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DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Pour an abundance of comfort on the Kirk family. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.

ASSASSIN: Tyler Robinson’s family says he had criticized Charlie Kirk, saying he was “full of hate and spreading hate.” The only people saying such things were and are left-wing liberals. Charlie himself was full of God’s love and sought every day to spread that love wherever he went.

CLICK https://x.com/JeepguyTexas/status/1966457199057629352 [:28] to hear Malcolm X say, “Liberals are the most dangerous people in the western hemisphere.”

One thing I’ve found is that many of them refuse to listen. When our pastor accused our military of torturing people, we tried to hand her a copy of the section in the UCMJ that specifically forbids torture. She turned her head away and refused to take the papers. “There are none so blind as those who will not see.”

There is so much ugliness on social and legacy media right now. I’ve tried so hard not to post any of it, but I think this brief incident demonstrates all of it in just forty seconds. CLICK https://x.com/camhigby/status/1966709924748267843 [:39].

EPITAPH: The fatal shot hit Charlie Kirk at 12:23 p.m. MT. John 12:23 says, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.” CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3Y_gkDIAopk to hear Charlie Kirk talk about how he would want to be remembered.

The force of the bullet knocked him to the ground. John 12:24-26 says, “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains just a grain of wheat; but if it dies, it produces much fruit. Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will preserve it for eternal life. Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am, there also will my servant be. The Father will honor whoever serves me.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=TmrGSbjDBlVcgj82

ERIKA KIRK: [16:16] – The organization Charlie founded, Turning Point USA, is committed to identifying, educating, training, and organizing students to promote freedom. Before Charlie’s death, TP USA had 9,000 college and 1,100 high school chapters. Since his death, they have been inundated with requests for new chapters. In the first 24 hours after Erika’s speech was broadcast, they received 18,000 such requests.

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2649448881929167 [1:07] to hear a young man play America the Beautiful outside the TP USA headquarters.

FIRED: Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta has fired a pediatric nurse for her appalling social media post about Charlie’s widow and children.

CLICK https://x.com/catturd2/status/1966810847872790582 [:49] to see what got this Office Depot manager fired.

After learning that the man in a video joyfully celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk was an Eagles fan, Eagles President Jeffrey Lurie banned him and his family from attending Eagles games.

Holly DeNeve is an Indiana lawyer who no longer works for the Department of Child Services because she celebrated Charlie’s murder.

PRAYER for OUR NATION: Amen.

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There will be a reckoning

On September 10, Nick Freitas posted the following to X.

“I am told that as a state representative this is the moment where I’m supposed to express my heartfelt condolences and then stand in solidarity with those on the other side of the aisle as we condemn political violence and stand unified as one people.

“But we aren’t ‘one people’ are we?

“The truth is we haven’t been for some time now, and there is really no point in pretending anymore, if there ever was.

“We are two very different peoples. We may occupy the same piece of geography, but that is where the similarities seem to abruptly end.

“I convinced myself for a long time that whenever the left called me a racist, a bigot, a sexist, a fascist, a ‘threat to democracy’ for even the most innocent of disagreements, that it was simply hyperbolic rhetoric done for effect.

“And now the ‘effect’ is a widow and two orphaned children, because the left couldn’t bear the thought of a peaceful man debating them and winning.

“I don’t think they realize it yet, but murdering Charlie is going to be remembered as the day where we finally woke up to what this fight really is.

“It’s not a civil dispute among fellow countrymen. It’s a war between diametrically opposed worldviews which cannot peacefully coexist with one another. One side will win, and one side will lose.

“Charlie tried to win that fight through argumentation, through discussion, through peaceful resolution of differences.

“And the other side murdered him.

“Not because he was ‘extreme’ or ‘inciting violence’ or any other hyperbolic slur they hurled at him. They murdered him because he was effective. Because he was unafraid. Because he inspired others and made them feel like they had a voice, that they were not alone. And he did it at the very institutions which have fomented so much hatred toward conservatives.

“I don’t want to ‘stand in solidarity’ with the other side of the aisle. I want to defeat you. I want to defeat the godless ideology that kills babies in the womb, sterilizes confused children, turns our cities into cesspools of degeneracy and lawlessness … and that murdered Charlie Kirk.

“Social media is aflame right now with leftist celebration of Charlie’s death.

“I wonder if any among them understand what has just happened. If there is a Yamamoto somewhere in their midst warning, that all they have done is awoken a sleeping giant.

“I doubt it. I think they gave up such introspection and self-awareness long ago.

“I don’t know exactly what will happen next. I just know that it won’t be the same as what has happened in the past.

“There will be thoughts and prayers … Charlie would have wanted prayers. Not for himself but for those left behind and for the country that he loved.

“But then there will be a reckoning.

“My Christian faith requires me to love my enemies and pray for those who curse me. It does not require me to stand idly by in the midst of savagery and barbarism … quite the opposite. So every time I feel tired, every time I feel discouraged or overwhelmed, I am going to watch the video of a good man being murdered in Utah … I will force myself to watch it … and then I will return to the work of destroying the evil ideology responsible for that and so much more.

“Rest with God Charlie, your fight is over.

“Ours is just beginning.”

Below, Nick reads his post and the response from the Speaker of the Virginia House, then responds.

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DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Make us innocent as doves and wise as serpents. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.

ANTI-CHRISTIAN BIAS: [8:21] – The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) just published a report entitled “Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias Within the Federal Government.” It recounts a “consistent and systematic pattern of discrimination” against Christians by the Biden administration. The 48-page document is linked below.

In February, President Trump established the Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias, which is chaired by Attorney General Pam Bondi. The task force is charged with ensuring that “any unlawful and improper conduct, policies, or practices that target Christians are identified, terminated, and rectified.”

BEWARE of FALST PROPHETS : CLICK https://x.com/DefiantLs/status/1965062570303517018 [:57] to hear a Christian preacher speak nonsense to score political points. Jesus was neither an “illegal immigrant” nor a “refugee.” Israel and Egypt were both part of the Roman Empire. His legal status was defined as a peregrinus, a common-born provincial who, while not a Roman citizen, was under the sovereign control of Rome. This status was not legally equivalent to foreign nationals who are here on valid visas, but it’s similar enough to understand that He was both documented and free to travel.

CARTEL WAR: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=752425524215883 [1:09] to hear Judge Jeanine lay it all out.

CHICAGO: On September 8, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) launched Operation Midway Blitz in honor of Katie Abraham who was killed in a drunk driving hit-and-run car wreck caused by a criminal illegal alien. The agency says, “This ICE operation will target the criminal illegal aliens who flocked to Chicago and Illinois because they knew Governor Pritzker and his sanctuary policies would protect them and allow them to roam free on American streets.”

MAHA: Best comment – “I propose calling Elizabeth Warren ‘Pharmahontas’ from now on.”

READ AND WEEP: I can’t go here.

SCOTUS: [11:14] – Justice Barrett talks with Brett Baier. Her new book, “Listening to the Law: Reflections on the Court and Constitution,” was released yesterday.

VAXXXINES: The Food and Drug Administration is investigating reports of child deaths after COVID-19 vaccination. They’re looking at the VAERS database, talking with family members of the deceased children, reviewing autopsy reports and having physicians do the review.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tPfO4F27jwo for a cool tip for LEGO geeks.

And speaking of LEGO geeks, CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rywgCtDi-pI.

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Today’s Meditation from Christian Art

By Father Patrick van der Vorst

Gospel Reading: Luke 5:33-38

“At that time: The Pharisees and scribes said to him, ‘The disciples of John fast often and offer prayers, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink.’ And Jesus said to them, ‘Can you make wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in those days.’ He also told them a parable: ‘No one tears a piece from a new garment and puts it on an old garment. If he does, he will tear the new, and the piece from the new will not match the old. And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed. But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins.'”

Today we celebrate the feast of Saint Teresa of Calcutta, better known to the world as Mother Teresa. Born in 1910 in Skopje (present-day North Macedonia), she entered the Loreto Sisters in Ireland as a young woman and soon moved to India, where she taught at a girls’ school in Calcutta. In 1946, during a train journey, she experienced what she later described as a “call within a call”: the deep conviction that Jesus was asking her to leave the security of her convent and dedicate herself to serving the poorest of the poor. With nothing but a simple white sari and a heart full of faith, she began walking the streets of Calcutta, tending to the sick, abandoned, and dying.

In time, others joined her, and the Missionaries of Charity were founded, growing into a worldwide order dedicated to serving the poor, sick and vulnerable. Mother Teresa became a global symbol of compassion, not because of great speeches or grand buildings, but because of her radical closeness to those whom society had cast aside. She tended wounds, lifted dying bodies off the streets, and reminded the forgotten that they were beloved children of God. For her, each suffering person was “Jesus in a distressing disguise” as she referred to. Her life was a living testimony that holiness is not found in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things with extraordinary love to ordinary people.

The Gospel for today speaks of the “new wine” of Jesus’ teaching that cannot be contained by old wineskins. Mother Teresa’s vocation was just such a new wine. She left behind the old wineskin of convent life and poured herself completely into the new mission God gave her. Her witness reminds us that the Gospel is always fresh, always challenging, always pushing us beyond comfort and convention. Like the new wine, God’s call can burst open our old patterns, leading us into unexpected places where His love is most needed.

Our watercolour by American artist John Alan Warford is beautiful in its simplicity: a tender, intimate scene of Mother Teresa gently tending to the wounds of a sick person.

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Minneapolis Shooting

Dear Lord, We ask Your gracious blessings on all those affected by this act of pure evil. Grant them the graces they need to heal in mind, body, and spirit. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.

Two children are dead after a Trump-hating trannie opened fire during morning Mass at Annunciation Catholic School. The shooter was also found dead at the scene. The 17 injured, who were mostly children, are all expected to survive. CLICK https://x.com/FoxNews/status/1960781221354475522 [:10] to hear a 10-year-old describe what he experienced.

Democrats sneered at Vance’s tweet. But if they’d done nothing, they’d have squee’d they didn’t care. It’s all getting so old.

Jen Psaki posted the atrocious thoughts above. J.D. Vance responded, “We pray because our hearts are broken. We pray because we know God listens. We pray because we know that God works in mysterious ways, and can inspire us to further action. Why do you feel the need to attack other people for praying when kids were just killed praying?”

The New York Slime reported that nobody has any idea what the shooter’s motive might have been.

CLICK https://x.com/GuntherEagleman/status/1960874477371208169 [2:23] to hear her Psaki weep about the shootings, then sneer at those who offer prayer, then worry over the safety of trans people all over the world.

CLICK https://x.com/TPostMillennial/status/1960734495184650705 [1:08] to hear Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey also mock prayer, then assure us all that “Minneapolis will continue to be a safe haven for the trans community.”

All of Minnesota too. Have any of the morons blaming Republicans for this even noticed that Minnesota is a blue state whose coocoo pants governor was recently the Democrat’s pick for Vice President? But yeah … let’s all ignore the fact that this was an anti-Catholic hate crime committed by an ardent member of the Leftist tribe.

CLICK https://x.com/GuntherEagleman/status/1960877631185760567 [2:33] to hear Psaki ask Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey how liberals can prevent the facts about the shooter getting out so they can blame the guns. It’s sickening to listen to this garbage from people like her who grab every opportunity to politicize and weaponize before the facts are in.

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DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Grant us the graces we need to see our sins as You see them. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.

BOLTON: [17:59] – Mark Levin gives his take on the raid of John Bolton’s home.

CATHOLIC: The Chicago White Sox honored Pope Leo XIV by commemorating the seat where then-Father Robert Prevost sat during the 2005 World Series.

DOGE: Last week, agencies terminated 163 wasteful contracts, saving We the Taxpayers $647 million. Included was a $35 million USAID contract to “acquire contractor support to establish and manage a flexible, quick response mechanism supporting activities that will support democracy and stability in El Salvador.

HISTORY: Dearest had to drink goat milk. But he did not have to use the actual goat. 🙂

INTELLIGENT DESIGN: Flatfish start out symmetrical like other fish, but during development, one eye migrates to the other side of the body. They lie flat on the seafloor with both eyes facing up. They could not have evolved, because the intermediate forms have no survival value. Plus, they have been found fossilized in layers with many other varieties of fish.

MIDTERMS: [8:23] – Dr. Steve Turley explains the redistricting war that could possibly give Trump a strong majority in the House for his last two years.

MINNESOTA: “Chicken Jockey”, a ten year old skater from Minnesota, went viral after her adorable performance in the Open Inflatables Final competition at the 2025 National Showcase, August 2, 2025, in Rochester, MI. She came in third.

GRAMMY NOTES: Prayers please for my daughter and her family. They lost a dear friend over the weekend and are grieving.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/x8r1tTIgsO0 for a good feelz.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/s7R7P3VztQ0 for another one.

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The Counterfeit Catholic Church

Everyone acts like Islam “came out of nowhere” in the 7th century. It didn’t. It was built by lifting Catholic ideas, stripping them down, and repackaging them as “new revelation.” Let’s expose a few.

The Angel Gabriel

Appears to Mary in Luke 1. He brings the Word that becomes flesh. That’s Catholic revelation.

600 years later, “Gabriel” appears to Muhammad in a cave. But this time? No Incarnation. Just dictation. Sound familiar?

The Virgin Mary

Catholics had venerated Mary as Mother of God for centuries. Ephesus (431 AD) settled it: Theotokos.

Islam? Mary gets lifted wholesale into the Qur’an… but Christ’s divinity is stripped out. It’s like stealing the frame and burning the painting.

The Eucharist

From the start, the Church celebrated the Body & Blood of Christ at the altar. “Unless you eat, you have no life in you.”- John 6

Islam? Denies it, but keeps the “ritual meal” vibe in Ramadan’s breaking of the fast. A hollow echo.

Monasticism & Prayer

By the 4th century, Catholic monks prayed fixed hours daily. The Divine Office. Bells. Prostrations.

Islam? Five daily prayers facing a holy city. Prostrations. Ritual words. Copied—minus Christ.

Pilgrimage

Christians had pilgrimages to Jerusalem, the Holy Sepulchre, martyrs’ shrines. Long before Muhammad.

Islam? Hijacks the practice, re-centers it on Mecca, strips it of the Cross.

Scripture & Authority

The Church had the canon of Scripture locked down by the 4th century. Magisterium safeguarded it.

Islam? Claims a “book from heaven” with no witnesses, no councils, no continuity. Just one man’s word.

The irony?

  • Islam denies the very truths it borrows.
  • Loves Mary, but denies her Son is God.
  • Honors Jesus, but calls Him a prophet, not a Savior.
  • Copies prayer, pilgrimage, fasting—while rejecting the Cross that gives them meaning.

Islam is not an “independent revelation.” It’s a remix of Catholic truths— distorted, stripped of Christ, and repackaged as “submission.”

The Catholic Church: ✝️ The blueprint.

Islam: ☪️ The counterfeit.

And here’s the uncomfortable truth: If you admire Islam’s discipline, prayer, fasting, pilgrimage — You’re admiring Catholic practices Islam stole.

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Original was posted by Totus Catholica @ https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxlXtvd9_PyoyCS2pbrBRGxZXmgdCbUUb3

Graphics and slight edits added by CtH.

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DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Remind us always that You love us so much more than we loved our babies who did nothing but eat, sleep, cry, spit up, pee, and poop. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.

BORDER: According to the Center for Immigration Studies, Trump’s policies have netted an overall drop of 2.2 million in the nation’s foreign-born population.

In other news, ICE is running a recruitment drive, funded by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed into law on July 4 by President Donald Trump. So far, more than 100,000 Americans have applied.

CONNECTICUT: In June, Democrat State Rep. Raghib Allie-Brennan was charged with shoplifting at a Target. He’s just been charged with not only committing the same crime, but doing it at the same location.

CREATION: Owls have offset ears; one is higher than the other, allowing them to triangulate sound in three dimensions. This anatomical feature gives them pinpoint accuracy in finding prey even under snow. Such asymmetry only works when both the ear placement and the brain’s sound processing are fully coordinated. A half-formed system wouldn’t offer any survival advantage, which means they were designed as a complete unit from the beginning.

DOGE: The Fourth Circuit Court handed Trump another win by removing a block imposed by a lower court that had been preventing DOGE from accessing data within various federal departments.

EVERYDAY HEROES: Two firefighters arrived at an accident scene to find everyone safe—but one little girl still trembling with fear. She clutched bottles of bright nail polish, her eyes wide.

Instead of talking about the crash, they knelt down, asked about her colors, and invited her to paint their nails. Her smile bloomed, the fear faded, and for a few precious minutes, the flashing lights and sirens disappeared.

When they left, their nails were far from regulation—but they were painted in the perfect shade of comfort and kindness. Sometimes, the greatest rescue is simply helping someone feel safe again.

There’s a television news clip at the link.

FRANKFURT SCHOOL SUCCESS: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/J44ttkYa5wo to hear how “Baby, it’s cold outside” was canceled by the left, while “WAP” was played over and over.

WAP won the American Music Awards (2020): Favorite Rap/Hip Hop Song; BET Awards (2021): Video of the Year and Best Collaboration; BET Hip Hop Awards (2021): Song of the Year, Best Hip Hop Video, and Best Collaboration.

WAP was also nominated for iHeartRadio Music Awards (2021): Best Music Video, Favorite Music Video Choreography; MTV Video Music Awards (2021): Video of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Hip Hop, Best Collaboration, Song of Summer; and Gold Derby Awards (2021): Best Music Video.

Cardi B said of her lyrics’ reputation for being “freaky and nasty” – “I grew up listening to freaky-ass rappers and I feel like this is very mild compared to them. … When WAP came out, the people that were critizing it the most and saying it was nasty and freaky weren’t even religious people. It was mainly republicans. Big republicans, not senates, it was literally the motherfuckers that got blue checks on Twitter, the big influencers. And I think it was because I used to endorse Bernie and then Joe Biden.”

::smh::

JASMINE CROCKETT: [13:40] – Benny Johnson exposed Jasmine Crockett as an even bigger elitist fraud than AOC or Bernie Sanders.

PENNSYLVANIA: [14:10] – Moving strongly from blue to purple to red.

RUSSIAN COLLUSION HOAX: CLICK https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1955587369572409831 [3:42] to hear John Solomon of Just The News give a brief summary of what he reports in the article in “Comey’s media mole told FBI he shaped Russia narrative, needed ‘discount’ to deny leaking intel” which is linked below.

TRANS: More than 20 clinics have stopped gender-related treatments for minors.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1259696805856386 and watch Wyatt’s ears turn red. ❤

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/B0_0gSf0bqE and LOL.

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A Meditation on the Perpetual Virginity of Mary

Joseph never slept with Mary.

Not before Jesus.

Not after Jesus.

Not ever.

And the reason why?

It’s not what you think.

Let’s talk about the forgotten Jewish custom that flips this whole story upside down.

Imagine this:

A man marries a woman and chooses never to touch her.

Not because he’s weak.

Not because he’s cold.

But because he knows who she is.

Joseph didn’t “hold back.”

He bowed before the Ark of God.

Yes. I said it.

Mary is the Ark of the New Covenant.

Just like the Ark in 2 Samuel 6, her body carried the Divine Presence.

And just like the old Ark, her body was untouchable – not out of legalism, but out of awe.

In Luke 1:34, Mary tells the angel,

“How can this be since I do not know man?”

She’s already betrothed.

Why say that?

Because she had already made a vow of virginity.

A Jewish custom not many know existed.

Yes, consecrated virginity within marriage.

Joseph was a devout Jew.

A “just man” (Matthew 1:19).

That doesn’t mean confused. It means reverent.

He didn’t reject Mary out of suspicion.

He stepped back because he knew:

“This woman belongs to God.”

This wasn’t repression.

This was radical holiness.

Joseph wasn’t less of a man.

He was more.

He understood something most of us miss:

You don’t claim what God has consecrated.

You protect it.

And let me make this blunt:

Mary’s womb wasn’t just a vessel.

It was the Holy of Holies.

Joseph was no ordinary husband.

He was the guardian of the untouchable, the silent protector of God’s dwelling place.

You might think that’s weird.

But weird to us doesn’t mean wrong.

Joseph and Mary’s marriage wasn’t a loophole in the law.

It was a sign of heaven itself.

A love that gives, not takes.

Modern minds are scandalized by virginity.

Ancient minds were scandalized by touching the sacred.

Joseph’s silence speaks louder than our discomfort.

He teaches us this:

Some things are too holy to claim.

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DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Please grant each of us a deep and abiding love for prayer, both private and communal. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.

BLACK DEATH: [8:04] – Learn how scientists discovered the original source of the deadly bacterium and how it made its way to Europe in the Middle Ages.

D.C.: [10:06] – This is exactly what the Frankfurt School wanted.

FEMINISM AGAINST PROGRESS: The link is cued up to begin at the speech itself, so you don’t have to sit through introductions etc. [1:28:25] – Mary Harrington, author of Feminism Against Progress, describes herself as a “reactionary feminist.” She argues that the pursuit of progress has, in many ways, undermined the well-being of the majority of women, creating new forms of dependence and inequality.

This talk is long, but worth your time. (If you prefer to read, click the transcript button below the video.) As I listen to it, I am struck by how much of what she describes is what the Frankfurt School promoted. And she does it standing in front of a supremely chaotic and ugly mural, something the Frankfurters would be applauding … if they weren’t all (likely) burning in Hell.

Her summary line is this: “As we stare down the monster of money and technology and ‘no truth, only power,’ Christian theology really is the only place left to stand. … There’s no other body of thought that can make the case for human nature as creatures of both flesh and spirit, capable of directing our purpose beyond the mere pursuit of food, sex, money, and status power.”

MEDIA: [4:35] – “It’s like trying to understand nature by going to the zoo.”

VAXXXINES: [2:22] – HHS Secretary Kennedy explains why 22 mRNA vaccine development contracts, totaling about $500 million, and will prioritize ‘safer’ vaccine alternatives.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1100969061964496 for a really clever idea to help young kids deal with long car rides.

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