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Repair Replacement Maintenance

06 community calendar 08 faces

Strength of Character

CrossFit veteran focuses on health, future

12 in focus

WARMing Up

Food pantry celebrates 50th anniversary while looking ahead

16 Meet the Vendors

Westerville Saturday Farmers Market offers food and farm products from across central Ohio

20 student spotlight Living Up to Legacy

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faces

By Claire Miller Photos courtesy of CrossFit, Inc. and Ryan Lopez

an Bailey has always been competitive, but he’s also realistic. He knows there’s one thing no one, including him, can beat: time. Once achieving the title of fourth fittest person in the world, the CrossFit Games veteran has moved into a new phase in his career as he preps to compete in the masters division of the Games, which divides competitors into age groups as they move past peak performance age. “Let me be real honest, training looks way different than it did five, 10 years ago,” Bailey says. Life in general has come to look different for Bailey, too. He owns a home, runs a personal training business and, since February, has been happily married to fellow CrossFit athlete Alexandra LaChance. All of that coincides with his changing views on his sport and goals. For the past few years, Bailey’s been competing in CrossFit’s 35-39 age group division, something he swore to never do. For Bailey, competing in the masters division meant competing below the highest level of competition – something he had no interest in doing. However, in his efforts to reach peak performance, Bailey increasingly found himself at the brink of overexertion and bodily strain. In 2018, Bailey ruptured his left quad tendon, underwent a double hernia surgery and a labrum repair on his left shoulder, which left him unable to exercise, let alone compete for an extended period of time. He was devastated. That, along with two other significant injuries in the past several years, made coming back to full physical form a true challenge. And he’s not taking his recovery for granted. “After the injuries, I put so much work into getting my body back into shape that I was kind of like, ‘Well, you owe it to yourself to try to get back out there

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Central College Christian School and on the floor in any way that you can, just to prove to yourself and to prove to others that even if setbacks happen, you can overcome them,’” Bailey says. “You can achieve things no matter what setbacks happen.” Bailey made it to the CrossFit Games’ competition floor once more last year, only to test positive for COVID-19 while at the competition after spending time helping an Australian athlete and friend train. “My whole life I’ve been aware that the sum of who I am and my value and my worth is not in what I do on the competition floor,” he says. “That’s an awesome tool that I’ve gotten to use and gotten be a part of. It’s not the summation of who I am. So, while that was a big disappointment and I was frustrated by it, it was OK. I had my pity party for a couple days then I said, ‘OK, let’s move on, what’s next?’” What’s next is finding the healthiest version of himself. That includes physical fitness, but also making his business a priority. He now limits his training to 90 minutes a day, with some twice-daily sessions close to competition season. That’s a stark contrast to the four to six hours he trained each day at his competitive peak.

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Bailey, who has lived in Westerville since 2018, reached the CrossFit Games championship five times as an individual and earned five top 10 finishes. In 2015, he earned his best finish, fourth, and was crowned with the Spirit of the Games Award that same year. Prior to his CrossFit career, Bailey competed as a Div. I track and field athlete at Ohio University (he’s run 400 meters in 47.83 seconds). He first discovered CrossFit while at the University of Akron, where he received a master’s in exercise physiology. Bailey has dedicated his adult life to fitness and training at the highest level. As he pursued a number of fitness related careers – physical education teacher, conditioning coach for the U.S. Department of Defense – he moved between Cookville, Tennesee, Fresno, California, and San Diego. In truth, Bailey says training for the CrossFit Games is close to a full-time job for most people aiming for the podium, as it was for him. None of the other jobs stuck for him. “You have to be willing to humble yourself, to learn and to fail, really,” he says. “That’s how I look at a lot of different things that I did.”

While in San Diego, Bailey spent two years living on a boat and made a $20,000 donation that funded a school in Kenya through CrossFit Inc. San Diego was also where he was living when, in 2015, he achieved his career high finish in the CrossFit Games. Eventually, Bailey made the move back to central Ohio. When it came time to settle down and purchase a home, Westerville provided all that he wanted. “I’m a big outdoors person and the reservoir is right next to my house, so it just has a little bit of everything and also super close to downtown,” he says. “All of those things kind of factored in to why I ended up in Westerville.” He bought his house in 2018, which came with a barn on the property, around the same time his injuries left him unable to train. Instead, he put his effort toward transforming the barn into a training and hangout space while he recovered. It frequently features in the background 10 May/June 2022

of his Instagram and YouTube videos, where he shares his workouts, training tips and films for his online training program, Always Train (alwaystrain.com). His YouTube channel has received over 5 million views. As he continues to transition his mindset into the next phase of his life, he has one foot in and one foot out of competition. Bailey is hoping to qualify for the masters competition again, but he doesn’t have the same stakes in competition as he once did. Now, he says it won’t be the end of the world if he doesn’t qualify at all. “I’m not going to be super disappointed as long as my body is still healthy and I’m still able to do the things I love and continue to make a career out of the passion that I have,” Bailey says. “I’m winning on every level.” Claire Miller is an editor at CityScene Media Group. Feedback is welcome at cmiller@cityscenemediagroup.com. www.westervillemagazine.com

in focus

By Juliana Colant Photos courtesy of WARM

WARMing Up

Food pantry celebrates 50th anniversary while looking ahead

Even during the COVID-19 pandemic, WARM worked to maintain services.

Today, WARM occupies a 40,000-square-foot space.

WARM By the Numbers

WARM’s service has greatly expanded since Marier first took over as executive director.

 Meals a Year $ Budget Then: 70,000 Now: 500,000

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Then: Under $400,000 Now: $3,000,000

Facility Size

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n 1968, a family in Almina Smock’s church, St. Paul, was in need. A mother had passed away due to health complications after giving birth to her sixth child, and Smock knew she needed to help. She began coordinating food donations for the family. Soon, she was running a full-blown food pantry out of her garage, complete with clothes and toy donations. That effort, Paul’s Pantry, lasted years with Almina Smock Smock independently began a food organizing from home pantry out of her until the operation home in 1968 – became so large that that eventually became WARM. it needed a separate, bigger space and to be formally incorporated. In 1972, the pantry transitioned into the organization that eventually become Westerville Area Resource Ministry. Now, WARM is commemorating half a century of feeding people in need. The organization is celebrating throughout the year with a party on July 15. “We are acknowledging how amazing this journey has been serving the Westerville community for 50 years,” says Dana Lawrence, director of development and communication for WARM. “We are www.westervillemagazine.com

an organization that went from being operated in one person’s home to being acknowledged as a community partner by the city, the school district and the library.” Today, WARM serves the 52-square-mile Westerville City School District, home to about 120,000 residents and close to 45,000 households, according to WARM Executive Director Scott Marier. Marier took his role with the organization in 2005 and has overseen considerable growth in his nearly 17 years there. He’s overseen an organization growing in most every way. WARM has gone from chest-high refrigerators to walk-in fridges and freezers – the largest 800 square feet – and has moved from one van to a truck, bus and van. For a more general gauge: the organization’s annual budget has moved from hundreds of thousands of dollars to millions. While he’s celebrating WARM’s history, Marier has his eye firmly on the future. “Some of our immediate goals are to help reach people that are currently in need but unreached, there’s always the issue of capacity,” he says. “How do we serve more people in need within our service territory? And not only how we serve more people, but how do we help them more effectively? It’s not just broad but it’s deep and our programming is tailored to that. What we recognize, and the emphasis we’re placing, is that it takes more than food to change your life.” Beyond increasing the ability to feed people in need, WARM has expanded programs to better serve the community. One program, Thrive, pairs participants with a transformation coach who helps set actionable goals and makes connections to any services the client might need. Thrive works to improve one’s food security, life stability and self-sufficiency. Similarly, the Way2Work program supports unemployed or underemployed people by providing personal coaching, career exploration and skills building. Since the turn of the century, the organization has worked to better and

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more humanely meet people’s needs. That includes a shift in perspective toward food choice programs. Rather than a person receiving a standardized grocery supply, choice allows recipients to choose foods fit to their tastes and dietary needs. That gives clients a renewed sense of dignity and decreases food waste. During the COVID-19 pandemic, WARM went as far as creating an online choice program that allowed clients to browse an inventory and continue choosing their food even when in-person access to the pantry was limited. Those initiatives are all part of WARM’s forward-thinking mindset.

WARM Executive Director Scott Marier will retire in September after 17 years in his position. Since taking on the role in 2005, Marier has led many initiatives at WARM, allowing it to more effectively serve the area. Most notably, Marier oversaw the organization as it quadrupled in physical size with a 2014 expansion to a 40,000-square-foot space. Once his replacement is announced, Marier will transition to serve the new executive director and board as needed. “Right now, I can tell you 100 percent of my focus is on finishing well through this transition period with the tasks in front of me and helping the organization advance, celebrating our 50th anniversary and really preparing the organization to go to the next level,” says Marier. Retirement gives Marier more time to enjoy personal hobbies – he’s an avid golfer and he looks forward to spending more time with family – but his heart for service will ultimately guide his next steps. “As a Christian, there’s no biblical basis for retirement,” he says. “We’re always at work in God’s kingdom, so I’m sure he’ll have other things for me to do. God has been faithful in helping me write many chapters in my life, and I can count on him to be faithful to help me write the next chapter as well.” “Our focus is not so much looking back at the past 50, but really preparing to launch how we serve the community for the next 50,” Marier says. “Instead of looking in the rearview mirror, we’re looking through the windshield.” WARM celebrates its anniversary with a 1970s themed party, calling back to its early years, on July 15 at the Renaissance Columbus Westerville-Polaris Hotel. The

whole community is invited to enjoy live music, a raffle, wine pull, photo booth, hors d’oeuvres and cocktails. All proceeds from the ticket sales support WARM programming. Visit www.warmwesterville. org to purchase tickets. Juliana Colant is a senior editorial assistant at CityScene Media Group. Feedback welcome at feedback@cityscenemediagroup.com.

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Meet the Vendors

Westerville Saturday Farmers Market offers food and farm products from across central Ohio By Megan Roth Photos courtesy of Jay Bennett, Stephen Troutner, Uptown Westerville and Dean Vickers

ith more than 50 vendors present each Saturday throughout the summer, the Westerville Farmers Market has something for everyone from artisan bread to gourmet coffee blends. The market started in 2018 in response to residents’ requests for fresh, local food. Lynn Aventino, director of Uptown Westerville, says it began with 36 vendors and has grown 15 percent each year since. That expansion led the market to move in 2020 from its original location at Otterbein University to its current space behind Westerville City Hall to make space for more vendors, entertainment and guests. With that expansion, the market has focused on bringing in a range of items. You won’t find 10 vendors competing the sell the same products. “We tr y to offer a unique and quality selection of products and to not oversaturate offerings in any one product,” Aventino says. The vendors come from across central Ohio, from Canal Winchester to Dublin. For Erik Weitz, who co-owns Megan Lee Designs with his wife, Megan, the market is hyper local. In fact, it’s just a five-minute walk from their house down State Street. Weitz says the market has provided his business with an opportunity to meet and interact with members of the Westerville community since Megan Lee Designs became a vendor in 2019. “I’m excited to get back out there and enjoy the interactions I have with everybody,” he says. “(The market) is always a really fun event and it feels good to have that sense of community.” Megan Lee Designs offers T-shirts for kids and adults, tote bags, greeting cards and stickers with quirky and unique designs handcrafted by Megan. Bake a Difference, another Westervillebased business, has been offering guests

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gourmet cupcakes and brownies since before the market’s relocation. Owner and head baker Dean Vickers says, throughout its three years at the market, Bake a Difference has developed a dedicated group of followers he looks forward to seeing each week. “(The market) is a great opportunity to showcase some of our existing products as well as get feedback from people on potential new items,” Vickers says. Consistent with its name, Bake a Difference donates 5 percent of its sales to a local nonprofit each month. That, too, becomes a talking point. “We enjoy asking our repeat customers, ‘What’s new this week?’ as we change what we sell and what charity we donate to,” Vickers says.

Bake a Difference’s philanthropy ties into the market’s larger culture. The market donates extra food product to the Promise House, Otterbein’s student food pantry. Aventino says donations total about 500 pounds of food each season. While some vendors use the market to meet people within their community, others branch out in search of new communities to share their products with. Covey Rise Farms, located in Radnor, 45 minutes northwest of Westerville, brings eggs, honey and a range of pastured meats to the market. It is also one of the market’s founding vendors, as it’s been attending since the inaugural market in 2018. Charlie Payne, co-owner with his wife Kerissa, says they started attending early

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in their farming career and have grown alongside the market. “It’s exciting to return and see a lot of our customers in person,” Payne says. “The market has been really supportive of what we do and we’re looking forward to seeing them grow even more this year.” With vendors returning to the market year after year, many forge valuable relationships not only with customers, but with other vendors as well. Jay Bennett, owner of DrankTank, a mobile beverage vendor working out of a 1965 Cushman Truckster, says the market provides a quaint, familial atmosphere to its guests, vendors and staff. “I’ve really connected with some other vendors there,” he says. Bennett accredits the market’s growth to the variety of tastes and interests it boasts. “(The market) isn’t just a one stop shop and you’re out,” he says. “It’s a place to spend the morning. You can come and get a drink, there’s music, entertainment, booths with rotating art.” In addition to food, the market offers professional knife sharpening, pre-market yoga or fitness classes, healthy nutrition and cooking demos and kids crafts by the Arts Council of Westerville. The 2022 Farmers Market runs from 9 a.m.-noon every Saturday from May 21Oct. 8. It’s held behind Westerville City Hall at 21 S. State St. For more information and a complete list of vendors and offerings, visit www. uptownwestervilleinc.com. Megan Roth is a senior editorial assistant at CityScene Media Group. Feedback welcome at mroth@cityscenemediagroup.com.

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student spotlight

By Kate Anderson Photos courtesy of Maya Chaffin

Living Up to Legacy Westerville North student inspired by family achievements

An All-American cheerleading award is one of the senior’s many honors.

esterville North senior Maya Chaffin has been recognized for numerous awards – Martin Luther King Fouse Award, Universal Cheerleaders Association All-American, Rotary Club Student of the Month – for her contributions to Westerville North and the Westerville community. But her dedication to community involvement stems from something deeper than just college prep or racking up awards. Chaffin’s motivation comes from the example set by her family. “I’m very involved in Westerville because my mom grew up in Westerville,” she says. Chaffin says continuing the legacy her family created in Westerville is very

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important to her. Many of her involvements within the community and with Westerville North trace inspiration back to specific family members. Chaffin’s aunt, Sybil Wise, founded North’s Black History Month program. Chaffin wrote and directed the school’s 2022 Black History Month Show, Timeless. Determined to make her own mark, too, Chaffin helped found the Black Student Union. “Being able to direct (the show) at North and continue that legacy is really important to me,” she says. John Sands, a social studies teacher at North, describes Chaffin as being quietly confident. Sands says Chaffin leads from behind the scenes – it’s about a genuine love of making life in Westerville better for others rather than a desire for acclaim. “It’s never about her,” Sand says. “It’s about putting other people in positions to shine and be successful with their talents. I think that exemplifies to me Maya. She’s working really hard to make Westerville North a better place and to make Westerville a better place for all students.” Chaffin has a natural ability to bring people together, says Lilly Tesfai, an advisor for the Black History Month Show. “She has the ability to bridge the gap between very different kinds of people,” Tesfai says. “She makes people feel comfortable when she speaks to them. She holds her own and is not caving to anyone, but she knows how to help you meet where she is.” Chaffin says her involvements stem from a desire to create a safe space for students like her. The Black History Month Show is one example, she says, of giving students the opportunity to voice their experience while building relationships with one another. The Black Student Union came from Chaffin and other students’

desires to offer more opportunities and support year-round, not just during Black History Month. “We do different service opportunities,” Chaffin says. “In a predominantly white community, it’s very hard to find open space like that where you can truly be yourself and grow as a person of color.” Another core theme in Chaffin’s involvements is her Christian faith. There as well she traces inspiration back to her family. “My grandpa (Dr. C. Dexter Wise III) is a pastor,” she says. “We are all kind of in that track, leading by his example.” She participates in the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and Young Life and recently formed an online community called B.O.L.D. Ministries. As Chaffin navigated high school during the COVID-19 pandemic, she felt young Christians were lacking a community space. B.O.L.D. stands for brave, obedient, loved and determined. Chaffin says she created B.O.L.D. Ministries as an online resource to support young Christians. “I wanted to create a safe space for Christian teens who felt like they didn’t have a place where they could be themselves,” Chaffin says. “The big thing for me is creating safe spaces.” As Chaffin finishes her time at North, teachers and advisors say they’re proud to see her recognized for the effort she has put into bringing people together. “She’s not doing it in a way that seeks recognition,” Sands says. “To see the awards and recognition come to her is really rewarding and gratifying.” Following graduation, Chaffin is interested in attending a university to pursue film and media studies. Kate Anderson is an editorial assistant at CityScene Media Group. Feedback welcome at feedback@cityscenemediagroup.com. www.westervillemagazine.com

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Making a House into a Home Turning a house with potential into a dream home

When it came to choosing the property, it was largely about location and size. “We just wanted a little bit of land,” Scott says. “It has two acres on it.” T h a t s c e n e r y s u rrounding the house, which was built in 1945, also attracted the Ebbrechts. “It wasn’t just like any other house,” Sheila says. “The trees and the setting was really important to us.” After completely renovating their previous home, the Ebbrechts felt the new house was an opportunity to take what they had learned and improve on that process, making an even better home for them and their twin boys, Carson and Simon, and oldest son, Austin, who attends the University of Cincinnati. The couple each excelled at their new roles, Scott leading the contracting work and Sheila managing the interior design process. Though the days were long and the work was tough, it was a labor of love. “Looking at other homes and magazines and looking at pictures and then figuring out how to make that work for me and tweaking it, I think I just get a lot of joy from that,” Sheila says. “I love to see how Just two hours after closing, friends met at the house to things kind of come together.” begin tearing down walls.

cott Ebbrecht previously worked as a school administrator and his wife, Sheila, is a social worker. But when they purchased a new home, the couple instead became general contractors and interior designers. The Ebbrechts knew that, though the house had potential, it was missing a few nonnegotiable features, and they wasted no time implementing changes. Within two hours of closing, they’d begun tearing down walls. For the next year the family transformed a house they bought into a home that’s truly their own.

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The kitchen before (above) and after (top). Opening up the kitchen made space for a granite slab island.

Scott says his time as an administrator has left him with many connections and friends who were willing to help with the project. In those few hours after closing, the couple had friends meet them at the home to start tearing down walls to open up the kitchen. That space has become a central gathering place for loved ones. But the kids needed space, too. Scott contacted a former student, Alex Borger, an architect major at Bowling Green State www.westervillemagazine.com

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The back porch became one of Scott’s favorite areas of the house.

University, to help design the addition of the two rooms. Scott and Borger worked together and came up with a plan for the extra bedrooms that best fit the house. “We needed to be able to visualize what that addition was and he helped me do that,” Scott says. The couple continued to change almost every room in the house, all while maintaining much of the original character and charm the mid-century home possessed. That meant keeping a lot of the black walnut wood, refurbishing the wood floors and preserving the unique wall textures. The couple also added a basketball court outside, an art studio for Scott and office space for each of them. Any major renovations come with setbacks, and the Ebbrechts’ was no

different. They lost electricity at one point and a boiler went out and frustrated an old cistern. But after a full year of renovations, the family has a home that they love. “You know, I wouldn’t do anything differently,” Scott says. “I would hire the same people back, because we’ve been very fortunate that the people that have worked with me have all been phenomenal.” The finished renovations make the home a true reflection of the family. Scott has his art studio, Sheila has her office and the more open space makes room for everyone throughout the house. Other highlights include a covered back porch and sunroom. Kate Anderson is an editorial assistant at CityScene Media Group. Feedback welcome at feedback@cityscenemediagroup.com.

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Fuel for Fitness

Nutrition tips to support exercise routines

hen dietitian Laura Poland reviews habits with her new clients, she always asks, “How do you fuel your workouts?” It’s an important question, especially if you hope to make the most out of your time spent working out. The first step of fueling up for a fitness routine is getting an adequate number of calories each day. Eating enough calories is necessary to improve muscle mass or increase strength, she says. The second aspect is the timing of when those calories are consumed. Poland, owner of Dietitian in Your Kitchen, recommends her clients consider eating something before every workout, even if it’s in the morning, a more difficult time to fuel. It doesn’t need to be extensive; a small snack of just four to eight ounces of milk or half of a banana, she says, will keep you fueled for an early workout. “We know when you’re fueling a workout, in order to burn fat, you’re

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going to need carbohydrates present,” Poland says. Choosing an afternoon or after-work exercise routine can give you more time to fuel up. Poland says the ideal pre-workout snack is between 200 and 300 calories consumed two hours prior to working out. If you’re only able to eat right before a workout, a piece of fruit or half an energy bar should do the trick without weighing you down. After getting your sweat on, fueling properly for recovery relies on the ratio of two carbohydrates to one protein within an hour of finishing, Poland says. If you’re heading into dinner after a moderate workout, a balanced meal is a good way to recover. After a high intensity or endurance workout, if a meal with the two-to-one ratio isn’t to follow shortly after, she recommends snacking on half or all of a sandwich or drinking a glass of chocolate milk. Embarking on a fitness routine with the goal of losing weight comes with additional

considerations for nutrition. Once again, getting adequate calories is the main priority in order to achieve fitness and weight loss goals. If the body isn’t getting enough calories, it may hold on to fat instead of shedding it. Poland recommends a calorie deficit that results in no more than one pound of weight loss a week. “Most of us get plenty of protein, … but it’s really a matter of if you’re not eating enough calories, your body will not be able to reap the benefits of working out,” Poland says. “We’re so crunched for time, the last thing we want to do is go into a workout and not be fueled properly and then just be wasting your time. So I really focus on that when I work with somebody.”

Claire Miller is an editor at CityScene Media Group. Feedback is welcome at cmiller@ cityscenemediagroup.com.

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“I love the versatility and simplicity of this recipe,” Poland says. “For athletes, the best nut to use is pistachios because they contain B vitamins, vitamin A, magnesium, iron, phosphorus, protein, manganese and copper, that helps promote strength and rejuvenation after a workout. When mixed with dried fruit, such as those fruits called for in this trail mix, it helps build back up glycogen stores after a workout.” • 2 cups total of mixed, chopped dried fruit, such as apricots, apples, cherries, sweetened dried cranberries and blueberries • 1 2⁄3 cups (10-oz. pkg.) Nestle Toll House dark chocolate morsels • 1 ½ cups total of mixed nuts, such as whole almonds, walnuts, pecans, cashews and pistachios • ½ cup sunflower kernels, chia, flax or pumpkin seed kernels • Note: Dried fruit often has added sugar so watch the ingredient label to keep the sugar content as low as possible. Dried fruit typically has about 15 grams of sugar just from the fruit. So, if a label says there are 30 grams of sugar in ¼ cup serving, then half of the sugar is likely added. Aim for 20 grams of sugar in ¼ cup of fruit. Combine dried fruit and berries, morsels, nuts and seeds in a large, resealable plastic bag. Makes about six cups of granola. Store in cool, dry place for up to two weeks. www.westervillemagazine.com

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