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Kyle Crutchmer began changing his life the day he started ripping memorabilia off his walls.

The pictures of Sooners and crimson posters couldn’t stay. He closed his bedroom door to hide the walls that were painted like Owen Field at the University of Oklahoma.

The only sign left of the household’s fandom was a picture hung in the dining room of Crutchmer’s grandfather wearing an OU uniform. He played football for the Sooners and was the reason the Crutchmer family owned season tickets to watch OU in the fall.

As a senior at Tulsa Union, Kyle had pictured himself as a Sooner because of his family legacy, but that day’s visitor immediately became his newest inspiration.

Oklahoma State wrestling coach John Smith knocked on the door. In the Crutchmers’ doorway stood a two-time Olympic gold medalist, the active winningest coach in wrestling history and a Bedlam rival.

Kyle already had an offer from OU, but the Sooners couldn’t promise one for his stepbrother, Brian. The two wanted to wrestle together in college and were considering an offer from Old Dominion to do so.

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Cowboy wrestler Kyle Crutchmer grew up an Oklahoma fan, but Oklahoma State coach John Smith swayed Crutchmer to wrestle in Stillwater with Brian Crutchmer, his brother.

walked into his house, he was starstruck for the first time in his life. He knew Smith’s background. He even owned a pair of his wrestling shoes growing up.

Now, Smith was offering Kyle what he wanted: a chance to wrestle with his brother at a winning program. Smith didn’t ask, though.

“He kinda just pretty much told me, ‘You’re gonna wrestle here, and we’re gonna win, and if you don’t come here, we’re gonna kick your ass,’” Kyle recalled.

Smith’s pitch put things in perspective for Kyle.

He said he didn’t want to get his butt beaten by OSU the next five years.

Because of that, Kyle

never hung the pictures and posters back up, and the bedroom was painted white to cover the crimson walls.

Original influence Smith influenced Kyle to wear a different color, but Brian was his first inspiration.

Although they are stepbrothers, Kyle and Brian have been together since they were babies.

Kyle’s biological mother abandoned him at a young age. Brian’s father did the same.

The brothers were playing in the yard when Brian’s legs stopped working. Kyle immediately realized something was wrong when Brian collapsed to the ground.

Despite being only 4, Kyle helped. He picked Brian, also 4, up off the grass and carried him across the lawn to their parents.

“Something’s wrong with my brother,” Kyle said. “Take care of him.”

Kevin and Tina, the boys’ parents, took Brian

to the hospital. After several tests, it was revealed he had a late birth defect.

Veins were wrapped around his spinal cord, and it paralyzed him.

“He was dying,” Kevin said.

The doctors said Brian wouldn’t survive, and if he did, he wouldn’t be able to walk.

The veins had to be removed during surgery.

Brian spent more than 365 nonconsecutive days in four different hospitals.

He was eventually sent home in a wheelchair, but Kevin said they wouldn’t need it.

Brian was complaining about the wheelchair at Wal-Mart. Kevin heard Brian’s argument. He rolled the wheelchair to the side and bought a small pool. Kevin started working out with Brian, and within six weeks, Kevin said Brian was walking again. Brian was paralyzed for about six months.

“Him overcoming that and being able to wrestle somewhere like here

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proved to me that people can overcome things and it’s not so bad as it seems,” Kyle said.

Negative into positive As his original inspiration, Kyle has frequently leaned on Brian, including when he found a new motivation.

Kyle’s former teammate and friend, Ronnie Balfour, died in 2012 after a yearlong battle with leukemia. Balfour’s death was only weeks before Kyle’s final high school state tournament as a Tulsa Union Redskin. While still grieving, Kyle went on to finish an undefeated season with back-to-back individual state titles.

“You use all the negative energy from it, and you create it into a positive,” Kyle said. “You remember the stuff that he was good at, and he was so damn resilient, nothing could hold him back, even when he had the cancer.

He fought real hard, so it was like, would he want me to come out here and

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Leyton Hammonds and Phil Forte couldn’t ask for a better farewell.

The Oklahoma State seniors will play their final game in Gallagher-Iba Arena at 5 p.m. Saturday when the Cowboys face No. 1 Kansas.

“It seems surreal,” Hammonds said. “Every senior day comes by, and you’re like, ‘That’s not gonna be me for a while.’ Freshman year, sophomore year, junior year and now it’s here. It’s like I blinked. My career here and my time here, it’s over.”

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has all season. After a slow start, he is averaging 14 points and seven rebounds on 48 percent shooting in the past five games. Coach Brad Underwood said Hammonds’ determination helped him see the improvement.

“I think this happens a lot with seniors,” Underwood said. “You get to the end, and you know it’s coming.

There’s a different level that

you can go to with focus. I think that’s happened with Leyton. He wants to make sure this ends the right way for him. I’m proud of him.”

Thankfully, Hammonds won’t have to go through the emotions of Senior Day alone. Forte’s journey at Oklahoma State (20-10 overall, 9-8 Big 12) has been a long one, extended one year after an injury to his left elbow granted him a medical redshirt last season.

In his time with the Cowboys, he has played with high school teammate Marcus Smart, made the NCAA Tournament and become the school’s leader in 3-pointers.

“He’s the kid everyone wants to coach,” Underwood

said. “I have so much respect for Phil. Probably a lot of people along the way told Phil, ‘You can’t play at this level. You can’t be successful at this level.’ Yet, he’s mastered his trait extremely well. He’s worked so hard.

When I tell people he works hard, he’s at another level. It’s an intangible that we don’t take for granted.

“Obviously one of the elite shooters, that speaking for itself, but he’s transformed his game. He’s become a very good defender. He’s become that leader for us. There’s not many things that a coach doesn’t like about Phil Forte.”

The opponent is fitting for Forte on Senior Day. He grew up watching the Jay-

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hawks and imagining himself playing at Kansas. His father played football there. The Cowboys have beaten Kansas (27-3, 15-2) in GIA in each of the past three seasons.

Although the Jayhawks lead the overall series, OSU holds a slight edge at GIA 34-32.

Forte said being a part of teams that could take down Kansas are some of the memories he will cherish about being a Cowboy.

“It’s those memories like that I think I’m going to miss the most,” Forte said. “They made this place so special.

Hopefully, Saturday we can make another one.”

Hammonds said he feels no different. If the Cowboys get the victory, they will

have claimed one in every season he has played here.

Although it won’t come easily, — the Jayhawks have won 13 consecutive Big 12 regular season championships — Hammonds said the only thing that could make the circumstances surrounding Saturday’s game better is a win.

“It would mean a lot to me,” Hammonds said. “To get a win against a team like Kansas, especially on Senior Night, it would kind of be like the cherry on top of my career here.”

Chandler Vessels is a sports media senior from Moore. He can be reached at chandler.vessels@okstate.edu.

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lollygag and not do the things that I’m capable of doing because of something that’s a setback? I just used that as a motivation. I wanted to win for him.”

Because of the loss, other setbacks appeared smaller to Kyle, even four years later.

Unfazed Kyle was wrestling OU’s Matt Reed last season when he felt the pain in his right foot. He yelled an obscenity that echoed in Gallagher-Iba Arena because it was the only way he knew how to bear the feeling.

He limped off the mat after receiving an unsportsmanlike penalty and lost to Reed 3-2 for the fourth loss of his junior campaign.

The foot was broken, but Kyle hid the severity of the injury. He practiced on it for nearly two weeks as if nothing were wrong. The pain eventually became too much and required season-ending surgery.

Kyle was sidelined for six months. He did what he could to stay in shape, but his inability to walk made it difficult. He became 40 pounds overweight in the process and was falling behind the rest of the competition at 174 pounds.

“During our whole life, we’ve had to face adversity,” Brian said. “That’s probably why the injury didn’t faze him, how we grew up.”

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to recover before his senior year. He said the challenge put him in the best shape of his life. It also lit a fire while he was away from the mat, watching his teammates compete in the postseason.

“It’s part of being an athlete,” Kyle said. “You go through a lot of injuries, you go through things that can hold you back. It makes you stronger. I’m blessed to be able to do it this year. Last year’s experience, it gave me a whole new outlook on this

season.”

Growing pains The Kyle Crutchmer as a 19-year-old freshman probably couldn’t have overcome the injury. That Kyle was creating his own problems.

“At first, I was pretty questionable because I was real immature,” Kyle said.

“I made some bad decisions.”

Kyle was questioning his future as a Cowboy. He said he had been making “silly freshman mistakes” at the time, slacking on the mat and in the classroom.

He also found himself in trouble.

Kyle was arrested in 2013 during his redshirt year. He was charged with threatening an act of violence and malicious injury to property in Tulsa County, according to a Tulsa World article. He

was accused of threatening to kill a man and hitting his vehicle.

That’s when Smith had a meeting with Kyle.

“He pretty much sat me down and told me, ‘Hey, if you don’t cut this shit out, you’re done,’” Kyle said. “He put everything in perspective for me, how much I’d be missing.

He came on to me almost like a father. I felt the guy who cared for me; I felt the guy who wanted to see me succeed. It changed everything. When you find out someone cares for you like that, you shouldn’t run away from it, you should accept it, and that’s what I did. I wanted him to understand that I was all in and I wanted to be a Cowboy.”

The change was evident.

Kyle hasn’t been in trouble again. All he’s done since is compile a 72-23 career

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record while claiming a Big 12 title and earning All-American honors as a redshirt sophomore in 2015.

“Our job here is to help people, not punish them all the time but help them find their way,” Smith said. “You just hope they evolve, especially if there’s things and issues that maybe they need to get through. That shows the strength of good people. Good people recognize those deficiencies you need to work on, then they attack them and they work on them.

He’s definitely been one guy that has shown great improvement in all parts of his college career, not just as an athlete, but as a student, as a teammate, as a person.”

Smith isn’t the only person to notice a change in Kyle. Those closest to Kyle have noticed it, too.

Kyle has recognized it, as well.

“Going through some of the things that I’ve been through since I’ve been here, you realize that you have to grow up,” he said. “You can’t stay in la la land. Towards the end of your career you have to find a job. You want people to respect you.

You want people to think you’re professional. You can’t do that staying in the mindset of a freshman.

Coach Smith’s helped me a lot in getting me to understand that you have to grow.”

Everything you could ask for Kyle walks to the center of the mat with his chest out in a dual against Penn

State on Feb. 19, his left shoulder and pec covered with tattoos, a white leg sleeve on his right leg. It’s his last match in GIA, and he’s down 1-0 to seventhranked Mark Hall. He gestures for 14,059 fans to get loud before the third period starts.

“I’d be lying if I said I didn’t like to stand out a little bit,” Kyle said.

Kyle used the momentum he created and quickly escaped to even the score, but moments later, Hall scored a takedown to retake the lead and hush the crowd. Kyle escaped again but failed to notch a takedown and lost to Hall, 3-2.

After Hall’s hand was raised, Kyle walked down the stairs off the stage, took his headgear off and exited GIA for the last time in his career.

Kevin was in the crowd Kyle urged. He’s usually nervous when he watches his sons wrestle, but he wasn’t for Kyle’s last match in GIA. “I was shocked I wasn’t more nervous, but I realized I was just kinda more relieved in a way,” Kevin said. “Even though it’s the end, he’s gonna graduate. He’s turned into a man. He’s wrestled for a program that’s possibly gonna wrestle for a title.

You can’t ask for any more as a father.”

Dekota Gregory is a sports media junior from Locust Grove. He can be reached at ozone@ocolly.com.

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Oklahoma State has nearly 300 endowed faculty positions.

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Wheat breeding and genetics professor Brett Carver’s research is changing the way the world eats.

For nearly 20 years he’s led the OSU Wheat Improvement Team, an interdisciplinary group of 11 researchers who investigate and develop new seed varieties with attributes like drought hardiness and immunity to emerging diseases.

Their research translates to a healthy agricultural economy in Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas through the production and regional sale of seed varieties developed at OSU through the Oklahoma Foundation Seed Stocks. The program recently broke ground on a $4 million facility in southwest Stillwater to accommodate increased demand for the latest high-performance wheat, peanut and grass varieties.

By providing improved product to the region’s farmers as well as the nation’s millers and bakers, Carver and his

The number of available positions has doubled within the past decade, mostly because of Branding Success: The Campaign for OSU, which totaled $1.2 billion overall in gifts and commitments, including $188.2 million for faculty support.

For each endowed position, individual donors or corporations have gifted Oklahoma State enough money to create an endowment. The fund generates annual support that the university can count on to provide ongoing support for increased salaries, hiring graduate assistants, purchasing equipment, funding travel and covering other academic and research needs.

The endowed positions create continuity Endowed positions, a distinguished in funding, research and instruction, honor for faculty, are important to OSU’s Sandefur added, which bolsters the land-grant mission of research, instruction university’s academic reputation. and extension, said Provost Gary Sandefur.

“When there is continuity with faculty, “By being able to retain and attract there tends to be the same type of the most sought-after instructors and retention with students,” he said. researchers through endowed faculty “Once students establish a rewarding positions, Oklahoma State University relationship with faculty members, those is better able to support research and students tend to want to continue their additional initiatives of the faculty educational experience under those members,” he said. “That, in turn, gives faculty members and those institutions.” the university the best chance to provide students with the best instructional and academic experiences, provide ENDOW ED POSITIONS AT OSU research opportunities and more easily 53 Spears School of Business share that research with the public.”

HOW researchers are also ensuring the world's terms of wheat breeding and genetics. ever-growing population has enough to eat.

“This chair is directly tied to the needs Professors like Carver — who is the of Oklahoma,” he said. “Yes, we are training Wheat Genetics Chair in Agriculture — and the next generation of scientists, but we programs like the Oklahoma Foundation are also putting something in the field — a Seed Stocks are why endowed positions at product. You can look at the numbers; half Oklahoma State University are so crucial. of the acreage in Oklahoma is using product Carver uses funds to support his research that came directly from our research.” and team of graduate research assistants, purchase equipment and pay for other costs associated with his work.

He said funding from the chair has made a big difference, allowing him consistent funding and the flexibility to quickly adjust his research to address industry problems Brett Carver, regents professor and Wheat Genetics Chair in in real-time. It's helped Agriculture, at Oklahoma Foundation Seed Stocks groundbreaking. put OSU on the map in

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Jewish OSU students not shocked at reports of anti-Semitism Sa m H olzsc h u h S ta ff R epo rter @ o c olly

Amid nationwide reports of anti-Semitic behavior, Jewish students at Oklahoma State University said bomb threats and vandalism are hardly surprising.

Jewish community centers and schools in the U.S. and Canada have been victims to more than 120 bomb threats in 2017.

At least two Jewish cemeteries were vandalized in February in Philadelphia and St. Louis. All threats proved unsubstantiated.

The Tulsa Jewish Federation received a bomb threat via phone call Feb. 20. It was one of 10 other Jewish community centers to receive a threat that day.

There is no synagogue or Jewish community center in Stillwater, but OSU is host to the B’nai Emunah Hillel. A Hillel is an organization for Jewish college students, named after a teacher from the first century B.C. The group also calls itself the Jew Crew of OSU. James Darling, an industrial engineering senior, is treasurer of B’nai Emunah Hillel. He said he is not a member of a Jewish community center but has attended multiple services at the Temple Israel in Oklahoma City and Tulsa. He said bomb threats are no surprise.

“It’s been going on for years,” Darling said.

“This is nothing new.”

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Jewish students at OSU say vandalism and threats of violence are not new to their community.

of the Hillel, which meets biweekly to observe Shabbat, the Jewish holy day, in members’ homes.

They have as many It’s about treating as 20 members for some events but are other people the only recognized Jewish organization with diginity and in Stillwater.

Oklahoma has the respect.” seventh-smallest Jewish population of all U.S. states, according to the U.S. James Darling Census Bureau, so OSU Student Stillwater is not a hotspot for the Jewish community. Few Jews live in StillwaSydney Caen, a poter, and there is nowhere litical science and to practice the religion multimedia journalism except for volunteers’ sophomore, is the presihomes. dent of B’nai Emunah Caen said she went to Hillel. She said there are 10 consistent members a Christmas party last se-

mester wearing a Hanukkah sweater rather than a Christmas sweater.

“I had someone come up, and they were like, ‘Oh, I had no idea you were Jewish,’” she said.

“He said, ‘I knew there were Jewish people.

I’ve just never met one before.’ I told him, ‘Jews aren’t unicorns.’

“Not once (have I) ever had anybody treat me poorly because of my religion or make me feel uncomfortable because of my religion. … I guess I’ve been fortunate.”

Caen is a practicing Jew and a member of the Gordon Jewish Community Center in Nashville, Tennessee, which received a bomb threat twice in January and once on Presidents Day; however,

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since coming to school at OSU, she said she has not been to a synagogue.

She said the apparent rise in Jewish community center threats does not surprise her. “(Jewish community centers) get bomb threats pretty often,” Caen said.

“It’s almost a normal thing for this to happen.”

Darling said social media has given a platform for anti-Semitics and other hate groups.

“Even though the vast majority of people, I believe, are good people, those types of people who are anti-Semitic, neoNazis or the (Klu Klux Klan) get the same voice as everybody else does,” Darling said. “They were always there, but now you can actually see it.”

In 2015, 731 victims of hate crimes based on religious bias were Jewish, according to FBI Uniform Crime Reports.

Jews make up 52 percent of religious hate crime victims.

Darling said though he isn’t an expert, a lot of anti-Semitism originates with ignorance fueling fear.

“Most people, honestly, don’t really understand Judaism,” Darling said.

“It can come from a place of jealousy, or it can come from a place of fear and ignorance. It takes people getting to understand and start that conversation.”

Caen said the lack of understanding leads to stereotypes and hate.

Understanding is key to

breaking down the prejudice.

“People start to judge you, maybe even get jealous assuming you grow up in a wealthy community,” Caen said. “Hate can come from jealousy of just assuming instead of getting to know the person and knowing what they’re going through and struggling with.”

Darling said the burden remains on the Jewish community to change the way the public stereotypes it to minimize anti-Semitism. He said most Americans’ understanding of Judaism is in the context of Christianity, which he said is innocently biased, and if they knew contemporary Jewish principles, the prejudice would be proven unfounded.

Darling said he wanted people to understand Judaism is community oriented.

“It’s about treating other people with dignity and respect,” Darling said. “Another big component is tikkun olam, which means ‘repairing the world.’ Basically, that’s being in your community and helping build up your community and building up other people.”

Sam Holzshuh is a multimedia journalism junior from Fort Worth, Texas.

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1023 S. McDonald 5Bed‑2Bath‑Garage HUGE Swimming Pool Corner Lot‑Fenced Yard Only $2050 Per Month Available June 1st Stillwater Property 405‑743‑2126 116 N. Manning 5Bed‑3Bath‑All Electric NEW House‑ Concrete Floors Large Open Layout‑ Granite Only $2050 Per Month Available June 1st Stillwater Property 405‑743‑2126 1405 W. McMurtry 5Bed‑2Bath‑Mobile Home LARGE Fenced Yard Country Setting‑ Lots of Trees Only $1000 Per Month Available June 1st Stillwater Property 405‑743‑2126

2022 W. Admiral 3Bed‑1Bath‑Garage VERY Close to OSU Vet School Fenced Yard‑ Pets Welcome Only $1125 Per Month Available June 1st Stillwater Property 405‑743‑2126 2136 W. Sunset 4Bed‑2Bath‑Garage VERY Close to Campus Corner Lot‑ Pets Welcome Only $1580 Per Month Available June 1st Stillwater Property 405‑743‑2126

3‑bedroom, 2‑bath, washer/dryer hookups, patio, garage. $280/person, or $840/month. 372‑8862.

4‑bedrooms, spacious, 2 or 3‑ baths, patios, fenced yard.

Available June 1st. $350/person or $1400/month. 372‑8862.

704 N. Manning 6Bed‑3Bath‑All Electric NEW House‑ Concrete Floors Large Open Layout‑ Granite Only $2250 Per Month Available June 1st Stillwater Property 405‑743‑2126

Condos For Rent CREEKSIDE CONDOS 6121 N. PARKER $620MO 1BED‑1BATH PETS OK TOTAL ELEC‑ PAID WATER FENCED YARDS‑ GRANITE AVAILABLE JUNE 1ST STILLWATER PROPERTY 405‑743‑2126

Apartment Rentals Apartment Rentals Carleton Crossing 1001 N. Perkins Rd 2 bedroom apartments for lease. Gas water and sewer paid. Close to bus line.

Call Today. Henneberry Properties 405‑372‑7395 CASA MIA furnished & unfurnished 1 bedroom w/walk‑in closet, all bills paid w/cable & reserved parking. 1 block east of OSU. CasaMiaOSU.com, (405) 372‑1228, or see us @ 140 N. Duck.

Houses For Rent Houses For Rent AVAILABLE JUNE 1ST Stillwater Property 405-743-2126 704 N. Manning 6Bed-3Bath $2250 116 N. Manning 5Bed-3Bath $2050 1023 S. McDonald 5Bed-2Bath $2050 1201 N. Ramsey 5Bed-2Bath $1500 1405 W. McMurtry 5Bed-2Bath $1000

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4519 S. Husband 4Bed-2Bath $1640 2136 W. Sunset 4Bed-2Bath $1580 1205 N. Ramsey 4Bed-1Bath $1250 236 S. Lewis 4Bed-3Bath $1400 1525 E. Virginia 3Bed-3Bath $1245 2134 W. Arrowhead 3Bed-1.5Bath $1200 2022 W. Admiral 3Bed-1Bath $1200 213 N. Donaldson 3Bed-2Bath $1050 3820 W. 15th 3Bed-2.5Bath $900 106 S. Grandview 3Bed-1Bath $885

1000 E. Brooke 3Bed-1Bath $875 1415 E. Cedar 3Bed-1.5Bath $850 108 W. Husband Court 3Bed-2Bath $850 1115 S. Orchard 3Bed-1Bath $825 7613 W. 6th 3Bed-2Bath $750 117 W. Husband Court 2Bed-2Bath $820 425 N. Jardot 2Bed-2Bath $700 826 W. 8th 2Bed-1.5Bath $640 1201 W. 9th 2Bed-1Bath $600 1124 N. Main #B 2Bed-1Bath $575 118 S. Park 2Bed-1Bath $550 612 N. Husband 2Bed-1Bath $500 1108 W. Tyler 2Bed-1Bath $500 811 S. Hester 1Bed-1Bath $550 507 W. Maple 1Bed-1Bath $550 5604 N. Jardot 1Bed-1Bath $520

OLD TOWNE STUDIOS 1523 W. MCMURTRY 1BED‑1BATH $590 MO ALL BILLS PAID‑PETS OK FENCED YARDS‑TV INCL STILLWATER PROPERTY 405‑743‑2126 Tamarack Village 625 E. Redbud, two story 2 bedroom 1.5 bath townhouse for lease. Only $520.00 per month, $300.00 deposit, paid water and sewer.

Henneberry Properties 405‑ 372‑7395.

Walnut Grove 524 S. Walnut, Close to University, walk to class. 2 bedroom 1 bath $550.00 per month. $300.00 deposit water and sewer paid.

Henneberry Properties 405‑ 743‑4266

Highpoint Apartments Close to Boomer Lake. 2 bedroom 1 bath. Great bedrooms and big closets.

Ample parking. $480.00 per month. $300.00 deposit. Call today. Henneberry Properties 405‑743‑4266

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