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@KrystieLYandoli
Krystie Lee Yandoli
5 years
interesting, when I watched this I actually thought, somebody save this woman
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Complex
5 years
Someone save this man. 😂😂😭
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5 years
When asked if his Oscar win tonight makes up for “Do the Right Thing” not winning an Academy Award, Spike Lee said, “Every time somebody’s driving somewhere, I lose.”
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4 years
This Georgia elections official on finishing counting ballots: "Our hope would be today but could slip into tomorrow. Everybody's exhausted, it's Friday, there's a Georgia game tomorrow, it's a really big one. We have to focus on the important things sometimes."
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I spoke to 16 current and former staffers of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. They say their mental health was impacted because of their alleged mistreatment behind the scenes
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4 years
I spoke to one current & 23 former TMZ employees who say the workplace is toxic, misogynistic, & racist. TMZ has the same parent companies as The Ellen Show & in light of recent allegations employees say it's time for a reckoning in their abusive newsroom
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5 years
There are two kinds of people in this world: People who carry gum and people who always ask other people for gum.
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Krystie Lee Yandoli
5 years
Backstage, Olivia Colman was asked “What would Queen Anne say to you right now?” Her reply: “Have some cake.”
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4 years
Former Ellen employees told me it’s implausible that DeGeneres hasn’t been exposed to the same stories and behavior, particularly when they allegedly involve the senior-level executive producers she spends most of her time with.
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Krystie Lee Yandoli
4 years
I spoke to COVID compliance officers & assistants who work on some of your favorite TV shows. They're stressed out. “I have no formal training. I have no medical training. I don't know anything more or less about coronavirus than the next person."
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“We’re young people who were forming our careers and were unfortunately subjected to a toxic work environment as some of our first jobs out of college,” a former Ellen employee told me. “And some of us were sexually harassed and that’s what was shaping our careers."
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Krystie Lee Yandoli
5 years
Living Undocumented is a powerful documentary series and Selena Gomez said she got involved because she really wants to see a change in our immigration system.
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3 years
rewatching Gilmore Girls from start to finish during the one-year anniversary of the pandemic and realizing you’re actually Loreali’s age instead of Rory’s 🥺🥺🥺
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@KrystieLYandoli
Krystie Lee Yandoli
4 years
“She knows,” a longtime former Ellen employee told me. “She knows shit goes on, but also she doesn’t want to hear it.”
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@KrystieLYandoli
Krystie Lee Yandoli
4 years
I feel attacked
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Dr. Ashley N Edes
4 years
I’m in this photo and I don’t like it. 🤦‍♀️
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Krystie Lee Yandoli
4 years
something you’re all not ready to talk about is the invisible and emotional labor that goes into Being The Person Who Picks The Show/Movie
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Krystie Lee Yandoli
5 years
Spike Lee on Green Book winning Best Picture at the #Oscars2019 : “I thought I was courtside at the Garden. The ref made a bad call.”
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Krystie Lee Yandoli
5 years
I had a great conversation with creator and TV legend Michael Schur about the real meaning behind The Good Place (aka one of the best shows on television). "What do we owe to each other?"
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Krystie Lee Yandoli
4 years
my cousin from Georgia is telling me that yes, “the cocktail party” really is that big of a deal. but i’m just a yankee, what do i know
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I spoke to current and former employees at the Dr. Phil Show who called the workplace environment toxic and said they had to deal with racism, intimidation, and verbal abuse. Some employees quit because they said their mental health suffered.
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Krystie Lee Yandoli
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. @juliamoserrrr on getting dumped in a pandemic: “In a world where nothing is certain, heartbreak finds a way. And I think that’s beautiful.” 💔
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Krystie Lee Yandoli
3 years
Today I witnessed a man walking down the sidewalk and say into his phone, “I am healthy, I am wealthy, I am rich, I am that bitch” and I really love that affirmation for him and for all of us.
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Krystie Lee Yandoli
4 years
I’m not weeping on Sunset Boulevard!!! You are!!!!!! Damn it @BookSoup
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Krystie Lee Yandoli
4 years
for context, here's the full video of a Georgia elections official joking about the Georgia/Florida football game tomorrow
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Krystie Lee Yandoli
4 years
This Georgia elections official on finishing counting ballots: "Our hope would be today but could slip into tomorrow. Everybody's exhausted, it's Friday, there's a Georgia game tomorrow, it's a really big one. We have to focus on the important things sometimes."
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4 years
I spoke to current and former Ellen employees who said her on-air apology missed the mark. “Not only did Ellen turn my trauma, turn our traumas, into a joke, she somehow managed to make this about her,” one former employee told me.
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Krystie Lee Yandoli
2 years
After speaking with more than 85 current and former employees at The Ellen Show over the last couple of years, I wrote about #EllensFinalSeason and the legacy the show leaves behind. It's complicated.
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Krystie Lee Yandoli
4 years
If you have more information or a tip regarding workplace culture on the Ellen show or in Hollywood, you can email me at krystie.yandoli @buzzfeed .com.
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Krystie Lee Yandoli
4 years
this story has a really sad ending. i’m heartbroken my crush passed away over the weekend from an overdose. we never met up but we exchanged texts & DMs. the last time we spoke he was laughing at a video of my dad explaining the plot of a hallmark movie
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Krystie Lee Yandoli
6 years
after years and years and years of not talking, my elementary school crush reached out to me out of nowhere and asked me to get dinner in our hometown after christmas, and my mom is convinced i'm living the plot of a hallmark holiday movie where we end up happily ever after
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“I wrote [Do the Right Thing] in ‘88 I was talking about gentrification, I was talking about global warming. This June will be its 30th anniversary and all the stuff I talked about in that film is still relevant today.” —Spike Lee at the #Oscars2019
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4 years
Gilmore Girls fans tweeted that David Sutcliffe aka Christopher on GG posted a now-deleted Instagram video from the siege at the Capitol. Sutcliffe denied being a part of the insurrection but said he “would have been proud to share a smoke” with this man who was at the Capitol
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Krystie Lee Yandoli
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@bessbell I love this so much, it makes me want to hear every woman’s “Fuck That Guy” story
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4 years
people living in america: let us collectively weep
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4 years
same
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Eva Mendes Says She'd 'Rather Be at Home' with Ryan Gosling 'Than Anywhere Else in the World'​
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In total, I’ve spoken to 47 current & former employees who said executive producer Ed Glavin led with intimidation & fear on a daily basis.
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Warner Brothers declined to comment on the new allegations, citing an ongoing internal investigation that was launched after our first report. Head writer & executive producer Kevin Leman sent this statement
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(it's not lost on me that i'm doing some of the most significant reporting of my career thus far from my childhood bedroom)
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Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, and more than 300 actors are threatening to strike for the best deal possible in a letter to SAG-AFTRA leadership
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Following our reports of toxicity and sexual misconduct behind the scenes at The Ellen Show, Ellen DeGeneres told staffers that executive producers Ed Glavin, Kevin Leman, and co-executive producer Jonathan Norman will no longer be working at the show.
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5 years
Jane Fonda gazing at Manny Jacinto is all of us
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4 years
One ex-employee said head writer and executive producer Kevin Leman asked him if he could give him a hand job or perform oral sex in a bathroom at a company party in 2013. Another former employee said Leman grabbed a production assistant’s penis in a separate incident.
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Bong Joon-ho backstage at the #Oscars2020 : “I’ve seen Scorsese lose this award multiple times & he didn’t know me back then but I was so frustrated. I remember when he won for The Departed. I was so excited to be nominated with him. It has been a huge honor it’s hard to believe.”
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Teachers Are Feeling The Pressure To Be “The Glue That Holds Society Together”
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Krystie Lee Yandoli
5 years
Rami Malek walked into the press room thanking the media. “I don’t think critically the decision on this film was unanimous, but I appreciate everything you guys had to write.” (This man had good press training for tonight.)
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Krystie Lee Yandoli
4 years
Taika Waititi on Jojo Rabbit’s relevance: “Making the film was in response to a resurgence of hate and intolerance and hate speech. And here’s the thing, at the end of the war there was a very clear rule: If you were a nazi, you went to jail…”
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Krystie Lee Yandoli
4 years
Another former employee said co-executive producer Jonathan Norman groomed him over a period of time by taking him to concerts and other work-related perks, and then one night attempted to perform oral sex on him.
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Krystie Lee Yandoli
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i spoke to employees who work at The Kelly Clarkson Show who say they think she's fantastic but say their work environment is toxic and "traumatizing" to their mental health, perpetuating the behind the scenes culture in daytime tv
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Krystie Lee Yandoli
5 years
Spike Lee walked on stage in the press room at the #Oscars2019 holding a glass of champagne and has been sipping it while answering every question. Let me tell you, he has ENERGY, and the room is here for it!
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Krystie Lee Yandoli
5 years
“buzz bitch” actually has a nice ring to it, no?
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Krystie Lee Yandoli
4 years
Also, if you haven't read or watched The Hate U Give yet and you have some free time this week, you can rent it on Amazon Video & buy it from any of your favorite booksellers!
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4 years
Journalist: Do you have a plan for what’s next for you? Bong Joon ho: “I do have a plan. I have to work, it’s my job.” The director said he’s working on two new films, one in English and one in Korean.
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Krystie Lee Yandoli
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after years and years and years of not talking, my elementary school crush reached out to me out of nowhere and asked me to get dinner in our hometown after christmas, and my mom is convinced i'm living the plot of a hallmark holiday movie where we end up happily ever after
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Krystie Lee Yandoli
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today i learned that the United States of America had a lot of audacity scheduling a presidential election the same week as the Georgia/Florida SEC game!
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Angie Dougherty
4 years
@KrystieLYandoli Yes Ma’am.... see the rule No weddings, no baby showers, no bridal showers, if possible no births or funerals. #GODAWGS #gatorhate #Dawgnation #BidenHarris2020
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I spoke to one current and 11 former employees at Central Casting, Hollywood’s legendary agency for background actors, about what they called a toxic workplace where complaints of racism, typecasting, and mistreatment are ignored
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I spoke to former Ellen employees about the show ending. “...this is a consequence of somebody and an institution that got away with fostering a super unhealthy and toxic work environment for a really long time,” one former employee said.
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"We had followed the path, and it had led somewhere beautiful." i'm not crying, you're crying. this is lovely, @davidmackau
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women know this feeling like we know our own names
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David Mack
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this moment
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I’m just an old friend who grew up with him and reconnected in more recent years. My heart aches for his family and friends and actual girlfriends/ex-girlfriends, and am sending lots of love out into the universe in light of such a tragic loss ❤️
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Backstage, Regina King said the #MeToo movement “created opportunities for women to find their voice even beyond just being violated sexually but being marginalized, being violated when you had put in the work to be at the table and being denied a seat at the table."
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I’m at the Roybal Federal Building in downtown LA waiting for the arraignment of Full House’s Lori Loughlin and Desperate Housewives’ Felicity Huffman after they were charged in a massive college admissions fraud scam.
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3 years
are we talking about how hot Rio is on Good Girls? cause i’m ready to!
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Con Todo
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thinking about every time I whispered, "step on my neck, Rio" during Good Girls S3
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Krystie Lee Yandoli
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This is a great thread that every person who has a friendship with another person should read.
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Melissa A. Fabello, PhD
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I want to chat briefly about this text that I received from a friend last week:
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Brian Cox backstage at the #GoldenGlobes when asked if his Succession character is based on Rupert Murdoch: “I’m playing Logan Roy. Logan Roy is totally our creation. Rupert Murdoch has fuck all to do with it, and you can quote me on that.”
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Journalist: If you could nominate a female director, who would you nominate? Laura Dern backstage at the #Oscars2020 : “If I could give this Oscar to Greta Gerwig, I would do it right now. And Lulu [Wang].”
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Elton John walked into the #Oscars2020 press room gripping his Oscar. He said, “Taron [Egerton] should’ve been nominated for one of the Best Actors. But for me, he was the best performance this year.”
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Krystie Lee Yandoli
5 years
@CarolineMoss this is also weirdly poetic! "Used to be a beautiful place, now it looks like the gates of hell."
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Put it on my tombstone
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4 years
i've been in awe of my colleagues all week and specifically today as i've been watching  @bri_sacks on the ground in Maricopa and  @ambiej in Philly, i feel like i've been watching a tale of two americas
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I spoke to the Friends writers' assistant who sued Warner Bros. for sex harassment & discrimination. More than a dozen former WB employees also told me the failed lawsuit has been used for years by managers and in HR trainings, saying it felt intimidating
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Here's Ellen's on-air apology following our reports of a toxic work environment behind the scenes of her show, in which 75 current & former employees told me executive producers led with fear and intimidation & dozens said executive producers engaged in rampant sexual misconduct
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Hannah Beachler, who won the Oscar for Production Design for Black Panther, has advice for other young black girls who want to work in film production: “Don’t ever let anybody tell you you can’t do this craft. You are worthy and you are beautiful and this is something for you.”
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If/when Felicity Huffman and William H. Macy leave the main entrance of the Roybal Federal Building, this will be their initial view as they walk out. The press awaits.
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Bong Joon-ho on Parasite's victories at the #Oscars2020 : "It's really fucking crazy."
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The closest Rami Malek got to addressing Bryan Singer’s involvement in Bohemian Rhapsody: “This has been a tough battle, I think you all know about it, and the fact that I’m here proves a lot of things can be overcome and that anything is possible.”
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A Black woman who used to work on the show told me she experienced racist comments & actions during her time there. She said she was reprimanded for her objections to the term “spirit animal,” asking for a raise, & suggesting employees receive diversity and inclusion training.
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Ruth Carter backstage at the #Oscars2019 : "I dreamed of this night. I dreamed of this night and I prayed for this night, honestly, not only just for being a hard-working costume designer but what it would mean for young people coming behind me.”
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Stellan Skarsgard backstage at the #GoldenGlobes : “I think I would consider doing a Mamma Mia 3” !!!!!!
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Everyone in the press room just gasped in shock that Missing Link won the #GoldenGlobe for Best Animated Film
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I spoke with @michaelstrahan on @GMA this morning about current and former Ellen employees' reactions to the talk show host's apology
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The #Oscars2019 opened and wrapped with incredibly likeable women, imagine if one (or a few) of them hosted the whole damn show??
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BlacKkKlansman co-writer Kevin Willmott about the film’s win at the #Oscars2019 : “It’s a real breakthrough that any film about race gets to win anything.”
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I went to the full dress rehearsal for #TheLittleMermaidLive earlier today on the Disney lot in Burbank. Now the world gets to see it on ABC!
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After working on The Ellen DeGeneres Show for nearly a year, one former employee told me they took medical leave for one month to check into a mental health facility for a suicide attempt. But the week they returned to work, they were told their position was being eliminated.
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“I feel angry about the way I was treated, and I am always going to stand up for Black, Indigenous, Latino, and Asian people, regardless if they’re around,” the former Ellen employee told me. “I can’t not say anything. I’m not going to stop talking.”
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After returning to the studio in Sept. and recently bringing in a small, in-person audience, Ellen announced she tested positive for COVID-19
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“Ellen Show” employees say they’re losing advertisers, celebrity bookings, and ratings. “I wouldn’t set up anyone on her show right now to do anything that could possibly cause them more negative headlines,” one Hollywood publicist told me.
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