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Dolly Sen

@dollysen.bsky.social
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British Writer, speaker, artist, filmmaker, working class, queer, interested in disability & the madness that is given to us by the world. She/They

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Dolly Sen @dollysen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
St Clements used to be a psychiatric hospital. I created this commemorative plinth and placed it in the cemetery off the site where some patients were buried, their graves unmarked. People were touched enough by it to leave flowers, stones, leaves and sticks to show their love too.
A grey rectangular plinth with the text: to the 1000s of psychiatric patients who lived and died her, unmarked and unloved, their ghosts stand here. LEAVE LOVE HERE. Surrounding the plinth are autumnal leaves, on top of the plinth are flowers, a feather, sticks and twigs, and stones.
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Dolly Sen @dollysen.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
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Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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Dolly Sen @dollysen.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
who remembers the long gone patients in the old psychiatric hospital? On September 5th at 14:00, there will be a walk around St. Clement’s, with former staff, oral histories with former patients and a performance and art by me to commemorate those lives. www.whitechapelgallery.org/events/remem...
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Remembering St. Clement's Hospital - Whitechapel Gallery
A walk celebrating, commiserating and commemorating the 20th anniversary of the closure of St. Clement's psychiatric hospital.
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Dolly Sen @dollysen.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
www.facebook.com/share/v/1JMX... is a link to the video of the government's lying toerag video about motability made to create hostility towards disabled people. youtu.be/QkWn4PLXS0U
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Dolly Sen @dollysen.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Weds was an interesting day. I enjoyed the beauty of North Norfolk but I also delivered SHAME to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's home. The police did question me, but let me go. youtu.be/BjKWqUwPY9c?...
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Delivering Shame to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor
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Dolly Sen @dollysen.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
me talking about the Block Telethon event which inspired my own shenanigans for @disabilityarts.bsky.social, along with Jamie Hale youtu.be/_JnDZsJziHU?...
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Disability Arts Moments: Dolly Sen and Jamie Hale
YouTube video by Disability Arts Online
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Dolly Sen @dollysen.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I created the cover for this report from the BaringFoundation. The report is out now if you are interested baringfoundation.org.uk/resource/cre...
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Dolly Sen @dollysen.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I put together this Intersectional Protest Zine/info sheet. It is public domain, you can share or print it to give away. If you want it in PDF form, go to my linktree linktr.ee/dollysen #NoOneLeftBehind #DisabilityJustice #ProtestSafety #Intersectionality
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Dolly Sen @dollysen.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
These works are being developed through Creative and Heartfelt Tactics, a residency programme exploring art practice as activism, led by myself and Caroline Cardus.⁠ ⁠ ⁠Join us for a joyful, subversive evening of performance by disabled artists.⁠ whatson.chisenhaledancespace.co.uk/events/chise...
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Dolly Sen @dollysen.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
TW: sexual violence Gisele Pelicot: "Shame needs to change sides." I agree. I created a SHAME sign for my next protest, covered in facts & quotes This is an invitation to donate your quote. Please don't contribute if it causes too much distress. go to form.jotform.com/261514122908...
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Dolly Sen @dollysen.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
I did these posters years ago & they sold well. A few people recently have asked if I am still doing them & I said no. I have printed 50 A3 poster of my Mr Men and Little Miss Do Psychiatry parody series. They are £5 each or £10 including P&P from cuckoosnestbooks.bigcartel.com/product/a-mr...
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Dolly Sen @dollysen.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
This is my Tamponator - a giant tampon that shoots out little tampons!
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Dolly Sen @dollysen.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
A limited print run of a 100 signed copies of my latest book now on sale! cuckoosnestbooks.bigcartel.com/product/the-...
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Dolly Sen @dollysen.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
my blog called 'Why Can't I Section Donald Trump?' disabilityarts.online/blog/dolly-s...
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Blogs - Dolly Sen - Why Can’t I Section Donald Trump?
I don’t know what the US equivalent is, but in the UK, sectioning is compulsorily detaining someone in a hospital or secure unit because they are seen as a danger to themselves or others due to mental...
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Dolly Sen @dollysen.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
My latest art piece
A grey metal luggage sizer with a poster saying: please check your emotional baggage allowance/ Do you fit in?/ Does your emotional baggage fit into this societally acceptable normal size? You must conform/ If you fit in, you are safe for now
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Dolly Sen @dollysen.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
youtu.be/GX1KwtIzqL4?... Revell Dixon interviews me for Disability Arts Online in this video
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Journeys into Arts with Dolly Sen
YouTube video by Disability Arts Online
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 29/01/2026
Maher Tarabishi’s ailing son Wael died as he sat in a detention facility. His family says ICE is responsible.
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‘Wael's last wish': Man detained by ICE denied release for son’s funeral
Maher Tarabishi's ailing son Wael died as he sat in a detention facility. His family says ICE is responsible.
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Dolly Sen @dollysen.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I have started a on-line shop to sell some of my art on things like posters, bags, clocks, duvets, t-shirts on go to: www.redbubble.com/people/Dolly...
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Dolly Sen @dollysen.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
There is a piece on my art and activism in the medical humanities magazine The Polyphony, focussing on my 2017 book 'DSM 69'. thepolyphony.org/2026/01/02/d...
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DMS 69: Art Activism as Rebellion Against Psychiatric Authority
Dolly Sen dismantles psychiatric authority through art activism, exposing the politics of diagnosis and reclaiming the narrative of madness.
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Dolly Sen @dollysen.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
xhttps://youtu.be/yVh-o__KqmY?si=QN-au_-6H1HRyy5B my last visit to the DWP where I dressed as the devil to congratulate the Dept of Work and Pensions on their evil. #DWPcutsmakemesick #welfarenotwarfare #benefitcutskill
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Disability News Service @johnpring.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
The information commissioner has dismissed attempts by the Department for Work and Pensions to describe a disabled journalist as “vengeful” and “vexatious” after he tried to obtain information about its years of safeguarding failings. #DWP www.disabilitynewsservice.com/watchdog-dis...
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Watchdog dismisses DWP’s description of DNS editor as ‘vengeful’ and ‘vexatious’ for asking to see deaths email
The information commissioner has dismissed attempts by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to describe a disabled journalist as “vengeful” and “vexatious” after he tried to obtain informatio…
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Dolly Sen @dollysen.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
On Nov 3rd, myself, Joy Dove and other activist declared the DWP HQ building in London a crime scene. I also dressed up as the devil to ‘congratulate’ the workers coming in and out for their cruel and evil work. Just simply protesting that life is not a cost to cut.
Dolly Sen, with short dark hair and a black cape is pasting some hazard taoe saying: 'Crime Scene - Do Not Enter' onto the DWP sign outside the HQ of the DWP
Dolly, a brown skinned woman with short dark hair is wearing some black devil horns. Her tattooed arms are up in the air, and she is wearing a red to and trousers. Her expression is intentful
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Dolly Sen @dollysen.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
I was on bbc's The One Show last night talking about my art commission from Hospital Rooms to create a sculpture along with other artists for Hellesdon Hospital www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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The One Show - 29/09/2025
Sir Gary Oldman and Nick Knowles join Alex and Roman on the sofa. Plus, after reaching World Cup glory, England’s Red Roses Zoe Aldcroft, Rosie Galligan and Zoe Harrison are in the studio.
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Dolly Sen @dollysen.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
was interviewed by @johnpring.bsky.social for Disability News Serivce about my response to the far right gathering last weekend, and my disappointment that racist disabled people don't see they will be victims of fascism too www.disabilitynewsservice.com/disabled-peo...
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Disabled people of colour speak of terror and safety fears after mass far-right protest
Disabled people of colour say last weekend’s “horrific” far-right protest in London has left them feeling terrified and unsafe. Saturday’s protest was supposedly aimed at “free speech” but most of …
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voice of the psychiatrized @nycicarusorg.myatproto.social · 21/06/2025
redherringpress.bigcartel.com/product/lori... Got this lovely @dollysen.bsky.social book about Lorina Bulwer, workhouse captive, after her life turned. She sewed sheets & scraps of cloth into a narrative of her life in text & images. Dolly provides her own narrative about Lorina's life & madness.
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Lorina Bulwer | by Dolly Sen
Lorina Bulwer is Dolly Sen's polemical exploration of madness, material, and the life of Lorina Bulwer: a needleworker incarcerated in the...
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Michelle Moore @trebula.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
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Dolly Sen @dollysen.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
redherringpress.bigcartel.com/product/dear... buy this book of words by rageful women, inspired by Lorina Bulwer, for only £2.50
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Dear Lorina (Anthology)
Dear Lorina is an anthology of creative writing from participants in local artist Dolly Sen's 2025 project on the legacy of Lorina Bulwer: a...
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Dolly Sen @dollysen.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Will be doing this on weds 11th June, discussing textile art and resistance
 a poster in white, beiges and grey with collaged images are behind the text saying: Social Frabric, Material Conditions and Practices of Resistence. An online discussion, zoom, June 11 2025. There is a qr code to register interest
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Dolly Sen @dollysen.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Go see work inspired by the legacy of Lorina Bulwer, the infamous needleworker who embroidered her rage onto samplers. We invite you to meet the rage of women's voices through an updated re-creation of Lorina's famous tapestry reflecting the voices of women in 2025 at Primeyarc in Great Yarmouth!
Dolly Sen, a brown person with dark hair and tattoo, wearing black jeans and a blue and rainbow coloured tshirt stands in front of 6 long multicoloured embroidered samplers on a white wall
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Dolly Sen @dollysen.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Rachel Reeves bending down patronisingly to talk to a middle aged wheelchair user, Rachel says: We want to stop your benefits to pay for bombs to make other people disabled
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Dolly Sen @dollysen.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
My piece on assisted suicide but also assisted joy for Healing Justice London healingjusticeldn.org/in-practice/...
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Assisted Suicide / Assisted Joy - DJ 1 - Healing Justice Ldn
By Dolly Sen
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Richard Amm ♿ (Disability & Research) @richamm.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
The British Film Institute have offered to sell my Disability Film Analysis Tools zine in their shop. It is free online here : files.libcom.org/files/2024-0...
Disability Film Analysis Tools
Disability Action Research Kollective
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
From the book Bullshit Jobs. Page 213
"In fact, not only does the market assessment 
of the value of different forms of work not 
correspond to popular conceptions of what 
they actually contribute to society, but there 
actually seems to be an inverse relation: with 
few exceptions, the principle seems to be, the 
more one’s work is seen as socially useful, the 
more it is recognized as helping others, the less 
one is likely to be paid for it."
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  - David Graeber
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Dolly Sen @dollysen.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Here to be a resource to those fighting disability benefits cuts, that I was part of. Research on the benefit system and how the catastrophic effects it has on people with mental health. www.kcl.ac.uk/reforming-uk...
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Transforming UK Social Security: A Call for Compassion and Change
The ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health’s Lived Experience Advisory Board (LEAB) highlight the struggles of navigating the UK
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ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health @kingscsmh.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
📑 Replacing a punitive social security model with one rooted in compassion could save lives. Find out more in this piece by the @kingscsmh.bsky.social's Lived Experience Advisory Board #CompassionAndChange #CompassionAndChange #SpringStatement www.kcl.ac.uk/reforming-uk...
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Transforming UK Social Security: A Call for Compassion and Change
The ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health’s Lived Experience Advisory Board (LEAB) highlight the struggles of navigating the UK
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Dolly Sen @dollysen.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The art mag Frieze has published a piece by a disabled artist about the proposed benefits cut that includes a couple of my doodlings. www.frieze.com/article/uk-w...
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‘We Must Resist’: UK Welfare Cuts Will Harm Disabled Artists
As the Labour government plans to reduce essential support, artists and writers speak out about how the changes will affect them
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
A disabled art activist has sent a powerful message to Labour over its DWP benefit cuts Dolly Sen is sending Labour a clear, and harrowing message that its DWP cuts will lead to countless more deaths of disabled people. www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...
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A disabled art activist has sent a powerful message to Labour over its DWP benefit cuts
A disabled art activist has sent a powerful message to Labour over its DWP benefit cuts from Canary on 21 March 2025
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Dolly Sen @dollysen.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
youtu.be/EysSdTqqT1U I think it is timely to re-share my short documentary on how the DWP is driving disabled people to starvation and suicide. Please share x
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Broken Hearts for the DWP - Subtitled version
YouTube video by Dolly Sen
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Dolly Sen @dollysen.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I was commissioned by @dadafest.bsky.social to make a sculpture, and I made one out of charity collecting cans to spell out the word 'RAGE'. I made a film of me making the sculpture and reciting my poem 'We Need More Disabled Rage' youtu.be/SoqqpvgFfFo?...
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I Want More Disabled Rage
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EveryDoctor @everydoctor.org.uk · 18/03/2025
BREAKING🚨 -We've investigated the financial links between MPs and the private health sector, and can now announce which MP received the highest donation amount from individuals+companies with links to the private health sector between 2023-2025. It's Wes Streeting. Our Health Secretary. £179,575🚨
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Dolly Sen @dollysen.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
My 4 min video on proposed disability benefits cuts as a disabled person who works with the help of PIP, & how this is continuing previous governments' killing of disabled people through brutal DWP systems and policies. youtu.be/lCr9RuTpOys
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Benefit Cuts Will Kill
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Manchester Disabled People Against Cuts @mdpac.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Government Strategy Explained.
Three circle Venn diagram, showing: Benefit cuts, Social care crisis, and Assisted dying. With the cumulative intersection being: Disability Democide!
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Craig Berry @craigpberry.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Looking ahead to the disability benefits green paper, this essay for @citizensadvice.bsky.social makes the case for a system focused on improving health outcomes. Co-authors @maddyirose.bsky.social, @victoria-anns.bsky.social & Simon Collerton We challenge the 5 big falsehoods underpinning cuts…🧵
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Dr Jay Watts @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Reliable source at the highest possible level has just told me huge increase in calls to suicide helplines because of the threatened benefits cuts.
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Dr Jay Watts @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Dear Policy Exchange, PIP is not an out-of-work benefit. So why are you trying to score political points by insisting young people on #PIP must work, volunteer or go into training? PIP enables disabled people to do these things. Cutting it will do the opposite. Thanks Dr Watts
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Dolly Sen @dollysen.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I rescued this email just in time. Phew! 😂
a screenshot of an email saying: Just a couple of quick questions: will foof be served at the event? Or shall I eat beforehand?
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Rick B @rickburgess.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
A possible future: if you're disabled or sick a private for profit company contracted by the Govt will assess you for benefits, they get a bonus for refusing you. Then as your life becomes unbearable due to being homeless/nil income the same for profit company will offer to kill you on govt contract
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Dolly Sen @dollysen.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Live local to #greatyarmouth, come sing your complaints in our choir. Our 1st session is on the 12th March at Primeyarc inside Market Gates Shopping Centre. NO SINGING EXPERIENCE IS NEEDED! If you are interested, email me at dollysen70@hotmail.com or DM me
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Dolly Sen @dollysen.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
You wonderful people have helped raise over the requested amount in just one day! It currently stands at £415, so I will close the crowdfunder now Thanks for the love, kindness and solidarity. Thanks for showing the loved ones of those who died they are not alone, that there are people who care.
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Dolly Sen @dollysen.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
I want to send 400+ A5 postcards to all the Labour MPs. Can cover printing costs, but have a fundraiser for the postage. Thanks in advance :) Activism like this is acting like a mosquito, small but irritating, and causing a tiny disruption to comfortable bullshit. www.gofundme.com/f/postage-to...
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Donate to Postage to send 404 Labour MPs this postcard, organized by Dolly Sen
Hello, I am Dolly Sen, an artist, writer, filmmaker and activist. I campaign on… Dolly Sen needs your support for Postage to send 404 Labour MPs this postcard
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