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	''by Eva Knowles, 2024''		''by Eva Knowles, 2024''

	[[Image:Angel Island ~~from ferry March 2024-LisaRith Elliott~~.jpg]]		[[Image:Haunted Hospital Angel Island Exterior EK.jpg]]

	'''~~Angel Island from ferry~~, ~~March~~ 2024.'''		'''Our "Haunted Hospital" at Fort McDowell, July 2024.'''

	''Photo: ~~LisaRuth Elliott~~''		''Photo: Eva Knowles''

	There is nothing more interesting to a child than a good ghost story, and Angel Island seemed to be full of them. I spent a week or two there each summer for three years, attending a day camp for elementary school children. My mother would drive me from my home in Mill Valley to Tiburon, where the camp staff would load us all onto the ferry. As the ferry began to pull away from the dock, we’d lean over the railing and see who could jump back quickly enough to not get a faceful of saltwater spray. We told stories to pass the time and watched the island grow closer and closer.		There is nothing more interesting to a child than a good ghost story, and Angel Island seemed to be full of them. I spent a week or two there each summer for three years, attending a day camp for elementary school children. My mother would drive me from my home in Mill Valley to Tiburon, where the camp staff would load us all onto the ferry. As the ferry began to pull away from the dock, we’d lean over the railing and see who could jump back quickly enough to not get a faceful of saltwater spray. We told stories to pass the time and watched the island grow closer and closer.
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	But the best days of camp were Tuesdays, when our counselors—barely out of high school—would take us out of Ayala Cove, where the camp was stationed, and deeper into the island. They’d coax the smallest children along with Oreos, while those who knew what they were hiking towards would try to run ahead.		But the best days of camp were Tuesdays, when our counselors—barely out of high school—would take us out of Ayala Cove, where the camp was stationed, and deeper into the island. They’d coax the smallest children along with Oreos, while those who knew what they were hiking towards would try to run ahead.

	~~[[Image:~~Fort McDowell ~~garrison Angel Island March 2024-LisaRuth Elliott~~.~~jpeg]]~~		It was about two miles to Fort McDowell, which was home to the most exciting spot on the island: the “Haunted Hospital.” There were many surrounding buildings, but we never stopped to look too closely, because the biggest draw of the hospital was the fact that we were allowed to go inside a portion of the building.

	~~'''Fort McDowell garrison, March 2024~~.~~'''~~		[[Image:Angel Island Haunted Hospital Interior EK.jpg]]

	''~~Photo: LisaRuth Elliott~~''		'''Inside the "Haunted Hospital," July 2024.'''

	~~It was about two miles to Fort McDowell, which was home to the most exciting spot on the island~~: the “Haunted Hospital.” There were many surrounding buildings, but we never stopped to look too closely, because the biggest draw of the hospital was the fact that we were allowed to go inside a portion of the building. The counselors lined us up and allowed us to enter a small room a few at a time. “You might see a ghost,” they said playfully. I can no longer remember what the room actually held, but I do remember what I ''thought'' I saw: an apparition of a brunette woman wearing a white apron.		''Photo: Eva Knowles''

			The counselors lined us up and allowed us to enter a small dark room, barely the size of a closet, a few at a time. “You might see a ghost,” they said playfully. I can no longer remember what the room actually held, but I do remember what I ''thought'' I saw: an apparition of a brunette woman wearing a white apron.

	“I saw one!” I yelled triumphantly as I ran out of the room, a few other children on my heels. “I saw a ghost!”		“I saw one!” I yelled triumphantly as I ran out of the room, a few other children on my heels. “I saw a ghost!”

	[[Image:~~Hospital ruins~~ Angel Island ~~March 2024-LisaRuth Elliott~~.~~jpeg~~]]		[[Image:Angel Island Ghost Room EK.jpg]]

	'''~~Hospital ruins~~, ~~March~~ 2024.'''		'''Our ghost chamber, July 2024.'''

	''Photo: ~~LisaRuth Elliott~~''		''Photo: Eva Knowles''

	The other children swarmed around me. “What did they look like?” “What were they doing?” One boy looked me straight in the eye and told me that he’d seen one too. We quickly compared notes, convincing each other, and ourselves, that we had seen the ghost of a nurse.		The other children swarmed around me. “What did they look like?” “What were they doing?” One boy looked me straight in the eye and told me that he’d seen one too. We quickly compared notes, convincing each other, and ourselves, that we had seen the ghost of a nurse.
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	Many of the other children didn’t believe us. Seeing a few of them roll their eyes made my face grow hot. I had never been one to draw attention to myself. To this day I am less convinced that I was lying than that my third-grade imagination conjured up a ghost that felt, at least in the moment, wholly real. Either way, I stopped talking about the ghost, and walked the two miles back to Ayala Cove in an embarrassed silence.		Many of the other children didn’t believe us. Seeing a few of them roll their eyes made my face grow hot. I had never been one to draw attention to myself. To this day I am less convinced that I was lying than that my third-grade imagination conjured up a ghost that felt, at least in the moment, wholly real. Either way, I stopped talking about the ghost, and walked the two miles back to Ayala Cove in an embarrassed silence.

	The oldest children got to leave the cove on Thursdays, too. ~~When I became an older child, we~~ went the opposite direction, first coming upon a singular building, weathered and with many windows. We were told that this had also been a hospital, and I now know that it was Camp Reynolds Hospital. Our counselors would pull us closer together and shush us before beginning to tell us about the ghost that lived there. ''Sometimes the park rangers find the shutters open when they used to be closed, or closed when they used to be open. Sometimes they see a light go on, and hear a woman moaning, but when they come up from the beach there’s no one there.'' Now a year older and already jaded, I didn’t quite believe it.		[[Image:Camp Reynolds Hospital from Ferry.jpg]]

			'''Camp Reynolds Hospital from the Tiburon Ferry, July 2024.'''

			''Photo: Eva Knowles''

			The oldest children got to leave the cove on Thursdays, too. We went the opposite direction, first coming upon a singular building, weathered and with many windows. We were told that this had also been a hospital, and I now know that it was Camp Reynolds Hospital. Our counselors would pull us closer together and shush us before beginning to tell us about the ghost that lived there. ''Sometimes the park rangers find the shutters open when they used to be closed, or closed when they used to be open. Sometimes they see a light go on, and hear a woman moaning, but when they come up from the beach there’s no one there.'' Now a year older and already jaded, I didn’t quite believe it.

	[[Image:outofsf$camp-reynolds.jpg]]		[[Image:outofsf$camp-reynolds.jpg]]
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	When the game was over, we’d eat lunch at picnic tables beside the Garrison building. There was always a problem with yellowjackets, and soon we would decide that we’d had enough fun. We’d get off the ferry that afternoon and greet our parents with legends gleefully retold. To talk about one’s day at camp was to talk about ghosts.		When the game was over, we’d eat lunch at picnic tables beside the Garrison building. There was always a problem with yellowjackets, and soon we would decide that we’d had enough fun. We’d get off the ferry that afternoon and greet our parents with legends gleefully retold. To talk about one’s day at camp was to talk about ghosts.

	~~[[Image:Opportunities Angel Island Immigration Station March 2024-LisaRuth Elliott.jpeg]]~~

	~~'''"Opportunities," Angel Island Immigration Station, March 2024.'''~~

	~~''Photo: LisaRuth Elliott''~~

	But what did we really know about the island, and the people who lived there? What ghosts did we think we were seeing? I can still imagine the ghost I thought I saw at Fort McDowell: the brunette woman we decided was a nurse. When I try to remember how I pictured the woman shouting from the window at the Camp Reynolds hospital, I imagine her similarly.		But what did we really know about the island, and the people who lived there? What ghosts did we think we were seeing? I can still imagine the ghost I thought I saw at Fort McDowell: the brunette woman we decided was a nurse. When I try to remember how I pictured the woman shouting from the window at the Camp Reynolds hospital, I imagine her similarly.

	Yet the people who died on Angel Island were largely not white nurses, but Asian immigrants detained and confined to the island for sometimes as long as several years. Between 1910 and 1940, the Angel Island Immigration Station processed [[Island of Immortals: Chinese Immigrants and the Angel Island Immigration Station\|hundreds of thousands of immigrants]], most of whom came from China. The conditions for detainees were prison-like—they were often separated from their families and subjected to grueling interrogations and invasive medical examinations. Visitors to Angel Island can still find melancholy [[Angel Island Poetry on the Walls\|poems]], written in Chinese, etched into the walls. Many people committed suicide before getting the chance to leave the station.

	[[Image:Angel-island-east-side-abandoned-buildings 2451.jpg]]		[[Image:Angel-island-east-side-abandoned-buildings 2451.jpg]]
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	''Photo: Chris Carlsson''		''Photo: Chris Carlsson''

			Yet the people who died on Angel Island were largely not white nurses, but Asian immigrants detained and confined to the island for sometimes as long as several years. Between 1910 and 1940, the Angel Island Immigration Station processed [[Island of Immortals: Chinese Immigrants and the Angel Island Immigration Station\|hundreds of thousands of immigrants]], most of whom came from China. The conditions for detainees were prison-like—they were often separated from their families and subjected to grueling interrogations and invasive medical examinations. Visitors to Angel Island can still find melancholy [[Angel Island Poetry on the Walls\|poems]], written in Chinese, etched into the walls. Many people committed suicide before getting the chance to leave the station.

	We children didn’t know about these ghosts, ghosts which are born from history instead of fantasy. They very well might have walked among us during those summers on the island—Angel Island continues to be a major destination for ghost hunters, who report strange electromagnetic activity and recordings of disembodied voices—but as we darted in and out of ruins, we did not know exactly who we were looking for.		We children didn’t know about these ghosts, ghosts which are born from history instead of fantasy. They very well might have walked among us during those summers on the island—Angel Island continues to be a major destination for ghost hunters, who report strange electromagnetic activity and recordings of disembodied voices—but as we darted in and out of ruins, we did not know exactly who we were looking for.

EvaKnowles: added in my text and LR's photos, kept some existing photos

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	'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>~~Historical Essay~~</font></font> </font>'''		'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>"I was there..."</font></font> </font>'''

	''by Dr. ~~Weirde~~''		''by Eva Knowles, 2024''

			[[Image:Angel Island from ferry March 2024-LisaRith Elliott.jpg]]

			'''Angel Island from ferry, March 2024.'''

			''Photo: LisaRuth Elliott''

			There is nothing more interesting to a child than a good ghost story, and Angel Island seemed to be full of them. I spent a week or two there each summer for three years, attending a day camp for elementary school children. My mother would drive me from my home in Mill Valley to Tiburon, where the camp staff would load us all onto the ferry. As the ferry began to pull away from the dock, we’d lean over the railing and see who could jump back quickly enough to not get a faceful of saltwater spray. We told stories to pass the time and watched the island grow closer and closer.

			On most days, the camp could have been anywhere. It was a typical summer camp—we played games, made friendship bracelets, and fished for crawdads from the dock. I always held my hook, which carried a piece of string cheese, just above the surface of the water, because I wasn’t interested in catching a crawdad. We could play at the beach as long as we wore a life jacket and didn’t let the water go higher than our ankles. On Fridays, we’d have a barbecue with burgers and bags of Doritos. Each day we’d come home dusty, with tiny sticky burrs coating our sneakers.

			But the best days of camp were Tuesdays, when our counselors—barely out of high school—would take us out of Ayala Cove, where the camp was stationed, and deeper into the island. They’d coax the smallest children along with Oreos, while those who knew what they were hiking towards would try to run ahead.

			[[Image:Fort McDowell garrison Angel Island March 2024-LisaRuth Elliott.jpeg]]

			'''Fort McDowell garrison, March 2024.'''

			''Photo: LisaRuth Elliott''

			It was about two miles to Fort McDowell, which was home to the most exciting spot on the island: the “Haunted Hospital.” There were many surrounding buildings, but we never stopped to look too closely, because the biggest draw of the hospital was the fact that we were allowed to go inside a portion of the building. The counselors lined us up and allowed us to enter a small room a few at a time. “You might see a ghost,” they said playfully. I can no longer remember what the room actually held, but I do remember what I ''thought'' I saw: an apparition of a brunette woman wearing a white apron.

			“I saw one!” I yelled triumphantly as I ran out of the room, a few other children on my heels. “I saw a ghost!”

			[[Image:Hospital ruins Angel Island March 2024-LisaRuth Elliott.jpeg]]

			'''Hospital ruins, March 2024.'''

			''Photo: LisaRuth Elliott''

			The other children swarmed around me. “What did they look like?” “What were they doing?” One boy looked me straight in the eye and told me that he’d seen one too. We quickly compared notes, convincing each other, and ourselves, that we had seen the ghost of a nurse.

			Many of the other children didn’t believe us. Seeing a few of them roll their eyes made my face grow hot. I had never been one to draw attention to myself. To this day I am less convinced that I was lying than that my third-grade imagination conjured up a ghost that felt, at least in the moment, wholly real. Either way, I stopped talking about the ghost, and walked the two miles back to Ayala Cove in an embarrassed silence.

			The oldest children got to leave the cove on Thursdays, too. When I became an older child, we went the opposite direction, first coming upon a singular building, weathered and with many windows. We were told that this had also been a hospital, and I now know that it was Camp Reynolds Hospital. Our counselors would pull us closer together and shush us before beginning to tell us about the ghost that lived there. ''Sometimes the park rangers find the shutters open when they used to be closed, or closed when they used to be open. Sometimes they see a light go on, and hear a woman moaning, but when they come up from the beach there’s no one there.'' Now a year older and already jaded, I didn’t quite believe it.

	[[Image:outofsf$camp-reynolds.jpg]]		[[Image:outofsf$camp-reynolds.jpg]]
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	''Photo: Chris Carlsson''		''Photo: Chris Carlsson''

	~~[[Image~~:~~Angel-island-east-side~~-~~abandoned~~-~~buildings 2451~~.~~jpg]]~~		Next we would walk to the Camp Reynolds parade grounds, where we played hide and seek between and behind the abandoned officers’ quarters. The thrill was twofold: another child might catch me in the dry grass behind one of the houses, or a ghost might catch me first. The rules of the game outlawed hiding inside the houses—the houses were intact enough that that would have required breaking in—as well as going too far up on the hill. Still, our game felt more real among the old homes than it did on the playground at school, as if we were back in the days when there were soldiers there, and there might be a threat more legitimate than a ten-year-old coming up through the bushes.

	~~'''Abandoned military buildings on east side of Angel Island~~, ~~2014~~.~~'''~~		When the game was over, we’d eat lunch at picnic tables beside the Garrison building. There was always a problem with yellowjackets, and soon we would decide that we’d had enough fun. We’d get off the ferry that afternoon and greet our parents with legends gleefully retold. To talk about one’s day at camp was to talk about ghosts.

	~~''Photo~~: ~~Chris Carlsson''~~		[[Image:Opportunities Angel Island Immigration Station March 2024-LisaRuth Elliott.jpeg]]

	~~[[Image:~~Angel~~-island-abandoned-quarters 2514~~.~~jpg]]~~		'''"Opportunities," Angel Island Immigration Station, March 2024.'''

	''~~'Abandoned living quarters, east side of Angel Island.'~~''		''Photo: LisaRuth Elliott''

	~~''Photo~~: ~~Chris Carlsson''~~		But what did we really know about the island, and the people who lived there? What ghosts did we think we were seeing? I can still imagine the ghost I thought I saw at Fort McDowell: the brunette woman we decided was a nurse. When I try to remember how I pictured the woman shouting from the window at the Camp Reynolds hospital, I imagine her similarly.

	Angel Island~~'s military history goes back far beyond the insanity of the Cold War. During the Civil War~~, the island ~~housed a fort, which~~, ~~like~~ the ~~fortifications at~~ the ~~mouth~~ of ~~the Golden Gate~~, ~~served as an utterly ineffectual defense against an invasion that would never arrive~~. The ~~military base later became a troop embarkation point during World War Two~~, ~~housing over a thousand soldiers at a time~~.		Yet the people who died on Angel Island were largely not white nurses, but Asian immigrants detained and confined to the island for sometimes as long as several years. Between 1910 and 1940, the Angel Island Immigration Station processed [[Island of Immortals: Chinese Immigrants and the Angel Island Immigration Station\|hundreds of thousands of immigrants]], most of whom came from China. The conditions for detainees were prison-like—they were often separated from their families and subjected to grueling interrogations and invasive medical examinations. Visitors to Angel Island can still find melancholy [[Angel Island Poetry on the Walls\|poems]], written in Chinese, etched into the walls. Many people committed suicide before getting the chance to leave the station.

	~~From 1906 until World War Two, the Island's barracks served as an~~ [[~~Island of Immortals~~: ~~Chinese Immigrants and the~~ Angel ~~Island Immigration Station\| internment camp~~]] for mostly Chinese immigrants. You can still see the graffiti they left behind, mixed with the racier (and, for English speakers, more comprehensible) commentaries etched in stone by soldiers en route to their likely deaths in the bloody war in the Pacific.		[[Image:Angel-island-east-side-abandoned-buildings 2451.jpg]]

	~~[[Image:Angel-island-quarry-equipment 2572.jpg]]~~		'''Abandoned military buildings on east side of Angel Island, 2014.'''

	'''Abandoned ~~quarry equipment, southwest slope~~ of Angel Island, 2014.'''

	''Photo: Chris Carlsson''		''Photo: Chris Carlsson''

	~~[[Image:Angel-island-quarry 2573~~.~~jpg]]~~		We children didn’t know about these ghosts, ghosts which are born from history instead of fantasy. They very well might have walked among us during those summers on the island—Angel Island continues to be a major destination for ghost hunters, who report strange electromagnetic activity and recordings of disembodied voices—but as we darted in and out of ruins, we did not know exactly who we were looking for.

	~~'''Long abandoned quarry, Angel Island.'''~~

	~~''Photo: Chris Carlsson''~~

	[[Island of Immortals: Chinese Immigrants and the Angel Island Immigration Station \|More Angel Island]]		[[Island of Immortals: Chinese Immigrants and the Angel Island Immigration Station \|More Angel Island]]

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	From 1906 until World War Two, the Island's barracks served as an [[Island of Immortals: Chinese Immigrants and the Angel Island Immigration Station\| internment camp]] for mostly Chinese immigrants. You can still see the graffiti they left behind, mixed with the racier (and, for English speakers, more comprehensible) commentaries etched in stone by soldiers en route to their likely deaths in the bloody war in the Pacific.		From 1906 until World War Two, the Island's barracks served as an [[Island of Immortals: Chinese Immigrants and the Angel Island Immigration Station\| internment camp]] for mostly Chinese immigrants. You can still see the graffiti they left behind, mixed with the racier (and, for English speakers, more comprehensible) commentaries etched in stone by soldiers en route to their likely deaths in the bloody war in the Pacific.

	[[~~Imgae~~:Angel-island-quarry-equipment 2572.jpg]]		[[Image:Angel-island-quarry-equipment 2572.jpg]]

	'''Abandoned quarry equipment, southwest slope of Angel Island, 2014.'''		'''Abandoned quarry equipment, southwest slope of Angel Island, 2014.'''

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	'''~~Camp Reynolds Fort~~ on Angel Island.'''		'''Abandoned military buildings on east side of Angel Island, 2014.'''

	''Photo: Chris Carlsson''		''Photo: Chris Carlsson''

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			'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>'''

			''by Dr. Weirde''

	[[Image:outofsf$camp-reynolds.jpg]]		[[Image:outofsf$camp-reynolds.jpg]]

	'''Camp Reynolds, a Civil War-era fort, once inhabited by officers and their families.'''		'''Camp Reynolds, a Civil War-era fort, once inhabited by officers and their families.'''

			''Photo: Chris Carlsson''

			[[Image:outofsf$camp-reynolds-fort.jpg]]

			'''Camp Reynolds Fort on Angel Island.'''

	''Photo: Chris Carlsson''		''Photo: Chris Carlsson''
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	From 1906 until World War Two, the Island's barracks served as an [[Island of Immortals: Chinese Immigrants and the Angel Island Immigration Station\| internment camp]] for mostly Chinese immigrants. You can still see the graffiti they left behind, mixed with the racier (and, for English speakers, more comprehensible) commentaries etched in stone by soldiers en route to their likely deaths in the bloody war in the Pacific.		From 1906 until World War Two, the Island's barracks served as an [[Island of Immortals: Chinese Immigrants and the Angel Island Immigration Station\| internment camp]] for mostly Chinese immigrants. You can still see the graffiti they left behind, mixed with the racier (and, for English speakers, more comprehensible) commentaries etched in stone by soldiers en route to their likely deaths in the bloody war in the Pacific.

	~~--''Dr. Weirde''~~

	[[Island of Immortals: Chinese Immigrants and the Angel Island Immigration Station \|More Angel Island]]		[[Island of Immortals: Chinese Immigrants and the Angel Island Immigration Station \|More Angel Island]]

	~~[[Image:outofsf$camp-reynolds-fort.jpg]]~~

	~~'''Camp Reynolds Fort on Angel Island.'''~~

	~~''Photo: Chris Carlsson''~~


	[[~~Occupation~~ of ~~Alcatraz Intro~~ \|Prev. Document]] [[Island of Immortals: Chinese Immigrants and the Angel Island Immigration Station \|Next Document]]		[[Island of Evil Spirits \|Prev. Document]] [[Island of Immortals: Chinese Immigrants and the Angel Island Immigration Station \|Next Document]]

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	'''Camp Reynolds, a Civil War-era fort, once inhabited by officers and their families.'''		'''Camp Reynolds, a Civil War-era fort, once inhabited by officers and their families.'''

			''Photo: Chris Carlsson''

	Angel Island's military history goes back far beyond the insanity of the Cold War. During the Civil War, the island housed a fort, which, like the fortifications at the mouth of the Golden Gate, served as an utterly ineffectual defense against an invasion that would never arrive. The military base later became a troop embarkation point during World War Two, housing over a thousand soldiers at a time.		Angel Island's military history goes back far beyond the insanity of the Cold War. During the Civil War, the island housed a fort, which, like the fortifications at the mouth of the Golden Gate, served as an utterly ineffectual defense against an invasion that would never arrive. The military base later became a troop embarkation point during World War Two, housing over a thousand soldiers at a time.
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	From 1906 until World War Two, the Island's barracks served as an [[Island of Immortals: Chinese Immigrants and the Angel Island Immigration Station\| internment camp]] for mostly Chinese immigrants. You can still see the graffiti they left behind, mixed with the racier (and, for English speakers, more comprehensible) commentaries etched in stone by soldiers en route to their likely deaths in the bloody war in the Pacific.		From 1906 until World War Two, the Island's barracks served as an [[Island of Immortals: Chinese Immigrants and the Angel Island Immigration Station\| internment camp]] for mostly Chinese immigrants. You can still see the graffiti they left behind, mixed with the racier (and, for English speakers, more comprehensible) commentaries etched in stone by soldiers en route to their likely deaths in the bloody war in the Pacific.

	--''~~Dr~~. Weirde''		--''Dr. Weirde''

	[[Island of Immortals: Chinese Immigrants and the Angel Island Immigration Station \|More Angel Island]]		[[Island of Immortals: Chinese Immigrants and the Angel Island Immigration Station \|More Angel Island]]
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	'''Camp Reynolds Fort on Angel Island.'''		'''Camp Reynolds Fort on Angel Island.'''

			''Photo: Chris Carlsson''

	~~photos by Chris Carlsson~~

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