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Louisville, KY
Joined January 2012
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Olivia A. Cole
6 months
Damn look where MEDUSA ended up. Thank you so much @yaddathree
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7 years
Straight people: “OMG don’t push all this LGBT stuff on your children! They’re children!” Also straight people:
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Moms hold magical mini-wedding photo shoot for their kids who “love hanging out together.”
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3 years
When you see that friend posting about how glad they are to be outside again when you know they never stayed inside to begin with
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7 years
GUYS. Just now. In gym. *guy approaches two women working out, with flirtatious eyebrows at the ready* Girl 1: UH you might not want to come over here, dude. I just farted. It’s bad. Guy: *looks horrified. leaves.* Girl 2: omg did you really? Girl 1: psh no.
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6 months
When the parents came to pick up their kids at 3am after getting alarmed texts, “he resisted at first, saying the girls were asleep” and told the parents to “return in the morning.” I would’ve beat his ass RIGHT THEN sorry
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A 57-year-old man is accused of drugging three 12-year-old girls with sedative-laced smoothies during his daughter’s sleepover at his Oregon home, court records show
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Painting with my 6-year-old daughter today. She hands me a brush. Her: Remember it's okay if it's not perfect. Me: 🥹 thanks baby Her: Mine will probably be close though because I've watched a lot more Bob Ross than you. Me: Oh.
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5 years
In case you’re having a rough day, here’s a video of my daughter being really excited about the “pedestrian walkway,” or as we peasants call it, the crosswalk.
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2 years
Me: *in World Market sniffing candles* Woman next to me, loudly: “None of these have ANY smell. I can’t smell ANYTHING.” Me:
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4 years
There is a woman in my neighborhood standing on her balcony and yelling down at anyone getting in their cars “KEEP YOUR ASS IN THE HOUSE” Not all heroes wear capes
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2 years
Oh no. No no no. Please don’t start with the photoshopping Hutchinson’s face onto Wonder Woman and shit. We can skip this part ok? Babygirl likely took a deal. Don’t put a cape on her now just because she took the red hat off for the hearings.
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3 years
Sorry but if the government cared so much about kids and school they would more adequately fund education. They want kids in school because otherwise parents aren't at work and that's that.
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2 years
Well shit.
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24 days
I've avoided commenting on the Raygun "performance" at the Olympics but my fellow white people have forced my hand. The impulse to coddle this white woman is astonishing. "She may not have been GOOD, but she had fun with it & that's cool to see" BITCH THIS IS THE OLYMPICS
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8 years
South Florida wants to survive #HurricaneMatthew . But we'd rather die than eat clam chowder.
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7 years
So I may have done the whitest thing imaginable today. I never thought I would be this white woman. But here we are. Join me for this story
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3 years
Random white parent: Books today are so focused on diversity! What about white children? They'll feel left out! Me: So you admit that emotional damage is inflicted when a child doesn't have any books with characters who look like them
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2 years
I truly mourn for the generations that will follow, Twitterless. They will never know what it was like to wake up in the middle of the night and see that Trump had Covid. I’ll be chasing that high for the rest of my life.
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3 years
Watching a whale documentary w/ my 4-year-old Narrator: "The narwhal is visually striking with what appears to be one long tusk..." Daughter, under her breath: "It's actually a tooth." Narrator, a second later: "But it's actually a tooth." Me: You knew !? Her: <sighs> Yes.
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5 years
She came up behind me in the store whispering “who who who” and when I turned around this is what I found
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7 years
Note: A white woman replied to this thread and said "Well, a porcelain tub? Now I get it!" See. We cannot be trusted. HGTV by Stephen King
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3 years
Was going to do some writing on the porch but there's a woman across the street lambasting her bf for cheating. So now I'm just going to sit on the porch.
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1 year
Oh I didn’t know Jonah Hill was also 39 dating a 25 year old AND pulling this shit?
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Olivia A. Cole
5 years
Bran’s warg shit...wasted. Arya’s face-taking...wasted. Brienne and Jaime arc...wasted. The prophecy of Cersei getting strangled...wasted. They had so much to work with and couldn’t tie this up. Can’t wait til this season is over so we can all get on with our lives. #GoT
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2 years
It’s Friday. Here’s a poem.
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6 months
@Can__Alex If my child is in your house I’ll go THROUGH you
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28 days
I hope she sues JK Rowling into a black hole.
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4 years
Hey writers, here's a great place to buy notebooks during quarantine! ...... your shelf where you have 50 million of them that you haven't used yet, stop playing
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7 years
I was almost signing a 12 month lease with The Conjuring bc my white ass got taken in by some original hardwood floors & a porcelain tub
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7 years
Jemele Hill told the truth. Protect her at all costs.
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4 years
Pro tip: don’t do anything to entertain a toddler that you wouldn’t be comfortable doing 1,000,000 more times
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7 years
Pray for me. But more importantly....pray for my husband for marrying my dumb ass. Fin.
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7 years
Well, everyone. Today. Today I was that white woman. The devil almost got me for some goddamn rosebushes and a built-in china cabinet.
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7 years
Living art. As it should be. #MetGala
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7 years
Director: "You, young urban gentleman with the interesting hair. Please come dap Miss Jenner's Pepsi can. Make it authentic."
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1 year
"You raggedy bitch"
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What is something that y’all randomly blurt out loud?
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2 years
We can acknowledge her courage (because yes, the threats are flying) without turning her into a hero. I promise. You can do it. I believe in you.
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4 years
My toddler just came out of her room butt naked, looked me in the eye, and said "I don't like it here." And then went back to her room. Scientists, I beg you. The vaccine. Please.
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3 years
Unpopular opinion: many punitive parenting methods (“you forgot your water bottle so you’re just going to be thirsty”) assist in the creation of citizens who believe we should expect nothing and deserve nothing from the state.
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1 year
The phenomenon of "man asks nothing about me, unloads his life story and future aspirations, and then says affectionately: 'I really like you. We should see more of each other'" continues
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1 year
This is how you know that the fear white people claim to have of Black people is a farce. She walked into this man's home. All the way upstairs. These aren't the actions of someone who is afraid of the other. These are the actions of someone who thinks they own the other.
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Caramel skin ass dude! THE BIGGEST HEATHEN
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See the way my anxiety is set up SHE WOULD BE SEE THROUGH…🤷🏾‍♂️
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1 year
@adamtotscomix Adam what is your problem???? 😩😩😩😩
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7 years
The cop's face at the end. 😂 "You know, this thin white woman makes a good point. Pepsi MIGHT BE better than state violence!"
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*wealthy white woman thrusts blonde wig into confused black woman's hands as she goes off to lead protest full of every POC imaginable*
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3 years
I am very uninvolved in celebrity happenings, but I will say this: I hope Zendaya and that sweet British boy live happily ever after.
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9 months
My daughter and I made and passed out lunches to unhoused folks today. On our last stop, a cop called out to me from his cruiser and asked “what the fuck” I was doing. I answered and he said “I don’t want to see you doing this again.” ???
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Miss B. Nasty 👑
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I got pulled over and ended up with a warning from police for giving an unhoused lady with 2 dogs a $20 bill. He said, “Next time it’s a ticket.” Oh, we’re living in a dystopian for real.
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8 years
You are a swine @TomiLahren
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Olivia A. Cole
7 years
All of us have seen the movie where the white woman is making dumb ass decisions & ignoring EVERY SIGN OF THE DEVIL'S HANDIWORK.
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7 years
This might possibly be the worst thing I have ever seen.
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7 years
Kendall Jenner gives a Pepsi to a cop and rids the world of -isms. Y'all can go somewhere with this tone-deaf, shallow and over-produced ad.
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7 years
Husband immediately: "What does that door go to?" Agent quickly: "Oh, I don't think it goes anywhere. We don't have a key." Me: Ok! Him:
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2 months
Deaths from covid are up 14.3% in the last week. Just FYI. Mask up.
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3 years
I still don't think Dirty Computer got the love it deserved.
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2 years
I’m just saying, if I can smell them just fine THROUGH my mask…
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7 years
Considering lighting sage in case the Devil saw my dumb ass swooning over a screened-in verandah and decided to follow me home.
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4 years
I’ve gotta say, fellow white folks, you’re really saying a lot when you classify “using racist slurs” as “normal teen behavior.”
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8 years
I'm calling her job first thing in the morning to give them some words. (304) 587-4996
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West Virginia official who lost job over racist Michelle Obama remark quietly reinstated
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7 years
Agent: "I think it goes to the backyard." Husband: "Why is it locked? With like 10 locks?" Agent:
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7 years
"Wow, I just solved all the problems in the country by being rich and thin and white and pretty. What else should I do today?"
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Husband opens the door. It's a tiny dark room. Husband looks at me, whispers: "It looks like that shit from Get Out, Olivia." Me by now:
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7 years
@CarrieCnh12 lol yes he is. The only thing that saved us
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Husband: You realize that door is on the opposite side of the basement. (points at blank wall) That's where the locked door should be. Me:
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7 years
Director: "young lady in the head thingy, I want you to look like you just realized HOW LUCKY you are to be witnessing this. Because u are"
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"What are these scratches on the window?" Agent: "Oh, I think it's tough to open so probably a little wear and tear." Me: "Oh okay!" Him:
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I stand by what I said, however, about "fun" as a non-metric. She should've had the humility to never pursue the Olympics at all. But my people are not known for humility in the presence of our own glaring mediocrity.
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6 years
My daughter is sleeping on my lap. I’m eating. Just dropped a lil salsa on her head. I just scooped it off with a chip. She didn’t wake up, and it was my last chip. So I really consider this a highlight of today.
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We go to the backyard. It's so cute. Rosebushes. Hostas and shit. Firepit. Me, forgetting about the door locked to keep the Devil out:
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3 years
@TheKitchenista When my daughter asks this I tell her that we call people what they want to be called, and I want to be called mama
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6 years
Hi, fellow queer white folks. What happened to Jussie Smollett is horrible. But if you're only focusing on the ways in which you too could have been a victim of a hate crime without also looking at the way whiteness also protects us from what Jussie suffered....decenter yourself.
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8 years
You don't like that Michelle Obama said the White House was built by slaves but you're fine with the fact that the WH was built by slaves.
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3 years
Question for folks of all genders: whatever your gender is, how do you know?
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3 years
When he bounces her like she’s still 1… We have to abolish prison.
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Bro been gone since before my niece was 1 and he surprised her by picking her up from school on his first day out 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺
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Agent: "Oh that's just the return vent for the AC." Me: "Oh okay!" Husband: "Why does it look like the bars to a dungeon?" Agent:
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White supremacy = publishers publishing 1 (one) Black ballerina book and thinking two would be redundant while there are literally hundreds of books with white ballerinas on the cover. Literally hundreds. No matter how long I live, still astonished by the stupidity of racism.
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5 years
Every single time a person of color shares an experience about white people struggling to pronounce an “ethnic sounding” name, a white woman pops out of the hedges and says “oh I totally relate my name is Alison and people always spell it with two L’s!”
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7 years
I think this is my fave frame because this is the moment she goes from wondering "how can I make this about me?" to realizing "LIKE THIS."
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Agent: "Let's check out the backyard, shall we?" Me: "Okay!" Husband: "Lord Jesus."
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7 years
We get in the car. Drive away down the gray empty street. I say, "So...what did you think?" Husband:
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Every time.
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2 years
@JoyceCarolOates This is such a lie lol you’re not the only one who “knows people,” Joyce. I know tons of literary agents and literally none of them are saying this.
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4 years
My baby just turned three in October and she’s not only reading but she’s doing voices for the different characters 😭😭😭
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3 years
Would you accept someone dropping a b*mb on Manhattan because they heard through the grapevine that one “bad guy” lived there? Do not sentence Palestinians to what you know would be intolerable in your own country.
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5 years
I can’t stop thinking about Meghan Markle and the way she looked in that interview. So vulnerable and deeply sad but also measuring every word and knowing she had to step carefully. The way she’s been treated is abominable and she carries the burden. It’s no right.
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Show’s over folks. He went to work in his little security guard outfit and I have memorized his face so that whenever I see him in the future I’m
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2 years
@JoyceCarolOates You do this every now and then when you need attention. May I recommend a dog?
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7 years
Agent: "We take online applications as well as paper. <goes over the details.> Me: "Uh...okay." Husband:
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5 years
Y’all. My child to the core.
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7 years
I bought my dad @chrissyteigen 's cookbook for Xmas and he keeps calling me to tell me how funny she is and also random details he has since googled about her. I think he has a crush. Sorry, Chrissy.
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The company who laid me off when I was 6mo pregnant just emailed me (3 years later) to ask if I could help them get access to their social platforms that they apparently never took my email off of & then locked themselves out of lol I’ll tell them the same thing they told me:
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3 years
Me: That orca needs to leave that baby humpback alone!! 😡 Her: <patiently> The orcas need to eat, too.
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Husband *inspecting closet*: "Um...what is this little door inside the closet?" Agent: "What little door? Oh. I didn't notice that."
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“White people invading spaces held by people of color and then DOMINATING” is a gross racist trope that I’d really like to see die.
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A new trailer for ‘WORK IT’ has been officially released. Sabrina Carpenter, Liza Koshy, Keiynan Lonsdale and Jordan Fisher, will star in the film. The film will release on Netflix on. August 7.
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"I helped you carry furniture. I babysat your daughter. And you're in here with a naked woman?" Me, whispering: "...get his ass."
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Overheard in the gym just now: Guy 1: *indicating water bottle* is my stuff in your way? Guy 2: *emotionlessly* No, I’m the only thing that’s in my way. Guy 1: Oh.
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Agent: "Let's check out the basement next, shall we?" Me: "Okay!" Husband: "I mean..." We go to the basement.
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And he was right. The door I was looking at had a window into the basement. The place where the Devil-locked door should have been was empty
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4 years
Remember. Remember everything. Forgetting is how it repeats. Pretending it never happened is how it repeats.
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3 years
My kid just realized that I do stuff after she goes to bed and man is she pissed lmfao
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8 years
Just FYI, the NRA is urging people to call their reps & push for Jeff Sessions. Now is a good time to call your Senator & urge the opposite
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Hi new followers. I'm not always this funny. Also: my mentions are as busy as the Devil in that house this morning. But welcome!
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No spoilers, but someone in my theater yelled “BAD BITCHES TO THE FLOOR” in #EndGame   during a certain scene. It was me. The someone was me.
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