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soch @qsyami.eurosky.social · 20/10/2026

I can't find the source of this, but he's so..cute old man

soch @qsyami.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

Around 1:48 of Ego's mv, Hobi raps: 문득 스쳐가는 j-hope이 아닌 정호석의 삶 The life of Jung Hoseok who is not J-Hope flashes across my mind This is the part where there are pictures of Hobi as a child in his thought bubble, and as the camera pans out, you see him in front of what looks like a shrine +

Screenshot from doolset of lyrics from BTS J-Hope's Ego

Transcript:
문득 스쳐가는 j-hope이 아닌 정호석의 삶
The life of Jung Hoseok who is not J-Hope flashes across my mind

희망이란 없고 후회만 가득했겠지 till I die
It must have been full of regret with no hope till I die,

내 춤은 뜬구름을 잡을 뿐
with my dance only chasing ghosts,
= with my dance only catching drifting clouds, translated literally.

나의 꿈을 탓하고
with me blaming my dream

살아 숨쉬는 거에 의문을
and casting doubt on why I live and breathe

Oh my God God God God

A screenshot from 1:52 of BTS J-Hope's Ego mv. He has his hands together in a prayer gesture with some kind of small indoor shrine set up in the background. On the left side of the background is a figurine of Jesus with his arms open as well as a gold Buddha head

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soch @qsyami.eurosky.social · 04/09/2026

Another angle..and then some..hah Source: www.instagram.com/reel/Dc0ezvb...

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soch @qsyami.eurosky.social · 04/09/2026

Cuties Source: www.instagram.com/reel/Dc0Wo_p...

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soch @qsyami.eurosky.social · 16/08/2026

This is absolutely goofy adjective to describe a cat, but people do use it to comically describe their pets (at least from a quick google search). Haha, I love it. Never thought I'd ever get to *hear* anyone use this word, just read it in like a novel, this was awesome 😂

Screenshot of entry for 늠름하다 from kr dict (https://krdict.korean.go.kr/m/eng)

늠름하다 (凜凜하다) 「형용사」 Adjective [늠ː늠하다]

manly; brave
생김새나 태도가 씩씩하고 당당하다.
An appearance or attitude being gallant and imposing.

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soch @qsyami.eurosky.social · 16/08/2026

MYG 2 hrs before a performance

Min Yoongi, lips in a little mou, very cute, untired, unbothered, living cleanly enjoying a slightly blurry 10 yrs with Agust D. He is wearing a black hoodie over a black t-shirt sitting on a couch

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soch @qsyami.eurosky.social · 03/08/2026

Rapline's perfectly placed for style in this song. HS's rap at the end is the climax of the song, and it comes after a kind of self-rebuke that TH sings in the bridge, that 활활 mimetic feels so great and fits so well with the swell on the music and talking about a blaze. +

Screen shot of doolset translation of 고엽

Transcription:
타올라 붉게 활활
It burns up red in a blaze

다 아름다웠지 우리의 길 위엔
It was all beautiful on our path

근데 시들어버리고
But everything withered away,

낙엽은 눈물처럼 내리고
the dead leaves fall like tears,

바람이 불고 다 멀어지네 all day
the wind blows, and everything gets distant all day

비가 쏟아지고 부서지네
The rain pours and shatters

마지막 잎새까지 넌 넌 넌
even the last leaf — you you you

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soch @qsyami.eurosky.social · 03/08/2026

And then all NJ's -어지네 constructions. So NJ sometimes does this thing where the kludges grammar that doesn't usually go together, and you know what it means, but it's not how you'd normally say it and it's interesting. +

Screen shot of doolset translation of 고엽

Transcription:
마음은 걷지 않아도 저절로 걸어지네 [georeojine]
My mind, though I don’t try, travels on its own

미련이 빨래처럼 조각조각 널어지네 [neoreojine]
My lingering feeling gets hung piece by piece like wet laundry

붉은 추억들만 더러운 내 위에 덜어지네 [deoreojine]
Only the crimson-colored memories fall on my dirty self

내 가지를 떨지 않아도 자꾸만 떨어지네 [ddeoreojine]
Though I don’t shake my branches, they fall on their own

그래 내 사랑은 오르기 위해 떨어지네 [ddeoreojine]
Yeah, my love falls in order to rise

가까이 있어도 나의 두 눈은 멀어지네 벌어지네 [beoreojine]
Even when we’re close, my eyes get blind, and we get distant

이렇게 버려지네 [beoryeojine]
I get abandoned like this

추억 속에서 난 또 어려지네 [eoryeojine]
In the memories, I become young again

Link to source: https://doolsetbangtan.wordpress.com/2018/07/30/autumn-leaves/

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soch @qsyami.eurosky.social · 03/08/2026

The fade feels like things are getting further away or disappearing or crumbling away One of my favorite, and I think the funniest text painting bits in Bangtan discography is during Namjoon's rap in this song. There's something very sweet about this line (~2:03) +

Screen shot of doolset translation of 고엽

Transcription:
봐 넌 아직 내겐 푸른색이야
Look, for me you’re still colored in green
“My love for you is still here, fresh and alive.”

Link to source: https://doolsetbangtan.wordpress.com/2018/07/30/autumn-leaves/

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soch @qsyami.eurosky.social · 03/08/2026

These kinds of little repetitions repeat throughout the song, to different effect. The 더 더 더 along with the string of short-duration, faster notes before it give it a bit more of a driving feeling. In the next two lines, there's another repetition in YG's rap where there's a fading repeated 같아서 +

Screen shot of doolset translation of 고엽

Transcript with 같아서 highlighted:

떨어져 날리는 저기 낙엽처럼
Like the leaves over there fallen and fluttering,

힘없이 쓰러져만 가 내 사랑이
helplessly falling, my love is

니 맘이 멀어져만 가 널 잡을 수 없어
Your heart is running only farther away, and I can’t hold you

더 더 더 잡을 수 없어 난
I can’t hold you anymore

더 붙들 수 없어 yeah
I can’t hold you back anymore yeah

저기 저 위태로워 보이는 낙엽은 우리를 보는 것 같아서
Because those precarious dead leaves over there look like us

손이 닿으면 단숨에라도 바스라질 것만 같아서
Because they look like they’ll crumble at any slightest touch

Link to source: https://doolsetbangtan.wordpress.com/2018/07/30/autumn-leaves/

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soch @qsyami.eurosky.social · 03/08/2026

There's a buncha text painting in this song that I really like. JK's line: 더 더 더 잡을 수 없어 난 I c-c-can't hold you anymore That little 더 더 더 really feels like something is tumbling out of your hands and you're making a bit of an desperate, unsuccessful, barely coordinated grab at it +

Screen shot of doolset translation of 고엽

Transcript with 더 더 더 highlighted:

떨어져 날리는 저기 낙엽처럼
Like the leaves over there fallen and fluttering,

힘없이 쓰러져만 가 내 사랑이
helplessly falling, my love is

니 맘이 멀어져만 가 널 잡을 수 없어
Your heart is running only farther away, and I can’t hold you

더 더 더 잡을 수 없어 난
I can’t hold you anymore

더 붙들 수 없어 yeah
I can’t hold you back anymore yeah

Link to source: https://doolsetbangtan.wordpress.com/2018/07/30/autumn-leaves/

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soch @qsyami.eurosky.social · 29/07/2026

저희는 올해 그래미에 출품하지 않기로 했습니다. We decided not to submit for the Grammys this year. 음악이 지역이나 언어로 구분되기보다 음악 그 자체로 들리고 사랑 받을 수 있기를 바랍니다. We hope that rather than being sorted by region or language, music can be heard and loved just as itself. +

Screenshot of Instagram post by user @rkive. It is a picture of Kim Namjoon in the 2.0 music video outfit/getup including wig and sunglasses holding out a rolled up newspaper with white text with black highlighting on the bottom that says:

저희는 올해 그래미에 출품하
지 않기로 했습니다.
음악이 지역이나 언어로 구분
되기보다 음악 그 자체로 구분되기보다 음악 그 자체로 들리
고 사랑 받을 수 있기를 바랍
니다.
늘 함께해주는 아미와 모든
분들께 감사드립니다.

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soch @qsyami.eurosky.social · 28/07/2026

This gremlin Yoongi giving that little gremlin dog the best head scritches and giving his little snaggletooth gremlin void kitty the best butt pats Best gremlin life all around

Min Yoongi with a plastic cup of some drink in his hand on stage wearing all black, holding his mic, hunched over and making a gremlin face

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soch @qsyami.eurosky.social · 13/07/2026

Been in the forest for the past three days and already miss being outside continuously..

Yellow flowers in a meadow with tall green evergreens in the background

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soch @qsyami.eurosky.social · 10/07/2026

I got to see so many flowers (and very cute marmots eating flowers) because it's the beginning of the summer bloom here!

A marmot eating flowers in a green subalpine meadow

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soch @qsyami.eurosky.social · 05/07/2026

Saw a buncha v. pretty flowers yesterday, but Bsky wouldn't let me post them so trying again

Pink and yellow flowers with trees and a hill in the background

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soch @qsyami.eurosky.social · 02/07/2026

I made this kind of janky card for my Korean study buddy and good friend's upcoming wedding. It's going in this ridiculously cute bread bag being used as an envelope

A pop up card for a wedding. It has a cream base with red and blue origami pop up ducks and a purple banner in the background that says congratulations on getting married in Korean

A brown bread bag from Smoking Tiger Cafe with three cartoon tigers smoking pipes and each holding a different bread. It says 빵! Under each tiger and then in English, EAT MORE BREAD!

Modern Korean Café on the bottom. All in purple

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soch @qsyami.eurosky.social · 01/07/2026

I kinda love it this XTEink x4 eReader, and (in the US anyway) it comes unlocked. So flash some firmware onto it, and it renders Korean ebooks like a champ! Also hooray for escaping locked ecosystems!! It's super light and tiny. Nice lil' medium tech, minimalist device

XTEink x4 grey tiny e-reader in my hand with a greyscale screensaver of a black cat with a scarf over its head

Korean text on the screen of an XTEink x4 grey version in my hand

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soch @qsyami.eurosky.social · 30/06/2026

Goats are pretty great. The greatest. Of all time

Black and white cutie face of a baby goat

A very dignified goat named Silver. He has big horns and a truly marvelous beard

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soch @qsyami.eurosky.social · 20/06/2026

www.instagram.com/nationalmuse...

Kim Namjoon with Director 유홍준 of the National Museum of Korea. They appear to have just signed some sort of agreement on the table in front of them. Image is from the National Museum's announcement that Namjoon is the new Global Ambassador. He is wearing a grey-brown suit over a white dress shirt ticked into black pants. His hair is brushed back, and he looks fine af

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soch @qsyami.eurosky.social · 18/06/2026

This undoctored/unfiltered picture shows the color of the water better. It's this beautiful blue-green from the water itself and the reflection off the leaves from the trees

Blue water surrounded by cypress trees at Blue Hole State Park. The water is clear and cool year round because it is derived from Cypress Creek which is partially fed by an artesian well called Jacob's Well. Artesian wells are springs where water is pressurized under rock in an aquifer deep underground, and that pressurization pushes water up to the surface.

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soch @qsyami.eurosky.social · 18/06/2026

Blue Hold State Park in Texas. The loveliest swimming hole surrounded by cypress trees

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soch @qsyami.eurosky.social · 15/06/2026

Hiking and camping this weekend

Hill Country limestone at McKinney Falls

Plants growing out of a water-worn depression in limestone with grasses and flowers growing out of it

View from the middle of the creek bed at McKinney Falls

View of weathered limestone at top of McKinney Falls

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soch @qsyami.eurosky.social · 10/06/2026

Context: Arirang is a 민요 (folk song) that has been passed down through oral tradition with possibly thousands of regional variations. What they sampled in B2B is maybe the most well-known verse from 경기도 (the province with Seoul in it). Screenshots are from a kids history book called 우리 문화 첫발 +

Screenshot from history books for Korean elementary school students called 우리 문화 첫발 (A First Step in Our Culture) that shows regional variations in the Arirang folk song

Transcript:

각 지방의 아리랑

진도 아리랑
후렴) 아리아리랑 쓰리쓰리랑 아라리가 났네
아리랑 응응응 아라리가 났네

문경 새재는 왠 고개인고
구부야야 구부구부가 눈물이 난다

강원도 아리랑
후렴) 아리아리 쓰리쓰리 아라리요
아리아리 고개로 넘어간다

아주까리 동백아 여지 마라
누구를 괴자고 머리에 기름

열라는 콩팥은 왜 아니 열고
아주까리 동백만 왜 여는가

산중의 귀물은 머루나 다래
인간의 귀물은 나 하나라

흙물의 연꽃은 곱기만 하다
세상이 흐려도 나 살 탓이지

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soch @qsyami.eurosky.social · 09/06/2026

I took this photo. It's the 월정규 in 경주. It's a recreation of the longest wooden bridge in SK originally built during the Unified Silla period. Absolutely beautiful lit up at night and you can walk across it in the covered area, and it feels like magic en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woljeon...

Long horizontal shot of 월정규. The bridge is built of wood that has been painted red and green and is lit up at night

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soch @qsyami.eurosky.social · 09/06/2026

Also enjoying this Weverse example for 만연 (rampant, very prevalent, endemic/epidemic) [완전 신났어] [만연한 보조개] 줘봐! [So excited] [Look at his dimples] Give it to me! Dimples can be rampant?

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soch @qsyami.eurosky.social · 09/06/2026

Incredible Naver dict example sentence: Starbucks infest the planet like corporate locusts that quietly but steadily eat away at local cultural foliage. 스타벅스는 조용하지만 꾸준하게 지역 문화를 갉아먹는 기업 사냥꾼들처럼 지구촌에 만연하고 있다. #studyingKorean

Starbucks infest the planet like corporate locusts that quietly but steadily eat away at local cultural foliage.

스타벅스는 조용하지만 꾸준하게 지역 문화를 갉아먹는 기업 사냥꾼들처럼 지구촌에 만연하고 있다.

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soch @qsyami.eurosky.social · 08/06/2026

YG in this most recent one

Fisheye view of BTS for the Come Over Festa release. Some are serving cunt, but Yoongi is waiving with his cute lil' smile

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soch @qsyami.eurosky.social · 07/06/2026

He needs one of these for his comfy reading chair

An image of a plastic drink holder that stably goes over the thick arm of a squishy couch. This one is greige on a light grey couch with some texture. It has a cup for holding a cup and tray for holding remote controls and phones.

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soch @qsyami.eurosky.social · 02/06/2026

This squirrel is living its best life 🐿️ Also RIP big green tomato 😭

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soch @qsyami.eurosky.social · 28/05/2026

Yeah, probably, but it's things like YG's line in 2.0: 10년은 말야 어림 반 푼어치 어림 반 푼어치 has this wealth of cultural context around it that makes the beginning of the 2.0 mv extra funny, but I don't think I've seen anyone explain it...idk. It's just always gonna be a lot to convey and take in, I guess

doolset translation of 2.0

10년은 말야 어림 반 푼어치 [puneochi]
See, they don’t stand a chance against the 10 years we’ve built

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soch @qsyami.eurosky.social · 28/05/2026

Not exactly the same, but Ursula Le Guin's line comes to mind. So songs like Magic Shop and Mikrokosmos are for us, not for critics or GP because snobs don't consider that kind of music as art

“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain … But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else. We have almost lost hold; we can no longer describe happy man, nor make any celebration of joy.”

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soch @qsyami.eurosky.social · 27/05/2026

To totally brag, my organic-shaped vegetable packing estimation skills are very good. I apportioned exactly The right amount to pack this jar lol

Escabeche with jalepenos, carrots, onions, garlic, bay leaves, cumin, coriander, cloves, oregano in a jar about to be covered with pickling brine

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soch @qsyami.eurosky.social · 25/05/2026

Maybe NJ's Ryan pajamas?

Brown haired Namjoon in Ryan and white spots pajamas

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soch @qsyami.eurosky.social · 21/05/2026

Saba no Misoni (simmered miso mackerel) with my homemade chickpea miso.

Two slices of mackerel with shishito peppers and simmered scallions on a white plate

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soch @qsyami.eurosky.social · 20/05/2026

Are ducks the cats of birds?

Some mallard ducks napping in some slightly wet concrete in a parking lot. One has one leg up in the tiniest of puddles

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soch @qsyami.eurosky.social · 19/05/2026

It did the thing! Some beautiful color change (it's a golden brown rather than the pale color of fresh hummus), and the flavor is savory, slightly sweet, and pleasantly funky +

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soch @qsyami.eurosky.social · 19/05/2026

This is my favorite kind of 떡! It's called 단호박 양영 찰떡 (sweet pumpkin nutritious glutinous rice cake). I thought I'd probably never be able to have it outside of visiting Korea, but! A lovely elderly couple has opened up a hole in the wall 떡 shop in the Hmart food court. Fresh 떡 is so delicious!

Last piece of 단호박 영양 찰떡 in a glass container. The rice cake portion is a pleasing cheerful dark yellow color, there is some sweet kabocha orange pumpkin pulp sandwiched between two layers, and the entire outside is covered in crushed red bean

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soch @qsyami.eurosky.social · 19/05/2026

Uh...whut is this picture? www.instagram.com/p/DYXAPolE9rY/

Screenshot from @heyjapan_kr Insta account that has a picture of three women wearing aprons carrying machine guns with the text above the picture:

일본 주부들이 남편 부르는 별명?
My Eng translation: Nicknames that Japanese housewives call their husbands?

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soch @qsyami.eurosky.social · 18/05/2026

A not microwave video of my meadow hike today. So much lovely blooming field scabious, Queen Anne's lace, thistle, and other places even saw some late-blooming paintbrushes and blankets as well as a bluebonnet or two! So lovely when it was all gently blowing in the breeze

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soch @qsyami.eurosky.social · 14/05/2026

In all seriousness, I have incorporated a chork into this lecture

Two crossed chorks (chopstick and fork curses hybrid utensil); one black, one red on a white background

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soch @qsyami.eurosky.social · 11/05/2026

MIN YOONGI SLEEP COWLICK IS THAT YOU?? I hope you enjoyed the breeze!! www.instagram.com/natylogs/ree...

Screen shot of Instagram reel from user @natylogs of Min Yoongi during soundcheck in Tampa. He is in an oversized white tshirt with tousled hair and sweat pants with double white jogger stripe down the side

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soch @qsyami.eurosky.social · 08/05/2026

brb putting a gif of this in my anki deck for 기지개를 켜다

Screenshot for krdict for 기지개 with the following definition:

기지개 「명사」 Noun [기ː지개]
stretching
두 팔을 벌려 위로 뻗으면서 몸과 다리를 쭉 펴는 일.
An act of extending two arms overhead, while stretching the body and legs.

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soch @qsyami.eurosky.social · 02/05/2026

I know it sounds kind of weird to be really excited about a literature textbook for middle schoolers in light of all this, but that one legit has given me a lot of trouble for the past two years... But yeah, if you're studying Korean and are curious about any of these books, feel free to ask!

A gallery view of my reading log for Korean Books. Each cover thumbnail has the book title, author, and number of pages under it.

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soch @qsyami.eurosky.social · 29/04/2026

MYG is actually the cutest human in all the world (Around 6:39 they're teasing him about getting stuck when he was describing something they were doing with TH on stage, and then he makes this gesture)

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soch @qsyami.eurosky.social · 24/04/2026

Y'all. This is like my three hottest lesbian friends sitting in a row..

Jimin, Hobi, and Namjoon sitting at a wooden table on a pier probably in Florida waiting for food. Jimin is wearing a butch queer trucker hat looking just very suave, Hobi is wearing a light beige striped blazer with rolled up sleeves, fingers up in a peace sign. He has a short, slightly shaggy highlighted haircut that kind of looks like a calico cat coat pattern, but very classy and big round light colored sunglasses. Namjoon is at the end of the table, face in hand face silly scrunched up. Big dark plastic framed glasses and blond hair. There are boats and sunset on water in the background

https://www.instagram.com/stories/rkive/3882435266682197796?utm_source=ig_story_item_share&igsh=cDdtcHl0emM5dG9i

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soch @qsyami.eurosky.social · 24/04/2026

Spread it on this garlic naan

Misozuke on garlic naan on a white plate

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