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 		The NRG guy also says that adults don't usually notice the tattoo. So perhaps it is popular, but Dale never noticed (consciously?)
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 		Dale's latest entry.

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June 4, 2006: I'm happy to report that I'm finally making some progress again on the script for Book Two. Yes, that's right, I'm still writing the story for the next issue, even with Book One already published. Don't get me wrong, of course I have an idea of the entire story I'm telling with Chasing The Wish, and of most of the events along the way. But the dreams are still coming, more frequent and vivid than ever, and sometimes it's as if they story I've already written is only chapters 1, 2, 4, and 5, and now I've just remembered chapter 3. Kind of like filling in a piece in a jigsaw puzzle I didn't even realize was missing. After a while, they start to feed into each other, and the story they are telling begins to become clear. The artists are revved up and ready to go though, so I guess I better get the final pieces in place soon.

I don't want to ruin the story included in Book One, especially for anyone who is reading the online version only and so has only seen half of the content so far, so I'll try to be as general as possible in describing this latest dream, and exactly how it fits into what is happening in the comic book. But I thought readers of Chasing The Wish would be interested in seeing the process of turning one of my dreams into a part of the storyline, even at the risk of slightly giving away a bit of the plot yet to come. So here goes.

Like I said, the dreams begin to influence each other, each successive one picking up elements and answering questions from the earlier ones. They also seem to increasingly incorporate pieces of my real life, which is why the story is such a mix of fantasy and reality. Or, at least that's what I keep telling myself. It helps me get through the day.

This dream began where my last one ended, with that damn symbol made up of the circle with the several smaller circles around it, the 3-0-7 symbol. I dreamt that I was at the Aglaura Public Library, talking to someone, although I can't remember who it was. As I spoke to them, my attention was drawn over their shoulder, to the old stone wall of the library behind them. Slowly at first, but then with increasing speed and clarity, I watched as the 3-0-7 symbol formed upon the wall. Formed probably isn't the right word, it was almost as if the symbol was being spray painted there, but there were no drips or runny paint one would expect from spray painting. There also wasn't anyone there doing the spraying.

The next thing I knew I was walking home from the library, a couple of books under my arm, and Aglaura seeming unusually quiet and still. As I walked, I saw the 3-0-7 symbol everywhere - painted like graffiti on garage walls, scrawled in chalk on sidewalks, and occupying a prominent place on the front page of a piece of newspaper that went blowing past me on the street. I tried to catch the paper briefly, but it remained just out of my grasp at every attempt, until I found myself standing before my own house. Diana and Meaghan were in the window, looking out, as if waiting for me to come home.

But, before I could walk up the path to the front door, another figure emerged from the shadows and began moving up the front walk. No matter how hard I tried I couldn't move, or make a sound, and I watched as the dark figure reached the front door and opened it, allowing the light from inside to spill out into the night. I watched as Diana and Meaghan ran to greet the stranger, embracing him warmly as he stepped inside. He turned then, and looked back at me in the night, and I saw my own face staring back at me except for the eyes. Where my eyes should have been, there were only two endless pools of emptiness, blacker even than the night that embraced me. And then I woke up.


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 		Dale has posted another hidden journal entry dated June 7th. It looks like Dale's dream is giving us a few hints on how to solve the automatic writing puzzle. "Optatio Venatio", is Latin for "hunting the wish".

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June 7, 2006: My dreams are haunted by the number six lately, so I guess it should be no surprise that last night was no exception. After all, it was the day - June 6, 2006 - people had been buzzing about for quite a while now, because of its obvious 6-6-6 connections. I'd like to be able to blame my recent obsession, at least while I'm sleeping, with the number on the whole 6-6-6 thing, but I just can't. The sixes in my dreams have been a constant theme since all the weirdness of the Chasing The Wish dreams began, months and months ago. And, like almost everything else from my dreams, they've found their way into my real world too.

Six fingers on one hand he had . . .

I guess the first and most obvious "six connection" in those dreams was the whole Digitalis thing, you know, the fortune teller with six fingers. I'm pretty sure that I had already heard about the real Digitalis at Ash Grove and his unusual condition before he showed up in my dreams, although I can't recall exactly when that was. It would be too strange a coincidence for it to have happened the other way around, even for me, so I'm fairly sure that's right. I do know that after I mentioned the idea of people with special abilities being marked somehow with six fingers to Sam when we were discussing my dreams, before I had even thought of writing of Chasing The Wish, she mentioned the park's fortune teller and asked me if that's where I got the idea.

Six fingers on one hand he had . . .

But, like I said, that was only the beginning. There were many, many more weird little synchronicities involving the number six along the way. It was right after I had dreamed about a mask as part of the Chasing The Wish story that Sarah told me about her Sixth of Never book, and, even stranger, the six masks she was making inspired by the story.

Last night was just the latest example. My dreams began with that one sentence repeated over and over again - six fingers on one hand he had - by a too sweet and cloying young female voice, in an almost sing-song, nursery rhyme kind of way. I think I saw the number six while she was droning on, but the voice is all I really remember clearly.

Next, I was standing in a cemetery, with six headstones before me. I could still hear the girl's voice but it was muted, distant, and I was able to force it back into my subconscious for a moment and read the names on the gravestones before me. The first two stones bore the names of Diana and Meaghan and they seemed familiar, as if perhaps I had seen them in earlier Chasing The Wish dreams. Even so, it chilled me to the bone to see their names etched into the cold gray stone.

Six fingers on one hand he had . . .

The next headstone read "Wes Keeler, Stranger in Life than Death." Wes is an old friend of mine who is really dead, unlike Diana and Meg, but his real stone only has his name upon it. The name on the fourth stone surprised me when I read it - Sarah Wyatt, who is the head librarian from the Aglaura Public Library and also a friend of mine. Beneath her name was the inscription "Here lies knowledge the world shall never know."

On the other only five . . .

The faraway voice had changed now, moving on to another line of her haunting refrain. The fifth stone said, "Here lies poor JD's body, but not his mind." In the dream, the sky was darkening, as the wind picked up and a storm formed around me. The thunder drowned out the young girl's voice momentarily.

You look well, son, for someone not alive . . .

I knelt before the sixth gravestone, tears mixing with rain as they ran down my face. The inscription read, "Optatio Venatio. Here lies the soul of Dale Sprague, which can never rest in piece. Died on the Sixth of Never, 2006."



*edit to add Dale"s journal entry for June 8th.

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June 8, 2006: I've got just a quick news update for everyone following this Chasing The Wish Creator's Journal, and reading either the print or online versions of the book. Things are happening fast and furious around here, and the book sales and online subscriptions are keeping me way too busy, but I guess I shouldn't complain about that, right? That's the kind of problem I was hoping to have when I started this project months and months ago, and if it wasn't for the Synthasia jobs and site updates that I'm behind on piling up, I'd be enjoying every minute of it.

I am loving the emails I've been receiving with comments about the comic; they've really been fantastic and overwhelmingly positive. Actually, I think the only seriously negative reactions Chasing The Wish has received have been from a few people here in Aglaura, who either didn't like the fact that I've put our town in a comic book, or simply think I'm crazy for writing a story that features myself trying to blow my brains out, going insane, and showing my wife and daughter being killed horribly in a car accident. Hmm, imagine that. At least Meaghan thinks it's pretty cool.

Oh yeah, the news updates. First, I'm incredibly pleased, proud, and more than a little surprised to announce that the first print run of Chasing The Wish Book One is very close to being sold out. I never dreamed I'd be saying that only one month after the book was released and before it even appeared on Amazon.com or in most comic book shops (there were a few early adapters - Thank you!), but that's exactly what has happened. Now that's crazy, isn't it? Don't worry - a second print run is in the works right now, and plans to distribute them through the channels mentioned above haven't changed. The second print run books will have some minor changes and corrections, however, making the first run books unique. So if you want one of the last remaining first print run issues, I wouldn't wait too long or you might miss out.

Next, I've begun to receive just a few submissions of fan art based on the Chasing The Wish comic and what's come in has been great. I'll try to post it to the online installment site as soon as I can. I'm anxious to see more too, so continue sending them in, and you may even get to see yours published in Chasing The Wish Book Two. Speaking of sending things in, I've also been enjoying some of the links, unusual news stories, and reference sources people have been sending me about Aglaura, wishes, and other related topics via email. Well, all except the one that recommended I check myself in to Klepsydra for a spell. The others have been mostly amusing, and a few just weird. Here's a couple I thought I'd pass along to you - ? ?

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 		The first link ? he posted is for a page at Wild NJ. Unfortunately, the Wild NJ server is down this morning.
The second ? is the profile for MrLeeds on youtube.
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konamouse wrote:
The first link ? he posted is for a page at Wild NJ. Unfortunately, the Wild NJ server is down this morning.


It's up now, it's about the Pine Barrens
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Shelina wrote:
konamouse wrote:
The first link ? he posted is for a page at Wild NJ. Unfortunately, the Wild NJ server is down this morning.


It's up now, it's about the Pine Barrens


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Published in The Bergen Record, June 23, 1996
The Pinelands

Wondrous Barrens
The Pinelands treasures are unique

By Jill Schensul
Leisure Editor
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So unique is the Pine Barrens -- or Pinelands, the more recent moniker used to dispel the connotation of wasteland -- that in 1979, the United Nations designated it an international Biosphere Reserve, an area especially valuable for worldwide scientific study.
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 		Uh oh...
Hidden June 10 post from Dale:

http://www.thewishcomic.com/journal/061006.html

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June 10, 2006: I've now lost all hopes that the dreams would ease up once I got the first book finished and out. Though I'm not sure why, I was sure that I would get some relief from that accomplishment but, if anything, it's getting worse. Over and over I find myself dreaming of things I've written about for Chasing The Wish and each time they seem more real than the last.And since my waking life is filled with either promoting Book One or writing Book Two, it's gotten so I hardly tell where the fiction ends and the reality begins. That sounds crazy, I know, and more than a little ironic to anyone who has read the beginning of my comic book, in which a very similar thing happens. But that's just a story, isn't it? Isn't it?

Last night (or was it earlier today sometime?) I dreamt I was at Ash Grove Park, with Diana and Meaghan, and we were a family again. Or, I should say, still. We were a family still. But it wasn't from any trip we actually ever made there or to any other amusement park that I can recall, it was the trip from the story of my dreams, Book One of Chasing The Wish. It was right before, before everything changed.

Meaghan was having the time of her life, riding the rides, stuffing anything sweet or salty into her mouth, and dragging Di and I from booth to booth along the midway. At some point I found myself separated from the two of them, as they stood before the mirrors of a hand-made jewelry stand, trying on the brightly colored beads and whimsical shapes the local artisan had crafted. I continued to walk, my mind occupied by the terrible situation I had put myself and my family in. Before I knew it, I was inside a tent, the tent, where I knew he would be waiting. Digitalis.

But it wasn't like the first times I had dreamt of this very scene, or the way I had written it for the comic. This time his tent seemed oppressive, frightening, and Digitalis himself moved with jerky, unnatural movements. His voice sounded cold and distant, and where his playful eyes should have been were two deep and absolutely black pits.

As if I were watching from above, I saw myself sit at the small table, my hands resting on the worn cloth covering and my eyes focused intently on the gleaming orb of crystal at its center. I heard Digitalis begin to speak. "You have been here many times before, each time choosing to neglect my words and warnings. But listen carefully, Dale Sprague. You will not find yourself here again."

His voice then took on a slightly different tone, and I felt a warm tingling within my head as he spoke.

"When six have fallen, it begins,
All of this will soon be gone.
When a face conceals but naught within,
All of this will soon be gone.
When a heart once broken loves again,
All of this will soon be gone.
When wishes rule the hearts of men,
All of this will soon be gone."

As he spoke, I had visions of everyone and everything I care about burning before my eyes. I cried, my tears turning to steam and burning my cheeks before they even had a chance to fall to the ground. I saw Meaghan look up at me as the flames consumed her, her eyes pleading with me for help. Finally, I could take no more. I wished for it all to end.


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 		Maby its talking about the mask that got stolen. Question

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"When six have fallen, it begins,
All of this will soon be gone.
When a face conceals but naught within,
All of this will soon be gone.
When a heart once broken loves again,
All of this will soon be gone.
When wishes rule the hearts of men,
All of this will soon be gone."


First impressions:

When six have fallen, it begins,"

Could mean the death of six people who are close to Dale. So far I can think of four (though in various timelines) - Diana, Meaghan, JD, Wes

This is a stretch, but while googling I found a reference to a strange place in Arizona that is believed to be haunted. The only thing keeping the forces of the underworld contained are six "totems." Could Sarah's masks been a form of totem that were wards against something?

When a face conceals but naught within,

My immediate reaction was this refered to Don. I think Phyllis or Iris described him looking as if his face was a mask - but there was nothing behind it.

When a heart once broken loves again,

Can't think of anyone for this but it being Dale.

When wishes rule the hearts of men,

In one sense this could be a great thing - that we would all seek to make each others wishes come true - like Make A Wish Foundation. But, since the Wish could have made Dale's "wish" come out in a much more positive way I'm not sure the idea of The Wish ruling is such a good thing.

All of this will soon be gone.

Or so The Wish thought - but Dale remembered.

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 		I'd just like to point out that there seems to be a theme going on here. Dale, Bruce and Sarah have all talked about dreams of fire and burning.

How much you want to bet that others are having the same problem. Possibly Sam and JD as the frontrunners. I'll look into JD if I have the chance (and if I get an email back from Klepsydra).

Dale wrote:
As he spoke, I had visions of everyone and everything I care about burning before my eyes. I cried, my tears turning to steam and burning my cheeks before they even had a chance to fall to the ground. I saw Meaghan look up at me as the flames consumed her, her eyes pleading with me for help. Finally, I could take no more. I wished for it all to end.

Sarah wrote:
Last night my earrings melted off after my face caught on fire, and I watched the little plops of gold dribble down my shoulders in the rearview mirror. When I woke up gasping, as is my usual M.O., I had to take out the little hoops that I always wear. It made me feel naked, but I couldn't stand having them in. Maybe I'll get over it soon and be able to put them back. I kind of doubt it, though. Watching my fingernails fall off that one night was so bad that I'm still unable to stand it when they're at all long.

Bruce wrote:
I'm getting enough sleep for now. Still, my dreams have been so bizarre. Nightmares, really. Everyone, everything thing in them has been wreathed, or encased in flame. Like that wild video Spike Jonze made for that not-very-interesting band, Wax. California, I think was the name of the song. Two nights ago I woke up drenched in sweat. I'd been talking loudly in my sleep..."put out the fire", "put out the fire". Diana kissed me gently and went to sleep on the couch

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 		Re: Digitalis
Sandra wrote:
When a face conceals but naught within,

My immediate reaction was this refered to Don. I think Phyllis or Iris described him looking as if his face was a mask - but there was nothing behind it.

Could this be referring to a literal mask? One of Sarah's?

Sandra wrote:
When a heart once broken loves again,

Can't think of anyone for this but it being Dale.

Diana and Bruce?
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 		I'm sure the mask reference could be to Sarah's six - or it could be a reference to the original mask - the one from CTW1.

Don't think it's referring to Diana and Bruce. I'm not convinced that the love is mutual there. But then I've got a certain soft spot for Bruce because of my limited association with him in CTW1.

Also, in chat exaxor speculated that "six" that had to fall were the months of this year - meaning it would start after June was over. I like this interpretation better than mine. lol No people have to die. <g>

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June 11, 2006: I've been getting some fantastic email about Chasing The Wish Book One and sometimes, these days, that's all that keeps me going. Everybody who has written me really loves the book and that gives me a buzz I just can't explain. But I like it. Here are some brief excerpts from a couple of the messages:

"I'm writing to tell you how much I'm enjoying your graphic novel "Chasing the Wish." What a fantastic story. ... Thank you for providing such unique entertainment and opening up to share what is going on with you. It's not something one sees very often these days."

"Anyway, its a wonderful comic. The story is nifty and I really like the art style. Great job and congratulations on getting it published."

"Wow, what an unbelievable story, and yet it's written in a way that makes me feel like it's something that really happened to you. Are you sure this isn't based on a real life incident?"

A few of the more ambitious and exceptionally clever readers have actually managed to make some sense of the dream fragments I included in the Creator's Pages published in Book One. A couple of people pieced together this poem from my automatic writing shown in the book.

Six fingers on one hand he had
On the other only five
With a grin he said
You look well, son, for someone not alive
Quickly lad, no time to think,
Your mind looks scattered anyway
Yours to choose, make it real
Careful now of what you say.

I can't explain to you right now how freaky and coincidental that is.

With the help of the numbers attached to the words from my writing, they somehow extracted a hidden message from the poem, saying "mystes of avalon." I'm not sure what that's all about but thanks to the several readers who found it and pointed it out to me. I'll keep you updated as to my (or should I say their?) progress.

Some other readers have been working on the dream about animals I included in Book One, and have noticed that there appears to be a message of sorts hidden in there as well. I'm a little worried about what the readers who have found that think about a man whose subconscious mind is capable of doing something like that, unintentionally and unawares, but I guess that's the least of my worries right now. Anyway, they've pulled the phrase "three letters saved" out of my writing, and are asking me and speculating about what it might mean. Besides the obvious reference to the Aglaura Public Library, which could easily be occupying my subconscious full time these days under the circumstances, I have no ideas for other possible interpretations.

In any case, thanks for the great emails and please keep on sending them. I'm getting around to answering them all right now.

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 		[Update] Dale's Journal 6/15
Two entries were added to Dale's journal for June 13th and 14th.


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June 13, 2006: I've spent a lot of time thinking about the words from my dream about Digitalis a few days ago. They keep running through my head, over and over again, no matter what I am doing or how I try to distract myself. I've obsessed almost to the point of exhaustion, and even when I have managed to fall asleep for a few fleeting moments, something happens to bring me right back to them as soon as I wake up.

When six have fallen, it begins,
All of this will soon be gone.

I dozed off last night with that droning in my mind, only to be awoken by the persistent ringing of my cell phone a short while later. Actually, I'm not sure how long I was sleeping, or how many times the phone rang before I was motivated enough to get up and answer it. If it wasn't for the good chance that it was going to be Meaghan, I wouldn't have even answered it then.

When a face conceals but naught within,
All of this will soon be gone.

It was someone who had emailed me lately about my comic book and the goings-on in Aglaura, who just wanted to let me know that somehow my cell phone number had shown up on Bruce's "private" blog. I was honestly still a little too asleep to respond coherently I think, so I'm not even sure what I said.

When a heart once broken loves again,
All of this will soon be gone.

Part of me originally wanted to be mad at Bruce but, after reading his blog entry myself, I just couldn't be. I actually feel sorry for the guy in some ways, and I can't help thinking, on some level and in some ways, he did me a favor. I've come to realize that there's something going on here that's much bigger than me and this little isolated world I've created for myself. I think that's what the whole Chasing The Wish story in my dreams has been trying to tell me. That isolation isn't the answer, and I don't need to be alone. When I think about it, that's what I see myself doing in this story I've written about the "fictional" Dale - isolating, running away, trying to do everything myself. Is it because I think I don't need anyone else? Or because I know I do?

When wishes rule the hearts of men,
All of this will soon be gone."

I wouldn't have seen the hidden meanings in those dreams or automatic writings of mine without the help of the people, strangers really, who have emailed me (and called me) to show me where they were. Messages from strangers that point the way to truth. Is that what this warning in my dream of Digitalis is too?

It's time to find out. I am going there, this weekend, to seek him out and speak to him. I'm convinced he knows something about what is going on, not just with me, but with this whole town. It's getting crazier by the day here, as more and more people seem to be acting either oddly or completely irrationally. No one else has quite reached JD proportions yet (present company excluded), but they are getting close. Sam told me that Frank the firefighter was caught trying to set his own house on fire. When they hauled him away, they noticed he had scratched and clawed at his own body, leaving deep and serious wounds.

I'm also going to start letting these people help me, since they seem both willing and capable. It's time to start trusting someone again, in something other than my own ability to solve my problems.

Oh yeah, I wanted to get back to my thoughts about his words, Digitalis' I mean, which is why I began by saying I've been thinking about them constantly.

When six have fallen, it begins,

Again the sixes that continue to haunt me. One of the people that called my phone actually calls himself "six." My first thoughts were that this means the six masks that have disappeared from the Library, although I have no idea how they could be connected to anything serious. But it seems, or at least it feels, as if they are. Could it also mean six months, since it is now June, or six .... what?

Damn, my cell phone is ringing.



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June 14, 2006: Another disturbing dream. I know, I've been writing about crazy dreams for months now, but they're different lately, darker, more depressing, and more mysterious. And they're not telling the story I need them to right now either, to continue on with Chasing The Wish. They've become disjointed and in many cases indecipherable, and they often seem to be repeating scenes from the earlier story dreams, but with radically different circumstances or results. And through them all runs this thread, over and over again.

"When six have fallen, it begins,
All of this will soon be gone.
When a face conceals but naught within,
All of this will soon be gone.
When a heart once broken loves again,
All of this will soon be gone.
When wishes rule the hearts of men,
All of this will soon be gone."

Last night's dream was about Digitalis again and pretty much the same scene as the dream in which he originally recited those words. But, from that point on, it began to differ from the original dream, as Digitalis said:

"Days, Dale Sprague, we have but days. Days, like wishes, are fleeting and hard to predict. Perhaps you could count them on two hands, perhaps not."

His voice then took on a slightly different tone, and I felt a warm tingling within my head as he spoke.

"When tears of innocence fall like rain,
All of this will soon be gone.
When a man protects himself with pain,
All of this will soon be gone.
When one link breaks an endless chain,
All of this will soon be gone.
Then ancient wood alone remains.
All of this will soon be gone."

I awoke from my dream to find myself strapped to a hospital gurney, my entire body throbbing with pain, and my voice hoarse from screaming at the top of my lungs. In fact, I was still screaming, only I just wasn't making any sound anymore, the combination of strain to my throat and whatever they had injected me with preventing me from doing anything more than croak and groan.

And then I awoke again, for real this time (I think), and realized what had just happened had been part of a dream too, despite how real it felt. For a few moments, as I struggled into consciousness, I could have sworn the marks from the gurney's restraining straps were still on my arms.


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 		Re: [Update] Dale's Journal 6/15
None of those entries where there yesterday Evil or Very Mad We have to ask Dale to upload his entries on time Razz Razz Razz

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"Days, Dale Sprague, we have but days. Days, like wishes, are fleeting and hard to predict. Perhaps you could count them on two hands, perhaps not."


For a couple of days now I am thinking that something important would happen on June 21st... summer sosltice... it was an important date in CTW1, if I recall well Rolling Eyes
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