Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
Yesterday, 06:12 AM
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October 8
The worst loneliness is to not be...
October 8
The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.
~Mark Twain
It's not that we want God to change everything about us or remake us to perfection. (OK, maybe we do.) It's...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
Yesterday, 06:10 AM
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October 8
High hopes
Your hopes may be...
October 8
High hopes
Your hopes may be high, but hopes alone will not bring results. Hold on to those high hopes, and act on them.
Expect the best, and do the work that those expectations...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-07-2024, 07:40 AM
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Replies: 7
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October 7
A single grateful thought toward...
October 7
A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most complete prayer.
~Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Thank you is one of the most important things we can say to anyone. Thank you packs a...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-07-2024, 07:39 AM
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Replies: 8
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October 7
Flow of inspiration
Embrace...
October 7
Flow of inspiration
Embrace opportunities to be inspired. Then pass along that goodness by putting forth the effort to be inspiring.
Live so that inspiration flows through you. Tap...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-06-2024, 05:05 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,757
October 6
Came to believe that a Power...
October 6
Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
~Step Two of Alcoholics Anonymous
Having admitted powerlessness in the First Step, we now begin to...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-05-2024, 06:59 AM
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Replies: 7
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October 5
Receiving
Here is an...
October 5
Receiving
Here is an exercise:
Today, let someone give to you. Let someone do something nice for you. Let someone give you a compliment or tell you something good about yourself....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-05-2024, 06:58 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 1,510
October 6
Make new meaning
Meaning in...
October 6
Make new meaning
Meaning in life is not something you find by stumbling across it or searching for it or having it handed to you. The meaning in your life is the meaning you actively...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-05-2024, 06:57 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 1,510
October 5
How you respond
The results...
October 5
How you respond
The results you achieve do not come from the situation. Your results are determined by how you respond to the situation.
From identical circumstances, two different...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-04-2024, 04:29 AM
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Replies: 7
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October 4
In less than one year, 98 percent...
October 4
In less than one year, 98 percent of all the atoms in your body are replaced completely. This includes even the DNA, which holds memories of millions of years of evolutionary time. . ....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-04-2024, 04:25 AM
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October 4
Challenges you choose
There...
October 4
Challenges you choose
There is no overwhelming need or financial incentive for people to climb mountains. Yet plenty of people do so, and often pay handsomely for the opportunity.
...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-03-2024, 06:43 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,757
October 3
Only when we humbly ask for help...
October 3
Only when we humbly ask for help are we ready to receive it.
On occasion, our problems seem overwhelming, and we don't know where to turn. Our job is stressful. Our health is failing....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-03-2024, 06:42 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 1,510
October 3
Going through the motions
...
October 3
Going through the motions
Going through the motions is not a good habit when you’re trying to avoid the work. Yet it can be very useful when you are learning to do the work.
...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-02-2024, 04:10 AM
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Replies: 7
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October 2
Reflection for the Day
When...
October 2
Reflection for the Day
When we first stopped drinking, using, overeating, or gambling, it was an enormous relief to find that the people we met in the program seemed quite different...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-02-2024, 04:08 AM
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October 2
Ability to imagine
...
October 2
Ability to imagine
Imagination is not a trivial thing. Give it the seriousness it deserves.
When you imagine, put time and effort into it. Imagine in specific detail, with feeling,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-01-2024, 12:49 PM
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-01-2024, 06:40 AM
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Today's Thought - October
October 1
Sponsorship Saves
For years, I used to think that acceptance meant I had to like something to accept it.
Oh, no, I don't have to like it. I just need to accept it. To let it go....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-01-2024, 06:37 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 1,510
Daily Motivator - October
October 1
Be there
Great value exists in the immediate physical presence of other people, places, and activities. Although remote, virtual experiences can be quite rich, they are never the same...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-30-2024, 06:10 AM
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Daily Recovery Readings - October 1
God grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
and Wisdom to know the difference.
Thy will, not mine, be done.
October 1
Daily...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-29-2024, 06:41 AM
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October 8
Daily Reflections
DAILY...
October 8
Daily Reflections
DAILY INVENTORY
. . . . and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 59
I was beginning to approach my new life of sobriety with
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-29-2024, 06:40 AM
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October 7
Daily Reflections
DAILY...
October 7
Daily Reflections
DAILY MONITORING
Continued to take personal inventory. . . . .
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 88
The spiritual axiom referred to in the Tenth Step--
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-29-2024, 06:40 AM
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October 6
Daily Reflections
FACING...
October 6
Daily Reflections
FACING OURSELVES
. . . . and Fear says, "You dare not look!"
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 49
How often I avoided a task in my drinking days,
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-28-2024, 05:54 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 30,773
September 28
Every time I close the door on...
September 28
Every time I close the door on Reality, it comes in through the window.
~Ashleigh Brilliant
In the past, many of us closed the door on the reality of our abuse of ourselves or...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-28-2024, 05:45 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 23,499
September 29
Now is ready
No one you...
September 29
Now is ready
No one you know currently has any time other than now. Every person, everything that exists, is now.
So what are you going to do with it all, right now? How will...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-28-2024, 05:45 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 23,499
September 28
What it means to think big
...
September 28
What it means to think big
Thinking big is not about devising outlandish goals for yourself. Thinking big comes from understanding you have an important role to play in the world....
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Forum: Newcomers Recovery Help and Support
09-27-2024, 08:52 AM
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Replies: 0
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Afraid Of Dying
None of us should ever be afraid of dying, we're all going to do that. What we all should be afraid of is not having ever lived to begin with in what little time we all have before we do die. What...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-26-2024, 05:22 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 30,773
September 26
If I have freedom in my life, ...
September 26
If I have freedom in my life,
And in my soul am free,
Angels alone that soar above
Enjoy such liberty.
~Richard Lovelace
When a cow decides to stop nursing her calf, she...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-26-2024, 05:07 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 23,499
September 26
Take the win
When you get...
September 26
Take the win
When you get up in the morning and your world is still intact, take the win. When you complete what you’ve set out to do, take the win.
Take the win, thankful for...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-25-2024, 08:15 AM
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Replies: 15
Views: 7,541
October 5
Daily Reflections
YESTERDAY'S...
October 5
Daily Reflections
YESTERDAY'S BAGGAGE
For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching
becomes a regular habit, until he is able to admit...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-25-2024, 08:15 AM
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Replies: 15
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October 4
Daily Reflections
A NECESSARY...
October 4
Daily Reflections
A NECESSARY PRUNING
. . . . we know that the pains of drinking had to come
before sobriety, and emotional turmoil before serenity.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-25-2024, 08:14 AM
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Replies: 15
Views: 7,541
October 3
Daily Reflections
SERENITY...
October 3
Daily Reflections
SERENITY AFTER THE STORM
Someone who knew what he was talking about once remarked that
pain was the touchstone of all spiritual progress. How heartily
we A.A.'s...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-25-2024, 07:19 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 30,773
September 25
AA Thought for the Day
All...
September 25
AA Thought for the Day
All alcoholics have personality problems. They drink to escape from life, to counteract feelings of loneliness or inferiority, or because of some emotional...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-25-2024, 07:18 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 23,499
September 25
Do it one better
Accept...
September 25
Do it one better
Accept what is, accept what comes. Then do it one better.
You’re not going to fix all that’s wrong in the world. Yet you can constantly improve yourself and...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-24-2024, 06:24 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 30,773
September 24
To ease another's heartache is...
September 24
To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.
~Abraham Lincoln
Sometimes, in our self-centeredness, we fall into a pit of self-pity. Most of us have enough pain and...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-24-2024, 06:00 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 23,499
September 24
Right time
Today has come...
September 24
Right time
Today has come at the right time for you. Be confident in living it well.
There’s much you can do that you could not do before. And now are opportunities you will...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-23-2024, 06:38 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 30,773
September 23
Why, then the world's mine...
September 23
Why, then the world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.
~William Shakespeare
We had little doubt, as youngsters, that the world was our oyster, and we were going to...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-23-2024, 06:34 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 23,499
September 23
Living in harmony
Harmony...
September 23
Living in harmony
Harmony does not mean everyone is in agreement. Harmony exists when no one is attempting to force his or her opinions on others.
Harmony does not require...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-22-2024, 07:01 AM
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Replies: 15
Views: 7,541
October 2
Daily Reflections
THE ACID...
October 2
Daily Reflections
THE ACID TEST
As we work the first nine Steps, we prepare ourselves for
the adventure of a new life. But when we approach Step Ten
we commence to put our A.A....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-22-2024, 07:01 AM
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Replies: 15
Views: 7,541
Daily Recovery Readings - October
October 1
Daily Reflections
LEST WE BECOME COMPLACENT
It is easy to let up on the spiritual program of action and rest
on our laurels. We are headed for trouble if we do, for alcohol
is a...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-22-2024, 06:59 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 28,889
September 30
Daily Reflections
THE...
September 30
Daily Reflections
THE CIRCLE AND THE TRIANGLE
The circle stands for the whole world of A.A., and the triangle
stands for A.A.'s Three Legacies of Recovery, Unity, and Service....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-22-2024, 06:58 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 28,889
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-22-2024, 06:48 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 30,773
September 22
The world has more depth in...
September 22
The world has more depth in autumn. So, it seems, does my soul.
~Jane Nakken
The earth prepares to rest when autumn comes. Trees shed their leaves, flowers drop their blooms,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-21-2024, 06:35 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 23,499
September 22
Your dreams are real
...
September 22
Your dreams are real
Dreams exist for a reason. They’re meant to get your attention, to captivate your imagination.
So pay attention. Imagine with wild abandon.
Of course...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-21-2024, 06:33 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 30,773
September 21
Resentments
Nothing on...
September 21
Resentments
Nothing on earth consumes a man more completely as the passion of resentment.
~Friedrich Nietzsche
Resentments are among the greatest roadblocks along the route...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-21-2024, 06:30 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 23,499
September 21
You have what’s necessary
...
September 21
You have what’s necessary
If you can invent an excuse to avoid action, you can also come up with a compelling reason to take that action. When there’s a reason to quit, there’s...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-20-2024, 04:34 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 30,773
September 20
Faith is the subtle chain which...
September 20
Faith is the subtle chain which binds us to the infinite.
~Elizabeth Oakes Smith
Surrendering ourselves to a Higher Power is a big step. As addicts, trust has not been one of...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-20-2024, 04:31 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 23,499
September 20
Insist on reality
Give up...
September 20
Insist on reality
Give up your illusions. Go forward with your values, your strength, and with objective truth.
It’s easy to pretend to yourself, and to go along with the...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-19-2024, 06:08 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 28,889
September 28
Daily Reflections
LOVE...
September 28
Daily Reflections
LOVE WITHOUT STRINGS
Practical experience shows that nothing will so much
insure immunity from drinking as intensive work with
other alcoholics.
ALCOHOLICS...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-19-2024, 06:07 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 28,889
September 27
Daily Reflections
WITHOUT...
September 27
Daily Reflections
WITHOUT RESERVATION
When brimming with gratitude, one's heartbeat must surely
result in outgoing love, . . . .
AS BILL SEES IT, p.37
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-19-2024, 06:05 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 28,889
September 26
Daily Reflections
OUR...
September 26
Daily Reflections
OUR CHILDREN
The alcoholic may find it hard to re-establish friendly
relations with his children. . . . In time they will see
that he is a new man and in...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-19-2024, 05:51 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 30,773
September 19
Came to believe that a Power...
September 19
Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
~Step Two of Alcoholics Anonymous
The Second Step pushes us to start believing in something other...
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