January 1
Gracia, Shanay. “New Year’s resolutions: Who makes them and why.” PewResearch.org. January 29, 2024.
January 2
“The History Of Dry January Is Older Than You Think”. Beer.Unltd.
January 3
Liao, Kim. “Why You Should Aim for 100 Rejections a Year”. LitHub.com. June 28, 2016
Reneé Bibby’s Rejection Competition
January 4
January 5
Simon Berger’ on 60 Second Docs
January 6
Oscar the Grouch singing “I Love Trash”
January 7
“Friends don’t have to make sense” image.
January 8
Cain, Susan. Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole. Random House, 2022.
January 9
Guinness World Record for Thickest Animal Skin
“How Touching Whale Sharks Can Cause Serious Harm”. Scuba.com October 26, 2017
January 10
January 11
Zeitgeber. Merriam-Webster.com
January 13
January 14
January 15
Savage, Maddy. “Lördagsgodis: Sweden’s Saturday-only candy tradition”. BBC.com. October, 8 2021.
January 16
Francisco, Rudy. Helium. Button Poetry, 2017.
Francisco, Rudy. “And Then After”.
January 17
January 18
January 19
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library
January 20
No definitive citation found
January 21
“How Big Is Our Solar System?” NASA.gov. February 1, 2020.
January 22
January 23
“Prepone”. Merriam-Webster.com.
January 25
“Why Do We Dream?” Cleveland Clinic. August 18, 2022.
Tippett, Krista. “Joy Harjo: The Whole of Time”. On Being, Poetry Unbound, May 13, 2021.
January 26
January 27
Not as tough as a Norwegian mountaineer
January 28
Cristy Phillips, Ahmad Salehi, A Special Regenerative Rehabilitation and Genomics Letter: Is There a “Hope” Molecule?, Physical Therapy, Volume 96, Issue 4, 1 April 2016, Pages 581–583, https://doi.org/10.2522/ptj.2016.96.4.581
January 29
Gilbert, Elizabeth. Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear. Riverhead Books, 2015.
January 30
January 31
“What Is Code-Switching?” Cleveland Clinic. February 21, 2025.
February 1
“Carter G. Woodson”. NAACP.org.
February 2
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AMBERAlert.ojp.gov Frequently Asked Questions
February 3
Rothfuss, Patrick. The Wise Man's Fear. DAW Books, 2011.
February 4
February 5
February 6
Wells, Anne Marie. Survived By: A Memoir in Verse + Other Poems. Curious Corvid Publishing, 2023.
February 7
“What is the Great Barrier Reef?” National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
“What are corals?” National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
February 8
“Houston Zoo Admits A Snake Was a Fake”. The New York Times. September 20, 1984.
February 9
February 10
“Interesting facts about bamboo”. Bambooimport.com.
February 11
February 12
February 13
Patil, Pratik. “9 Oldest Maps in the World”. Oldest.org. August 2, 2018.
February 14
“The Museum of Broken Relationships”. MainlyMuseums.com.
February 15
“Red Herring”. Merriam-Webster.com.
February 18
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February 19
“Occam’s Razor”. Merriam-Webster.com.
February 20
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February 21
February 23
“Italy landslide pushes hundreds of coffins into the sea”. BBC.com. February 24, 2021.
February 24
“Witness the Magical Yosemite Firefall: A Guide to When & How”. ParksExpert.com. August 31, 2022.
February 25
February 27
February 28
Napoleon Leading the Army over the Alps by Kehinde Wiley
Napoleon Crossing the Alps by Jacques-Louis David
February 29
March 1
Kennedy, Lesley. “The Surprising History of March”. History.com. March 10, 2025.
March 2
March 3
March 4
March 5
March 6
March 7
“Jamais vu”. Merriam-Websiter.com
March 8
March 9
March 10
John Denver & Cass Elliot singing Leaving on a Jet Plane
March 11
Adams, Douglas. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Harmony Books, 1979.
March 12
March 13
“Why do we have special names for full moons?”.RMG.co.uk.
March 14
“A Slice of Pi (π) Day History”. Exploratorium.edu.
March 15
Shakespeare, William. Julius Caesar. Edited by Roma Gill, Oxford University Press, 2001.
“Last Words of Julius Caesar.” Wikipedia.org.
March 16
Williams, Florence. Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey. W.W. Norton, 2022.
March 17
“History of St. Gertrude: The Patron Saint of Cats.” DrElseys.com. March 10, 2022.
March 18
“Pufferfish.” NationalGeographic.com.
March 19
Kher, Aparna. “Why Does the March Equinox Fall on Different Dates?” TimeAndDate.com.
March 20
Rogers, Fred, and Barry Head. Mister Rogers Talks with Parents. Berkley Books, 1983.
March 22
“Interstitial cystitis”. MayoClinic.org.
March 23
“Give me liberty or give me death!” Wikipedia.org.
March 24
March 25
March 26
March 27
March 28
“Ivory-billed Woodpecker”. ABCBirds.org.
March 29
English, Colleen. “‘Telling the Bees’”. JSTOR.org. September 5, 2018.
March 30
Zoladz, Lindsay. “Tracy Chapman Wants to Speak for Herself.” NYTimes.com. April 16, 2025.
March 31
April 1
April 2
April 3
The best poem I’ll ever write.
April 4
“Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College” by Thomas Gray.
April 5
Brown, Jericho. “Invention”. PoetryFoundation.org. March 18, 2019.
April 6
Coats, James. Midnight and Mad Dreams. World Stage Press, 2022.
April 7
Chen, Chen. When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities. BOA Editions, Ltd., 2017.
April 8
Kayzakian, Arthur. “Synonyms for Maps.” Michigan Quarterly, 2022.
April 9
“Mizuta Masahide”. Wikipedia.org.
April 10
April 11
Perkins, Martheaus. “Hugging James Baldwin.” The Museum of Americana: A Literary Review.
April 12
April 13
Toth, Peter. “The destruction of Sappho's works”. British Library. December 9, 2017.
April 14
Hong, Cathy Park. “Ballad in A”. First published in Poetry, April 2010.
April 15
Fujimoto, Naoko. “Hotel Almighty - REVIEWS — RHINO”. RhinoPoetry.org
Sloat, Sarah J. Hotel Almighty. Sarabande Books, 2020.
A visual poem I created from a page of Anne of Green Gables.
April 16
Video on How to Write an Abecedarian
Kim, Esther. “hangul abecedarian.” The Poetry Society.
Choi, Franny. “Hangul Abecedarian.” The Poetry Foundation.
Revilla, Noʻu, and Rick Barot. Ask the Brindled: Poems. First edition. Milkweed Editions, 2022.
April 17
I broke a sweat writing this phonetic abecedarian. Phew, I need a nap.
April 18
Ayla, Ginger. “How I Write a Cento in 4 Steps.” Substack. July 29, 2024.
April 19
An example of a ribcage poem Wells, Anne Marie. “Like a Snail I’ll Taste the World an Inch at a Time.” Valiant Scribe. October 4, 2023.
April 20
April 21
Yolen, Jane. “Earth Day.” The Poetry Foundation.
April 22
Davidson, Richard. “Pollinator.”
April 23
Acevedo, Elizabeth. “Rat Ode.”
April 24
Woo, Nancy Lynée. “Anti-Ode to Trash (A Rant)”. Mobile Data Mag. August 18, 2024.
April 25
Kaminsky, Ilya. Deaf Republic: Poems. Graywolf Press, 2019.
April 26
April 27
Douglas Kearney Interview with the University of Minnesota
Douglas Kearney’s performance of "That Loud-Assed Colored Silence: Protest".
April 28
bridgette bianca’s performance of “we hold these truths to be self-evident”.
April 29
Shōnagon, Sei. The Pillow Book. Translated by Meredith McKinney, Penguin Classics, 2006.
Hahn, Kimiko. The Narrow Road to the Interior. W. W. Norton, 2008.
April 30
Wells, Anne Marie. Survived By: A Memoir in Verse + Other Poems. Curious Corvid Publishing, 2023.
May 1
“Seaweed Aquaculture”. NOAA Fisheries. February 18, 2025
May 2
Fofana, Aida & Tammy Gooding. “My new voice is a dream come true”. BBC.com. October 23, 2024.
May 4
May 5
May 6
May 7
Me sleeping while massively pregnant.
May 8 & 9
Wells, Anne Marie. Mother, (v). Cinnamon Press, 2024.
May 10
Atari, Bayan. “Toni Morrison: The Life of a Literary Giant”. Howard University. July 5, 2022.
“Cassius Clay Changes His Name | Muhammad Ali” PBS.
“Snoop goes Rasta, changes name to Snoop Lion”. The St. Louis American. August 1, 2012.
May 11
May 12
“What is a platypus?” NOAA.gov.
May 13
May 14
“Magic Penny” by Malvina Reynolds covered by Lindsay Müller.
May 15
Lewton-Brain, Charles. “Keum-boo Technique.” Ganoskin.com. November 18, 2024.
May 16
Little, Tom. “Tracing the Development of the Doppelgänger”. Atlast Obscura. November 6, 2017.
May 17
Annie Wells’ Pulitzer-prize winning photograph
May 18
“Deep historical roots: the Canadian Tulip Festival”. OttawaTourism.com January 10, 2025.
(For the year 2025, but all of these are recurring events) McInnis, Kaitlyn. “Where To Catch Tulip Festivals Around The World…” Forbes.com March 23, 2025.
May 19
“Laila Ali.” International Boxing Hall of Fame.
May 20
“Can Slime Mould Solve Mazes?” BBC Earth Science.
“Slime Mold: Phylogeny”. Wikipedia.org
May 21
May 22
May 23
Carter-Hawkins, Camari. “How to Trick Yourself Into Making Your Dreams Come True.”
May 24
“How Simone Biles Got Started In Gymnastics -- It Was By Accident”. ThePostGame.
May 25
May 26
Alexis Nikole Nelson aka the Black Forager
Bauck, Whitney. “Foraging For Joy”. Atmos, December 2, 2021.
May 27
Atsuko Okatsuka’s comedy special, “Father” on Hulu.
May 28
Mendieta, Ana. “Tree of Life.” 1976.
May 29
Spayde, Jon. “Wind Telephone.” Forecast.
May 30
*sings with closed eyes and clenched fist* Every mistake that I make, I couldn’t have made without you The Get Up Kids - Action & Action
May 31
Comedic re-enactment of the Eric Moussambani story from Comedy Central’s The Daily Show
June 1
June 2
June 3
Dash, Mike. “Naval Gazing: The Enigma of Étienne Bottineau”. Smithsonian Magazine. October 13, 2011.
June 4
“10 Facts About the Northern Mockingbird (Call/Song, Behavior, Pop Culture, etc.)”. J Birds.
June 5
Dr. Julia McDonald on Instagram
June 6
“Affirmations of the Week: The Art of Bisa Butler.” DearBlackWomenProject.com.
June 7
June 8
Montemurno, Megan. “What Exactly IS a Narwhal Tusk?” Ocean Conservancy, March 8, 2019.
June 9
Nash, Jo. “What is Loving Kindness Meditation?” PositivePsychology.com, July 27, 2019.
June 10
The California Language Archive
June 11
Dr. Becky Kennedy quote source
Jonathan Smallwood and Sandi Mann quote source
Mann, Sandi. The Science of Boredom: The Upside (and Downside) of Downtime. Robinson, 2018.
June 12
June 13
“Fear of missing out”. Wikipedia.org.
June 14
June 15
“Here be dragons.” Wikipedia.org.
June 16
June 17
“Why 2024's cicada emergence is so rare”. BBC Global.
June 18
“Couple Hooks $150,000 While Magnet Fishing”. The Project.
June 19
“The Historical Legacy of Juneteenth”. National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Weinstein, Lynn. “The Convict Leasing System: Slavery in its Worst Aspects.” Library of Congress.
June 20
“Stonehenge: Solstices, Science, and Spiritualism”. IFLScience.
June 21
“Portmanteau”. Merriam-Webster.com.
June 22
Mutu, Wangechi. “MamaRay.” MoMA, 2020.
June 23
Urbans, Jason. “The Limits of the Nile.” Archaeology Magazine. March/April 2023.
June 24
Brown, Nikole. “Cicada Magic.” Orion Magazine, June 3, 2024.
June 25
Carle, Eric. The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Philomel Books, 1969.
June 26
June 27
Keller, Helen. The Story of My Life. Doubleday, 1903.
“The Miracle Worker.” Wikipedia.org.
June 29
Catron, Mandy Len. “To fall in love with anyone, do this.”
June 30
July 1
Chbosky, Stephen. The Perks of Being a Wallflower. New York :Pocket Books, 1999.
Lee, Li-Young. “From Blossoms.” Poetry Foundation.
July 4
“The Combahee Ferry Raid”. National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Bradford, Sarah H. Harriet, the Moses of Her People. For the Author by G.R. Lockwood & Son, 1886.
July 5
Ms. Quinn’s photo from my senior yearbook
July 6
July 7
Karon Davis on Wilding Cran Gallery
July 8
“The IT Crowd - Roy Explains Why He Hates Balloons”. MeruMakai.
July 9
“The Curse of the Scottish Play”. Royal Shakespeare Company.
July 10
July 11
July 13
July 14
5 reasons to love bugs. Imagine Childhood.
July 15
“Traditional Knowledge to Fend Off Sharks”. Nature of Things.
July 16
Listen to “Harper and Will Go West”
July 17
Douglas Ridloff’s Tedx Talk “Deaf Poets Society”.
July 18
Heard, Georgia. Writing Toward Home: Tales and Lessons to Find Your Way. Heinemann, 1995.
July 19
July 20
July 21
hooks, bell. All About Love: New Visions. William Morrow, 2000.
July 22
July 23
“Polari: Mainstream Usage”. Wikipedia.org.
July 24
“Yucca brevifolia”. Wikipedia.org.
July 25
July 26
July 27
July 28
Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum’s Quadra IV
July 29
Supraja, Charumathi “The Woman Who Married a Peepal Tree”. Usawa Literary Review. May 6, 2022.
Haas, Benjamin. “Chinese man 'marries' robot he built himself”. The Guardian. April 4, 2017.
July 30
My poem “Trying” published by The Chestnut Review.
July 31
Kimmerer, Robin Wall. Braiding Sweetgrass. First edition. Milkweed Editions, 2013.
August 1
August 2
Gay, Ross. Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015.
Scroll down to read Ross Gay’s poem, “Feet.”
August 3
August 4
August 5
The Ten Commitments of Living Humanist Values
August 6
Smith, Danez. “broke n rice”. Poetry Foundation.
August 7
“Mimic Octopus: The Master of Disguise.” Animalogic.
August 8
Carney, Laura. My Father's List: How Living My Dad's Dreams Set Me Free. Post Hill Press, 2023.
August 9
“International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples 9 August”. United Nations.
August 10
“About Goalball: History”. ISBA Goalball.
August 11
Grant, Richard. “Do Trees Talk to Each Other?” Smithsonian Magazine. March 2018.
Mujica-Parodi, LR, et. al. Second-Hand Stress: Neurobiological Evidence for a Human Alarm Pheromone. Nature.com
August 12
August 13
Gibson, Andrea. “Chemo And Why I Still Have Eyebrows.” Substack. October 5, 2021.
August 14
August 15
I’m not crying, you’re crying!
August 16
Megan Falley interview with Marion Roach Smith
August 17
August 18
August 20
August 21
Chapman, Gary D. The Five Love Languages. Walker Large Print, 2010.
August 22
Jordan, A. Van. M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A. W. W. Norton & Company, 2005.
August 23
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. Harper & Row, 1990.
August 24
Karlsson, Per and Britt. “How Texas Saved The French Wine Industry”. Forbes, January 18, 2021.
August 25
Byatt, A.S. On Histories and Stories: Selected Essays. Harvard University Press, 2002.
August 26
August 27
“Frequency Illusion.” Psychology Today.
August 28
Veerakone, Rubina. “Do we only use 10 percent of our brain?” McGovern Institute. January 26, 2024.
Young, Emma. “Lifting the lid on the unconscious”. New Scientist. July 25, 2018.
August 29
Scieszka, Jon. The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs!. Illustrated by Lane Smith, Puffin Books, 1989.
August 30
August 31
“10 Questions for Van Morrison”. Time.com, February 26, 2009.
September 1
Wells, Anne Marie. “AITA? To One-Star, or Not To One-Star”. Substack, August 3, 2024.
September 2
September 3
September 4
“Broken-heart syndrome (takotsubo cardiomyopathy)”. Harvard Health Publishing, June 13, 2023.
September 5
September 6
Yang, Kevin. “How to Love Your Introvert.” Button Poetry.
September 7
Dukes, Hunter. “Lost Futures: A 19th-Century Vision of the Year 2000”. The Public Domain Review.
September 8
Smith, Betty. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Harper, 1947.
September 9
Shapiro, Dani. “On Doing What Scares You.” May 30, 2012.
September 10
Oliver, Mary. “The Summer Day.” Library of Congress.
September 11
September 12
Me with an Amélie haircut about to leave on a year-long student exchange
September 13
September 14
Wrona, Aleksandra. “Pope Leo XIV didn't once urge people to 'be woke'”. Snopes, May 12, 2025.
September 15
September 16
September 17
J, Talicha. “The Writer's Womps”. Substack, July 13, 2025.
September 18
“Yinka Shonibare.” Alain Elkann Interviews, July 7, 2024.
September 19
September 20
September 21
King, Stephen. The Shining. Book Club ed. Doubleday & Co, 1977.
The Shining, 1997 tv miniseries.
September 22
I would give you the link, but don’t want to ruin your life.
September 23
City Streets 2025 Summary Report
September 25
“A Boy Named Sue”. Wikipedia.org.
Silverstein, Shel. A Light in the Attic. Harper & Row, Publishers, 1981.
Silverstein, Shel. Where the Sidewalk Ends. HarperCollins Children's Books, 1978.
September 26
September 27
Lucas, Sarah. “Self Portrait with Fried Eggs.” National Galleries of Scotland, 1996.
September 28
“The Three Sisters”. National Parks Service, May 18, 2023.
September 29
McMasters, Kelly. “Why I Write My Own Obituary Every Year.” The New York Times, September 29, 2024.
September 30
October 1
Montgomery, L. M. Anne of Green Gables. L.C. Page & Co., 1908.
October 2
October 3
Stevens, Wallace. “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.” Poets.org.
Perez, Craig Santos. “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Glacier.” Poets.org.
Medina, Tony. “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Boy.”
Girol, Sophia. “Thirteen Ways of Looking at an Ex.” Penn State.
October 4
“Komorebi 木漏れ日” Chicago Botanic Garden.
October 5
Driver, George. “The Women Elevating Grillz To Fine Art”. ELLE Magazine. April 9, 2021.
October 6
Grennell, Amanda. “Spiders fly on the currents of Earth’s electric field”. PBS News. July 5, 2018.
October 7
“Yo-Yo Ma on ‘touching infinity’ through his nearly 300-year-old cello, Petunia”. NPR, May 29, 2024.
October 8
They said “Til Death Do Us Part”
And did it laughing the whole way.
October 9
October 10
October 11
Moose: Etymology. Wikipedia.org.
Ninja: Etymology. Wikipedia.org.
Wiggins, Jasmine. “How Was Ketchup Invented?”. National Geographic, April 21, 2014.
October 12
“Freethought Day”. Wikipedia.org.
October 13
“When Ranbir Kapoor stole Sanjay Dutt's perfume”. midday india.
October 14
October 15
October 16
October 17
Wilde, Oscar. An Ideal Husband. Project Gutenberg.
October 18
“Story Time with Wyoming Authors: Mommy, Why Am I a Bird by Anne Marie Wells”. Wyoming PBS.
October 19
October 20
Misra, Neha. “Notes For the New Administration.”
October 21
October 23
October 24
“The Musicality of Franz Liszt”. Cell Culture, October 2011.
October 25
Rubin, Rick, and Neil Strauss. The Creative Act: A Way of Being. Penguin Press, 2023.
October 26
“Eponym”. Merriam-Webster.com.
October 28
Dada Poem Generator from Offbeat Poet
October 29
“Reclaiming Language.” Equal Representation in Politics.
October 30
October 31
November 1
November 2
“an expression of love”. Smarthistory.
“Rock-a-bye, Baby”. Wikipedia.org.
November 3
Chingonyi, Kayo. “The last night of my 20s”. Poetry International, 2017.
“Roddy Lumsden”. Poetry Foundation.
November 4
Perel, Esther. Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence. Harper Perennial, 2007.
November 5
November 6
“'I've lived in the same house for 105 years'”. BBC, July 15, 2023.
November 7
November 8
Young, Kevin. “Ode to the Midwest.” Poetry Foundation.
November 9
“Rudolf Karel”. Wikipedia.org.
November 10
“Arthur Rimbaud”. Poetry Foundation.
November 11
November 12
November 13
Rumi, Jalaluddin. “The Guest House.” Translated by Coleman Barks. Scottish Poetry Library.
November 14
Cassiano, Suely. “Nude Butterfly.” FineArtAmerica.com.
November 15
November 16
Badra, Danielle. Dialogue With the Dead. Finishing Line Press, 2015.
Tyler Greene interview with Danielle Badra on This Is My Family podcast
November 17
November 18
Soldier, Layli Long. “Urning.” Poets.org.
November 19
November 20
“These Worms Turn Snails Into Disco Zombies”. Crazy Creatures.
November 21
November 22
November 23
“Fermi Paradox”. SETI Institute.
November 24
Diaz, Natalie. “Why I Hate Raisins.” Get Lit Anthology.
November 25
November 26
“Understanding Prosopagnosia”. Prosopagnosia Research Center.
November 27
“Trip wire”. Merriam-Webster.com.
November 28
November 29
“Texas startup sells plastic-eating fungi diapers to tackle landfill waste”. Reuters.
November 30
“Ms. Rachel on why advocating for children in Gaza is worth the career risk”. NPR, June 4, 2025.
December 1
Hardingham-Gill, Tamara. “The country where it’s still 2016”. CNN, June 16, 2024.
December 2
“Ophiuchus - The Forgotten 13th Star Sign: Traits and Meaning”. Centre of Excellence.
December 3
Schultz, Colin. “What Do Glaciers Say When They Sing?”. Smithsonian Magazine, November 12, 2014.
December 5
“What do we mean by "hygge"?” Denmark.dk.
December 6
Sánchez, Andrés. This Body. World Stage Press, 2021.
December 7
Gonia, Pattie. “Why joy is a serious way to take action.” TED, October 2024.
December 8
December 9
Harjo, Joy. “How to Write a Poem in a Time of War.” Poetry, September 2017.
December 10
Padua, Sydney. “Who Was Ada?”. FindingAda.com
December 11
Francis, Vievee. “How Delicious to Say It.” OnBeing.org
December 12
Mandino, Og. The Greatest Miracle in the World. Bantam, 1975.
December 13
My dad and grandma together forever
December 14
What’s your most neglected sense? Quiz
December 15
“How Do Hippos Sleep Underwater?” Discovery Channel UK.
December 16
Nkiruka, Chidube. “Just Maybe.”
December 17
December 18
December 19
“Ananse and the Pot of Wisdom”. Anike Foundation.
December 20
December 21
Smalls, Shakeema. “I know I been changed”. The Indianapolis Review.
December 22
December 23
December 24
December 25
December 26
December 27
Nakamura, Penny. “Thank you, Florin.” Jackson Hole News & Guide, May 10, 2023.
December 28
“John Legend”. Seventeen Magazine, November 2006.
December 29
December 31
Çelebi, Nurgül. AKITU: The Mesopotamian New Year. Syriac Press, March 29, 2025.
Kennedy, Lesley. “The Surprising History of March”. History.com. March 10, 2025.
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