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Hello and Welcome to THE REALIST ARCHIVE PROJECT
a complete and unexpurgated republishing of all 146 issues (including supplements and related ephemera) of The Realist (historic underground magazine, more information)

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Four issues posted a month until the archive is complete. Archive currently holds 86 full issues.

Current List of Available Issues: ------------------------------------ Issue No. 01 - PREMIERE ISSUE - AN ANGRY YOUNG MAGAZINE (1958) Issue No. 02 - SEX EDUCATION FOR THE MODERN CATHOLIC CHILD (1958) Issue No. 08 - THE SEMANTICS OF GOD by Robt Anton Wilson (1959) Issue No. 09 - ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE BIRTH CONTROL PILL (1959) Issue No. 10 - THE INCREDIBLE SAGA OF A PSYCHOQUACK (1959) Issue No. 11 - BOMBING OF A BUDDHIST MISSION (1959) Issue No. 12 - CATHOLICISM AND SEX EDUCATION (1959) Issue No. 15 - AN IMPOLITE INTERVIEW WITH LENNY BRUCE (1960) Issue No. 16 - AN IMPOLITE INTERVIEW WITH DR ALBERT ELLIS (1960) Issue No. 18 - INTERVIEW WITH AN ANARCHIST/COMMUNIST (1960) Issue No. 24-25 - COLLEGE TEACHER IN MISSISSIPPI (1962) Issue No. 26 - HUGH HEFFNER INTERVIEWED (1961) Issue No. 27 - LINCOLN ROCKWELL INTERVIEWED (1961) Issue No. 31 - THE F.B.I. IN PEACE AND COLD WAR (1962) Issue No. 32 - PRES. KENNEDY'S UNKNOWN FIRST MARRIAGE (1962) Issue No. 33 - THE REPEAT SET, PART ONE (1962) Issue No. 34 - THE REPEAT SET, PART TWO (1962) Issue No. 39 - JOSEPH HELLER INTERVIEWED (1962) Issue No. 40 - NORMAN MAILER INTERVIEWED (1962) Issue No. 41 - THE ARREST OF LENNY BRUCE (1963) Issue No. 44 - THE TRIAL OF EROS MAGAZINE pt 1 (1963) Issue No. 45 - THE TRIAL OF EROS MAGAZINE pt 2 (1963) Issue No. 46 - THE TRIAL OF EROS MAGAZINE pt 3 (1963) Issue No. 48 - DISCRIMINATION WITH SWEAT (1964) Issue No. 49 - LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ISSUE (1964) Issue No. 51 - COMMUNISM AND THE DEMON A.A. (1964) Issue No. 54 - THE FECALPHILES by LENNY BRUCE (1964) Issue No. 58 - WOODY ALLEN INTERVIEWED (1965) Issue No. 59 - COMIC BOOK ESCALATION OF THE WAR IN VIETNAM (1965) Issue No. 60 - NORMAN MAILER LBJ / P.K. ON LSD (1965) Issue No. 61 - EXPERTS AND OTHER DANGERS (1965) Issue No. 64 - HELLS ANGELS vs BERKELEY VIETNIKS (1966) Issue No. 66 - I WAS AN ABORTIONIST FOR THE FBI (1966) Issue No. 68 - ANDY WARHOL'S MR STOMPANATO / THE FUGS (1966) Issue No. 69 - TIMOTHY LEARY INTERVIEWED (1966) Issue No. 71 - RONALD REAGAN FOR GOVERNOR, GET TUFTS! (1966) Issue No. 73 - THE DEATH OF LENNY BRUCE (1967) Issue No. 74 - THE JFK/DISNEY ISSUE (1967) Issue No. 75 - THE POST-JFK ISSUE MEDIA REPORT (1967) Issue No. 76 - THE SPIRIT OF '69 by Dick Guindon (1967-68) Issue No. 77 - FINAL SOLUTIONS-VIETNAMESE QUESTION (1968) Issue No. 78 - FINAL SOLUTIONS-ASSASSINATION QUESTION (1968) Issue No. 79 - FINAL SOLUTIONS-ISRAELI QUESTION (1968) Issue No. 80 - FINAL SOLUTIONS-LATRINALIA QUESTION (1968) Issue No. 81 - THE DIGGER PAPERS (1968) Issue No. 82 - THE YIPPIES ARE GOING TO CHICAGO (1968) Issue No. 84 - GROUPIES/ABBIE HOFFMAN'S SHIRT (1968) Issue No. 85 - THE MONTHLY ISSUES SET (December 68 - June 69) Issue No. 87 - THE HOG FARM and THE OAKLAND 7 pt 2 (1969) Issue No. 87 - CHARLES MANSON AND THE G.L.F. (1970) Issue No. 88 - MARTHA MITCHELL SPEED FREAK/PIGASUS WEDDED (1971) Issue No. 89 - THE LAST SUPPLEMENT WHOLE EARTH CTLG (1971) Issue No. 90 - KEN KESEY INTERVIEWED (1971) Issue No. 93 - WILL REVOLUTION SPOIL GROUCHO MARX? (1972) Issue No. 94 - CLOCKWORK ORANGE ISSUE (1972) Issue No. 101 - FRANKENSTEIN AND THE FETUS BOOMERS (1986) Issue No. 102 - HOW TO PASS A URINE TEST (1986) Issue No. 103 - MURDER AT THE HUMOR CONVENTION (1987) Issue No. 104 - THE HARLAN ELLISON ROAST (1987) Issue No. 108 - WHY I VOTED FOR DUKAKIS/WHY I VOTED FOR BUSH (1989) Issue No. 122 - CLINTON'S COCAINE CONNECTION (1993) Issue No. 136 - ALLEN GINSBERG'S LAST LAUGH (1997) Issue No. 137 - THE DIVORCE-LAND THEME PARK (1997) Issue No. 142 - THE SATANIC SIMPSONS (1999) SUPPLEMENT No. 001 - FUCK COMMUNISM (1963) SUPPLEMENT No. 002 - PAUL KRASSNER LIES (1975) ------------------------------------ INDEX: ABBIE HOFFMAN ARTICLES IN THE REALIST INDEX: SCIENTOLOGY ARTICLES IN THE REALIST ------------------------------------ RSS Feed Other things found on this website

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NEW FOR THE MONTH OF MAY, 2009: RADIO ICON JEAN SHEPHERD ON BOREDOM - ALLEN GINSBERG ON ABBIE HOFFMAN'S ARREST - and - GOOFY ON DONALD DUCK

Issue No. 42, August 1963 24 pages, click to read Including Boredom as a Way of Life by Jean Shepherd, Portrait of a Stereotype by Michael Valenti, and The Fastest Groin in the West.

Issue No. 96-A, 96-B and 96-C February 1973 24 pages total, click to read Including What it's Like to Have a Baby in Prison and Allen Ginsberg on the Arrest of Abbie Hoffman.

Issue No. 100, Jan/February 1986 8 pages, click to read Including One Thing Leads to Another, Interview With the Family of a Terrorist, and Robert Anton Wilson on "Connubial Bliss Blues".

Issue No. 131, August 1995 8 pages, click to read Including Reactionary Chic by Matt Neuman, ABC's New Logo, Who Killed Jerry Garcia, and Newt Gingrich at the Bohemian Grove.

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April 1, 2009 - Happy Fools Day. Each year the archive takes April off. We will return in May with four new issues and a good surprise. In the meantime, enjoy these highlights from recently posted issues past: GRAND OLD PARTY HAS JOINT SESSION WITH YOUNG REPUBLICAN - IS PAM TYLER MORE GORGEOUS THAN HATTIE MAE BROWN? - CONFESSIONS OF A SWINGER - and I WAS AN ABORTIONIST FOR THE F.B.I. - Also, scroll down for over two thousand pages (82 issues) of other free content from the magazine.

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NEW FOR THE MONTH OF MARCH, 2009: PSYCHEDELIC ICON ALAN WATTS - CYBERNETIC FORECASTING - MONICA - NIXON - ELVIS

Issue No. 14, Dec 1959/Jan 1960 16 pages, click to read Including An Impolite Interview with Alan Watts, For the Lack of Cash Monk Nearly is Ash, To The White Citizens Councils, and Euphemism of the Month.

Issue No. 72, December 1966 24 pages, click to read Including RAW on The Cybernetic Revolution, The LSD Conference, Aroused Elf in the Chicago Tribune, and The Big Bad Black Power Threat by J.C. Suares.

Issue No. 139, Summer 1998 8 pages, click to read - One Month Late For Valentines - Special Monica Lewinsky Edition Including Lenny Bruce on Cheating, Monica as Seen By the President, Al Goldstein on The Price of Being American. Other Items.

Issue No. 105, October 1987 8 pages, click to read Including Great Moments in Public Relations, The Parts Left Out of Fawn Hall's Testimony, The American/Contra Hearings, Media Freak, and I Snorted Coke With the Pope.

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NEW FOR THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY, 2009: BOMB HYSTERIA - (Lost to time) DANNY DAVIS - MOURNING R.A.W. - CONNIE CHUNG

Issue No. 13, November 1959 16 pages, click to read Including Space-theology and Other Misguided Missiles, The King Kong Defense System, So Long God and Are Congressional Hearings Rigged?

Issue No. 38, October 1962 16 pages, click to read Including Psychotherapy and Atomic Warfare, In Praise of Tabloidsville, May This House Be Safe From Pansies, and An Impolite Interview with Danny Davis.

Issue No. 112, Spring 1990 8 pages, click to read Including Manuel Noriega's Secret Diary, Solutions in Cold Blood by Katherine Dunn, Singing in Letters by Country Joe McDonald, and Singing In Numbers by Steve Allen.

Issue No. 128, Autumn 1994 8 pages, click to read Including Robert Anton Wilson's Internet Death, Mount Manson OJ Nixon by Kalynn Campbell, I Wrote Jokes For John Wayne Bobbit, and Connie Chung's Censored Tits.

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NEW FOR THE MONTH OF JANUARY, 2009: HAPPY NEW YEAR - ARCHIVE REACHES ITS OWN MILESTONE - NOW OFFICIALLY HALF WAY COMPLETE IN PRESERVING AND RE-INTRODUCING ENTIRE RUN. TO REACH THAT HALF WAY POINT, SIX ISSUES FOR THIS MONTH:

Issue No. 28, August 1961 24 pages, click to read > Interview with Shel Silverstein, Trial By Prejudice by William Worthy, Castro and The Stenvenson Convertible, and The American Underground by John Wilcock.

Issue No. 56, February 1965 24 pages, click to read Including Trial By Frame-Up, Race Hate and Sex, Walter Jenkins Backlash, Letter from a pot smoker, and Benefits of Switching from Cigarettes to Narcotics.

Issue No. 115, Jan/Feb 1991 8 pages, click to read Including The Muppet Murder Mystery, Old Blue Eyes Meets Young Shaved Head, and The Jack-And-Jill-Off Parties by Carol Queen and David Steinberg.

Issue No. 125, Autumn 1993 8 pages, click to read Including The Toyota Comedy Festival, Jokes That Jay Leno Didn't Use, Bill Baird Answers the New York Times and A Post-Communism Amusement Park.

Issue No. 36, August 1962 16 pages, click to read Live and Let Live: A Conversation with Homosexuals, Part One of Three. Also Movie Reviews of Indecent Movies and O'Brian Has Doubts About Homosexuality.

Issue No. 37, September 1962 16 pages, click to read Live and Let Live: A Conversation with Homosexuals, Part Two of Three, Solving the Negro-White Problem, Some of My Best Friends Are Liberals by Dave Berkman.

Also of note: Issues 36 and 37 carry the first two (of three installments) of "The Pill" a transcript of an English TV report on birth control. Both Live and Let Live and The Pill conclude with their final installments in February with the posting of issue 38.

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NEW FOR THE MONTH OF DECEMBER, 2008: A FOUR PACK OF ISSUES FROM THE SECOND RUN OF THE SERIES

Issue No. 99, Sept-Oct 1985 8 pages, click to read Premiere Issue of the Second Series: Interview with Jerry Garcia, Ronald Reagan's Asshole, an Encounter With the Biological Clock, and The White Stuff.

Issue No. 116, March-April 1991 8 pages, click to read Including Bush's Letter to Hussein, Lyndon LaRouche Meets Jim Bakker, Drug War to Draft Disposables Slaves, and The Coma Diet Cookbook.

Issue No. 134, Autumn 1996 12 pages, click to read Including Jerry Brown Meets Gore Vidal, Death Camp Sitcom by Lenny Lipton -- with Valerie Salanas, Scatalogical Paranoia, and Unexplained Celestial Events.

Issue No. 110, Summer 1989 8 pages, click to read Including Der Fuehrer's Cake (Happy Birthday Hitler), George and Dan's Excellent Adventure, A Message to Abbie Hoffman, and A Message from Abbie Hoffman.

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NEW FOR THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER, 2008: LENNY BRUCE REMEMBERED - DUKAKIS MOURNED - SIMPSONS CENSORED

Issue No. 73, February 1967 32 pages, click to read The Death of Lenny Bruce with The Murder of Malcolm X. Also: Diary of a Schizophrenic and Softcore Pornography of the Month.

Issue No. 108, Winter 1989 8 pages, click to read Including Why I Voted for Michael Dukakis by Robert Anton Wilson, Why I Voted for George Bush by Matt Neuman, and A Day in the Life of Albert Goldman.

Issue No. 142, Autumn 1999 12 pages, click to read Featuring The Satanic Simpsons Also: Ken Kesey on Timothy Leary, The Joke-O-Matic by Bob Harris, and comedian Del Close's Last Words by Mike Gold.

Concluded from Issue 45: Issue No. 46, September 1963 16 pages, click to read The Trial of Eros Magazine - PART THREE OF THREE - Also: In Support of Another Exchange of Notes.

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Related - Holiday Item - New from City Lights Books: WHO'S TO SAY WHAT'S OBSCENE? Politics, Culture and Comedy in America Today by Paul Krassner Click for more information, and for a full view of the cover

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NEW FOR THE MONTH OF OCTOBER, 2008:

Issue No. 2, September 1958 16 pages, click to read Reader Reaction to Issue No. 1, Jehova's Witnesses and Darwin's Theory, I Weep for Venus, and God on Madison Avenue

Issue No. 18, June 1960 16 pages, click to read Interview with an 'Anarchist' / 'Pacifist' / 'Communist' w/ I Was a Spy in the Cigarette Revolution by M. Kitman, and The Semantics of the "Soul" by Robert Anton Wilson

Issue No. 49, April 1964 32 pages, click to read The LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Issue Also: How To Eliminate the Nation's Most Popular Suicide Weapon, Sex and the Single Baboon and Sex and the Single Hermaphrodite

Continued from Issue 44: Issue No. 45, Nov. 1963 16 pages, click to read The Trial of Eros Magazine - PART TWO OF THREE - Also: Report to Nicotine Addicts and Impressions of Summerhill

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Note: Archive took September off. Next post after August will be October.

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NEW FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST, 2008:

Issue No. 44, October 1963 24 pages, click to read The Trial of Eros Magazine - PART ONE OF THREE, Press Treatment of a Riot, Take Me to Your Missionary, and Confessions of a Confessions Editor.

Issue No. 86, Nov-Dec 1969 32 pages, click to read The Hog Farm by Hugh Romney, The Oakland 7 by Frank Bardacke, Guindon's Burlap Underground, and ZERO GRAVITY TOILET.

Issue No. 136, Summer 1997 12 pages, click to read Allen Ginsberg's Last Laugh - with Heaven's Gate's Last Rites by Rev. Chris Korda, The Hookers Convention and Love and Hatred in the Time of Che by Stew Albert.

Issue No. 137, Autumn 1997 12 pages, click to read Case History of a Cyberhoax, The Divorce-Land Theme Park, Great Moments in Counter-Culture History, A Bill Hicks Sampler, and Fetal Aggression by Lynn Phillips.

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NEW FOR THE MONTH OF JULY, 2008:

Issue No. 33, April 1962 16 pages, click to read PART ONE OF THE REPEAT SET First of two: To meet Postal Regulations for Second Class Mail, and to provide a needed vacation to Realist staff, issues 33 and 34 were pubished with content from previous out of print issues.

Issue No. 54, November 1964 24 pages, click to read The FECALPHILES by Lenny Bruce, The Bathroom in Budapest by John Goodwin, and many many shit jokes. Maybe the Realist's filthiest theme issue.

Issue No. 34, May 1962 16 pages, click to read PART TWO OF THE REPEAT SET Concluding: To meet Postal Regulations for Second Class Mail, and to provide a needed vacation to Realist staff, issues 33 and 34 were pubished with content from previous out of print issues. - Enjoy our repeat of these two previous reprints.

Issue No. 71, November 1966 24 pages, click to read Ronald Reagan For Governor, Dick Guindon's LOOK BACK IN APATHY, and very recommended: IS PAM TYLER MORE GORGEOUS THAN HATTIE MAE BROWN? by Bruce Jay Friedman and by Mel Juffe

ADDITIONAL ITEM FOR JULY: EARLY HISTORY OF THE REALIST COVERED IN ASHEVILLE'S MOUNTAIN XPRESS:

By Jon Elliston. A great piece of writing and research, containing a surprising amount of never-seen documents.
Read parts one and two. Enjoy this wealth of supplemental items. See also this list of articles found in the Realist archive.

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NEW FOR THE MONTH OF JUNE, 2008:
CONGRATULATIONS TO PAUL KRASSNER AND THE REALIST - FIRST PUBLISHED FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS MONTH

- - - - - - - - - - - ANNOUNCEMENT! - - - - - - - - - - - In Appreciation and Acknowledgement of the first month of publishing for The Realist -- Fifty Incredible Years Ago This Month -- we baked a cake and proudly post this first issue.

Issue No. 1, June/July 1958 32 pages, click to read Lead Item: An Angry Young Magazine ... Marriage Mixture in the Melting Pot, The Dislocated Hipsters, and What This Country Needs is a Good Nickel Tickle

Note: In conjunction with this anniversary post, we will be adding a few extra indexes to the archive. Check back here during the month for a few new topic pages on drugs, sex, the Beat Movement, Robert Anton Wilson, other things. See these two previous indexes: Abbie Hoffman and Scientology. Enjoy the First Issue! (july edit - give us a second with the indexes, apologies for the delay) Indexes delayed. Here are search links that should give you the same information, though: LENNY BRUCE - ALLEN GINSBERG - BEAT GENERATION - KEN KESEY - LSD - ROBERT ANTON WILSON - NEGATIVE THINKING - NORMAN MAILER - MODEST PROPOSALS

ALSO THIS MONTH, A NICE IN-SEQUENCE SELECTION OF FOUR ISSUES FROM THE SECOND RUN OF THE SERIES:

Issue No. 101, May/June 1986 8 pages, click to read How Can You Tell The Difference Between Affection and Cuddling?, Bill Helmer on The Final Drug Solution and The Great Fetus Conspiracy by Janet Bode

Issue No. 102, Sept/Oct 1986 8 pages, click to read Piss Wars by Robert Myers, Paris in L.A. by Joseph Proctor, The Eunuch Convention, I'm Not a Drag Queen, and "Jammed Again" by Mavrides and Kinney

Issue No. 104, June 1987 8 pages, click to read The Harlan Ellison Roast ("Roasted") by Nancy Cain, Great Moments in Theology by Kalynn Campbell, FCC is a Four Letter Word, and Any Messages? by Stanley Young

Issue No. 103, Jan/Febr 1987 8 pages, click to read Murder At The Humor Convention, The Mad Guru, Condom Nation by Robert Myers, and Say Grope To Dope by Ken Kesey and Ronald Reagan

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NEW FOR THE MONTH OF MAY, 2008:

Issue No. 15, February 1960 24 pages, click to read An Impolite Interview With Lenny Bruce, Confessions of a Reformed Anti-Gun Crank, RAW Negative Thinking and The Buddhists: Is They Is -- Or Is They Ain't -- Bloodless?

Issue No. 31, February 1962 24 pages, click to read The F.B.I. In Peace and Cold War by William Worthy, Teacher, May I Please Leave the Room? and Who Put the Weiner in Mrs. K's Schnitzel?

Issue No. 88, January/February 1971 24 pages, click to read Report From Algiers by Jomo Raskin, What Is the Sound of One Clap Dripping? by Dean Latimer, Wavy Gravy Raps, and The Wedding Night of Pigasus

Issue No. 59, May 1965 32 pages, click to read Comic Book Escalation of America's War on Vietnam, You Don't Have to Be Jewish to Love Leroi Jones, and Press Distortions of the Free Speech Movement

HIGHLIGHTS FOR MAY: An Impolite Interview with Lenny Bruce (1960), Comic Book Escalation of America's War on Vietnam (1965), This Little Yippie Ran For Sheriff (1971), FBI In The Cold War (1962) and The Wedding Night of Pigasus. "An Impolite Interview with Lenny Bruce" is notable as the first on-print exchange between Lenny Bruce and Paul Krassner. From Krassner's review of THE TRIALS OF LENNY BRUCE (Ronald K.L. Collins & David M. Skover): KRASSNER: I originally met Lenny Bruce in 1959 at the Hotel America in New York. He was scheduled to perform at a midnight show in Town Hall. I had already published an interview with him in The Realist that was conducted by mail, and now I handed him the succeeding issue, which featured an interview with psychologist Albert Ellis, including a discussion of the semantics of profanity. The problem words were spelled out rather than using asterisks or dashes, as was the practice in mainstream media. Lenny had been resorting to euphemisms on stage, and he was amazed that I could get away with it. “Are you telling me this is legal to sell on the newsstands?” “Absolutely,” I replied--“the Supreme Court’s definition of obscenity is that it has to be material which appeals to your prurient interest.” Lenny magically produced an unabridged dictionary from the suitcase on his bed, and he looked up the word *prurient.* “Itching,” he mused--“what does that mean, that they can bust a novelty-store owner for selling itching power along with the dribble glass and the whoopie cushion?” I explained, “It’s just their way of saying that something gets you horny.” Lenny closed the dictionary, mock-clenching his jaw and nodding his head in affirmation of a new discovery: “So it’s against the law to get you horny!” NOTE: If you are new to The Realist Archive Project, then you will want to also visit these three previous front pages: page one which covers archive posts from June through November 2007, page two which covers December posts, and page three, covering February through April of 2008. Each page contains notes and artwork on over thirty-five issues of The Realist, along with two supplements. PARTIAL LIST OF PREVIOUS HIGHLIGHTS: 1964's "Discrimination in the Etiquette of Sweat", 1970's "Charles Manson Was My Bunkmate", G Legman on Scientology (1950,1963), Ken Kesey on Corn Starch (1971), Lenny Bruce Arrested (1963), The 1967 Disneyland Memorial Orgy, The 1963 Fuck Communism Poster, Yippies Going to Chicago (1968), Andy Warhol's Mr Stompanato (1966), Richard Pryor's Uncle Sam Wants You Dead, Nigger (1971), and The U.S. Government vs Abbie Hoffman's Shirt (1968). Also: Impolite Interviews with Woody Allen (1965), Joseph Heller (1962), and Hugh Hefner (1961). Much More. Be sure to use the pull-down menu above to access any particular issue - And of course, Welcome to the archive. Thanks.

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