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how often do you go swimming in the sea

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when it's hot

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obviously could

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regret now I've come to see my sister in

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Brighton uh and so the summer holiday

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has begun it's it's kicked

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off but yeah we get some ice cream for

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the for the oldest there they are what's

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your Festival goers tip for people

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who've never been to music festival

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Camp yeah to enjoy the British weather

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but really interesting enjoyable and

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sometimes downright

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scary hi welcome to a new episode of

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easy English so if summer coming to an

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end and the kids going back to school

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soon I wanted to know what Brits have

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been doing on their summer holidays I

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want to know if they've been abroad or

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if the cost of living crisis has

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resorted them to do a station here we go

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what have you been up to on your your

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summer

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holidays just been camping haven't we oh

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really camping at a music festival in

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the rain in Wales Green Man festival in

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Wales 3 days rained one day so we were

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up to our knees in mud this year we went

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to the aisle of white for a week um

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about 20 minutes from Malaga my dad

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lives out there we've spent a lot of

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time down here on the beach so we went

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to Vancouver drove North to Whistler

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stayed there for about 9 days saw lots

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of bears something very different about

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walking in the wilderness in Canada you

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seem to be whereare of the Bears um to

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bring back at home um and then we went

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across to Vancouver Island uh just whale

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watching did lots of hiking saw lots of

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waterfalls and now trying to get back

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our body clocks um can you think no we

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haven't done a great deal this summer

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holidays cu the weather's been bad and

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we haven't been away anywhere so we've

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been mainly down here by the beach yeah

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I haven't done much this summer cuz um

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I've been with my wife and two daughters

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and so we haven't had much time to do

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anything but they've just gone to one

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cuz she's taies and so now I've come to

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see my sister in Brighton uh and so the

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summer holiday has begun it's it's

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kicked

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off so we went to Cornwell this year

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went to Cape Cornwell so St just as far

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west as you can get really I traveled to

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France I took the EUR tunnel to France

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with my family and drove 7 hours down to

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the Midwest of France I haven't been

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away anywhere okay um but uh what I have

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had is several lots of grandchildren

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coming to stay for a week or so and um

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that's been really really interesting

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enjoyable and sometimes downright

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scary and do do you frequent Green Man

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festival a lot do you go every year we

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go to festivals we haven't been to that

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one before okay so we thought we'd try

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something different and then of course

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it rained and we won't go again why did

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you pick the a of white um cuz it quite

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easy to get to um degree of separation

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so it's all felt like you're on holiday

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but actually you didn't have to travel

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that far it's a nice relaxed way of life

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you know it's yeah cost a living crisis

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over here and it's so much cheaper over

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there yeah okay and is that a big pull

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for most Brits you think to get away

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from from England at the moment I think

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this it's just the weather you know the

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Brits are over there for the sunshine we

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like walking on the Cs I like bit of

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kayaking so King around the cliffs as

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well kids like surfing senon we're not

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far from senan Cove so uh I was going to

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ask the water spots is quite a big thing

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there right yeah are you both kind of

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into like Wilderness he things then you

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I definitely like the name was wasn't

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camping it was in AET um but no

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definitely like nature yes yeah walking

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hiking being outside what's so good

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about Sal Dean or Brighton Beach we just

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go here randomly we make you go don't we

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we have to wrestle you out the door so

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you don't you don't like it I do when we

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go swim but not when we're going on a

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boring

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walk it's a little bit quieter than

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Brighton Beach so that's good that's

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quite helpful especially when you got

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two dogs and two children running riots

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is that typical of like your summer

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holiday do you often sort of think just

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to stay here and enjoy pretty much these

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days yes for the last sort of five or

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six years yes and why why why is that

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why would you say that is um a mix

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things really um expense is one factor

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and the fact that we live somewhere

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where it's already the seaside so it's

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it's very enjoyable just living here did

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what's your what's your Festival goers

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tip for people who've never been to

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music festival don't

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Camp don't Camp always take a b take

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your

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Wellington right take some wet wipes wet

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wipes is really wet wipes is a really

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good idea you don't want to be really s

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ear plugs ear plugs yeah and anything

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that will make you happy that's whatever

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that might

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be what do you recommend the most about

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Brighton oh gosh that's a difficult one

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it depends what mood I'm in okay but I

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love the cafes I love the sea front just

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the general Vibe is there a big Cafe

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culture in uh Brighton or yes I think

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there is yes there is now where you

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going next year back to Malaga or no

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actually we've just been there so we're

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hoping to go well we're going to Poland

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Christmas New Year nice and then we're

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looking at Thailand or we look really

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want to go to Canada so yeah we'll see

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what would be your uh sort of typical

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holiday destination you go to uh

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probably we we I because we used to go

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to Wales every year as kids and so I

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wanted to take my daughter to Wales to

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continue the tradition so we go to the

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same places uh I'm scared of flying so I

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I tend not to fly

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places what is your plan for next year

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or do you have a plan to go away

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somewhere in the future if climate

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change keeps doing what it's doing we're

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going to be staying here take an

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advantage of it next year unfortunately

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for us it's stay in the UK a Stak oan

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yeah we're going to go up to York though

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I think and go and visit York or

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Scotland history um because we want to

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save up money for a

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driveway adulting

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so do you have any plans next year to

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leave the UK or not not at the moment

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but never say

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never and can I ask um is it affordable

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do you think for uh Brits to to go

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holiday nowadays do you think well it

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very much depends on what their income

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is and I guess with the current cost of

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living crisis fewer people feel able to

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do that yeah nice lots of people have

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mentioned that uh today actually yeah is

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it typical that Brits state do like this

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station I don't I don't think so most

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people I know tend to fly somewhere it's

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quite cheap cheap to fly flying tickets

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are cheap you get the Eurostar which is

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not quite convenient okay where where

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did you get the Eurostar from do you

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know get it from Kings Cross St panras

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and then get it to Parris or Leon or

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Amsterdam Brussels and that's affordable

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it was when I found a discounted

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ticket otherwise it was not not

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particularly cheap what's your plans for

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next year are you going to stay in

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Brighton or you heading off on a holiday

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somewhere maybe maybe not

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okay very good where would you like to

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go next year for your holidays my my

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last hotel where was your last

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Hotel

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anti anti really wow nice

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jet thanks for watching this week's

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episode please let us know in the

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comments below what you've been up to on

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your summer holiday and what you've got

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planned for next year here and as always

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we'll see you next time

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