. But it was pretty powerful.
By the way, there are writings from ancient Sumer that people made cookies as offerings to the goddess :-)
I grew up in NY state on the Pennsylvania border...humid farm country...and I never saw so many lightening bugs anywhere else. We always had them in the summer. In our back yard.
Chocolate cookies, no doubt:)
Oh,and YES, I've seen lightning bugs. I grew up in upstate New York and lived for a few years in Tennessee, which was lightning bug heaven.
Speaking of synchronicities, the Ottoman documentary is over, and now we're on to the sex and death rituals of the ancient Egyptians. Too bad the writers of this sorry-ass program are clueless.
Really? Cookies to the Goddess? I have a thing with cookies and cupcakes. In fact, Geminis are like cookies to me.
I wonder why cookies for the Sumers. And what they were made from?
They were interesting. Didn't they bury horses with the dead?
HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!
My sides again!
Too bad the writers of this sorry-ass program are clueless.
Must be the 3.99 wine!
And where, pray tell, in upstate NY?
Juno- yep grassy field open bluff above the beach -place called potlach beach...the last of the potlaches for the salish i remember lying in the grass watching the games on the beach.
there are writings from ancient Sumer that people made cookies as offerings to the goddess :-)
really?? or a joke??? moon in Virgo wants to know.
Actually, Juno, chocolate originated in the Western Hemisphere. Mesoamerican cultures considered it a ritual drug. Before sending warriors into battle, they fed them a drink of chocolate and hot chilis!
Funny, I was telling one of my coworkers this the other day, and he told me that he read somewhere a theory that plants evolved to help humans, the idea being that if they were useful, they would survive because they would be protected and cultivated.
Can you imagine that CHOCOLATE EVOLVED JUST FOR US??
What a concept!
oh, oh I hope someone saved me a chocolate cookie!!! Total chocoholic here . . . Nope, I've never seen a lightening bug on the Dry Side of the Cascades. Think they like a humid climate ala the MidWest!!
ROFL!! What a wonderful, relaxing silliness . . . wrong kind of massage . . . :-) Did someone make coffee?! You know, the kind that's dark, strong & is just yummy with chocolate?! :-)
Wheat and honey.
They're translated as "cakes," but I figure that means cookies, because the translations have always been by snooty British archeologists, and in England, a "cake" is what we call a "cookie." What we call cake, they call torte.
if they were useful, they would survive because they would be protected and cultivated,
Uh oh. What a thought.
Chocolate and chiles for the warrior. Interesting.
I think that in the plant kingdom is every antidote for man's sicknesses. They are in ways more evolved I think. Same with animals. I think they keep us from loneliness and total alienation.
Ja or a bisquit, somehow leaving a bisquit for the goddess just doesn't cut it does it?
That's why it's so good! I have a frind who's totally into diet, raw foods, etc (virgo,go figure, but on the libra cusp, in fact the next eclipse is on her sun)and she's taught me that cocoa and chocolate are incredibly good for for you in certain forms. She makes a great smoothie with ripe bananas, cocoa nibs, maca, carob, cinnamon, cayenne, coconut oil, goji berries and any other friut you can rustle up...very chocolatey and really good.
I am in awe of chocolate, and I'm sure the sumerian goddess was sooo happy when it got discovered:)!
Coffeee!!!!!!!!!!
Great idea neith. Coming right up. I'll go grind the beans. Javanese.
dang, can't remember the name of the people who buried horses w/their dead but saw an exhibit from Russia of their gold work . . outstanding! Exquisite detail in gold all those horses and deer . . . pleese someone remember the name . . . :-)
Hah! I always knew chocolate belonged as a major food group! Besides, it's good for the soul . . .
Oh yes, jm thank you so much! Javanese is excellent!
snooty British archeologists
Ha! I wouldn't fall for it either. A cookie is a frippin' cookie!
LOL, Bisquits are ok, as long as their served with tea...:)
Scythians maybe? (goldwork, dead horses?)
In my experience, Virgos tend to find chocolate too yang -- or maybe it's the fat content, don't know. But it never made sense to me that chocolate and coffee should be "bad" for you. I've even had a homeopath tell me that I should have coffee in the morning. As for chocolate, a friend many years ago told me that he took his 16-year-old daughter to a psychiatrist for depression, and rather than prescribe pills for a teenager, he told her to EAT SOME CHOCOLATE!!!
JM, I grew up a bit north of you, up in Oneida County (Utica/Rome area).
Ok confession time, chocolate is pretty low on my preference list, tho living in Switzerland did improve it's ranking some...my passion is licorise, and any kind will do, they guy who brings me those little whips, he'll do, tho i kinda like the idea of having my hedges trimmed too. You've got me rethinking Virgos.
Scythians maybe? (goldwork, dead horses?)
Juno, you're a genius!! that's the people! Most amazing jewelry I've ever seen . . . really wished they would let us handle it. Being a tactile person, holding a piece of ancient jewelry in solid gold would have been a real experience!!
Might have been the Scythians, but the early Celts (who did amazing gold work) also buried lots of things with their dead. If a king died, his chariot and all kinds of things went into the grave, along with his wife/wives and slaves.
coffee is served!
With biscuits, cookies, cakes, tortes, you name it, and a bit of dark chocolate. Jesus God! What a world!
And I think I'll have a teensy weensy teeny tiny bit more of that Portuguese wine.
Now that was a rare homeopath you found and a smart one imo that you found Pat.
The only time i recommend against something like coffee or chocolate is where it turns up in the provings as an aggravation. coffee/nux chocolate/nat mur
If a king died, his chariot and all kinds of things went into the grave, along with his wife/wives and slaves.
Now that's one tradition I'm glad died out . . . oh, oh baaad pun . . . :-)
A licorice lover... I don't go there much, although, like goat cheese I am slowly aquiring the taste...probably the evening I got to try absinthe is when I changed my mind about that flavor...:)
The only time i recommend against something like coffee or chocolate is where it turns up in the provings as an aggravation.
It wouldn't be pretty around here in the mornings without coffee . . . though I must confess I use dark roasted beans/half decaf. And the only time i drink coffee is in the morning . . . sad, but true . .
Oh, gosh, now I am going to have to sample that anise cake, what a great spread...Thank you, jm
I wouldn't marry a king if you paid me.
You're most welcome, juno
Anise cake? oh my.
Do any of you all who live on the coast use the wild Fennel? Pinto beans cooked with fennel seeds and onion, are beyond good. So simple and yummy.
This was a wonderful idea, jm . . . thank you so much for sharing your lovely space with us. And all the wonderful food too . . . but alas, my day is full to overflowing tomorrow with ant duties! Ceres really is appropriate for Virgo as this is harvest season around here!!
so good to see you all! ta ta
Back to our guy Pluto and wealth and death. It's supposed to provide for the afterlife, but there is the element of paying for a good end. And paying for Plutonian riches in the psyche.
This is where I think the current plutocracy will soon run into trouble. They don't understand wealth.
Thanks so much for your grace neith. Ya know. I think for me, Ceres is already here for Virgo.
Well, Neith, sad but true for me, too. Coffee only in the morning. And that's what my homeopath told me, too. . .
By the way, very talented healer and a SCORPIO. He and his wife (also a Scorpio) are doing some interesting work with massage beds that use infrared heat. Very amazing. I used them for a while when I was back in D.C. The technology cured my low-back pain, which had been so bad for the year prior that sometimes when I sat down to write, I was in tears. It hasn't come back since. . .
Ja jm, this was a wonderful idea a moment to spend together in relaxation, i do appreciate all of you.
i am yawning it's been a long and strenuous day...kisses
bye.
"Do any of you all who live on the coast use the wild Fennel?"
I've wondered for years if it was usable, I love fresh fennel in food! And the seed season is almost happening...thanks, I will try it!
Pinto beans! I am so remiss. I love them and need to cook beans again from scratch. When I get to my NN in Taurus and learn to relax, I should spend just a little more time cooking.
Yep, me, too. Have to work tomorrow.
Thanks for the space, JM. Great party!!
And big kisses to you, my love. Sleep well. Can't believe you did a healing tonight along with everything else.
Pat, it was pure joy having you spend a precious break from work with us. I am honored.
Oops, meant "me too" to having to get something tomorrow. But cooking more wouldn't be a bad idea, either :-)
Big California hug to everyone!
Ve had a grrreat celebrrration for Pluto and I vant to rrremind you that Gawd is pleased vit everyting going on here. Verrry verry good.
Yeah, I'm just about toast here, too, but this has been so much fun, thank you, jm. Entertaining guests properly is an art form, and damn, you can even entertain over the intenet! As a sag, I am in awe...Thank you for the music and the wine, it's just what I needed as far as a break from what I was doing today. And thanks all for popping by, it's always fun to talk to you...J
juno, thank you. you are one of the most upbeat and reliably supportive people I know. And so funny.
We must must must do this again soon.
BTW, I've got to do it over the internet. My expensive sand carpet will not allow the outside world in on account of I'm the worst housekeeper in the world and don't want to clean them!
Plus it saves jet fuel getting you all here.
100 comments?! Wow, musta been some party!
111 now.
It was a party of all parties! I am astonished at the imagination and creativity of the people here. This is going to save us all!
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