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Interview with Jeanine Kitchel, Author of Wheels Up: A Novel of Drugs, Cartels and Survival @JeanineKitchel

“The Gulfstream jet, loaded with two tons of Colombian cocaine, careened over dense Yucatan jungle as Layla stared out the compact window, horrified. If they weren’t running on empty and destined to crash, it might have looked lush to her, even beautiful. Without fuel, the engines starved into silence, she heard only the whooshing sound of the aluminum plane as it cruised over mangrove swamps and fast-approaching mahogany trees. All thoughts of her hasty departure from Guatemala to escape Don Guillermo’s wrath had vanished along with any hopes of safely landing in Cancun. They were going down.” From Wheels Up: A Novel of Drugs, Cartels and Survival by Jeanine
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Question of Empathy Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Nonfiction #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Carol Jeffers’ THE QUESTION OF EMPATHY Virtual Book Tour September 17 – October 12! Inside the Book Title: THE QUESTION OF EMPATHY: SEARCHING FOR THE ESSENCE OF HUMANITY Author: Carol Jeffers Publisher: Koehler Books Pages: 280 Genre: Creative Nonfiction/Speculative Nonfiction BOOK BLURB: What if we all had a power to connect with others, to understand what they are feeling, what they are thinking? What if such a power was flighty, unreliable, open to true understanding or total confusion? Would that make us better human beings? In The Question of Empathy, Carol Jeffers explores a power that exists today within each
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Taking Control: Rick’s Story Virtual Book Publicity Tour @MMaloneAuthor #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Morgan Malone’s TAKING CONTROL: RICK’S STORY Virtual Book Tour September 3 – October 31! Inside the Book Title: TAKING CONTROL: RICK’S STORY Author: Morgan Malone Publisher: Independent Pages: 170 Genre: Contemporary Romance BOOK BLURB: Summer on the Jersey Shore and all Rick Sheridan wants is some solitude at his beach house. Then he spots a lean, leggy blonde coming out of the surf and his plans are shot to hell. And the dangerous looking knife strapped to her arm tells him this is no damsel in distress. As a not-so retired Marine, at 51, Rick’s learned that nothing is for
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents A Highland Emerald Virtual Book Publicity Tour @RayburnLady #Scottish #Historical #Romance #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Brenda B. Taylor’s A HIGHLAND EMERALD Virtual Book Tour September 3 – 28! Inside the Book Title: A HIGHLAND EMERALD Author: Brenda Taylor Publisher: Bethabara Press Pages: 268 Genre: Scottish Historical Romance BOOK BLURB: Aine MacLean is forced into an arranged marriage with Sir William, Chief of Clan Munro, yet her heart belongs to a handsome young warrior in her father’s guard. She must leave Durant Castle, the home of her birth on the Isle of Mull, and travel across Scotland in a perilous journey to her husband’s home on Cromarty Firth. William agrees to a year and day of
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📢 Book for Review: The Same Blood: Reunion on Cursed Grounds #fantasy

We are taking review requests for Ronder Scott Pradhan’s THE SAME BLOOD: REUNION ON CURSED GROUNDS. This is a review campaign and not a blog tour. If requesting review copies, we ask that you post your review at Amazon no later than November 4, please. When you are ready to submit your review, come back and click below to take you directly to the book’s Amazon link. Review copies will be sent via PDF or ePub. Thank you! Inside the Book Title: THE SAME BLOOD: REUNION ON CURSED GROUNDS Author: Ronder Scott Pradhan Publisher: DER Publishing Pages: 398 Genre: Fantasy BOOK BLURB: A young man in love makes the
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Spine Chillers: The Scarecrow Virtual Book Publicity Tour #crime #thriller #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Nancy Gray’s SPINE CHILLERS: THE SCARECROW Virtual Book Tour August 20 – September 20! Inside the Book Title: SPINE CHILLERS: THE SCARECROW Author: Nancy Gray Publisher: Independent Pages: 113 Genre: Mid-Grade Horror BOOK BLURB: Eleven year old, Sophie, arrives at her Aunt and Uncle’s farm to horrible news: her cousin, Hunt, has gone missing.  When Sophie starts searching for clues to where her cousin went, strange things happen.  The scarecrow wanders around the cornfields at night and murders of crows lash out at other animals for no reason at all. An ancient spirit wants revenge. Sophie will have to be
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Azrael Virtual Book Publicity Tour @MTEllisAuthor #crime #thriller #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you M.T. Ellis’ AZRAEL Virtual Book Tour September 3 – 28! Inside the Book Title: AZRAEL Author: M.T. Ellis Publisher: Independent Pages: 340 Genre: Crime Thriller BOOK BLURB: Emily thought her ordeal was over after she escaped a brutal kidnapping. She’s wrong. He’s coming for her again. The body Detective Rose is looking at bears a striking resemblance to Emily, a woman who survived a horrific, sexually motivated abduction five years ago. Her fear is confirmed when Emily goes missing again. When another woman, Grace, is abducted, Detective Rose finds herself doubting the instincts that tell her the disappearance is the
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Interview with Joerg H. Trauboth, Author of Three Brothers

“Buddy McAllen is not far away. In fact, they almost trip over his ejector seat. The wind fills his parachute, causing it to pull away from the long, slender body of the American pilot and then deflate again. Buddy is shaking. The right side of his head along with his short blond hair is covered in blood. George sees a large dark stain on Buddy’s olive-green flight suit just above his right hip and, underneath him, a rather large pool of dried blood on the ground…” –From THREE BROTHERS by Joerg H. Trauboth Joerg H. Trauboth (Wikipedia) was born just outside of Berlin in 1943 during an air-raid. He
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Interview with Traci Highland, Author of Miss Behave

“Dear Miss Behave, Last weekend I was at the pool with the children, and there was a woman naked and walking around the locker room.  I hate to be prissy, but to be naked around young children like that just isn’t right.  She comes to the pool regularly and I am not the only one who has happened upon her strolling around the locker room without clothes.  Now I know there are showers and that people change in locker rooms, but showers should be taken while wearing bathing suits and there are private changing rooms that are clearly marked.  How can I convey to her the accepted rules of
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Interview with Charlene Whitman, Author of Wyoming Tryst #historical #western #romance

“Thinking about her lawless town made her thoughts settle back on her father and the never-ending feud between the Carsons and the Morrisons—a feud Julia neither wanted nor understood. Yet here she was, in the midst of it, her party just one more piece of wood to throw on the fire of contention. She hoped it wouldn’t add to the blaze and worried that rather than enjoy her sixteenth year celebration, she would suffer the heat of her father’s ire for Stephen Morrison, and it would leave her scorched.” –From Wyoming Tryst by Charlene Whitman The author of “heart-thumping” Western romance, Charlene Whitman spent many years living on Colorado’s
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Interview with Michael McMenamin, Author of Appointment in Prague

“KEEPING SECRETS from her husband, Bourke Cockran, Jr., was nothing new for Mattie McGary as she gently kissed her sleeping husband goodbye before she left for her office where she had to prepare two pieces of correspondence. One was an ‘eyes only’ letter to her godfather, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, telling him everything about her new mission, one he never would have approved had he known beforehand. The other was a letter to her husband on the same subject where she most definitely would not tell him ‘everything’. The second letter would be much more difficult to write than the first.” –From Appointment in Prague by Michael & Kathleen
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Interview with Catherine Wyatt-Morley and Jalyon Welsh-Cole, Authors of I Am The Product of Rape: A Memoir #memoir @CWM_Women

“A ferocious human predator ripped through our family, drooling over the innocent―leaving none untouched. Generations of child predators have devoured their vulnerable offspring and siblings, molesting our family’s youth unconcerned about the magnitude of their actions. Silence has become the gateway to mental health issues throughout our lineage.  I Am the Product of Rape―A Memoir exposes generational secrets, lies, cover-ups and denial and their consequences. Told from my perspective, this is my family story, a glimpse into four women irreversibly scarred by traumatic abuse.” From I Am The Product of Rape: A Memoir by Catherine Wyatt-Morley and Jalyon Welsh-Cole Catherine Wyatt-Morley is the founder, chief executive officer and heartbeat
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📢 {Mystery/Suspense/Literature} Return to Hiroshima Review Campaign Sign Up #mystery #suspense #literature

We are taking review requests for Bob Van Laerhoven’s RETURN TO HIROSHIMA. This is a review campaign and not a blog tour. If requesting review copies, we ask that you post your review at Amazon no later than October 25, please. When you are ready to submit your review, come back and click below to take you directly to the book’s Amazon link. Review copies will be sent via PDF, Mobi or ePub. Thank you! Inside the Book Title: RETURN TO HIROSHIMA Author: Bob Van Laerhoven Publisher: Crime Wave Press Pages: 334 Genre: Mystery/Suspense/Literature BOOK BLURB: 1995, Japan struggles with a severe economic crisis. Fate brings a number of
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Mortal Foe Virtual Book Publicity Tour @MartyRoppelt #supernatural #thriller #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Marty Roppelt’s MORTAL FOE Virtual Book Tour September 3 – 28! Inside the Book Title: MORTAL FOE Author: Marty Roppelt Publisher: Dragon Breath Press Pages: 213 Genre: Supernatural Thriller BOOK BLURB: A picture is worth a thousand words… But what if that image can only bee seen through the lens of one camera? What is the snapshot can only be seen by a select few? What if the photo has its origins in the pit of Hell? What is that face belongs to an enemy bent on destruction? This is Buddy Cullen’s fate when he first dreams of his grandfather’s
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Die Noon Virtual Book Publicity Tour @TheEliseSax #cozymystery #mystery #romantic #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Elise Sax’s DIE NOON Virtual Book Tour September 3 – 28! Inside the Book Title: DIE NOON (Goodnight Mysteries Book 1) Author: Elise Sax Publisher: 13 Lakes Publishing Pages: 259 Genre: Cozy Mystery/Humorous Romantic Mystery BOOK BLURB: Matilda Dare can’t sleep. Her insomnia is one more reason to move to the quirky small town of Goodnight, New Mexico after she inherits a house, a small newspaper, and two old dogs there. But despite the Goodnight name, Matilda still spends her nights wide awake, and she has good reason after a reporter is murdered. With a mystery to solve, she begins
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Fragments of Ash Pre-Order Blitz @KatyRegnery #fairytale #romance #VBT

    Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Katy Regnery’s FRAGMENTS OF ASH Pre-Order Blitz August 1 – 31! Inside the Book Title: FRAGMENTS OF ASH Author: Katy Regnery Publisher: Katharine Gilliam Regnery Pages: Appr. 300 Genre: Contemporary Romance/Reimagined Fairy Tale BOOK BLURB: Coming October 1st My name is Ashley Ellis… I was thirteen years old when my mother – retired supermodel, Tig – married Mosier Răumann, who was twice her age and the head of the Răumann crime family. When I turned eighteen, my mother mysteriously died. Only then did I discover the dark plans my stepfather had in store for me all along; the
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Three Brothers Virtual Book Publicity Tour @jorg2dots #thriller #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Joerg H. Trauboth’s THREE BROTHERS Virtual Book Tour August 1 – September 28! Inside the Book Title: THREE BROTHERS Author: Joerg H. Trauboth Publisher: Ratio Books Pages: 581 Genre: Thriller BOOK BLURB: Marc Anderson and his two commando brothers Thomas and Tim are highly respected elite soldiers in the secretive German Commando Special Forces, the KSK. Together with the American Navy Seals, they successfully rescue the crew of a downed American F-15 tactical fighter jet in the Hindu Kusch Mountains under a barrage of heavy fire from the Taliban. However, their next mission – in Northern Iraq – to save
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Killing the Rougarou Virtual Book Publicity Tour @MamaShawnBeasl1 #romantic #suspense #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Shawn M. Beasley’s KILLING THE ROUGAROU Virtual Book Tour September 3 – 28! Inside the Book Title: KILLING THE ROUGAROU Author: Shawn M. Beasley Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 492 Genre: Romantic Suspense BOOK BLURB: Author Shawn Beasley captivates readers with the enthralling saga of two southern families-the Gauthiers from the South Louisiana bayou country and the Thomases from rural Texas-and the nightmare that will ultimately touch them both. In her sweeping and richly evocative novel, Beasley unfolds two remarkable family histories, populated by unforgettable, deeply human characters, and then rocks their worlds with tragedy and true horror. A novel that succeeds
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Interview with Jennifer Chase, Author of Scene of the Crime @JChaseNovelist #mystery

  “The darkness still loomed around him, but there was a quietness that overcame him. A brief hundredth of a second, a peculiar whizzing noise filled Roger’s ears and then a brutal blow struck his head and knocked him off his feet. With a ringing in his head and a groggy consciousness, he tried to sit up but more savage blows pummeled his body. It sounded as if a tree splintered just before it fell in the forest. His breath caught in his lungs. Everything went dark. The anonymous whispers stopped. All buzzing in his ears stopped. Roger Case’s heart stopped too.” –From Scene of the Crime by Jennifer
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Wheels Up Virtual Book Publicity Tour @JeanineKitchel #thriller #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Jeanine Kitchel’s WHEELS UP: A NOVEL OF DRUGS, CARTELS AND SURVIVAL Virtual Book Tour August 13 – September 13! Inside the Book Title: WHEELS UP: A NOVEL OF DRUGS, CARTELS, AND SURVIVAL Author: Jeanine Kitchel Publisher: Independent Pages: 294 Genre: Thriller BOOK BLURB: Layla always wanted to run the family business. But is she willing to kill for it? When her notorious drug lord uncle is recaptured, Layla Navarro catapults to the top of Mexico’s most powerful cartel. Groomed as his successor, Layla knows where the bodies are buried. But not all the enemies. She strikes her first deal to
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📢 {Supernatural/Thriller} Mortal Foe Review Campaign Sign Up #supernatural #thriller

We are taking review requests for Marty Roppett’s MORTAL FOE. This is a review campaign and not a blog tour. If requesting review copies, we ask that you post your review at Amazon no later than October 8, please. When you are ready to submit your review, come back and click below to take you directly to the book’s Amazon link. Review copies will be sent via PDF. Thank you! Inside the Book Title: MORTAL FOE Author: Marty Roppelt Publisher: Dragon Breath Press Pages: 213 Genre: Supernatural/Thriller BOOK BLURB: A picture is worth a thousand words… But what if that image can only bee seen through the lens of
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents I Am the Product of Rape: A Memoir Virtual Book Publicity Tour @CWM_Women #memoir

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Catherine Wyatt-Morley and Jalyon Welsh-Cole’s I AM THE PRODUCT OF RAPE: A MEMOIR Virtual Book Tour August 1 – 31! Inside the Book Title: I AM THE PRODUCT OF RAPE – A MEMOIR Authors: Catherine Wyatt-Morley and Jalyon Welsh-Cole Publisher: Four Pillars Media Group Pages: 194 Genre: Memoir BOOK BLURB: The phrase “secrets and lies” takes on terrible new meaning in Catherine Wyatt-Morley’s devastating book, I AM THE PRODUCT OF RAPE – A MEMOIR. Wyatt-Morley’s shocking story traces the repeated patterns of rape and incest that plagued four generations of her family, including Wyatt-Morley’s birth in a filthy basement to
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Unlawful Desires Virtual Book Publicity Tour @AuthorPSY #erotic #romance #suspense #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Sassy Sinclair’s UNLAWFUL DESIRES: AN EROTIC SUSPENSE NOVELLA Virtual Book Tour August 1 – September 28! Inside the Book Title: UNLAWFUL DESIRES Author: Sassy Sinclair Publisher: Goldman House Publishing Pages: 198 Genre: Erotic Romance   BOOK BLURB: Sparks fly when a handsome lawyer falls hard for a smart, seductive woman who thinks like a man and acts like one too. Sharla Ratliff is done with having her heart broken. Her new dating rules are simple. No emotion. No expectation of commitment. Sex purely for her own physical enjoyment. Then she meets Marcel Dennard. The attractive lawyer has all the trappings
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📢 {Sports Romance} The Trade, Jersey Chasers Book 1 Review Campaign Sign Up #sports #romance

We are taking review requests for Ashlyn Hope’s THE TRADE, JERSEY CHASERS BOOK 1. This is a review campaign and not a blog tour. If requesting review copies, we ask that you post your review at Amazon no later than October 5, please. When you are ready to submit your review, come back and click below to take you directly to the book’s Amazon link. Review copies will be sent via paperback (U.S.), PDF, Mobi & ePub. Thank you! Inside the Book Title: THE TRADE Author: Ashlyn Hope Publisher: Pizzicato Publishing Pages: 162 Genre: Sports Romance BOOK BLURB: The muscles, the chiseled faces, the masculine posturing, and the tight
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Miss Behave Virtual Book Publicity Tour @TraciHighland #romantic #comedy #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Traci Highland’s MISS BEHAVE Virtual Book Tour August 1 – September 28! Inside the Book Title: Miss Behave (The Anderson Family Series Book 1) Author: Traci Highland Publisher: Cheshire Lane Press Pages: 330 Genre: Romantic Comedy BOOK BLURB: She’s great at giving advice, too bad she never takes it… Piper Anderson wants to be a serious journalist at a serious paper covering serious news. Instead, she’s stuck at the Pendleton Falls Herald, where her massive investigative skills are wasted penning the paper’s advice column, Miss Behave. Her shot at a meaty story comes when she’s assigned to write up a
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Interview with Mary Lawlor, Author of Fighter Pilot’s Daughter @marylawlor5 #memoir

“Every day we heard practice rounds of artillery fire and ordinance on the near horizon.  We knew what all this training was for.  It was to keep the world from ending.  Our father was one of many Dads who sweat at soldierly labor, part of an arsenal kept at the ready to scare off nuclear annihilation of life on earth.  When we lived on post, my sisters and I saw uniformed men marching in straight lines everywhere.  This was readiness, the soldiers rehearsing against Armageddon.  The rectangular buildings where the commissary, the PX, the bowling alley and beauty shop were housed had fall out shelters in the basements, marked
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Interview with Kamlesh D. Patel, Co-Author of The Heartfulness Way @heartful_ness #VBT

“The effect of the very first Heartfulness meditation on me was so profound that it was clear I had found my direction and anchor in life. But the effect of meeting Babuji was beyond even that – something so precious and subtle in its essence that it defines description. While universes and dimensions have opened in my inner world since that time, it is only one aspect of what has unfolded during these last four decades. What is even more wonderful is the walth of everyday qualities that have come through Heartfulness practice – qualities such as love, acceptance, humility, service, compassion, empathy, and a higher purpose to existence.”
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Wyoming Tryst Virtual Book Publicity Tour #historical #romance #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Charlene Whitman’s WYOMING TRYST Virtual Book Tour August 1 – September 28! Inside the Book Title: WYOMING TRYST Author: Charlene Whitman Publisher: Ubiquitous Press Pages: 360 Genre: Sweet Historical Western Romance BOOK BLURB: Two ranching tycoons. A decades-old feud. A sheriff bent on ridding the town of lawlessness . . . In the midst of the trouble brewing in Laramie City in 1878, Julia Carson yearns to be free of her parents’ smothering and wonders whether she’ll ever find a man worthy to love in such a violent town rife with outlaws. But when Robert Morrison sneaks onto her ranch
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Appointment in Prague Virtual Book Publicity Tour #historical #thriller #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Michael McMenamin & Kathleen McMenamin’s APPOINTMENT IN PRAGUE: A MATTIE MCGARY + WINSTON CHURCHILL WORLD WAR II ADVENTURE Virtual Book Tour August 1 – September 28! Inside the Book Title: APPOINTMENT IN PRAGUE: A MATTIE MCGARY + WINSTON CHURCHILL WORLD WAR II ADVENTURE Author: Michael McMenamin & Kathleen McMenamin Publisher: First Edition Design Publishing Pages: 160 Genre: Historical Thriller BOOK BLURB: In the novella, Appointment in Prague, one woman, a British secret agent, sets out in May 1942 to single-handedly send to hell the most evil Nazi alive—SS General Reinhard Heydrich, the head of the SD, the domestic and foreign
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📢 {Dystopian} The Phoenix Cycle Review Campaign Sign Up

We are taking review requests for Bob Collopy’s THE PHOENIX CYCLE. This is a review campaign and not a blog tour. If requesting review copies, we ask that you post your review at Amazon no later than September 12, please. When you are ready to submit your review, come back and click below to take you directly to the book’s Amazon link. Review copies will be sent via paperback (U.S.) & PDF. Thank you! Inside the Book Title: THE PHOENIX CYCLE Author: Bob Collopy Publisher: The Department of Smoke Pages: 470 Genre: Dystopian BOOK BLURB: New San Francisco is the last city standing on a world ravaged by storms
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