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And the People Stayed Home
And the People Stayed Home is a beautifully produced picture book featuring Kitty O’Meara’s popular, globally viral prose poem about the coronavirus pandemic, which has a hopeful and timeless message.
Kitty O’Meara, author of And the People Stayed Home, has been called the “poet laureate of the pandemic.” This illustrated children’s book (ages 4-8) will also appeal to readers of all ages.
O’Meara’s thoughtful poem about the pandemic, quarantine, and the future suggests there is meaning to be found in our shared experience of the coronavirus and conveys an optimistic message about the possibility of profound healing for people and the planet. Her words encourage us to look within, listen deeply, and connect with ourselves and the earth in order to heal.
O’Meara, a former teacher and chaplain and a spiritual director, clearly captures important aspects of the pandemic experience. Her words, written in March 2020 and shared on Facebook, immediately resonated nationally and internationally and were widely circulated on social media, covered in mainstream news media, and inspired an outpouring of creativity from musicians, dancers, artists, filmmakers, and more. The many highlights include an original composition by John Corigliano that was premiered by Renée Fleming.
Kitty O’Meara, author of And the People Stayed Home, has been called the “poet laureate of the pandemic.” This illustrated children’s book (ages 4-8) will also appeal to readers of all ages.
O’Meara’s thoughtful poem about the pandemic, quarantine, and the future suggests there is meaning to be found in our shared experience of the coronavirus and conveys an optimistic message about the possibility of profound healing for people and the planet. Her words encourage us to look within, listen deeply, and connect with ourselves and the earth in order to heal.
O’Meara, a former teacher and chaplain and a spiritual director, clearly captures important aspects of the pandemic experience. Her words, written in March 2020 and shared on Facebook, immediately resonated nationally and internationally and were widely circulated on social media, covered in mainstream news media, and inspired an outpouring of creativity from musicians, dancers, artists, filmmakers, and more. The many highlights include an original composition by John Corigliano that was premiered by Renée Fleming.
32 pages, Hardcover
First published November 10, 2020
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Kitty O'Meara
3 books13 followersKitty O’Meara has worked as a copywriter and editor, a middle school teacher, a spiritual care provider in hospital and hospice settings, and has always been a writer.
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January 25, 2021
I understand what about this book resonates with people. The illustrations are lovely and the writing is very poetic, but reading this overly romanticized version of lockdown in January 2021 is enraging. Nothing in this book reflects the hell we've been living through since March. I guess this is a nice fantasy but reading this to my daughter and having to explain why this isn't how OUR year has been felt like a slap in the face. I guess we're just doing it wrong, what with our jobs and lack of childcare and all. Whoops.
December 27, 2020
It had a nice sentiment, but this book really only captures what aspects of this time might look like for financially stable families. It's a great book if your family isn't really suffering during this time, but there are so many people who are on the brink of losing their homes that I feel the text comes across as ignorant. Do kids need a book that's honest about the suffering many are experiencing? I don't know, that's for you as a parent to decide. But we aren't fixing the earth by staying home. We aren't all becoming better people and learning new hobbies.
February 9, 2021
This is a visually beautiful book. And the sentiments are sweet and appropriate for young children not significantly impacted by the pandemic or maybe for future children who will learn about it one day.
For me, it felt unbelievably privileged and romantically untrue. Kind of like the Disney version of real historical events - all of the truth and nuance edited out.
I was hoping for more of a shit was hard, but this is how we survived kind of deal. I decided not to read it with my kid. He knows the year we’ve been through looks nothing like this, even though we have been way more privileged and lucky than others.
It is a gorgeous book and it’s def for someone. Just not for us.
For me, it felt unbelievably privileged and romantically untrue. Kind of like the Disney version of real historical events - all of the truth and nuance edited out.
I was hoping for more of a shit was hard, but this is how we survived kind of deal. I decided not to read it with my kid. He knows the year we’ve been through looks nothing like this, even though we have been way more privileged and lucky than others.
It is a gorgeous book and it’s def for someone. Just not for us.
November 26, 2024
This book seems to have been made to help children cope with being at home during the COVID-19 pandemic. Unfortunately, the age group that this is aimed for probably don’t remember the pandemic. Also, it’s a bit to positive about staying at home. It wasn’t as cheery as this, especially for working class families.
January 15, 2021
I did not encounter this poem when it was originally published in March 2020, and as I read it in January 2021, I wonder who O'Meara is writing for. The picture she paints of people meditating and dancing and resting during the pandemic is not the reality I've faced, so I just didn't find the book compelling. I read it to my six year old who wondered where the peoples' masks were ("Do we not have to wear masks anymore?"). I like the illustration style, but I just don't have the same emotional connection that others have had to this book and the poem.
February 13, 2021
It was the year of COVID-19 except...in this lovely fantasy version where everyone doesn't have to wear masks. Everyone is wealthy and privileged enough to stay at home and do whatever pleases them. ALL OF THE TIME. Feel like painting? Go for it! Feel like flinging paint on your doggo and calling it a game? Go for it! Feel like dancing? Go for it! Feel like listening to your fish for hours on end while your cat stares in a creepy manner that says, "I have plans for you, Fish." Go for it!
You OBVIOUSLY do NOT have to work, AT ALL. And you have NO CHILDREN to try and school during this crisis. Your children don't exist so they aren't going MAD being stuck at home all day long with their lives and routines totally upended. And YOU personally aren't going MAD trying to cope with all of this and help your non-existent children cope while you are dealing with a lost job or sick/dying loved ones. SO BLISS OUT.
And when everything is ALL BETTER, and we have healed the earth, you can GO AHEAD AND RUIN EVERYTHING by releasing possibly invasive species into the wild willy-nilly! Go for it! Yeah, privileged fantastical you. What a perfectly splendid plague this has been! Why did everyone make such a fuss?
You OBVIOUSLY do NOT have to work, AT ALL. And you have NO CHILDREN to try and school during this crisis. Your children don't exist so they aren't going MAD being stuck at home all day long with their lives and routines totally upended. And YOU personally aren't going MAD trying to cope with all of this and help your non-existent children cope while you are dealing with a lost job or sick/dying loved ones. SO BLISS OUT.
And when everything is ALL BETTER, and we have healed the earth, you can GO AHEAD AND RUIN EVERYTHING by releasing possibly invasive species into the wild willy-nilly! Go for it! Yeah, privileged fantastical you. What a perfectly splendid plague this has been! Why did everyone make such a fuss?
November 23, 2020
While it is more optimistic than I am, it's good for kids, giving them hope and centering nature in an important way. Short, simple with cute art. The version I read had thick pages which are good for withstanding the smaller readers!
February 21, 2021
I found this offensively unrealistic. Where are the essential workers who couldn’t stay home? Where are all the kids? Where is the suffering? The poem may have been uplifting for some in March 2020, but the book published six months later does not reflect the trauma we’ve been through.
April 5, 2021
Yeah, no. This picture book presents a ridiculously idealized view of the COVID-19 pandemic, and even though I can understand why the author's prose poem went viral in the early days of lockdown, it is mainly wishful thinking, and doesn't apply to the world we live in. Also, the characters are all adults, and people who are looking for a picture book to help their kids process their 2020 experiences won't find anything helpful here.
This book doesn't follow a family's experience throughout the pandemic, or focus on children at all. Instead, it is about privileged young people and couples who got to discover new hobbies, connect with each other, meditate, dance, etc. This is irrelevant to a picture book audience, and will seem like a slap in the face to children's parents, since they had to balance virtual schooling, working from home, household cabin fever, and anxiety for their family, even if they were lucky enough to be financially stable and avoid the virus itself. No matter how good someone's situation was, if they had kids, their year didn't look like this.
However, even if the publisher had marketed this as an illustrated poetry book for adults, I would still have serious issues with it. The author romanticizes the experience of lockdown as an opportunity for personal growth and "healing," but even though some people experienced 2020 this way, there was a PANDEMIC. People were DYING. This book completely ignores that reality, and the heaviest it ever gets is a reference to some people having to face their shadow selves.
Then, to make matters worse, the book ends with an environmentalist message about how much the world healed while the people stayed home, and how, once we could all go outside again, we would share with the earth the healing that we had experienced. This is wrong on so many levels. It is wildly presumptuous, privileged, and unfair to assume that 2020 was a year of healing for people, rather than an extended period of trauma, and it is disgusting to elevate the environment as the true focus of the pandemic, while massive numbers of people around the globe died alone.
Granted, the environment did get healthier during the pandemic, but it's incredibly insensitive to make this the focus, or to hold every home-bound individual responsible for this improvement. It removes responsibility off large corporations for their environmental pollution, and makes it sound like it's just as well that lots of people died, because it will create a lighter burden for the earth. Now, the author does NOT say that, since she never acknowledges that anyone was dying at all, but that is the underlying implication, regardless how unintentional it was.
Then, as the book ends on this preachy, tone-deaf note, the illustration shows a couple releasing their pet fish into a stream. What? This is totally irresponsible. Randomly releasing wildlife into an ecosystem you know nothing about is a bad idea, and even though I could overlook that in a different book, this message of sharing your HEALING with the EARTH while doing something environmentally unwise just made the whole thing even more annoying and unacceptable.
I would not recommend this book to anyone. Some people may enjoy it, especially if they read it passively and don't think about the omissions and implications, but I would not encourage anyone to read or buy this book. I would recommend Outside, Inside instead, because this picture book engages with the wide range of experiences that people have had during the pandemic, honors essential workers, respects the dead, and represents the ways that individuals and families experienced the pandemic differently based on their economic level and health status.
This book doesn't follow a family's experience throughout the pandemic, or focus on children at all. Instead, it is about privileged young people and couples who got to discover new hobbies, connect with each other, meditate, dance, etc. This is irrelevant to a picture book audience, and will seem like a slap in the face to children's parents, since they had to balance virtual schooling, working from home, household cabin fever, and anxiety for their family, even if they were lucky enough to be financially stable and avoid the virus itself. No matter how good someone's situation was, if they had kids, their year didn't look like this.
However, even if the publisher had marketed this as an illustrated poetry book for adults, I would still have serious issues with it. The author romanticizes the experience of lockdown as an opportunity for personal growth and "healing," but even though some people experienced 2020 this way, there was a PANDEMIC. People were DYING. This book completely ignores that reality, and the heaviest it ever gets is a reference to some people having to face their shadow selves.
Then, to make matters worse, the book ends with an environmentalist message about how much the world healed while the people stayed home, and how, once we could all go outside again, we would share with the earth the healing that we had experienced. This is wrong on so many levels. It is wildly presumptuous, privileged, and unfair to assume that 2020 was a year of healing for people, rather than an extended period of trauma, and it is disgusting to elevate the environment as the true focus of the pandemic, while massive numbers of people around the globe died alone.
Granted, the environment did get healthier during the pandemic, but it's incredibly insensitive to make this the focus, or to hold every home-bound individual responsible for this improvement. It removes responsibility off large corporations for their environmental pollution, and makes it sound like it's just as well that lots of people died, because it will create a lighter burden for the earth. Now, the author does NOT say that, since she never acknowledges that anyone was dying at all, but that is the underlying implication, regardless how unintentional it was.
Then, as the book ends on this preachy, tone-deaf note, the illustration shows a couple releasing their pet fish into a stream. What? This is totally irresponsible. Randomly releasing wildlife into an ecosystem you know nothing about is a bad idea, and even though I could overlook that in a different book, this message of sharing your HEALING with the EARTH while doing something environmentally unwise just made the whole thing even more annoying and unacceptable.
I would not recommend this book to anyone. Some people may enjoy it, especially if they read it passively and don't think about the omissions and implications, but I would not encourage anyone to read or buy this book. I would recommend Outside, Inside instead, because this picture book engages with the wide range of experiences that people have had during the pandemic, honors essential workers, respects the dead, and represents the ways that individuals and families experienced the pandemic differently based on their economic level and health status.
February 10, 2021
A romanticized version of covid-19 quarantine. Beautiful illustrations for a hopeful poem, but unfortunately it comes off privileged, as this is not the reality that most children (and their adults) have been experiencing.
October 31, 2021
And The People Stayed Home presents the positive effects of the pandemic upon individuals and upon the earth. The book speaks to both children and adults, and it offers a new way to look upon this difficult time.
November 4, 2020
Every once in a blue moon, a book, poem, or movie catches and transcends a universal shared experience. This gorgeous, illustrated, heartfelt children’s book has already emerged as our collective tale of what we’ve shared and learned and even been inspired by during the fearsome coronavirus’ pandemic.
This haunting poem, written by Kitty O’Meara, an unknown chaplain and spiritual director who is already being called “The Poet Laureate of the Pandemic” (Oprah Magazine), first caught the public imagination on social media. Over 1 million people shared it and still do! The illustrations are beautiful ---soft and warm and will appeal to a diverse audience.
With so many of us at home, this book opens the door to deep, meaningful conversations about what's happening right now (with shelter in place and the virus) with our kids.
This haunting poem, written by Kitty O’Meara, an unknown chaplain and spiritual director who is already being called “The Poet Laureate of the Pandemic” (Oprah Magazine), first caught the public imagination on social media. Over 1 million people shared it and still do! The illustrations are beautiful ---soft and warm and will appeal to a diverse audience.
With so many of us at home, this book opens the door to deep, meaningful conversations about what's happening right now (with shelter in place and the virus) with our kids.
October 4, 2021
This sweet illustrated poem has me thinking fondly of our 2020 at home and all of the things we did to stay busy and connected to each other. I love the message of healing.
And a tangent…
Although I appreciate the thought behind it, the illustration of a family releasing their goldfish into a pond is just not a good idea. Please don’t release your pets into the wild. That will not help the earth heal. 🤣 Still not sure? Read Tracking Pythons by Kate Messner. (Oddly, telling creepy but true snake stories became one of the ways we dealt with the past year.) We scared/scarred all of our friends by making them look at the pictures in Tracking Pythons.
And a tangent…
Although I appreciate the thought behind it, the illustration of a family releasing their goldfish into a pond is just not a good idea. Please don’t release your pets into the wild. That will not help the earth heal. 🤣 Still not sure? Read Tracking Pythons by Kate Messner. (Oddly, telling creepy but true snake stories became one of the ways we dealt with the past year.) We scared/scarred all of our friends by making them look at the pictures in Tracking Pythons.
February 16, 2021
Every illustration depicts an adult coping with the pandemic and how, afterwards, they strive to be less destructive to our environment.
Absolutely devoid of a childhood experience which is such a bummer. A picture book for adults.
Absolutely devoid of a childhood experience which is such a bummer. A picture book for adults.
May 31, 2021
Overly optimistic and glosses over the realities of staying home during a pandemic.
There’s also an illustration of someone releasing a pet fish into the river that’s portrayed as “healing” and something positive.
Releasing pets into the wild not only kills them but upsets the natural biodiversity. Please do proper research and not send out the wrong message.
There’s also an illustration of someone releasing a pet fish into the river that’s portrayed as “healing” and something positive.
Releasing pets into the wild not only kills them but upsets the natural biodiversity. Please do proper research and not send out the wrong message.
January 11, 2021
I hope the beautiful message in this book is true after this pandemic is over.
March 5, 2021
O’Meara’s thoughtful poem about the pandemic, quarantine, and our future posted on Facebook and quickly went viral. I love that this book has taken that lovely poem and made it for kids. I think it provides a positive message about our own healing and the planet's healing. The author encourages us to connect more to the Earth and with each other during this isloating time and to see it as an opportunity to connect in different ways. It's so perfect for right now and just lovely in its own right.
This passage touched me. "And the people stayed home. And they listened and read books. And rested and exercised and made art and played games. And learned new ways of being and were still. And they listened more deeply. Some meditated, some prayed, some danced. Some met their shadows. And the people began to think differently. And the people healed. And in the absence of people living in ignorant, dangerous, and heartless ways, the earth began to heal. And when the danger passed and the people joined together again, they grieved their losses and made new choices and dreamed new images and created new ways to live and heal the earth fully, as they had been healed."
Beautiful. So beautiful.
If you want toi listen to my interview with the author, go to my podcast at:
https://zibbyowens.com/transcript/kit...
This passage touched me. "And the people stayed home. And they listened and read books. And rested and exercised and made art and played games. And learned new ways of being and were still. And they listened more deeply. Some meditated, some prayed, some danced. Some met their shadows. And the people began to think differently. And the people healed. And in the absence of people living in ignorant, dangerous, and heartless ways, the earth began to heal. And when the danger passed and the people joined together again, they grieved their losses and made new choices and dreamed new images and created new ways to live and heal the earth fully, as they had been healed."
Beautiful. So beautiful.
If you want toi listen to my interview with the author, go to my podcast at:
https://zibbyowens.com/transcript/kit...
April 19, 2021
Kitty O'Meara might want to give and plant at least a little bit of hope to the readers' (in this case, kids) minds about what may come after this pandemic and to assure them that it is okay to take your time by staying inside and basically do all the things that your heart desires, and sure it's great, especially with the beautiful illustrations included.
The problem is, this book and the whole story/poem is only relatable to kids with privileges and kids who are lucky enough to be less suffered and not greatly affected by the whole pandemic. The kids (or people) who can sit around on their couches without getting worried about their pay getting docked, or getting worried for a family member who unfortunately caught the virus and is at the hospital without no one accompanying them, or doubting about the future--because everything that they have planned after graduating school? WHOOSH to the bin they go.
It feels like this book is tone-deaf to the real situation, and I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who thinks so.
The problem is, this book and the whole story/poem is only relatable to kids with privileges and kids who are lucky enough to be less suffered and not greatly affected by the whole pandemic. The kids (or people) who can sit around on their couches without getting worried about their pay getting docked, or getting worried for a family member who unfortunately caught the virus and is at the hospital without no one accompanying them, or doubting about the future--because everything that they have planned after graduating school? WHOOSH to the bin they go.
It feels like this book is tone-deaf to the real situation, and I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who thinks so.
February 4, 2021
One of those picture books that is more for adults than kids. I think it is very confusing for a child and will raise many more questions than it answers, not that that's necessarily bad, but I don't think it speaks to children. I am a retired children's librarian.
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November 11, 2020
So beautiful, I absolutely loved it, I’m going to buy copies for my nephews!
April 13, 2021
File under: FANTASY.
November 16, 2020
This book is great as it talks about the times we are in right now. I would read this to my students to teach about this time period we are in right now.
March 23, 2021
Yet another rose-colored-glasses COVID-19 book. At least this one sort of acknowledges the more difficult parts through text like "some met their shadows" and "they grieved their losses" but it also says "and when the danger passed" which... it hasn't.
Maybe I'm way too skeptical but I really don't like that I'm starting to see all these books that are insinuating we've learned and grown so much from this experience. In the US, all I see are a bunch of people who were too self absorbed to actually make the changes they needed to, who refused to stop going to bars and restaurants, and who can't wait to 'get back to normal' even though they never stopped doing whatever they wanted to whenever they wanted to no matter who it put in danger.
Maybe I'm way too skeptical but I really don't like that I'm starting to see all these books that are insinuating we've learned and grown so much from this experience. In the US, all I see are a bunch of people who were too self absorbed to actually make the changes they needed to, who refused to stop going to bars and restaurants, and who can't wait to 'get back to normal' even though they never stopped doing whatever they wanted to whenever they wanted to no matter who it put in danger.
October 28, 2022
It started as a poem...a poem about isolation during the pandemic. The positive things some did to keep busy, to learn, to connect. It is hopeful, positive. Uplifting.
As an English teacher, I was taken with the structure...nearly half the lines started with "and". That is a composition no-no. Teachers tell young writers to never do that. But...but breaking that rule can be exciting, as here.
I would use this as a mentor text and challenge students to create their own poem using this pattern, gleefully smashing all those grammar and writing rules.
As an English teacher, I was taken with the structure...nearly half the lines started with "and". That is a composition no-no. Teachers tell young writers to never do that. But...but breaking that rule can be exciting, as here.
I would use this as a mentor text and challenge students to create their own poem using this pattern, gleefully smashing all those grammar and writing rules.
March 8, 2021
Releasing our pet fish into a stream is not a good decision, it's a very bad one. And the people didn't stay home, they had to work still, or they outright refused to stay home. And then over 500,000 people died.
December 29, 2020
A friend dropped this off for me and I love it so much. It’s a heartfelt reflection of what staying home for so long has done for many. Optimistic, reverential, and beautiful. Can’t wait to read it to my students.
February 24, 2021
And the People Were Privileged.
November 17, 2020
Kitty O'Meara originally published this wonderful poem on her blog back in March during the beginning of the COVID 19 pandemic. The hopeful message of the poem struck a chord with readers across the world, and her poem went viral. I am so pleased this poem made it's way to this amazing children's book accompanied by beautiful illustrations from Stefano Di Cristofaro and Paul Pereda.
This book was so special to me, in ways I’m not sure I can fully articulate.
I gave birth to my first child in January. This magical life-changing experience will always be linked to the COVID 19 outbreak. While we were all learning about the details of the virus, I was also learning how to be a mother. I cannot separate the two experiences, because they happened simultaneously for me.
But it’s fitting, really. Parenthood, especially in the beginning, is a combination of both overwhelming anxiety and overwhelming hope. We fear every little thing that could possibly go wrong, but that fear coexists with more hope than we knew we were capable of even having. In a way, the pandemic has been the same bittersweet combination of fear and hope for humanity’s future. This book perfectly captures this balance many of us felt throughout the last year. It may feel somber in the beginning, but it’s message is hopeful.
This book would make a great holiday gift to readers young and old. Though it was inspired by the pandemic, the optimism for humanity will always be relevant.
And The People Stayed Home was released last week, and is available just about anywhere just about anywhere books are sold, including my Bookshop page.
I want to give a huge thank you to TRA Publishing for providing a copy of this book for me to review. I will cherish for years to come. I will read this book to my son one day and tell him about his first year of life, when we stayed home.
This book was so special to me, in ways I’m not sure I can fully articulate.
I gave birth to my first child in January. This magical life-changing experience will always be linked to the COVID 19 outbreak. While we were all learning about the details of the virus, I was also learning how to be a mother. I cannot separate the two experiences, because they happened simultaneously for me.
But it’s fitting, really. Parenthood, especially in the beginning, is a combination of both overwhelming anxiety and overwhelming hope. We fear every little thing that could possibly go wrong, but that fear coexists with more hope than we knew we were capable of even having. In a way, the pandemic has been the same bittersweet combination of fear and hope for humanity’s future. This book perfectly captures this balance many of us felt throughout the last year. It may feel somber in the beginning, but it’s message is hopeful.
This book would make a great holiday gift to readers young and old. Though it was inspired by the pandemic, the optimism for humanity will always be relevant.
And The People Stayed Home was released last week, and is available just about anywhere just about anywhere books are sold, including my Bookshop page.
I want to give a huge thank you to TRA Publishing for providing a copy of this book for me to review. I will cherish for years to come. I will read this book to my son one day and tell him about his first year of life, when we stayed home.
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June 13, 2021
I hadn't been aware of this book (or the poem that inspired it), but I saw this while browsing at the library and thought, "Neat, a picture book about what life in the pandemic was like, this will be interesting and might provoke some good discussions with the kids."
As others have commented - this is a pretty book that seems like it does not reflect at all what the pandemic was like for what is presumably the target audience - people with children in their lives. I don't exactly expect a children's book to cover the stress of loss of childcare, potential loss of work, or going to work during the pandemic, to say nothing of the immense loss of life and stability, or loneliness and inability to see/interact with children not in the same household but - it's also interesting that there was no depiction of Zoom (school or otherwise), for better or worse, or efforts to connect to others outside a household, or, as others have mentioned, face masks at all!
I guess this was an interesting representation of the pandemic for people like the author, who, the end interview notes, lived with her husband, five dogs, and three cats, and noted that "life was quieter than usual."
As others have commented - this is a pretty book that seems like it does not reflect at all what the pandemic was like for what is presumably the target audience - people with children in their lives. I don't exactly expect a children's book to cover the stress of loss of childcare, potential loss of work, or going to work during the pandemic, to say nothing of the immense loss of life and stability, or loneliness and inability to see/interact with children not in the same household but - it's also interesting that there was no depiction of Zoom (school or otherwise), for better or worse, or efforts to connect to others outside a household, or, as others have mentioned, face masks at all!
I guess this was an interesting representation of the pandemic for people like the author, who, the end interview notes, lived with her husband, five dogs, and three cats, and noted that "life was quieter than usual."
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