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s I write this in mid-October, I am fighting the urge to put up Christmas decorations. Calle, my daughter and purveyor of some pretty shady ideas sometimes, is encouraging this. In fact, she was on me in September to just put the tree up. We’ve agreed to wait until Nov. 1, but I’m not sure we’ll hold out. Although she did just come downstairs to inform me that we can put the tree up two weeks from today. It’s not even like we go Christmas crazy in our house. We live in an old farm house with very square rooms and no hallways. So, we stick with a little pencil tree - which is an improvement from my ornaments hung up from the ceiling in the shape of a tree - and some decorations on our entertainment center/fireplace. We also have some really terrible projection lights for the front of the house. We got them on clearance and they play music and they’re awesomely terrible. We all laugh every time we see them. Somehow, though, even those few items make our house feel warm. I can’t explain it. We’re a warm family. We love loud and hard. We laugh a lot. We fight and we make up. We try to extend that warmness to the kids’ friends. But, those few decorations just make it that much more cozy. So then I spoke with Benjamin Bradley. He’s the man behind Netflix’s “Holiday Home Makeovers with Mr. Christmas.” He’s a Boonville native and New York transplant who is absolutely obsessed with Christmas. Then we spent a weekend doing super fall things. After the pumpkin patch and carving our pumpkins, I remembered that I saw a post on Facebook about a house we go to for Christmas every year. It’s one of those houses that syncs their lights to music. They did a Halloween-themed light show this year. So, we went. And it made me even more ready for Christmas. Still, though, I’m holding out. I still love fall. Thanksgiving is still my favorite holiday. It’ll just be a little more Christmassy this year - because that tree is going up Nov. 1. And seriously, Mother Nature, for the love of Christmas, give us some snow!
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here was a time when Boonville native Benjamin Bradley didn’t want people to know his level of Christmas obsessiveness. His secret is kind of out, though. Ben’s show, Holiday Home Makeover with Mr. Christmas, will air on Netflix beginning Nov. 18. It’s safe to say that the world is now aware of his love of all things Christmas. In the last couple years, he’s been featured in the New York Times twice and has been approached by other media outlets.
“I never really vocalized how much I love Christmas,” Ben said. “Everybody close to me knew. But it’s one of those interesting things in life where when you really do embrace something and you embrace it with authenticity and with passion (it shows)… All of a sudden, the passion that you have for the thing that you love blossoms because I think you allow it to. Too often times, I think we as people don’t really fully allow our loves and things to come forth because we’re either slightly embarrassed or it doesn’t seem appropriate or
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whatever. In this particular case, I think it was truly (meant to be).” The opportunity to participate in a Netflix series came from a promise he made himself. A friend of his, Stephen David of Stephen David Productions, approached him about pitching a feel-good holiday series to the networks. As he’d promised himself he’d say yes to everything for a year, Ben had no choice but to agree. After they’d shot the sizzle reel, several major networks - Hallmark, Lifetime, Disney and Netflix - all showed serious interest in the project. “When they finally did announce it officially, it was kind of a pinch yourself kind of moment,” he recalled. They began shooting in mid-October 2019. The four-episode series will feature families that are struggling with building their own holiday traditions. “I sort of work with them to sort of overcome some obstacles that they might be having with the holiday season, try to maybe invent some new traditions for them, give them some tools to create some new traditions and things they can implement for themselves in the years to come and then, of course, in that typical sort of unscripted television sort of way, they whisk them off and we come in and we do our stuff and there’s a big reveal,” Ben said. “It’s quite fun and the stories are very touching.” Season two isn’t official yet, but the casting call has gone out. If it’s renewed for a second season, Holiday Home Makeover with Mr. Christmas will start filming soon - with COVID in mind, of course. “We haven’t gotten the green light yet,” Ben said. “The thing is we’re waiting to see. It’s going to air Nov. 18. They give you about four days to see how the numbers are. This is when all the magic of Christmas goes out the window and it comes down to business. It’s all very calculated. Depending on the algorithms and who sees what, then they will green light it. So, if we do get a second season, it’s already in preproduction. There’s already a show runner hired. There’s a crew hired, the casting calls are out. If we get the go ahead, we’ll start in a few weeks
filming. If not, everybody will just have to say, ‘Oh, sorry. False alarm. You don’t get a second season.’” Ben said a third season could see Mr. Christmas coming home - to Boonville. “I know you guys have done so much with the town,” he said. “The square and all of that would just be so much fun to be able to add that extra layer on and that extra money a show like this can provide.” Ben has spent his fair share of Christmases in Boonville. He said he and his partner, Bruce, a native of Poseyville, try to come for either Christmas or Thanksgiving each year. Last year, they were filming the show until Dec. 22. This year, they can’t make the trip due to COVID concerns. Ben’s parents are 80 and in great health, but it’s just not worth the risk. But, that just highlights the importance of the holiday season this year. “Like everything in life, any of this stuff is only fun if you can share it,” he said. “I’m kind of
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BoonvilleView.com 9 interested to see what happens this year because I think there will be plenty of people who take the risk and will gather and that kind of thing. That is what the holidays are all about. If we can’t gather, I think a lot of people will question, ‘Well, why am I going to put my tree up? Why am I going to go to the effort? Why am I going to do whatever if we can’t get together?’ First and foremost, I always say I do it for myself and I do it for us as a family. I think this year it’s probably even more important. Sort of like after 9/11, I didn’t feel very Christmassy and I wasn’t very interested in doing it. But I thought, ‘You know what? If I don’t, terrorism wins.’ At this point, you have to hold on. I always do a hashtag of hope matters and home matters because
I think all of our Christmas decorations, I think all of our ornaments, I think all of the old cards you might pull out, if we can’t physically have our loved ones close, I think it’s important that we have the things that they might have given us close. I think in today’s world and in this particular time, I think it’s more important. We can all use a little more Christmas now.” The magic of the holiday lies not just in the decorations themselves, but in the feelings that they create. “This is why I think traditions are so important,” Ben said. “They give us a foundation in these uncertain times. You can make your mother’s cranberry jelly. You can make your grandmother’s pumpkin pie and even in these times where we don’t
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know what’s next or around the corner, there’s a comfort in that, I think. To me, decorating for the holidays, getting into the holiday spirit is all about creating that warmth, that safety net, that tether to what you know is real and what you know is good in these really scary, uncertain times.” Looking back, Ben can’t exactly pinpoint when his love of Christmas began. His family always did the holidays big. He loves every part - from the food to the decorations to the gifts. “I loved every element of the holiday season,” he said. “I can remember even as a kid, I was probably 7 years old, I had a small tree in my room and I can remember fibbing to my mother that the lights had broken and could I go down to the basement and get other lights - just because I wanted to redecorate it. They worked fine, I just wanted to redecorate it… When I was 17, all I wanted for Christmas was an artificial tree from Colonial Garden Center. I sat and calculated how I was going to get the money together to buy the strands of lights I needed
from K-Mart.” In high school, he give his classmates a little peek into the man that would become Mr. Christmas. He was in charge of decorating for a winter dance in the brand new auxiliary gym at Boonville High School. He had some pretty lofty ideas. “A group of us got a pickup, went out to the stripper pits because I had this idea that we would have these gigantic evergreen trees,” he laughed. “So, we went out to the stripper pits, cut all these evergreen trees. Of course, we didn’t have any way - and there was no internet at that point - of getting big enough stands for them. So we made the typical cross-base stands. We put them in, they wouldn’t stand up, and we drilled them to the brand new gym floor. We weren’t exactly the most popular people, but it sure looked good… Life is too short for ugly.” While every good aficionado has a horror story with their passion, Ben is still just in it for the warm fuzzies. “What we try to recreate, whether it’s in the decorations or the baking or setting the table or those signature dishes that you need to have for Christmas dinner, I think we’re all trying to capture the warmth and that inside fuzziness of when we think back - if we were lucky enough to have good Christmases,” he said. Holiday Home Makeover with Mr. Christmas will premier Nov. 18 on Netflix. He’s eagerly awaiting the chance to film the second season. “Everybody watch! Watch repeatedly,” Ben joked. “Watch constantly. Stream it 24/7!”
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we had them as a competitor, Fisher Brothers was still a competitor, we had Western Auto was somewhat a competitor. Farm Bureau Co-Op had a fullblown hardware store and was still a competitor. There was quite a few, but it made a big difference when we came to town.” Bruce said that their little hardware store didn’t seem to register with Kuester’s when they were out of city limits. When they moved into town, Kuester’s sent employees in to Aigner’s Hardware to check out the competition. “They walked around and didn’t say hardly a word to us,” he said. “They were thinking, ‘They aren’t going to be anything.’ They went out of business. We were just too stupid to quit. You can’t compete with stupidity. I thought, ‘You guys don’t know what you’re dealing with. We’ve been losing money for last six years. You can’t compete with that.’”
Business was so good that they outgrew that space, as well, and began looking for something bigger. So, they spoke with their friend, Todd Eissler who owned Meyer Center, about a new opportunity. “He had big space here,” Bruce said. “It’s a big space. The space was old, but the location was good. We knew if we could get closer to Walmart, the better we would do. The closer we could get to them, the better you do. We were only here a year or two and Walmart moved out. But everybody had to drive right in front of this building to go to Walmart, so it was fine. It was good.” In the meantime, the brothers were still building homes in Boonville and managing 32 rental properties. In fact, both Denny and Bruce worked at Alcoa in the beginning of their partnership, working the same shift they could build houses in their off time.
BoonvilleView.com 15 “We were raised that way,” Bruce said. “We worked a lot. We’ve always had two or three jobs. Some just really associate us with this hardware store, but we developed some property.” They decided to step back from building in 2011. Mike Hargrave, the man they assumed would take over the business when they decided to retire, was in the midst of a fight with cancer. He passed away in the fall of 2012. “He worked for us when we started out there, but he didn’t start with us out there,” Bruce said. “He could run the store. I was here all the time, but I could leave and go help Denny.” When Meyer Center was sold, Bruce and Denny decided to sign a two-year lease, but agreed that they’d be done after that. But, 2020 happened. Many of the employees of Aigner Hardware are older, so they chose to stay home during the pandemic. It was the busiest
they’d ever been. “In April, the reason we closed at 3 p.m. was because we couldn’t handle it,” Bruce said. “We couldn’t get anyone to work all day until 6 p.m.” Aigner Hardware did more cash business in April than in any other single month in its history. “One thing we didn’t realize all this time is you think things are not your competition, but if you can’t go to restaurants, you’ve got more money,” Bruce said. “You can’t go to the horse track. You couldn’t go to the boat and gamble. You couldn’t go to a sporting event. All you could do was go get food at a grocery store, go to Walmart, a hardware store, Lowe’s, Home Depot, that kind of thing. Those were the only things that were open. The mall shut down. Everything shut down. Then we give everyone $1,200 and $600 a week. We couldn’t get paint, couldn’t get sandpaper, couldn’t get staples for a staple gun.” They were ready to retire, but didn’t exactly
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BoonvilleView.com 17 have a plan for the store yet. Bruce said he would have shut the store down before he sold to a franchise. But, divine intervention stepped in. “These people out here, I think God sent them to us,” Bruce said. “We wanted it to be a family.” The people in question are Jeff and Jamie Hubbs, the new owners of Aigner Hardware. Bruce, Denny and Bruce’s wife, Sandy, celebrated their last day Sept. 30. It was an emotional week for both Bruce and Sandy, not because they’ll miss working every day, but because they’ll miss the relationships with the people they call friends and family. “What we’re going to miss most is our customers,” Sandy said. “We’ve met a lot of great people.” Sandy said she’s excited ask her favorite customers to stop by their home to get some of her home improvement projects to visit. At the end of the day, the relationships done with her newly-found free time. - both family and friends - have kept Aigner “Everybody always comes in doing all kinds of Hardware together. projects to their house,” she said. “I’m ready to “The community has been good to us and we, start that.” I think, tried to do the best we could for them,” Both Bruce and Denny said they’re ready to Sandy said. just go home. “I’m like that kid that’s homesick,” Bruce joked. “I want to go home.” Sandy isn’t quite ready to sit still, though. “I think I will (get bored),” she said. “I want to do something. I Shop Shabby Sheek Boutique for don’t know if it will be volunteerunique gifts and Christmas decor. ing or what. But after I get all my things done, I want to do something. I’m not one to just sit at home.” She’s even gone so far as to
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t was kind of divine intervention. Molly Blackford Mackey was laying in bed one October evening thinking of her late brother and trying to come up with a way of honoring his memory. A train whistle set everything on course. “I was laying in bed in a house that we had lived in for a year and a half at that point and I was thinking, ‘What can we do?’ and I heard a train whistle,” she said. “I’ve heard multiple train whistles since then, but I had never heard a train whistle at that house. I was like, ‘Of course. Of course it’s got to be trains.’ It just seemed so obvious and I hadn’t realized it.” Nathan Blackford was a longtime media
staple in the Tri-State before he passed away in 2016. Sprinkled in his impressive portfolio are hints of his true passions - trains and the Chicago Cubs. “Nathan was my older brother,” Molly said. “I cannot remember a time when he wasn’t in my life. Trains were always around when Nathan was around. It was baseball and trains - I can’t leave out baseball - but trains seemed like an easy thing to do for Christmas. He as a kid enjoyed playing with them, enjoyed building tracks. As a teenager, he had in our family’s office a huge, huge train display. I don’t know the proper terms, like the scale and all that, but it was incredible. It took up the whole room. He was always adding to it and making
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things for it. It had grass and mountains. It was just awesome to look at.” So, her idea was to collect anything trainrelated to donate to a worthy organization at Christmas. The first year, they donated nearly 50 items to Toy Town, a cause close to Nathan’s heart. “We decided to do Toy Town because Nathan had worked for Channel 14 and at that time, they were doing the Toy Town thing,” Molly said. “They did a story on it and we took the trains down there one day and dropped them off and talked to Jeff Lyons and everything. It was a lot of fun and seemed like a good way to help people.” Last year, Molly chose Borrowed Hearts, an organization that supports foster families. They were able to donate 63 items. “It’s really cool to see people who want to help and see it grow a little bit every year,” she said. This year is probably the most “Nathan.” All trains collected will be donated to Studio Bee in Boonville. “I like the idea of doing Studio Bee this year because it’s in Boonville and some of those people probably knew Nathan,” she said.
So, why trains? If you knew Nathan, you know why. He spent many years working in media in Warrick County. His impressive portfolio includes an interview with former First Lady Michelle Obama, hardhitting stories about government corruption and feel-good stories about athletes. But, peppered through his archives is story after story about trains and railroads. He even penned and published two novels, both of which were heavily themed around trains. “Nathan absolutely adored trains, every vacation we went on, starting in 1999 with our honeymoon had to have some form of
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BoonvilleView.com 21 train activity,” Nathan’s widow, Carrie, said. “Over the years we rode Amtrak all over the country, from Chicago to New York, another time out to Denver and once out to the Grand Canyon and then on to Phoenix. If we didn’t take Amtrak then we would make sure to ride a scenic railroad while we were traveling. He would spend him than his journalism career. weeks researching the area and find out all the “The two things I miss the most about Nathan history behind the railroad we would visit. Over are his humor and just his knowledge,” she the years we rode the Grand Canyon scenic said. “If I had a question about something Railroad out of Willians, Ariz., the Georgetown and it’s come up so much since he died - I Loop in Colorado, the Durango and Silverton in Colorado, The Great Smokey Mountain Railroad in Tennesee and several of our local railroads like the French Lick Railroad and the Corydon Railroad.” In his years in media, Nathan worked at nearly every media outlet in the Evansville area - newspapers, radio, television and magazines. He was the voice of the Pioneers on WBNL, a passion that stemmed from his love of sports. He could carry on a Agent conversation, call the playby-play on the radio and take 812.897.0590 notes for a print story at the AUTO • HOME • RENTERS • LIFE 3050 Warrick Drive | Boonville same time. But, while most Michael.Carey@infb.com people know the professionalish side of Nathan, Molly said there was so much more to
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would just ask Nathan because he’d probably know. It was kind of annoying, but he was just so smart, probably the smartest person I’ve ever known. I appreciate that more now that he’s gone. He was just always learning. That’s probably why he liked the media and the news. He always knew what was going on. He was always a history guy and a sports guy and he just was full of knowledge. Some of it was just random stuff that you wouldn’t even think of, but he knew it. And humor. His wit and the whole fake mayor thing that he did. Funny and dry, always making the kids laugh and always telling stories around the campfire on our cabin trips. We just miss it. We’ll always miss it.” The Amazon Wish List link can be found on the Nathan’s Trains Facebook page. Molly said she’d be happy to pick up any donations bought locally, as well. She will also match all donations made on Nov. 4 - Nathan’s 45th birthday. She will set up a day to deliver all the trains at once to Studio Bee. Carrie said that it’s not just the obvious charity of Christmas that would mean so much to her late husband. Nathan’s Trains is truly
carrying on a legacy that Nathan would be proud of. “Nathan felt that the history of these lines should be preserved,” Carrie said. “Visiting these places and taking our children were very important to him and the kids have wonderful memories with their father and all the history he shared with them. Nathan was an extremely devoted father, husband and family member, you could tell it was such a joy for him to share his love of trains with the people he loved most. I think it is just wonderful that his sister has formed this organization to continue to share his love of trains with the community.” Always included in the donation is several copies of The Little Engine that Could, which was possibly the very book that sparked Nathan’s original love of trains. “I think that he would be proud of this, not just because it’s trains, but because we’re helping people and using what happened to him in some kind of good way to help others,” Molly said.
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Twenty-twenty has not been kind. But, the holiday season is the perfect pick-me-up for those pandemic blues. Load your family up in the car and drive around these legendary local Christmas light displays.
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Just outside of Boonville is Christmas’s best kept secret. Boon Vegas Christmas features more than 32,000 lights synced to music. Bonus, it’s located on a cul-de-sac, so viewing is easy!
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Christmas in Newburgh isn’t just Christmas. The home features a beautifully spooky Halloween display, as well. The lights are perfectly synced with music and feature two 20-foot trees.
Where: 685 When: N 5 Oakmont Cour t, Newbu o update rgh has been lights ge given ye nerally c t, but ome continue nightly th on around Dec. 1a rough the first of th nd e year.
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on Pomona Ok, so this isn’t technically in Warrick County, but it’s close enough to count. This huge synced light show continues to grow every year. Be sure to come back for spring and other seasons, as well!
Where: 311 (but very 8 Pomona Drive, Evansvil n l When: C ear the Warrick County l e heck the ine) Li book pag e for up- ghts on Pomona F to-date in formatio acen about the show !
ÒDerrÕsÉ A Family Tradition for Over 100 Years!Ó
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Located just outside Chandler, the Adams Family’s HoHoHome is a regional favorite. Sing the 12 Days of Christmas at the top of your lungs and take in the rest of the massive display. Then, drive down the road, turn around and do it again! You’ll see something new every time you drive by.
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Where: 907 When: W N. Third Street hi their Fac le they give no sp ebo ec until 9 or ok page, lights a ific hours on re genera 10 lly on venturing p.m. Check soci al media out, thou before gh!
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Christmas in Boonville A quick drive down Third Street is worth your while! Woolsey’s Christmas in Boonville is a light show synced to music. They even honored the Class of 2020 this year.
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hristmas in Boon Village is a go! The annual event that rings in the holiday season with shopping, tree lighting and Boonville’s infamous Christmas Parade is still slated to take place the first weekend in December. Late-night shopping on the square will begin Friday, Dec. 4 at 5 p.m. and run through 9 p.m. Refreshments will be available. The lighting of the courthouse lawn
will be held at 6 p.m. On Sunday, the 74th annual Boonville Christmas Parade will begin at 2 p.m. As is the new normal, this year has made planning events a lot more difficult. Details are still being finalized. Be sure to watch Facebook closer to the event to get all the details! In the meantime, though, take a look back at past years’ events.
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The nitty gritty
City of Boonville Meetings are being held virtually now. Joint Board of Works and City Council meetings are broadcast each Tuesday at 4 p.m. on WBNL 99.9 FM. County Business Warrick County Commissioners meetings are now broadcast live on YouTube (search for the Warrick County Government Meetings channel). Commissioners meetings are scheduled for the second and fourth Monday of each month at 4 p.m. The Warrick County Council has been hosting its meetings via Zoom. For the most up-to-date information on dates and times, follow the Warrick County Council on Facebook. The judicial center remains closed to anything other than essential services and appointments.
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The Tieman family poses with the View in Jekyll Island, Ga., in June 2020. The building in the background is the historic Jekyll Island Clubhouse. Submit your photos with the View to emily@boonvilleview. com.
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It’s the epitome of a win/win situation. The Community Thanksgiving Dinner is a way to give back and a perfect way to enjoy Thanksgiving without having to cook a turkey - or endure the cost of cooking a Thanksgiving meal. St. Clement’s Catholic Church will host the meal prep again this year, but a few things will be different this year. Pastor Gary Young, who took over the event after the Mayer family retired, said that all workers will wear masks and gloves. Delivery drivers will not come inside the church; boxes of food will be brought out to them instead. As always, volunteers are needed to help ensure the meal runs as smoothly as possible. To volunteer, visit signup. com9870090329565040116. Donations are also welome. Food donations are accepted at Posey’s and IGA. To donate a turkey, call 812-897-4021. To donate a dessert, call 812-431-2209. To reserve a free meal, call 812-641-1089. Donations will be accepted through Nov. 20. Meal requests will be accepted through Nov. 19.
Chloe and Calle May wait in line for their delivery assignment last year.
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966 Aigner Drive, Boonville • Call (812) 217-3481
Office: (812) 897-3007 Cell: (812) 457-2622 Email: liv2bend@twc.com
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1901 Emporium.............................................24 & 25
Kyle Krantz.............................................................27
Aigner Construction...............................................44
Parker’s Ironworks.................................................45
Boonville Federal...................................................41
Pet Parlor...............................................................45
Boonville NOW......................................................15
Peoples Trust and Savings Bank..........................35
Boonville View.......................................................46
Pizza King..............................................................31
Camp’s Automotive...............................................12
Posey’s Market........................................................8
Commander’s Grill...................................................9 Ascension St. Vincent...................................29 & 48 Cron’s Body Shop.................................................27
Shabby Sheek.......................................................17
Derr’s......................................................................33
Town Square............................................................2
Double D’s.............................................................47
Transcendent ........................................................39
Dr. Eash.................................................................37
TRU Event Rental...................................................19
Dr. Hyndman..........................................................11 Warrick Animal Guardians.....................................44 Farm Bureau..........................................................21
Woodmont Health Campus...................................13
Greer’s Flooring.......................................................2
Yesterdaze.............................................................43
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