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writer, artist, teacher person author of THESE STRANGE BODIES (ELJ 2024) eic @brokenantlermag she/they www.courtlud.com

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Broken Antler @brokenantlermag.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
share w/ ur fav artist (we also pay!) brokenantlermag.com
White text on black background that says, “send us art / brokenantlermagazine@gmail.com / like now”
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mk? @stonespiral.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
an honor to be published by Libre, this is my first review AND their first review :) go read! and then read THESE STRANGE BODIES by @courtludwick.bsky.social
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court @courtludwick.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
i reviewed Sara Mesa’s SCAR for @necessaryfiction.com check it out here: necessaryfiction.com/reviews/scar/
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Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com · 26/05/2025
SCAR by Sara Mesa, translated by Adriana Nodal-Tarafa (‪@dalkeyarchive.bsky.social‬). Reviewed by @courtludwick.bsky.social . necessaryfiction.com/reviews/scar/
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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
"This is the inside of the shell you hold close to your ear now after stepping on its sand-covered points" A poem by 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘁 𝗟𝘂𝗱𝘄𝗶𝗰𝗸 @courtludwick.bsky.social in the Spring 2025 issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity
Or maybe it’s more like this: a nondescript palm joins another. The fingers are warm—they touch. The palms belong to one person. The palms are covered in broken fragments of something. They bleed. “They” is an intentionally vague referent. And, as you peek into the red gaps, you finally see the white hello of bone. This is the inside of the shell you hold
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Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Check out @lowermelody.bsky.social's review of These Strange Bodies, the debut collection by @courtludwick.bsky.social, on The Variety Pack! variantlit.com/knowing-and-...
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Knowing and Naming: On These Strange Bodies by Court Ludwick
Court Ludwick’s debut collection, These Strange Bodies (2024, ELJ Editions), presents a hybrid assemblage of texts that is two parts fragmented memoir of early adulthood, one part poetic exploratio…
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D.W. Baker @lowermelody.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Feels like a good day for an excerpt from my review of THESE STRANGE BODIES by @courtludwick.bsky.social (ELJ Editions: 2024), published in @variantlit.bsky.social's Variety Pack section earlier this year variantlit.com/knowing-and-...
As it experiments with different techniques for presenting trauma and dissonance—including bouts with disordered eating, sexual assault, medical crisis, psychiatric definition, and family dynamics—Ludwick’s language also drifts among the currents of deeper theoretical questions about epistemology and identity. Visceral, confessional detail and hermit crab narrative techniques comprise the engine of this book, which provides readers with an able vehicle for exploring such storied waters.
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Broken Antler @brokenantlermag.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
“stroking a slow finger over / one dusty cover and its blue // eye-shadowed model until X. / said That’s his skin, that dust / and his finger stopped and we / looked at the dust differently.” Read “Hauntological” by Michael Bazzett in our latest issue: www.brokenantlermag.com/issue-six-po...
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Hauntological | Michael Bazzett — BROKEN ANTLER
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court @courtludwick.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
“Time lets herself in; I pour us tea without sugar. She understands, she says. She leaves. She leaves. Sand drips down her face. It slips from her mouth mostly, when she talks, and from between her eyelashes when she blinks.” oh i’m OBSESSED
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Broken Antler @brokenantlermag.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
“Pluto has no ocean that I recognize. There is a great mass of something fluid and alive, and it might be the sky. Things don’t end here the way they do.” Read “In the Halfway House on Pluto” by Sophie Hoss in Issue Six
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In the Halfway House on Pluto | Sophie Hoss — BROKEN ANTLER
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Broken Antler @brokenantlermag.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
BAM (!) Issue Six…it’s time⏳→⌛️ 4 stories. 7 poems. 2 hybrid pieces. 1 photograph. & an Editor’s Cento made up of the fragments. Eat it up like a salt lick >>> www.brokenantlermag.com/issue-six
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Issue Six — BROKEN ANTLER
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The Madrid Review @madridlitmag.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Such a special poem 👌
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court @courtludwick.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
so excited to have a poem in the latest issue of @madridlitmag.bsky.social ! happy luvvv day <3
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The Madrid Review @madridlitmag.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Loads of brilliant poets in Issue 3, coming #valentinesday @jermcurtin.bsky.social @steverinod.bsky.social @julieirigaray.bsky.social @courtludwick.bsky.social @robertrenegalvan.bsky.social @enochjones.bsky.social and more more more #newissue #incoming Elena Gual Art
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Wordgathering @wordgathering.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
The Winter 2024-2025 issue is live! HOORAY! wordgathering.com/vol18/issue2/ @stevekuusisto.bsky.social @razubal.bsky.social #solidarity #CripArts #CripLit
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Volume 18, Number 2 – Winter 2024-2025 – Wordgathering
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Audrey T. Carroll @audreytcarroll.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Truly, deeply, endlessly grateful to @courtludwick.bsky.social and @romyewing.bsky.social for their conversation in @wordgathering.bsky.social about my short story collection What Blooms in the Dark (@emergejournal.bsky.social). 🌺 wordgathering.com/vol18/issue2...
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In Conversation: Court Ludwick and Romy Rhoads Ewing on What Blooms in the Dark by Audrey T. Carroll – Wordgathering
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Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 06/02/2025
@courtludwick.bsky.social's book, "These Strange Bodies," came out in October: www.courtlud.com/these-strang... Read Court's poem "Body Horror" in OKD:
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Body Horror by Court Ludwick
See the mother. See through her skin. See the skeleton. See inside the body. Look, there is another body, only smaller and made of disconnected parts. What constitutes a body? See, Mother has a pel…
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Kyle Tran Myhre @guante.info · 04/02/2025
...oh and speaking of zines, I'm facilitating a short virtual workshop on Friday with @sarabandebooks.bsky.social for their ZINE LUNCH series with a focus on zines as political communication, as tools of resistance and community-building. More info: www.sarabandebooks.org/zine-lunch
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Cristina Jurado @cristinajurado.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
🌞Issue 3 of THE MADRID REVIEW is coming next week with art by Elena Gual and I'm... SO EXCITED!!! Please, subscribe at themadridreview.com
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The Madrid Review
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The Madrid Review @madridlitmag.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Issue 3 is out Feb 14th, featuring @lenaozge.bsky.social @steverinod.bsky.social @julieirigaray.bsky.social @juliesheridanpoet.bsky.social @courtludwick.bsky.social @jermcurtin.bsky.social @enochjones.bsky.social @hitenchojer.bsky.social and many more. Image shows detail of art by Elena Gual #poetry
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D.W. Baker @lowermelody.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Excited to share my review of @courtludwick.bsky.social's THESE STRANGE BODIES from @emergejournal.bsky.social, now at @variantlit.bsky.social's new "Variety Pack" section! As one who also explores embodiment in my work, reading & discussing this book was a treat. variantlit.com/knowing-and-...
The cover of THESE STRANGE BODIES by Court Ludwick, featuring bold white text over a classical painting of an upside-down woman caressing a skull
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Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com · 13/01/2025
We Are Dreams in the Eternal Machine by Deni Ellis Béchard (Milkweed Editions). Reviewed by @courtludwick.bsky.social.
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We Are Dreams in the Eternal Machine – Necessary Fiction
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Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com · 13/01/2025
We Are Dreams in the Eternal Machine by Deni Ellis Béchard (Milkweed Editions). Reviewed by Court Ludwick. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/we-a...
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Chill Subs @chillsubs.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Alrighty folks, closing out this fun ass week with something special. From 1160 nominations for 289 Magazines who are good at gettin’ weird, Your 10 favorite…. WTF IS GENRE ANYWAY Lit Mags of 2024! ⬇️ Their details & how to submit your work www.chillsubs.com/lists/commun...
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DIAGRAM
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court @courtludwick.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
books make great gifts & books about inherited trauma, haunting childhood memories, mommy issues, etc. make great passive aggressive gifts—it’s Fun™️ for the entire family! totally unrelated: a page from my book that’s about, hmm how strange, all of that :) bookshop.org/p/books/thes...
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Genrepunk Magazine @genrepunkmag.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
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Pushcart Prize Nominations 
"Choose Life as the World Falls Down," George Violet Parker
"How to Assemble Your Maitinence Bot," Ly Faulk
"what to do after an especially bad morning of pain," Arushi (Area) Rege
"god screwed me over," Ellie Simmons
"I Found This Hallucinogen in Your Pocket," Court Ludwick 
"112 fahrenheit," Adrian Elise
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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
I gave 10th graders erasure poems today and one of them told me that the erasure inverts the censorship of the state by revealing the truth rather than hiding it and then I ascended into the heavens..
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D.W. Baker @lowermelody.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Excerpt from "If I Was a Psychic On a Blue Velvet Couch," in THESE STRANGE BODIES by @courtludwick.bsky.social, available now from @emergejournal.bsky.social this book has me thinking about the body as a site of knowing, and about that knowledge as a contested process
A book cover, prominently featuring the title, THESE STRANGE BODIES in white capital letters, overlaid atop an image, stylistically reminiscent of a classical painting, of a woman and a skull. by Court Ludwick.will spend your days like you used to, and you will be 
sleeping once again in your childhood bedroom, but the 
problem you will inevitably find yourself having will not be 
with time exactly but with the erosion that comes with it. 
The shape of your torso will not be quite so deep an 
indentation in your old mattress. The shape you will have 
become will not move so effortlessly within walls that were 
constructed some time ago. And, sooner or later, you will 
realize that houses do not erode at the same rate that 
bodies, people, you, do.
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Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
And our Best Microfiction 2025 nominations go to... @skylarcamp.bsky.social, @courtludwick.bsky.social, Cheryl Snell, @sgscarso.bsky.social and Tim Love! Congrats! 🎉
Black background with confetti with the words Best Microfiction nominations. The nominated pieces are 'vomit by Skylar Camp, Loose Tooth by Court Ludwick, Shadows by Cheryl Snell, Call for Help by Slawka G. Scarso, Truly Magical by Tim Love.
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Astrophil Press @astrophilpress.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
INVASION OF THE DAFFODILS is a queer, Latinx speculative novel available now. www.astrophilpress.com/titles
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Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com · 11/10/2024
In resarch notes, Court Ludwick writes about These Strange Bodies (@emergejournal.bsky.social).
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These Strange Bodies – Necessary Fiction
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EPOCH @epochliterary.com · 08/07/2024
Our Fall 2024 issue is out now! Visit epochliterary.com to order a copy (print or PDF), or subscribe. Click ALT for the full list of contributors.
EPOCH 71.2, featuring T. Abeyta, Amir Ahmadi Arian, MS Baker, Bruce Bond, Rosa Alice Branco, Alyx Chandler, Heather Christle, Lisa Compo, Michael Day, Stephen Dixon, Lara Egger, Emily Ellis, Ge Fang, Jordan Hamel, Lamar Herrin, Alex Higley, Alexis Levitin, Rebecca Lilly, Lu Min, Court Ludwick, Rosalind Margulies, Ioanna Mavrou, Mohammad Mokhtari, Tim Molloy, Susan Leslie Moore, Sandra Newman, Nome Emeka Patrick, Emily Rosko, Amy Rowland, Leonor Scliar-Cabral, Vivek Sharma, Jennifer Sutherland, Daniel Uncapher, KP Vogell, Jonathan Wong-Hayden, and Sijing Yang.
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court @courtludwick.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
recent work published in Hawai’i Pacific Review & @genrepunkmag.bsky.social ⤵️
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court @courtludwick.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
a flash essay about mommy issues, a poem about lsd, & a visual piece about the etymology of “bruise” walk into a bar
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Genrepunk Magazine @genrepunkmag.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Come check out "To Bruise" and "I Found This Hallucinogen in Your Pocket" by Court Ludwick! genrepunkmag.wordpress.com/2024/11/13/t...
Lung x-ray
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Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
I love these starter packs, so I thought I'd start one for horror creators. Suggestions welcome! Find some of your favorite authors, directors, editors, podcasters and screenwriters. go.bsky.app/PQ5bTBw
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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Let's start a thread of your favorite small poems. Here are a few of mine:
Empire of Dreams
By Charles Simic

On the first page of my dreambook
It’s always evening
In an occupied country.
Hour before the curfew.
A small provincial city.
The houses all dark.
The storefronts gutted.

I am on a street corner
Where I shouldn’t be.
Alone and coatless
I have gone out to look
For a black dog who answers to my whistle.
I have a kind of Halloween mask
Which I am afraid to put on.Dust
By Dorianne Laux

Someone spoke to me last night,
told me the truth. Just a few words,
but I recognized it.
I knew I should make myself get up,
write it down, but it was late,
and I was exhausted from working
all day in the garden, moving rocks.
Now, I remember only the flavor —
not like food, sweet or sharp.
More like a fine powder, like dust.
And I wasn’t elated or frightened,
but simply rapt, aware.
That’s how it is sometimes —
God comes to your window,
all bright light and black wings,
and you’re just too tired to open it.Morning Love Poem
by Tara Skurtu 

Dreamt last night I fed you, unknowingly, 
something you were allergic to.

And you were gone, like that.

You don’t have even a single allergy, 
but still. The dream cracked. Cars nosedived

off snow banks into side streets. Sometimes 
dreams slip poison, make the living

dead then alive again, twirling 
in an unfamiliar room.

It’s hard to say I need you enough.

Today I did. Walked into your morning shower 
fully clothed. All the moments

we stop ourselves just because we might 
feel embarrassed or impractical, or get wet.
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court @courtludwick.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
hiya bluesky 🤠 i’m the author of THESE STRANGE BODIES (a hybrid cnf/poetry collection out now w/ ELJ Editions!) elj-editions.com/these-strang... & also the eic of Broken Antler (which will be opening up for submissions in less than a week!!) www.brokenantlermag.com iso poets, artists, community!
Selfie of Court Ludwick holding a copy of THESE STRANGE BODIES up next to her face.Cover of Broken Antler’s latest quarterly issue. Cover features a photograph by Nasos Karabelas, in which a hazy figure is curled into fetal position.
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Naa Asheley Afua Adowaa Ashitey @foreverasheley.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
wrote this poem at the start of the year. Sharing it again for, well, a multitude of reasons. @brokenantlermag.bsky.social www.brokenantlermag.com/issue-three-...
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Dear white women [...] | Naa Asheley Afua Adowaa Ashitey — BROKEN ANTLER
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My Bad Poetry @mybadpoetrythepod.bsky.social · 11/03/2024
Had a blast with @courtludwick.bsky.social last Friday. Could you make it through reading these poems without a laugh? Court couldn't. :) open.spotify.com/episode/3TdV...
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Miscellaneous & You wake up at five in the morning (w/ Court Ludwick)
Listen to this episode from My Bad Poetry on Spotify. When a poet reaches out to the show with the phrase "I am willing to dive into the old, Sad Boi notebooks and unleash all the Cringe" one cannot ...
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Broken Antler @brokenantlermag.bsky.social · 09/01/2024
so bad at posting here. too many things to check & update. going to try to be better @ it! very very very excited for issue two of bam quarterly! read it. the writers & artists are the loves of my life i think
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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 27/12/2023
"This is the sadness of the photograph: knowing, even as you look, it is not like this, though it was. You stand in the "was" of the present moment and you die a little with the photograph." -- Tess Gallagher, The Poem as Time Machine
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Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
You’ve probably already seen me yelling about @tiffmorris.bsky.social’s miserably verdant (complimentary) GREEN FUSE BURNING from @stelliformpress.bsky.social but here I am doing it in long form at @brokenantlermag.bsky.social
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A Review of Tiffany Morris’s Green Fuse Burning — BROKEN ANTLER
Zachary Gillan reviews Tiffany Morris’s ecohorror novella, Green Fuse Burning.
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court @courtludwick.bsky.social · 19/11/2023
issue one reading tn @brokenantlermag.bsky.social & my 🖤 is so full!
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court @courtludwick.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
a real joy to work w/ @megapolisomancy.bsky.social & to engage w/ his words. go eat this review up!!
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Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 21/10/2023
Hi, folks! We have a really awesome new poem up on the OKD site for you all this weekend, "Body Horror" by @courtludwick.bsky.social! Be sure to check it out! You can read it here: okaydonkeymag.com/2023/10/20/b...
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Body Horror by Court Ludwick
See the mother. See through her skin. See the skeleton. See inside the body. Look, there is another body, only smaller and made of disconnected parts. What constitutes a body? See, Mother has a pelvis...
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Kassandra Jo Tomaras @raconteuse.bsky.social · 14/10/2023
My first publication of fiction that I have written after starting transition, "Imago," in BROKEN ANTLER MAGAZINE www.brokenantlermag.com/issue-one-fi...
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Imago | Joseph-Kass Tomaras — BROKEN ANTLER
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Lee Potts @leepottspoet.bsky.social · 07/10/2023
NEW POEM #67: "Gutted" by Court Ludwick CW: Bodily objectification and violence in a performance art setting. "I ask if you ever heard about that artist who gave strangers a table filled with love and violence," stonecirclereview.com/gutted/
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