Dear Parishioners, I was reflecting recently on thoughts from Dr. Paul Tripp on some benefits of reading the Bible.

1. God-awareness. We were created for him, made to love and serve him. We are called to do all that we think and say in reference to him, and so there are few things more important than knowing the God who is revealed in the Scriptures. 2. Self-awareness. The apostle James compares the Bible to a mirror. Looking into it intently will give us an accurate knowledge of ourselves and a clear picture of the depth of our need for God. 3. Knowledge of God’s plan. Studying the bible helps us to paint a portrait of what it looks like to have our life shaped by God’s plans for us. 4. Personal transformation. The Bible is not just meant to be a textbook to be studied, but an instruction manual for life. 5. Our worldview is informed. We don’t realise how much we take on cultural assumptions which we rarely question. The Bible helps to give us a God- shaped worldview. 6. Street-level guidance. What should I say in this conversation? How should I respond to that situation? Often the Scriptures give us principles, and as we read in the Psalms, they are a ‘lamp to our feet and a light to our path.’ 7. A deeper love for the Lord. Although the Bible can seem like a random collection of stories, it is in fact a unified whole. The Bible is the story of Jesus. Every book within it looks forward to him, puts hope in him, points to what he alone can fix, or looks back to his achievements in gratitude. Do you want to love Christ more? Then study the Bible more. In our churches we find many opportunities to explore the Bible’s teaching, including home groups, Sunday services and groups for children and young people. To learn more about these events, please see our website, www.allsaintsdanehill.org.uk, or come and join us on a Sunday morning.

With warm greetings,

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All Saints Church, Danehill with Diary of Services June 2019 Sunday 2nd 8am Chelwood Gate Holy Communion(BCP) June 9.30am Danehill Morning Prayer(BCP) 11am Danehill The First* 4pm Danehill Worship@4# Special collections for ChildAid #Post May Camp Special Sunday 9th 8am - - June 9.30am Danehill Holy Communion(CW) Pentecost 11am Danehill Informal Service* 4pm Chelwood Gate Prayer Service Sunday 16th 8am Chelwood Gate Holy Communion(BCP) June 9.30am Danehill Morning Prayer(CW) Trinity 11am Danehill Informal Service* 4pm Danehill Worship@4 Sunday 23rd 8am - - June 9.30am Danehill Holy Communion(CW) 11am Danehill Informal Service** 4pm - - Sunday 30th 8am Chelwood Gate Holy Communion(BCP) June 9.30am Danehill Morning Prayer(BCP) 11am Danehill Informal Service* 4pm Danehill Worship@4 6pm Chelwood Gate Evensong Sunday 7th 8am Chelwood Gate Holy Communion(BCP) July 9.30am Danehill Morning Prayer(BCP) 11am Danehill The First* 4pm - -

BCP Book of Common Prayer CW Common Worship * Includes a full programme for Youth and Children ** Includes Youth and Children and Holy Communion For more details, please see www.allsaintsdanehill.org.uk 2

Danehill Church Rota June 1st/8th Jenny Virtue and Norma Parker

Flowers 15th/22nd Diana Freeland and Catherine Scrivens

29th Theresa Bartlett and Caroline Briggs Brass Mae Lewis

Chelwood Gate Church Rota June

Brass 1st – 31st Roy Emmerson Cleaning 1st – 15th Jo Newberry 16th – 30th Valerie King Flowers 1st – 15th Mae Lewis 16th – 30th Megan and Penelope Holt-Thomas At All Saints Wedding, 4th May 2019 Nicholas Parkhouse and Alison Elizabeth Poovey Dean

A Day Out In Windsor

Join us for a full day’s outing to beautiful Windsor! Our coach will depart from All Saints on Saturday 22nd June at approximately 8am, departing Windsor at 5pm. There is free entry to St George’s Chapel. Entry to Windsor Castle is subject to availability on the day and not included in this special price of £25 per person. Please contact Jayne as soon as possible on 01825 740209 or email [email protected]

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Ashdown Café

The café is going from strength to strength. It is so good to see so many people from our villages enjoying coffee or tea with homemade cakes and biscuits. It has been particularly good to see young mums with their children - who enjoy playing with the toys we have! Although we only set out to cover our costs, we have been able to make donations to local organisations due to people’s generosity. Members of local organisations have been very happy to make cakes for us but we could do with more people to make cakes or biscuits occasionally. If you would like to help, please contact Shelagh Gilliam on 790803 or let her know at the next café in Danehill Memorial Hall – Friday June 14th

Parish Magazine Swings Into a New Era Lost the magazine again? No need to look behind the sofa- it’s now available online! You’ll find it here - www.allsaintsdanehill.org.uk and then click on ‘News Sheet and Dates’. Deadline for July Issue: Tuesday 18th June Send your copy to: [email protected] or the post box at Marten Cottage. Ads or flyers enquiries to [email protected] Editor this month: Emma Gilliam, 790803 4

Youth Worker News Update

On Sunday 12th May we had a bring-and-share lunch to say 'farewell' and 'thank you' to Lee Buck, who has been our parish youth worker for nearly three years. Lee brought a lot of energy and enthusiasm to the role, and we wish him well as he takes up a new youth work post in Horsham. Our hard-working volunteers will be keeping everything running as usual including the 'summer special' events and taking a large group of young people to May Camp, the diocesan youth event. We are looking to recruit a new youth worker for this autumn. If you are interested in the position or you know someone who is, please contact us as soon as possible using the information available here: www.allsaintsdanehill.org.uk/#/yow

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Deadly Nightshade by Michael Blencowe of the Wildlife Trust “A poison bouquet to strike him down”

June 16th is Bloomsday, a celebration of the life of James Joyce, whose novel Ulysses follows Leopold Bloom’s escapades on that June date in 1904. Throughout Ulysses, Joyce uses flowers to symbolize romance and the lure of the exotic. And that has made me think of another bloom which will be wreaking havoc around Sussex in June.

Deadly nightshade looks innocent enough. A tall plant with lush leaves and purple, bell-shaped flowers. Later in the year the glossy berries will catch your eye; dangling temptingly like black pearls. It’s in the plant family Solanaceae; related to potatoes and tomatoes. But deadly nightshade isn’t the sort of relative you’d invite round for dinner. And you certainly wouldn’t want it anywhere near the food. It is lethally poisonous.

Its name should be warning enough (and if not, colloquial nicknames such as ‘Satan’s Rhubarb’ and ‘Death Cherries’ underline the message). In 1597, Elizabethan physician John Gerard warned us ‘banish it from your gardens’ and steer well clear, but we obviously weren’t paying attention. An internet search today reveals recent stories of accidental deaths, comatose children and a naked, hallucinating German monk.

It is reported (but possibly exaggerated) that just three berries will kill you. Symptoms start with a dry mouth, dizziness and urinary retention,and progress to delirium, convulsions and a heartbeat so furious that it can be heard from several feet away. It’s all downhill from there.

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Incredibly, the berries are the safest part of the plant – you wouldn’t want to go anywhere near the roots.

Wicked witches would use the berries in a potion to make their broomsticks rise. Wicked women in Venice, looking for a reaction from their men used deadly nightshade eye drops to dilate their pupils. The plant’s scientific name belladonna means ‘beautiful woman.’ The potential side effects of this beautification would later be the answer to the question ‘how do you make a Venetian blind?’

Barcombe botanist David Lang tells a tale of a student found staggering the streets drunk and disorderly. Nothing new there – until a police doctor saw his wide eyes and realised he had been poisoned by belladonna. He was rushed to hospital where it transpired that his landlady was trying to extract medicine from the berries and was straining them through the same strainer she was using to make his coffee each morning. You won’t get a kick like that in Costa. So, be cautious of this killer as you walk the Downs in June to ensure that your life, which to paraphrase Mr Joyce is already a ‘parenthesis of infinitesimal brevity’, is not made any briefer.

Sussex Wildlife Trust is an independent charity caring for wildlife and habitats throughout Sussex. Founded in 1961, we have worked with local people for over half a century to make Sussex richer in wildlife. We rely on the support of our members to help protect our rich natural heritage. Please consider supporting our work. As a member you will be invited to join Michael Blencowe on our regular wildlife walks and enjoy free events, discounts on wildlife courses, Wildlife magazine and our Sussex guidebook, Discovering Wildlife. It’s easy to join online at www.sussexwildlifetrust.org.uk/join or over the phone on 01273 497532.

Ashdown Women’s Institute

Ashdown Women's Institute meets at Chelwood Gate Village Hall on the second Tuesday of each month, from 8-10pm. On June 11th we’ll be finding out more about Greek cookery and on July 9th, we’ll be finding out more about travelling around Australia! Our meetings are for non-members and members, everyone is welcome.

Yvonne Smith 740471

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Greta on Climate Change

If like me, you have been fascinated by the strange phenomenon of a 16-year- old taking the political world by storm, you will find this article in Time magazine well worth reading. Just google “Time magazine Greta Thunberg fight” and the article should be on the list. Look for 'Now I Am Speaking to the Whole World.'

Chris Drewery 740298

Singles Sunday Lunch Club We shall be returning to the Foresters in for our Sunday Lunch on the 23rd June, usual timing applies. If you have arranged to come but are unable to make it please contact the pub and cancel your booking – tel: 712808

Karen Day 790857

Danehill Memorial Hall

The good news is that after lengthy discussions with the new parish council, we can go ahead with our modernisation plans this summer. We will be starting with a new heating system, completion which will allow us to finish the main hall. This is due be followed in time by a new kitchen and toilets, the fitting of audio-visual system and blackout curtains. There will also be a new lightweight stage.

Everyone we spoke to at a recent Ashdown Café seemed to like the new lighter colour scheme. We have left the lower colour until the new radiators are in.

It has been suggested that there should be a way of bringing lonely people to the hall, maybe to be able to talk over a light lunch or play a game of Scrabble. If anybody has experience of this type of event, and how to run it, please let us know.

A picture gallery of old Danehill and Chelwood Gate has been suggested. If you have an old photo that could be enhanced and enlarged, please let us know.

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Summer Social Marquee Events In the Vicarage Garden

Sat 6th July Parish BBQ and Talent Evening from 6pm Bring drinks, glasses and a salad or pudding. RSVP to come along or to entertain! Tues 9th July Men’s Bonfire and BBQ, 7.30pm Sat 13th July Ladies' Breakfast, Vicarage, 9am

All welcome! RSVP to Paddy. Tel: 01825 790269 The Vicarage, Lewes Road, Danehill RH17 7ER Or email [email protected]

Chelwood Gate Village Spring Clean

Thank you to everyone who came along to help litter pick around Chelwood Gate on Saturday 18th May. We had 16 volunteers who turned out to help clear the village and part of Danehill. Around 10 large bags were filled with rubbish. We plan to do another village clean in September/October. Roz Avis 740658

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FOREST ROW CHORAL SOCIETY SUMMER CONCERT Around 90 singers will take part in this year’s summer concert FRCS will combine with the U3A and Sackville Community choirs for the event Jubilee Hall, Charlwoods Road, July 6th, 7pm Tom Scratchley will conduct a varied programme featuring favourite classics, show tunes and contemporary music Tickets £12 on the door (under-16s free), interval refreshments

Danehill Photographic Group

The Danehill Photographic Group meets on the 1st Wednesday in the month at Chelwood Gate Village Hall. We are a small friendly group who live locally. Our meetings cover the technical and artistic aspects of photography. We run competitions have workshops and occasional outside speakers. We have a wide range of experience in the group with club members using everything from phone cameras to sophisticated digital SLR cameras. Annually we publish a local calendar and also run an exhibition which can be seen at a number of locations such as the Princess Royal Hospital and local libraries. Our next meeting is on June 5th and we will be meeting early (7.30pm) to walk on the forest to take some photographs.

ASHDOWN CAFÉ Friday 14th June 9.30am – noon Danehill Memorial Hall Everyone welcome for Tea, Coffee, Cake and Good Conversation!

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Chelwood Gate Village Market

The next market to be held at Chelwood Gate Village Hall will be on Saturday 1st June. There will be a variety of stalls selling goods and local produce. The café will be selling drinks as well as hot rolls (bacon and sausages supplied by Bates). There will be a tombola and Mick’s Magic Box for the children. If anyone has any unwanted/unused presents we could use for Tombola prizes, please bring them along to the Village Hall at 4.30 on Friday 31st May. Doreen Bowes-Crick 740441

Round and About in the Parish – an update

Last month I wrote about the AA man at . I mentioned that despite scrambling in the undergrowth I couldn’t find the stone marking the Toll House. Fortunately, there are others who are made of sterner stuff and don’t give up so quickly! Patrick Awcock very kindly scrambled in the undergrowth and did indeed find the stone, which is now in a very poor state. With thanks to Patrick for this photo.

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Danehill Parish Council Report of the Annual Danehill Parish Council Meeting held on Wednesday 15th May 2019 at Chelwood Gate Village Hall.

Rhodri Lewis was elected Chairman and Tony Blake was elected as Vice Chair. The councillors were asked to introduce themselves which they did in turn outlining their background etc. The co-option of Neil Macleod to the vacancy on the Council was agreed.

Appointments were made to Committees and representatives to external bodies. • Planning – Tony Blake, Matt Mockridge, Martin Lewer, Robin Wood, Neil Mcpherson, George Powell • Finance – Neil Macleod, Tony Blake, Robin Wood, Rhodri Lewis, Neil Mcpherson • SLR / Highways – Neil Macleod, Tony Blake • School / Youth – Matt Mockridge • SSLAC – Tony Blake • WDALC -Anthony Martin • Conservators – Anthony Martin • Rights of way and Environment – Robin Wood • Emergency Planning – Anthony Martin • Community transport – Anthony Martin • Parish Assets – Martin Lewer, Rhodri Lewis, George Powell • Burial Ground – Martin Lewer • Parish Charity – Dee Birchell. Trustees for Charity fund – Neil Mcpherson, , Neil Macleod, Tony Blake, Robin Wood • Village halls representatives – Chelwood Gate – Robin Wood and Danehill – Tony Blake and George Powell • Newsletter and communications – Robin Wood

Policies Standing orders, financial regulations, code of conduct and other policies were approved by the Council. The Council also adopted the power of general competence.

Correspondence List The list had been circulated prior to the meeting. Items were highlighted including correspondence on helicopter nuisance and overgrown hedges in Beaconsfield Road. The Clerk would report the issue of the hedges to ESCC.

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Danehill Memorial Hall proposal for funding Heating, Audio Visual, Stage and replacement door costs were all agreed. The matters of kitchen and WC needed more work on the quotes and would be considered in June.

To confirm expenditure on trees following on from the tree surveys to date. The summary of quotes received following the Thurman Consultancy report had been circulated prior to the meeting. The quote from Woodsmith was accepted for £1580.00 whilst further quotes would be sought for the ash in the and the tree survey on Jubilee Wood. The Clerk would arrange a planning application for the tree works in the conservation area and arrange tidying of the undergrowth beneath the yew tree in the Danehill War Memorial Green as per requests from parishioners.

Matters to report and for consideration at future meetings Memorial Hall – WC and Kitchen Running track on Rec

Date of next meetings Planning 9:30am 5th June 2019 Finance 10am 5th June 2019 Parish Council 26th June 2019 7:30pm

Emma Fulham Clerk to Danehill Parish Council 01342 822404 [email protected] http://www.danehill-pc.org

Chelwood Gate Village Hall COFFEE MORNING Saturday 29th June, 10.30am – 12 noon and on the last Saturday of each month All welcome! Now in our fourteenth year!

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Round and About in the Parish…

I have been continuing to carry out research about the Danehill Scouts from Ronald Hardy’s diary, and it appears that from November 1931, Mr Frost, who was the Headmaster at Danehill Primary School was also now the Scoutmaster, and the Diary reveals that in 1932 the Scouts held a Camp from 14th May to 16th May at Hole House, Danehill. The Scout Master says, “it rained most of the time but valuable lessons were learned by the boys, only three of whom had been to camp before. Ask Leslie Lucas who made the duff. Before leaving camp, we made steps to help the Johnsons (living there) in their journeys out. It was really too wet to attempt much Scout work. Both Camp fires were washed out. Better luck next time when we are all looking forward to another.”

Hole House has a very long history, but this article concerns only more recent details. The late Bob Pelling told me that the Johnsons were in occupation from about 1930-1950. The house at this stage was divided into two and Mr and Mrs Johnson lived on one side. They had three children, two boys and a girl.

Bob recalled that for many years there was no vehicle access to Hole House. He remembered that when Mrs Johnson was in occupation the coalman used to drop the coal near the top of the wood and the old lady carried it back to the house in a bucket as that was the only means available to her.

If there was any mail it had to be collected from the Post Office as the Postman would not go down that far. Shopping had to be done in bits and pieces, buying only as much as she could carry at a single time. There was no milk delivery and so the family had to use condensed milk.

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Access was from the footpath from Horsted Keynes which came south from Bonfire Lane, and the route through the woods was at times very muddy.

Mr Johnson was gassed in WWI and he was unable to work. He spent a lot of his time doing woodwork and whittling wood into shapes. He carved walking sticks/canes from wood he obtained locally, and the tops were fashioned into various shapes, one example being a resemblance to a British Bulldog. He made one of these canes especially for Winston Churchill and sent it to him during the period of WWII. Mr Johnson received a letter of thanks from Winston Churchill although there is no knowledge of the whereabouts of that letter.

From about the period 1930 - 1947 a Mr and Mrs Stuart lived the other side, but there is not much known about them, although he was probably a gamekeeper and they did not have a family.

From about the 1950’s to 1956 Mr and Mrs Pearman were in residence. They were both artists and Mr Pearman designed a Programme especially for the village of Horsted Keynes for Queen Elizabeth’s II Coronation on June 2nd 1953.

Hole House became derelict for a while and was occupied by squatters on a number of occasions. This photo on the next page shows the property when it was in a bad condition. It did however deteriorate even further to the extent that it was open to the elements and cows took shelter in the downstairs rooms.

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Going back even further in time, Guy Hardy has very kindly let me see information relating to Hole House and in 1910 the Hardy land agent wrote to a Mrs James saying the water supply had been condemned and, with much reluctance they had no alternative but to give her notice to quit. Poor Mrs James was going through a hard time. She had six sons, three of whom were killed in the 1st World War. These names are listed on the Horsted Keynes Roll of Honour. There’s something a little odd here. The Roll of Honour says, ”son of Thomas and Jane James of Solvang, . Mrs James later married George Francis and lived at Hole House”. The Roll of Honour does in fact list the sons as James Oliver died aged 21 in 1916, Thomas James died also in 1916 aged 33 and William James died in 1915 aged 25. Does this mean they were all living at home?

It looks as if she was at Hole House in 1910, and had to leave. In 1915/16 she was at Solvang, Birch Grove, and subsequently re-married when her address is again given as Hole House. Not a happy time for her.

In 1917 a Mrs Pearson was at Hole House and it appears she was going to move to Latchetts (farm) where a cottage was available to her at the rate of £6 per annum.

During the time it was derelict shooting parties would take refuge in there to have their sandwiches and a drink. The house has now been sympathetically restored and is back to its full glory.

My thanks to Guy Hardy, Laurence Hardy, Nick Turner, and the late Bob Pelling.

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St Raphael’s Nursing Home

Many people may now be aware of the demise of St Raphael’s, which was housed in a large property at the end of Church Lane called Danehurst. The original imposing residence was built by Lieutenant-Colonel Davies, who acquired the land in 1826. The house of local sandstone is an impressive building in the style of an elegant 16th century edifice. Later the house became the home of the Hardy family who were to go on to be instrumental in the building of All Saints Church.

The house was acquired with 33 acres of parkland by the Augustinian Sisters of the Mercy of Jesus in 1962. The sisters already had three houses in , one in Scotland and one in Ireland. One of these was St George’s Retreat in Ditchling where some of the residents of St Raphael’s are now living. For more than half a century the sisters cared for and lived with the patients, providing a level of care that was much appreciated by many in the community. The end came about through changing economics in the care world. The elegant building must have been more expensive to maintain than a modern building. The closing of this organisation is a big loss to the parish of Danehill.

Chris Drewery 740298 Historical information came from the Danehill Parish Historical Society Archive

Chelwood Gate Village Hall

The hall continues with its regular activities and is in the process of planning the schedule for the repainting of parts of the property this summer. In recent weeks our heating oil tank has been broken into and a quantity of oil stolen, if anyone has any information about this let us know. The Parish Community Library will be open on Friday June 14th, 10am to 12noon and Saturday 29th, 10.30am to 12noon The next Coffee Morning is June 29th at 10.30am call in for a Cuppa or a refreshing non-alcoholic fruit punch and a chat. Please place the following dates in your diary and we hope to see you there. September 28th - Macmillan Charity Coffee Morning, October 5th - Jumble Sale, October 23rd - A.G.M., November 13th - Quiz Evening, December 13th - Charity Christmas Tree Lighting. There are several weekend vacancies available for booking your event or party. Call 01825 740562 for prices and information. Please be advised the Car Park is private and is for the use of the Village Hall users only. Jean Wood

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Local Government News, May 2019 from Councillor Roy Galley There’s not a lot to report since councils are still gearing up for their annual meetings. However, I thought it would be useful to give you an update on the results for the wards on new boundaries.

Buxted ward This covers and as well as . Mark Chapman Labour 87 Caroline Coxon Green 357 Toby Illingworth Conservative 647 Elected

Maresfield ward This covers Fairwarp and Nutley as well as . Peter Roundell Conservative 668 Elected Ian Tysh Green 333 George Wilson Labour 76

Forest Row ward Rowena Moore Conservative 321 Patricia Patterson-Vanegas Green 1212 Elected

Danehill and Fletching ward This covers Chelwood Gate, Piltdown and parts of Forest Row. Simon Darlington-Cramond Green 523 Roy Galley Conservative 749 Elected

Your local councillors: Roy Galley [email protected] [email protected] 01825 713018 Peter Roundell [email protected] 01825 722030 Toby Illingworth [email protected] 01825 732115 Francis Whetstone [email protected] 01892 771184 Patricia Patterson-Vanegas 18

The Mysterious Laundry – Chelwood Gate In last month’s magazine the Historical Society published a photo from their archive stating it was Wheeler’s Laundry, Laundry Lane, Chelwood Gate. Vi Rivers tells me Wheelers Laundry was established by her grandmother; Vi’s mother worked there, as too did Vi. Vi says the photo is not Wheeler’s Laundry. Whilst the original photo, definitely says Wheelers Laundry, there is now no way of knowing from where it came. A mystery?

When I was researching Streeters Rough in 1999 I came across a small section of a map showing a ‘laundry and drying area’ at Reapyears Corner. This area once belonged to Edward Wormald who lived at Chelwood Beacon, and in about 1914 it was bought by Francis Lucas who lived at The Barn, Streeters Rough. The Laundry ceased to operate after he purchased it.

Census records from 1881 show Elizabeth Marshall as the Laundress with two assistants living in; I cannot decipher the records for 1891 as they are unclear, but in 1901 Caroline Le Seur is the Laundress with an assistant living in, and it is clearly noted as Beacon Laundry.

Peggy South told me that her mother, Mrs North, was at this Laundry which was run by a family called Deacon. Unfortunately, it is not possible for Peggy to identify where the published photo came from, but here is an early photo of Reapyears Corner. The side elevation is especially high to allow for indoor drying. This photo dates from when Francis Lucas owned the property

Even so, this photo of a laundry in Streeters Rough, does not look as if it could be the one published last month. Perhaps this mystery will never be solved.

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