Showing posts with label Cancer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cancer. Show all posts

Sunday, January 22, 2012

A new work week

What would you say if you recieved an email like the one that I recieved first thing this morning?  Here's what it said?

Dear Dawn

Thank you for the beautiful letter of things going on in your life. I need your help. I have had two bad mammograms and then a bad ultra sound of my left breast. There is something in my left breast and I am to see a surgeon this Wednesday to see when to do a biopsy. I am so afraid of cancer and do not know what to do. Can you help me?
 
 
 
 
This is what I wrote in reply to my friend's request for help.  I decided to share it in case any of you find yourselves in the same unhappy position that my friend is in.  I realize that it may be filled with information that you may not have been exposed to before so I will pray that you will search out the truth for yourselves.  Remember what God says in His word, "The truth will set you free."
 
Yours for freedom,
 
Dawn
 
PS.  I used the x's  to protect my friend's identity.
 
 
 
Dear XXXXXXX,
I’m so sorry to hear your news this morning! However, I would urge you not to go the medical route with this thing. I’ve had lumps growing on my body many times, that BodyTalk revealed to be cancer, but I got rid of them naturally. YOU CAN TOO!
First of all, stop thinking about cancer!!! The more you think about cancer, the more energy you give to it. Every time that you are afraid, instead of thinking about cancer think, ‘I LOVE YOU, XXXXXXXX!” Think “I love you, XXXXXXX” over and over and over until the fear goes away. Sometimes you may have to say to yourself, “I’m sorry for all of the time that I spent thinking about cancer but now I am going to love myself instead.” The power of love (from others OR self) is awesome. If it helps any, I love you, XXXXXXX! Think about that—think about all of the people who love you NOT the people who will feel sorry for you if you go the medical route and have them cut your breast off!
Secondly, do castor oil packs whenever you have any pain in your breast. Spread castor oil very thickly on the breast. Run a washcloth under hot water and ring it out. Put this on top of the breast and cover with a towel to keep the warmth inside. Leave this on for 20 minutes and it will miraculously draw out much of the infection. Do this every time that you have any pain anywhere. I learned this from a naturopath who has healed many cancer patients with it.
Thirdly, I would go to the Health Food store and buy either Noni juice or Essiac and start drinking LOTS of it. Both of these have healed me and others of cancer.
Also I would buy THE CURE FOR ALL CANCERS and go to their site. Many cancers are caused by parasites and you’ll need to zap them away daily if you have cancer in your family. I do this almost every day and certainly when I have any pain instead of waiting to find out that it MIGHT be cancer. Dr. Clark’s website has a nice assortment of zappers that you can buy:
Also, do not put anything on your body or IN your body with PROP in it. This can be in the form of isoPROPal alcohol or PROPalene glycol or many other forms. If you see the 4 letters PROP together in an ingredient, do NOT use that product. It’s in many personal care products and now also in sour cream, ice cream........... SEARCH for PROP and avoid it like the plague. This is what I do constantly and will do so for the rest of my life if I want to have a life.
Now, you took Access class, correct? Well, your body is saying that it wants you to do Access 3 times a day for 4 days. Then twice a day for 6 days then once a day indefinitely. Also, it is imperative that you come and see me. My only opening this week is at 10:00 on Tuesday morning. I’ve taken all of the required BT classes now so I can help you at the same level that YYYYYYYY can. You need more BodyTalk now than before so let’s get to work.
I will share that Dr. Leonard Coldwell has done research that proves that almost all illness is the result of stress. He does a stress relief program that I listen to several times a day. 20 minutes is like 8 hours of sleep and I just love it. You can buy it for $100 at: www.instinctbasedmedicine.com Get the Christian version as it is a prayer to God for healing and totally awesome. If you come in to see me, I’ll let you listen to it while I do your session.
Dr. Coldwell has healed many people of cancer with his cancer program. He healed ALL of them who did not let doctors treat them first. Some of those who saw doctors first, he was NOT able to save. Please pray seriously about NOT letting the doctors do anything further with you. The only reason they do testing is to get you into chemo and radiation which make them rich. These techniques are ones that were used in WAR to kill off the enemy and it is CRIMINAL for these doctors to be putting these poisons into people’s bodies! I WILL PRAY FOR YOU TO HAVE PEACE IN THIS!!! I’ve recovered from cancer over 20 times and not once did a doctor touch me. I’m almost positive that I’d not be here at all if I had.
This is what I’ve learned in my battle to stay alive. I pray that you will act in your best interests and stop reacting in fear. 2 Timothy 1:7 says FOR GOD HATH NOT GIVEN US THE SPIRIT OF FEAR; BUT OF POWER, AND OF LOVE, AND OF A SOUND MIND!!! Fear is NOT from God! It IS what the medical system uses to make themselves rich while folks drop like flies from their cancer treatments. There’s something wrong here!!!! Trust in the Lord, XXXXXXX! Trust His natural ways to heal you without drugs; without surgery; and without radiation!!!!
Your friend,
Dawn Bornemann

Friday, July 1, 2011

Encapsulated

PRAISE THE LORD!!!!!!!!!! Just in time for Sabbath I have good news for all of you who have been praying for me the past few months to lick this beastly cancer in my foot. 
 Being I can do BodyTalk, I check several times a day to see if the cancer is encapsulated.  By the way, everyone has cancer in their bodies but what matters is if it is encapsulated in it's casing or if it's active and growing in the body.
Well, I woke up this morning at 2:30 and my foot felt different.  I was pretty sleepy but on my way to the bathroom I asked, "Is the cancer encapsulated?" and got a YES through muscle testing.  YIPEE!!!!!!!!

Now, here's another miracle.  The reason this time has been especially difficult is because it's in my foot and I kind of need my foot a LOT.  Not only that, it's felt different from the other times.  It has often felt as though it was shingles and I have asked my innate wisdom (that God uses to keep me alive) if it is shingles but always got a NO.
So now, in the middle of the night, I finally understood what was going on.  The tumor was pushing on a nerve cutting off the nerve supply to my toes.  Last night, with the tumor encapsulated, there was some relief from that pinching pain.  Then, with my sleepy brain, I suddenly understood why God had me buy some L-Lysine last week when I was in Terry's Health Food store.
You see, when I had the nerve damage in my neck and head from the shingles on my brain, I started taking a LOT of L-Lysine.  It takes down the inflammation in the nerve endings and it really helps stop the insane tingling/burning/throbbing sensation of nerve damage.  However, I haven't taken any in a couple of years.
To make a long story short, as I still need to clean the bathroom before the Sabbath (now that my foot is feeling better).  I checked to see if the L-Lysine was a priority to get into my body and learned that I needed to take 3 L-Lysine at 2:00 in the morning.  When I woke up, I took 5 more before heading out the door with Andrew for Bismarck. 
All day that dreaded tingling has been on the decrease and I KNOW that the worst is over.  I must add here that Elizabeth has done a couple of sessions for me too in the past 24 hours so it's hard to say how much that played a role.  I don't really care which helped which percent, I am just so happy that my foot is feeling the best tonight that it has felt in 2 months--JUST IN TIME FOR SABBATH!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you, all of you, who have been praying for my recovery--AGAIN!  Oh yes, I must mention that I rested all day yesterday, PLUS I've been listening to Dr. Coldwell's STRESS RELIEF FOR CHRISTIANS every time that the world presses me into despair.  Somehow I WILL get back on my feet again and I praise God for seeing me through cancer one more time.  WHAT IN THE WORLD WOULD I DO WITHOUT HIM??????????????/
God bless you for caring enough to pray for me!
Dawn

Thursday, June 23, 2011

A bit discouraged

Hi everyone,
  So much has happened since I last wrote and even now I have only a few moments to write.  I find myself a bit discouraged, though, and I'm writing to ask for prayer. 

You see, I'm dealing with cancer again.  Yes, I KNOW that it is cancer because I've dealt with it numerous times before AND my body says that the cancer is in it's active stages.  I almost had it licked, after a month of working on it, before we left for Prairie Days.  However, I didn't drink much water there as the bathroom seemed miles away as the cancer is in my foot which ached quite a bit.  We all agreed to use the trees at night but that didn't help much during the day. 

Anyway, I'm pushing hard this week as I'm not seeing clients next Tuesday as I'll be in class.  I've told all the people whom I'm close to about the cancer now so there is no danger of them finding out about it here.  When I realized that, I decided that I'd share about it here as I know that there are many of you who have prayed for me in the past. 

The good news is that I've found Dr. Leanoard Coldwell whom I shared about in my last post.  His "Stress reduction for Christians" and "The Only Answer to Cancer," have arrived.  Yesterday I listened to the stress reduction CDs over and over as I lay resting.  I can tell that it is doing some healing at a very deep level  as today I feel a little better.  I can heartily share this man and his products with you as there is clear proof that he is a man of God.  His website is: www.instinctbasedmedicine.com and I urge anyone who is dealing with stress to go there and study what he has learned about illness. 

I covet your prayers as I have 5 sessions to do today on top of the 5 on Tuesday and 4 yesterday.  How I love doing this work as each session I do helps me too because my brain takes any of the links it hears that it is needing.  I recall learning about that 4 years ago when Elizabeth was trying to convince me to take the training when I was yet so very ill from the shingles on my brain.  The human brain is sooooo incredible but stress is able to conquer it so WE need to learn to conquer stress.  Dr. Coldwell has so I hope that you'll check out his site.

Best get going now.  I love you all so very much and draw great comfort from knowing that my readers care about me and my family.

God bless those who love and serve Him,

Dawn

PS.  I'll post pictures tomorrow of all of the boxes that arrived here yesterday from KRT for our class.  There is still time to register for the class if you're feeling that little nudge from God to do so.  :)

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Health tips

It is so nice today, while I try to find time to post about my incredible session yesterday with Tone-Lise working on me, to be able to share some health tips from a new Internet friend. Doris sent this in this morning and the other comment came in from her last week. I am wondering, Doris, where you buy the sulfur?

Keep warm,

Dawn

PS. I haven't written much about the constitution diet yet but I'm sure that you'll hear much about it in the years to come. This is my 13th day following my diet plan and I am already feeling much better with less pain; more energy; less depression; and I'm feeling thinner somehow. Feel free to check my sidebar for comments on the diet.

Dear Dawn,

I'll add another experience. I was wearing my crocs a lot and ended up getting a lot of mud and dirt in them which ended up in me getting a case of athlete's foot with lots of itching and blisters which finally became infected as I continued to ignore it until it became painful to walk. So my husband suggested that I soak it in peroxide and minced garlic.

Wow!! It immediately killed the infection. Huge improvement, but, the fungus was still in my shoe, and as life is busy, I didn't do much other than clean my shoe, which didn't make the fungus go away.

Well the itching and blisters were flaring back up. So I had some spilled sulfur laying about, and decided to pack it in around my toes. Again, Wow!! So not only did it kill the fungus, but it made my shoe a healthier place for my foot to be. I just need to sprinkle a bit in each pair of shoes, I think.

Thank you for your suggestions, I would love to find out more about the constitution diet, do you have any posts about it?

Blessings,

Doris



Dawn,

Dearly Beloved! Well, it's true, as I have fallen in love with you just by reading these few blog posts. You are a treasure from Heaven.

Yes, that amazing onion has soooo much healing capabilities. For I understand it is high in sulfur and sulfur is very effective at fighting fungus, which I understand that cancer is. Another thing that is a good cancer fighter is copper. There is a good amount of copper to be found in Kelp. Also, you mention Vit D in your next post about Mercola. So, Vit D, copper, sulfur, are very good for you and necessary for your good health--you see they are all important in helping the body absorb calcium. And Calcium is KEY to preventing and stopping cancer.

There is a very good book by Robert Barefoot called 'Death by Diet' that explains how critical calcium/magnesium is to our well being and prevention of cancer. And having attitude problems when the cancer is rampaging totally fits with what I know and my own experiences. Keeping your ph up is the solution to all the symptoms you are dealing with. That is my 'humble' opinion.

You are loved with an Everlasting Love!!

Blessings my friend,

Doris

Sunday, August 30, 2009

Wait on the Lord

I know that I have said this many times before, but I just keep getting blessed over and over, so I'll say it again. The book MORNING AND EVENING is a must-read of you are REALLY serious about your walk with the Lord. I thank the Dagley family for blessing my life immensely with this gift! The daily writings are always a blessing, but some days it's like they were written just for me. I would like to share this morning's reading. Put it in the context of someone waiting for the day when the cancer will again be encapsulated and peace restored to my body. The Scripture verse which it is based on is Psalm 27:14: Wait on the Lord.

It may seem an easy thing to WAIT, but it is one of the postures which a Christian soldier learns not without years of teaching. Marching and quick-marching are much easier to God's warriors than standing still. There are hours of perplexity when the most willing spirit, anxiously desirous to serve the Lord, knows not what part to take. Then what shall it do? Vex itself by fear, or rush forward in presumption? NO, but simply wait.

Wait in prayer, however. Call upon God, and spread the case before Him; tell Him your difficulty, and plead His promise of aid. In dilemmas between one duty and another, it is sweet to be humble as a child, and wait with simplicity of soul upon the Lord. It is sure to be well with us when we feel and know our own folly, and are heartily willing to be guided by the will of God.

But wait in FAITH. Express your unstaggering confidence in Him, for unfaithful, untrusting waiting, is but an insult to the Lord. Believe that if He keep you tarrying till midnight, yet He will come at the right time; the vision shall come and shall not tarry.

Wait in quiet patience, not rebelling because you are under the affliction, but blessing your God for it. Never murmur against the second cause, as the children of Israel did against Moses; never wish you could go back to the world again, but accept the case as it is, and put it as it stands, simply and with your whole heart, without any self-will, into the hand of your covenant God, saying, "Now, Lord, not my will, but Thine be done. I know not what to do; I am brought to extremities, but I will wait until Thou shalt cleave the floods, or drive back my foes. I WILL WAIT, if Thou keep me many a day, for my heart is fixed upon Thee alone, O God, and my spirit waiteth for Thee in the full conviction that Thou wilt yet be my joy and my salvation, my refuge and my strong tower.

PRAISE GOD THAT HE IS ALWAYS MY STRONG TOWER NO MATTER WHAT I AM GOING THROUGH--EVEN CANCER!!!!!!!!!!! And, "Oh Lord, teach me to wait."

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Humor--health related

Dear friends,
I was thinking this morning about my post on humor. I was hoping that you all don't think I'm the biggest Scrooge in the world. You see, I really DO feel all of those things about people who mock others. I just can't stand it because I can't stand to think of anyone having hurt feelings. One can't live through all of the years of abuse that I endured and take things like that lightly.
Still, I wondered this morning if my comments may have seemed harsh to others? After all, I wasn't exactly kind to these car expert buffoons. I was a bit surprised, then, that my thoughts were much kinder towards them this morning. Pondering the change I suddenly hit on a wonderful thought.
You see, I have had cancer numerous times in the past. I always treat it with herbs and my zapper and lots of TLC. One of the symptoms of cancer, and usually the first red flag that I'm dealing with it again, is that one's thinking changes. When I have cancer, (I can't speak for others) my thinking gets extremely negative. EVERYBODY BUGS ME!!! Why can't they try and be a little quiet; or a little less wiggly; or a little bit more compassionate? WHY INDEED.
Don't they know that my pain level is out of the roof? Can't they see the pain on my face as shown in this picture? Doesn't anybody care that I have cancer? Why do they expect me to keep working the way I always do when I have cancer? Who cares if they eat when I'm hurting so badly? Why do I have to continually ask people to carry the laundry basket out to the wash line for me? I can hang up the wash but I'm too weak to carry the basket. I want to be useful but I have such little strength. I can snap beans but carrying the water to the canner hurts too much. EVERYTHING HURTS TOO MUCH!!! Car expert bozos hurt too much. Can you see my thought processes here?
I'm humbling myself now. I don't want to be weak. Nobody wants to be weak. Nobody wants to need others to do the little things for them that they normally can do for themselves. I'm aching now because I can see that God wants me to share these thoughts to help others who have cancer and my natural instinct (from growing up in an incestuous home) is to keep my mouth shut and suffer all alone.
Have you ever read the thoughts of someone who has cancer? Has anyone ever taken the time to write them out to try to make a dent in the ignorance all around them? I'm writing for you, dear cancer patient, to try to help you see the ray of hope that comes from tackling problems like cancer by working WITH the body, not by attacking the body. God WILL heal me, as He has done so many times before, but not by my running in to be burnt or cut open.
Do you remember when I said that my naturopath, Dr. Faye, told me to ponder what I am to learn when I have cancer. Well, I see that I just learned a biggie. I think that what God wants me to learn this time is to share my thoughts with the world so that people can see that cancer warps one's thinking. Cancer completely changes me from a confident person to a whiny little kid. Cancer makes me angry because I can't do the work that lies around me without pain, Pain, PAIN!!!!!
Some days I just give up and lie in bed and do BodyTalk on myself and sleep all day--or soak in the whirlpool for 3 hours and turn into a prune. Those are the bad days. I've had it 10 weeks now and most days I can keep plugging along at about 1/2 to 3/4 pace. Those are the good days. Well, you know what? I'm selfish enough to want EVERY day to be a GREAT day!!!!!!!!!!
Cora took this picture of me this Spring when I felt great. When I don't have cancer, I feel great and so alive and so excited about everything all around me. I can work all day without tiring; cook wonderful meals for my family; teach exciting lessons to my children; do the laundry; or drive tractor; or milk the goats all without pain. My face is calm and relaxed and I do not hurt.
I WANT TO LIVE when I don't have cancer and I WANT TO DIE when I do have cancer. It's that simple. Cancer makes you want to die. I suffer from suicidal thoughts often when I have cancer. It just doesn't seem like it is worth the effort of fighting my way through the pain to a pleasant thought when I have cancer. Many people kill themselves when they feel like this. I can understand why.
I write to you who love someone who has cancer. I write this so that you may catch a glimpse of their thought processes. I write this so that you can try to understand what they are going through. I write this so that you may search your heart for a way to show them that you love them even though they have cancer.
You may never know what a little, tiny, eensy teensy weensy effort to try to understand someone who has cancer can mean to them. You may not know that a simple, little gesture can give a cancer patient the will to fight to the end of that day. You may not know that your words, "I'm praying for your health needs," can touch the heart of a cancer patient with extreme joy. It is this joy, which the cancer patient needs more than anything, that will begin to bring the healing.
Some day soon, when I am completely well, I will write about the routine I use when I have cancer. I'm not strong enough now, but I will do it soon. Today I needed to share what I have shared so that everyone out there will pause just one moment to reach out to someone who has cancer. The cancer patient can't help that they have cancer, but it's so terrifying that people prefer to stay away from them, and that is what hurts the most. That means that when the patient needs love the most, they fight the biggest fight of their lives ALONE!!!
Thank you for listening to my thoughts. This morning I feel quite a bit stronger than I did when I wrote the humor post. This morning I had the strength to write and explain that I only want to bring joy and beauty to the whole world. This morning I count my blessings of almost having the cancer licked. Look at this little guy in my hands. He's a half grown goose by now and I am growing too. I'm picking up my courage to express my thoughts about having cancer. This has helped me to grow more than I can explain. God bless you for listening.
To conclude, I would say that it would be wise for all of us to look for personality changes in those we love. If they seem more snappy and weak, it may be that they just need more rest or better food or a shoulder to cry on. However, if this continues for weeks, perhaps the kindest thing to do would be to climb over the Mountain Denial, and face the possibility that cancer may have become active in the body.
Then you simply MUST run to the doctor, right? WRONG. I can see that I need to write my cancer procedural chart out ASAP. Let me rest now and I'll see if I can find the strength to do it later on today. In the meantime, check out Dr. Hulda Clark's recommendations listed on my sidebar.
Love always,
Dawn

Friday, August 21, 2009

LADIES ONLY PLEASE--MIRACLE WORKING ONIONS

Well ladies, this post is not very pleasant, but then life isn't always pleasant. I haven't said anything about this up until now, because I don't like pulling my friends down, and it's mostly my friends who read this. Still I have made a discovery worthy of sharing, so share it I will.

I've been dealing with cancer again for about 5 weeks now. No, it has not been confirmed by an earthly doctor as my Heavenly Father is my great physician. I've been through it enough times to know that when I have pain like THAT, plus lumps growing on my body, that it's cancer. As I learned in the book THE CURE FOR ALL CANCERS, many people cure the cancer frequently only to have it come back again. It's the coming back part that is most troublesome to me.

Well, I've been using Dr. Clark's herbal remedy since I first felt it in my neck and it's been almost gone several times. I'm almost positive that I know the source of the trouble now, and have eliminated it, so the worst should be over. However, yesterday my chest hurt terribly so I did an examination yesterday afternoon and found a lump the size of a pea in my left breast.

OH MY--THIS IS SOMETHING THAT I HAVE DREADED EVER SINCE MY GRANDMOTHER LOST HER BREAST TO CANCER OVER 40 YEARS AGO. Since then 4 aunts have lost their breasts to that beast. What to do?

First of all, calm down and pray for guidance. Second of all, do a BodyTalk session. The session revealed all sorts of links to my grandmother's cancer. I didn't realize until that session how I was shaped by that visit as a child to the hospital where I saw her lying there almost dead after chemotherapy and radiation. In fact, I realized yesterday that this was when I first became interested in becoming a natural healer. I learned young to desire alternative ways to burning and cutting the human body. That desire has only GROWN since then and that is why I long to share what I learn as I go along. That is why I've named my blog A RAY OF HOPE as sometimes a ray is all that we have. Perhaps that one ray of hope will encourage another searching soul to try something natural that worked for me and they'll get helped too. That is my prayer as I write this!

Well, last night I learned something wonderful about dealing with cancer. My naturopath said to me once, "Every time you go through cancer or some other awful thing ask God, "What am I supposed to be learning here?" So that's what I did last night as the pain spread through the left side of my chest into my armpit. Suddenly I knew what I was supposed to do.

I recalled that, when I had gotten mastitis years ago, I cut an onion thin and put it on my breast to suck out the poison. YUP that's just what I did last night. It's a simple process but it needs to be done correctly so here are the steps to follow.

You clean a large onion; slice it thin; and warm it up in a frying pan on very low heat. When it is shiny, you go to bed and put the onion slices on your breast. Cover it up with a towel and go to sleep. That's what I did and this morning almost all of the pain was gone!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THAT IS A MIRACLE IN MY OPINION.

I am excited about the possibilities for helping people when my dream of a health center becomes a reality. I never knew that it would work for cancer, but now I do. :) I imagine that we'll probably grow lots of onions in those days.

So today I've been up and about until now--3:00 PM. Yesterday I lay in bed in agony all day and the only thing that I changed was I let some onions draw out the poison. COOL! Now I do have some pain there, so I'm warming myself another onion and I'm off for a rest. This sure beats yesterday's fear and agony of dreading the most dreadful thing that I've ever dreaded and finding it true.

The point that I'm trying to make here is this. For every one of man's/woman's woes, our Creator HAS made a remedy in nature. We just need to find them, don't' we? I'm sharing this with the hopes that, if someone searches here, they will find the same help that I found yesterday.

Please help pray me out of the woods as I am convinced that prayer is another one of the Creator's healing miracles. I bless you all with a great big hug from a heart full of joy at being alive. God preserved me through all of the times I found lumps growing on my body before this and I have every confidence that HE WILL DO SO AGAIN!!!!!!!!

PRAISE THE LORD AND HAVE A BLESSED SABBATH REST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thursday, August 13, 2009

God bless Dr. Mercola

If you have never gone to Dr. Joseph Mercola's website, you probably should. He has the world's largest alternative health center in the world. I rarely buy a product which he doesn't sell or endorse. If I read something, I compare it with what I've read on his site. This is a source of information which could save your life. Here's the link to his website: mercola.com.

Well, today he had an article on some new cancer research which shows that Vitamin D is saving many people's lives once they're diagnosed with cancer. Here's the link to the article:http://articles.mercola.com/sites/ articles/archive/2009/08/13/New-Model-for-Cancer--Dynamite.aspx

They were asking for some volunteers to be a part of a 5 year study involving Vitamin D and, without a moment's hesitation, I signed up. I've had cancer several times and I am VERY interested in preventing repeat occurrences. If such a simple, inexpensive vitamin supplement and/or safe sunshine exposure is saving thousands of lives, I WANT IN ON IT. I need all the help I can get.

I'll let you know, as I get involved with this study, what I'm learning. The study is called THE D*ACTION PROJECT. Please, if you know of anyone who has cancer, send them to this article. I've also posted the project at the top of the list on my sidebar. Cancer prevention is a big thing to me and, I would think, to everybody.

I urge you to take a few moments to watch the video on Dr. Mercola's site!!!!!!!!

We're having a BABY--shower :)

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