Episode 11
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Hey!
I went to look for you.
Several times.
They said you moved too.
Still hoping you'd appear,
I went around the school area.
Went to your house.
Hung around the comic book store, too.
I know.
I heard.
Go Nam Soon,
let's quit here....
about that incident.
And let's go our ways.
It's hopeless.
It was doomed from the beginning. It was doomed from the beginning.
You and me...
being friends again...
You feel sorry as you see me and...
I... you being sorry...
I feel uncomfortable and I hate it.
Ah, the issues with the students, I'll leave these problems to you two teachers
Please tell me how you will handle it in the future.
Yes.
How much time do we have in order to tell you?
There is no rush, but...
it isn't a issue that will take long.
Then I will get off work.
Yes.
You mean to say, the incident from junior high school is going to be the problem?
Yes.
It's sure that Student President Go is the perpetrator and that Park Heung Soo is the victim.
And the rule about not letting the perpetrator and the victim go to the same school is very firm.
We can't just let it go.
Even if it isn't recorded on their middle school transcript?
Even though there is no record left over,
it's the fact that we know. That's the problem.
The fact that victim and suspect are in the same school is that...
the school knew and didn't prevent.
If that type of stuff gets out,
we will have a headache.
So, they are saying to get rid of one of them?
Yes.
Maybe it's something good,
because maybe it's hard for them to see each other everyday.
They have to keep seeing each other to make up.
Lucky kids.
Are you sure they're lucky?
It gives him an oppurtunity to apologize.
And an excuse to forgive him.
Then we have to stop it.
What should we do?
Well for now,
let's just think about it at home.
It has been a tiring day today.
Yeah, okay.
Let's go.
Yes.
What are you doing!
I'm in the middle of something. For example,
Wow, look at that.
Who is that?
No questions!
The goddess of humanity, the guardian angel of foreign languages!
My heart thinks of her! Grace Hong,
the online class teacher.
She's really pretty.
Hey.
Oh, hi.
Dark circles.
Looks like you did some studying.
I said I would, but why is it so busy.
I went to the shopping mall for a bit, and chatted on IM a bit,
went to get my eyebrows done, and it was already daybreak.
What are you going to do?
Your eyelids are uneven.
What!
It really is.
Hi, Min Ki!
You have nothing to say to me?
I don't.
Really? Nothing!
Does there have to be?
After the morning assembly,
I have to give an answer about whether I'll participate in the essay contest or not.
So what?
Hey, Song Ha Kyung!
It's not like I desperately need to be in the contest.
But...
But what?
Do you expect me to beg you to give up so I can go?
Even if you gave up, didn't you say I barely qualify?
Here you go.
Thank you very much.
Sit down. Yes.
You feel sorry.
Yes.
I understand the need to hurry for the kids.
That my studies are also lacking.
With the fear of my sincerity my strength falls.
What do you think the kids' sincerity is?
In order for my sincerity to pass,
you have to understand how to read what the kids' sincerity is as well.
As for kids, they all
can't control their temper, each moment it flares up.
They get so caught up with their overt emotions
that they don't know how to express their true feelings.
I guess I'm really bad at this.
It means your going towards the right path.
Because till now you've been exaggerating,
you ran into these obstacles.
Everytime you hit the wall, and turn around...
you can't be a teacher.
For the time being, you can look here and there.
You will see it in the water.
Finding the answer is what a teacher is.
Aish... It gets me frustrated.
Hey, saying it won't do any good.
Is it really being done for us kids?
Not becuase they don't have criteria to teach.
But you know teacher,
I messed up my test today.
In the adults' eyes, it must look easy.
And the children come after.
Aren't we going to class?
Teacher Kang.
Nam Soon and Heung Soo, what do we do about them?
Teacher Uhm will be asking about it soon.
For now,
we just avoid it.
Avoid Teacher Uhm.
What about the next time?
The next time we can...
we can think about something else.
Nam Soon and Heung Soo, how do we tell them?
No, no, we can't tell them now.
Right...
Hey, come out!
I'll go later.
I said "come out"!
The class bell has chimed already.
What did you do to Jung Ho?
I put you two together to reconcile.
Hey, Lee Yi Kyung!
You, get out!
You're acting real chummy lately.
I think I heard it wrong.
What did you just say now?
Stop ruining the whole atmosphere in the classroom.
Get out of school just like Oh Jung Ho or be quiet,
do one of those.
If Jung Ho is here, you can't even chirp.
Yeah. I couldn't even chirp.
But you guys are a bit different.
You are nothing without Oh Jung Ho, right?
I avoided all this time because you guys are dirty,
but now I can't avoid you guys anymore.
Please be quiet.
Seriously, this...
What are you guys doing?
Yi Kyung,
put the desk down.
Kyung Min, see me for a second after class.
I don't have any new announcements for you.
If Lee Yi Kyung comes in, tell him to see me for a second and...
Lee Kang Joo and Kim Min Ki, both of you, see me for a second.
You can't think otherwise. You will participate in the essay contest no matter what.
Hmm, have you guys decided yet?
I will do it.
Me too.
But...
Why are your faces like that if you two are doing it?
It's not like you're two cows getting sent to the butcher.
Okay. You can leave.
You are having a hard time, right?
Because of my class, you are stressed and...
the class is rather restless.
You have to tell me what is bothering you
for me to be able to help you at all.
Please raise the grades.
That will help me.
What can I do in order to improve it?
If you don't do anything.
Don't make things like new classes
and don't bring in Oh Jung Ho.
Don't take anyone's side either.
Don't ask about things like our dreams.
I can't help it even if you feel bad.
You know that I am rude.
Anything else? If you have any more to say, tell me.
I am like this because I am in a hurry.
Me being all whiny like this,
I don't feel good.
But I don't have time.
As for kids like Kim Min Ki, their mothers take care of everything.
Song Ha Kyung's household provides her with everything she wants like cram school and tutoring.
Because I have to do everything myself,
there's not enough time and everyone keeps talking...
And the teacher just keeps telling you to just read poems, right?
Thank you, Nam Kyung Min for telling me honestly.
Do you have anything else to say?
I'll think about how I can use your time wisely.
I said I don't want to do stuff like that.
I know what you meant.
Come to me any time if you have anything to say in the future.
You understand, right?
Okay, go.
On Campus Essay Contest?
Yes.
Why are you doing that...suddenly?
We have to select which students will go to the Campus Essay Contest.
Lee Kang Joo and Kim Min Ki said they would go already.
That's why I came up with this idea.
Don't you know that S University is the advisory organization for this contest?
Then I think we need to pick students who are S. University material.
Then you are saying you will send Song Ha Kyung instead of Lee Kang Joo.
Yes.
Well, I mean Song Ha Kyung does seem to be lacking some honors specs
so if we send her out to receive this award, then wouldn't that be perfect for her to go S. University?
If you were going to send Kim Min Ki and Song Ha Kyung in any case,
why are you even doing the contest?
In order to disqualify Lee Kang Joo,
we have to make sure nobody raises a question.
By chance, if that student participates in the contest,
you can give her like an Encouragement Award.
But this is very obvious.
What isn't obvious these days?
After all, we're just doing it to create special opportunities for the kids.
Specifically, Teacher Kang, that's your specialty.
I think you've taken on the school teacher role too much lately.
The reason why we brought you to the school
is because you're a lecturer.
But you hired me as a seasonal teacher.
Are you just going to sleep?
Why?
The math teacher wants you to collect the notes of the wrong answers.
Don't you feel sorry to me?
I am sorry.
Is that all?
Yes.
Do you know how long it's been since you've actually been in class?
Pretty long...
While you were not here, you know how much...
I know you had a hard time.
That's why I'm going to get the notes.
On Campus Essay Contest.
Wait a minute, how come this is already posted here...
Kang Joo,
I was going to tell you...
If you can't get 1st or 2nd place here,
you can't go to a top school right?
Ah... hmm... that...
You will send Kim Min Ki and Song Ha Kyung eventually, right?
Oh, that...
No. That's right.
Even if I get this award, I won't have any place to use it.
Kang Joo,
let's just talk for a second.
Teacher, I am a bit embarrassed now.
I will come find you later.
Okay then.
It is irritating.
Who posted the essay contest?
Huh?
I did.
Because the principal ordered me to do it,
I just changed the date from the first semester's.
Ah I see.
Hello.
Did you call me?
Oh Ji Hoon...
About going to the Vocational School...
it is a bit hard right now.
Sometimes they have open spots early in the third year.
You could send in an application then.
Yes.
It isn't impossible so...
don't ever be tardy or absent in the future.
Study a bit as well.
Teacher, about studying...
I really don't know a thing.
Everyone is like that.
I will let you know where to start.
Yes.
Hey! By the way, where is Lee Yi Kyung and what is he doing?
Bring him here.
If he doesn't show up by today,
there will be no mercy.
Yes.
I have to prepare for class....
Homeroom teachers of Class 2....
Yes.
Hey, Lee Kang Joo.
Hurry up and hand it in. You're the only one who didn't yet.
I will just give it to you tomorrow.
Hey!
You know how to cry, huh?
Don't mess with me.
It's not something you can hold off.
As you already know, one of them, Go Nam Soon and Park Heung Soo, needs to transfer.
Hey. come quickly.
Lee Kang Joo!
Good for you, Song Ha Kyung.
What is?
They said they're reselecting the Campus Essay Contest participants.
Through a school-wide contest.
But why is that good for me?
There's no guarantee that I'll be Number 1.
This is an opportunity opened just for you and Kim Min Ki.
Who said that?
Do we have to hear that? That is obvious.
Don't jump into conclusions.
I specifically asked Teacher Jung.
She couldn't answer.
Wow, Teacher Jung is a bit unbelievable.
She's eventually only sending the top kids
even though she's been advocating for kids who can't really study or whatever.
What a hypocrite!
The fact that it's not Teacher Kang, but Teacher Jung doing it
doesn't make me happy.
Teacher Jung was the most trustworthy of the teachers but...
it is a bit disappointing.
Seriously.
When deciding who goes to which high school, the bully and the victim are assigned to separate schools.
It's a rule that applies regardless of what the students themselves want.
I will go. I will transfer.
Instead, keep it as a secret from Heung Soo.
If you leave like this now, what will you do after this?
You said it's not something I can choose.
Thank you.
What are you doing?
Coincidence. Let's just say I sat in front of you coincidentally.
Heung Soo!
Let's just eat.
Just for this once.
Since a forced transfer will leave a bad record,
talk to your dad about it first and then we'll look into transferring you to a different school district.
Just send me anywhere.
Okay.
I'll need to notify the principal first, and then the principals of neighboring schools need to discuss it.
It will take a few days to assign you to a new school.
How long will it take?
It will take a whole week.
Go Nam Soon and Park Heung Soo, bring your backpacks and follow me.
Go Nam Soon, for some reason,
yours came out worse when you actually sat and took the exam rather than just filling in random answers.
Korean Literature:
When you were guessing, you got a 17, but when you actually tried, you got a 9.
Hence, Go Nam Soon is in rank 8.
And next...Park Heung Soo...
Whoa, you did pretty well.
Rank 7.
Hey, Go Nam Soon. You think there's little difference between 7 and 8, right?
You're truly in rank 8,
whereas Park Heung Soo could be in rank 6 if he had gotten one more answer right in each area.
Then Heung Soo can go to college?
Not a chance. Both of you.
Anyways, forgetting about grades for now.
Out of 160 questions, Go Nam Soon got 18 questions right and
Park Heung Soo got 48 right.
What will you do for the questions you missed?
How about transcribing?
You guys are strong, right?
Go Nam Soon missed 142 questions so 142 sheets.
As for Park Heung Soo, 112 sheets.
Front and back, all filled up.
If your handwriting is bigger than Teacher Jung's pinky finger, that paper doesn't count.
Can't I just move the desks?
What are we writing?
Get out the Literature 2 textbook,
open a random page, and just blindly copy it.
Got it?
Are you here for the essay contest?
Min Ki?
I... teacher, about the essays I handed in...
The letters are too big.
This one doesn't count.
Should I let you know a way to get out of this?
Every point you get, I'll take off a page.
I'll let you take off 2 pages.
2 pages more.
Park Heung Soo, I'll take off 2 pages.
If you guys are playing like this, you'll be transcribing all night.
Toughen up a little.
Study like this.
But anyhow, Park Heung Soo,
what are you going to do when Go Nam Soon transfers?
You have so many more pages to transcribe so I guess you have to do all of them by yourself.
Ahh... seriously!
Settle things on your own.
You came pretty early...
Lee Yi Kyung
What were you doing in the morning in the classroom?
Just..
I was pissed off so...
Would you do that if I pissed you off?
No, it's not like that.
Then what?
Since she was a girl and seemed easy, you thought you'd use a bit of force, is that it?
Like a loser? Since she was a girl and seemed easy, you thought you'd use a bit of force, is that it?
Like a loser?
No, that brat...
Not 'brat'.
Her name is Nam Kyung Min.
To be honest the kids are too much.
Although Jung Ho did wrong, too, but
when he's here they can't even say a word
and when he's not at school they talk bad
pestering me and Ji Hoon...
They talk bad about him because he's bad to them.
They pester you guys because you guys are like that.
You still can't realize that?
But still, Jung Ho has his reasons.
Honestly, you don't know how Jung Ho lives.
What kind of guy he is.
You're talking like that without knowing what he does.
Jung Ho, if you get to know him, he's a good person.
He's really pitiful...
Anyways, no matter the reason,
fighting in school is not allowed.
Understand?
Yes.
You may go.
Transfer?
Nothing is beneath you, huh?
Since you're going, your heart must be at ease.
Are you happy?
No.
I'm really annoyed by it.
You haven't gone yet...
I should leave.
Do you have Oh Jung Ho's cell phone?
I'm thinking of just giving it to him.
Giving it to him?
Say you go...
you're going to gently persuade Oh Jung Ho to come back to school?
Even though the other kids are going insane because of him right now?
No.
I'm going to give him an ultimatum.
He probably doesn't know what to do, just hoping things will turn out well.
I feel like I should tell him how the situation is so he can fully understand.
I'll be going now.
Hey, President Go. Are you going home?
Yeah.
Aren't you hungry?
No.
Well, I'm hungry...
Let's eat something.
I don't have money.
I'm just embarrassed to eat alone that's why.
I'll buy.
I'm not in that mood.
Ah, you were calm for a while, why are you doing this again?
Let's eat! Eat.
Eat this all?
I prepared this for you.
Eat a lot.
It's your transfer present.
How did you know?
Just tell Park Heung Soo to go.
Say that again.
Ok, I get it.
Eat it. Ahhhhh.
I want this one.
Ahhh!
No one must be home.
Yeah.
How come this guy is never home?
Ah man,
I had no idea you'd be here.
What?
What happened?
The hyungs said to never come near here again.
Just because they say to not, do you really not, you punk?
What is that?
Whose motorcycle is that?
Hey!
Hyung-nim gave it to me, why?
Hey,
didn't you and I split up?
What's with the concern?
Exactly, so what did you do that they let you come here again and even gave you this motorcycle?!
It's not what I did. It's what I'm going to do, got a problem?
Do what?
Just stuff.
Run errands,
do stuff for them.
Hey.
It's probably some serious stuff, right?
If you stick with them, you'll seriously become a gang member!
Well this road is obvious for a guy like me.
I might as well earn money too.
Let's go.
Hey. Where did you just place your hand?
I said let's go!
What are you doing?
Let's go. Hey!
I really don't wanna hit you guys today, 'cause it's bothersome.
No.
It looks like you have to get hit today.
This little punk, after letting him off the hook for a bit...
Take this!
Hey Oh Jung Ho!
You guys should be the ones to wake up, you motherf****rs.
Hey Lee Ji Hoon,
you think if you focus and study hard, you're actually going to become something right?
Don't kid yourself.
You'll end up as a factory worker after graduating from vocational school.
Do you even have money to go to vocational school?
What are you going to do?
Your mom washes dishes and your dad is sick in bed, who'd pay for your school?
You son of a b***h!
What scum!
There are words you can say and words you shouldn't say.
Okay.
Go.
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What do you expect?
From our dear Oh Jung Ho.
To be honest, half-half...
I kind of want Jung Ho to come back to school...
but I also kind of want him not to.
What about you, Teacher Kang?
I just came and followed you.
You said you didn't teach in school for long.
I feel like you understand the kids well, especially kids like Jung Ho.
I used to chase after problem kids to get them to settle down in school.
I spent quite some time doing that.
So, did you get some of them to settle down?
If I thought I had a grip on them, they would get up and leave again.
And just to catch the kids who ran away,
then everyone else ran away, too.
So what happened?
Obviously,
I fell.
And then after that?
I just didn't bother getting up.
That's why I quit being a teacher.
To quit...
what is it like?
Jung Ho's father!
Do you think Jung Ho is in there?!
Get out of the way.
What are you doing right now?
Oh!
Jung Ho!
Jung Ho, inside your...
Leave it, he's always like this.
No, don't go in now.
If I let him hit me a few times, he calms down.
Nothing serious is going to happen.
Hey, Oh Jung Ho.
Come to school.
I don't want to.
Why do you hate school?
It's not that I hate school,
from the beginning school hated me.
No, you're wrong Jung Ho.
It isn't that school hates you.
It's that school wanted you to change.
Same thing.
Think about it carefully.
Your life, going in there and getting hit.
Or continue to stand out side in this cold weather. Just one of the two.
If you come to school, there could be another choice.
I don't care.
Hey, Oh Jung Ho.
Getting hit is not that hard, huh?
Right?
Your other siblings have run away and are living in the pits.
You're scared.
That you'll hit your own kids like that someday.
But what can you do?
In the end you'll end up like that.
Did your mother run away?
Because she couldn't stand being hit over and over again?
Hit me.
I won't hit you back.
I won't make a fuss about it, either.
Try to hit me.
You can't hit me, right?
That's the proof that you want to go to school.
If I were just a neighbor, you would've hit me.
But you couldn't hit me because I'm your teacher.
Come in tomorrow.
Or else you're gonna be kicked out Jung Ho.
Where did I put my keys?
My son's gonna be late.
Mom.
Yes?
I didn't do the essay contest.
I can admit you in today.
That's not it.
I told Teacher Jung everything.
What?
That I didn't write any of the essays I handed in so far.
And also,
that I found out the theme for this year's essay contest
and have been practicing accordingly to write my essay there.
Oh really?
I'll call for a taxi. Just ride it today, alright?
Here.
Ah what to do? All the ones I guessed in English is wrong.
What's this? I don't remember taking it.
Ahh seriously, Oh Jung Ho.
Dang, if it weren't for Oh Jung Ho, I'd be 28th!
This is all Oh Jung Ho's fault.
Ok. Quiet.
Yi Kyung sit down.
In the time you worry about grades you have already received,
let's solve one more problem.
Go Nam Soon.
You must really hate it.
Transcribing by yourself.
Hey Heung Soo,
Have you ever seen
a perpetrator and a victim playing basketball together?
Agreement to the consequence (transfer/expulsion) of violence in school
You haven't changed your mind have you?
No.
Then,
study this.
What?
Come back later.
Teacher.
Go Nam Soon...
has no reason to transfer.
I'm not a victim.
And Go Nam Soon isn't a perpetrator.
Then what?
We're just...
We're just friends.
Just very unlucky.
And now,
we're in the middle of making up.
Go Nam Soon do you agree?
So,
You're saying in here there isn't a victim or a perpetrator, right?
You may leave.
Thank you.
This isn't for free.
There's one condition.
You do all my transcribing.
You were very surprised because of our Min Ki, weren't you?
Yes.
That was all a lie. He just doesn't want to enter the competition.
Ah yes...
You're not going to accept a child's words and not let him into the contest, right?
Min Ki's mother, besides not writing the essays...
I said that wasn't the case.
I was more concerned that Min Ki didn't want to enter the essay contest.
Min Ki seems to want to study Communication Studies rather than Business in college. Did you know?
Don't inflate his dreams.
He's still a little kid. What could he possibly know?
The specs we've accumulated in accordance to college,
are you going to take responsibility if he doesn't get into college in the midst of changing his plans?
Our Min Ki is definitely going out into the essay contest so
please know that and I request you take care of everything.
I will talk to Min Ki about it first.
What is the problem now? Without even contacting first...
Coming here abruptly like this isn't right.
I came here to make a decision.
Ha Kyung's mom should be here soon too.
The grades for the assessment test fell.
I feel that we need to make a careful decision before appealing to the Ministry of Education.
Instead, I have a new proposal for you.
I'm so irritated! If I had only heard the English listening section, my grade could've been higher!
This is all because of Oh Jung Ho...
Anyways, it's better this way, because Oh Jung Ho finally got cut as a result.
Well,
is he kicked out for good? Man, how could I have missed this big news?
I bet if he doesn't come out today, he'll get cut for sure.
Hey Nam Kyung Min. Are you stupid?
Teacher Jung probably took care of the situation. Do you honestly think she would just let him leave?
Does that even make sense? Things became this chaotic.
If the teacher brings Oh Jung Ho back here,
I'm seriously going to leave school.
Because this is just the same as Teacher Jung throwing us away.
She doesn't even see us as victims
and she just cares about Oh Jung Ho...
That's right! It's a complete betrayal.
Me too! I see it that way, too.
But, can we really trust her?
She's too weak, and the thing about the essay contest... something's up in my opinion.
It's probably not that.
We really don't like him and if she brings him back, then we have to accept the fact that she doesn't want to be our teacher anymore.
Can't sleep after sleeping all day.
Geez!
That's why I said to just leave!
There should be someone to hang out with if I leave!
Exactly! So go play with Hyang Sook!
You've got to get reliable info.
Teachers!
Everyone, please come here.
Teacher Jo, you too.
Please come quickly.
There's something we need to take care of.
There's only 5 minutes left in our free period so this would be pointless.
The principal said this was an emergency!
The teachers of Class 2...
I will split both teachers up.
Split up?
Achievement only brings them into a deeper confusion.
And the parents are too anxious. Achievement only brings them into a deeper confusion.
And the parents are too anxious.
There's no reason to have two teachers
is what the principal said.
So out of the two, who will...
It's been decided that it will be Teacher Kang.
And to Teacher Jung,
you just have to do homeroom duties.
Isn't this too much a change for the kids?
Also to Teacher Jung...
Anyways, please inform the class right away.
Now is Teacher Kang's class time, right?
Both of you please go and settle things in your class.
What if they object?
What will you do if the kids object?
Well, if the majority of the class objects...
Then I will discuss that with the principal.
Well Class 2 doesn't really like me so...
In any case,
in the case that the students' opinions differ from that of the school's,
I would ask that you reconsider this decision.
Wait a minute.
Are you just going to stay still like this?
Why is my Min Ki out here like this? Hurry up and go inside.
Mom,
I don't want to go to law school.
You have a lot of stress, huh, my Min Ki?
I...
want to be a PD at a broadcasting company.
Yeah.
You can still be a PD if you come out of that college.
First of all, its your priority to get into law school.
Then it still won't be late to take the broadcasting exam.
That is not it.
What I want to study in college is that.
I got it.
Then, first go and participate in the essay contest.
Then you and I will talk again later.
Our Min Ki, you must become a judge no matter what happens.
Let's try our best.
We have an announcement.
Why did Oh Jung Ho come again?
Let's talk about it again later.
What are you looking at?
I came because the teacher told me to, got a problem?
The teacher...?
When is this going to change?
They even came to my house...
ask them yourselves if you want.
Really? Really? Really?
Guys, be quiet.
Starting from tomorrow, Teacher Jung...
will quit being as a Class 2 homeroom teacher.
I will be the only one.
Really?
Did Teacher Jung get fired?
Did you really?
However,
this is just the school's idea, and
this is when your opinions are the most important.
If you guys don't want it,
we can continue being homeroom teachers together.
Teacher Jung can do it alone as well.
So...
Isn't there anyone...
who objects to this problem?
I got it.
All this time, I really...
I object.
Me too.
I also can't (accept it).
Okay.
Thank you.
What about Literature 1?
That won't be changed?
Everyone go self-study.
Teacher Jung, just endure for a second, okay?
Kids are like this because Oh Jung Ho came.
That's why just for a second...
Just for a second what?
A teacher kids reject... that teacher doesn't have any rights.
I should have known earlier...
You can't leave it like this.
It's not that the kids rejected you,
it's that a ruined world rejected you.
We aren't fighting with the kids,
but we are fighting with the wrong system.
Whether it is the kids or the world,
I can't do it anymore.
No.
I don't want to do it.
Why on earth do you want to hold on to me?
You are 10 times, 100 times more famous a teacher than I am, right?
Because you are...
the teacher whom I want to become.
You are...
the teacher, no matter how hard I tried,
that I never got to become.
Because you're that exact teacher.
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