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helena constance 🕊

3 months

i wrote about red flags, boyfriend tests, and dating in the digital panopticon; or, why online relationship content is an instruction in insecurity. link in bio🖤

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helena constance 🕊

@helenarambles

30 days

i cannot stop thinking about Alan Kurdi, the three year old Syrian refugee who washed up dead on a beach in Turkey. the promise of life is not a red carpet, it is a basic right and a human dignity.

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30 days

Don't wake up to this on 5th July.

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helena constance 🕊

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2 years

bridgerton season 2 is so real because everyone is having less sex and more panic attacks

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helena constance 🕊

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1 year

a real ‘girl dinner’ is a huge bowl of pasta pesto with a large glass of wine and caprese salad on the side. tiramisu after.

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@helenarambles

6 months

girls will have a five year plan at 19 and at 23 be telling people they want to be a cultural critic

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4 months

I will always love art of lovers in bed…truly one of the best genres

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6 months

‘i’m a creative’ you’re not a creative you’re a digital content manager writing seo copy for a multinational corporation. what does creative even mean today? what does it mean to ‘create content’? art should move you in every way. not just to profligate consumerism.

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5 months

@PerthshireMags and in doing so we lose the bits of British local culture we should be celebrating and upholding, whilst politicians create a toxic, xenophobic, and hollow idea of ‘British culture’

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@helenarambles

2 years

academic life is not for girls who get a little sleepy round about 4pm

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@helenarambles

7 months

my essay criticising the girlhood aesthetic - from bunnies with bows to brandy melville, hi barbie to angelina ballerina, with a side of beauvoir and butler - is up now on my blog

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3 months

not sick of the discourse yet? i wrote about the 'literary it girl' and the insidious ways we market female writers online. with digressions into the critic wars, a certain new album, and 'glamorous' female authors. link in bio♥️

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@helenarambles

1 year

want to do a PhD want to work editorial at a magazine want a museum research job want to write for money and yet not one of these things seems possible

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@helenarambles

2 years

explain yourself in one childhood anecdote. for example my parents couldn’t sell my kids dolls house because I wrote ‘my wife I am leaving you forever goodbye’ in green nail polish on it after the teddies inhabiting it had a messy divorce.

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3 months

completely ecstatic to have been awarded ahrc funding for my phd which means I’ll be returning to oxford to start research on my thesis ‘great and dangerous disorders’: diet, disease, and disordered eating in early modern england’ in october! 💖💖💖

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helena constance 🕊

@helenarambles

5 months

ladies we have GOT to stop this in 2024

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helena constance 🕊

@helenarambles

5 years

Jon really is all of us watching all those character arcs crumble like the Red Keep. #GameofThrones

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@helenarambles

5 years

@ArleneDickinson I got lost at London Pride this year when it was so busy no one could move. Had a massive panic attack, most people ignored or were rude to me but this lovely couple saved me, pulled me through a crowd gap, talked me down, and got me to the station. Wish I could thank them again.

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1 year

my brain every time I open LinkedIn

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@helenarambles

2 years

julia fox is such great representation for girls who just keep putting more eyeliner on the wing until they get it somewhat straight ❤️

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@helenarambles

2 months

finding out all souls are going to fund my PhD somehow pushing me even deeper into imposter syndrome. one day I will learn how to view achievements as achievements and not as gaudy shrouds for inadequacy!

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@helenarambles

7 months

went in to buy some presents and the man in the lrb bookshop gave it to me for free when i told him how long i’d been desiring it!!!!!!

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@helenarambles

1 year

if someone doesn’t buy me the pastel pink london review of books tote bag I’ll literally die

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@helenarambles

3 months

literally the best thing about Pilates is getting to hang out with old and middle aged women who don’t obsess over ‘Victoria’s secret builds’

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3 months

Hot tip: If you're a single guy, you might want to check out Pilates studios (not club pilates) Intense Pilates studios can be filled with slender women with Victorias Secret body type. These classes are pricier but the women who take these classes are typically professionals

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@helenarambles

1 year

/ results delighted and slightly shocked to be graduating from my mst in early modern history @UniofOxford with a distinction and an 80 (!) in my dissertation on the gendered representation of pica in 17th century medicine! (1/2)

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5 months

@zedonarrival my dad had this. forgot his first language. crazy to me.

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@helenarambles

1 year

found a notebook from when I was 15…..kms

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@helenarambles

2 years

/ results delighted and genuinely quite shocked to be completing my undergraduate with a first class degree in hispol and a 75 on my silly little diss on sexy devils and sleep paralysis!! ❤️‍🔥

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@helenarambles

2 years

thinking about kate sharma wearing emerald bangles and necklaces when the queen says in episode one she finds emeralds more precious than diamonds……now that’s art

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@helenarambles

4 years

i believe this is what is called ironic juxtaposition

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3 years

tamsin grieg as usual puts it perfectly. it’s letting the theatre become a character in a film in the same way the stage space is an integral part of any live production.

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@helenarambles

4 months

i wrote about the cult of adolescence, anti-aging, and why we need to be brave enough to embrace growing up. link in bio.

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@helenarambles

5 months

my life goal is to write a personal essay in the cut that generates weeks worth of inane internet discourse

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@helenarambles

3 years

trying to explain the oxford collegiate system to nhs test and trace is the hardest thing I’ve done in a while

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@helenarambles

6 months

not that it’s the individuals fault it’s corporations and governments and capitalism selling intelligent engaged creative young people a lie of fulfilment which is actually stagnation and the death of ingenuity and art

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@helenarambles

4 months

ok if you’re actually keen on this reply or dm me and I’ll try and set something up! I’m thinking a writing/criticism/reading collective type thing and a place to connect w others

helena constance 🕊

@helenarambles

4 months

i want to go to cool literary events in London….London literary oomfs who wants to hang out…like I’d even start a writing group or something

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@helenarambles

1 month

i’m sorry, do you have to be part of a certain New York literary scene in order to do ANYTHING on the internet today??

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@helenarambles

1 year

just submitted my MSt dissertation on the gendered medical history of early modern pica. not entirely sure what to do with myself now I can’t sit in the bodleian all day. thank you to my wonderful supervisor and everyone @UniofOxford who has supported my research this year.

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@helenarambles

3 months

been accepted to Magdalen for my dphil which means I’ll simply never be leaving those gardens and you’ll all have to put up with 3 years of deer pics labelled ‘me’

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@helenarambles

3 months

wanted to find out if edward hopper ever painted a rain scene so i google image searched 'edward hopper rain' and every single result is an ai generated image. horrifying. i think this has finally confirmed for me that ai is an existential risk to human culture.

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@helenarambles

28 days

haircut mugshots!

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@helenarambles

4 months

watching influencers get invited to the royal opera house to take pretty photos….they should invite me instead I’d write a 3000 word essay about gender politics and the aesthetics of death in puccini or a 15 tweet thread about don giovanni

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@helenarambles

5 months

i wrote about psychogeography, tourism, and the weight of history, with a diversion into victorian spirit photography and virginia woolf. on the blog now. link in bio.

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@helenarambles

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i want to go to cool literary events in London….London literary oomfs who wants to hang out…like I’d even start a writing group or something

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@helenarambles

2 years

i have been doffed and bowed and spoken to in latin and bestowed with a snazzy hood and now i am officially an oxford graduate. yay.

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2 years

i might be in a bad place mentally right now but i know i’ll never be 14 and listening to twenty one pilots on a school bus again, so that must count for something

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@helenarambles

3 years

there are only 3 types of oxford men: short and disturbingly enthusiastic for life, tall pretty and probably posh, and sport

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@helenarambles

2 years

I did too much secondary reading and now I’m mourning when I ever thought my dissertation was an original idea.

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@helenarambles

10 days

interesting how after ‘I feel fat’ was rightly criticised as an ‘emotion’ women started using ‘I feel bloated’ to mean the same with bloating being something easily medicalised and thus something it’s legitimate to want to ‘cure’ and which is easily adopted into product marketing

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and of course so many others but it is that horror that has stuck in my mind all these years. this is pure evil from the tories but why are we surprised?

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3 years

i love New Year’s Eve traditions ! 🤩🤩🤩 (not get invited anywhere and cry on my parents sofa, go to bed at 12.10)

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@helenarambles

2 months

won’t someone invite me to a dinner party or a house party or drinks out or a picnic or literally just to hangout I’m going to bankrupt myself doing lonely ‘solo dates’

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@helenarambles

10 months

sex education season 4 is so astoundingly awful but unfortunately I have to keep watching for ruby

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5 months

@PerthshireMags exactly. Im reading about the history of English food culture at the moment and finding it so deeply depressing how many quintessential ‘English’ foods and patterns of life we’ve lost in the last hundred years. like apples, and the commons -taste & flavour & community in all life

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@helenarambles

3 years

my bisexual visibility week agenda is free silk scarves & rubicon juice boxes for all

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@helenarambles

5 months

in defence of opera i’ve been working on this essay for a while, but in light of the shocking news about the eno redundancies and arts council censorship, now seems like a good time to share it. why does opera matter today? plus slow art and assigning ‘cultural value’

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@helenarambles

2 months

@pulpy_fiction how long dyou think she read for after all that

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@helenarambles

2 years

can’t express how much i hate that the culture of this uni has corrupted me to the point where despite finishing my dissertation a week early I now feel like a failure for spending the whole of today not working.

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enjoying asking boyfriend stupid questions about the football. Why do they wear anime schoolgirl socks. Are they allowed to grab each other like that. Who is your favourite character. etc

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@helenarambles

6 months

my essay on the dark academia, old money aesthetics and representing the ‘elite university’ in the wake of saltburn, is up now on the blog

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7 months

my 2024 ins and outs…

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@helenarambles

3 years

‘you can use your insomnia to be productive’ no I’m using it to make a detailed venn diagram of oxford twitter. comments and criticisms welcomed.

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@helenarambles

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no witty caption for this i just feel like being vain🪽

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3 months

walking past the London marathon and like damn i wish i did something people could cheer for and not like…Pilates and personal essays

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@helenarambles

3 years

i do not feel the that girl green juice yoga 5am girlboss vibes for 2022 i feel like the two witches in stardust who don’t get yassified

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the fact that no one is talking about netflix’s bodies when it has time travel, evil cults, gay victorians, spies and detectives, & astute social criticism of britain, is absolutely crazy to me

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@helenarambles

5 years

@LifeAtBagEnd Transferring your LOTR movie crush from Legolas to Aragorn is a rite of passage into adulthood

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@helenarambles

3 years

can’t stop thinking about elizabeth clarke of essex (1584) who when asked what the devil, who she’d confessed to sleeping with, looked like, told the witchfinder ‘a properer man than your selfe’

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@helenarambles

2 years

‘I Feel Like A Monster’: Situating Rihanna’s Disturbia and Shakira’s She Wolf in Early Modern Medical Traditions of Lycanthropy, Possession, and Female Hysteria

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@helenarambles

3 years

at least tell us the universities policy please first for fucks sake

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2 months

@txadel_ same😭 out at 10pm

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I miss being a teenager when I could romanticise feeling horrible now I just have to feel horrible.

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@helenarambles

3 years

i’ve been using isolation to make a zine of art, words, poetry, & collage! wasn’t initially going to share it but… here are the first four pages. (1/?)

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@helenarambles

2 months

finally! girl phrenology for men.

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big news for some of you lot

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i shouldn’t be writing cover letters….I’m meant to be a capital R romantic living on borrowed time in a crumbling estate so i can write several desultory works of fiction and then die in a bath or something….

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@helenarambles

8 months

girl he was a social recluse who only hung out with his bestie and sister he is not going to be in a Canary Wharf bar at 5pm on a Friday

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@helenarambles

3 years

my mother wrote a christmas card for my boyfriend which said ‘you deserve more than a card for putting up with her’ and now she’s asking why I’m angry

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@helenarambles

3 years

i am absolutely fucking sick of watching my friends and peers mental health be ravaged by this incompetent government and useless university administrations!!! absolutely done with it frankly

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@helenarambles

6 months

not to be that person in the qrts but I wrote a whole essay on this!

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Girl maintenance is so expensive it's not even enjoyable anymore 😭😭I be at my appointments with a straight face !

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literally can’t believe I have cramps so bad I can’t walk without gagging or collapsing because some horny girl in a garden ate an apple a while back.

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1 year

markers said my dissertation was ‘scintillating’ and ‘publishable quality’….

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19 days

i have both a short story and an essay coming out in two different lit mags today 🥰

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@helenarambles

2 months

found a little cafe near the Tate to work in💓

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@helenarambles

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where’s a good cafe to write in central london in peace…cba to trek to lrb bookshop & want to work on a piece after seeing the new Tate show later…

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my new essay is on the art and politics of conviviality, + why I think the dinner party is such a powerful tool for artists and thinkers. link in bio to join the party🍷❤️

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2 years

/ ed had a bad relapse yesterday but this morning I baked these cookies and actually ate one rather than foisting them on other people everyone say well done

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3 months

have I genuinely been subtweeted (sub-sub stacked?) in another essay? you are aware you could just have a conversation with me?

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@helenarambles

11 months

trying to reframe weight gain as a positive (enjoying nice meals, eating more dessert, spending time w loved ones) rather than a negative sign of failure is absurdly hard

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@helenarambles

3 years

the 2020 lockdown happened just to get oxford students to stop saying ‘we love to see it’

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@helenarambles

3 years

why is summer in Oxford just winter in Oxford 2.0.

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@helenarambles

7 months

my boyfriend isn’t an academic but nothing has lived up to him bringing war and peace and david hume’s an inquiry concerning human understanding on our BEACH HOLIDAY

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Academics will spend a full work day reading half an article then take 3 books onboard a 2 hour flight

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graduating 😌

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but nah fr, go to ur photos and see what u were up to september 2022

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further book purchases !

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meeting online friends irl is very fun but unfortunately I’ve realised I’m known as either the ‘oxford phd girl’ or the ‘it girl essay girl’. duality of woman.

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@helenarambles

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‘xyz historical figure visited brothels so we have to cancel them’ guys I hate to break this to you about history

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art is not ‘content’ and ‘content’ is not art and nothing labelled ‘creative’ is anymore

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1 year

should I email my 6th form history teacher who encouraged me to apply for history at ox (and who did his dphil here) to say thank you and it worked out okish or would that be very weird

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@helenarambles

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supervisor is going to kill me when I get back to academia having read not very much history and a whole load of theory

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some excerpts

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