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At a time when women were destined to become housewives, Jacqueline Susann let us dream. Anne, Neely, and Jennifer become best friends as struggling young women in New York City trying to make their mark. Eventually, they climb their way to the top of the entertainment industry only to find that there’s no place left to go but down, into the Valley of the Dolls.
©1966, 1967, 1997, 2016 Tiger LLC, Bernard Geis Associates (first hardcover edition); Bantam Books (first paperback edition); first Grove Press edition; Fiftieth Anniversary Edition. Recorded by arrangement with Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, Inc. (P)2018 Audible, Inc.Go Behind the Scenes of Valley of the Dolls
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Davie—an ugly duckling growing up in small-town Mississippi—is positive her life couldn’t be any worse. She has the meanest mother in the South, possibly the world, and on top of that, she’s pretty sure she’s ugly. Just when she’s resigned herself to her fate, she sees a movie that will change her life— Sixteen Candles. But in her case, life doesn’t imitate art.
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5 out of 5 stars
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2 High Fives - for Monkey Night
- By Nevada on 10-03-12
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Texas Rich
- By: Fern Michaels
- Narrated by: Erin Yuen
- Length: 25 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 238
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 206
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 206
Young Billie Ames naively fell for the exciting pilot Moss Coleman at the Philadelphia Navy Yard during World War II. Within a few months, she was pregnant, married, and traveling across the country to Austin...to the 250,000-acre spread known as Sunbridge and into the tantalizing world of the Texas rich. In a vast land dominated by the industrious Colemans, Billie fights to maintain control of her life and her marriage.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Awful Southern Accent
- By Tina Peters on 03-24-16
By: Fern Michaels
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Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations
- By: Peter Evans, Ava Gardner
- Narrated by: William Hope
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 234
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 201
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Story4 out of 5 stars 200
This wickedly candid memoir that Ava Gardner dared not publish during her lifetime offers a revealing self-portrait of the film legend's life and loves in Hollywood's golden age. Ava Gardner was one of Hollywood's great stars during the 1940s and '50s, an Oscar-nominated leading lady who co-starred with Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster, and Humphrey Bogart, among others. But this riveting account of her storied life and career had to wait for publication until after her death, so concerned was Gardner with its frankness.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Secret and Unapproved
- By CanyonCat on 10-19-13
By: Peter Evans, and others
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Disturbing the Peace
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- Narrated by: Marc Vietor
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- Unabridged
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 59
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Story4 out of 5 stars 60
To all appearances, John Wilder has all the trappings of success, circa 1960: a promising career in advertising, a loving family, a beautiful apartment, even a country home. John's evenings are spent with associates at quiet Manhattan lounges and his weekends with friends at glittering cocktail parties. But something deep within this seemingly perfect life has long since gone wrong.
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5 out of 5 stars
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7 hours and 27 minutes pure blisd
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By: Richard Yates
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By Myself and Then Some
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The epitome of grace, independence, and wit, Lauren Bacall continues to astound generations with her audacious spirit and on-screen excellence. Together with Humphrey Bogart, she produced some of the most electric scenes in movie history, and their romance on and off screen made them Hollywood's most celebrated couple.
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3 out of 5 stars
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By: Lauren Bacall
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Marjorie Morningstar
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- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 28 hrs and 23 mins
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 521
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 442
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Marjorie Morningstar is a love story. It presents one of the greatest characters in modern fiction: Marjorie, the pretty 17-year-old who left the respectability of New York's Central Park West to join the theater, live in the teeming streets of Greenwich Village, and seek love in the arms of a brilliant, enigmatic writer.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great story with really cheesy narration
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Vegas Rich
- Vegas, Book 1
- By: Fern Michaels
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 21 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 268
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 196
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 194
With a heart full of dreams, Sallie Coleman leaves Texas and heads west determined to get as far from the squalor of her dirt poor beginnings. With its shifting sands, smoky saloons, and bingo palaces, Las Vegas seems like a paradise. A paradise where an extraordinary twist of fate makes Sallie the most powerful businesswoman in Nevada.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Get this booK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- By Amazon Customer on 09-26-10
By: Fern Michaels
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The Other Side of Midnight
- By: Sidney Sheldon
- Narrated by: Steven Pacey
- Length: 14 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 39
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 36
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Story5 out of 5 stars 36
In Paris, in Washington, and in Greece, an innocent American becomes a pawn in a game of vengeance and betrayal. Catherine Douglas is a woman caught in a web of four lives intertwined by passion as her handsome husband pursues an incredibly beautiful film star, while Constantin Demeris, a legendary Greek tycoon, tightens the strands that control them all.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sheldon being Sheldon
- By Marise Gonzalez Doty on 09-25-24
By: Sidney Sheldon
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Mildred Pierce
- By: James M. Cain
- Narrated by: Christine Williams
- Length: 10 hrs
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 557
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 431
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 428
Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness and determination. She used those attributes to survive a divorce in 1940s America with two children and to claw her way out of poverty, becoming a successful businesswoman. But Mildred also had two weaknesses: a yen for shiftless men and an unreasoning devotion to her monstrous daughter.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Mildred -- you pierce my heart
- By P. Giorgio on 03-11-11
By: James M. Cain
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The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
- By: Mordecai Richler
- Narrated by: David Julian Hirsh
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 84
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Story4 out of 5 stars 69
Duddy - the third generation of a Jewish immigrant family in Montreal - is combative, amoral, scheming, a liar, and totally hilarious. From his street days tormenting teachers at the Jewish academy to his time hustling four jobs at once in a grand plan to "be somebody", Duddy learns about living - and the lesson is an outrageous roller-coaster ride through the human comedy.
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3 out of 5 stars
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OK but a bit disappointing; weak narration
- By Merlin on 05-12-17
By: Mordecai Richler
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Amazing Grace
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 319
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 232
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 232
On a warm May night in San Francisco, the Ritz-Carlton ballroom shimmers with crystal and silver as a glittering, celebrity-studded crowd gathers for a charity dinner dance. The evening is perfect - until, just minutes before midnight, the room begins to sway. Glass shatters. And as the lights go out, people begin to scream....In the earthquake's aftermath, the lives of four strangers will converge.
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2 out of 5 stars
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too nice
- By C Ohana on 11-13-08
By: Danielle Steel
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Babylon Sisters
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- Narrated by: Pearl Cleage
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,293
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,186
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,184
Catherine, busy working with refugee and immigrant women through her small firm, Babylon Sisters, has taken on a powerful new client. She doesn't have much time for Phoebe's complicated questions of paternity - that is, until Phoebe's real father, B. J., a renowned investigative reporter, shows up in town to work on a story connected to Catherine.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sister Love
- By Florence Graydon on 03-26-21
By: Pearl Cleage
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Journey
- By: Danielle Steel
- Narrated by: Brian Keith Lewis
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 255
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 197
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 192
Set against a backdrop of world-shattering events, Journey is a story about abuse in its subtlest forms. With wisdom and compassion, best selling novelist Danielle Steel reminds you that no one is exempt from the effects of this devastating disease, which crosses social borders and has no respect for money, power, or success. But at its core, Journey is about hope, about change, and about daring to be free.
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4 out of 5 stars
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journey
- By Abigail on 04-27-04
By: Danielle Steel
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Heartthrob
- By: Suzanne Brockmann
- Narrated by: Ralph Lowenstein
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- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 114
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Once voted the Sexiest Man Alive, Jericho Beaumont dominated the box office before his fall from grace. Now poised for a comeback, he wants the role of Laramie bad enough to sign an outrageous contract with top producer Kate O'Laughlin--one that gives her the authority to supervise JB's every move. Despite her better judgment, Kate's attraction to JB flares into an explosive passion, but is she being charmed by the real Jericho--or the superstar who dazzles the world?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Book!
- By Judy on 05-01-09
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Welcome to the Monkey House
- By: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrated by: David Strathairn, Maria Tucci, Bill Irwin, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,018
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 712
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Welcome to the Monkey House is a collection of Kurt Vonnegut's shorter works. Originally printed in publications as diverse as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and The Atlantic Monthly, what these superb stories share is Vonnegut's audacious sense of humor and extraordinary range of creative vision.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Classic Vonnegut
- By Michael Carrato on 08-17-06
By: Kurt Vonnegut
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In this brilliant, multi-layered novel, a young Southerner, Stingo, wants to become a writer. In Brooklyn, he meets Nathan, a brilliant Jewish intellectual involved in a turbulent love-hate affair with Sophie, a beautiful Polish woman. She has a terrible wound in her past, one that impels both Sophie and Nathan toward destruction.
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THIS IS ABRIDGED
- By J. Flynn on 07-25-16
By: William Styron
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Brutes
- A Novel
- By: Dizz Tate
- Narrated by: Eleanor McCormick
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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In Falls Landing, Florida—a place built of theme parks, swampy lakes, and scorched bougainvillea flowers—something sinister lurks in the deep. A gang of thirteen-year-old girls obsessively orbit around the local preacher's daughter, Sammy. She is mesmerizing, older, and in love with Eddie. But suddenly, Sammy goes missing. Where is she? Watching from a distance, they edge ever closer to discovering a dark secret about their fame-hungry town and the cruel cost of a ticket out. What they see will continue to haunt them for the rest of their lives.
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No idea what was happening at any time
- By Amazon Customer on 04-02-24
By: Dizz Tate
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The World According to Garp
- A Novel
- By: John Irving
- Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews, John Irving
- Length: 20 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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The opening sentence of John Irving's breakout novel, The World According to Garp, signals the start of sexual violence, which becomes increasingly political. "Garp's mother, Jenny Fields, was arrested in Boston in 1942 for wounding a man in a movie theater." Jenny is an unmarried nurse; she becomes a single mom and a feminist leader, beloved but polarizing. Her son, Garp, is less beloved, but no less polarizing.
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Didn't get past intro
- By Gordon on 01-19-19
By: John Irving
What listeners say about Valley of the Dolls 50th Anniversary Edition
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- Gigi76
- 11-08-18
Why this narrator?
I waited a very long time for this book to come out on audio. I was very excited to begin the morning my pre-order started playing, but only one sentence in, I thought it was joke, and the real narrator would start soon...
Who the hell chose Laverne Cox for this book? I like her as an actress, but not for narrating this book. The whole thing is cartoonish. I'm returning it. Hope they do it again later with a more fitting narrator.
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- Penny
- 08-05-19
and again...what's up with the NARRATOR?
I, too, love this book. Read it first when it came out back in the late 60s. But, I thought at first the narration was a joke or something, what with the lisp and the tone and different character voices, etc. Having read other comments here relating to this narrator, I think Audible owes us a NEW NARRATOR for this most favorite story of so many. What do ya say Audible? Can you folks at Audible not hear what went on with this audio version of this book? Really.
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- Lg
- 11-22-18
Sad it ended!
Loved returning back to the dolls! Very entertaining and I enjoyed the ups and downs of the girls.
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- Megan Hipsley
- 01-21-19
Cox's is worth the listen
Laverne Cox's voice is a dream and perfect for this book. The book itself kind drags and certainly shows it's age but it's good to know what all the fuss was about.
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- Anonymous User
- 04-29-21
Way better than the movie
A grim look into the dark side of Hollywood. can't stop listening to this amazing book.
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- Chloe
- 02-26-22
Most obnoxious voices for characters
Sorry lady, it was torment listening to your Neely. Grating and obnoxious voices. Story still stands test of time
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- Elizabeth Busch
- 04-10-21
loved the book the narrative takes getting past
If the book wasn't so good no way could I have kept listening. The voices were hard to get past especially Neely's nails on a chalk board.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Karen M. Kaplan
- 02-25-24
Still a great story, BUT…
As much as I like Lavern Cox, her screaching voices for Jennifer and Neely almost made this audible book unbearable. The story still holds as a great one all these decades later. It is still the classic Hollywood tale.
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- Dannette Cooper
- 11-26-23
Wrong Choice for Narrator
Love this story and was looking forward to listening. Unfortunately, this narrator did not do the story justice. Could barely get through it.
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-16-22
Great story, mediocre performance
Every line read with the exact same, slightly whiny intonation, even when totally wrong for the story.
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