On March 5, Seniorly announced that Casa de Mañana in La Jolla ranked in the top five in its Best of Senior Living Awards 2024. The San Diego Union Tribune reported on the honor on April 3. The story was also reported on KUSI’s website.

On March 26, The Oaklandside shared a feature article about how Home Match, Front Porch’s home sharing program, addresses homelessness and on April 2, KPIX also shared a story about the program on its evening broadcast. Home Match was also selected as the 2024 recipient of LeadingAge California’s Best Practice/Innovation of the Year Award in recognition for its work in homelessness prevention.

On April 16, Colorado Public Radio featured a segment on Social Call, Front Porch’s friendly visitor program, titled Overcoming loneliness and isolation with a simple phone call. The story featured conversations with a volunteer and participant as well as with Katie Wade, senior director for creative engagement.

On April 17, KFMB – CBS8 shared a story about the Men’s Shed program that is sponsored by Carlsbad By The Sea as they built a shed for ‘Raptor Ridge’.

On April 3, SuperMoney included Wesley Palms in San Diego in its Best Places to Retire in California 2024 guide.

On March 4, Senior Living Foresight posted about Front Porch’s involvement in the San Diego Senior Women’s Basketball Association.

On March 18, Front Porch shared a press release about Kingsley Manor as it hosted a fashion show in partnership with L.A. Fashion Week.

On March 15, Front Porch shared a press release, celebrating Friends House‘s 40th anniversary serving the Santa Rosa community.

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Falls affect us all. The risk of falling increases with age. Falls are the leading cause of injury among older adults. If you slip, trip or fall, it could change your life. You could break a bone, take a trip to the hospital, be injured or develop a disability. Fear of falling may keep you from walking, shopping or taking part in social activities. Overcoming this fear can help you stay active, maintain your physical health and prevent future falls.

The good news is that there are simple ways and free online resources to reduce the risk of falling and help stay falls free. Here are some tips with hyperlinks on how to prevent most falls.

Exercise to Improve Your Balance and Strength

One easy way to prevent a fall is to improve balance and strength. The National Institute on Aging has tips on fitting EXERCISE AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY safely into daily life to help stay healthy as one ages. It also has tips with the right steps to take to PREVENT FALLS AND FRACTURES. Life enrichment and wellness directors offer many programs. Try walking, gardening, tai chi, yoga or whatever you enjoy.

Talk to Your Doctor or Pharmacist

Regularly review your medications and their side effects with your doctor or pharmacist. The National Council on Aging has a FALLS FREE CHECKUP that allows you to check your risk for a fall to help stay independent. Tell your doctor if you have fallen, even if not hurt. Get your vision and hearing tested. Ask a physical therapist about acquiring a walking aid if needed. Vitamin D and calcium can help keep your bones strong.

Make Your Home Safer

Make sure there are no cords, pet toys, loose rugs or excess furniture in your path. Clutter on your floors and around your home can make it more difficult to stay on your feet. Use the CDC STEADI initiative checklist to identify and ELIMINATE FALL HAZARDS in the home. Adequate lighting in hallways makes navigation easier. Ask an occupational therapist about a home safety evaluation.

Put in a request to add grab bars for the bathtub, shower and toilet if you think you need them.

Make Smart Choices

Be aware of personal abilities and limitations. Request help from someone for difficult or awkward tasks like retrieving objects on high shelves or carrying large or bulky items. The California Department of Aging’s FALL PREVENTION PROGRAM has fall and injury prevention education and information. Stand up slowly with your feet under you. Wear proper footwear. Don’t drink alcohol to excess.

Educate Yourself Today

Understanding fall risks is the first step to staying safer, reducing the risk of falling and helping stay falls free. Check out the free resources above for practical prevention solutions to do the right exercises, take proper care of yourself, make your home safer and ask for help when you need it.

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Senior Director for Resident Experience Rebecca Johnson created the program to support residents’ connection to the community and to one another. “We feel a sense of place but don’t necessarily articulate it,” says Johnson. This program allows residents to gather over time “to capture in your words why you feel as you do.”

Each Front Porch community has its own unique geography, Johnson explains. “When we hear the word geography we think, ‘mountains, landscapes,’ which is certainly part of it,” she says. “But geography is also everything that humans build. When we wrote the program, we were intentional about discussing both the physical and social aspects of geography.”

Sense of Place provides a safe environment for people who may not normally speak up in the community to address concerns. “Sense of Place is outside of the committee or council structure,” says Johnson. “Sometimes residents are looking for a new way to share their voice, a less formal way beyond the surveys and the committees that are already in place.”

“I marvel at people who have the ability to come forward and speak their thoughts,” said one resident participant at Friends House in Santa Rosa. “It doesn’t come as naturally to me, but after listening to others, I feel I can talk like that. I feel comfortable here. I feel I’m in the right place.”

Jeannie Pressey, executive director of Spring Lake Village in Santa Rosa says that Sense of Place is “an additional opportunity to gain insight from the residents on what’s working well and what they would like to see improved.”

Unlike a resident survey that provides a quantitative snapshot of the community at a moment in time, Sense of Place collects qualitative information that “puts the how, why, and what together in one place,” explains Mary McMullin, chief advancement officer for Front Porch. “A survey will tell us you think your community is great. Sense of Place allows us to understand why you think it’s great. It helps us identify rather than guess about the true community that’s here.”

Because residents were speaking directly with someone in person or on Zoom “instead of simply filling out the boxes on a survey, I feel that they were more comfortable in sharing their viewpoints,” Pressey notes. “And their views were clearly communicated as opposed to checking a box that says ‘are you satisfied? 1, 2, 3.’ You get some context on what people are trying to say.”

The program was open to any residents who wanted to participate, and a range of residents chose to join. “Having new and long-term residents in the same setting was critical,” Johnson says. She notes that newer residents who may have only experienced their community in the wake of the COVID pandemic with its lockdown protocols have a very different perspective than long-term residents who can recall and explain a community’s traditions. Meeting together gave residents a broader perspective on what community feels like based on their individual experiences.

Johnson compiled insights gathered during each session into reports for each participating community’s executive director, incorporating resident feedback, key questions, and recommendations for follow-up programs. Mark Nitsche, who became the executive director of San Francisco Towers during the Sense of Place pilot program, read the reports as a way to became familiar with the community. They allowed him to “really listen to what people are saying,” he recalls.

“People believe the ED is the last word, but it’s collaborative,” Nitsche says. Sense of Place allowed residents “to be a voice for the community and how you want to see community going forward. The program builds a sense of awareness, a sense of hope, and a sense of belonging.”

After testing the program as a pilot project at three Front Porch communities in 2022, Sense of Place is preparing to launch in more communities this year and may later be developed for use beyond the Front Porch system. Johnson is also gathering a working group to develop a new program called ATLAS, designed specifically for the new resident experience.

“Sense of Place is an influencer in decision making,” Johnson says. “It’s a platform for prioritizing the things that mean the most to residents, and one of those priorities is how residents, especially new residents, develop a sense of belonging and attachment in community. ATLAS is our natural next step.

“I’ve learned so much from the resident participants by leading this program. Each community is unique, with its own sense of place. This program has helped me to understand at a deep level what’s important for residents in their particular community. I can’t wait to discover more as we move forward with Sense of Place.”

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One of Carlsbad By The Sea’s defining features is its people. It’s a community of generous residents who give of themselves in many ways. The uniqueness and depth of the friendships and memories the couple have made led them to another easy decision – contributing to the Carlsbad By The Sea Charitable Care fund through the Front Porch Communities Foundation.

The program, which helps provide for qualified residents who run out of income and allows them to remain in their community, is made successful by donations from fellow residents like Ken and Jo, who are able to easily contribute electronically.

“Jo thinks that those who are able should help others that are in their time of need.  Those who may have been financially stable in the past or have now outlived their funds now find themselves in a situation where they can’t afford to stay in their community.  Residents who now need help are often those who have helped others in the past,” Jo shared.

Outside of Carlsbad By The Sea, Ken and Jo focus their philanthropic efforts on church and education. They have established several endowments at various universities in Southern California as well as other parts of the country, giving back to education through scholarships and institutional financial support.

“We are passionate about (donating to) youth,” Jo said. “We contribute to education and childcare because that’s the next generation.” Prior to settling in at Carlsbad By The Sea, Jo was exposed to the value of education her entire life, having been a home economics teacher, a preschool teacher, and even a school bus driver. “You can’t go very far in life without it.”

Jo and Ken are planning future donations to the Foundation’s employee scholarship fund, which assists staff in furthering their education.

Ultimately, Ken and Jo’s greatest motivation for giving to not just one but multiple generations is the collective social responsibility of donating. “We’re taught that when you have something, you need to share, and if you have more of it, it’s important to share more of it,” Jo said.

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The resident agreement may seem imposing at first, but it also holds the answers to many questions prospective residents may have, such as: What’s included and not included in my services? What happens when I need additional services or support? And perhaps the biggest question: if I move to a community am I giving up independence and personal freedom?

After more than 30 years in the field of aging services, Mary McMullin, chief advancement officer for Front Porch, has seen a lot of resident agreements. “This is a topic near and dear to my heart, and I’m one of the few people who can say I like reading them,” she said. In an hour-long webinar on Demystifying Resident Agreements, Mary walked through the major sections of Front Porch’s resident agreement–including accommodations and services, health care, costs and fees, and resident rights–and the reasons behind them.

Accommodations and Services

Accommodations, as defined in most resident agreements, involve both the residents’ living space, which Mary emphasizes is their personal home, as well as the public spaces in the community. At Front Porch, although each individual home comes unfurnished, there is scope to personalize and make alterations, which vary depending on the community. “The interesting thing about our communities is that each one is different,” said Mary. “What works in a high rise is very different from what works in a stand-alone cottage or patio home.” The agreement also outlines the utilities provided, including broad spectrum Wi-Fi.

Community spaces also vary depending on the community, and, according to Mary, are “probably the most visible benefit” of community living. “Your personal space is there for you to customize and live in privately,” she said. “But it’s the other aspects of community living that add value. If you’re a swimmer, if you want to use the fitness center, if you want to use the art studio, if you’re determined to read every book in the library, having that larger space available to you is very important.”

Services such as housekeeping, dining, and transportation are outlined in the agreement. “It does take a certain amount of burden off of you,” Mary said. “There’s a staff that’s trained and managed to provide these services and you don’t have to track it or find it or manage it yourself.” Front Porch provides at least 30 days’ notice of any changes to the services listed in the resident agreement. Additional services and their related costs are available as an appendix to the agreement, with the fees updated annually, also with 30 days’ notice.

Healthcare

The healthcare section of the resident agreement “is probably the area that’s the most foreign because of prior conceptions of what healthcare is,” Mary said. She breaks down the healthcare section into “Three Ds, Two Ps, and Three Es.”

The three Ds are the Definitions, such as how do we define healthcare? What are memory care, assisted living, and skilled nursing?; the Delivery – can we provide the care in your home? Is the cost covered by the agreement, or is there any additional charge?; and Determination – how to determine what kind of care is needed, and where it will be provided.

“The greatest area of fear that I’ve observed in all my years is that many people  worry that moving to a community means we have control over transferring you to a higher level of care,” said Mary. “We do not. That’s the determination piece, that third D. It’s an active collaboration between you and your healthcare team and the community and our healthcare team, because at that point we are one team. We work with you to determine what the best thing is for you, but it is a collaboration. I can’t stress that enough.”

The two Ps are Physicians and Private Duty Aides. Communities are not primary healthcare providers. Residents are still responsible for managing and maintaining a relationship with a physician and paying for those services. And residents who hire a private duty aide can do so, but need to abide by the organization’s policies.

Finally, the three Es are Emergency Care, Excluded Care, and Enrollment in Insurance, all of which are part of how communities and residents collaborate to support residents’ health and wellbeing. The section on Emergency care explains how the community responds in case you experience a medical emergency and the section on Excluded care explains health-related services that fall outside of the scope of long-term care (such as dental care or durable medical equipment).

The final E, Enrollment in Insurance, is required as part of the agreement. “We do require you to maintain Medicare Parts A, B, as well as a supplemental policy,” Mary explained. “We need to know that you’re able to receive regular routine and regular covered care. We need to know that if you go out to a hospital, the care you receive will be appropriate and that we can manage the care after the hospital, if it’s needed.”

Costs and Fees

The agreement also goes into detail on resident fees. Along with the non-refundable processing fee and optional services spelled out in the appendix, the agreement explains the monthly fee, which changes over time. Monthly fees are subject to a yearly rate increase. At Front Porch, approximately two-thirds of the monthly fees go to labor costs, which naturally increase over time. “Interestingly enough, I think the rate increases are the biggest surprise for people,” Mary shared. “People know about them from an intellectual standpoint, but don’t necessarily emotionalize the fact that fees increase over time. That’s why we put in the historic schedule of average monthly fees.”

Resident Rights

Finally, the agreement also covers your rights as a resident. “Resident rights are very serious,” Mary said. “We are as much in partnership with you as we are with our regulators.” In California, resident rights  are established by the state’s Department of Social Services and include the right to live in an environment that enhances personal dignity, maintains independence, and encourages self-determination, and the right to receive a clear and complete written contract that establishes the mutual rights and obligations of the resident and the community.

In addition to the rights shared in the agreement, the resident handbook, included as an attachment to the agreement, also outlines the rights and responsibilities for community living, while a separate resident community manual goes into the details such as how to request repairs, how to place orders for a take-out meal, and other practical needs that are unique to the community and not part of the statutory requirements.

And more

In addition to the summary provided here, the webinar provided much more in-depth discussions on the resident agreement, including its appendices.

“We really try not to overwhelm you with information, but it’s hard not to because these agreements have a lot of parts and pieces to them,” Mary said. She encourages prospective residents to read through the agreement, and to work with a legal advisor as well, to become comfortable with the contract before signing. “I think that’s how to go into this wonderful way of living: with your eyes wide open, with your questions answered, feeling confident that, as a consumer, you’ve done everything possible to satisfy your questions and to be comfortable living in one of our communities.”

If you are interested in getting a link to the full presentation, please send us your name and email address.

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My Love Affair with Hollywood is a book Jackie started writing over 30 years ago, initially entitled Hollywood, Behind the Scenes, when she and her husband, Robert Epstein, a Los Angeles Times executive, retired in Carlsbad in 1989. Jackie began writing children’s books and giving talks about Hollywood, and Robert wrote plays. They also wrote a television series together when they weren’t playing tennis and making love. It was a continual honeymoon that ended six years later when Robert was diagnosed with cancer and passed away six months later. They were married for almost 42 years.

 “Books, series, and speeches were forgotten,” she writes.

In 2013, Jackie moved to the Carlsbad By The Sea Retirement Community and immersed herself in the coastal community’s many offerings, including, naturally, a writing class. The other students, enthralled by her “Hollywood-insider” vignettes, encouraged her to tell her life story as well as anecdotes about celebrities. Thus, the book became My Love Affair with Hollywood, a memoir. However, once again, life got in the way.

 “I was always a party animal, much too social, with so many activities going on,” Jackie explained. “I had little time to write.”

And then the pandemic happened. “All of a sudden, I had all these hours and no more activities. So, I was writing day and night until I finished the book.”

My Love Affair with Hollywood follows Jackie’s life from its humble beginnings — born in Hollywood to a family of modest means — through her marriage and her numerous careers as a writer, film and television publicist, tennis columnist, realtor, educator, and public speaker.

Jackie has met and interviewed hundreds of celebrities throughout her life, and her book is chock-full of vivid encounters with some of Hollywood’s brightest stars.

Writing under the name “Jackie Manne,” she shared beauty tips and fitness routines from leading ladies of the day, including Rita Hayworth, Doris Day, and Joan Crawford. She dug deep into her interviewees’ superstitions, learning the secret behind Bob Hope’s lucky cufflinks and why Zsa Zsa Gabor would never leave a hat on her bed while she was working. From comedian Jack Benny she gained insight into why comedians’ marriages tended to last. “Less temptation, my dear,” she quoted him as saying. “Women don’t become aroused when they’re laughing at you.” And from Alex Haley, author of Roots, she received writing advice that would prove advantageous. “When you stop asking people about their lives and want to write about your own, write what you know.”

Earning the nickname “Ms. Clean of Hollywood,” Jackie deliberately avoided the more sensational story angles, instead choosing to focus on the stars’ unique insights, their hopes, their fears, and above all, their humanity. “I never wrote a negative story about anyone,” she said. Jackie quickly gained a reputation as a writer that celebrities could trust, even when her interviews turned into “off-the-record” confessions.

 “I can sit down on a bench, and a stranger sits down next to me, and in 15 minutes, I know their life. They pour it out.”

Although journalism seemed like a natural fit for her, Jackie came relatively late to the world of professional writing. Until her mid-30s, Jackie had a full life in her role as a “stay-at-home” mom raising four children and enjoying the “perks” her husband’s career brought to their life.

 “Our generation of women were nurses, secretaries, teachers. And then we got married and  had children.”

But one evening at a dinner party, all that changed for Jackie.

“You could see the women’s eyes turn away and feel their disinterest after the host introduced me to them as a ‘homemaker,’” Jackie writes.

At first, this infuriated her. In addition to raising four children, she was going to college at night and volunteering in her community. “Who are they to judge me like this?” She speculated that the career-women in the room with kids probably had live-in help, which she did not. But then she paused; perhaps it was she who was unsatisfied with the wife and homemaker’s identity. Maybe she did want something more. She had re-read The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan, which explored how, in post-World War II, women were released from jobs to be given to men returning from service and told to go home again to find fulfillment in their role as mother and wife. Yet, many had become deeply dissatisfied. And she was one of them.  After taking a class to help her hone in on what might be best suited for her, she announced to her husband, “Robert, I want to be a writer!”

My Love Affair with Hollywood is a stroll down the Hollywood Boulevard of yesteryear, a refreshing examination of the “real people” who exist behind the veil of “celebrity” and a story of deep love and loss. Above all, though, it is a testament to a woman who has spent her life not only listening intently to others but listening to and heeding the persistent beat of her own heart.

Jackie Epstein still lives at Carlsbad By the Sea and is already working on her next book: Walking a Duck in L.A. Her memoir My Love Affair with Hollywood is available at Amazon.com.

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Dave swam in the 1956 Olympics.  Our teammates, all Masters Swimmers, compete in events around the world.  I was, and still am, in awe of their accomplishments.  To avoid letting them down, I increased my swim workouts to 3,000 yards per session.

Dave Radcliff (81), Don Baker (84), Graham Johnson (83), Bob Beach (83), Bob Best (82), Norm Stupfel (alternate), and I, Bill Spore (80), boarded the dive boat, Bottom Scratcher, on August 19, 2015.  Our captain, Greg Elliot, briefed us on safety and played the bagpipes for us.  Paula Selby, of the Catalina Channel Swim Federation, managed the relay in order to authenticate our record.

We left at sunset from San Pedro.  The sea was rough enough that we stumbled around the boat.  We felt, well, like 80-year-olds.  But when we hit the water to swim, everything changed. It was like poetry in motion, watching my teammates swim smoothly through the channel below. 

To start the race, Dave swam from the boat to Doctors Cove Beach, Catalina. Standing on the sand, he raised then dropped his arm, and dove in at 10:54 p.m.  Everything was perfect – light wind, calm surface, gentle following swell, 74-degree water.  Fourth in line, I high-fived Bob Beach at 1:54 a.m. for my first leg.  Swimming in the dark was intimidating until I settled in.  Kevin Eslinger, a world-renowned paddleboarder was on my left, a kayak was on my right, and a light was attached to my forehead.  My first leg was a mile and a half.

Back on board, I ate a snack, put on warm clothes, got an hour of sleep, and warmed back up.   When I awoke, I watched Dave, Graham and Bob finish their second legs, and swam again at 7:54 a.m. I covered another mile and a half.  We saw flying fish, a curious seal, and a whale; thankfully, no sharks or cargo ships.

Following my second swim, the Palos Verdes shoreline became visible. As everyone completed their second legs, our loved ones came into view. Dave swam a third time – the final fifteen minutes – to shore. As he stepped onto the sand of Abalone Cove, stopwatches cut at twelve hours, fifteen minutes and twenty-four seconds – a world record!

We dove in and swam ashore to celebrate, and then swam back to the boat to ride back to Pier 22.  That evening, we celebrated with all the standards: tough steak, self-congratulatory speeches, and wonderful commemorative gifts, created with love by our wives, including a colorful backpack decorated with a patch exhibiting a large “80+,” the date, August 19, 2015,”Catalina Relay” and our team name, “The Old Men and the Sea,” a name initially suggested by my wife, Grace.

Though I seldom compete as a Masters Swimmer, I have devoted much of my life to my favorite sport. It has contributed to my longevity and overall physical condition.  More importantly, however, swimming has provided me with lifelong friends and invaluable experiences.

By Bill Spore, resident at Carlsbad by The Sea Retirement Community

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Using the Amazon Echo or Dot has proved great fun and an enormous convenience for many of us, and sharing the latest “trick” we’ve discovered with our own use of “Alexa” has become a daily pleasure.  We act like proud parents showing off our kids…….  or the owners of especially cute dogs, who revel in the admiration of others.   Speaking personally, I haven’t had this much fun with a “gadget” in years and years, not to mention that I find it useful.   And Jessica Yoon (a member of Front Porch’s technology division who shepherd’s the Alexa trials here) finds us new “skills” to try all the time…. i.e., new things Alexa can do.

How is it useful, the uninitiated may ask?   Well,  I don’t have to find a clock (and be sure it’s got the right time and hasn’t run out of batteries!) — I just ask Alexa the time.   I figure out what to pull out of the closet to wear, and whether to put on extra sun block during my walk by asking Alexa for a weather report the night before.    I get a “flash news briefing” from my favorite station (she gives you your choice — CNN, Fox, CBS, PBS. and even the BBC, if you prefer your news with a high toned accent.)   I am now letting Alexa keep my personal appointment calendar to back up my written notes (which I too often mislay).

I’m happily part of a small test group using Alexa to set our thermostats — all without moving from my easy chair, mind you — and turn on (or off) a night light at the far end of the living room, just by voice command.    I set alarms and timers on Alexa — just in case I doze off over the novel I’m reading, I don’t want to miss the time for my bridge game, do I?  Nor leave the laundry in the dryer to get re-wrinkled because I nodded off and didn’t get it out in time…..   Alexa doesn’t nap and she wakes me in time to get the wash-and-wears out and onto hangers….. (Now if only I could train her to do that part too…. )

She plays my favorite music on request…. though a secondary speaker would enhance the sound the Dot can deliver.  (Echo is better than the Dot on sound, and the new Show is best of all, with twin Dolby speakers…  but that’s a subject for another day.)

Most fun of all was setting up Alexa-to-Alexa messaging with two friends who also have started using this magical device……   Alexa’s usual bright blue signal ring (when she has an alarm for me) shows bright greenish-yellow, and a bell rings……  and one of my friends has left me a message.   Yes, we could wait till we saw each other in the lobby.   Yes, we could use the telephone.    But there’s something so personal and private AND FUN about using Alexa…….  why, I haven’t had this much fun since we were kids and strung a wire between two tin cans and played “telephone”……..

If you’re a “hold out” who says, “Who needs this complication?  I do fine without it,”  well yes, you do — thanks to all the help and services CBTS offers us.  True.  But once you have accustomed yourself to saying “Alexa… good morning” and had her cheerfully announce “Good morning.  Did you know this is National Shark Week?  Ask me to tell you a shark joke…”   You’ll be hooked.   And you’ll love it.    Ask John Sanders or Chris Craig-Jones to set you up and get you started.   There are Dots available through the Alexa Club…….    As the ad used to say “Try it… you’ll like it.”     Guaranteed.

By Corinne Sawyer, resident at Carlsbad By The Sea

The Amazon Alexa, a voice-activated personal assistant, has commanded the attention and excitement of consumers since its release. In collaboration with residents and staff at Carlsbad by the Sea, a Front Porch retirement community, the Front Porch Center for Innovation and Wellbeing launched a pilot to explore the potential use case scenarios of this emerging innovation.

To learn more check out MIT Technology Review‘s recent article The Octogenarians who love Amazon’s Alexa, or read our impact story on FPCIW.org.

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