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sara lippmann

2 years

At @lithub I wrote about my long humiliating enraging arrival at voice, with infinite thanks to Kurt Vonnegut

On Embracing the Halting, Neurotic, Defiant Ways We Talk

In first grade, we introduce ourselves around the circle. I am “SAWAH WIPPMANN.” Laughter ensues, followed by a hot burst of shame, and a label. A couple times a week I’m pulled out of the classroo…

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sara lippmann

@saralippmann

3 years

my daughter’s like we started this book called the bell jar in english class do you know it

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@saralippmann

2 years

and this, for all of eternity

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3 years

everyone I know is dreaming of escaping does anyone dream of returning

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8 years

4 Women Are Running From New York to D.C. to Raise Money for Planned Parenthood via @thecut

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3 years

😭😭😭😭😭😭

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@saralippmann

3 years

when you scorch the toast do you make new toast or do you eat it because that’s what you deserve

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sara lippmann

@saralippmann

3 years

So I wrote a book of stories called JERKS and @IanAndersonEtc gave it this goddamn cover I’m absolutely wild for and now you can preorder a copy of the collection due out from @masonjarpress in March, which I’d love love love for you to consider doing 🙏

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@saralippmann

4 years

news, pinch-me news: @713Books will be re-releasing my story collection DOLL PALACE in 2021. @lcheuk is an absolute fairy godparent and his press + authors knock me out and I couldn’t be more excited and grateful he is resuscitating the dolls and giving them this shiny new life.

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@saralippmann

4 years

just think no holiday gatherings means no one’s gonna ask “what ever happened with that novel?”

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@saralippmann

1 year

but was leonard cohen as good at sex as he wanted us to believe

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sara lippmann

@saralippmann

2 years

Welp, it's LECH day. 47 years in the making and unmaking. If you ever want real talk about long bumpy roads DM I have no filter. There are innumerable people to thank (my acknowledgments are a mile long) but @JenFerrariAdler @jerry_brennan @TortoiseBooks @PeninaRoth top the list.

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@saralippmann

4 years

my bit of good news to start the new year:

Mason Jar Press

@masonjarpress

4 years

Sara collection, JERKS, will be out spring of 2022. Sara’s work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Millions, Fourth Genre, Slice Magazine, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Diagram, Squalorly. She co-hosts the Sunday Salon NYC. Lean more 👉

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@saralippmann

2 years

welp, we’ve got galleys. this novel took forever and a day, is rotten with missteps and lessons learned, nearly never was, and holds everything I’ve got. all my thanks to @TortoiseBooks . i can’t wait to share it with you.

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@saralippmann

2 years

my favorite kind of literary citizen is the (old, white dude) one who buys your book then emails, unsolicited, a 30 page single-spaced short story of his for to read "in exchange" for his purchase then sends aggressive hate mail when you fail to comply in a timely manner

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@saralippmann

4 years

I’m grateful + excited to join the @masonjarpress family and happy as heck my new story collection, JERKS, has found such a rad home.

Mason Jar Press

@masonjarpress

4 years

🚨Author Announcement(s)🚨 We are thrilled to announce that we have signed three authors from our fiction collection open call. Please join us in welcoming Hisham Bustani ( @H_Bustani ), Sara Lippmann ( @saralippmann , and Zach VandeZande ( @yeahpathy ) to the MJP family!

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@saralippmann

3 years

mama’s brand new bag. MARCH 1.

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@saralippmann

3 years

ahhhhh my uglies just arrived and they’re beautiful

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3 years

oh but it’s beautiful

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@saralippmann

3 years

can't stop thinking about ann patchett's litmus test of a healthy relationship: does your person make you a better person?

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@saralippmann

2 years

never in a million years did i think i'd see the words best seller. thanks to all you beautiful jerks who made it so.

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@masonjarpress

2 years

Well, well, well, look at the Jerky little title at the top of the list. Congrats, @saralippmann !

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@saralippmann

2 years

today is my pub day!

The Millions

@The_Millions

2 years

Here’s a quick look at some notable books—new titles from @ElaineHsiehChou , @SaraLippmann , and more—that are publishing this week.

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@saralippmann

3 years

any flops out there want to join my panel on failure

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@saralippmann

4 years

every day a writer who lives close by posts a poem outside their home. it’s become a highlight, a destination.

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1 year

dunno, feels like a 5 to me—

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@saralippmann

4 years

Please meet our new son (slash coping mechanism)

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3 years

in which JERKS nabs a @PublishersWkly star and I plotz

Jerks by Sara Lippmann

Lippmann’s tantalizing collection (after Doll Palace) offers a set of character studies fraught with longing. The bittersweet “W...

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@saralippmann

4 years

when the whole draft looks like

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@saralippmann

5 years

good morning all you scribbling from the sidelines of your children’s lives.

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@saralippmann

1 year

how’s it going

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@saralippmann

2 years

anyway, my baby bird just arrived. i have regurgitated and regurgitated into its raw little mouth. thank you @TortoiseBooks for giving it wings. the rest is physics.

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@saralippmann

4 years

Today is our 18th wedding anniversary. Our marriage is now an adult. It can do whatever it wants.

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@saralippmann

2 years

This (today) is 47. Many thanks @saribotton @OldsterMag for letting me rant about this beautifully broken thing called life I’m grateful as heck to enjoy.

This is 47: Sara Lippmann Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire

"It’s all patriarchal bullshit, these 'traditional markers,' designed to limit, cage, and contain us."

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@saralippmann

1 year

match app for authors trying to link up with other authors for events in various cities

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sara lippmann

@saralippmann

5 years

yesterday my dad drove from philly with his blood pressure cuff and his yellowed stethoscope to make a house call on his sick kid and maybe it’s the fever but I’m still broken up thinking about it, how goddamn lucky I am.

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@saralippmann

4 years

can’t wait to write that essay I’ll never publish

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sara lippmann

@saralippmann

5 years

I wrote in second person

Maudlin House

@MaudlinHouse

5 years

You and Your Depression by Sara Lippmann

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@saralippmann

1 year

deadbeat parent completely forgot its 1st birthday. crack a belated beer, jerk.

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sara lippmann

@saralippmann

2 years

To all the rabbis I've loved and scorned:

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@saralippmann

11 months

a writer who makes me want to write

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@saralippmann

3 years

all the books that came out last spring only to be swallowed by covid: list them. buy them. tell friends.

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@saralippmann

3 years

just staring into the abyss

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@saralippmann

2 years

My novel has a face!Thank you @debutiful for this lovely feature and @TortoiseBooks for believing in LECH. It’s taken me a really fucking long time. Preorders @Bookshop_Org

DEBUTIFUL

@debutiful

2 years

COVER REVEAL: See the striking cover of @saralippmann 's new book LECH, which comes out via @tortoisebooks in October!

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@saralippmann

4 years

when a writer you’ve long worshipped stumbles across an old story and tracks you down to tell you it ripped his face off and heart out i woke up like this

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3 years

huddle up, masochists

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@saralippmann

2 years

Ten years ago today I was on the verge of giving up. Thank you to ⁦ @pasttenyears ⁩ for inviting me to share my story and to ⁦ @nyfacurrent ⁩ for pushing me back to the page.

June 11th, 2012 - Sara Lippmann

The year finds me in a string of years on the verge of giving up. Ten years out of grad school with little to show for myself.

www.past-ten.com

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7 months

last night I dreamed (lame dream) I built a syllabus of the first short stories people ever read in which they felt known so now ofc I’m curious what would be that story for you

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3 years

I know blurbs are the worst but a writer I love just said my collection gave her “many HOLY FUCK! moments” which is all I want from this little life

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@saralippmann

2 years

in high school I used to hang out at the borders on Lancaster ave reading @poetswritersinc so it’s a real kick to be in its pages as a longtime subscriber (tho i wish I’d thought to comb my dumb hair)

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@saralippmann

3 years

bright night

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@saralippmann

3 years

and in my second week of covid I may actually clear my Saunders inbox

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@saralippmann

3 years

i hate it too dudes but once you get over the sound of your voice reading aloud remains a tried and true way to late stage edit

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@saralippmann

3 years

i don't know what's harder writing a novel or publishing one a million thanks to @TortoiseBooks for getting behind this fucking story abortions exterminator sex washed up borscht belt drug dealing hasidim lake drowning and all

Tortoise Books

@TortoiseBooks

3 years

We're thrilled to announce we're publishing LECH by @saralippmann in Fall of '22! Incredible prose by a master storyteller...you're going to love this book!

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@saralippmann

3 years

“To be reminded that you love something, and that even the slightest encounter with it is enough to make you want to spend the rest of your life holding that small moment so close to your chest that it stays warm forever — maybe that is what it means to be alive.” @themoneyiowe

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@saralippmann

3 years

PROOF.

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@saralippmann

2 years

Ridiculously grateful and excited to have an excerpt from my novel LECH (forthcoming from @TortoiseBooks ) at @GuernicaMag

Lech

He warned her there’d be no easy fix.

www.guernicamag.com

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@saralippmann

2 years

apologies to whoever broke into my car only to find an empty hand sanitizer, a laura marling cd, roll of poop bags, well loved mask, handful of stale almonds

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@saralippmann

1 year

hey i wrote a book about a dead mom, a toxic mom, a never mom, and a mom who gets an abortion if you’re looking for something for that someone special this weekend

Lech a book by Sara Lippmann

A mother recovering from an abortion in a Borscht Belt rental. An eccentric aging landlord, haunted by a mysterious death. A grief-stricken Hasid. A scheming real estate agent looking for her break,...

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@saralippmann

3 years

“The very intention to craft a beautiful sentence may be precisely the thing that guarantees you’ll write a clunker, perhaps because a beautiful sentence requires— maybe all beauty does— something of the inadvertent, the unintentional, the spontaneous.” - Alice McDermott

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sara lippmann

@saralippmann

11 months

to another lopsided year

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sara lippmann

@saralippmann

9 years

Yeah so this made my day:

Dock Street Press

@DockStreetPress

9 years

Worth mentioning again, @saralippmann 's DOLL PALACE is longlisted for the 2015 Frank O'Connor International Fiction Award! Huge news!

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@saralippmann

2 years

another one filled. for all the halting predawns, navel gazing cringe, and nonsense of dreams, everything I’ve ever published (no matter the genre) starts here: long live that reckless freedom, the glorious illegibility of morning pages

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4 years

my daughter’s math HW is a troll

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2 years

what’s the collective noun for ever growing TBR

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1 year

me and my antidepressant

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@saralippmann

4 years

check the new cover of TIGER BEAT

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3 years

all these jerks

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3 years

please no more "pendulous breasts"

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3 years

has anyone seen the dog

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1 year

If you (unlike me) are so organized that you’re already mapping out your schedule @awpwriter hope you’ll add our upfront, no-bullshit panel NEVERTHELESS, THEY PERSISTED: THE WRITER AND THE LONG GAME to your docket Saturday 3/11

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2 years

not bad for an old bird.

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3 years

may you all find your pineapple in this little life

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@saralippmann

2 years

on pub day eve, my favorite of the covers that nearly were —

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sara lippmann

@saralippmann

7 years

book in a box. much work to do, and this may be its final resting place, but I've finally printed the pages that have taken me years.

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@saralippmann

3 years

everyday the stupid photo app tries to ruin me with its manipulative flood of nostalgia. today it wins. god how I miss this kid, these hugs (the river and the bridge)

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sara lippmann

@saralippmann

4 years

exhale

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sara lippmann

@saralippmann

3 years

holy heck you all are so kind. thank you. it’s been a long road, as some of you know, but I wrote the book I set out to write, even if I’m no longer the person I was when I started, which may be the best part: how very much I’ve learned in the process.

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@saralippmann

3 years

I’ve been omicroned so my neighbor just grabbed my dog for a doggie date i.e. love your neighbors

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@saralippmann

4 years

please zoom in and behold the comic my daughter started tonight

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@saralippmann

3 years

Saddled with side projects? Dicking around more than ever? Well, you might just be writing a novel. @Medium I wrote about HOW THE SHORT STORY SAVED MY NOVEL

HOW THE SHORT STORY SAVED MY NOVEL

By all accounts, I was supposed to be working on my novel. After my story collection, Doll Palace, came out, this was the agreement…

link.medium.com

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@saralippmann

3 years

tomorrow she graduates tonight we commemorate her DIY rainbow dash

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5 years

another year, another — how’s the novel? — volleyed mid pap smear.

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1 year

thanks to the nazis’ meticulous record keeping we know what became of my great grandparents

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8 months

writing done before the sun

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4 years

dog person.

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sara lippmann

@saralippmann

4 years

Honored and excited to be @SmokeLong first quarterly guest editor. Many thanks to @shastagrant for the thoughtful interview, and to the whole lovely editorial crew for trusting me. Can’t wait to read alllllllllllll summer. Submit!

SmokeLong Quarterly

@SmokeLong

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It's May 25th! Which means SmokeLong is open for general submissions again. This quarter's guest editor is @saralippmann Read her first interview with @shastagrant here...

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@saralippmann

1 year

Thanks @parisreview for unlocking this interview with my cranky dad. "You’re looking, as you begin, for what’s going to resist you. You’re looking for trouble."

The Art of Fiction No. 84

Courtesy of Philip Roth I met Philip Roth after I had published a short book about his work for the Methuen Contemporary Writers Series. He read the book and wrote me a generous letter. After our...

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@saralippmann

6 years

Always admired Ann Patchett’s fiction but her memoir TRUTH & BEAUTY, on her exquisite, excruciating friendship w/Lucy Grealy, has fully wrecked me.

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@saralippmann

3 years

maybe blood smells like metal to justify your robot heart

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sara lippmann

@saralippmann

3 years

writing this novel: six years of handwringing, complaining, poring over precious drafts, agonizing every editorial decision; two weeks of balls-to-the-wall cuts (plus a new POV) and a dash of surreality before deadline.

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4 years

kid did great; i was helluva rabbi

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@saralippmann

1 year

👀👀👀

Christine Sneed

@ChristineSneed

1 year

George Saunders' Story Club sent out a short story list today after he asked his readers "to send, one each, the name of a story that you love and feel is under-known by the world" @saralippmann - "Wolf or Deer" is on the list!

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5 years

waking to notes from generous people responding to my book 5 years out >>>>>>> better than any royalty I never received

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@saralippmann

2 years

if you like scattered and plotless you may love LECH! Publishers Weekly reviews:

Lech by Sara Lippmann

Lippmann takes a vivid look at the Catskills in her charming debut novel (after the collection Jerks). The paths of several lone...

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holy crap i'm in @pshares i don't know what to do with myself (thank you so much @LauraSpenceAsh for this gorgeous piece, your remarkable and detailed insights)

Sara Lippmann’s Turns in Jerks - Ploughshares

Even though the characters in Sara Lippmann’s second story collection are often stuck in their lives, a sense of life, of possibility, of creation, runs throughout the book, uniting its stories as...

pshares.org

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4 years

Still reading blind subs @SmokeLong through August 15. Send in your best doozies for consideration in Issue 69. Yep.

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@saralippmann

2 years

reading for a literary journal can be a great way to foster community, participate in the larger conversation, and sharpen your own editorial skills, and the good people of @splitlipthemag could use a few good more —

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4 years

tips on revision, especially this last bit on opposites: "Our narratives resonate and become memorable when something contradictory rises at the end, something present from the beginning but submerged, something that requires the pressures of the narrative in order to rise."

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