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post #181 of 594
11/27/08 at 9:33am
...you dream about posting your SotD, and the next day, you realize that you never actually did.
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post #182 of 594
12/16/08 at 8:59pm
. . . you ponder buying a better camera so you can take better pictures of your bottles.
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post #183 of 594
12/17/08 at 12:42am
You're upgraded to a three star "super member" and you open a bottle of champagne to celebrate!
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post #184 of 594
12/17/08 at 1:00pm
You get totally excited when seeing a leather case for homeopathic vials (they are filled with these little beads) at the doctor because you have found the perfect storing for sample vials!!!
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post #185 of 594
12/17/08 at 3:12pm
when you're walking through a bad neighborhood and you realise that the usual hand-bent-back-wrist-sniff is a bit too camp and might get you murdered, so you adopt a more 'gangsta' nose-rub with the first knuckle of your thumb in order to get close enough to sniff.

normal people would wait.

in fact normal people probably dont NEED to smell their wrists....
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post #186 of 594
12/18/08 at 10:59am
...when your friend would promise you to take up for you some Amouage samples in the capital of the country and okay, he'll call you, and you go to the toilette with your mobile in your pocket, so as not to miss the call.
And yesss, you don't miss it, just at the right time, just at the right place.
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post #187 of 594
12/18/08 at 6:24pm
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Originally Posted by Trufflehunter View Post

You're upgraded to a three star "super member" and you open a bottle of champagne to celebrate!

...and when you feel compelled to post a congratulatory note to said BNer (Congrats, Trufflehunter!)

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Originally Posted by Sandy View Post

...when your friend would promise you to take up for you some Amouage samples in the capital of the country and okay, he'll call you, and you go to the toilette with your mobile in your pocket, so as not to miss the call.
And yesss, you don't miss it, just at the right time, just at the right place.

...and when you edit your post to LOL at another BNer's funny story.
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post #188 of 594
1/2/09 at 7:01pm
. . . you've got your coworkers bringing in full bottles to work, so you can discuss fragrances with them.
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post #189 of 594
1/2/09 at 8:25pm
...you rewrite your grocery list to accomodate for the cash you forked out for "just one last bottle".
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post #190 of 594
1/4/09 at 7:14pm
You are getting your chest shaved for an ekg and heart stress test and you ask the nurse after she's cleaned the contact areas on your body, 'What is that scent?'

'Oh, that's 'fir tree balm', they used to use it in the field during the war.'

I didn't ask her where I could buy but thanked her for telling me what it was.
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post #191 of 594
1/28/09 at 5:25pm
. . . a friend sends a message saying to check out Channel 19, and you think, "I've already sampled that."
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post #192 of 594
1/28/09 at 5:36pm
When you've got a box with 45 samples in it, have 27 more lying around, have 13 more on the way, and not think it's too weird.
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post #193 of 594
1/28/09 at 6:26pm
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Originally Posted by mikeperez23 View Post

You cannot wait to get home to take a shower, so you can wash off your current scent and try a new one.

Normal people don't do this, guys.

This is still my favorite one
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post #194 of 594
1/29/09 at 3:38am
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Originally Posted by Scentologist View Post

....you fart and try to name individual notes, .....corn, sulfur, etc ...

I got on to this thread late in the game obviously, but this is my absolute fave so far....
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post #195 of 594
1/29/09 at 6:28pm
When you can remember the house, date of release, nose and notes of a fragrance. ANY fragrance...

oh and you can also tell which copies which...
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post #196 of 594
1/29/09 at 7:17pm
Heh!

Or how about. . .
. . . when you can remember the house, date of release, nose and notes of your fragrances, but not your relatives' birthdays.
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post #197 of 594
1/29/09 at 7:25pm
When you say to the sales assistant you are searching for an old bottle of Fahrenheit, because it had a cancerigen substance that they took out of the new bottles, and she replies: "Oh my god, so you want a perfume that causes cancer? Are you saying that these perfumes causes cancer?". So you says, smiling, "Yes, I want the one that causes cancer!!!", and she says: "OH MY GOD, YOU ARE REALLY SCARING ME!!!"

That's my personal contribution.
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post #198 of 594
1/30/09 at 4:04am
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Originally Posted by smeller View Post

When you say to the sales assistant you are searching for an old bottle of Fahrenheit, because it had a cancerigen substance that they took out of the new bottles, and she replies: "Oh my god, so you want a perfume that causes cancer? Are you saying that these perfumes causes cancer?". So you says, smiling, "Yes, I want the one that causes cancer!!!", and she says: "OH MY GOD, YOU ARE REALLY SCARING ME!!!"

That's my personal contribution.

:toppie:
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post #199 of 594
1/30/09 at 4:45am
...when you get a case of the "guilts" when applying your SoTD, whilst looking at all the other bottles that have dropped from regular circulation. You pick them up, one by one, and smell the little atomizer; polish the glass bottle on your sleeve, twist the caps so they all face the correct way, and put them back towards the front of your collection just to remind yourself to apply them with greater regularity!
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post #200 of 594
1/30/09 at 9:44pm
When everyone around you says you smell like cow crap and you just know they are all so wrong and are probably from some sort of inferior species.
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post #201 of 594
1/30/09 at 9:55pm
when your childrens names are tommy and jickey
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post #202 of 594
1/30/09 at 10:00pm
When someones asks to wear your perfume and then you procede with directions on how and were to apply it properly and then when they do you end up screeming " NO NO stop rubbing it" and when they get upset and decide not to ever ask you again you are some how pleased that it wont be waisted any more.
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post #203 of 594
1/30/09 at 10:01pm
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Originally Posted by Dimitri View Post

...when you get a case of the "guilts" when applying your SoTD, whilst looking at all the other bottles that have dropped from regular circulation. You pick them up, one by one, and smell the little atomizer; polish the glass bottle on your sleeve, twist the caps so they all face the correct way, and put them back towards the front of your collection just to remind yourself to apply them with greater regularity!

This is just too cute! Avoiding the hurt feelings and all.
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post #204 of 594
1/30/09 at 10:02pm
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Originally Posted by abubakr_al-misky View Post

and when they get upset and decide not to ever ask you again you are some how pleased that it wont be waisted any more.

LOL! That's me. Control freak, I am.
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post #205 of 594
1/30/09 at 10:15pm
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Originally Posted by abubakr_al-misky View Post

when everyone around you says you smell like cow crap and you just know they are all so wrong and are probably from some sort of inferior species.

lol!
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post #206 of 594
1/30/09 at 10:16pm
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Originally Posted by Dimitri View Post

...when you get a case of the "guilts" when applying your SoTD, whilst looking at all the other bottles that have dropped from regular circulation. You pick them up, one by one, and smell the little atomizer; polish the glass bottle on your sleeve, twist the caps so they all face the correct way, and put them back towards the front of your collection just to remind yourself to apply them with greater regularity!

Oh my gosh! I do that too!
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post #207 of 594
1/30/09 at 10:41pm
...when you wake up in the morning with a strong resolve not to buy any frags that day, and cant wait to get home to sample the frag you bought!

...when you fire up your PC and the first port of call is the BN site, work and personal emails only afterwards.

...frags dont just smell nice anymore. Now its the accords, heartnotes, naturals or synthetics, etc, etc, etc, all blah blahdy blah....

...you wash your wrists and other hand parts more than any other area of your body.

...toggle between SotD and Fragrance Reviews.

...realise (with or without guilt) you spend an inordinate amount of time in the BN site

Are we normal?????????????
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post #208 of 594
1/30/09 at 11:00pm
...when you have so many fragrances, you do not have a perfume 'tray', nor 'drawer', but an armoire to accommodate all the scents. Then you realize there are still about 40+ bottles of extrait in the drawers of your vintage vanity. Oh and the box in the cellar filled with scents that have fallen from grace. Of course there is also the box in the closet, filled to the top with the ones that will eventually (hopefully) be sold/gifted. Also, there is the other drawer filled with the backups, two bottles of some favorites, of extra special scents. Then of course there are the boxes that are just too pretty to put away, so they are on top of the dresser, and vanity. I really could go on, but am just a little ashamed of myself.

G'night all.
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post #209 of 594
1/30/09 at 11:09pm
When you stop wearing deoderant to see if pheramones actually do attract the oppisite sex.
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post #210 of 594
1/30/09 at 11:27pm
Thread Starter 
When you read "armpit note" in a review and continue reading as if everything is perfectly normal.
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post #211 of 594
1/31/09 at 5:56am
This is like a confession thread, so I'll confess. You know your a basenoter when.... and I have done this, you ask the sales associates at Bloomies or elsewhere to look at the ingredient list on the box just to point out that frag doesn't contain any "violet" but alpha iso ianone or "rose" but citronellol and geraniol and then offer them a sniff of the vial of otto in your pocket.
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post #212 of 594
1/31/09 at 6:53am
When you love to tell non-perfumistas where civet, castoreum and musk come from, just so you can giggle at their reaction ;-)
When you post a link to this thread on the BN thread you visit daily because you want to share the laughter with your BN family
When you spend an inordinate amount of time figuring out how to arrange your collection- size? fragrance family? creator? date of purchase? etc..
When you mention someone is a "nose" and automatically expect your "other" friends to understand
When you have an Excel spreadsheet that breaks down each of your fragrances by notes and you're already on sheet 2 of the workbook
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post #213 of 594
1/31/09 at 7:40am
BNers who have studied chemistry who also know that chemical breakdowns happen due to heat, light, and oxidation - so you store your perfume in the fridge, the bottle wrapped in aluminum foil and put them in ziplock bags ... and when people ask how do you know what's what you say it does not matter because you know which perfume belongs to which shape.
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post #214 of 594
1/31/09 at 8:02am
I love these - especially the one about wanting the carcinogen carrying Fahrenheit.

I finally have one:

When you spend $200+ on a bottle that must be shipped from Europe, but then you don't wear it as an SOTD for two weeks after arrival because you're weren't 'feeling it' until then.
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post #215 of 594
1/31/09 at 8:08am
One more:

When getting boxes in the mail is like a lottery because you have so many incoming packages you don't remember everything you're expecting.

which is closely related to:

When a fragrance arrives in the mail you weren't expecting because you completely forgot you ordered it.
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post #216 of 594
1/31/09 at 9:33am
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Originally Posted by Dimitri View Post

...when you get a case of the "guilts" when applying your SoTD, whilst looking at all the other bottles that have dropped from regular circulation. You pick them up, one by one, and smell the little atomizer; polish the glass bottle on your sleeve, twist the caps so they all face the correct way, and put them back towards the front of your collection just to remind yourself to apply them with greater regularity!

The greatest post in this thread Thank you.
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post #217 of 594
1/31/09 at 9:36am
When you go for a good dose of running, after which sweating like dog, you go for a good bath, but you are extremely careful not to wash off the backside of your left hand because there is the new Baldessarini Strictly Private you've tried today and you are curious how long it will stay after all those adventures.
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post #218 of 594
1/31/09 at 10:46am
You were astonished and indignant to discover that the spell-check on your computer does not recognize the word "sillage."

You motivate yourself to work out by thinking, "After my shower, I can try out that new Serge Lutens sample." During the work out, you stop to make a note of how all the extra sweat and body heat affects you current frgrance. And after you're done, you decide that maybe you don't want to try that new Serge Lutens after all. Maybe you're in the mood for that new L'Artisan, or that vintage Ma Griffe, or...
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post #219 of 594
1/31/09 at 4:46pm
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Originally Posted by Dimitri View Post

twist the caps so they all face the correct way, and put them back towards the front of your collection just to remind yourself to apply them with greater regularity!

Does it work?
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post #220 of 594
2/1/09 at 7:08am
... when this very post is my 1000th on basenotes!
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post #221 of 594
2/1/09 at 11:13am
Ooh, ifconfig! You were saving yourself for this thread. Congrats on your thousandth post!!!
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post #222 of 594
2/1/09 at 11:28am
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Originally Posted by Brielle87 View Post

...when you have so many fragrances, you do not have a perfume 'tray', nor 'drawer', but an armoire to accommodate all the scents. Then you realize there are still about 40+ bottles of extrait in the drawers of your vintage vanity. Oh and the box in the cellar filled with scents that have fallen from grace. Of course there is also the box in the closet, filled to the top with the ones that will eventually (hopefully) be sold/gifted. Also, there is the other drawer filled with the backups, two bottles of some favorites, of extra special scents. Then of course there are the boxes that are just too pretty to put away, so they are on top of the dresser, and vanity. I really could go on, but am just a little ashamed of myself.

G'night all.

Yes! And when you look at someone's (ahem...) wardrobe of nearly 300 bottles and think ".....someday!"

And when you do several series of testings: sniff from the bottle, sniff from the blotter, sniff from the 1/4 quadrant you have marked out on your forearm, sniffed from clothes (to get a better sense of the progression of the scent), and finally, having passed those tests, sniffed from an entire arm, and then, ta da!, sniffed from multiple spritzes to the extremities, chest, "private areas", hair, etc...And then maybe you'll buy more samples, a decant, or if you're really sticking your neck out, a full bottle!
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post #223 of 594
2/1/09 at 11:32am
you carry a little velvet bag chuck full of samples with you to work
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post #224 of 594
2/1/09 at 11:42am
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Originally Posted by 911opr View Post

you carry a little velvet bag chuck full of samples with you to work

Yes! and a nice segue into another sure sign that someone is a BNer:

You Know you're a Basenoter when you readily agree to go to mind-numbingly silly* movies with the kids so you can bring along your little bag of vials to sniff anonymously. Not only that, but you've devised a system of ranking these anonymous samples without adding 12 plastic containers to your purse, by placing them in various pockets of said purse, and your wallet, tiny satchels made of different material. All of these locations signify to you how much you liked or disliked a fragrance during your movie theater experience (a small bubble bag is for a meh fragrance, but a small velvet satchel is for something you really like!). In that way one can rank 20 or more fragrances during a single movie, and still have "quality time" with the kids.

*this is not meant to imply that all children's movies are silly or boring...Pixar and Dreamworks come up with some pretty good stuff, and when seeing those types of movies I might only rank 6-10 fragrances!
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post #225 of 594
2/1/09 at 12:06pm
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Originally Posted by ifconfig View Post

... when this very post is my 1000th on basenotes!

haha very clever..

you know you're a basenoter when you start hating Acqua di Gio
(I reached Basenote puberty a few weeks ago)
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post #226 of 594
2/1/09 at 12:26pm
...you buy your new frag and tomorrow you´ll find something else to have it. And doesn´t matter you haven´t enough money )
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post #227 of 594
2/1/09 at 12:33pm
you test the longetivity of your fragrances on your skin 7 nights in a row, really just wanting to smell them again and again.
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post #228 of 594
2/1/09 at 6:38pm
When the mail lady knocks on your door with one of many packages you have ordered...and she greets you by your first name! (I order a lot of fragrances from eBay...). Once the package arrives you feel like a kid in a candy shop...opening the package right away with a big smile wondering which perfume arrived first.
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post #229 of 594
2/1/09 at 11:39pm
Thread Starter 
When you're down, you think about your perfume collection to instantly feel better.
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post #230 of 594
2/2/09 at 12:47am
You walk into a brick and mortar niche store and you are so excited you don't know where to start sniffing and more importantly after how many bottles the buying would end.
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post #231 of 594
2/2/09 at 12:50am
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Originally Posted by Aiona View Post

Does it work?

Occasionally, yes
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post #232 of 594
2/2/09 at 12:54am
when you don't buy a ticket to watch the 'Australian Open' mens final and instead spend all that money buying fragrances
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post #233 of 594
2/2/09 at 2:04am
your diary is totally blank in words but it has different scents each pages
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post #234 of 594
2/2/09 at 2:07am
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when you don't buy a ticket to watch the 'Australian Open' mens final and instead spend all that money buying fragrances

And you brilliantly think Nadal is a fragrance with civety notes rather than the winner of Mens Australian Open
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post #235 of 594
2/2/09 at 6:13am
You totally disagree with Luca Turin's review of a fragrance, but you KNOW YOU'RE right!!!!

Your country is in the middle of a severe weather warning, with snow blizzards virtually bringing the country to a standstill and you like thousands of others can't even get to work, but you're more interested in keeping up with what's happening on BN.:bounce:
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post #236 of 594
2/2/09 at 7:20am
An SA recently told me that He Wood is sold only at Nordstrom flagship stores. There's one in Seattle, hope that helps! : D
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post #237 of 594
2/2/09 at 7:32am
....you're super excited for friends' and family birthdays, so you can pick out special samples for their present, thus enticing them to join the fun
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post #238 of 594
2/2/09 at 7:51am
You get sarcastic about any reasons non-Basenoters use for picking their fragrances.

I was sort-of on a date with a beautiful woman and she wanted to visit a rather fair perfume selling shop. She is a highly sentimental type, prone to gothic former-grandeur notions, and after we walked out of the shop with her new purchase of Tocca Brigitte she started telling me how much she liked the scent because when she was growing up in Russia her french teacher's name was Brigitte. "Well it's a good thing for your nose that Tocca didn't name that fragrance 'Joan', then," was the reply I bit my tongue to avoid making. Didn't matter anyway. Mutual revulsion set in not long after that.
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post #239 of 594
2/2/09 at 8:21pm
You know your a Basenoter when...You know you are going to be out for a long time (for me work) so you carry 3-4 perfume bottles in your purse for reapplication after the fragrance wears off. You bring different 3-4 perfume bottles (the one you put on in the morning and 2 different choices because you don't know what mood or which you scent you will feel like wearing later when reapplying)...I always do that (I carry a minimum of 2 bottles in my purse and I constantly rotate them)...I know that's not normal for some, it's normal for me
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post #240 of 594
2/2/09 at 8:44pm
your purse/murse lining is a battle field of scents
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