Welcome back to Your
Favorites by Request.
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I've been so blessed to
work with some amazing talent,
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some musicians
that put me to shame,
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and I have a friend here
who I am going to talk today.
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Her name is Ginger Pitchers,
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she was part of
the Lester Family.
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She is a
daughter of the Lester's.
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And, Ginger,
are you on the line?
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Tim Parton, hi there.
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How are you doing?
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I'm doing awesome.
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It is so great to see you.
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I was just telling
my friends, the viewers
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that there are
musicians who put me to shame
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and you are one of them.
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But you are a wonderful friend
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and so there has
never been any competition.
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We have fortunately
been able to work together
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and unite our efforts
and make wonderful music.
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That's right.
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Fortunately been
able to work together.
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I like that,
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that's one of my very favorite
things in the world to do
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is to work and
write music with you
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and for live performances
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and then the
recordings in studio too.
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Right. And you have been...
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You have a quite legacy
of being in a singing family,
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you were raised in
the singing family, right?
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Tell me a little bit
about what music means to you?
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I have been raised
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in gospel music
ministry all my life.
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My family is the Lester Family
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and we are
celebrating over 90 years
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of continuous
gospel music ministry,
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and I cannot express to you
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what a blessing and a
joy that has been in my life
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and having the
family all sing together
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periodically in different times.
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And then the other thing is
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they would allow me to
arrange some of the music
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and I have a love
of all sorts of music.
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And I would try to incorporate
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some of the
different styles of music
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and get them into the
songs that we were sitting in.
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Exactly, well, I know now
that you came off the road
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and you joined your husband
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who is now a
pastor of a Baptist church
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down in South Missouri.
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And, so you're
playing a different role
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in the music now
but in the local church.
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I truly am and it's
been a great transition.
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We're been here
almost five years now
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and just seeing God work
through our church congregation
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and the whole community
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incorporating the
old hymns of the church
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along with the new
praise and worship,
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it can be a blended thing.
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And we are so
excited and so blessed
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to see how God uses that
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and we just try to glorify
Him in each and everything
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we do here in
Annapolis, Missouri.
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Exactly, I feel
the very same way.
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We try to do that,
you know, I'm kind of
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at the mercy of the
request that come in,
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but it's amazing
that the vast array
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and variety of
requests that come in.
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People do love the old songs
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but they love the
new praise and worship,
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and I think if it glorifies
God we're gonna sing it.
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Do you have a favorite song
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that we might be
able to sing together?
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Well, that's a tough
one, that's a hard one
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but, yeah, I would like to sing
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what a friend we have in Jesus
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because I've had group of kids,
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younger kids on Sunday nights
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and I teach them from old songs
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or we sing one of the old hymns.
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And what a
friend we have in Jesus
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is a true favorite,
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and it blesses me every time
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I sing the words
to this precious song.
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Oh, excellent.
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What a friend we have in Jesus,
we love that song for sure.
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I do get requests for that,
so that'll be good to sing.
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I'll play the intro
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and then you can just
sing along with me, all right?
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What a friend we have in Jesus
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All our sins and griefs
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To bear
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What a privilege
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To carry
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Everything to God in prayer
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Oh, what peace
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We often forfeit
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Oh, what needless pain
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We bear
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All because
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We do not carry
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Everything to God in prayer
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Thank you, Ginger, so very much.
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I appreciate you calling in.
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I love you,
take care of yourself
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and I'll talk to you again soon.
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Love you too, Tim. Good bye.
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God bless you.
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Let's continue
singing some wonderful songs.
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This song is for Christie.
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She loves this
song, trust and obey.
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When we walk with the Lord
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In the light of His Word
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What a glory He
sheds on our way!
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While we do His good will
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He abides with us still
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And with all who
will trust and obey
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Trust and obey
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For there's no other way
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To be happy in Jesus
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But to trust and obey
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Not a burden we bear
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Not a sorrow we share
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But our toil He
doth richly repay
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Not a grief or a loss
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Not a frown or a cross
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But is blest if
we trust and obey
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But we never can prove
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The delights of His love
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Until all on the altar we lay
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For the favor He shows
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For the joy He bestows
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Are for those who
will trust and obey
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Trust and obey For
there's no other way
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To be happy in Jesus
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But to trust and obey
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Then in fellowship
sweet We will sit at His feet
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Or we'll walk by
His side in the way
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What He says we will do
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And where He sends we will go
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Never fear, only trust and obey
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Trust and obey For
there's no other way
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To be happy in Jesus
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But to trust and obey
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Here's another
wonderful song, the love of God.
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The love of God is greater far
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Than tongue or pen can ever tell
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It goes beyond the highest star
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And reaches to the lowest hell
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The guilty pair,
bowed down with care
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God gave His Son to win
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His erring child He reconciled
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And pardoned from his sin
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Oh, love of God,
how rich and pure!
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How measureless and strong!
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It shall forevermore endure
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The saints' and angels' song
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When hoary time shall pass away
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And earthly
thrones and kingdoms fall
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When men who here refuse to pray
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On rocks and
hills and mountains call
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God's love so
sure, shall still endure
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All measureless and strong
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Redeeming grace to Adam's race
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The saints' and angels' song
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Oh, love of God,
how rich and pure!
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How measureless and strong!
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It shall forevermore endure
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The saints' and angels' song
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Could we with ink the ocean fill
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And were the skies of parchment
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Were every
stalk on earth a quill
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And every man a scribe by trade
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To write the love of God above
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Would drain the ocean dry
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Nor could the
scroll contain the whole
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Though stretched from sky to sky
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Oh, love of God
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How rich and pure!
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How measureless and strong!
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It shall forevermore endure
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The saints' and angels' song
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It shall
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Forevermore endure
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The saints' and angels' song
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Oh, we're so blessed to have
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the wonderful, wonderful
love of God in our lives.
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Amen?
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I'm singing Jesus, Jesus, Jesus
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Sweetest name I know
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He fills my every longing
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Keeps me singing as I go
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He keeps me singing as I go
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Thank you so
much for your emails.
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Be sure and continue to send me
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your favorite request.
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Send me a video
of you singing it,
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I love to see
that, I love to hear it.
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I love hearing from you.
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And until next time, God
bless you and go with you.
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