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ABOUT THE INDEPENDENT AUTHORS
Matt Sadler is a small business owner and proprietor of A Hope Bonds in Pahrump. He is a
recovering politician who reveres the 1st Amendment. He is a Christian, lucky husband of one,
and father of 3 terrific kids. He is also a reluctant owner of a sheepadoodle and
founder/chairman of Grassroots Conservatives of Nevada. He is also editor-in-chief at The
Grassroot Conservative™.
Colonel Patrick Nary (Ret.) is a mainstay of the Pahrump community (even while living in
Las Vegas) who is actively involved in any worthy cause you can ponder. He is a charitable,
no-nonsense man and The Grassroot Conservative is lucky to have his contributions.
Barry Lindemann holds an MBA, is a former United States Senate Candidate in Nevada, and
is a successful entrepreneur in Southern Nevada. He is a strong voice for common sense and
fiscal accountability.
Jerry Hashimura is a life-long conservative who spent 24 years as an active-duty Army
officer followed by 23 years as the head of a corporate legal department. He is happily married
for nearly 50 years.
Senior Citizen on a Soapbox:
The disintegrating family
structure
Time for another soapbox rant
to talk about things that
aggravate me more than Hillary
Clinton talking about her strong
marriage or seeing someone
wearing shorts, sandals, and
socks (sorry, in advance, if this
is you but please drop the
socks or the sandals, I beg you
—and, hey, it’s my soapbox!).
This particular soapbox rant
was triggered by some recent
graffiti on a wall in the housing
development where I live and
where kids congregate to catch
the bus to school. The graffiti is
both offensive and
inappropriate (which might be
the very definition of most
graffiti) and a sign of the times
we live in today.
I grow weary of the internet
being filled with videos and
news articles of entitled
children, teenagers, and near-
adult college students who
believe they can do and say
anything they please without
consequence…many times
committing criminal offenses…
and I bet you’re just as tired as I
am. And I won’t address here
the adults acting in the same
way because I believe I
covered that in Issue 8 of this
eMagazine in an article titled,
“Has Civility, Respect, and Civil
Discourse Disappeared in
Today’s Society? (Spoiler alert:
it has.)
What is the root cause of it all?
I think it stems from a number
of things and, in my humble
opinion, is a consequence of
the family unit not being what it
was back in the day (boy, I
sounded old with that one). I’ll
discuss this in a little more
detail but would offer up a
couple of other things that
contribute in no small measure
to what we are seeing today
with the next generation. There
are many others than those I’ve
highlighted below but these are
my top few.
First, the proliferation of social
media has made it into a game
and a challenge for young
people to post absurd conduct
in the hope of impressing their
circle of friends and the internet
as a whole to get a million
“views” or “clicks.” Because a
video posted to social media
showing someone cleaning up
a park or helping someone
carry groceries to their car only
garners a few hundred views, if
that, while a video of you
sucker punching someone on
the street (which was a popular
“game” not too long ago) will
most likely get you tens of
thousands, if not millions, of
views – guess which video a
young person is attracted to so
they get their 15-minutes of
fame? Second, along with the
increase in social media
platforms, popular culture today
celebrates rebellious behavior,
which I believe influences kids
to act out without fear of
repercussions. Third, there has
been a cultural shift in what is
acceptable behavior today
versus what might have been
punished by earlier generations
(some of this shift has been
good and some not so good).
And fourth, in many, if not most,
places, the educational system
is broken. Our children are not
being challenged to grow and
learn but merely being
warehoused and passed on to
the teacher in the next grade
higher to address. A recent
example is from February 2025,
where 19-year-old Aleysha
Ortiz is suing the Hartford
Public School system for letting
her graduate from high school
with honors but she cannot
read or write. She’s actually a
freshman at the University of
Connecticut in Hartford but now
says, “All I see are words
everywhere…They (the high
school) would just either tell me
to stay in a corner and sleep or
just draw pictures, flowers for
them.” Ortiz said she used
apps to read or write essays.
Too many parents think the
school should raise their
children, teach them values,
and the school’s failure to do so
is a mark against the school,
not the parent –I think this is
exactly backwards. I would
have known if my child could
not read or write, long before
high school graduation; and
Ortiz’s parents should have
known. I’m not saying the
school is blameless but to
blame the school now and file a
lawsuit is to excuse themselves
and their daughter and hope for
a big payday. In my previous
life defending high-dollar
personal injury litigation for a
corporation, I saw it thousands
of times in the filing of frivolous
lawsuits; they’re playing the
“litigation lottery” in hopes of
getting huge amounts of money
from a friendly, local jury.
It is my opinion that a lot of
what we see today in kids’
behavior can be traced directly
back to a fractured family
structure. Namely, fatherless
households. I’m sure you’ve
seen reports of the impact of
fatherless homes and probably
as it related to black
households. This is not a racist
statement but one of statistics
and why I think it gets talked
about more. I’ve seen a
number of different studies with
varied percentages so I’ll quote
one that seems to be down the
middle. Children in single-
parent families in 2015 broke
out as follows: Black – 66%;
American Indian – 52%; Latino
– 42%; White – 25%; and,
Asian – 16%. Don’t think I’m
racist or anti-black, I’m not and
I’ve written about this before.
I’m a minority, my sister-in-law
is black, and my circle of friends
and relatives can confirm there
is not a racist bone in my body
—stupid bones, stubborn
bones, yes, but no racist bones.
I think those who have suffered
racial prejudice might be more
tolerant and less likely to be
racist, though I know many
exceptions to that statement
exist as their pendulum swings
hard the other way, e.g., if you
are the target of white racists,
you may be more anti-white
than some. I suffered racial
slurs from too many white
people to count, children and
adult, but it made me less likely
to want to exhibit racist
behavior and more likely to train
hard in martial arts – but that
that’s just me; others are the
polar opposite.
Please also don’t get me
wrong, there are plenty of
single-parent households and
single mothers doing a fantastic
job and raising children anyone
would be proud to call their
own; but statistics are hard to
overlook. I know, I know, it’s
been said that there are “lies,
damned lies, and statistics” but
bear with me. I found a list of
statistics directly related to
fatherless households from a
trusted source and I was
shocked. Let these statistics
sink in…and remember, this
isn’t something for the
government or the school to fix;
the government can’t fix your
marriage or love your kids.
That’s your job.
Children from fatherless
households are:
Nine times more
likely to drop out
of school.
Ten times more
likely to abuse
drugs.
Twice as likely to
be obese.
Four times more
likely to live in
poverty.
Seven times more
likely to
experience
teenage
pregnancy.
Twenty times
more likely to end
up in prison.
Twice as likely to
commit suicide.
Nearly three times
more likely to deal
drugs or possess
illegal firearms.
80% of all
adolescents in
psychiatric
facilities come
from fatherless
homes.
What can we do to fix this
national crisis? It starts with us;
with raising our kids with love
and discipline, and teaching
them wrong from right. It’s
about being present for our
kids. My wife and I raised our
son, not the government and
not the school; it was our job
and we took it seriously. We
didn’t blame someone else if
something went wrong; we took
responsibility.
If we can repair what has
become a fractured family
structure in America today, we
might change the future for the
better. It’s certainly worth trying
because the path American
society is on isn’t the best one.
Jerry Hashimura
Pahrump, NV
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Free Speech in a
Conservative town goes all
ways
I felt compelled to write an
article addressing two sides of
a proverbial coin. Free speech
and honesty. Does our US
Constitution at its core protect
both? No not really. Rudeness
and lying are arguably
protected by that great
document. Yet should we as
conservatives strive for both
free speech and honesty?
Absolutely.
I recall in the political season
leading up to the Presidential
election in 2016, social media,
legacy media, and the tech
oligarchs were sure trying their
best to “funnel” (putting it
nicely) the information we
voters could get. From the
Russia Collusion hoax to the
“scientific” polling to Hillary
wiping her bathroom server.
Factual information that slanted
conservative was often “fact-
checked” or blocked by the
search engine and social media
elitist organizations while
exaggerated and often outright
lies from the left were allowed
to flourish unencumbered. Now
was that fair or equitable?
Absolutely not. Many
conservative rallies and support
for Donald trump was the target
of “liberal” rudeness, 1st
Amendment suppression, and
outright, unchecked violence.
Was that fair. No way.
However, does that mean
conservatives or “America First”
voters are green-lit to fight fire
with fire and resort to the same
disingenuous, rude, or tactics.
Again, no way. It would anger
me when I’d see a slanderous,
or outright lies perpetuated
online about Hillary Clinton. My
logical first take was, why does
our side need to resort to lying
and fabricating stories about
the most flawed Democrat
nominee in our nation’s history?
There is a treasure trove of
factual argumentation to levy
against her. The truth is
enough to tank this lady’s
campaign. Thankfully, enough
voters in swing states and
elsewhere, saw enough truth to
elect Trump in 2016. Disaster
averted.
Recently in local and more
broad-scope news, America
First and conservative
protesters and counter-
protesters have engaged in
suppressive actions against
liberal protests like “No Kings”
this last month. Now compared
to the leftists, these actions
pale in comparison. Whether
the left is more obnoxious and
suppressive (they are), that’s
an argument for a different
article. We should not feel the
need to galvanize counter-
protests in order to “shut down”
their assembly or “run them out
of town” like I’ve heard by some
Pahrump folks lately. If we
conservatives want to maintain
any moral high-ground we need
to talk the talk and walk the
walk. We need to respect the
Constitution and the rights of
those to exercise the free
speech we disagree with. You
win conservative battles and
wars in the arena of ideas and
lawful action—not bully tactics.
If we feel that our side is the
one promoting truth,
pragmatism, and freedom, we
need to be upright in our action
and speech. For a Bible-
believing Christian like myself,
the Word of God is the epitome
of codified truth. The great
preacher Charles Spurgeon
once said "The Word of God is
like a lion. You don't have to
defend a lion. All you have to do
is let the lion loose, and the lion
will defend itself."
Let’s try to be the effective
messengers of a truth that
defends itself.
Matt Sadler
The Grassroot Conservative
Editor-in-chief.
Pahrump, NV
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Senior Citizen on a Soapbox:
50 Years of Marriage – How
did we do it?
Time for another soapbox rant
to talk about something positive
for a change. There are too
many negative things to write
about (and that are written
about) that the positive aspects
of our life get overlooked.
Here’s my latest soapbox rant
to try and focus on the positive
rather than the negative.
For those that know us, I am
sure you’re absolutely shocked
that such a youthful looking
couple could be coming up on
fifty years of wedded bliss. And
those that know us even better
would tell us they’re not
surprised at all…they probably
thought we were coming up on
75 years of marriage. I’d like to
say that when we were married,
we were 7 and 8-years old and
it was legal back then…but no
one is buying that either. I
sometimes think that we
couldn’t possibly be married
that long but then remember
that our son will be fifty years
old next year…how can that be,
it seems like only last year I
was changing his diapers and
feeding him a bottle.
I would start this rant by saying
that my wife and I are truly
blessed. We recognize it and
appreciate it. We try to
approach life with an attitude of
gratitude. We’ve had the
opportunity to live in Europe for
over 16 years, the Far East for
two years, travel throughout the
U.S., Europe, and Asia, and
retired to a more than
comfortable lifestyle. We can
only wish the same for
everyone.
It's really hard for us to believe
how fast time has gone by, and
those just starting down the
path of married life should
pause when you can to
appreciate the fun you are
having along the way.
Hopefully, there will be many
such moments to appreciate
and you should take the time to
live in the moment and be
thankful for them.
So, what is our secret? I truly
wish I could pass along to you
the big secret; but I can’t. I
remain amazed that my wife,
Stephani, has put up with me all
these years without my face
appearing on a milk carton
under the words, “Have you
seen this man?” I’ve also tried
to be an extra good husband to
Steph since we moved to
Nevada because it’s an awfully
big desert right outside our door
and I’m confident they would
never find my body. I joke, of
course, but if you don’t hear
from me for an extended period
of time, please notify the
authorities.
So, are there any words of
wisdom I can impart that might
help you along the way?
Maybe. The obvious and easy
answer, of course, is love.
Songs are written about it,
movies made about it, and
books written about it…
sometimes making it look easy.
Love and a long-lasting
marriage aren’t always easy; it
can be extremely hard at
times…but as the songs and
movies say, love conquers all.
A marriage needs love as the
foundation to build a life
together. Marriage isn’t a
sterile business contract
between two people. In my
mind, marriage needs a feeling
that if that person leaves you
through illness or even harsh
words between you, it will leave
a hole in your heart that you
feel might not ever heal. When
my wife battled cancer, it
scared me beyond what I could
express here. If cancer took
the love of my life, it did not feel
like something I could or would
ever recover from. We are
lucky that she beat the crap out
of cancer and is fine now…but
ever watchful.
I am also someone who
believes in love at first sight.
Six short weeks after Stephani
and I met, we were married…
and it took that long only
because I had to wait for my
birth certificate to come from
the U.S. and we had extra
paperwork to file because she
was marrying a foreigner. I say
that to say this – don’t criticize
people who you feel married
too quickly; we’ll be celebrating
50 years together later this year
so we obviously knew what we
were doing. When we were
first married, we said, “Let’s
wait to start a family. We’re
young and we can travel a little
before fully settling down with a
baby.” To paraphrase the
poem from Robert Burns, “The
best laid plans of mice and men
often go awry.” Nine months
after we were married, our son
was born…and we wouldn’t
trade that for the world. Aside
from the day I married
Stephani, the birth of our son
was the best day of my life. It
was incredible to look down at
his little face and realize we
created something amazing.
While having a baby is not the
secret formula to a long-lasting
marriage, our starting our little
family added a richness and
texture to our lives that we
didn’t know was missing. But
that was us. Those who don’t
choose the path that we did and
start a family will have fulfilling
and long-lasting marriages
based on the things important
in their lives…we have plenty of
friends and family doing exactly
that.
Being married is going to result
in plenty of arguments and
fights – not physical ones; I’m
talking about the ones with loud
voices and unkind words. I
don’t think they can be avoided.
I find it hard to believe when
couples tell me they never fight.
Where is the passion and
emotion in that marriage? My
wife and I have strong
personalities and our emotions
can run high when we have
“brisk discussions” about
things. I regret the tone and
volume I’ve used over the years
but when you’re with someone
for a long time, they not only
know which buttons to push but
jump on those buttons with both
feet. The old adage about
“don’t go to be mad” sounds
good in the saying but, for me,
impractical and unrealistic.
Sometimes, a little time inserted
into an argument – I mean,
brisk discussion – is good for
both sides and cooler heads
can prevail. I can’t list many of
the things we’ve “briskly
discussed” in the almost 20,000
days we’ve been together but
I’m confident they seemed
important at the time but maybe
not so important if we look back
on them. My advice to you,
have “brisk discussions,” it’s
going to happen…but step back
sometimes and remember, “this
too shall pass.”
The only other piece of advice I
can pass along, besides
building your relationship on
love, is to be kind; don’t say
things in the heat of the
moment that you or your
significant other will regret later.
And finally (hey, you didn’t
really think I had only one
additional piece of advice, did
you?), a marriage truly is a
partnership; there isn’t a senior
partner but two equal partners.
The important decisions need
to be made together…not in
isolation.
A friend once told me that he
told his wife from the very
beginning that he would make
all of the important decisions
and she could make all of the
other, not so important
decisions. When I asked how
that worked out, he said that
they’ve been married almost 20
years and there has not been
any important decisions to
make yet but he’s sure one will
come up soon. Okay, that’s a
joke I heard but I found it funny.
I realize that I’ve likely not told
you anything you didn’t already
know but I’d close with the fact
that I married way above my
pay grade and we’re looking at
celebrating 50 years being
together…if a knucklehead like
me can do it, anyone can.
Jerry Hashimura
Pahrump, NV
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Senior Citizen on a Soapbox:
Artificial Intelligence (“AI”),
is it making us dumber?
I was inspired to write this
article about AI after I recently
called a medical office to
schedule an appointment and
the entire conversation with AI
resulted in my scheduling said
appointment. That’s right, a
complete and seamless
conversation from hello to
goodbye. Had there not been a
disclosure at the start of the
“conversation” that it was AI, I
might not have known…it was
that good.
On the one hand, while
speaking with a computer
program seems to elevate the
word “impersonal” to new
heights, I guess it beats my
previous experiences calling
medical offices and being put
on hold for a long, long time
before a human has time to
come on the line. I called and
had an appointment in what
was, for me, record time –
maybe three minutes tops.
That is a good thing because it
did not waste my time.
AI seems to have invaded
almost every aspect of our lives
and this “conversation” with a
computer program was just the
most recent sign for me of the
times we live in – AI is
everywhere.
For those not completely
familiar with AI, let me provide a
short primer. Among many
other things, AI can have
conversations with humans;
answer questions; provide
information on a wide variety of
topics; translate text between
different languages; solve math
problems; write computer code;
write stories, poems, and
scripts; write blog posts, emails,
and social media content; make
medical diagnoses; and, can
summarize large amounts of
text and rewrite it in a different
style. I’m confident that every
day that passes, AI can and will
do more and more. One of the
ways AI can do these things is
through Large Language
Models (“LLM”). While AI is the
broad field that can do many of
the things that used to need
human intelligence to complete,
LLMs are a subset, a type of AI
that is focused on
understanding, analyzing, and
generating human language.
For me, it’s the branch of AI that
talks to you. These LLM
programs are trained on
extremely massive amounts of
data, both text and computer
code, so that they learn the
patterns and rules of language
and can mimic human speech
by predicting what words are
relevant in the context of the
“conversation” it might have
with humans or text it analyzes
to rewrite in another style.
Being in the legal business for
so long, I was interested to see
a recent ruling in a case that
basically stated a company did
not violate the Copyright Act by
training its LLM on copyrighted
books as long as it legally
obtained these books. The
Court indicated that LLM’s use
was “transformative” in that
they did not create exact copies
but used it to learn patterns.
Hundreds of owners of
copyrighted material have sued
AI companies for using their
copyrighted material to train
their LLM programs – seeking
hundreds of millions of dollars
in damages (compensation) –
they wrote the material and
want to be paid for its use. This
is not good for owners of
copyrighted material and a
perceived win for AI companies.
The same court that ruled AI
companies may use legally
obtained material in their
training LLMs, however, found
the AI company had illegally
obtained thousands of volumes
of material by downloading it
from websites on the internet –
making them potentially liable
to pay hundreds of millions of
dollars. In the end, I don’t
believe this issue will be
resolved until the Supreme
Court rules on it. Well, that’s
enough legalese, I don’t want
you to run for more Tylenol.
It doesn’t take much
imagination to see how AI can
creep into our everyday lives
and take on tasks we are too
busy or lazy to get done. So,
back to the basic question – is
AI making humans dumber?
My short answer is that it’s
probably too early to say.
It recently hit the news that AI is
making humans stupid because
MIT published a study that
basically said exactly that. The
10¢ summary of the study is
they took three groups of
people, 18-39 years of age, and
had them write a 20-minute
essay. One group used AI, one
could use internet searches,
and one just had to use their
brain (imagine that). A month
or so later, they switched the
people into a different group
and had them write a new 20-
minute essay. They monitored
their brain activity via EEGs and
interviewed them. The AI group
displayed the weakest neural
connectivity relative to semantic
processing (the ability to
understand the meaning of
words and sentences),
creativity, memory, and the
brain’s executive engagement
(the ability to oversee and direct
various cognitive processes).
Once MIT published this study,
it was all over the news outlets
and social media. Opponents
of AI were quick to jump on the
bandwagon to cite the study for
the dangers of AI; basically,
saying AI is rotting our brains.
Unfortunately, use of this study
is a little premature. The study
has not been peer reviewed – a
key step for any research
project. Peer review is a
process by which experts in the
field evaluate it for validity and
reliability before it is published
or used. Other experts have
opined that this MIT study only
shows that the use of AI/LLMs
reduced the amount of thinking
required to finish a task, not
that the use of LLMs impaired
someone’s ability to think – an
important distinction.
Despite what this MIT study
concludes or doesn’t conclude,
in my humble opinion, AI can
make and probably is making
us dumber, in some respects. I
would point you to something I
briefly mentioned in an article
on the disintegrating family
structure, i.e., 19-year-old
Aleysa Ortiz, who sued the
Hartford Public School System
because they let her graduate
from high school with honors
but she cannot read or write –
she used AI to read and write
her essays (see that article for
my full feelings on Ms. Ortiz).
You can’t tell me her use of AI
made her smarter.
While we certainly cannot
escape the proliferation of AI
into our daily lives, I believe
there are places where it should
not be allowed, or its use
should be managed carefully. I
think our schools need to give
students more complex and
long-term assignments where
they can work with AI to
produce a result, not one-
dimensional, overly simple
assignments that AI can finish
before students can take a
single breath. Likewise, I
believe schools should be
challenged to give students
assignments where AI cannot
help them. This, to me, will
help make our children smarter.
The brain is a muscle like every
other muscle that will atrophy
without use. Sole reliance on
AI to think for us will weaken
our brains over time. I believe
AI should be a supplement to
our own mental capacity, not a
replacement. AI can be a
laborsaving tool to free up our
time and I believe this extra
time can and should be used to
more fully engage our own
brains.
Think about this on how quickly
AI is itself getting smarter. In
2019, AI models could barely
count to five or put together a
coherent sentence. By 2023, it
was outperforming 90% of
humans on a lawyer’s bar exam
and a doctor’s medical licensing
exam. In 2024, it was
answering questions about
complex scientific charts and
diagrams with over 94%
accuracy – likely outpacing
humans.
There are so many areas in
which AI is or will soon be
outperforming humans. I take
solace in the fact that blue
collar workers won’t be
replaced by AI (plumbers,
carpenters, electricians, etc.)
and AI has not yet substituted
its “human taste” for ours. We
still value more the song our
child wants to hear at bedtime
or one a loved one or friend
recommends to us rather than
one that AI says is better.
One final bit of information that
irritated the heck out of me: a
blog I used to receive by email
on “Nevada News and Views”
(politically oriented) has the
following disclaimer at the end
of almost every article (it was
actually hard to find one that
didn’t have this disclaimer):
“This article was written with the
assistance of AI. Please verify
information and consult
additional sources as needed.”
So, you’re basically telling me
that this information is
unverified and not trustworthy,
could be full of errors, and I
have to do my own research on
the topic. Why didn’t the author
take the time to do so? Why is
the burden shifted to me? I
unsubscribed from this blog.
Here is my disclaimer: this
article was written without the
use of artificial intelligence and
with my intelligence only (which
might explain a lot!).
Jerry Hashimura
Pahrump, NV
* all articles in this publication are
authored by independent writers
and do not necessarily reflect the
opinions of the publisher or other
independent writers herein.
Senior Citizen on a Soapbox:
I’ll do it tomorrow – maybe.
I hope you don’t grow tired of
me climbing on my soapbox…
but here I go again, creaky
knees and all…and this one is
short, trust me, I used to work
for the government. I’m writing
this one for the young and the
old and, frankly, the
inbetweeners (I know, I know, a
long way of saying “everyone”).
Recently, I was thinking about
all of the things I needed to get
done…and, yes, my friends, I
may be retired but I do have
things to get done – easy
things, hard things, important
things, and things my wife tells
me to do (and, sweetheart, you
don’t need to remind me every
month, I’ll get to it). My first
thought often is that I will just
get it done tomorrow; it’s so
easy to say. No matter what
stage of life you’re in, you
believe there’s an endless
supply of tomorrows; that you’ll
never run out. The younger
you are, the more tomorrows
you think you have in the bank.
Unfortunately, that just isn’t so.
It’s a lie that life teaches us
when we least expect it or want
it.
No one knows how many
tomorrows remain and it’s
different for each one of us.
Today quickly becomes
yesterday and you cannot get it
back; it’s gone, history, never to
be seen or used again. And,
not to bring you down, but I
think a lot about my late brother
and a good friend I recently
spoke about to her friends and
family at her celebration of life –
when you get old, those are
thoughts that come more and
more often, and when you’re
young, you think those are
crazy thoughts to have all the
time. But—I realized after they
were gone that there would be
no more tomorrows for them or
with them.
I say all of this in my
longwinded way to urge you to
start each and every day by
telling the ones you love that
you love and value them; to not
wait until tomorrow (or next
week) to go and see, or call,
your elderly parents or siblings;
and, not to wait until tomorrow
to do things important to your
heart. If you don’t start today,
today is lost to you forever.
Jerry Hashimura
Pahrump, NV
* all articles in this publication are
authored by independent writers
and do not necessarily reflect the
opinions of the publisher or other
independent writers herein.
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