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BOOKS ROYAL WATCHERS The gals behind hilarious celebrity blog Go Fug Yourself explore Kate Middleton’s inner life (and eyebrow evolution) in a new novel

BY RANI SHEEN

We’ve all watched it happen: A sporty, down-to- earth girl falls in love with a prince and becomes an impeccably dressed, perfectly coiffed member of British royalty. If you’ve ever wondered what Kate, William and Harry are joking about at royal appear- ances, wished for an invite to a birthday party at Buckingham Palace or fantasized about joining them at the royal skiing compound in Klosters, Switzer- land, The Royal We is for you. Characters based on the young royals are the focus of the third novel by Jessica Morgan and Heather Cocks, writers of the blog Go Fug Yourself and two YA novels, Spoiled and Messy. While there are familiar elements of reality, the SPRING NAIL REPORT characters are pure fiction (Bex, a young American, meets future king Nick while studying at Oxford), and Morgan and Cocks let their imaginations run wild to concoct the hijinks that go on (unless Kate and Harry really have been locked in a closet, drunk, together…). We had a three-way phone chat with FRENCH them from their homes in L.A. Why did you focus on Kate for this book? Heather: Imagine falling in love with a guy in college when you’re that young and all of a sudden you’re the TWIST Duchess of Cambridge. To imagine the emotional Inspired by the rise of the neutral nail, beauty editor journey that came with that and how amazingly she appears to handle it, we were like, there has to be Rani Sheen travelled to Paris for a French manicure en France. more going on under the surface.

Here, experts update the classic look and How does Kate’s life compare those of share how to pick the perfect nude for your skin tone other celebrities? Heather: Kate always has to have her game face on, page 4 more so than celebrities who can have a bad day on the red carpet or can look sad or mad or whatever. I think if she were ever to have a bad day and let it show, she would really take it.

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COLOUR THEORY www.bourjois.ca Vive la French Finding a polish to suit your skin tone isn’t When beauty editor Rani Sheen had a French manicure in Paris, she rediscovered a much maligned classic easy—and the wrong shade can leave your Your best neutral: Sheer pink with a hands looking corpse-like or jaundiced. warm beige under- Catherine Deneuve on the set a large reclining chair as she painstak- With expert advice from Gina Edwards, tone. “I would stay of Belle de Jour. Below right: ingly shapes, buffs and cleans my nails lead manicurist for Morgan Taylor, and away from a white- the Plaza Athénée hotel. and cuticles (taking plenty of time to Your best neutral: based or marsh- “Go with mushroom- Leeanne Colley, owner of Tips Nail Bar mallow tint,” says scrape the grimy undersides with an toned nudes,” Edwards, explaining orange stick, a process that’s usually says Colley. Stay in Toronto, our mani colour wheel will it will amp up the rushed). She checks her work after away from pale pinpoint your perfect polish matches yellow in your skin. each ministration and makes minute pinks, which will MORGAN TAYLOR enhance redness. PERFECT MATCH, adjustments. “This is the best manicure $11, SALONS TWIST UP EVE SNOW SKINNY Pick your skin-tone match below in Paris,” she declares in her halting DIP, $19, NET-A- English, adding that the French is PORTER.COM Your best bright: the most popular choice for her well- Pops of dark pink or Your best bright: magenta. “You could heeled local regulars, with red a close A deep red with a do a pink, but it would second. (Teal and neon orange, not so cool blue tone will have to be more of a much.) When she’s satisfied with her counteract the pink fuchsia,” says Colley. canvas, she takes Dior’s white felt-tip in the skin. “Choose “You would want Stylo pen and carefully draws over the deep burgundy, not to stay away from natural tip, which is now slender and a candy apple red,” anything that has a THE VOLUME rounded. “This part is very delicate,” says Colley. yellow undertone.” SOTHYS ROUGE CERAMIC GLAZE BELLE she breathes, using a remover pen to NUIT, $20, SOTHYS OF THE DISCO BALL, $11, perfect the line. When all 10 are done INSTITUTE AND SPA SHOPPERS DRUG MART and look great to me, she wipes two off and repaints them. Once the tips dry, she takes a pale blush polish named LIU Muguet and covers the whole nail with WEN it. She asks whether I want a second coat, but I defer to her wisdom, and she decides to leave it as one. “C’est JULIANNE parfait.” Clear topcoat is the final step. MOORE She’s right; it is perfect: My nails look like healthy, groomed, almost VIOLA DAVIS imperceptibly enhanced versions of themselves, as if they’re wearing very light makeup to accentuate their best features. I can’t stop staring at my hands, and when I post an Instagram shot of them, a male friend comments, RASHIDA “Your fingers look expensive.” (They JONES are: The service costs 110 euros.) When I pop into Max Mara up the PENELOPE CRUZ street a little later, to make puppy-dog eyes at the wrap coats, my nails make It was a beauty bucket-list item of mine: weekly nail appointments, it has fallen change. The story goes that it got its me feel like I belong among the execu- Get a French manicure in France. out of fashion favour—opaque brights, name when the style showed up on Paris tives and heiresses, and I stand a little Your best neutral: Ideally, I wanted it to be in Paris, in the pastels, near-blacks, metallics and runways—a case of wishful naming taller when I enter the unspeakably “Pinky beige is a hushed spa of a grand hotel where well- neons have ruled the brushes of most since French beauty and fashion was chic le Dôme du Marais restaurant great colour for coiffed mesdames go to get discreetly, fashion-forward nail enthusiasts for at considered the ne plus ultra. for dinner that evening. warmer skin tones,” says Edwards. The tastefully primped. I wanted to see if least a decade. It still is—hence my visit to When I come home, the glow lasts golden undertones the white-tipped pink nail look done In my mind, the French has come the Dior Institut. After I’m served about as long as the manicure does will enhance your the French way—as opposed to the to be associated with Pepto-pink nail peppermint tea and fresh dates next (around six days), and then wears off. Your best neutral: natural glow. Go for a hue long, square, garishly contrasted North beds and chalky-white tips, a look to the reflecting pool in the lounge, And so, like cheese-only meals, it will Your best neutral: BUTTER LONDON American way—would lure me into its more suited to a Real Housewife of my manicurist, Ludivine Lecoeuvre, be something I partake in exclusively that’s close to HIGH TEA, $18, your nail bed Choose a soft BUTTER LONDON.CA classic clutches. So when I was in the New Jersey than a real beauty editor ushers me into a private room. I sit in when in France. rather than trying rose to complement city in January for a press trip (lucky of downtown Toronto. (Ironic, really, to match your skin. olive skin. “You Your best bright: 1 me!), I made it my mission to book into considering the North American fetish “If you want to go don’t want the colour Saturated peachy the Dior Institut at the Plaza Athénée for French style that I wholly share.) As with a neutral, go a to disappear, and coral. “You can pretty SPACED OUT BRISTLES tad lighter than having a hint of pink much wear anything, hotel on ritzy Avenue Montaigne. By for the French pedicure, I feel it’s best will give it more of a including pastel the time I left the cushy confines of left under closed-toe shoes—even in your skin tone,” lengthens and separates advises Edwards. punch,” says Colley. shades and bolder shades,” says Colley. the spa, my hands looking as polished August. But with the rise of no-makeup MAYBELLINE COVERGIRL PERMA-PINK, and refined as French actor Catherine makeup, I find myself wanting to see my BETTER IN BUFF, $8, COVERGIRL.CA REVLON COLORSTAY $5, DRUGSTORES GEL ENVY JOKER’S 2 Deneuve’s in the 1967 film Belle de Jour, natural nails, or a more polished version Your best bright: WILD, $8, DRUGSTORES my suspicions had been confirmed: of them, rather than covering them up Your best bright: Brilliant white will TIGHT BRISTLES Parisians do it better. under a thick coat of coloured paint. Play with really pop. “I normally Lupita Nyong’o shares this senti- It’s important to note here that fluorescents and go with an opaque boosts volume ment: She Instagrammed a picture of the French manicure was invented by brights, especially white colour. White MUST-TRY MANIS her white-tipped nails at the Cannes an American—Jeff Pink of Orly, who cobalt blues. is great because it “Go for a colour kind of neutralizes FOR DIYS AND OUR Film Festival last year with the came up with the neutral, white-tipped that stands out,” the colour in the skin FAVOURITE CELEB I TWIST THE BRUSH caption “When in France…” It was a nail look for Hollywood actresses in the says Edwards. tone,” says Edwards. NAIL LOOKS VISIT daring choice: While the French has 1970s, so they wouldn’t have to switch From left: Lupita Nyong’o posted this Instagram photo of her French manicure at FORMULA X OCEANIC, JIN SOON KOOKIE WHITE, THEKIT.CA/NAILS/ long been a staple of many women’s their polish to match each costume the Cannes Film Festival 2014; the writer’s French manicure. $13, SEPHORA.CA $22, GEE BEAUTY AND VOILÀ! I BOOST UP THE VOLUME! MANI MAKEOVER GREY SCALE During in February, we asked three runway nail experts how they really feel about the French manicure and how they make it fresh For a more subtle version of the French, let your free edge show through in the 1 BY RANI SHEEN season’s grey-toned pastels 2

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Jin Soon Choi Madeline Poole Julie Kandalec Founder, Jin Soon polish and Global ambassador, Creative director, Paintbox nail bars, New York City Sally Hansen, New York City Nails, New York City “I don’t like a typical white “I love them; I think they are “The French is back, but it’s not French mani—I cannot stand awesome. I love that it was not the same way we have done it when people have the big invented by a French person; in the past. It has been gone for square nail with the thick white we learned the story in beauty so long; I feel like you can do it, tip. I just want to cut their nails school. I also like the concept like, every five years.” off,” says Choi. “But that and of it; recreating the natural nail the moon manicure were really is very conceptual.” File tips according Her take: SALLY HANSEN the first nail arts.” to your natural nail shape, COMPLETE SALON Her take: Poole files the nails mirroring the shape of the nail MANICURE IN ARM CANDY, $9, SHOP- Her take: Paint the tip with quite round and paints the bed. And prep is key. “You need PERS DRUG MART. ONE BRUSH, colour or tweak the shape so tip in a deep curve. She uses a really clean palette under the DIOR FRENCH MANI- CURE PEN, $25, DIOR the tip has a wavy edge. “All a light pink or beige on the free edge and around the sides. BEAUTY COUNTERS. FROM LEFT: WET N WILD WILDSHINE NAIL COLOR IN YO JULEP OXYGEN SOY, $2, REXALL. CND VINYLUX WEEKLY POLISH IN THISTLE SOPHIE of our design concepts came whole nail to tone down the Cleaning underneath with extra 2 SMOOTHING BASE THICKET, $12, TRADE SECRETS. DEBORAH LIPPMANN POLISH ZANG TOI THEALLET from the French manicure; you white edge, and uses a sheer pressure will give that free COAT, $22, IN MISTY MORNING, $20, SEPHORA.CA. ESSIE POLISH IN ACTIONS SPRING 2015 SPRING 2015 can play so much with it.” white to soften the contrast. edge extra pop.” SEPHORA.CA. PERENNIALLY CHIC, $10, SHOPPERS DRUG MART.

NEUTRALS AT TORONTO FASHION WEEK TRANSFORMABLE BRUSH Nail pro Rita Remark recreates the chiffon-effect nails from Mikhael Kale’s Fall 2015 show

1 First prep 2 Apply two coats of a pale 3 Working quickly, take a 4 Finish with a nails with a beige-taupe polish with a taupe pointy-tipped paintbrush and clear topcoat Only available at smoothing undertone such as Essie’s Sand dip it in the white mixture. to set the base coat like Tropez. Lay out a small square Softly press it over and over polish and Shoppers Drug Mart Essie Fill the of tinfoil and put a few drops of onto each nail, covering them help it merge and Pharmaprix Gap to create opaque white polish on it. Add in teardrop-shaped dots. The even more. a nice clean a drop or two of acetone and acetone will make the beige 1 2 3 4 surface and fill let it start to thin out the white, and white swirl together,

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WEEKEND UPDATE THE RELAXED TRENCH Spotted everywhere on street-style stars this season, the perennial favourite takes on a looser silhouette. Oversized cuts and drapey fabrics make it look and feel new—and perfect for spring

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DRESSING UP LID GLOSS In need of a major pick-me-up, Amanda DiPasquale discovers a new look for day and night: the glittery, glam glossy eye

at Spring 2015 shows including Missoni, Aquilano Rimondi and Kenzo. At first, the viscous texture worried me, as I didn’t want to end up with my eyes sealed shut. However, when I warmed it in my fingers and dabbed my lids with it lightly, it went on smoother than expected. Soon, I had light, sparkly lids that made me look and feel more perky, though my sister said my eyes “look sticky.” Presented by The eye gloss and balm worked for my everyday coffee shop routine, but both wore off fairly quickly, and I wanted a look with more drama and staying power for a newly single (girls’) night out. “There are ways RIHANNA IN THE “FOURFIVESECONDS” to get the look of the glossy eye without VIDEO using actual eye gloss,” said makeup artist Victoria Radford when I visited A bubbly evening of Sometimes a new look can give you a her Yorkville studio in Toronto. “Using champagne and renewed sense of confidence, and in late metallic eyeshadows, both wet and dry, January I was in need of a shakeup. I had can give the same effect.” Radford knows fashion in support of split from my boyfriend, and a week of about high-impact makeup: She worked tears had rendered all eye makeup useless. with Fergie on the Black Eyed Peas’ The Bridgepoint When I saw Rihanna, dressed down in E.N.D. world tour. slouchy double denim in her “FourFiveSec- As we got started, I confessed that I onds” music video, released February 3, I wasn’t feeling my best because I’d just April 22, 2015 felt inspired. I’m usually gawking at her come out of a breakup. Radford, with bold hairstyles and revealing dresses, but her twinkly green eyes, smiled and said, Ritz-Carlton Hotel here it was her bare face and glossy, reflec- “Congratulations!” She promised I’d feel 188 Wellington St. W. tive eyelids that stood out. She looked like much better after she was done. she couldn’t give a damn. Radford went to work using bronze, 4th floor Gallery Room New-York-based makeup artist Yadim grey and gold eyeshadows, adding water to created the singer’s edgy, barely-there look. them for a reflective effect without the sticky 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. “It was in a way inspired by the everyday,” he lids. She topped it off with brow gel to add says. “She’s not overly done, and this could complementary shine to my eyebrows. easily be recreated for any girl walking down While the balm made me look like Your evening includes a tutored the street, and still look great.” Maybel- a fresh-faced freelancer-next-door, this tasting of a selection of line’s global makeup artist, Yadim used the made me stand up straight and do a double champagnes & sparkling wines, brand’s Baby Lips balm to create Rihanna’s take when I walked past a mirror. From wet-look effect. He used it again on models’ different angles, the depth and brightness reception by The Ritz, and lids at DKNY’s Fall 2015 show in February. shifted and glimmered. a beauty & fashion Copying his technique turned out to be When I left Radford’s studio, my presentation by The Kit. easy and convenient: I could dig into my waterworks were effectively on pause, as I purse and hydrate my lips and freshen my eye wouldn’t dare ruin her metallic masterpiece. makeup at the same time. For a little more I thought of Rihanna, who didn’t seem like Limited tickets available - $80 reflection, I moved on to M.A.C’s Studio the type to sob on the street over a guy. *early-bird pricing in effect Eye Gloss, which was used widely backstage She’d march on. And so I did. To purchase tickets visit: https://2015pop.eventbrite.com

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READING LIST ROYAL WATCHERS BOOKS Continued from cover WITH STYLE How did you go about researching all the traffic are totally opposite sides of the coin: Kate royal details? and Kim Kardashian Four more new Heather: We went to England at the beginning of Heather: It brings out the people who are not in titles that will our process. Being over there really got the juices favour of the royal family, who think that they’re inspire your flowing. The Buckingham Palace tour was hilar- a money suck, a time suck, who think that she ious because people were mostly wide-eyed and in particular is a schemer who is using sexual wardrobe as listening and looking, and we were scribbling sorcery to keep Will under her thumb. much as your THE ROYAL WE BY JESSICA MORGAN every single detail into a notebook. Jessica: That’s a direct quote! imagination AND HEATHER COCKS, Jessica: We were in the music room in Buckingham Heather: It also brings out all the people who love Creative Director $29, GRAND CENTRAL PUBLISHING, AT INDIGO Jessica Hotson Palace—actually the tour is great, it’s led by, like, her and will defend her till the end of time, and BY VERONICA SAROLI @jesshotson art historians—and I was like, “Sir, you have all the people who are like me, in the middle, where Senior Editor these chandeliers; how often are they washed?” I really like Kate, but I don’t love everything that Alex Laws @LexLaws she wears and I don’t mind saying so. You get Bex has a weird student fashion designer the entire spectrum. Very few celebrities moti- Fashion Editor Vanessa Taylor friend; were you inspired by the infamous vate people to actually go through the process of @vanessa_tweets see-through dress Kate wore? making a comment just to be like, “I don’t know, Beauty Editor Jessica: If you’re Kate, people are going to come whatever.” She inspires a reaction in people, and Rani Sheen @ranisheen to you for favours like that. It was a bit of a Go they cannot resist talking about it. Fug Yourself angle—what is she going to wear; Digital/Special Projects Editor what do people want her to wear? Michelle Bilodeau @mbilodeau What’s your favourite outfit Kate has worn? Assistant Digital Editor Carly Ostroff Jessica: I have to take the wedding dress out @carlyostroff of contention. So it’s that blue-green Jenny Sunday afternoon Kim Gordon intro- Assistant Editor Packham lace-back gown that she wore to the Natasha Bruno Olympics event in 2012. But also I long for a duces this coffee- @Natashajbruno table book about McQueen coat with all my heart—sadly I do not Assistant Art Directors actor, style icon Sonya van Heyningen have the money for a McQueen coat. and ultimate cool @svanh7 Heather: I loved it when she wore jeans and boat girl Chloë Sevigny. Kristy Wright (on leave) shoes and the striped shirt to that polo match, From snaps taken by @creativewithak where she brought George and he was crawling high school friends to memorabilia Designer around her feet. It’s the closest thing to a regular Amber Hickson like Polaroids and @amblynncreative mom we were allowed to see her as in public. pages from her day Publisher, The Kit planners to Juergen Giorgina Bigioni Do you think she wears extensions? Teller–lensed shots, Heather: I think she wears extensions for sure. the book is filled with Associate Publisher style inspiration. Tami Coughlan Jessica: Do you really? I have extensions in my Project Director, own hair, so if she does I would love to know CHLOË SEVIGNY BY CHLOË SEVIGNY, $35, Digital Media whose they are. INDIGO ON APRIL 21 Kelly Matthews Heather: If you look at her eyebrows, they used to Direct advertising inquiries to: be kind of a crazy shape. I don’t know when they Marketing Manager changed, but all of a sudden they were fantastic. Evie Begy [email protected] And I think that her hair incredibly slowly reached the point where you can’t tell. You think maybe The Kit is Canada’s Beauty Authority it’s foreign, but maybe it’s just deep conditioning? (c) 2015, The Kit, Jessica: I’ve never seen a bond in her hair! a division of Toronto Star Newspapers Limited. Heather: I think if you’re Kate Middleton and you’re going to get extensions, you’re going to get the very best. My theory is that she does and there’s no shame in it. I kind of wish that if she MOTHER did she would be like, “Hell, yeah, I do.” OF STYLE SEE 35+ OF KATE’S Jessica: I just want to know so I can buy them and President, Star MATERNITY LOOKS stick them on my own head. Media Group Cocktail fodder AT Fern Mallis, who John Cruickshank THEKIT.CA/ Top: Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, visits the KATE-MIDDLETON- created New York Editor-in-Chief, Does Kate inspire a lot of traffic Brookhill Children’s Centre in Woolwich, England, on fashion week as we Toronto Star STYLE/ on Go Fug Yourself? March 18, 2015. Bottom: Authors and Go Fug Yourself know it, draws on her Michael Cooke bloggers Heather Cocks, left, and Jessica Morgan. Jessica: Yes. The two people who get us the most insider access to sit down with designers , , , and photographer Bruce FASHION Weber, who share intimate insights and personal pics.

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BY CARLY OSTROFF

@marissawebb WHAT WOULD MARISSA WEAR? The designer styles three new pieces for work, weekends—and everywhere in between

Beach read A pair of Rick Owens sneakers leads Jess Dunne into the inner circle of an agora- phobic film composer and a rising starlet as a personal assistant, but trouble ensues when her estranged Hollywood-hungry THE MOTO VEST THE ROMPER THE HALTER DRESS mother catches wind. “I think it’s about “The romper has legs “I love this one having those pieces of its own. It’s one of because it’s so sharp; OH! YOU PRETTY THINGS BY SHANNA MAHIN, $31, that you can transition. those things that so the angles on it give it MAJOR BOOKSTORES I like that you can wear many people, once a different style, and ON APRIL 14 Since taking over as creative saying, “I love Banana Republic. things over it, too. they try them on, there’s so many ways director at Banana Republic last I’ve noticed changes in the stores It’s about the shape, are dedicated for of wearing this. If I had April, designer Marissa Webb has and I still go there every week.” the silhouette, the life. I would wear it a great tan, I would been on a mission to recast the Her coveted aesthetic aside, material, not just a with a men’s tuxedo certainly wear it just straightforward vest. blazer, and I would the way it is with a workwear chain into “a 360 life- Webb credits her drive and deter- To feel a little more probably size up a great pair of sandals. style brand.” Webb, who trained mination for her success. “You feminine, maybe wear little, because I like Right now, I love under Jenna Lyons, was womens- don’t always have to be born into a statement necklace my things a little bit wearing button-ups wear director at J.Crew and the industry you want to be in,” with trousers, or if you looser, and maybe underneath it. I would designs her own label, is behind she says. “I was not raised with a can wear jeans to work, grab a cool pair of probably slap a bow what she calls “the new BR.” lot of money; it was really about nice jeans and heels.” gladiators or sandals.” tie on it, too.” From the start, Webb’s working hard and making connec- mandate was to infuse Banana tions through work; and that’s Republic with new energy. “It’s how I got to where I am now,” says not just about the product,” says Webb, who was adopted with her the self-proclaimed tomboy. “It’s siblings at age four from Korea. also about having a point of view For her much-anticipated Metro minutes in the voice that we have, and how summer 2015 debut, Webb “When dealing with we put looks together.” imbued the collection with a older women, a trip The social-media-savvy contemporary edge. For women, to a hairdresser and designer (who shares outfit inspi- she styled with her signature two Bloody Marys goes further than rations with her 86,000 followers) blend of tomboy-meets-girlie: a any prescription and her team are not the only ones tailored black dress worn under drug,” writes George embracing the new vision. There is a utilitarian trench vest; a white Hodgman, a former a younger generation rediscovering open-knit dress, which looked Vanity Fair editor, the brand, like Webb’s friends tougher topped by a moto jacket; who moves to Paris, Alyssa Milano, Coco Rocha and accessories like leather backpacks Mo., to care for his BANANA REPUBLIC BANANA REPUBLIC BANANA REPUBLIC irascible and quick- Wendy Nguyen of Wendy’s Look- and woven oxfords packed punch. MOTO VEST, $370, ROMPER, $185, BANANA APRON DRESS, $205, BANANA REPUBLIC; REPUBLIC; TALULA BANANA REPUBLIC; witted mother who book, but customers of all ages The new BR is all about closing FREE PEOPLE BLAZER, $85, ARITZIA; BAND OF OUTSIDERS has dementia. (including Webb’s father) remain the gap between what you wear at CULOTTES, $148, FREE ANCIENT GREEK OXFORD SHIRT, $271, PEOPLE; GIANVITO SANDALS GLADI- NET-A-PORTER.COM; TED BETTYVILLE BY GEORGE loyal. The designer says she is work and at play, and for that you ROSSI HEELS, $1,095, ATOR SANDALS, $270, BAKER LONDON BOW TIE, HODGMAN, $33, MAJOR PHOTOGRAPHY: GETTY IMAGES (MIDDLETON) approached in the street by people can sign us up. HOLT RENFREW. HUDSON’S BAY. $75, TED BAKER LONDON. BOOKSTORES calvinkleinbeauty.com

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