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  • A Jewish girl performs her bat mitzvah, her coming of age ceremony, at Temple Avoda, a Reform synagogue, in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, USA. The girl carries the holy Torah scrolls through the synagogue  after reading extracts to the congregation. Jewish tradition dictates that a girl comes of age at twelve, though in Reform and Conservative Jewish congregations they usually become bat mitzvahs at thirteen, the same age as boys.
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  • Boys pose for photgraphs after they have been dressed up as princes at Poy Sang Long, the yearly ordination of novice monks in Mae Hong Son, Thailand.
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  • In rememberance of the Buddha, family members dress a boy in princely clothes inside a temple during Poy Sang Long, the yearly ordination of novice monks, Mae Hong Son, Thailand.
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  • An Apache girl puts on her camp dress and moccasins in her home on the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation in Arizona, USA. June 2004.
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  • An Apache girl learns how to make corn bread as part of the preparation for her Sunrise Dance, a first menstruation rite, on the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation in Arizona, USA. June 2004. Her mother looks out through the kitchen door. The Sunrise Dance is the most important ceremony of the Apache Indians. It is held during the summer, within one year after the girl has had her first menstruation, and lasts for four days. The ceremony is an enactment of the Apache creation myth and during the rites the girl ’becomes‘ Changing Woman, a mythical female figure, and comes into possession of her healing powers. The rites are also supposed to prepare the girl for adulthood and to give her a long and healthy life without material wants.
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  • Two Roma infants and their mothers during a baby dedication ceremony in the Pentecostal church in the village of Valea Seaca in Bacau County, Romania.
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  • The male members of the family enter the grave and wrap the remains of the dead in new shrouds during a reburial ceremony in Belaveno, Bezanozano Ethnic Area, Madagascar. The famadihana, the Madagascan reburial ceremony, is a custom in the highlands of Madagascar. The purpose of the ritual is to induce the ancestors to impart their blessings to their descendants, as without those blessings one cannot have a good life. The famadihana is held during the cooler half of the year, when the dead are said to be freezing in their graves and therefore need new clothing.
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  • A family calls down the spirit of a dead family member with the help of incense at Todos Santos or All Saints Day in Oruro, Bolivia. An altar has been built at home, and it is the father of the dead man who kneels with the incense in front of it. Beside him kneels the widow, and to the right stands the mother. In the Altiplano of Bolivia, it is customary that a family, in which there has been a death within the last three years, build a shrine at home at Todos Santos, decorating it with religious symbols as well as a picture of the deceased and food and drink that he or she liked, and then call down the spirit for a three day visit. During the spirit’s visit, the family and friends chew coca leaves, drink alcohol and eat food together.
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  • A girl has her hair fixed in traditional style for her shichi-go-san in Tokyo, Japan. During shichi-go-san, literally seven-five-three, parents dress their daughters aged three and seven and sons aged five in traditional costume and take them to a Shinto shrine to be blessed.
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  • Jewish boys wearing kippah, or scullcap, during a girl's bat mitzvah, her coming-of-age ritual, at Temple Avoda, a Reform synagogue, in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, USA.
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  • Boys dressed in princely clothes prostrate themselves and show respect to monks inside Wat  Hua Wiang at Poy Sang Long, the yearly ordination of novice monks, Mae Hong Son, Thailand. The monks are holding the orange robes that the boys will wear when they have become novice monks. The princely clothing is worn in memory of the Buddha who was a prince before becoming a monk. Practically every Shan boy goes through this ceremony sometime between the age of eight and fourteen. After the ordination, the boy spends about one month in a Buddhist monastery and then usually returns to normal life again.
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  • An Apache woman on the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation in Arizona, USA, makes the traditional buckskin dress for her niece's Sunrise Dance and attaches to it a symbol representing Michael Jordan. The girl plays basketball and Michael Jordan is her favourite player. The Sunrise Dance is the first menstruation rite of an Apache girl. The rites are supposed to prepare the girl for adulthood and to give her a long and healthy life without material wants
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  • The male members of a family check the remains of the dead inside a grave opened for a reburial ceremony in the highlands south of the capital of Antananarivo, Madagascar. The famadihana, the Madagascan reburial ceremony, is a custom in the highlands of Madagascar. The purpose of the ritual is to induce the ancestors to impart their blessings to their descendants, as without those blessings one cannot have a good life. The famadihana is held during the cooler half of the year, when the dead are said to be freezing in their graves and therefore need new clothing.
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  • Respectful bows from the family and the priest end a shichi-go-san ritual inside the Aoto Jinja shrine in Tokyo, Japan. During shichi-go-san, literally seven-five-three, parents dress their daughters aged three and seven and sons aged five in traditional costume and take them to a Shinto shrine to be blessed.
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  • A shichi-go-san ceremony ends with a miko, a Shinto shrine maiden, producing the music of the gods to impart health and good fortune, in Tokyo, Japan. During shichi-go-san, literally seven-five-three, parents dress their daughters aged three and seven and sons aged five in traditional costume and take them to a Shinto shrine to be blessed.
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  • A female member of her fiancé's family applies red ochre and butter to a bride-to-be's hair, shoulders and chest at a Hamar couple's betrothal ceremony, in South Omo, Ethiopia. The 40,000-strong, cattle-herding Hamar are among the largest of the 20 or so ethnic groups which inhabit the culturally diverse South Omo region in south-west Ethiopia.
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  • On the Monday before his bar mitzvah recital, a Jewish boy in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, USA, takes part in morning prayers at his Conservative Jewish synagogue. He also reads from the Torah, and afterwards the cantor (to his left) leads the congregation in singing a hymn. In Judaism, a boy comes of age at thirteen, when he becomes a bar mitzvah and assumes responsibility for his own actions.
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  • On the final day of the Poy Sang Long, the yearly ordination of novice monks, a monk passes the orange shirt over the head of a boy, a signal that he has become a novice monk and may now put on the rest of his orange robes, Mae Hong Son, Thailand. April 2003.
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  • A mother nurses her baby daughter during a break from one of the many hot baths required for her ngasech, the traditional ceremony that all women in Palau undergo after having given birth for the first time. Palau, Micronesia, in February, 2005.
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  • Friends join a Jewish bat mitzvah girl in party games in New Jersey, USA. She belongs to a Reform Jewish synagogue, where Sabbath observance rules are less strict than among Conservative or Orthodox congregations, and her reception is held straight after the synagogue ceremony.
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  • After giving her a prayer shawl and blessing, the rabbi talks to a Jewish girl before she goes through her bat mitzvah, her coming-of-age ritual, at her Reform Jewish synagogue in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, USA. After this she will enter the synagogue hall to read extracts from the Torah, the holy scriptures, to the congregation. Jewish tradition dictates that a girl comes of age at twelve, though in Reform and Conservative Jewish congregations they usually become bat mitzvahs at thirteen, the same age as boys.
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  • Guided by her rabbi a Jewish girl practices reading from the Torah, the five books of Moses, in preparation for her bat mitzvah, her coming of age ceremony, in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, USA. Jewish tradition dictates that a girl comes of age at twelve, though in Reform and Conservative Jewish congregations they usually become bat mitzvahs at thirteen, the same age as boys.
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  • On the Monday before his bar mitzvah recital, a Jewish boy in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, USA, takes part in morning prayers at his Conservative Jewish synagogue. He will also read from the Torah, and before he begins he carries the scrolls round the synagogue. In Judaism, a boy comes of age at thirteen, when he becomes a bar mitzvah and assumes responsibility for his own actions.
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  • Two cousins get dressed up as princes in their home after a break in the ordination ceremonies, Mae Hong Son, Thailand. The boys take part in the Poy Sang Long, the yearly ordination of novice monks.
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  • A boy puts on his princely clothes after a break in the ceremonies at Poy Sang Long, the yearly ordination of novice monks, Mae Hong Son, Thailand.
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  • An Apache girl puts on her camp dress and moccasins in her home on the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation in Arizona, USA. June 2004. Her sister helps her with the moccasins.
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  • An Apache girl learns how to make corn bread as part of the preparation for her Sunrise Dance, a first menstruation rite, on the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation in Arizona, USA. June 2004. The Sunrise Dance is the most important ceremony of the Apache Indians. It is held during the summer, within one year after the girl has had her first menstruation, and lasts for four days. The ceremony is an enactment of the Apache creation myth and during the rites the girl ’becomes‘ Changing Woman, a mythical female figure, and comes into possession of her healing powers. The rites are also supposed to prepare the girl for adulthood and to give her a long and healthy life without material wants.
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  • As part of the preparation for her Sunrise Dance, an Apache girl learns how to make bread from her mother, on the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation in Arizona, USA. June 2004. The Sunrise Dance, a first menstruation rite, is the most important ceremony of the Apache Indians. It is held during the summer, within one year after the girl has had her first menstruation, and lasts for four days. The ceremony is an enactment of the Apache creation myth and during the rites the girl ’becomes‘ Changing Woman, a mythical female figure, and comes into possession of her healing powers. The rites are also supposed to prepare the girl for adulthood and to give her a long and healthy life without material wants.
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  • An Apache girl sits together with her sister in the sister's bedroom on the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation in Arizona, USA.
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  • A maid makes up a room in the Best Western Motel attached to the Apache Gold Casino on the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation in Arizona, USA. June 2004.
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  • Guests check in at the Best Western Motel, the Apache Gold Casino, on the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation in Arizona, USA. June 2004.
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  • A medicine woman gives a young mother a hot medicinal bath during her ngasech, her first childbirth ceremony, in Palau, Micronesia. The mother has been anointed with coconut oil and yellow turmeric and the water is thrown at her with a cup made of a coconut shell. The purpose of the bath is to heal her skin, remove stretch marks and blemishes, and also to clean the inside of her private parts. Practically every Palauan woman goes through the ngasech ceremony, begun one to three months after she has given birth to her first child. The ceremony consists of hot baths, taken twice daily for five to ten days, depending on the clan of the new mother, and then a sweat bath on the day of her coming out ceremony when she is dressed up and shown to the family of the father of her child.
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  • Roma family in their home in the all-Roma village of Unguraia in Botosani County, Romania. The mother sits with the youngest child on her lap inside one of the rooms while the father and a son stand in the hallway outside. They have three more children, all of them girls.
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  • On the final day of her ngasech, the traditional first childbirth ceremony, a young mother in Palau, Micronesia, is dressed up and anointed with cocnut oil and turmeric by a medicine woman. Practically every Palauan woman goes through the ngasech ceremony, begun one to three months after she has given birth to her first child. The ceremony consists of hot baths, taken twice daily for five to ten days, depending on the clan of the new mother, and then a sweat bath on the day of her coming out ceremony when she is dressed up and shown to the family of the father of her child. The purpose of the baths is to heal her skin, remove stretch marks and blemishes, and also to clean the inside of her private parts.
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  • A medicine woman sorts the herbs for a steam bath that she will administer to a young mother who has given birth for the first time. Palau, Micronesia, in February, 2005. The bath is part of the ngasech, the traditional ceremony that all women in Palau undergo after having given birth for the first time.
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  • Worhisppers receive the consecrated bread known as the Eucharist, at the celebration of mass during the Fiesta del Colaco, in Castrillo de Murcia, Burgos province, Spain. The Fiesta del Colacho is held every year at the time of the Catholic feast Corpus Christi.
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  • Three boys dressed up as princes in remembrance of the Buddha stand inside a temple during Poy Sang Long, the ordination of novice monks in Mae Hong Son, Thailand. April 2003.
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  • Two young Xhosa male initiates, who have just returned home as men after one month of seclusion, are having their faces painted red by their guardian and teacher in Khayalethu South Township, Knysna, South Africa, in December, 2006. As initiates they were first circumcised, and they then spent one month in a special initiation camp, away from the normal living areas. For one week they will now wear red facial paint, a turban, long trousers, a shirt and a jacket, all signs that they have become men. When the week is over, the turban will be changed for a cap, which will then be worn for another six months.
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  • Monica Caldaras, Swedish Kalderash Roma, sitting in a traditional Roma wagon used for educational purposes
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  • A Hamar bride who following local traditions lives alone in the loft of her parents-in-law's home for three months before consummating the marriage, in South Omo, Ethiopia. She is covered from top to toe in red ochre and butter to ward off evil.  The 40,000-strong, cattle-herding Hamar are among the largest of the 20 or so ethnic groups which inhabit the culturally diverse South Omo region in south-west Ethiopia.
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  • Performing the traditional  horah, where everyone dances in a circle and holds the boy up in a chair, a Jewish boy's bar mitzvah is celebrated the day after the ceremony was held in his Conservative synagogue in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, USA. Since the ceremony was performed on a Sabbath the party could not be held on the same day. In Judaism, a boy comes of age at thirteen, when he becomes a bar mitzvah and assumes responsibility for his own actions.
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  • Celebrating the bar mitzvah of a Jewish boy the day after the bar mitzvah ceremony was held in his Conservative synagogue in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, USA.  Since the ceremony was performed on a Sabbath the party could not be held on the same day. In Judaism a boy comes of age at thirteen, when he becomes a bar mitzvah and assumes responsibility for his own actions.
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  • On the final day of the Poy Sang Long, the ordination of novice monks, family members help the boys put on their orange robes, Mae Hong Son, Thailand.
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  • Two boys dressed up as princes visit relatives during Poy Sang Long, the yearly ordination of novice monks, Mae Hong Son, Thailand.
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  • A monk receives a group of boys dressed up as princes inside a temple at Poy Sang Long, the yearly ordination of novice monks, Mae Hong Son, Thailand.
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  • An Apache girl sits together with her grandmother in their livingroom on the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation in Arizona, USA. June 2004.
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  • An Apache woman makes the buckskin dress that her niece  will wear during her Sunrise Dance, a first menstruation rite, on the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation in Arizona, USA. On the wall hangs a painting of an Apache Crown Dancer or Mountain Spirit. The Sunrise Dance is the most important ceremony of the Apache. It is held during the summer, within one year after the girl has had her first menstruation, and lasts for four days. The ceremony is an enactment of the Apache creation myth and during the rites the girl ’becomes‘ Changing Woman, a mythical female figure, and comes into possession of her healing powers. The rites are also supposed to prepare the girl for adulthood and to give her a long and healthy life without material wants.
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  • Bagir Kwiek, Kosovo Kalderash Roma living in Sweden
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  • Together with young relatives the widow of a deceased Roma man grieve beside his open coffin during the wake held in their home in Valea Seaca Villlage in Bacau County, Romania.
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  • A Roma woman standing in the family home in the all-Roma farming village of Unguraia in Cristesti Community, Botosani County, Romania.
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  • A Roma woman and two of her daughters sit on a bed in their home in the farming village of  Dimacheni in Botosani County, Romania. She lives with her husband and their children in a two-room house. The stove in the picture is used both for cooking and for heating up the room.
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  • Roma mother with children in their temporary home in a communist-era barn which the authorities of the town of Roman in Romania have partitioned into sleeping quarters for homeless Roma.
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  • A mother nurses her baby daughter during a break from one of the many hot baths required for her ngasech, the traditional ceremony that all women in Palau undergo after having given birth for the first time. Palau, Micronesia, in February, 2005.
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  • During a galekana ceremony, an elderly Hamar man blesses an infant by spraying it with a mouthful of coffee, in South Omo, Ethiopia, in October, 2006. After this ceremony the parents can resume their sexual relation and bring more children into the world. The 40,000-strong, cattle-herding Hamar are among the largest of the 20 or so ethnic groups which inhabit the culturally diverse South Omo region in south-west Ethiopia.
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  • The final part of a reburial ceremony in Belaveno, Bezanozano Ethnic Area, Madagascar. When the dead have been restored to their resting place, their closest relatives go down to talk to them and bid a final farewell. Then they are covered in a new shroud and the tomb is sealed. The famadihana, the Madagascan reburial ceremony, is a custom in the highlands of Madagascar. The purpose of the ritual is to induce the ancestors to impart their blessings to their descendants, as without those blessings one cannot have a good life. The famadihana is held during the cooler half of the year, when the dead are said to be freezing in their graves and therefore need new clothing.
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  • Jewish wedding in New Jersey, USA. The rabbi signs the wedding certificate before accompanying the couple to an outdoor canopy where he will marry them.
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  • The aunt of a Newar girl prepares her for her Ihi ceremony, a mock marriage to the Hindu god Vishnu, in Patan in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. Among the Newars, who are the original inhabitants of the Kathmandu Valley, every girl goes through this ceremony sometime between the age of five and ten. The Ihi makes the girl a full member of her father's family and caste and is also said to make sure that she will never become a widow, even if later on her future human husband would die, since she will forever be married to the god Vishnu. The Ihi is therefore for the Newar women a protection against the stigmatization of widows otherwise common in Hindu culture.
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  • On the final day of the Poy Sang Long, the ordination of novice monks, family members help the boys put on their orange robes, Mae Hong Son, Thailand. April 2003.
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  • A boy is dressed up in princely clothes in remembrance of the Buddha at Poy Sang Long, the yearly ordination of novice monks, Mae Hong Son, Thailand. April 2003. His traditional headress contains female hair and fresh flowers.
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  • A young boy and his  parents get ready to pose for the camera in a photographer's studio before going to a Shinto shrine for the boy's shichi-go-san ritual in Tokyo, Japan. During shichi-go-san, literally seven-five-three, parents dress their daughters aged three and seven and sons aged five in traditional costume and take them to a Shinto shrine to be blessed.
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  • Xhosa male initiates at a homecoming ritual celebrating their return after one month in seclusion. December 2006 in Ciskei, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. They have received turbans to cover their shaven heads and have had red ochre mixed with butter – a symbol of masculinity – applied to their skin. The traditional Xhosa male initiation, which transforms the teenager into an adult man, starts with circumcision. The initiate then spends about a month in an initiation camp, away from settled areas.
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  • A boy visits his home and prays in front of the family shrine during the Poy Sang Long, the yearly ordination of novice monks, Mae Hong Song, Thailand. His great grandmother lights candles and places them on the shrine.
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  • A young Xhosa woman helps a male relative, who has just returned home after one month in seclusion in an initiation camp, to adjust his turban. December 2006 in Khayalethu South Township, Knysna, South Africa. The young man, and his cousin seen in the background, have been circumcised and initiated into manhood. Following local tradition, they will wear red facial paint, a turban, long trousers, a shirt and a jacket for one week after returning home. Then they will change the turban into a cap.
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