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Ceremony

by Raashan Ahmad

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VERSE 1. inhale with the sun and the stars in concert with the universe hear the applause and then I’m on to the next my stress be his dream put it in context it takes, all the love that I got in my soul to keep my head on straight and release control no hands time like grains of sand trying to walk tall when I find it hard to stand but stand up, I do it and it feel like magic dealing with the dumb come automatic catch it through the speaker losing to the lesser running with the freakers boxing my oppressors give some get some finding my peace and release it over drums they wanna ignore who I am where I’m from but I cant stop wont stop from the lungs I breathe love speak till it manifest leave hate and the anger and stress lived with the sickness hung with the jealousy and my happiness felt like it was a felony the whole world fell on me mama in heaven my band on the outs on the outside yelling let let me in round the world and back again heartbeat beatbox any bpm but with love, say it from the start send it and I hope that you receive it in your heart words that I manifest do it in the park the roof on fire but it needed that spark and that be love. VERSE 2. and I can feel it from the rooftop overlook the whole city as the moon drop chasing it don’t stop smiling faces looking for the love in all the wrong places I wonder where safe is never the regret was trying to find love in the sweat of my ex the next day clear as I open up my eyes turn off the tellie why they televise lies rise with the light gift from my ancestors trying to feel love even when I feel pressure whole world massive party in the street one love one people one heartbeat bodyrockin to the bass the kick made it spark can we just be friends broke best friends heart she say she ok my soul get a lift magnified by the simplest of the gifts give thanks for the love easier to find the feeling divine got me on cloud 9 I went around the world on a quest for the shine was with me all the time in my body and my mind my soul in the heavens feet in the dirt my heart on my sleeve trying to make life work so hard to believe and leave what was make a new play with the faith and the love say it with me now love CHORUS I got that love inside inside and I’ma keep on vibing keep on right and the feeling is good don’t stop put it out let it do what it should one time for the love and let it run free don’t stop get the love let it be what it be feel it feel it like feel it feel it like feel it feel it like feel it feel it right feel it feel it love
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VERSE 1. Get the energy and start a new memory time to leave yesterdays obscenities been in the dark now I got the spark feel free open heart with the art street ministry and my identity is symmetry with nature I want serenity peace a little paper commercial and the tube be trying to mellow and sedate ya all about the faker and the cops run up on us and leave r.i.p. tagged on the street corners and it’s real these herbs think freedom is a bill for real the science of these cats unreal when we start the revolution all they probably do is squeal but chill and later alligator take steps to find my inner peace and keep my nature in check intellect and the street smarts walking with my beat box getting open coastin’ in slow motion toast the world traveller hittin every line every stage every day could be my last time no lanes opened up so I made my own so funny how the love far away from home zone out with the beats rooftops to the streets with the hippies and the freaks from the valleys to the peaks connected like the prisons and the classroom seats the conspiracy to kill black males is deep was asleep awakened by the greatest in my culture hometown crews dilligaf 360 ciphers at the e-bar and pcc that’s when I picked up the mic and got free the remedy. CHORUS a yes, yes yall and ya don’t stop a get fresh yall to the sure shot a yes, yes yall and ya don’t quit get live, get live it’s the ultimate a yes ,yes yall and ya don’t stop a get fresh yall to the sure shot a yes, yes yall and ya don’t quit get live, get live it’s the ultimate VERSE 2. And I still push peace all the problems that I got hard times for the independent artist low guap lotta quality honestly see me in the photos around the world on the low though Raashan solo total in the moment little chip on my shoulder give love get hate get your heart a little colder soda taste good little candy be a treat but when you fast and eat right it make the sugar hard to eat you see me in the streets think I’m just a globetrotter it’s nada compared to my life as a father the laws of the nature take you where you supposed to lay Trenton Altadena Bean Town to the Bay big shout to the cities that raised me people so good but the governments crazy we not just hoods in gods eyes kissing the breeze write my name on the wall rest in peace to Teaze the remedy. CHORUS a yes, yes yall and ya don’t stop a get fresh yall to the sure shot a yes, yes yall and ya don’t quit get live, get live it’s the ultimate a yes, yes yall and ya don’t stop a get fresh yall to the sure shot a yes yes yall and ya don’t quit get live, get live it’s the ultimate ,
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CHORUS we do that, that,, that do that, that, that do that, that and then we ease on back sunrays ease on back ease on back ease on back ease on back (repeat) VERSE 1. start first with the nature and the sunrise and the sun burst from the dirt to the blue skies son flirt with the hurt open eyes wide young cursed from the birth with the earth lies seem love get clouded trying to find the rays stay fresh to def but still give praise keep my head above the water when the life is outta order and everything around me is ruled by the cash, cream best friends mom was a fiend he on a high road now living his dreams lean head out the window let the wind touch it why giving up the only thing coming up when times is hard know that it aint true I told em giving up so hard to do that’s word to Donny Hathaway keep on track just do that, that, that, and ease on back CHORUS we do that, that, that do that, that, that do that, that and then we ease on back sunrays ease on back ease on back ease on back ease on back sunrays (repeat) VERSE 2. wake up and give thanks every morning before the emails and the calls come in before the missed payments and the bank statements got me asking if I made it or is it all pretend the journeys real as the support is but its money over some that’s the motto for these poor kids I gotta say that chasing it is a blessing especially doing something you love and your invested seen too many heights watched so many fall wanted to change the globe but you know how that goes dropped off at the club and started chasing girls now we gotta feed our sons they the reason for our worlds or at least that’s how I hope it went cuz they here now who else supposed to show them shit got us searching for the latest job openings just to get over it CHORUS we do that that that do that that that do that that and then we ease on back sunrays ease on back ease on back ease on back ease on back sunrays (repeat)
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VERSE 1. I came in the form of the rays of the sun rise of the moon sound of the drum all in the tune no words to speak kiss of the soul smile on your cheek rocking the beat and I cant even choose finding the good and the joy in the blues digging you girl can you be my muse travel the world see my shoes dancing feet party and play it’s a passionate week taking the beat from the sacrifice chop and loop make a passionate life with the music sick to my soul living in love and its out of control feel like a drug I’m addicted to flow rush of the track high of the show the feeling come on and the higher we go feeling come on and the higher we go shockin and clockin and droppin the toxin the whole world is watching music CHORUS VERSE 2. e.t. bmx new handlebars travel light hope you can handle ours new music air drum cinema take a seat grab a drink and a candy bar it travels far like Zanzibar I keep it close like a heartbeat when you feel lost in the matrix strap yourself into the car seat something for the most low most high doesn’t really matter let your soul fly soul glow oh my help me deal with life as it goes by fame is but the be all end all drag it down take notes transcendor other mediums cover bpm’s late night drum machines yeah we be them with those tasty ingredients kicks and snares must be obedient I feel a rush it’s immediate with out this I could’ve been an idiot CHORUS
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VERSE 1. early morning late night butterfly kisses marvin on the radio and living out our wishes skin against skin mangoes close touch honeysuckle harmony and never too much undo the clutch real recognize really passion at play and it all so silly the dealy when you laugh how it tickle my bones and your eyes smile love never leave me alone on the phone all hours I devour the feel body and brains both make your whole appeal want your extra feel and some extra time big sky whole world and you next to mine and your necks divine and your lips is plush and your eyes my god did I make you blush no rush all day we can walk the streets watch the world watch us wishing they could freak CHORUS freak, freak ya’ll want you need you so right so true freak, freak ya’ll want you need you so right so true I wanna freak with you my love I wanna freak with you sweet like honey VERSE 2. no baggage addict for the zone everywhere everywhere feeling like home my dome on track heard the last bar way you shine people say look at that star like that yall lets make a memory exist symmetry natures course is the remedy for the long stress eye contact relax let is rest so fresh unwind let the undefined lead to cosmic cool and the most divine and the sonics move through space and time so we conversate no wasted lines just backs on the grass eyes on the clouds breeze on the body dance when you smile your style is a song I’ma move to the beat turn it up loud watch the way that I freak CHORUS freak, freak ya’ll want you need you so right so true freak, freak ya’ll want you need you so right so true I wanna freak with you my love I wanna freak with you sweet like honey am I just going crazy dear sweet like honey I wanna freak with you
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VERSE 1. my little son started home school sometimes you gotta break the rules cuz the goal and the finish it’s the journey in between take the less road traveled make your own trail seen and I never served fiends and never shot guns with a negative approach you shooting arrows at the sun lungs full of fresh oxygen prayers for the dead who fought the good fight but caught a bullet so sad when you fall aint important as when you standing up sunset south shore in a pick up truck what up Charity track take me to that place shout to the H.I. the whole 808 with the fear and the hate you need to clear your plate breathe deep meditate into a higher state eat to live, live to give, give thanks for the flow cause from the pain came the joy you might never know CHORUS I go out of bounds out of bounds and leave everything I know to go out of bounds and push way out the limits of what I know and then I come back home with a brand new flow I go out of bounds out of bounds and leave everything I know and go out of bounds and push way out the limits of what I know and then I come back home with a brand new flow I’m leavin on the next train don’t know when ill be back again… VERSE 2. I heard the morning call for prayer when the sun rose the most beautifullest sound the first time exposed in Algeria tradition getting passed down ya’ll getting knowledge from an elder chillin in Krakow late nights in the streets dancing in Marseille Flagstaff to Albuquerque where them stars play the connection that I’m seeing Africans to Europeans Japanese to Australians North and South Americans bear the same burdens celebrate the same joys a universal sound when I’m saying make noise and the music take over overtaking your mind your best love gone job gone still you shine day trip up to Tilden and look over the city a little bit of distance makes the gritty look pretty so gimme with the good and leave me with the lessor the science of your breathing alleviate the pressure CHORUS go out of bounds out of bounds and leave everything I know to go out of bounds and push way out the limits of what you know and then go back home with a brand new flow I go out of bounds out of bounds and leave everything I know to go out of bounds and push way out the limits of what you know and then go back home with a brand new flow I’m leavin on the next train don’t know when ill be back again… the exodus effortless sisters and my brothers stand up one foot right in front the other.
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Get Hi.flac 01:42
VERSE and the people running away the city full of the slave and everyday is grey the people gonna get it and the cop is killing again a brother father and friend nobody care in the end the people gonna get it get it up in the morning like the bombs and the shooting they killing babies the babies the blood is just the pollution institution they getting the money money from prison can make a living we living below the poverty listen how we can get high like airplanes in the clouds sometimes I feel like a loser how can my mama be proud a step away from the hopeless a check away from the homeless I did a show for the troops b-boyed with the soldiers we getting high off the culture dodge and weave from the shock the system running I’m running and trying to keep with the clock trying to keep with the block more sheep in the flock is it power in numbers or easy picking for cops don’t worry bout nothin nothin have a coke and a smile they kill on camera now most of them never see trial if you rich then you win if you poor then you lose its easy peasy so sleezy its my get high blues I wanna get high high above the clouds high above the hate cynicism my own mind create get high red white yellow black brown body mind soul smell touch sound come on get on its on blood for chevron exxon example poison the body like foods from monsanto thin line between showbiz and a sambo is it just the rich pulling strings like a banjo I wanna get get high, come on and we gotta get get high, come on and I said get high, get high come on and get high come on and get high
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VERSE 1. cloud to wind and wind to rain sun to sky ain’t nothing tame stars to moon black in between trees to branches lake to stream add the seeds plus water be mama nature prophesy lost and free on a mountain top where the green reach out for the love drop rain and the ocean touch the sand breeze go by make love to skin send it on it’s the mama nature high on life and one creator inner light shine nothing greater polluters don’t care why we hate ya stop the clear cut let the earth grow we need clean air for the kids yo CHORUS mama nature VERSE 2. new day come old day falling Japan Haiti New Orleans real though who in control respect the mother nature Monsanto that’s that flow that suicide genetic altered modified pesticides poison the poor eat to live cost so much more good food good life so true healthy eats dollar menu can I get that way to step sky divine smog sunset L.A. style California dreaming hard to inhale watch the chem trail lungs so frail rich is scheming cancer asthma got no stamina CHORUS mama nature
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Guns.flac 03:55
VERSE 1. guns in your section guns in your scene guns in the air get the loot take the cream Pakistan Africa Chi-town Oakland guns by the cop make a mama dream broken blood on the dance floor drama at the school shots from the glock show a crack in the cool everybody drop everbody drop and nobody safe suburbs to the block you hear the gun cock click call it bloody murder chalk’s on the street from the beef no burgers words so dead up the gun clappin back in the day used to settle with the scrappin John Wayne Rambo gangland hooligans presidential military war Afghanistan blood for the power gun protect scene bullets from the barrel for a barrel gasoline we fiend for the glock semi auto double gauge gun death no breath gone from grenades gun for revenge body full of malice daddy got a gun gotta protect the palace junior got the strap guess who got the juice now used to be a herb now words got a new style crazy conflict licking off shots couple in the air you can scare the whole block guns CHORUS dirt on his heels wind on his back laughter silenced from the police strap it went buck buck buck buck booyaka shot buck buck buck buck booyaka shot dirt on her heels wind on her back laughter silenced by the drone attack it went buck buck buck buck booyaka shot buck buck buck buck booyaka shot VERSE 2. playing with her dolls her brother laying on the ground laughter the only sound until they heard the sirens the scream from her mama people lost up in the panic playing coming to an end and somehow its systematic a tragic way to end the day she turned up on her heels she stopped to see her brother finding cover in the hills she looked up in the sky and seeing what’s about to happen her innocence immediately lost she seen the passion her papa on her knees what she saw he said he said protect my family inshallah and then the first bomb second bomb third bomb hit her father gone mama gone brother gone sits in the rubble of her home dolls in her hand drone flew away alone with no fam victim of the politics and victim of the media and military mix up to bomb the wrong area CHORUS dirt on his heels wind on his back laughter silenced from the police strap it went buck buck buck buck booyaka shot buck buck buck buck booyaka shot dirt on her heels wind on her back laughter silenced by the drone attack it went buck buck buck buck booyaka shot buck buck buck buck booyaka shot
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Far beyond this day and the words help to explain where a little faith goes a long way there’s a little space and a calming place where that push and pull fades away there’s a beauty in the way that life tends to arrange so remind me once again to hold on my friend to hold on my friend VERSE hold on to the song hold on to the sun hold on to yourself and the time gon come like change and the rain soon fall but hold on to faith and then stand up tall hold on to your love hold on to the joy hold on to the truth no doubt will destroy so crazy the noise so hard the belief so easy to hate so hard for the peace but hold strong sister hold strong brother hold strong daddy hold strong mother the world gone mad the people seem crazy right seem wrong tragedy don’t faze me but hold to belief believe in humanity when even that seem and sound like insanity let go of vanity hold on to passion hold intuition hold on to laughing even a fraction hold on your soul hold on to god let loose your control hold on to nature watch it just grow let it just be and it’s so beautiful hold on look up and smile for me hold on you helped me see for nights and days to come I feel what you perceive reborn in the morning sun and another day has begun a chance for a different take the light the tears the warmth the love the memories and hope to remind me once again to hold on my friend
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VERSE 1. eye contact both feeling the spark the way that we connecting it don’t happen a lot I’m loving how you moving got my head going wow afrodesiac you know I’m digging your style and how we vibrating ain’t no splitting involved I love it when you pop how you drop and pause the laws of nature got my body standing salute you smiling cuz you know it shaking feminine fruit call it feminine fat now we back at her flat short days long night market laundromat make regular plans have regular ways walk and hold hands said I love you just days after meeting the feeling feeling so good ya’ll then she left heartless without a word or a call what a mighty way to fall I thought I was fly so there ain’t no good in our goodbye CHORUS aint no good in our goodbye (repeat) so long so long no reason that she left not even a word I could still taste her breath left in the cold with a heart that don’t heal I’m feeling all these women but never really feel friends like chill find love settle down my heart in my throat from the day she left town sound of the voice something that I gotta chase message on the voice mail something that I can’t erase my heart won’t heal and brain won’t stop your face in my mind your waist on top it’s you day and night no matter time zone a room full of women but feeling so alone cuz a bone ain’t nothing it’s the heart that ladder real pain not frontin it’s lost no matter telling lies to myself and drink away the pain only leading to the truth that I’m alone once again CHORUS aint no good in our goodbye (repeat)
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CHORUS observe yourself to see if its them or you enjoy yourself like that one day observe yourself to see if its them or you enjoy yourself like that one day VERSE 1. peace peace love be exactly where I’m at lean back let the track blow race of the rats what it be bob marley said word to the dread what it’s all about high speed on the wrong route life on the daily party with the homies is shots and the weed best way to feed lonely nights in the heaven days living hell mama said keep faith no bail in jail with my orange jump suit and my tough guy step told my celly I’m from dena start asking bout sets you a block crip Denver lane nah I don’t bang dude always been a b-boy stayed away from gang feuds and now I’m writing in the clouds far away from home so alone in the crowds rocking to the bass lines live without caution remind me of them dance days back in mark’s Datsun cars beat but the car got bang big homies on the scene said do your thang so I’m still on my cool Californian edition where the cops kill kids and the daddy’s gone missing and everywhere I go be exactly where I’m at so no matter I go I’ma still feel that like this CHORUS observe yourself to see if its them or you enjoy yourself like that one day observe yourself to see if its them or you enjoy yourself like that one day can you imagine what this feel like reading with my son far away from the ghetto and the guns the sun shine through the field gotta yield feel so divine but the most beautiful be the mind so what a crime what a loss how the school make workers story be the new tear jerkers how to find purpose with the so called pimps and the police pushing gotta find a way keep booking nah not looking for the heaven search for the dollar one day soda next day odwalla who we gonna follow people lost hope and everyone a prophet every time they post high dose high times mind natural in the heavens bodies in this hell till you master god lessons god essence see the verse seem scattered at night with the starts screaming money don’t matter and it seems dreams ain’t so far the dark meet night we gotta find a new way right eyesight on my son bike wheeling through the park reminiscing on my pop in his buick skylark like this listening to the music like this CHORUS observe yourself to see if its them or you enjoy yourself like that one day observe yourself to see if its them or you enjoy yourself like that one day
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VERSE 1. yesterday I heard all the hope was gone more liquor for the dead singing more sad songs gone to the heavens too soon flowers never had a chance to bloom power make doom cop killers take away lives we drop like flies never see the new dawn word to Oscar Grant, word to Trayvon slap on the wrist and they just move on and the pistols drawn in another war torn country to become another image on the T.V. changing the channel can’t watch slaughter no blood for oil, no child soldiers hidden racism talking about borders sex slave trade that be taking the daughters how many laws to pass till we free from the pain how many die till we really see change how long CHORUS how long will it take VERSE 2. yesterday I heard all the hope was here and the problems of the world so crystal clear if we just come together would they disappear love over hate every time walk with faith seen the poorest on the planet with a smile on face and the richest on the planet say we need more space rat race with no just cause say we naïve when we say stop wars I just wanna breathe but the toxins more than the fresh air stopping is easy if greedy would just care but we here the people hold power long as we standing its hope for the flowers good earth too under Babylons’ towers let seeds grow and the new days ours in the meantime hope the spirit wont break til change come how long will it take CHORUS how long will it take
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VERSE 1. on my knees as a seedling mastering my breathing praying to Allah faith comes never leaving no pork on my fork strictly fish on my dish on Farrakans lap as a child reminisce that was my granddad grandma would see this tell me the stories and glory of jesus he is the truth and the proof is the bible road map to life and the key to survival confusion moves in my direction trying to figure my path to perfection Buddhist bahai hindu maybe rasta all with great teachings to master my chakras lots of time and energy searching books and conversation to lift up the curtain I feel gods love but which gang is he a part of the one who hang blacks in his name or made martyrs killing daughters and sons for his glory I know its extreme and not the whole story many categories and ways of thought till I looked one day and found god through art heart racing I’m chasing love has begun with my feet in the earth and my face in the sun that’s god but can it be all so simple no preacher no church no mosque no temple but now everywhere that I go I feel most high give a personal show ecstatic and faithful thankful and humble love to the front hate to the back crumble and if that ain’t god I don’t know what is you live gotta find your own flow but yo gotta move through the fascade and find a answer to the question who’s god CHORUS VERSE 2. who’s god not an ipod I choose squads ancestors lightworkers who illuminate my path walking over rainbows a little gold brass on my staff supreme math god bodies in the bath what you done overpower brass destroy cash dusty flower lands came from them sands particles in the band I’m feeling grand man take the time to understand the proof is in the tawny tan glow melanated flow universal truth the great black mother oh going off survival based on instincts nurture my sphinx pose place prose poetry in u-n-I versal language not bound in fear mental anguish spiritual language creates the need of a mystery god odd misuse of power king james todd smith feel good with the gift that’s stronger lift your vibration resist the temptation knowledge born got me open mind meditation induce your elevation reflect the light of the elohs same shape as them zeroes in my cycle circle again simply take a look at yourself presence goose pimply pinch me if you will I’m alive my soul is the spirit you can hear it through my lyrics proofs the mirror image but just a mere appendage of something that’s greater most high the creator goes by many names different but the same the one covers all makes the final call so who’s god ya’ll CHORUS
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VERSE 1. rise and shine the glory mine lotta energy I’m feeling fine just watch no clock just the beat in my body running with the life on deck in effect mode got my shorts mind is loose sneakers on my feet pineapple juice kinder in my pocket I’m kickin back pull off my shirt pull down my hat push up the volume and vibe the sound with the sunlight crashing down it’s the sensation that keeps me sane mind on track stay on that train got the feeling the feeling the good vibe feel one in a million chance that I would exist at this time these legs arms and mind to open up my eyes and realize I’m divine ain’t even talking money stop it’s bigger than them stacks bigger than hip hop or who got who or lost to on my back in the sky with a rumi haiku illuminate views whole world shining now gear straight out of style piles of loot low but I’m still fresh to death as long as my lungs take a breath CHORUS can we fly to the top of the sun now can we fly hang out in a cloud can we fly we talking elevation can we fly sing it on out loud can we fly when the new moon rises can we fly take it up get high can we fly I’ma feel the elation and inner light shine till you see it outside little money in the pocket but it really don’t matter rock on till you feel the whole vibe and it feel like magic went so long not feeling what I feel right now feel right now and nobody ever stopping my shine again friend or foe the flow so happening can I fly VERSE 2. can I fly up in the morning taking my time this life is so boring boring this life be that’s just sometimes and sometimes it’s just life that’s just what they say no fake play play in the wind alchemist watch me transcend and then blend with the all that is was and will be get with the passionate and then live free everyone got the word that you’ll be il’l take the criticism you’ll see systematic like pass the peas and gotta give a shout to my Japanese fam held me down during the tsunami came back home thugs think they grimey guys show guns girls show punani show it so much now it ain’t precious shout if you paid ain’t on the guest list everyone under the sun come on lets get high to the top apex and peak to my brothers sisters fam and freaks lets fly CHORUS can we fly to the top of the sun now can we fly hang out in a cloud can we fly we talking elevation can we fly sing it on out loud can we fly when the new moon rises can we fly take it up get high can we fly

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Raashan Ahmad Santa Fe, New Mexico

Raashan Ahmad is an MC/Poet with a thriving career. He has garnered critical acclaim from worldwide press. Raashan’s albums have garnered worldwide attention and earned him the admiration of fans as he has toured feverishly throughout North America, Europe, Japan, Australia, and Brazil. ... more

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