tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-224056802024-03-18T21:34:10.206-07:00SashaCleoThe fabulous life of two remarkably spoiled pugs... and now we are three!pugmamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18046881446675604685noreply@blogger.comBlogger950125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22405680.post-51225435980890838182013-01-26T13:12:00.000-08:002013-01-26T13:12:16.171-08:00Life continues....<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Muchas gratitude for the kind thoughts. You cannot know how much your words are helping me. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cleo and Deedee are coping well. Cleo was a bit blue, but Deedee ramped up her sisterly love (read: extreme pesty-ness), and the 2 are now inseparable. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They say that you never get over a loss, rather that you get through it. We are attempting to muddle through, some people (hysterical pug mama) and some days being worse than others. I will never forget my Sasha, my </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">cantaloupe-sized pug, the one who waltzed into my life and took my heart, the one for whom I did do and would've done anything and everything. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Given that this blog was so much about her, I thought it best to move</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> to a new blog, </span><a href="http://pugtime.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pugtime</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. Please join us there.</span>pugmamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18046881446675604685noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22405680.post-643116162200047902012-10-24T19:23:00.000-07:002012-10-25T10:54:22.894-07:00Goodbye, my darling pug<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From Sasha's (much more literate) auntie:</span><br />
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<i style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">i am grateful for every moment you have been with us and all the joy that you brought to our lives. i can't imagine the last 14 years without you. </i></div>
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<i style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">i'll always remember the first moment i met you, you funny looking thing, and how i could lift you with one hand and how you always wanted to be near a human.</i></div>
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<i style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">i'll never forget catching a glimpse of you on top of the kitchen table, after having just shoved a wine glass onto the floor. </i></div>
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<i style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">i'll never forget how excited you became over the duck toy your mom dangled in front of your face, and how you would rambunctiously run up and down the stairs. </i></div>
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<i style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">i love how you would bury your face completely when sleeping. </i></div>
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<i style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">remember i put a stocking on your head one christmas? i don't think you liked it. </i></div>
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<i style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">it will be hard not to have you at the dinner table this christmas, but what matters more are all the holidays we did spend together and all the treats the big pieces of food bestowed on you. they loved making you happy--we all love making you happy. </i></div>
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<i style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">i guess that's why, as your body fails, we know that what your parents are doing for you is the right decision.</i></div>
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<i style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> we don't want you to suffer.</i></div>
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<i style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">you know, and have always known, how loved and treasured you are. as much as this hurts now, we wouldn't trade it for a second of the time that we've shared with you. </i></div>
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<i>we love you forever and ever. we let you go with heartache, of course, but more importantly with love and comfort, and knowledge that you will be at peace. </i></div>
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<i>baby girl there will never be another pug like you.</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the past few weeks, we've been taking it a day at a time, enjoying every last moment with our Sasha. She got a little strength back, and was able to show us once again who is le grande dame of the house. Best were (rare) days where she showed moments of true pug appetite.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But, she's weakening. She's eating less. Her liver is mysteriously failing, while simultaneously pitching her kidneys in and out of crisis and giving her recurrent internal bleeding. Her vets wanted to do internal organ biopsies and treatment for her presumed disseminated cancer. We refused. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She's happiest when in one of our laps, never willing to let us out of her sight. I'll tuck her onto her heated bed in a comfy corner in one room, walk into another, and look down to see my old girl toddling in after me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As long as she's comfortable, we get to hold her for one more day.</span></div>
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<br />pugmamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18046881446675604685noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22405680.post-19926034551962347702012-09-24T13:48:00.002-07:002012-09-24T13:48:41.120-07:00Spending quality time<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What a week. Happy days when Sasha came home, and seemed to be healing, slowly but surely. Then, panic-stricken terrible days when she took yet another downturn over the weekend -- lethargic, out of it, breathing heavily. Turns out that now her liver appears to have suffered some damage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To that end, we took her to her favorite beach. She can't frolic like a puppy in the sand anymore, but she can certainly take in the ocean air and watch the waves. </span></div>
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<br />pugmamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18046881446675604685noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22405680.post-33440114022110539842012-09-21T08:16:00.002-07:002012-09-21T08:16:37.403-07:00Slowly recovering<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't want to jinx it.... but so far, Sasha is getting stronger day by day, hour by hour. For the first 2 days, she slept as if dead. Engendering no small amount of panic in the mama. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Poor puglet is still very weak (she falls down a lot), but this morning she's better able to stand and walk on her own. Seems like such small things, but they feel like major victories! Someday I hope to not have to hold up her bum while she's squatting out a loaf....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She's still not eating well -- 'mealtime' is basically our trying to offer her any kind of food under the sun all day long -- but she's drinking well. So although right now we're giving her fluids under the skin daily (with a needle! poor baby), I hope that won't be permanent.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sasha had another setback this past weekend. Her breathing started to become difficult, with her little body struggling to make each breath count. Turned out she had a pneumonia on top of everything else. And she was refusing to eat. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We saw our baby girl working so hard, it broke our hearts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After weeping all night and day over whether or not to say goodbye, we made what we thought would be one of our final visits to the hospital. And found that Sasha had turned the corner. Little puglet was alert and looking for her dada.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She's still not eating, though. Which is so alarming to see in a pug. We watch each potential bite with such hope.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To today, when we can hold an extremely weakened, but alert (!) and hungry (!) pug. </span></div>
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pugmamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18046881446675604685noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22405680.post-7573586608396096622012-09-15T08:44:00.000-07:002012-09-15T08:44:07.339-07:00Slowly letting go<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No pictures today, because we want to remember Sasha as she was, and not as she is now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Her transfusion was successful, in that her blood counts remain up. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unfortunately, her failing kidneys are not responding. She is quite weak, and has lost control of her bladder and hind legs. She's lost so much weight, yet, she's refusing food.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Every moment we have now, where we can look into her sweet face and those big bright eyes, is a gift. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sasha will be in the doggie hospital for at least 3-5 days. We'll know better in the next 24-48 hours how she's responding to treatment. Hopefully the bleeding will stop, and her kidneys can get to healing. </span>pugmamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18046881446675604685noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22405680.post-3503700408338606412012-09-11T21:15:00.001-07:002012-09-11T21:15:33.349-07:00Not the greatest news<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been spending a lot of time at home. The puglets aren't used to such disruption in their typical 20 hour daytime naps. Because they run to follow me every time I enter the kitchen, in the hopes that I'm getting something to eat and will share. And it may very well be that I go into the kitchen a lot, so there, and I'm not ashamed of it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The worst part is that I can see she's in so much pain. We had to stop her arthritis med because it can contribute to internal bleeding, and I can tell that it costs her so much even to do something as simple as bend her head down to drink water.</span></div>
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pugmamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18046881446675604685noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22405680.post-25212612417336303682012-09-05T20:56:00.000-07:002012-09-05T20:56:12.553-07:00Sasha is pinking up<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At one point, <a href="http://sashacleo.blogspot.com/2012/09/this-anemia-thing-is-really-taking-its.html">Sasha was so anemic</a> that her gums and lips were snow-white. Thank goodness her system is making more blood cells, little by little, and her gums no longer have that terrible bloodless look.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lacking a sophisticated home-lab in which to monitor Sasha's daily blood levels, I've been employing the ghetto blood-level check technique -- flipping up her lip to take a look at the color. I like to convince myself that it's pinker than it was 2 hours ago.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Turns out that I was not that far off with my sophisticated monitoring method. Sasha had a followup vet appointment today, and her PCV (packed cell volume) is 31! This is compared with last week, when it was 21. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She's still under strict supervision. She apparently managed to lose half a pound in a week, so the lucky pug gets more meals. She doesn't seem to mind the extra attention, since she's been ridiculously clingy lately, not allowing me to leave her sight.</span><br />
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pugmamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18046881446675604685noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22405680.post-55904315104770414702012-09-03T16:47:00.004-07:002012-09-03T16:47:59.657-07:00This anemia thing is really taking its time<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sasha's blood counts are gradually going up, but of course not as quickly as I would like. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She's still sleeping a lot, and breathes heavily. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This normally ravenous pug is still really choosy about her food. Luckily she's still Miss Gluttony over bread-and-cream, so at least we're able to get some calories into her.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cleo and Deedee have been very solicitous pug sisters. They're very careful around sleeping Sasha, and seem to know when she needs cuddling and where she needs more support.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>seeing this truly makes my heart just burst</i></span></td></tr>
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pugmamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18046881446675604685noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22405680.post-77196504438914292012-09-01T07:34:00.001-07:002012-09-03T16:35:08.391-07:00On the upswing<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sasha is a little more alert every day. Her last blood count showed that her system is making more blood cells, so even though she is still pretty weak, we are hopeful she is on the permanent road to recovery!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have been keeping her under very close surveillance. I have her next to me almost every moment of the day, so that I can monitor every heavy breath, every head turn, every little paw twitch. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Her appetite is not the greatest, and she'll refuse foods that normally she likes. We've discovered that she cannot turn down bread with cream, however. Needless to say, she has been getting quite a bit of it.</span>pugmamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18046881446675604685noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22405680.post-85839871388795249922012-08-29T13:09:00.000-07:002012-08-29T13:09:01.699-07:00Poor Sasha<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sasha was pretty lethargic over the weekend, and was breathing quite heavily. Her little heart was going a-thumpa a-thumpa. I knew it was something terrible when she refused her favorite -- tomato! Turned out she was profoundly anemic, probably because of a bleed somewhere in her intestines. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our lives have been revolving around my ol' girl for the past few days (interspersed with prolonged bouts of weeping -- by me). We've been keeping her close at all times, mostly because she seems to get really anxious if we're not next to her or directly in her line of vision. She's being treated like a little queen -- pretty much the only thing she'll eat is brioche dipped in milk or cream (hand-fed, of course). </span></div>
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<br />pugmamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18046881446675604685noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22405680.post-88411892824558522362012-08-24T13:21:00.000-07:002012-08-24T13:21:03.661-07:00I think Sasha's acupuncture is working....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another day, another swipe of the credit card. I MEAN, Sasha went to get another acupuncture treatment today. She's had 3 treatments so far, and we think it's helped. We couldn't tell at first because it was the absence of her previous behavior as opposed to her frolicking around like a puppy. We've noticed little things -- she no longer hobbles when she gets up first thing in the morning, she doesn't hold her leg off of the ground, and she will actually tackle a few stairs down when motivated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today Sasha was far more chill about the procedure than previously. No shaking in fear uncontrollably like the drama queen pug that she is. </span><br />
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pugmamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18046881446675604685noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22405680.post-63696721495636633982012-08-16T21:07:00.001-07:002012-08-16T21:07:06.028-07:00mama u suck<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know. I have not been splashing the puglets's visages around as much as a doting mama ought to. I can blame nothing but my apparent attempt to win the Worst Pug Mama of the year award.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Poor Sasha has terrible arthritis in both of her elbows. She's been OK on pains meds for years, but in the past several months she's limited her activity quite a bit. No more stairs. Walks are more like pug-carries. And the final straw was when she started falling down because she couldn't control her legs.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;">We have a wonderful specialty vet clinic nearby, that luckily has a vet that does acupuncture. Off Sasha went.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I tell ya what she did NOT like. The needles in her painful elbows. It was like combining the experiences of cutting her nails while giving her a bath and brushing her teeth, but with a wider audience.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sasha immediately felt the sedative effects and snoozed in my lap. Very unusual for the pug that typically prefers her dada. She will usually only hang out in my lap if the only other option is a pit of burning lava.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have high hopes for this! Hopefully she'll feel some positive effects as early as tomorrow!</span>pugmamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18046881446675604685noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22405680.post-86265489980911030852012-07-08T06:29:00.000-07:002012-07-08T06:29:02.488-07:00Missing my girls<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Trips without the pugs kind of stink. On one hand, it's nice not to be woken in the pre-dawn hours by some pug(s) standing on one's chest, channeling stinky breath into one's nostrils, trying to get her early breakfast. On the other hand, I kinda miss the feel of 4 sharp paws poking into my belly at 6am.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Luckily, the girls are in great hands with a loving auntie who likes to send us photo updates. </span></div>
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<br /></div>pugmamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18046881446675604685noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22405680.post-27466940091932790142012-06-18T13:07:00.000-07:002012-06-18T13:07:57.490-07:00Dreaming puglet<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Do pugs really dream? Sometimes, we catch one of the pugs yipping softly under her breath like she's getting ready for dinner in her dream world. Most of the time, the girls just snore.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wonder what Deedee is dreaming about now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Or, should I say, the Big Piece of Food. Because I'm pretty sure that the pugs believe he is just made of food. Either that or he's really clumsy and drops a lot of treats. There is ALWAYS a tasty something for a pug in the grampa's pocket.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course, they also love that he is an excellent napper. What could be better for a pug, other than to nap with a giant piece of food?</span></div>
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