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Writings, 1957-2013
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Scripts, 1957-2009
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Single Works, 1957-2009
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They're Playing Our Song
(musical) |
BOX-FOLDER 63/7 |
Fourth draft,
rehearsal script, 1978
October
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They're Playing Our Song (motion
picture) |
BOX-FOLDER 63/8 |
First draft, 1984 August
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BOX-FOLDER 63/9 |
Draft pages, 2009
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Manuscript and typescript |
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Third Class to Shanghai (motion
picture) |
BOX-FOLDER 64/1 |
Draft,
undated
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Note: First few pages missing |
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The Trouble with People (television
program) |
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Note: Five one-acts. "Double Trouble," "The
Greasy Dinner," "The Man Who Got a Ticket," "The Night Visitor," and "The
Office Sharers" |
BOX-FOLDER 64/2-4 |
Drafts, 1972
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Twice Burned (motion picture) |
BOX-FOLDER 64/5 |
First draft, 1996
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BOX-FOLDER 64/6 |
Notebook, circa 1996
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Manuscript |
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Under the Hollywood Sign (play) |
BOX-FOLDER 64/7 |
First draft, 2004
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BOX-FOLDER 64/8 |
Notebook and pages,
circa 2004
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Manuscript |
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View from the 30th Floor (play) |
BOX-FOLDER 65/1 |
Draft, 1970 February 20
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6 pages |
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Visitor from Park Avenue (play) |
BOX-FOLDER 65/2 |
Draft,
undated
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Visitor from Toledo (play) |
BOX-FOLDER 65/3-4 |
Drafts,
undated
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Waiting for Poppa (play) |
BOX-FOLDER 65/5-6 |
First draft, 2003 August
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BOX-FOLDER 65/7-9 |
Second draft, 2002 February, 2003
August
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BOX-FOLDER 65/10 to 66/3 |
Third draft, 2004 Fall
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Manuscript and typescript |
BOX-FOLDER 66/4-5 |
Fourth draft, 2004, 2005 August
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BOX-FOLDER 66/6-7 |
Seventh draft, 2006
February-March
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BOX-FOLDER 66/8 to 67/1 |
Eighth draft, 2006 Spring
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BOX-FOLDER 67/2 |
Draft, 2006 July
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BOX-FOLDER 67/3-6 |
Draft pages, circa 2007-2010
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Manuscript and typescript |
BOX-FOLDER 67/7-9 |
Notebooks and pages,
undated
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Manuscript |
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Waiting in Yonkers (play) |
BOX-FOLDER 68/1 |
First draft,
undated
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4 pages |
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"Walter and
Angie" |
BOX-FOLDER 68/2 |
Draft pages,
undated
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Manuscript |
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The Wife (play) |
BOX-FOLDER 68/3 |
Draft pages,
undated
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Manuscript; 8 pages |
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The Winter Gang (play) |
BOX-FOLDER 68/4 |
First draft,
undated
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10 pages |
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"Writer" |
BOX-FOLDER 68/5 |
Draft pages,
undated
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Manuscript; 2 pages |
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You Are Invited to the Wedding of So and So and So
and So (play) |
BOX-FOLDER 68/6 |
Draft pages, 2009
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Manuscript and typescript |
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The Young Sunshine Boys
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BOX-FOLDER 68/7 |
First draft, circa 2005
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Manuscript |
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Untitled
works |
BOX-FOLDER 68/8 |
Character description,
undated
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Note: Characters identified are Chris,
Kathy, Paula, Jerry, Val, Merle |
BOX-FOLDER 68/9 |
Character descriptions
and synopsis, undated
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Manuscript |
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Note: Characters identified are Ira
Ackerman, Julius Klein, Rowen Morely |
BOX-FOLDER 68/10 |
Untitled play,
undated
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Note: Characters identified are Ed Cogan,
Jean, Charles Carney (aka Chuck) |
BOX-FOLDER 68/11 |
Untitled play,
undated
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9 pages |
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Note: Characters identified are Sidney
Lipton, Michael Lipton, Dave Ostrow, Elaine |
BOX-FOLDER 68/12 |
Untitled scene,
undated
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Manuscript; [6] pages |
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Note: Characters identified are Paul, El,
Josie, Liz, Rosita |
BOX-FOLDER 68/13 |
Untitled scene,
undated
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Manuscript; [4] pages |
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Note: Characters identified are Walter
and Karen |
BOX-FOLDER 68/14 |
Untitled scene,
undated
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Manuscript; [1] page |
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Note: Characters identified are Walter,
J. J., Peter, Charley |
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Multiple Works, 1977-2008
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This sub-subseries consists of 127 individual notebooks created by Neil
Simon. Each notebook contains multiple handwritten drafts, rehearsal notes,
or rewrites for Simon's film, stage, and television projects. They also
include drafts of articles, speeches, and other miscellaneous writings by
Simon. Drafts for a single motion picture, musical, or play may occur within
the same notebook and also across several different notebooks that are not
arranged in consecutive order. Works are listed in the order they appear
within each notebook. |
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Arranged alphabetically by notebook title. Untitled notebooks arranged
alphabetically by first identified work. |
BOX-FOLDER 68/15 |
[1] "'202 & 204' /
letters to 'Yonkers' cast," 1991 and undated
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Contents:
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202 and 204; character studies
- Letter to David, theater critic, 1991 February 14
- Letters to the Lost in Yonkers cast;
Jamie [Marsh], Danny [Gerard], Lauren [Klein], Mark [Blum], Kevin
[Spacey], Irene [Worth], Mercedes [Ruehl], Peter [Lawrence?], Tharon
[Musser], Santo [Loquasto], Jay [Binder], 1991 February 21
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London Suite; notes
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The Prisoner of Central Park West; title
page
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Laughter on the 23rd Floor (play)
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BOX-FOLDER 68/16 |
[2] "202 & 204 and
London Suite," undated
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Contents:
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202 & 204 (play)
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London Suite (play); crossed out title
"The House on 82nd Street"; synopsis of three acts
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London Suite (play); first draft; Act 1
"The Reunion"; Act 2 "The Nanny"
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BOX-FOLDER 68/17 |
[3] "202 & 204 and
Rewrites," undated
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Contents:
- [202 and 204] (play)
- [Rewrites] (play)
- [Four Can Tango/Hotel La Plata]
(play)
- [202 and 204] (play)
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BOX-FOLDER 68/18 |
[4] "'Alone in Venice'
1st draft," undated
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Contents:
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Alone in Venice (play); first
draft
- "Past, Present and We’ll See," chapter
- "Mr. Simon Goes to Washington," chapter from The Play Goes On
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BOX-FOLDER 69/1 |
[5] "Another Beginning of
Another...," undated
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Contents:
- [Sometimes My Mother – Never Mind]
(play); monologue by a character named Josie
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Sometimes My Mother – Never Mind (play),
October 12
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Brighton Beach Memoirs (play)
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BOX-FOLDER 69/2 |
[6] "Arnold, a
Retrospective and Broadway Bound," undated
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Contents:
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Arnold, a Retrospective (play)
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Broadway Bound (play)
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BOX-FOLDER 69/3 |
[7] "Biloxi Blues and The
Odd Couple (female version)," undated
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Contents:
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Biloxi Blues (play)
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The Odd Couple (play); female
version
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BOX-FOLDER 69/4 |
[8] "Broadway Bound,"
1986 and undated
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Contents:
- Unidentified play; scene for characters Eugene and Josie
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Broadway Bound (play)
- "Union League Address" speech, 1986 November 10
- [Biloxi Blues] (motion picture)
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The Suitcase (motion picture);
synopsis
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BOX-FOLDER 69/5 |
[9] "Broadway Bound and
Honor's Speech," undated
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Contents:
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Broadway Bound (play)
- Walter Matthau tribute for the United Jewish Appeal speech
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BOX-FOLDER 69/6 |
[10] "Broadway Bound and
Man Made Women (a new musical)," undated
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Contents:
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Broadway Bound (play)
- Note: "Peter Brook, Peter Hamm, Mr. Abbott and Gadge welcome you to
their ranks, Love -"
- Lyric sketches
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Man Made Woman (musical); based on the
motion picture Love Me or Leave Me
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BOX-FOLDER 69/7 |
[11] "Broadway Bound, My
Son's Brother (movie), and Jake's Women," undated
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Contents:
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Broadway Bound (play); first draft
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My Son's Brother (motion picture)
- Unidentified motion picture; characters are Robin, Jake, and
Kate
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BOX-FOLDER 70/1 |
[12] "Broadway Bound and
The Suitcase," undated
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Contents:
- [Biloxi Blues] (motion picture)
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The Suitcase (motion picture)
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BOX-FOLDER 70/2 |
[13] "Bogart Slept Here,"
undated
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Contents:
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Bogart Slept Here (motion picture)
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God’s Favorite (play)
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Bogart Slept Here (motion picture)
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BOX-FOLDER 70/3 |
[14] "California Suite,
Chapter Two, Zero Mostel tribute, and Fools or The Good Doctor,"
undated
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Contents:
- [George Feiffer, Meet Annie Malone]
(play); early title for Chapter Two
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California Suite (motion picture)
- [The Cheap Detective] (motion
picture); [1] page
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Chapter Two (play); listings of possible
titles also include: "Personal Items." "Slightly Personal,"
"Pieces"
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California Suite (motion picture)
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Mister Ex; character and actor list with
two-sentence description
- [George Feiffer, Meet Annie Malone/Chapter
Two] (play)
- Zero Mostel tribute speech
- Invited list
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Fools (play)
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BOX-FOLDER 70/4 |
[15] "Century (a new
musical - 1st draft), Africa Hot (Intro - 3rd volume of plays), and A
Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose," undated
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Contents:
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Century (musical); first draft; music and
lyrics by Jerry Herman
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A Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose (play)
- "Africa Hot"; introduction to the third volume of collected
plays
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A Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose (play)
- [Lost in Yonkers] (play); final
page
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BOX-FOLDER 70/5 |
[16] "'Charley Come Back'
/ 'Rewrites' autobiography," 1993 August-September
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Contents:
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Charley Come Back (motion picture); first
draft, 1993 August
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Rewrites memoir, 1993 August 10
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Charley Come Back (motion picture); more
rewrites of second draft, 1993 September
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BOX-FOLDER 70/6 |
[17] "Cooking Class and
Josie," undated
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Note: "Cooking Class" is a possible earlier
title for Rumors
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Contents:
- [Rumors] (play)
- Temporary title Josie; synopsis;
crossed out title "The Dog Leg" followed by "A Golf Term"
- [A Foggy Day] (musical)
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BOX-FOLDER 70/7 |
[18] "'Cop of the Year' /
Speeches," 1991-1992 and
undated
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Contents:
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Cop of the Year (motion picture); first
draft
- Anti-Defamation League speech, 1991 December 8
- List: "N. Y. Movies"
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Lost in Yonkers (motion picture);
additional scene
- "Letter to Cast of 'Jake's [Women]'/closing night party," 1992
October 25
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BOX-FOLDER 70/8 |
[19] "Embraceable You and
A Foggy Day," undated
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Note: "Musical w/ Gershwin scores" written
on cover |
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Contents:
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Embraceable You (musical); alternate
title "New New Yorkers"
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A Foggy Day (musical)
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BOX-FOLDER 70/9 |
[20] "Fools, Bill Bradley
Oxford Cambridge Dinner Speech, Hofstra Commencement speech (5/17/81),
and The Heartbreak Kid," 1981
and undated
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