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Putting the Dance in The Actual Dance.

9/13/2018

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The first time I presented a reading of The Actual Dance, it was in the living room of an apartment in New York hosted by a friend.  In her nice sized living room were about 30 guests, including a professional dance company producer.  I finished the reading and we opened the floor to reactions and feedback.  An arm shot-up, the woman dance company producer, most anxious to talk said: “First, congratulations on the title. It is perfect and often the hardest thing to get right.”

Made be proud.  It was just about six-years ago.  Remember, this was my first play and I was nervous and worried that I was out of my league.   Now in 2018 having returned from my most recent booking convention – the place where folks like me try to sell (persuade) theaters to book our show, I wonder if I got it right after all.  You see, everyone in the theater biz, so to speak, who sees the title in print or hears me say it immediately tosses us into the “dance category.”  “Oh, we don’t do dance.”   They think the peformance is some sort of dance presentation – ballet, hip-hop, modern –or something like that.

Of course, if you have seen the play, you know that it is a staged theatrical presentation, a form of spoken word, one-man show.  Yes, there is original music.  It is however “directed” and there are no traditional dance moves by the actor.  You can see the preview here.  In this directed version of the play, the actual dance is a metaphor for the ritual of holding the one you love in your arms as they take their last breath.  How do you do that, the show asks?  And it answers, “The Actual Dance” – the ritual of coming to terms with this unbearable moment – is the “ultimate consummation of our love.”   It sees this impossibly difficult act as one of great, but terrifying, intimate and beautiful moment.
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When Susan and I got married in August of 1966, we promised to love and care for each other for so long as we shall live.  We said, “I do”.   The Actual Dance imagines the fulfillment of that promise.  It is the “I did” moment.  Maybe I should rename the show: “I Did.”

Yet, even from the beginning days of producing and directing the play, there have been moments or flashes of ideas of the show infused with actual dance movement.  Hints of that idea are reflected in a pre-show video we created early on.  Check that out here.  (Those are actors by the way.)

Those thoughts have lingered for some time.   And not because theater managers confuse us with a “dance show” – but because the power of the story and the ultimate journey needs to be expressed as powerfully and diversely as possible.   So, Monday night, in New York City, The Actual Dance will premiere a new version of the show that is presented in both movement and word.  It is choreographed and directed by an acclaimed choreographer Kimani Fowlin.  It will be presented – in movement and voice – by Chuk Obasi whose considerably talents and credits allow him to embody for the audience both dance and voice.

The Actual Dance you see is more than a metaphor.  It is a true story.  A visit or vision if you will of another place in time and space that allows us to bear the unbearable.   It is where we retreat to when we think we cannot bear the burden of holding in our arms the one person with whom we were meant to be.  In the play there is a scene in which this is articulated this way:

“I am the other half of that which makes us complete. And when else in our lives is it more important to be whole than when our body is badly broken.”

I hope that many people will get to see this version of the story.  It is even for me, the playwright, an awe-inspiring opportunity.   You see, even though I personally could never have danced the way Chuk does, I can close my eyes now, having seen him in rehearsal, and imagine my own journey differently.  And “The Ball Room which is described in detail in the show – and was in my head—now become both more real and more ethereal. 

The gift that Chuk’s peformance gives is the permission for each of us to actualize The Dance – The Actual Dance in our head and in our body as we sit there and experience the possibility of our own experience.  Indeed, the first lines of the show are:

               There is a dance.  A dance that one day, each-and-every one of us, will dance.

​I think we will keep the title.  

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Please come see Chuk Monday night at United Solo, 9 p.m. Studio Theater in Theater Row.  Click here for information and tickets.  There are only a few tickets left.  http://unitedsolo.org/us/theactualdance-2018/
 

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Start Our 5th Year -- Support The Actual Dance

12/26/2017

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January 2018 is the start of the fifth year of performances of The Actual Dance.   

It is a play based on my experience as my wife Susan went through advanced breast cancer.  It is about my journey – the husband, lover, soul mate.   Susan’s mother had died from metastasized breast cancer at the age of 56 and Susan’s diagnosis came when she was 54.   My mother had died of metastasized breast cancer and I had been with her when she took her last breath.   What I couldn’t imagine in 2000 was to hold Susan in my arms as she too took her last breath.  

How do I do that?

Happily, Susan is alive and well and we celebrated our 51st wedding anniversary this past August.   In 2000 though in our 34th year of marriage everything I had come to know about breast cancer and even the tacit signals from the doctors told me that I needed to get ready.  How was I going to do that? 

I figured it out.  It took me 12 years and it happened through improv and then theater.

The journey to writing and performing this play is its own story.  From a high-profile Washington lawyer and consumer advocate to a playwright and performer.   So many people to thank for making this show such a powerful experience for those who see it.  You can read about the team and our back-story here. 

A special shout-out to the dramaturge and friend Gabrielle Maisels for her dedication, creativity and commitment to the continued evolution of the The Actual Dance Experience.  She has been and continues to be a partner in this work which reflects her keen eye and heart as well.

My most significant learning has been to experience how powerfully this theatrical piece creates a life altering experience for the audience.   It was in recognition of the intimate nature of the experience that this past year we welcomed a second version of the show with Chuk Obasi.   People confronted with the most basic questions of life and loss respond even more deeply when the performer and the audience can relate to a shared life journey.   Chuk opens that opportunity to African American audiences.

In the 5 years there has been nearly 200 performances. What is most important to me have been the hugs and tears from the audience. The stories of those who also have experienced love and loss in elemental ways.  The whispers from men to me after the show: “Thanks Sam, that is exactly how I felt, I just couldn’t put it in words.”   The man and wife who walk up to me on the street: “We saw your show last night and it has changed how we will relate to each other forever.” The woman who hangs back and then comes up after everyone else has left, with tears streaming down her cheeks: “I lost my mom last week and I saw her leave. I too thought I was crazy. Thank you for letting me know it was real.”

Our Mission -- Our Vision --- is that everyone who needs to see The Actual Dance has the opportunity to do so.  A very ambitious 2018 is being planned, starting in New York on January 11th.   (Check it out here)

The Actual Dance project with its ambitious goal is supported by ticket sales, some foundation grants, and tax-deductible individual donations. (You can see a list of major donors here.) Please join us and help make this possible with your tax-deductible gift.  ANDTheater, formerly Artistic New Directions, in New York has been our artistic home for nearly 15 years and serves as our fiscal agent.  Click here to make a tax-deductible donation – and most importantly – help us book a performance where you live or in your community in 2018.  Donate 

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GUEST BLOG BY CHUK OBASI: An Artist on Top of the World – Remembering Bobby Kashif Cox

6/27/2017

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Chuck Obasi performs The Actual Dance and also serves as Arts & Humanities Program Assistant, at Intersections International.   The blog first appeared on Intersections' blog.

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​One night during Memorial Day weekend of 2014, my friend Bobby and I stood on the roof of a skyscraper residential building on 72nd street. As our friends and family partied around us and fireworks went off in the distance, we looked down upon New York City. I said to him, “Everything that we want is within reach, bro.” He agreed. Bobby, an aspiring filmmaker and music producer, was excited about new connections he was making in the television industry, and new material he had written that was generating a very positive response. I had just returned from Memphis where my first full-length play, Uniform Justice, (which I had written and directed) had completed a successful run. We each felt like we were on top of the world, literally and figuratively. That night, Bobby and I promised each other that we would only go higher from there. We promised we would push each other to stay focused, creative, and passionate.

Bobby Kashif Cox, or BKC, as my former neighbors from the Harlem brownstone where I met my wife would sometimes call him… or Kashif, which most of his other friends would call him.  The names we called him helped to differentiate which circle of friends we belonged to… and he had a whole lot of friends. I met him in that Harlem Brownstone, shortly after he met Jenny, the woman who lived above me whom I planned to marry someday.

By Memorial Day of 2016, Bobby was months into a bout with stage four colon cancer. He was scared, but strong, wanting to get back to being his creative self. I was scared too. Actually, I couldn’t fully articulate what I was feeling, still searching for ways to come to terms with what was happening. That February I wrote a blog (Artist Fighting Cancer) about his fight in an effort to both process it for myself, as well as bring awareness to the combined efforts of his loved ones to raise funds to support his living and medical costs. I had recently been cast in a one-man play called The Actual Dance — a play about a man’s journey in coming to terms with his wife’s diagnosis and battle with breast cancer. I dedicated that role to him. He wasn’t able to see the performance, but he was with me in spirit. And so when that premiere performance in June 2016 was met with a standing ovation from a nearly sold-out audience, Bobby and I were once again on top of the world.

Riding a wave of love and support, BKC would continue to grab for whatever was within reach. After aggressive chemotherapy he got well enough to resume working. When he could, he would meet Jenny and me at restaurants and bars and we would catch up with laughter and crazy stories and sports talk and politics talk and music talk. We would check in with each other about our passion, and confirm that we were still climbing.

This past Memorial Day, Jenny and I visited Bobby at his home in Far Rockaway, NY. By this time his health had regressed as the chemo therapy lost its effectiveness, along with any other option to eliminate his tumors. He had about three weeks to live. I read to him a new poem that I was relieved to have just finished writing after a week of writers block, called “Light.” A poem I would be presenting in Las Vegas less than a week later, but this was the first time I had read the words out loud. I cried as I read it, as parts were so relevant to what I was feeling in regard to Bobby, especially the last few lines:

        Light up the whole universe like a comet, your coronation is now
        We’ll meet you at the horizon
        We won’t be there forever but our light will ever be shining
        Because energy never dies
       With potential so immeasurable
       That to fathom such size
       Our only option would be to look to the skies.

A poet himself, Bobby loved it, saying the piece made him think of one of his favorite poets, Langston Hughes. As the three of us talked, I kept wondering how we would fulfill the promise we made to each other three years prior. There is so much that we are supposed to do here, yet he is dying at the age of 33. At one point Jenny stepped out of the room and Bobby said to me, “I have so much that I still want to say.” I replied, “I know.”

That afternoon we all danced together—right there in his room—Me, Jenny, BKC, and his younger sister. Bobby got the party started. He picked up the remote, turned the channel to BET, and lifted his arms to the music. Next thing you know, we’re line dancing as Bobby is recording it all on his phone. He joked that he’d be on his feet with us if the tumor wasn’t holding him down. This energy of Bobby’s that lit up the room, that lit up the universe for 33 years, will never die.
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The morning of June 14, 2017, Jenny told me that Bobby had passed away. I no longer get to push him to be focused, creative, and passionate, although he continues to push me. Kashif has gone higher, though. Higher than I imagined. To a place where he can continue to live in the hearts of those who love him, his spirit embracing us from every direction. BKC is on top of the world. I love him, and I miss him deeply, and I will cherish him and channel his passion as best as I can. I am proud of who he was on this Earth, and grateful to have been a part of his world. These feelings replace the fear I had a long time ago. These feelings will allow me to continue climbing, with hopes to eventually catch up with Bobby at a new horizon.

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Black & White

2/24/2017

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When I Took On a Role Originated for a White Man
By Chuk Obasi
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​Last year, I began playing the role of Sam Simon in the one-man (and two musician) play The Actual Dance, a story of a married couple’s navigation of the wife's breast cancer diagnosis, told through the husband’s perspective.  The anxiety and anticipation of potentially losing her is compared to waiting in a ballroom to have “one last dance” with her, to be witnessed by all of the couple’s friends and family.  It was an interesting choice to have me take on the character of Sam, because the actual Sam Simon, who originated the role and continues to play it, is different from me in several ways.  He’s Jewish, I’m Catholic.  He’s at least twice my age.  He’s from El Paso, Texas, I’m from The Bronx, New York.  He’s white, I’m black. 

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An inevitable question that came up when I first approached this role - would it feel authentic?
 
Well, ever since I began playing Sam, I’ve wondered from time to time how the story would be different if I had lived a similar experience with my wife and written about it.  Of course, it would be a different story because I'm a different person.  But I sometimes wonder how it would be different in regard to my race - being a black man.  Would there be differences stemming from “the Black American experience?”  What would I need to add to the script---a love story--that has to do with me being black?  I reflect on my own marriage to answer this question and find that in comparing experiences in Sam's story to similar experiences in mine, my race might in fact become a significant part of my dramatized “dance.”
 
Like if I were writing about my (sort of) first date with my wife.  I'd want to mention that we met up at a dance club where I was frequently and at times overtly racially profiled, but went to anyway because I was used to it and still had fun.  I'd want to reference a key part of this first date; when a bouncer approached us to make sure I wasn't an unsolicited stranger harassing my future wife, who is white.
 
Or if I were referencing our families’ initial reactions once we made our relationship “family official.”  I wouldn’t need to go deep into that, but I would want to write about the acknowledgement of relatively uncharted territory we were entering with our difference in age, religion, economic standing, and yes, race.  These differences were lost on nobody in our families, whether they spoke about it out loud or not.
 
Or if I were writing about my bi-racial kids and my fears concerning the scenario of them growing up without one of their parents.  Among my anxieties would be the worry of them losing representation of half of their racial identity in the household.  This would be very important to my story because my sons are in fact very aware of their physical attributes compared to those around them and already keen on exploring these differences.  There's already an awareness of implicit value that society places on skin complexions, particularly noticed by my older son, who is six years old.  My wife and I are the key figures in guiding their exploration of how they will ultimately value themselves as fully aware beings.  I would want to write about my anxiety relating to their possible development without a parent, including this aspect of it.
 
And the music would be different.  This wouldn't necessarily pertain to my Blackness, but it might be perceived that way.  Jenny and I love all kinds of music, and we don't have “a song” in the way that Sam and Susan’s song is “Unchained Melody.”  But if we did have a song, or if I had to choose one for my script, there's a good chance it would be an R&B song.  There's a good chance it would be John Legend - we love him.  Yeah, I think we’d dance a slow dance to John Legend in our “ballroom.”  Again, this wouldn't speak solely to the Black American experience, but it would just happen to be the music of a black musician rooted in a black-dominated music genre.  Nobody in any audience would be surprised by my taste in music.
 
Does this mean that my portrayal of Sam Simon is inauthentic, being that I'm telling his story as he lived it (for the most part)?  Absolutely not.  I say this for two reasons: 1) Nothing in Sam’s story as I tell it is exclusive to the white American experience, and in fact people of all races, cultures and nationalities actually could identify with Sam, and 2) It is not necessary to identify with every nuance of someone's story anyhow. Love, fear, confusion, hope, support and strength are universal dances.  Not to mention cancer affects us all, directly or indirectly.  I’m able to channel this when I embody Sam, and I think audiences see that.
 
I appreciate this experience of human commonality.  Sam’s dance is a common journey, and as it allows me to identify the unique nature of what my own version would be, thus allowing me to say that there is such thing as the Black American experience, it simultaneously reaches my heart in a way that allows me to also say that there is such thing as the Human experience.
 
I will play Sam next on April 7 in Montclair, NJ.  I invite you to experience for yourself.

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Welcome to National Family Caregivers Month

11/1/2016

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​Welcome to National Family Caregivers Month. This is a time to honor all of those who are, have been or will be caregivers to someone in their family.   In 2000 I became a family caregiver for Susan during her bout with Breast Cancer. In October I blogged everyday in recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.  

In November we recognize National Family Caregivers Month with the debut of The Actual Dance with Chuk Obasi in the Fall Midtown International Theater Festival. The Actual Dance is THE Caregivers Story.  It provides a perspective on the question all caregivers ask themselves every now and then:  How do I do what I know I have to do?    Opening night is November 7th.   Tickets for opening night are here.
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In addition, here are some links to National Family Caregivers Month resources:
 
Presidential Proclamation   Emblem Health Care for the Family Caregiver The Heart of the Caregiver
Family Caregivers as the Unsung Heros
 
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Welcome to October Breast Cancer Awareness Month -- Day 31  BOO!  Don't be Scared to Be A Producer!

10/31/2016

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​October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.   The Actual Dance tells a story of MY journey in response to Susan’s diagnosis of stage 3 breast cancer in 2000

In recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month I post a blog each day with a reflection about breast cancer. The reflections all stem from something in the play.
 
Day 31:  BECOME A PRODUCER:   I have been so blessed to have had the chance to perform this The Actual Dance for three and one-half years.

The show contains a deep gift that speaks to people in ways that can change their own view of love and life.  It inspires and heals, it enables people to see their own experience in an entirely different light.  We now have two versions of the show.  One told as an autobiographical story by a white, Jewish man.  The other by an actor who is a black man who portrays a character who in the show is a Christian.

Our mission is that everyone who needs to see the show has an opportunity to do so.  It takes resources however.  We rely on foundation support, tickets sales and donor support.   You can go to our web site and see a list of “producers”  People who have donated $100 or more to bring the power of the Actual Dance to all those who need to see it.

Please consider adding your name by making a generous contribution today.  You can also help by bringing The Actual Dance to a venue in your community.  A church, synagogue, community theater, medical center, cancer support group etc. etc.

Stat of the Day: The Actual Dance has been produced 165 times for about 3200 audience members.

Task of the Day: Become a producer.  Make a tax-deductible donation today through Artistic New Directions, our fiscal sponsor! DONATE NOW. (Again, this will say Artistic New Directions but all donations support The Actual Dance)

Resource of the Day: Need some inspiration for the year ahead?  Check out Healthline or American Cancer Society  or Beliefnet

The Actual Dance:  Performances.   Donate.
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"Because Love Is a Universal Experience"

7/1/2016

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On June 20th in New York in New York, Chuk Obasi performed The Actual Dance   ​​​It is the first time someone other than me performed the show.  And while Susan and I attended Chuk's final dress rehearsal, there was nothing like what happened in the theater on that night.  It is a humbling experience to watch and see someone put their full expressive and artistic energy into something I wrote that is so personal and so heartfelt.

​Chuk is a young, talented actor.   He is more agile and physical than I am.  He can both carry a tune, and dance to a beat.  God given traits that were not among those that I was blessed with.  I have other, different ones.   He told the story both so differently and so much the same. The ideas just dressed us differently, the same ideas though.  The same emotions yet coming from a different place.

​Chuk has written a blog about his experience and his insights. He notices a couple of the "slight" differences in our back grounds.  He then explains why he thinks this "works" --  "because love is a universal experience."   Please do him the honor of reading his words by clicking here.

​He received a standing ovation at the end of his performance and those who attended wanted to know when his next performance was because so many in the audience knew someone else who "needed to see the show" as performed by Chuk.    So if you are in New York or know people New York, the next performance is July 12th at 7:00 p.m.  A complimentary performance.   RSVP  here.



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The Actual Dance Turns 4

6/17/2016

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Here are some things I did not know that I do now know because of what started 4 years ago
  • Life exists in each of us in a tangible form, the essence of how we are, beyond the physical body.
  • Love is when our essence becomes entwined, each an equal half of the other
  • There is a Dance, a Dance that one day each and every one of us will Dance.
  • There is an infinite beauty and dignity to be experienced when one must Dance with the person they love most in the world

A radical transformation in my life emerged four years ago when I decided to take the step of completing a story I had started to write as part of my theater exercises with Artistic New Directions.  “Tell a story, write it down and then perform it.”  That was exercise that Jeffrey Sweet and Gary Austin, two of my teachers were suggesting we do.  My first attempts were feeble.  And then something happened, I started to write the story of my life – the story of how I confronted the near loss of my wife to breast cancer. 

The story poured out of me.  The writing of it happened largely in two sessions, each on an airplane during a leg of a trans-Atlantic flight.   I don’t even remember anything other than being bent over the small laptop typing away.   Then the help of Gabrielle Maisels, my amazing dramaturg and coach.   A guiding, knowledgeable, gently hand that challenged me to thin, change and move forward.   The readings that followed, especially in class with Carol Fox Prescott, the amazing acting teacher and coach who has taught me so much.

The experience of this journey from has taught me the power of the help and dedication of others.  Perhaps this is true of all theater and perhaps of all of life, we don’t build our own future, we are gifted the opportunities offered by the work and dedication of others.  Yet there was something very special about how much others have dedicated themselves to the development and continued evolution of The Actual Dance.   Jessie and Jon Roberts the first director and sound designer.   Kate Holland the current director. The support from all those at Artistic New Directions and their larger family.   All those who have helped out financially to develop this work.  They are listed on our web site.   A special note of the importance of the support and generosity of Robert Chase and the folks at Intersections and the Collegiate Churches of New York.   They have nurtured this and have encouraged me to see what was inside of me and to let it out.   And to Gregory Johnson and the folks at EmblemHealth Corporation.  They saw in the show something I did not at first understand – that it was a show about the Family Caregiver.  (Confession, before meeting Greg and I didn’t even know the phrase!) 

So many amazing people have made this small journey so deep and so meaningful. 

And of course Susan Meryl Kalmans Simon.   She has made me alive and her love is the core of this story.  Of in fact “Our Story” – you can watch a video by that name here.

And now – on Monday, June 20th, just four years later – a landmark step:  The Actual Dance, with Chuk Obasi.  The show moves beyond me into the world as theater to be performed by others.  And in this instance by an African American actor who will tell this story through different eyes and in a way that will I hope connect to the hearts and souls of a much broader audience.  There is still room to attend, click here to reserve a spot!

I will also be offering an Anniversary Performance on the 20th in McLean, Virginia at the McLean Community Center where I did one of the very early public readings of the show.  You can click here to attend that performance.

There is language – a vocabulary – which I don’t yet have to explain the power of The Actual Dance experience on the audiences that have seen it.  In four years there have been about 110 performances.  About 3000 people have seen the show.  What changes me the most is what I hear from those who have seen it.  The individual stories and whispers in my ears.  “Sam, I went through the same thing.  I thought I was nuts, I have never shared it with anyone.  Thank you.”  The tears in the woman who walks up to me, crying saying “I have never said this out loud before, but I too had the experience with my mother.”   

                My favorite gift, so far, is from the gentleman who walked up to me alongside his wife on the streets of Indianapolis and said:

                “I saw your show Thursday night and I just wanted to thank you and to tell you that how I related to my wife has been changed forever.  Thank you.”

                I thank him, I thank all those who have created for me the opportunity and the capacity to change the world by telling a story about what love and life really means.

                My mission statement for this work has been and continues to be that The Actual Dance be performed so that all those who “need to see it have the opportunity to do so.”  You bless me and support me in this mission by attending and spreading the word to those who you know need to see this story.
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                Thank you.  Thank you.  Thank you.  
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    Samuel A. Simon is the playwright and performer of The Actual Dance. 

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