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Thread: Scene 2: Elizabeth has a Visitor
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Director
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Ooooh, that shade of blue really compliments your complexion...
Afternoon in a town with no name somewhere in the hill country of Judea. Tinkles of delicate girlish laughter issue from a nearby house.
[ 10. December 2002, 19:51: Message edited by: Director ]
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Miffy
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Narrator
Nativity Play
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Recap
Ladies and gentlemen
Young children and old
Our tale has begun
The story unfolds
Mary has heard
She will give birth
To God the Saviour
Of all the earth
She finally got
Gabriel's text
And at his message
Was most perplexed
She was amazed
By this great news
But, though a maiden,
She didn't refuse
So stay with us now
Pull up a pew
Believe it or not
Time for scene two
Scene 2
Now Mary's in the family way
What are the neighbours going to say
She wonders now just how to act
(The situation will take tact)
So off to see her cousin Liz
To ask her what the best plan is
(She's six month's gone herself, you know,
Long past the stage it starts to show).
With sage wise words and good advice
She'll curse all men and call them lice
For girlfriends know just what to say
All aided by some Chardonnay
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Musical Director
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*soundtrack of 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun'*
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ChrisT sez: *sigh* Let's take it once more from the top...
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Virgin Mary
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Giggles
So I said to him, I said, Look Joey, I said, you know I'm a good girl. What are you implying? Honestly Liz, who does he think he is? I mean to say.....
Oh go on then... just another glass. Want an After Eight?
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Can you have a white wedding in blue?
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Jesus' evil twin
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Um, what's with this wine crap? Can we get some real liquor down here, please?
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Erin (of course)
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Virgin Mary
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Deep sigh
You know, Liz, this being preggers isn't all it's cracked up to be, either. Have you got any indigestion mints?... one of these babies isn't all that meek and mild.
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Can you have a white wedding in blue?
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Jesus' evil twin
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I heard that!
*kick*
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Erin (of course)
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Narrator
Nativity Play
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<Sotto voce>
You mean we've got Gabriel tonight but no Elizabeth. ![[Disappointed]](graemlins/disappointed.gif)
Gabriel - busk something.
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Chapelhead
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Virgin Mary
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Er... Liz? Are you all right in there?
knocks on the bathroom door
Liz?? Liz?????
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(Smudgie)
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Musical Director
Nativity Play
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Er chaps, Elizabeth ain't showing. Can we play something to cover the situation?
Great suggestion: Don't Let it Show by the Alan Parsons Project for Mary...
Remind me why I hired you?
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ChrisT sez: *sigh* Let's take it once more from the top...
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Stable Cat
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*stable cat wanders in, sniffs delicately at the snacks. anything interesting here?*
prrrrttt? mrrrit.
[ 10. December 2002, 20:21: Message edited by: Musical Director ]
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nicolemrw says "meow!"
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chief stage manager
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*Lord, love a duck! ... sends indigestion mints onstage for Virgin Mary....
I thought that cat was out of commission!* ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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Narrator
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<From the prompt box>
Psstt, Mary - do the "My soul doth maginify.." bit.
And keep it going.
I'll try to find some musicians to fill in for a while.
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Virgin Mary
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Oh cat gingerly strokes cat, it looks like just you and me, then.
I come here for a girl's night in with my cousin Liz...a few drinks, a good old natter, and Mr Darcy on the video... and she ends up locked in the lavatory. I told her that curry last night wasnt' a good idea!
Mum's in a huff with me and won't reply to my texts, I've had a row with Joseph - honestly, who does that man think he is? - and I've got parrot droppings all over my nice new blue dress.
Oh, and I don't know what that baby's up to but I wish she'd sweetly sleep and not stir quite so much. I don't know, I think she could play f**tb*ll for England when she grows up, the way she's going on.
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Can you have a white wedding in blue?
(Smudgie)
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Narrator
Nativity Play
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<Sotto voce>
Last night we couldn't move for sheep - where are they now?
We could at least do "Mary had a little lamb".
<Gives up a futile struggle and heads for the whisky bottle again>
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Chapelhead
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Tealady
Nativity Play
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quote:
Originally posted by Narrator:
<Gives up a futile struggle and heads for the whisky bottle again>
That's another fifteen quid, please dearie... Sorry? Well it doesn't LOOK like you've started...
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Virgin Mary
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quote:
Originally posted by Musical Director:
Er chaps, Elizabeth ain't showing. Can we play something to cover the situation?
Great suggestion: Don't Let it Show by the Alan Parsons Project for Mary...
Remind me why I hired you?
Hearing the band start up, Mary glances down at her costume... notices the small cushion is just beginning to slip.... runs behind the curtain. A few minor readjustments later and she returns to the stage, looking a little more serene
My soul doth magnify...er...doth magnify....
pssssst, Narrator.. I hadn't mugged up this bit of the script yet. What is it I'm supposed to be zooming in on?
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Can you have a white wedding in blue?
(Smudgie)
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Musical Director
Nativity Play
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OK chaps, let's try a calypso version of Where Is She? by Donovan. And yes Geoff, you can have a baritone sax solo...
A-one, a-two, a-three and a-four...
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ChrisT sez: *sigh* Let's take it once more from the top...
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Narrator
Nativity Play
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quote:
Originally posted by Tealady:
That's another fifteen quid, please dearie... Sorry? Well it doesn't LOOK like you've started...
<Hands over notes and takes bottle into corner>
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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Sheep
Nativity Play
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Wanders to the doorway, looks inside, wonders why the cat's getting his belly stroked.
Baaaaaaaaa!
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I may be just a purple sheep with a funny nose, but ThatsMrJuice 2U!
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Stable Cat
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*the cat, who is perfectly willing to be friendly if just treated with proper respect, purrs looudly*
puurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr..........
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nicolemrw says "meow!"
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Angel 2
Nativity Play
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Angel 2 appears on stage, realises no one is going to ask her to sing and sits down against a tree muttering to herself.
Here I am all hale and hearty,
those other angels went off to a party.
I think I'll sit and wait to see,
what I can do, what about me/ ![[Angel]](graemlins/angel.gif)
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From an extinct bird to a live Angel - AKA Huia
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Musical Director
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Someone should have told me we were doing bloomin' Noah's Ark...
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Fairy Godmother
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*Wanders nonchanantly back stage with percussion and wand*
Whistles
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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Sheep
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Wanders into the room, grabs some cheese from the snack table, then settles down for a nap. All that sheep fighting in the previous scene has made Rudolph tired.
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I may be just a purple sheep with a funny nose, but ThatsMrJuice 2U!
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Virgin Mary
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Do you know, cat. I'd be feeling really blessed among women if I didn't have this terrible indigestion. God's been pretty good to me, you know... I mean, I know everyone's talking about me behind my back, gossiping and saying I'm no better than I should be. But despite all that, God is my Saviour and he's done me a real honour choosing me to be the mummy for his ickle baby son. Tickles cat indulgently under chin All those stuck up tittle tattles around the town, he'll soon shut them up. Did he pick one of them? No.. not on your nelly. Probably not a proper virgin among them, you know. No, he picked me, his humble handmaiden. Not bad, eh? You know, I bet people will be talking about this for months!!!!
HEY LIZ... ARE YOU SURE YOU'RE ALL RIGHT IN THERE?
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Can you have a white wedding in blue?
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Fairy Godmother
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*Drops percussion on floor*
Sorry.....
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chief stage manager
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![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
(Didn't this pathetic crew ever hear of Understudies?)
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Deputy Chief Shepherd
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quote:
Originally posted by Fairy Godmother:
*Drops percussion on floor*
OUCH! ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif)
[Fixed quote]
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Yes, I'm a madferret. And that's my own teatowel.
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Fairy Godmother
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quote:
Originally posted by Deputy Chief Shepherd:
quote:
Originally posted by Fairy Godmother:
*Drops percussion on floor*
OUCH!
Sorry - didn't see you down there shorty
Right anything I can do?
[Fixed quoted quote]
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It could only be Nanny Ogg
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Virgin Mary
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quote:
Originally posted by chief stage manager:
(Didn't this pathetic crew ever hear of Understudies?)
Mary grabs the stage manager and drags her, struggling valiently, onto the stage.
Oh Liz... THERE you are! I thought you'd abandoned me! Gosh, you've put some weight on, coz!
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Sheep 3
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[Sheep 3, having just wandered onto the set to nibble the new scenery, is startled by the loud noise from the orchestra pit and bolts across the stage, knocking down Mary on the way.]
Baaa-aaaaa!
Baaaaaaaaaaa.
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Virgin Mary
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Hmmmm..... I've heard sheepskin is just the thing for keeping ickle babies warm..... ![[Snigger]](graemlins/snigger.gif)
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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Sheep
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Wakes up, wonders who's making all that racket. Thinking Sheep 3 needs to cut down on the caffeine.
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Fairy Godmother
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*Bored with having nothing to do as yet lifts up skirt and removes obe of the hip flasks strapped to her thigh*
That's better - now I'm ready for action ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
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chief stage manager
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quote:
Originally posted by Virgin Mary:
Oh Liz... THERE you are! I thought you'd abandoned me! Gosh, you've put some weight on, coz!
Nonsense, I weigh an anorexic amount and I'm lacking any pillow stuffing! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Virgin Mary
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Grabs a stray sheep and rams it into stage manager's overalls
Oh Liz... you have put on weight! I could swear you were pregnant too, if I didn't know you and Zech are past it.
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chief stage manager
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Yeah, I'll bet you thought we didn't still do it, did ya?
Little do you know, I have a surprise of my own......
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The original bessie rosebride.
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St. Elizabeth
Nativity Play
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[ Liz runs on stage, quite, quite, frazzled ]
I'm here! I'm here! Sorry I'm late but I had a bit of a difficult time getting here today. I slipped on a patch of ice and fell and it was not pleasant....sorry, where were we?
[ takes swig of Bombay Sapphire from bottle, then hiddes it under her maternity robe again ]
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Elizabeth Anne, who will soon no longer live on Tenth Street.
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Fairy Godmother
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Mutters
Strange looking baby that's all I can say
Typical country folk
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Virgin Mary
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So come on, sit yourself down, Liz. Pour another glass of wine and I'll get the Maltesers out and you can tell me all about it.
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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Sheep
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OUCH! That hurts!
Looks up to see who this strange person this sheep happens to be sharing a pair of overalls with.
Baaaaaaaaaa?
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chief stage manager
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*Exits stage left......*
Tealady, I need a drink. I'll pay anything and everything. My nerves have been frayed to the last frazz!
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The original bessie rosebride.
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Virgin Mary
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Ah! Two Lizzes???? And both pregnant!!! Hmmm....
shoves stage manager firmly back behind the curtain
Ah, Liz... there you are! Gosh you have put on weight!
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Can you have a white wedding in blue?
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St. Elizabeth
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Dear, dear Mary! [Pours wine for both of them] It is so very good to see you again. I must say that shade of blue is very flattering on you!
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Elizabeth Anne, who will soon no longer live on Tenth Street.
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Virgin Mary
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Come on Liz, sit down and have a Malteser. It's just getting to the good bit on Pride and Prejudice, and I want to hear all your news.
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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Sheep
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Backstage, jumps out of stage manager's overalls, shakes self off, looking quite frazzled. Runs across stage, into audience.
Baaaaaaa! Baaaaaaaaaa!
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I may be just a purple sheep with a funny nose, but ThatsMrJuice 2U!
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St. Elizabeth
Nativity Play
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Oh, well, as you can probably notice, I'm six months along. It's been ever so dreadful-boring around here! Zechy hasn't spoken since that angel took his voice away for doubting that I was indeed with child. He called me too old. Imagine! I think I need another Malteser.
And you, my dear, have put on a little weight as well!
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Elizabeth Anne, who will soon no longer live on Tenth Street.
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Fairy Godmother
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*Calls out from wings*
Here Mary - is that the bit where Darcy's just been swimming and he's all wet and gorgeous?
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Tealady
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From far away there is a sound of rattling wheels. As it gets closer and closer it gets louder and louder and faster and faster. From stage left the tea trolley appears doing about 30mph. The Tealady, lying flat across its top shelf, sticks out both hands and swipes the bottles from the hand of Elizabeth and the ... nether regions... of the Fairy Godmother. Trolley zooms off stage right. Squeal of wheels and smell of burning rubber
Here you are CSM. Let's say fifty quid for the pair of them, shall we?
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