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From breadth of shadow and bliss of soul
may I present
INCIDENTS AROUND THE HOUSE
coming June 25
and may we never be asked,
"Can I go inside your heart?"
in an unrecognizable tone of voice
coming from a blurred corner
an overlooked sliver
of our comforts.
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My mom, 73, is writing her first book and she’s just crossing the 10K word mark and the excitement I hear in her voice makes me so happy I could cry.
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Got a real ring
Asked a real question
She gave a real answer
And we’re really doing this
Allison I love you! I was so freakin nervous!
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Wow! Signing a movie deal this fine morning. Dressed as a hungover bookie. I wasn't hungover but now I wish the book included a hungover bookie.
Man I’m excited. This movie has the potential to be really scary. So… may the day come when I’m hiding behind Allison as it plays.
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It's not official official, but I'm being told by those who would know that it's possible Bird Box has now sold over a million copies worldwide.
Umm
WHAT
For a fella who wrote in a vacuum for two decades, with no social media, no writing peers, this is a LOT to make heads of.
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I believe every single author working in the field of horror today is capable of writing a true classic, no matter where you currently are in your goals.
The moon has been full for a few years. Look into its light.
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Hello, all! May I present to you...
the COVER REVEAL for:
SPIN A BLACK YARN
The cover was leaked last week (I kinda love that the cover was leaked last week) so here we go revealing a few days before anticipated. Awesome.
First here's a preorder link:
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Man,
@StephenKing
has one of the warmest literary voices ever. Read page one of any of his books and you can feel the fire burning a few feet from the storyteller's chair.
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At a bar, used my card, bartender says: Josh Malerman. Isn’t that a famous person’s name? A writer. A famous writer. What’s it like having the same name as a famous person?
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Pearl, once of Walter Kopple's farm, now of the cold cosmos, as rendered by the great
@slimyswampghost
.
I love it. And I'm afraid, on this, the day of the pig.
@DelReyBooks
@penguinrandom
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Mr. Harrigan's Phone is a great movie. Saw it last night. Probably more soul than one might expect, heading in, but totally the amount of soul one didn't know they needed.
Amazing performances all around.
Based on the great novella by
@StephenKing
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My dad is 80. He goes online and sees a guy in a ski mask celebrating the worst person all time. Dad was born during WWII. He then realizes ski mask just ate with the former POTUS. Millions of fans for all involved. Dad is Jewish. Dad is scared.
I mean, what the fuck, everybody.
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A couple months ago I finished a 500 pager I'd been wanting to write a few years. Few days later I had an idea for a new one. Next day I'm, "C'mon, Josh, you're not gonna write another already, right?" But 17 days and 300 pages later, it is done.
My 40th book.
Feels unbelievable.
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Electrified over here as we just got amazing DAPHNE movie news.
Hopefully announcing soon, but if I didn't say something now, I felt I'd explode into light beams in the office.
Which sounds like a good thing actually.
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Just got word the GOBLIN paperback has gone into its 4th printing. It's all so unbelievably thrilling. It's hard for me to remember my first book came out in '14 and all of this still feels new to a guy who spent decades before then writing. THANK you to all who've read GOBLIN.
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Gonna have to let this sit a minute before putting it to words.
RIP Peter Straub.
And thank you so so much.
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11/22/63 is legit soul-stirring stuff, next level shit, and the opening line "I have never been what you'd call a crying man" predicts the future, inversely, because by the end you will be a puddle like I am right now.
Bravo
@StephenKing
. It's brilliant.
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@RonaldKelly4
whelp, you just became the most badass dude in horror.
Excommunicated!
(how is this not a movie title already)
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A man is killed, the murderer doesn’t know he’s killed a triplet. The remaining brothers stage a faux-haunting, pretending to be the ghost of their identical slain brother, in an attempt to drive the murderer mad.
Rewriting this novella for release soon.
Loving every second.
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Checking out a theater space for sale tomorrow. Will there be a horror theater in Detroit soon? Well, you gotta start looking somewhere.
Here we go.
(also: a horror bookstore in the lobby/ just saying)
@pfdove
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@slimyswampghost
man. This was like... a freakin jump scare. I actually moved when I saw this.
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While leaving an Airbnb in the early hours, the owner pulled up, a nice gentleman, a bit flustered, and apologized for “wanting to meet” me because of the books, and it really felt like a moment happened.
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That’s a wrap. For now.
36th book
Ah man
Feel like a king.
I love being in this rat race hamster wheel with you all.
Long live horror.
Or, long grueling die horror.
For now we are devyls derke that once were angyls bryte.
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Daphne isn't a "female Jason" any more than Jason is a "male Gorgon." She is her. Her is she. A 100% nonsexualized nightmare of woman. And she shall be judged by the creativity of her kills and the body count in her wake!
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"How do I stay safe from Daphne?"
"Don't think about her."
"But she's all I can think about."
"You gotta be stronger than that."
"But what if I'm not? Are you?"
Is anybody?
DAPHNE
is coming
September 20th, 2022
@DelReyBooks
@penguinrandom
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Absolutely thrilled to see DAPHNE on the preliminary Stoker ballot.
And to be with these peeps no less:
@AlanBaxter
@Gabino_Iglesias
@almakatsu
@StephenKing
@NoelleIhli
@GwendolynKiste
@DanielDKraus
Gwendolyn Nix Nick Roberts and
@Catrionaward
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Daphne will be my 11th book published, and I'm waiting by the window for the hardcovers to arrive like a freakin kid on Hannukah morning.
Inherent Joy. That's my relationship with writing. For all the work, the freak outs, the psych outs: all lawless untethered inherent joy.
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It's hard not to think about Daphne today...
She has gone live. Released!
Now available wherever books are sold!
Signed copies available through
@vjbooks
Also: Daphne is sharing a book birthday with
@HaileyPiperSays
's No Gods For Drowning and
@claymcleod
's Ghost Eaters...
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I gasped.
13 year old me fainted.
27 year old me said, "Oh! So we DO figure out how to write a book?"
@Topps
made a Garbage Pail Kid of Bird Box. Just saw it on the Topps website.
(other horror stuff there too y'all)
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I'm a total mark for found footage. Some people have a sweet tooth. I have a found footage tooth. Give me a relatively obscure gem? I'm alone in the office. Lights out. Something to sink into. I've seen a lot of em, you know. But maybe one of you can change my life tonight.
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This has been the best release day of my life. And that's saying a lot. To all the readers, reviewers, blurbers, Wow Town, and book people... THANK you.
The book is dedicated to:
Finn and Elliott Malerman
For, as children, seeing things.
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Coming Sept 26 from Amazon Shorts Originals
stories from Joe Hill Paul Tremblay Grady Hendrix Jason Mott Chandler Baker and meIt Waits in the Woods is a long short story (10K words) and I hope it messes with any warm feelings upon finding charming, aesthetic bridges in the woods.
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For the novelist, there are two dreams, and the first (and it must always be the First Dream) is to express yourself, fully as your proportionate effort allows. And if not in full then at least in potency.
The writing of the book is the First Dream.
But there is another dream…
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This was a fucked up and hard Fourth of July. If you felt weird as hell today, angry, flummoxed, off… well yeah, and you weren’t alone.
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The Unbinding is fearless. Every time you think
@nuekerk
and
@Weird_Dana
must give up the ghost, they trek deeper, and do so with glee, wonder, backbone. They're as scared as you are, but their greatest asset is their open minds.
🧵
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This a picture of the Black Cat actually sitting on a collection of Poe stories and poems
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A later-night email from the publisher to say PEARL has gone into its 3rd printing.
Man! Booksellers, readers... THANK you.
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All of this, writing novels, knowing all of you, making movies, all of this is a dream.
Love to you all.
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So Longlegs totally fu@%ed me up. Two nights now I've gone to bed freaked out and even dreamed he was at the foot of the bed, reaching for my feet. Weird thing is, that's not what he does. Hard to explain. And the movie, too, is hard to explain...
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I've got a book coming out tomorrow!
SPIN A BLACK YARN
Now, I understand writers and readers are smart enough to know that when someone says they write from a place of joy they don't mean to imply the writing is a breezy, delightful romp. That would, of course, be insane.
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Writing a horror novel at 1:40am in a dark office.
This is the dream.
This is the nightmare.
This is joy and guilt and pressure and purpose and exuberance and inspiration and work.
This is writing.
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The hardcovers have arrived!
Ah, they look so good! They feel so good!
Gonna try and taste one now.
Dearest
@DelReyBooks
, the design looks even better in person. THANK you. For all you do, thank you.
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Happy birthday
@StephenKing
, because of whom I once called the grade school bully an "officious little prick" because he was one.
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Tomorrow night, starting a new book. Filming the whole process. Just on my phone or whatever's handy, but still, with a "feature film" in mind.
A documentary on the writing of a novel, from go to end.
The idea is this:
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Peter Straub gave me my first or second blurb for Bird Box. This blew all our minds over here. I wanted to meet him but I was too shy about it. Now, reading what an amazing guy he was, I feel extra dumb for not reaching out beyond a thank you. Sounds like an extraordinary human.
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The amazing
@slimyswampghost
draws Other Mommy from Incidents Around the House and now even I, who know her well, may struggle with sleep tonight.
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They’re here and they’re gorgeous and I don’t even know what to do with myself.
@DelReyBooks
@penguinrandom
(Advanced reading copies)
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Excitement surrounding this book, both in my head and outside my head. Film news/interest for multiple stories but more: I just feel great about this book! The first few horror movies I saw were anthologies and that way will always be closest to my heart.
Coming AUGUST 15
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Be open to all editorial notes that don't touch the essence, the core conceit, of your book. Less characters? Sure. A diff setting? Maybe. It's rushed, it drags? Check the pulse again.
But one thing is holy: It's what the book is actually about that a writer needs to keep safe.
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In the mail from
@LividianPub
:
This badass edition of HEART-SHAPED BOX.
I got the glory of writing the introduction and if you haven't read
@joe_hill
's brilliant book, get it. Joe is a hilarious, smart, warm guy and HSB is all that and legit scary.
Music to any horror fan's ears.
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Just got word the trade paperback of GOBLIN has gone into a 3rd printing.
Thank you all who got the book, who have taken a trip to the city of Goblin.
It makes me wanna visit the city again myself: a Return to Goblin
I'll pack an umbrella.
And a psychiatrist.
Just in case.
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Currently rewriting the scariest thing I've ever written. So y'all get your blankets, your diapers, and your palate cleansers ready.
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Opened her eyes yesterday
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When I was a kid, this was the VHS cover art that followed me around the store. Then followed me home.
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At the stage where we're choosing the cover art for SPIN A BLACK YARN, my collection of novellas coming out next year. This art is gonna be a stunner.
Here's one of the novella titles:
HALF THE HOUSE IS HAUNTED
I cannot wait to scare you.
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What’s that, a THIRD printing?
INCIDENTS AROUND THE HOUSE has gone into its third printing.
Readers, reviewers, libraries, bookstores… thank you doesn’t cut it. But thank you.
And who took this fun pic?
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A pretty amazing feeling when you go to your dad’s house and see all your books like this.
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Left the office for six minutes. Came back and someone stole my chair.
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I love talking to fellow horror authors, filmmakers, people in the horror world on the phone. Or Zoom. So much richer than DMs or responding to posts. Just so much more room and tone of voice, all that shit. Love it.
Call me. haha
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Reading
@grady_hendrix
’s newest and it’s got me emotional and thinking of my family and I was not expecting an emotional cruise up memory lane and I’m glad. It’s that kind of emotional: where you’re glad to almost cry.
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People, friends, fellow human beings-
INCIDENTS AROUND THE HOUSE has gone into its second printing.
This is marvelous news. Cannot thank everyone enough. And may Bela, Daddo, Mommy, Lois Anthony, and Grandma Ruth attempt to solve the problem of Other Mommy for readers to come...
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Spotted in a parking lot in up north Michigan.
This is also my car.
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Out of my mind. Wrapped the new book yesterday. Ceremonially printed out. (Exhibit A below)
Filmed the whole process, everything. It'll be edited sooner than later: a documentary on the writing of a book, but way more than that too.
I can't wait for other writers to see this.
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Tonight we officially began working on the movie. For now, I'll be mum on the story. But I'm directing and it stars
@JohnELTenney
and Cindy Spires and Allison Laakko and will be shot by John Beavers and tonight was magic.
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Incredible Daphne film news!
And that’s all I’m sayin for now!
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It's a nice feeling when your dad calls you after listening to the audio book and you have a long talk and he tells you the hair stood up on his arms. Wild thinking of reading books as a kid, then here's dad, reading a novel you wrote as a man, narrated by a child. Chef's kiss.
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Out to dinner when I got word. Congrats to all involved, short list, long list, all.
Sweet slate to be part of. I'd be thrilled if the award was split into five and we each got a drink ticket and a magic wand.
Means the world.
Thank you
@HorrorWriters
@DelReyBooks
@penguinrandom
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It strikes me this is a funny book to be reading at a restaurant
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Just received excellent news as Spin a Black Yarn, released two days, has gone into its second printing.
Thanks to the readers, the booksellers, and the winds of existence for blowing in its favor.
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YES
So thrilled to see INCIDENTS AROUND THE HOUSE announced in
@PublishersLunch
.
And thrilled to sign a two-book deal with
@DelReyBooks
and
@penguinrandom
and
@tnarwani
.
Let's roll, ever onward.
Thank you,
@agentkristinNLA
!
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30,000 words into the new book and I'm out of my mind excited. I've documented it all so far and I have so much to say about that. Wow do I. But for now: hell yes to the writers, the readers, the creeps, the freaks.
30K is a LEGIT START. 30K is a gift.
Feels SO good.
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This I saw young. Changed me. And while the face-ripping scene ought to have been the one to do it, it was when JoBeth Williams adjusts the chairs, goes to the sink, and turns to see the chairs stacked that made me feel I was now haunted, too. That teardrop music there. Perfect.
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Up rewriting still. Completely freaking myself the F out. Allison is asleep. I'm looking over my shoulder as I cross the house, I'm psyching myself up to open the bathroom door. I'm telling myself all sounds are the animals.
INCIDENTS AROUND THE HOUSE is scaring me for real.
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24K into the new book
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Woke up so jazzed about the Stoker nom. Congrats to all who published a book or finished a book or even just started writing a book last year. We're all swimming the same weird ass waters.
Love to all.
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I can't remember exactly who said this to me, but at
@ScaresThatCare
a reader was handing me books to sign and he said, "And your classic... Bird Box" and he handed it to me and the word "classic" echoed in my head and it was a moment for me.
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So
@ScaresThatCare
was a genuine bookish love fest. And turns out that all the personalities we may have first met online are, in person, smart, funny, sharp and have vision, real passion. Literally everyone there.
Needed this.
Thank you
@BrianKeene
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Bird Box Barcelona
(feature film)
Coming soon
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One time I walked into a bowling alley with the rough draft of Bird Box, to work on it, and the owner rushes up to me and say, hey man you can't hand out flyers here, and I wish that had been my plan, to hand out pages of rough drafts and say "it's gonna be a great time, come"
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The wonderful
@flanaganfilm
has reached a hallowed spot for any artist any era, where his stuff isn't compared to other people, but to his own body of work. Usher is nothing like Mass is nothing like Hill, etc. But then, it also is.
He's not just unafraid of change, he loves it.
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Heyo
@Jeopardy
tonight
I happened to be drinking a martini when dad sent me this and it was like he winked and cheered me
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Got an email just now, "Half the House is Haunted" (the lead-off novella from SPIN A BLACK YARN) has been nominated for a 2024 World Fantasy Award. A finalist for novella.
I'm so jazzed about this. And the ceremony is in Niagara Falls, one of Allison and my favorite cities...
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With
@Gabino_Iglesias
and
@vlatinalondon
in Haverhill. Instant great conversation. No build up. Just immediate good stuff.
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The office looks particularly good tonight
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Brought these two sister kittens home today and the documentary about writing the book just got a lot cuter.
I'm sure Allison will post a better pic but I'm so excited and I love them already.
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A huge box of SPIN A BLACK YARN in the mail!
ARCs
I made a video of the unboxing and I prob came off like a child. Which is just fine by me.
THANK you
@DelReyBooks
@penguinrandom
It's a complete dream.
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Bought this mint paperback of Needful Things on eBay a while back and it's got the faintest trace of the greatest perfume known to man. Just the tiniest hint of it. Every time I open the book I expect the used bookstore smell we all chase but instead fall in love with a stranger.
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Junji Ito is essential. Like Jackson or Carpenter. Or whatever the heck’s essential to you. And to me. And to the next guy. The next person. The next brain in a body. The next body in a brain. And so forth. Essential.
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