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Shaka Senghor

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“I think I'm definitely free. I feel like the most liberated. After writing this book, I feel the most liberated I've felt in my life. And I think I've had two iterations of it. When I was in solitary and I first really started kind of binding to this idea that my life could be different. And it was really just journaling about it, meditating, being very present, and really acknowledging it. And like that acknowledgement is the big piece of it. It's like, hey, I thought I had this thing fully figured out, but I still have work to do. And that's the part of the journey part of it. It's like, you know, the more life you live, the more experiences you have, the more things you're going to encounter that's going to challenge the way that you think about an experience life.”
2025-08-26 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Shaka Senghor on How to Escape Life’s Hidden Prisons · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, it's amazing that you lean into those moments because I think that's the magic of all of this is like how present are you in your own experience”
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“Perpetrator, I was just writing out my thoughts. Like, how do I really feel? Like, what's living inside my ding right now? And then what am I thankful for? You know, what is the thing that brought me a sense of joy today? Know what does that thing look like? The payoff of that is so great, you know, especially when you come back days later, because you move through life and you can start forgetting about how many things did I do this week that was amazing. It's easy to just move through those things and forget about them.”
2025-08-26 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Shaka Senghor on How to Escape Life’s Hidden Prisons · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's something that keeps me so grounded and it helps me get through those tough moments, right? So when I was going through everything with my brother, I was like, I was just writing. You know, I was writing letters to the.”
2025-08-26 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Shaka Senghor on How to Escape Life’s Hidden Prisons · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah. And even keeping that gratitude journal. You know, like I believe in that. What is the most magic thing that's happened to me today?”
2025-08-26 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Shaka Senghor on How to Escape Life’s Hidden Prisons · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“They should start journaling. I would say that's my number one out of everything else, like meditation is incredible, practicing mindfulness. Those things take a little bit of work. But journaling is something that we all have access to, even with technology.”
2025-08-26 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Shaka Senghor on How to Escape Life’s Hidden Prisons · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Just to be able to feel. All the details. I love it. And I think it's part of when I wrote this book because I want people to go back into that feeling because I think we get caught up in the mundane of life and we forget about the beauty of nature. We forget about the beauty of a casual walk with a friend. We forget about like really experiencing food, not just for nourishment, but as a real experience. We forget about what joy is, you know, it's going back to Ben Like we have these moments where we're just like let's grab this vinyl and let's just listen to music and talk about the details of art that went into creating this piece of work. And so to me, it's like every day is a day of freedom.”
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“And for me, I still have that feeling as if I walked out the first day. You do? I marvel at life. I am so in love with life”
2025-08-26 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Shaka Senghor on How to Escape Life’s Hidden Prisons · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And what I realized recently, every time that the mail comes, and I'm out looking for that letter is that I've wanted it more than I had given myself permission to believe. And what it means for me is that I'm now back part of the tribe. When you have a felony on your record, you're exiled. And even when you're as successful as I've become over this last 15 years, there's still things that come up that's kind of like that slap on the hand reminder of this is who you were. And this is who we'll always think you are. And, you know, when I was filling out that paperwork, I had delayed it for a long time. I was like, oh, maybe I get a lawyer to do it, et cetera. And I was like, you know what? You have to do it. And, you know, I sat, I've carved out the time to do it. And so for me, it's like just getting granted that would mean I'm back a part of the tribe.”
2025-08-26 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Shaka Senghor on How to Escape Life’s Hidden Prisons · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Now he's in the sophomore year in college doing incredible. And I'm just super proud. You know, this kid is going to do some amazing things in the world and to be able to pour into him and to have him receive that because it's not always easy for young men specifically to take guidance from older men. They put us out to pasture kind of early these days, you know? So to have a young man that says, hey, You know, I'm in town. Can we grab a bite? I just got something I want to talk to you about. It really means a lot. And it just makes me feel really valued in a deep way.”
2025-08-26 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Shaka Senghor on How to Escape Life’s Hidden Prisons · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Carter is one of the wisest young mentis I have. You know, I remember one of my favorite moments of hanging out with him. This was when we first met. He had to be around 12. And he was so curious about who I was in my life. And I asked his mother, I said, Michelle, is it okay for me to tell him just a hardcore truth? And she was like, he can handle it. And I got a chance to talk to him and share my past. And he just had so many profound insights. And now what I really love is when he comes to the house, he's kind of like a big brother for Seiku, a model, somebody he can model. And Seiko's mind, and he's way cooler than his dad. So it's the sweetest thing, though, just to see how those kids look up.”
2025-08-26 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Shaka Senghor on How to Escape Life’s Hidden Prisons · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But part of being present, part of being mindful is like really leaning into what it's like happening in a moment. I mean, like right now in this moment you're in, you know, everything that you've done led you here. And that's incredible. And somebody's going to be watching this that's being inspired. They're like, wow, Donnie taught herself the cold. I'm about to go cold. And so it's a constant, it's work. You know, it takes time. But I would say affirm yourself every day, no matter what. And then those conversations recognize that you're not the only one that's navigating that interior conversation. Working in Silicon Valley for years, I found that a lot of people fake it till they make it because it is such a fast-paced, hard-driven culture. But the fact that you're there, that says a lot about who you are and you just got to continue to say a lot about who you are to yourself every day.”
2025-08-26 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Shaka Senghor on How to Escape Life’s Hidden Prisons · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, you're in, and I mean, you're in a check. I worked in tech for three years, and it's a tough, very competitive environment. And the fact that you taught yourself the code and now you're in that environment thriving, like life literacy is about really understanding where are you really winning at. And how are you telling yourself that story? And you got to just put the work in over and over. Like I still have my own mantras to this day. Like I get up and I'm like, go get it. I got two versions of it. I got the soft gentle kind of affirming conversation that I have myself. And then I have one that's more aggressive when I'm feeling like I'm slipping back into the self-doubt. Like those narratives, they don't disappear. You just got to manage them. And I think figuring out what is a thing that you can do every day to affirm your success and whatever it is. Because those small victories really do matter. And it's easy for us to overlook them.”
2025-08-26 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Shaka Senghor on How to Escape Life’s Hidden Prisons · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Such an incredible story. First of all, I mean, you're incredibly talented to, you know, and self-driven, which is very inspiring. So your sense of self-awareness is you already got like a foot in the door because that's a big deal. A lot of people navigate through life with imposter syndrome. They're not even aware of how they're showing up. And I think there's power in recognizing that within yourself. And one of the things that I've learned on this journey is that there were two things that I attribute to like success in my life now, right? Resilience allowed me to survive. But being literate about life allows me to thrive. And what I mean about being literate about life is that you're in an environment where you're already winning by every metric imaginable. Just because you're...”
2025-08-26 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Shaka Senghor on How to Escape Life’s Hidden Prisons · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, so Ben and I, we talk a lot about success. And I remember asking what success means. And he said to me, it's a series of smart decisions. And the step-by-step. And I ended up asking that question again recently, and he was like, it's the same thing with failure. It's a series of steps taken in the opposite direction. And I was like, whoa. Because, you know, it's like we can think about the steps toward something positive and progressive, but we don't also always think about failure as it's a series of things that you also do. Felling to show up, fell into be curious, fell into follow through. All these things are steps that lead in one very clear direction. And that was just, it was so mind blowing to hear his perspective on it.”
2025-08-26 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Shaka Senghor on How to Escape Life’s Hidden Prisons · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I could have shrunk right back into the space that didn't allow me to be happy and joyful. And that's the hidden part of the prisons.”
2025-08-26 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Shaka Senghor on How to Escape Life’s Hidden Prisons · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Of how do I want to live my life? Do I want to forge ahead or do I want to just quit? And what I knew was embedded in my DNA was resistance and struggle and to overcome adversity. And we all have that. We're born with it. Sometimes we give it up. We give up agency over how we're going to take a stance on something we believe or care about. But it's so spiritual and it's the thing about life. As I just mentioned, like you don't get to the other side of these things without having to work for it. Forgiveness, I had to work for that. That idea that people are redeemable, the creator said, you know what? Let's see how much you really believe that. I'm going to put the person who shot you right back in your face. I'm going to put the person who shot your brother right back in your face. What do you really believe? And that's the spiritual nature of like really working through something that's very tough and the opposite of that is I could have went right back into the anger.”
2025-08-26 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Shaka Senghor on How to Escape Life’s Hidden Prisons · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I mean, you think about how we got here. Like, we were born through a resilient effort. The biological makeup of how a sperm reaches an egg, like there's a fight there. Yeah, people get into this kind of comparative Olympics where they're like, well, I didn't have it as hard as you. And so I'm not as resilient as you. But I'm like, I didn't go into prison knowing I was resilient. You know, I was faced with adversity that forced me to make a decision.”
2025-08-26 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Shaka Senghor on How to Escape Life’s Hidden Prisons · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“How do you really show up in your life? And, you know, what are the things that feel pleasant in your spirit and in your being? And you can't have that if you're holding on to anger and you're holding on to shame for things that don't even no longer exist.”
2025-08-26 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Shaka Senghor on How to Escape Life’s Hidden Prisons · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But what I want is for you to change. Yeah. And if you don't change, just don't hurt me again. The reality is that the people that you forgive can possibly hurt you again. And then you have to decide, okay, do I want to go back into that door again? And that's the complex things, especially with parental relationships. Because it's just your parents, you know, or your children. And that means that old things can be brought up over and over. They can be triggering. But once I release the things, the things that used to trigger me, I'm just like, that's her. That ain't got nothing to do with me, you know?”
2025-08-26 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Shaka Senghor on How to Escape Life’s Hidden Prisons · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Hard, but you know why it's hard is because the hidden part of it is we still have these conditions, right? And the conditions are”
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“That's true freedom. And it's like I have so much grace for her, I have so much joy whenever we're together and when we're not. I have grace and joy when it's going good and when it's not and it's fine. You know, um.”
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“Was like for those people. Yeah, yeah. And so when my mother, she was willing to open up and she just shared all these things that she had went through, the abuses, the assaults on her body. And she was willing to really share that with me. And I thought it was one of the most powerful things that she could ever do. And so I wrote her a letter just letting her know how much I appreciate it, her opening up in that way. And it just allowed me to see her. And it kind of reversed the kind of dynamics in our relationship where I feel more parental. I feel more like I want to protect that little girl that didn't get protected, who became that woman that hurt her own kids. That's the power of what real forgiveness is. And when you remove all the expectations that someone will become different or that somehow it's for them.”
2025-08-26 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Shaka Senghor on How to Escape Life’s Hidden Prisons · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, just to think about what her young life was. And I don't think we do enough of that when it comes to our parents, right? There are heroes”
2025-08-26 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Shaka Senghor on How to Escape Life’s Hidden Prisons · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, and I learned it through a conversation with my older brother. We were talking and he just said to me, you know, I forgave mama and then she did this again. And I forgave her. And it just struck me. And I was like, whoa, I've done the same thing. I've put all these conditions around it without even interrogating how she even got to become the woman that she was. And so I was like, you know, if I'm going to get to this deep sense of forgiveness, I just got to know her story. And if she's willing to go on that journey with me, the possibilities are infinite. And so we went on that journey and we spent time together. We talked deeply. And my mother shared things with me. That was... Heartbreaking.”
2025-08-26 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Shaka Senghor on How to Escape Life’s Hidden Prisons · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah. And so when I sat down to write the letter, I thought I had forgiven my mother. You know, my mother came to see me on that visit. I was like, you know what? Ma, I forgive you. I've moved on. But what I realized is that I was holding on to this idea that my forgiveness would somehow change her, which would in turn change our relationships. And so that little boy part of me that just wanted to be nurtured by my mother, I thought I can change that. And it wasn't until I was such a good point.”
2025-08-26 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Shaka Senghor on How to Escape Life’s Hidden Prisons · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm probably in the fourth grade, so I'm assuming like eight, nine, I'm not sure yet. And I came in and she was at the kitchen sink watching this and I was like, you know, ma, I got this score on my test. And she rolled around and threw a pot with such force that it broke the towels on the wall.”
2025-08-26 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Shaka Senghor on How to Escape Life’s Hidden Prisons · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Time I was coming home from school and I was like the smart kid in the family. And so my grades was like the thing that I was most proud of. And so came home super excited to.”
2025-08-26 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Shaka Senghor on How to Escape Life’s Hidden Prisons · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Your mother. Yeah, well, my mother let her. And, you know, my mother and I had a very complex relationship, you know, going back to all the things that I had written about before. And what I learned most about forgiveness. Yes, I just want to share.”
2025-08-26 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Shaka Senghor on How to Escape Life’s Hidden Prisons · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah. Yeah, because it's not even encouraging that environment. And so I thought I was brave of him, you know, and that's what I would have said. I thought that was brave step to take. And knowing that, you know, he's very vulnerable to even reach out because I still have a lot of influence in that environment and he didn't know how healed I am or where I'm at on my journey. Just the courage to say, I'm apologize to this guy who can potentially do me harm. You know, I thought that was courageous.”
2025-08-26 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Shaka Senghor on How to Escape Life’s Hidden Prisons · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, it's really a ghost. It was just like a phantom. And just having the courage to say, I'm sorry, I imagine an environment that he's in because I've been there. It's not the easiest environment to be apologetic.”
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“Well, I wanted to say thank you for finally revealing your face. I thought that was really, really important part of my journey and that I appreciate it.”
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“So I started writing it and then I didn't finish it. And then I put it up and I was like, you know, I don't owe him a letter. And I think that's one of the things about forgiveness. You know, it's not about him. It was really about me. And what I realized was like, what matters in my life today? Who are the people around me today that matter that I can forgive and build deeper relationships with? And he wasn't one of them. And I'm okay with that. You know, I've forgiven him. I hope for the best life outcomes for him. But I didn't feel it was necessary for me to follow through with writing that letter.”
2025-08-26 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Shaka Senghor on How to Escape Life’s Hidden Prisons · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So he found me because another guy was reading my book in prison and passed it on to him. He started reading it. And he was like, oh my God, this is the guy I shot. And here's what the outcomes of his life was as a result of that moment. And he took so much responsibility.”
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“And, you know, I opened a letter and I was just like, whoa. Like, and all the things that moment came flashing back. And then I was like, I got to see this guy's face. So I got on the computer and I looked him up because he's still in prison. And just seeing his face, like it felt like the way that the world came off my shoulders. Really? Because I was able to humanize this guy. And he was no longer this boogeyman that just kind of hid in the shadows of my path.”
2025-08-26 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Shaka Senghor on How to Escape Life’s Hidden Prisons · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, and when I got that letter Know, I bristled up, my body just tensed up with all the where were you? What was going on in your life? I was actually home. I was at home in LA and, you know, I was outside in this beautiful, sunny.”
2025-08-26 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Shaka Senghor on How to Escape Life’s Hidden Prisons · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It is one of the most powerful and complex experiences I've ever had in my life. When I first got the letter, there was a full range of emotions that went through my mind because I've never really saw this guy's face. That shooting was our only encounter, which was about 30 seconds. And I didn't realize that that inability to see this guy's face had haunted me all these years and how he came about even knowing who I was.”
2025-08-26 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Shaka Senghor on How to Escape Life’s Hidden Prisons · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Do I want to show that as I move through life? You know, I have a young son, I have mentees, I have people who look up to me. How do I navigate that? You know, for me, and it's a heavyweight to carry to have that level of anger just hanging over your head.”
2025-08-26 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Shaka Senghor on How to Escape Life’s Hidden Prisons · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Absolutely. Yeah, because I mean, that was the gut reaction, was the anger, you know, the gut reaction of my family, which was natural to be upset, to be heartbreaking. We want to get you. Yeah. And so now it's like, okay, do I want to carry that for the next 20, 30 years?”
2025-08-26 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Shaka Senghor on How to Escape Life’s Hidden Prisons · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Doesn't come without the work. You're always going to be confronted with the work. You're always going to have a thing to challenge you to think broad about what it is that you're sharing in the world.”
2025-08-26 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Shaka Senghor on How to Escape Life’s Hidden Prisons · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That part of my journey has been so profound because, you know, when you receive forgiveness, you forget that sometime in life you may have to forgive someone. And it can be so complex. It's not an easy thing. You know, my brother was murdered in 2021. And it was heartbreaking because my gut reaction was all the negative things that come with losing a loved one. And then I thought about this person's soul, like what led him down that path. And it was really having empathy and compassion for his journey because I had my own experience. So there was carrying the duality of guilt while trying to grieve and then reconciling that through what have I been teaching in the world? What have I been saying to people all along? And now it comes front and center of my own life. And I think that's the power of what this book is really about is that true freedom.”
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“They're wealthy, they can't have problems. They're this, they're that. And then you start to talk to people and you realize we all have it. You know, we all have things that we're working through. And sometimes we're not even aware that we're working through them.”
2025-08-26 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Shaka Senghor on How to Escape Life’s Hidden Prisons · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Absolutely. You know, on my journey, when I put right in my wrongs, people would come up and share stuff with me that they said they had never shared before a child who committed suicide, a dysfunctional marriage, a failure at job. And they would say something about having a conversation really opened them up and liberated them. And so I started just kind of interrogating this idea of like, what keeps people locked in place. And these things just kept coming back, grief, shame, anger. And the more forgiven, the inability to forgive. And the more I kept coming back to that, I started to see it in people from all walks of life, which was the thing that was mind-blowing to me. Because, you know, we come with these narratives where we think we got people's, other people's lives figured out. Oh, they're successful so they can't have problems.”
2025-08-26 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Shaka Senghor on How to Escape Life’s Hidden Prisons · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I wrote down that I wanted to finish something because what I learned during my journalism is I had never completed anything. I never graduated high school. I never falled off going to the military. I always started things but never finished anything. So one of the first things for me was you have to complete something. And that something was writing the book. And I gave myself a very defined timeline to do it 30 days. You have to write a book. And that was the action step. And what I said to myself when I wrote that down, if I finish this book in 30 days, my life can be anything that I imagine it to be. And I did it.”
2025-08-26 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Shaka Senghor on How to Escape Life’s Hidden Prisons · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“About that. Yeah, what I discovered in that space was that I can go wherever I wanted to go in my mind. And they could take me to places far beyond the prisons. But more importantly, what it did is it showed me that there's still possibility. You still have a life left. And if you can dream, you can actually achieve it. Like it was really like, even though it's one of those things we hear all the time, you know, conceive it, dream it, believe it, and then it'll happen. It really became a mantra for me. And I just started writing down. Here's what I want to happen in my life. And I've realized that writing it down was just part of it. And I encourage people to journal, but it's also active journaling. What are the steps that I'm going to take to make this become reality”
2025-08-26 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Shaka Senghor on How to Escape Life’s Hidden Prisons · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, and it was steps. And it was steps like any other thing that you want to build out, there's steps you have to take. And I took steps that led me to prison. So I was like, what are the steps necessary to lead me out of it and lead me up into the greatest sense of what it means to be free? And that journaling really opened up all the possibilities because I fell in love with my mind.”
2025-08-26 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Shaka Senghor on How to Escape Life’s Hidden Prisons · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Absolutely. Absolutely. And that was one of the most powerful things. That if I can choose Based on this negative narrative and create these negative outcomes, what would happen if I chose positive narrative and started to live my life with those outcomes in mind?”
2025-08-26 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Shaka Senghor on How to Escape Life’s Hidden Prisons · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“This was roughly about eight or nine years in. I was in solitary confinement and really coming to terms with like what my life had become. And I started journaling and just asking these hard questions. How did I end up here? And what I discovered was that all these things had happened early in my childhood, the trauma, the abuse, the violence, and most importantly was the narrative that I embraced.”
2025-08-26 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Shaka Senghor on How to Escape Life’s Hidden Prisons · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That was my own prison, the own hidden prison. And so I began to live my life through that lens and it produced that outcome. I ended up being that environment. And then when I had this awakening, I was doing this journaling and just really trying to answer this question of like, how did I end up here and what's next for me”
2025-08-26 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Shaka Senghor on How to Escape Life’s Hidden Prisons · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, so the mindset that I embrace, this narrative that my life can only have two outcomes, I would be dead or in jail before I was 21. And so I live within this very limited belief about it.”
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