Black Girls Rock!
Owning Our Magic. Rocking Our Truth.
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Beverly Bond
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From the award-winning entrepreneur, culture leader, and creator of the BLACK GIRLS ROCK! movement comes an inspiring and beautifully designed book that pays tribute to the achievements and contributions of Black women around the world.
Fueled by the insights of women of diverse backgrounds, including Michelle Obama, Angela Davis, Shonda Rhimes, Misty Copeland Yara Shahidi, and Mary J. Blige, this book is a celebration of Black women's voices and experiences that will become a collector's items for generations to come.
Maxine Waters shares the personal fulfillment of service. Moguls Cathy Hughes, Suzanne Shank, and Serena Williams recount stories of steadfastness, determination, diligence, dedication and the will to win. Erykah Badu, Toshi Reagon, Mickalane Thomas, Solange Knowles-Ferguson, and Rihanna offer insights on creativity and how they use it to stay in tune with their magic. Pioneering writers Rebecca Walker, Melissa Harris-Perry, and Joan Morgan speak on modern-day Black feminist thought. Lupita Nyong'o, Susan Taylor, and Bethann Hardison affirm the true essence of holistic beauty. And Iyanla Vanzant reinforces Black Girl Magic in her powerful pledge. Through these and dozens of other unforgettable testimonies, Black Girls Rock! is an ode to Black girl ambition, self-love, empowerment, and healing.
Pairing inspirational essays and affirmations with lush, newly commissioned and classic photography, Black Girls Rock!: Owning Our Magic and Rocking Our Truth is not only a one-of-a-kind celebration of the diversity, fortitude, and spirituality of Black women but also a foundational text that will energize and empower every listener.
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- By: Touré, Michael Eric Dyson
- Narrated by: Touré
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 112
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A provocative look at what it means to be Black today. This audiobook includes excerpts from over 100 interviews with Rev. Jesse Jackson, Cornel West, Skip Gates, Melissa Harris-Perry, Kara Walker, Kehinde Wiley, Glenn Ligon, Malcolm Gladwell, Paul Mooney, NY Gov. David Paterson, Harold Ford, Jr., Soledad O'Brien, Kamala Harris, Chuck D, Questlove, and others.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Food for Thought
- By Sara on 12-22-11
By: Touré, and others
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Courage Is Contagious
- And Other Reasons to Be Grateful for Michelle Obama
- By: Nick Haramis - editor, Lena Dunham - foreword, Jenni Konner - foreword
- Narrated by: Lena Dunham, Nick Haramis, Janet Mock, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Michelle Obama's legacy transcends categorization. Mrs. Obama was not only our first black first lady; she was President Obama's equal partner in marriage and parenthood and a tireless advocate for women's rights, education, healthy eating, and exercise. Her genre-busting personal style encouraged others to speak, to engage, even to dress as they wished.
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5 out of 5 stars
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uplifting
- By Janet Edmond on 11-02-20
By: Nick Haramis - editor, and others
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Pretty Powerful
- Appearance, Substance, and Success
- By: Eboni K. Williams
- Narrated by: Eboni K. Williams
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 96
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Women have been told that being pretty comes at the expense of being taken seriously. If a woman is physically attractive, there is often a presumption that she lacks the substance and smarts necessary to provide leadership. This narrative implies that being pretty and being capable are mutually exclusive. But in Pretty Powerful, Fox News political commentator and legal analyst Eboni Williams rejects that narrative. She says that to accept the false notion that beauty and power are mutually exclusive is to leave an incredibly powerful tool on the table.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Much more insightful than what the title suggests
- By Felishia on 09-25-17
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The Black Male Handbook
- A Blueprint for Life
- By: Kevin Powell
- Narrated by: Ezra Knight, Kevin R. Free, Glymph Glymph
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 266
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 224
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An NAACP Image Award nominee, The Black Male Handbook is an impassioned call to end the problems facing today's Black men. Author and activist Kevin Powell offers insights on steering away from violence and toward a more responsible manhood. A new climate is rising in the Black community. Despite a shared thirst for cutting-edge opportunities and fresh directions, today's hiphop generation is still plagued by many long-standing problems.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Awesome and very useful book.
- By Derek on 06-10-18
By: Kevin Powell
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A Place to Belong
- Celebrating Diversity and Kinship in the Home and Beyond
- By: Amber O'Neal Johnston, Julie Bogart - foreword
- Narrated by: Amber O'Neal Johnston
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 67
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 62
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Gone are the days when socially conscious parents felt comfortable teaching their children to merely tolerate others. Instead, they are looking for a way to authentically embrace the fullness of their diverse communities. A Place to Belong offers a path forward for families to honor their cultural heritage and champion diversity in the context of daily family life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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must read for everyone
- By Travis H. on 06-12-24
By: Amber O'Neal Johnston, and others
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I'm Not Yelling
- A Black Woman’s Guide to Navigating the Workplace
- By: Elizabeth Leiba
- Narrated by: Zoleka Vundla
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 108
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I'm Not Yelling is part strategy for savvy black business women navigating a predominantly white corporate America and part vessel empowering black women to find their voices in toxic work environments and be successful business women. Statistical and anecdotal evidence guide the way. Explore the data and hear the accounts of Black women in business who face, work through, and rise above workplace discrimination. Finding your voice as women entrepreneurs. Successful business women use their voice to become strong Black leaders who instill positive change in the workplace culture.
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5 out of 5 stars
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SPEAK UP!!!!
- By Anonymous User on 04-03-23
By: Elizabeth Leiba
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A Selfish Plan to Change the World
- Finding Big Purpose in Big Problems
- By: Justin Dillon
- Narrated by: Justin Dillon
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 111
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What if your search for meaning could solve the world's problems? What if everything you are passionate about could save a life or change history? Justin Dillon argues it can, and A Selfish Plan to Change the World shows how. In this paradigm-shifting new book, Dillon - the founder of Slavery Footprint and Made in a Free World - reveals the secret to a life of deep and lasting significance: the discovery that our need for meaning is inextricably linked to the needs of the world.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Inspiring story, but mistitled
- By M. S. Boldrick on 12-07-17
By: Justin Dillon
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The Soul of Money
- Reclaiming the Wealth of Our Inner Resources
- By: Lynne Twist
- Narrated by: Cynthia Barrett
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,091
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 937
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This unique and fundamentally liberating book shows us that examining our attitudes toward money - earning it, spending it, and giving it away - can offer surprising insight into our lives, our values, and the essence of prosperity. Lynne Twist, a global activist and fundraiser, has raised more than $150 million for charitable causes. Through personal stories and practical advice, she demonstrates how we can replace feelings of scarcity, guilt, and burden with experiences of sufficiency, freedom, and purpose. In this Nautilus Award-winning book, Twist shares from her own life, a journey illuminated by remarkable encounters with the richest and poorest.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Terrible Reader
- By Bloom on 01-31-16
By: Lynne Twist
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Start Where You Are
- By: Chris Gardner
- Narrated by: Andre Blake
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 209
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If you've been dealing with the loss of a job or home, or have had a health or financial crisis, Start Where You Are abounds with lessons that offer hope and provide a road map for starting anew. This is also the ideal book for anyone ready to launch a personal or professional undertaking, or someone who simply wants to break through the cycles and thinking that have limited his or her potential in the past.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Baby Steps Count!
- By T. Skinner on 05-16-09
By: Chris Gardner
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Life, I Swear
- Intimate Stories from Black Women on Identity, Healing, and Self-Trust
- By: Chloe Dulce Louvouezo
- Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
- Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 29
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In this stunningly illustrated essay collection inspired by the popular podcast Life, I Swear, prominent Black women reflect on self-love and healing, sharing stories of the trials and tribulations they’ve faced and what has helped them confront pain, heal wounds, and find connection.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This felt like home
- By nm on 11-16-21
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Bedtime Inspirational Stories
- 50 Amazing Black People Who Changed the World, Volume 1
- By: L. A. Amber
- Narrated by: Tanya C. Brown
- Length: 2 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Bedtime Inspirational Stories celebrates the achievements of the amazing black heroes who have paved the way for future generations. In today’s world, it can be a challenge to raise positive kids. More than ever, parents and teachers need to create a positive atmosphere for our children in order to help them believe in themselves. That’s why we’ve proudly created this inspiring audiobook, Bedtime Inspirational Stories: 50 Amazing Black People Who Changed the World, which highlights the achievements and stories of 50 notable women and men from the 18th century to today.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Disappointed
- By T on 06-18-20
By: L. A. Amber
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The Element
- How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything
- By: Ken Robinson Ph.D.
- Narrated by: Ken Robinson Ph. D., Lou Aronica
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,951
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,496
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,489
The Element shows the vital need to enhance creativity and innovation by thinking differently about human resources and imagination. It is an essential strategy for transforming education, business, and communities to meet the challenges of living and succeeding in the 21st century.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not Great
- By Samantha on 04-02-12
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The Artisan Soul
- Crafting Your Life into a Work of Art
- By: Erwin Raphael McManus
- Narrated by: Erwin Raphael McManus
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 275
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 241
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 239
In The Artisan Soul, Erwin Raphael McManus, author, thought leader, and founder of MOSAIC in Los Angeles, pens a manifesto for human creativity and the beginning of a new renaissance. McManus not only calls us to reclaim our creative essence but reveals how we can craft our lives into works of art. There are no shortcuts to quality, and McManus celebrates the spiritual process that can help us discover our true selves.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Bravo
- By Achley on 05-20-16
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Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching
- A Young Black Man's Education
- By: Mychal Denzel Smith
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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How do you learn to be a Black man in America? For young Black men today, it means coming of age during the presidency of Barack Obama. It means witnessing the deaths of Oscar Grant, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Akai Gurley, and too many more. It means celebrating powerful moments of Black self-determination for LeBron James, Dave Chappelle, and Frank Ocean. In Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching, Mychal Denzel Smith chronicles his own personal and political education during these tumultuous years.
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5 out of 5 stars
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History through a Young Black Man's Eyes!! Perfect
- By Patricia Hambsch on 08-31-16
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Social Justice Parenting
- How to Raise Compassionate, Anti-Racist, Justice-Minded Kids in an Unjust World
- By: Traci Baxley
- Narrated by: Traci Baxley
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 23
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As a global pandemic shuttered schools across the country in 2020, parents found themselves thrust into the role of teacher — in more ways than one. Not only did they take on remote school supervision, but after the murder of George Floyd and the ensuing Black Lives Matter protests, many also grappled with the responsibility to teach their kids about social justice — with few resources to guide them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Inspiring, motivating, practical
- By Heather Janetzko on 03-18-24
By: Traci Baxley
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A Bound Man
- Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can't Win
- By: Shelby Steele
- Narrated by: Richard Allen
- Length: 3 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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From the New York Times best-selling and controversial author Shelby Steele comes an illuminating examination of the complex racial issues that confront presidential candidate Barack Obama in his race for the White House, a quest that will be one of those galvanizing occasions that forces a national dialogue on the current state of race relations in America.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Masks We Wear
- By C. Matthew Hawkins on 09-01-20
By: Shelby Steele
What listeners say about Black Girls Rock!
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- Anonymous User
- 08-17-18
Inner Beauty of a Race that's already Superior!
I loved this book. The way it was written and told made me as a female, daughter, niece, granddaughter, friend and sister look at life from different angles begin a black woman, however, a black Caribbean woman in America. It made me proud to be me and see us as black women coming together to tell our truths rather than curtail it to fit other ideologies that aren't our own. One Love to my sisters and my people.
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- Jaki
- 01-19-23
Black Girls really do rock!
Black girls really do rock their “Black Girl Magic.” I find this book an awesome read. I want to recommend it to everyone especially Black Girls because to me, the book was meant to uplift and shift mind-sets all across this nation to really understand and support the power of “Black Girl Magic.” Peace and blessings.
Jaki Harris
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- Naxx
- 03-13-18
A must read for all black girls and women.
I wish I had something like this when I was growing up. Hearing stories from women who I can relate to is the missing piece I needed. Thank you Beverly for creating this book.
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- Deanna
- 12-29-18
Awesome!!!
why haven't I heard of this earlier. I lived the stories of how they made it. Stories of what they went through and how they felt. Felt so personal to me.
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- Melody Richerson
- 03-17-18
must read
this coffee table book will uplift and motivate you at any age!!! A must read
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- Karen Ramessar
- 09-21-19
Dope!
I must say that I enjoyed listening to Black Girls Rock. I loved listening to Beverly Bond narrate. I also appreciated the excerpts from the honorary Black Girls who Rocked on BET's stage.
We always knew and know how amazing we were and still are. I am glad everyone else is now aware!
Motivational, Inspiring, and Refreshing!
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- Ryan
- 05-01-21
Diverse Black Girls Rock
How inspiring to see that black girls of all mixtures and cultures were included in this piece.
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- Adrienne
- 04-20-18
My Black Girl Magic Rocks!
Love, very inspiring
I enjoyed listening to all the stories, some I knew and other I am glad to learn about.
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- Lila123
- 04-15-21
Black Girls Rock
I love the transparency of the women. They are amazing and I feel empowered. Keep inspiring women and be inspired.
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- Mama Nandi
- 09-29-23
Outstanding!
This book was everything I thought it would and more. It was sensitive, strong, outgoing and full of peace and insight. I had looked at the Audible selection for a while before I started listening. I didn’t want to be on another bandwagon. But before I could finish I purchased the hard copy so that I could read along. Black Girls really do rock and I’m glad I took the opportunity to experience it
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