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Goldwinger Fuzzy Wuzzy     VA, USA
1369 Posts
I have an idea for a new thread. I can't post the first story because I have to go to bed (gotta work... )
Anyway this thread is for stories about how your <u>Lone Glider</u> met his/her friend. <b>Now in this thread you are your lone glider.</b> Tell the story about when they met their friend, how it felt being alone and getting a friend. You be the glider. Make it fun, sad, funny/comical, whatever pops into your head. I know we have lots of people who began with only one glider and then they got a friend. And I know you were there when they first met their friend. How did it make you feel. That's probably how your glider felt. Use feelings, actions, whatever you thought your glider was thinking, what you were doing and where did you meet. Just remember you are your LONE GLIDER.
I think we could book mark this as another tool to inspire people to get their friend a buddy. I hope to come on here tomorrow after work and see a ton of threads. This could be very educational.
Edited to ADD: this is not limited to one story. If you've more than one to tell because you did this multiple times, feel free. I'm just super excited about this thread.
Goldwinger Fuzzy Wuzzy VA, USA 1369 Posts Well my mate died two years ago and I've been alone since. My mom does not pay any attention to me and now she's telling me I'm going away. She is taking me on a road trip and giving me to someone else. I'm really scared but maybe these new people will have a friend for me. Okay I guess we're here. I'm just going to hide in the bottom of my pouch because these people might think I'm ugly. I'm fat and I'm bald. I'm so lonely all I do is eat and groom all the hair off my head and legs. They probably won't love me and they'll give me away too. How far do these people live anyway!!!! <center> .JPG)
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</center> Okay so they've seen me and didn't puke so I guess it's okay. They took away my bird food and they're feeding me really good stuff. Fruits, veggies, alot of protein and my absolute favorite, you got it, MEALIES. I can hear other gliders barking at night too. Maybe I'll get to meet them one day. Well the Vet said I'm okay and then they put me to sleep and I think they did something to my private places. I feel pretty good though. These new people sure are really nice to me. They feed me good, take me to the Vets and even take me into this little dark room or this very big room that's white to play with me. Well, we went back to the Vet's today and I heard the Vet tell my new parents that I was good to go. All healed up and germ free. I wonder what all that means. It seems to be very important though. Well I'm tired so I think I'll take a nap. Time to eat, Time to eat. Boy I'm starving. Okay I'm ready to eat. Hey, wait where are we going. I'm am just starving here you guys. They aren't listening to me. Hey what is this, it's play time. You usually let me eat before play time. Oh you got treats, I see. Wait; what is this, what is this. There are other gliders in here. Hey you, yeah you...come over here. No, well okay. I'm just gonna run in this spinning thing. Oh sorry I mean walk really slow....HaHa. Oh, Oh, here one comes. I'm so scared, I can't do this. OMG....she's sniffing me. I hope I don't stink. Oh, Oh she's grabbing my head. What's she doing....OMG. Aaawwww she's rubbing her head in my chest. That means she wants me, she really wants me. I can be her man. Okay I guess I'll answer back. Time to rub my head in her chest. Yahoo....She likes me, she likes me. <center> 
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</center> Thank you Mom for giving me away to this wonderful family. They said I'm in my forever home so I guess this is my NEW mommy and daddy. Thank you for not being selfish and doing the right thing by me. Take care. kyro298 Glider Sprinkles  CO, USA 15262 Posts Just want to add my disclaimer...now that I finished it and came back to the top of the page, I'll apologize in advance for the length and thanks for the good cry before I leave to go work!!!! I'll never forget the day my life finally started. I'm not positive how old I even was since every day was the same. I lived in a really dark and really scary room. There were a lot of noises and smells around me though...sometimes other big animals would stare at me through my cage or bark at me. I just hid in my pouch hoping they'd go away. Occasionally, someone would refill my food and if they remembered, my water too. It was really slimy but when you're really thirsty, it doesn't matter. The hard food they gave me made my mouth so dry I really needed a drink sometimes. I was pretty sad. Were there more like me out there somewhere? I used to sit at the bottom of my cage and wonder what's outside of this big, dark room. Usually, I just hid in my smelly oven mitt because the floor of my cage was too dirty and it got me all dirty. That wasn't fun to groom off. I wish I'd had something softer and cozier to sleep in too. *sigh* One day, the light flipped on and sudddenly I was bouncing all over the place! What the..?! We went up a flight of stairs and it was REALLY bright and lots of noises. Someone took me out by my oven mitt and started staring at me. All I could see were eyes and hear talking. I have no idea what happened but within minutes, I was outside and being driven away. I closed my eyes tight, balled up as tight as possible and tried to sleep. I heard a voice saying things but otherwise, it was pretty quiet. We finally stopped and I got bounced around a little more and then they set me down. I pretended I was asleep. They opened up my mitt and just stared at me for a long time. They started to reach for me and I buried my head to my belly and curled up really tight. I felt her touch my head. I looked up a little and she rubbed under my ear. It kinda felt good so I let her for a minute and then tucked my head back down and went to sleep. When I came out, my cage was really clean, there were bright colored things all around. Some looked really soft and cozy too but they were hanging higher and I couldn't climb. :( (Eventually, they were moved down so I could get in them and they were AWESOME!!!) I had a full, clean water bowl and some delicious smelling food! I couldn't resist it-I ran right over and started eating it ALL! Wow! I ate, drank, ate, drank... I finally noticed that I was somewhere new. It was quiet but I could see. This room had windows! The door of the room opened and there she was again. I ran back into my mitt and she took me out-mitt and all. She reached in to pet me again and I let her. I think I like it here. I felt like things were about to change. 
After some time, I was put next to another cage. That night when I came out, I was eye to eye with the prettiest girl I had ever seen!!!! She chattered at me. Me!? Me!! She was talking to me! I knew there had to be more of my kind and my dream came true! We talked all the time...for hours and hours. I wanted to be with her so badly. In the background, I could see she wasn't alone. She told me her name was Skitzi and her sister was Kiki. We'd even try to reach each other through the bars. She told me she'd find a way for us to get together. She was right. One night the lady came and took me out-pouch and all and set me on the floor. She took me out this time and set me on the floor. I saw something out of the corner of my eye so I stood REALLY still. Before I knew it, I was practically tackled and Skitzi was chattering away at me so fast and so loud, I didn't have time to react! She jumped on me, grabbed me by the ears and looked me right in the face. She lifted my head and rubbed her head all over my chest. What a weirdo! LOL I just sat perfectly still. I wanted to make sure she liked me. She scared me a little, I admit it! This went on for a good hour. She told me she was so excited she couldn't help it and didn't mean to scare me. I didn't care. I was no longer scared. 
That night, we went back into our own cages and all we did was stare at each other through the bars. She said we'd be together again because she and Kiki came out every night. The next night I got a little braver and ran to the other side of the room. She followed and sat on me a lot! 
She said it was because she couldn't get close enough to me and I was cuddly. Our cage doors stayed open that night and we checked each other's out. It actually depressed me comparing mine to theirs so I don't want to explain it all. I just didn't want to leave theirs...plus, it smelled like her everywhere! Soon enough, I moved in and was instantly at home. She was a little bossy. She didn't want me to go eat without her and when it was time to sleep, she nagged me until I stayed with her. I secretly didn't mind though. I THINK I LOVE HER. Kiki was kind of snobby and didn't talk to me a lot. I'd never felt so happy in my life. I knew I never had reason to be scared again. Life was so good. 
A few months later, I woke up not feeling well one morning so I went and slept in another pouch for a while so I didn't disturb the girls. I just knew something felt wrong. I made it out of the pouch and went into the wheel. It took all my energy and I couldn't move anymore. I was SO tired. The lady came to check on us and I was too tired to even look at her. Opening my eyes was so hard. She took the whole wheel out of the cage, took it apart and took me out. She sounded really scared and I heard her cry a little. I fell right back to sleep. When I woke up, there were bright lights and people poking at me. I just was too weak to fight any of it. All I wanted was to find Skitzi, snuggle up and sleep. They finally gave me back to my lady after a long time. She took me home and stared at me for a long, long time. She petted me for hours and kept me close at her chest. She never stopped looking at me or touching me. I REALLY wanted Skitzi though. I was starting to feel a little scared but she never let me be alone for one minute that night. I was warm and I felt safe. It was finally too much to take and I needed to let myself sleep. I started daydreaming about Skitzi and my new life. I still don't know what I did do get so lucky. I knew I was about to close my eyes forever. I hope Skitzi won't be too sad or miss me too much...but I knew I just could not stay awake anymore. I fell asleep without thinking of where I came from but dreaming of Skitzi and in the distance, I saw a beautiful rainbow bridge... Mollysmom Goofy Gorillatoes MI, USA 2011 Posts <b>Hercules' Story:</b> 
I'm all alone, living in a bird cage. This lady who is taking care of me tries, but has a lot of issues of her own. At least she sometimes takes me to work with her in a bonding pouch. At least she lets me out on most nights, even if it's to run around amongst a couple of little dogs that scare me, and a constant stream of teenagers acting weird and playing really loud music going in and out of her house. It's not easy to breath in this house, because there's always lots of smoke around here. When my cage gets stinky, they spray me and the cage with the spray can stuff...I don't know what it is, but I think she thinks it makes me smell better. It makes it even harder for me to breathe, and it irritates my skin. I can't stand that she's sprayed me and the cage with this smelly stuff, and I rub, rub, rub my head all over my cage to try to make that smelly stuff go away. The top of my head is really sore, but I can't help myself. This is a crazy scene that is driving me insane! I'm scared to death all the time. I can't stop myself from pulling out the hair on my tail and rubbing my head on stuff 'til it bleeds. I know I'm stinky. It makes me feel awful. I am really sad. I don't want to go out of this smelly pouch much anymore, because I am super scared of those little dogs and all of those people acting weird all the time. There's not much good food for me to eat, and not much for me to do in this little cage, so why bother coming out? One night, I hear voices. There's a guy's voice...sounds like another one of those scary strangers. He's asking about me. Me??? Why would he ask about me? The lady takes my pouch out of the cage and shows me to this scary looking guy. He has kind eyes, though, and he smiles at me. He tells the lady that his mom has nine sugar gliders...hey, that's what I am!!! He seems very friendly, not freaked out by me. I am so excited, I do something I never do!!! I jump right out of that pouch, and onto his shoulder. This guy has been around OTHERS like me before!!! Oh my gosh!!! Maybe he will take me to where there are others like me to play? I am so scared and lonely. The guy looks worried when he looks at me. "What are you feeding him?" he asks the lady. "Oh, we usually just give him a little baby food, a few pellets, and sometimes some pieces of fruit," she says. This guy says,"You know, gliders can die of depression from being alone like this." He looks worried about me. "My mom's gliders get all kinds of food, too. They need a lot of different things. They are not easy animals to take care of." I stay on this guy's shoulder all night long. I can tell he cares about me, even though he is one of the many strangers in our house. Days and days go by. I hear that guy's voice again, asking about me. Man, he is one scary looking dude! I can't believe someone like him would care about me...look at him--that messed up long hair, all wearing black. He's talking with the lady about ME again! "You aren't able to take good care of him. He's lonely. Please, call my mom and let her take him in! He'll have a great home with her." I hear the lady saying, "I don't know!" and crying. Her daughter is about the same age as the guy, I think. She's telling her mom that they really need to "just do it". What's going on? The lady says, "You're right. Do it right now, before we change our minds." I hear the scary guy's voice again: "Mom, can you take in another glider? You've got to come right away and get him. No, it can't wait. Come right now." Wait a minute!!! What the heck is going on? I hear the doorbell ring, and foot steps coming toward me. I hear, "Here he is" and I feel my cage being lifted up. I feel my pouch being taken out of the cage. I am terrified. Another stranger!!! She has the same look of friendliness in her eyes as that scary stranger guy. "Hi, Hercules!" she says. I am too scared, so I just peek out. "He'll have lots of friends to play with," she says to the lady. She picks up my cage, and belts it into the backseat of her car. Where is she taking me? What friends was she talking about? I here the lady talking to into a little box next to her ear. She's crying and talking quietly. "He's so sad. He smells so bad, and has a big sore on top of his head!" I inch out of my pouch to try to figure out what's going on. In a few minutes, were moving back out of the car. Only this time, she takes me out of my stinky, dirty cage, puts me into a cozy, clean pouch, and carries me inside. She looks me in the eyes and says, "You're getting a mansion! You don't ever have to live in that icky little cage again!" and she smiles at me. "Geez!!! That poor little guy! He's been in that little cage? Oh my gosh, look at his tail! He looks like he's got a rat's tail!" Another stranger. She has the same look of concern and friendliness in her eyes as the scary guy and his mom, but she's younger looking. The next thing I know, my new "mom" is lifting me into a big, new...is this a cage??? Wow, this IS a mansion! There are so many things to look at, touch, and pee on, I don't know where to start! Is this all for me? I am so excited, I forget that I was scared. I am chirping like a crazy glider, climbing all over the place. This cage is just about as tall as my new mom. My new mom and these girls with her are crying. Why are they crying? I am happy as can be! I can see other gliders coming out in their cages, trying to see what all the commotion is. I think, "I've died and gone to heaven! There are others like me here!!!" Now, I know I've gone to Heaven! The new mom is putting a big platter in front of me with all kinds of tasty stuff on it that I've never had before! "Oh, YUM-YUM-YUM-YUM-YUM!" I think...and I guess I must have been thinking out loud, because now my new mom and those girls and a new stranger-man with a friendly face are smiling and chuckling, watching me. "He looks so bad! I hope we can still help him!" says my new mom. "He's gonna do great, just give it time," says that friendly looking stranger man. A few days go by. My new mom takes me to someone she calls Dr. Maceri. Dr. Maceri checks me out from head to toe. She gives my mom something to rub on that sore spot on my head that feels sooooooooooo good! A week later, we go back to the doc again. "Wow! He's already looking so much better!" says Dr. Maceri. More days go by. I feel better every day! It is such a wonderful thing to have other gliders near me, even if we're not in the same cage. The new mom takes me out every night to play in a fun little room where I can climb and glide, and feel really happy and safe. I know that the other gliders have been here, too, because I can SMELL them!!! I hope one day my new mom will let me play with them. I can hardly wait! I go back to the doc again. "He's ready to have it done! I can do it on Tuesday," says the doc. Do what? We go back on another day, and the doc gives me something to make me go to sleep. I wake up, and don't like what they've done to me. I want to pick at it, like I have done to my head and tail before! So, I do! This makes me have to go back to see the doc in the morning, when my new mom sees what I've done! Urgh! I have to go back to sleep again. I wake up, and look ridiculous! I have on this pitiful bandage that looks like...a DIAPER! 
My new mom is up all night, every night with me for a couple of days. I hate that the doc has told her that I need to stay in this little cage for a few days...I want my mansion back! After about a week, the doc sees me again, and thinks I'm all healed up and okay. She says I can go back to my big cage! Best of all, she can start introducing me to Buddy!!! Woo-hoo! Buddy and I hit it right off! I can't wait to meet everyone else in Buddy's family!!! All those pretty girls...what A LUCKY GUY! Especially that one that they call "Molly". Molly is one hot little tamale, in my book!!! I can't believe it, but she lets me know that she thinks I am pretty awesome, too. Pretty soon, all of us are playing in the fun room with my new mom together every night. We can't stand to be apart anymore. When playtime's over one night, everyone says to me, "Hey, Herc! Just stay here with us! Come live with us! We love you!" I am so happy, I can't believe my life has come to this point. We all live together in this cage that is like TWO of mine, and we are inseparable...all six of us. And you just try to separate us--I'll give ya what for!  tisha Goofy Gorillatoes OK, USA 2081 Posts Hi guys!! My name is Jersey. I'm a pretty little one and a half year old sugar glider. Atleast, I think that's how old I am!! I used to live in a tiny apartment with two adult humans, two very scary loud children, and two equally loud yippee pomeranians. I was all alone and got very sad. I did start to pull out the hair on my nose and tail. I mean, what would you do if you lived in a 2 foot by 2 foot cage all by yourself? I was scared, and lonely....Until one day, a nice girl came and took me away! I was kind of scared still and didn't know what was happening. I went to a new home and I could smell other gliders, but I had to spend 30 more days by myself until the vet was sure I was healthy. Over those 30 days I became really bonded with my new human. I had a bigger cage, and she would PLAY with me!! After 30 days I got to meet her other 2 sugar gliders. They were brothers who were a year older than me. They did NOT like me though! I was sad, because I wanted to be their friend! My new human felt really bad for me because she new I needed a friend! Even though I stopped pulling my hair out, she understood that I wanted a play mate for after she went to bed. So one day, I smelled ANOTHER glider in the house! I had to wait ANOTHER 30 days until I got to meet her. Apparently, she was all alone and sad too!! The night we met we became instant BFF's. All my hair grew back and I am finally so happy!! Here is a picture of the night I got to meet my friend. Her name is Panda! <center> 
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sugar-mommy2 Super Glider IN, USA 279 Posts Hello my name is Smokey and I was once a very lonely glider. I was sold to a teenaged boy when I was about 6 weeks oop. He knew nothing about sugar gliders except that I was very cute. I was only fed bread, apples and pellets with gatorade to drink. I slept in a sock with my heat rock. I was so scared without my mommy that all I would do is crab, bite and tried to get away from human hands. When my cuteness wore off I was just left in my cage, until my humans girlfriend came to visit. She would take me out to play and hold and cuddle with me. I fell in love with her and was so sad when she went home. After ten months my human decided that he wanted to sale me on craigslist by this time I knew that the girlfriend loved me but had unfortunately broken up with him. She talked him into giving me to her. I was praying that he would say yes and he did. I went to live with my new mommy and she did alot of research on how to take care of me. Mommy put me on a very good diet of fruits and veggies and some delicious stuff called BML. My mommy took me to see a vet and have some test done and then I had a little surgery so that I could not become a daddy. I was feeling fine after about two days. Mommy also learned that I needed to have a friend of my own kind, so the search was on. She found me a beautiful girl glider, but I did not know she was beautiful at first because I had to wait for 30 days to see her, but I knew she was downstairs. When I finally got to meet her boy was I scared of her. She was all over me rubbing on me and grooming me and pulling my fur. I tried to run but she caught me and so I decided that she was not going to hurt me and that maybe she just wanted to love me like my mommy does. My new friend's name is Liah and though I was happy to be in my new home with my new mommy who takes such good care of me, I am so happy to have Liah to play with and to suggle with during the day. filly47 Goofy Gorillatoes USA 2330 Posts My mommy just read me some of your other guys’ stories. (I’m starting to learn my abcs, but not quite there yet! So my mom is helping me with this letter!) I want to say that if I had known you all I would have given you a big suggie hug! I was asking mom why she was crying, and so she explained to me that not all gliders were loved. I didn’t get it, my mommy always loved me, but when she told me about some of your stories I started to cry to! And then I crabbed at those mean old scary people who mistreated you all! Mom said that one of you was trying to convince your mommy and daddy to let you get your buddy a friend and that I should share my story. Its not as exciting as some of yours, but mom says that’s okay! Here goes! It was the beginning of March when I first got to see my mommy. I didn’t know who she was at the time, because I only knew my other mommy and daddy and my smelly little brother! My mom’s human put us in the pouch and drove us to a weird parking spot, and that’s when this strange red headed woman came into the car! (Mommy just gave me a glare for calling her strange! Tehe!) She peered down at us and I instantly started crawling all over her sniffing her! She smelled so weird! There were so many other animals on her! I had to sniff them all! Much to her delight because she giggled as I hid in her hair! This woman handed her a check and they exchanged a few more words. My soon to be mommy gave me a big ol’ kiss and told me she would see me in a few more weeks, once I was weaned, but I didn’t know what that meant, and I wanted to play more with her! So I waited another month, I guess weaning means that I am eating the big glider food like mom and dad! It was cool out and mom’s human wrapped her and I in a pouch and told me to say goodbye to dad and my baby brother. I was sad to leave them but excited to meet the woman again! It was very late at night, and I was fidgety, so when I was let out in mom’s human car I ran all over the other human until finally I tuckered out and this girl picked me up and put me into a comfortable pouch. There was a bit of a ride home and I discovred a massive cage decked out with toys and branches and pouches………and food! You can ask my mommy, I love food! We had an awesome time over the next few months! She would take me out all day and pet me and feed me honey or yogurt from her fingertips! She also would give me juicy mealies, and she said she didn’t mind feeding them, they weren’t gross for her! She also explained all the smells she came home with were from the zoo she worked at, and that she had to leave me some days to go take care of these animals. I knew that if she loved them half as much as she loved me, then they would be very happy. I didn’t mind sharing her, I knew they needed a mommy to, after all they were a long way from home! One day mom put me in the pouch, and I thought we were going for a short ride, but it ended up being a six hour ride! Boy was I not happy about that! But mommy made sure that she set up my cage right away and I happily snuggled down in my nest basket. Life was pretty sweet. I had plenty of food, and toys, but somehow I knew something was missing. Mommy knew it to. She had seemed worried for a few weeks, and spent a lot of time typing on her….what is it called again…….that’s right computer! I saw her bring another cage into the room and heard her messing with it for a few days. Then one night she picked me up and gave me a big kiss and told me that she was getting me a friend. I looked at her, and she explained to me that she was not trying to replace me and that she wasn’t going to love me any less. She was doing this for me! I didn’t’ know what that meant, except that the next morning she woke up really early and came back pretty late. When I woke up that night I smelled something in the air that was different. It reminded me of something from a long time ago……. The next night I remembered what that smell was! It was another glider! It was like my mom and dad and brother! Was this what the other cage was? Was there another girl or guy just like me? Well that night I saw something jumping around the room and I started chattering, and it chattered back! That is when mom woke up really quickly and grabbed the dark shape and put it back into the other cage! No! I wanted my buddy! The next night the little girl (she told me that the human kept calling her Vestral) jumped onto my cage and we chatted for a few minutes before mom scooped her up to put her back in the cage. Finally in another two days I was taken into the bathroom with my mommy and her mom and a very strange other pouch! My pouch was opened and so was the other one, and I discovered that my friend was there! Without bars! Mom and grandmom looked at me frightened, but I don’t know why they worried! We instantly started sniffing, and she explained that she had come from a very large family and was tired of all the commotion and ruckus, and that this strange woman had taken her saying that she was getting a sister. Wait! I was her sister! Mommy had gotten me a sister! We instantly took to one another. She was very cautious and shy, but looked up to me and I knew that I would have to protect her! I told her all about the joys of mealworms and nuts! Mom didn’t give us nuts to often, but I told her that I would share mine with her! Though I loved mommy, it was so awesome to have someone to play with at night. Mom always went to sleep, and I would often bark trying to wake her up to play. Now I could play tag with my new little sister, and if we got tired we would curl up with one another and fall to sleep in a rolly polly ball! She was a bit unsure of mommy at first, but once I told her how nice this human was, she said “Okay! She can be my mommy to!” Mom says I am running on and on. I don’t know what that means, I’m not in my wheel. But it is late (mom keeps telling me that for humans it is early), and Vestral is pulling me to snuggle, so I guess I should go. It was very nice to hear your stories, and I hope that all of you can find friendship with your human and a suggie brother or sister! tisha Goofy Gorillatoes OK, USA 2081 Posts <center> 
</center> *sniff...sniff sniff...ears twitch* Uhhh...err...Hello?? Hi! I guess I should tell you who I am. My name was PoopStick (Only, Poop was substituted for a word that rhymes with fit). I'm not sure whats going on right now...I just came to a new home last night. These two people keep looking at me and talking to me. They keep saying Hercules, a lot. Maybe they think that is my name? Well....I'm all alone in this cage, but last night I heard other gliders in another room. I barked back a few times. Maybe I will get to meet them someday? I've been lonely for a while now. I am barely a year old but have been through a lot. The old house I was at did not know much about me. The man who was supposed to care for me forgot to feed me for an entire week!! I almost died, but I'm a fighter and stuck through it all. They didn't have me neutered so I ended up breeding with my sister. I'm sorry that I killed the babies but...they weren't healthy, and I knew they weren't going to make it. So I had to kill them...shortly after that I went to a person in a white suit her put me to sleep, when I woke up, my private spot was really sore! I went back home and my sister was gone. I heard someone say they took her to a pet shop...So then I was all alone. It made me sad and I started pulling out my hair. <center> 
</center> But last night this new couple took me in. I think I like them so I won't crab at them yet. They have given me yoggies and yummy foods. I hope I will get to update my story later on! I think this is the beginning of a brand new life for me.... <b>To Be Continued....</b>
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