Happy Friday, everyone!
As you can probably tell from the title, I’ve decided to return to my roots with an old favorite today! The emoji quizzes are back!
(In other words, I have run out of inspiration for non-elaborate creative posts, so I’ve decided to exploit my past self’s ideas instead 🙃)
In case you are unfamiliar with this format, the rules are very simple:
1) I have represented the plot of several well-known pieces of literature using only emojis. Your job is to spam my comment section and try to guess which book I meant!
2) Three points go to whoever guesses the book correctly first. One point goes to everyone else who guesses the book correctly afterwards.
3) Answers will be revealed a week from now. Whoever has the most points wins a ton of bookish honor!!! (Plus, if they wish, they get to pick a book that I will then HAVE TO read and review. At some point… 😁)
I hope that has sufficiently cleared things up! However, if you’re still confused and would like a bit more insight into how my brain works, you can always check out the previous posts in this series:
(Oh, and also: In my experience, WordPress is always particularly kind regarding anything emoji-related 🙄 So if you’re reading this in the reader and the emojis aren’t showing up, you might have to come visit my blog directly…)
Anyway, I hope you’ve got incentive enough to give this a try! As always, I haven’t exactly made things easy for you – **cackles evilly** – but, I mean, where’s the fun if things aren’t a little hard? Let’s get into the books!
Book #1
🏡👨🏻🦳👩🏻🦳👩🏼👩🏽👧🏻👧👧🏼👩🏻🦳💭👰👰👰👰👰💭🧑🏻🦰➡️🏘🧑🏻🦰🏠💃🕺💃🧑🏻🦰😍👩🏼👨🏻🚫💃👩🏽👩🏽😡👩🏼➡️🧑🏻🦰🏠👩🏼🌧🤒👩🏼🧑🏻🦰🏠👩🏽➡️🧑🏻🦰🏠👨🏻👀👩🏽👦🏻😇➡️🏡👦🏻😇💬💍👩🏽👩🏽🚫👨✈️🎖👨✈️🎖👨✈️🎖👩🏼👩🏽👧🏻👧👧🏼🤩🧑🏼🎖🧑🏼🎖💬👨🏻😠🤑💬👩🏽😱🧑🏻🦰👨🏻➡️🌆👩🏼😥👩🏽🫂👨🏻🦱💍👦🏻😇👩🏽➡️👨🏻🦱👦🏻😇👵🏻👩🏽👁👨🏻👨🏻💬💍👩🏽👩🏽🚫😡👨🏻💔👨🏻✉🧑🏻🦰💔👩🏼🧑🏼🎖😈👩🏻✉➡️👩🏽👩🏽🤔👩🏽➡️🏡🏡🏰👩🏽👁👨🏻😳✉😱👧🏼💏🧑🏼🎖😱✉➡️👩🏽😱👩🏽➡️🏡✉🧑🏼🎖💍👧🏼✉👩🏽🔎👨🏻💷🧑🏼🎖🧑🏻🦰🥰👩🏼👩🏽💭👨🏻💕👩🏽🙈💭👵🏻💬🚫👩🏽💍👨🏻🚫💬👩🏽💬🚫💬👨🏻👩🏽🏞👨🏻💬💍👩🏽👩🏽🤗👨🏻🥰👩🏽🥰
Book #2
🏘👩🏼➡️❓🚔💬🧑🏿🔪👩🏼💬🧑🏿💀🌲🌲🌲⏩5️⃣🌍🔄☀️👩🏽💬🧑🏿🚫🔪👩🏼💬👩🏽🏫📝👩🏼🧑🏿🕵️🎙👩🏽👦🏿🔎👩🏽💬🧑🏿🫂👦🏼👧🏽👩🏻🦰👦🏻👩🏽👂🧔🏼👊👩🏼➕👩🏼💏👴🏻➕👩🏼💊💊↔️💷👂👩🏽🔎🔎👩🏽👦🏿🔐🏡🧔🏼📸📒➡️🏨👩🏼💏👴🏻👩🏽📝🚫🕵️💀❗📱🚫🕵️💀❗🐕➡️❓👩🏽⬅️📝📱💥💻↔️🐕👩🏽😱👩🏽🫂👧🏻👨🏻📤📝❓👩🏽🔎👨🏻👨🏻💬👨🏻💏👩🏼👩🏼🤕👨🏻😱👨🏻🔪🧑🏿💀👨🏻👀👁👧🏼👨🏻💭👩🏼❗💭👨🏻🔐👧🏼🏡⏫💬👩🏽🔎🙍🏼♀️💬🙍🏼♀️🔪👩🏼🙍🏼♀️👊👩🏼👩🏼🤮🤕💀🙍🏼♀️🚗👩🏼💀➡️🛖💬🙍🏼♀️🔪👩🏽🚔👩🏽💬🏫
Book #3
🧑🏿💬🧑🏿🏊♂️💬🧑🏿🧒🏿👩🏿👨🏿🦊🦁🐯🐆🐶🐒🦓🧑🏿🛕⛪🕌👨🏿👩🏿🇮🇳➡️🇨🇦👨🏿👩🏿🧑🏿🧒🏿🦊🦁🐯🐆🐶🐒🦓➡️🛳⛈⛈⛈🛳⬇️🦓🐒🐶🛶🧑🏿➡️🛶🐯➡️🛶🐶🔪🦓💀🐒💀🐯🔪🐶💀🌊🌊🌊🧑🏿🐯🛶🌑🌒🌓🌔🌕🌖🌗🌘🧔🏿🚫👀🚫🧔🏿🔪🧑🏿🐯🔪🧔🏿💀🛶➡️🏝🧑🏿🐯➡️🏝🧑🏿🐯➡️🌊🌊➡️⛱🇲🇽🐯➡️❔🧑🏿➡️🏥👮♂️👮♂️🇯🇵❓🛳❓🧑🏿💬🧑🏿🦓🐒🐶🐯💬👮♂️👮♂️🇯🇵❓❓❓🧑🏿💬🧑🏿👨🍳🧑✈️👩🏿💬
Book #4
🌃👩🏻🦰👦🏽🍸🎊👩🏻🦰👀👦🏼👦🏻👧🏻⚔👹👩🏻🦰😱👩🏻🦰➡️🏠👩🏽🦰😱💼💼➡️📚🏠👨🏽👩🏻🦰🙄👩🏻🦰➡️👦🏽📝🗣👩🏻🦰👁👦🏼👩🏻🦰📲👩🏽🦰💥🆘️👩🏻🦰➡️👩🏻🦰😈👩🏻🦰⚔😈👩🏻🦰🥴👦🏼⬆️👩🏻🦰➡️⛪💬😇⚔👹🏆💬👩🏻🦰🤯👩🏻🦰👦🏼➡️🏠😈👹⚔👩🏻🦰👦🏼➡️🧙♀️🟣🏠📚👩🏻🦰👦🏼👦🏽➡️⛪🧑🏼💬⭕😈🧑🏼💏👩🏽🦰👨🏽💬👩🏻🦰👦🏼➡️🌆🦴🦴👧🏻👦🏻👩🏻🦰👦🏼👦🏽➡️🌃🍸🧒🏻👩🏻🦰💬🧠❓💬🧒🏻🤷🏻♂️👦🏽➡️🐀🧛♂️🧛♀️🧛♂️🐀➡️🏙👦🏼👩🏻🦰👦🏻👧🏻🔙🐀👦🏽➡️⛪👩🏻🦰👦🏼1️⃣6️⃣🕛🍈🌷🌹🌿🌱💏👦🏽💔👩🏻🦰❗💭👩🏽🦰🏆🃏💭👩🏻🦰👦🏼➡️🏠👩🏻🦰🏆👹🧙♀️⚔👩🏻🦰👦🏼➡️⛪🧑🏼🏆👦🏼➡️😈👨🏼👩🏻🦰😡👩🏻🦰➡️🧑🏼👨🏽👩🏻🦰➡️🏥👩🏻🦰👀👁👩🏽🦰⛓👦🏼💬😈👨🏼👨👩👧💬😈👨🏼➡️🟣🏆👩🏻🦰👦🏼💭👨👩👧👦😱💔💭
Book #5
👦🏻➡️🏰👦🏻🗡🤴🤴⬇️💀👺👺👺💬👺👺🗡🤴💀💬⚔⚔⚔1️⃣⛈👨🏻👁⚔😇👁⛈👨🏻📖👑👨🏻👦🏼🧑🏻🚶♂️🚶♂️🚶♂️🚶♂️🏜🏜🏜🏜👨🏻👦🏼🧑🏻👨⚔👺👺💎2️⃣🧑🏾⚕➡️⚔⚔🧑🏾❤🧑🏽👨🗡🧑🏽💀🧑🏾😭😡🧑🏾🗡🤺🧑🏾👁🟤➡️👁🔵👨🏼🗡🧑🏾➡️⛓🧑🏾🧑🏾➡️🏜🏜🏜🌁🌁🌁🌁🧑🤝🧑🧑🤝🧑🧑🤝🧑🧑🤝🧑🧑🏾💭💀💭🧑🏾❤🧑🤝🧑🧑🤝🧑🧑🏾💭🚫💀❓💭🌁🌁🌁🌁🧑🏾⛈⛈🧑🏾🚫💀🌬💎💎💎🌬🧑🏾💪🏽3️⃣👩🏻🦰🛳➡️🌇🏰📚📚👩🏻🦰💬👩🏻❓👩🏻👩🏫👩🏻🦰❓👩🏻🦰✏✏✏👩🏻👩🏫👩🏻🦰👩🏻🦰💭💎🪄💭👩🏻😡👩🏻🤔👩🏻👩🏫👩🏻🦰🪄1️⃣2️⃣🏜🏜🏜🏜🏜⚔⚔⚔⚔👨😈💭👺🗡👨🏻💀💭🧑🏽🧑🤝🧑🧑🤝🧑🧑🤝🧑🌁🌁🌁🌁➡️👨🏻👦🏼👨🏻🗡↔️🧑🤝🧑🧑🤝🧑🧑🤝🧑🧑🤝🧑🧑🏽👨🏻👁
Book #6
🏡🚜🛖🐗💬🐶🐷🐴🐄🐈⬛😊🚫👦🏻👨🏻🧑🏽👩🏼🚫💬🐷🐷🐷🐴🐶🐶🤗🎶🐗💀🐷🐷🐷📝🐷🐷🐷🐴🐶🐶👊👨🏻👨🏻😱👨🏻🏡🚜➡️🐷👩🏫🔤🐷🐷🐷🐴🐶🐶👊👨🏻🐄🛖🔫🇫🇷🐷🆚️❄🐷💭👑🐷💭❄🐷💨🛖🇫🇷🐷🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶👊❄🐷🇫🇷🐷👑🐷🐷🐷🐷▶️🐶🐴🐄🐈⬛🐷🐷🐴🐶💨🛖🇫🇷🐷👑👑🛏🥃👦🏻🐴💀🐷👑🐷👑🐷👑🐷👑🏡🚜🛖
Book #7
🏡👩🏻🦳💬❄👦🏻👹💬🧔🏻👩🏽👨🏻🧑🏻👧🏻🧒🏻👩🏽👶🏻➡️👩🏽💀👶🏻⬆️👩🏻🌲🌳🌲🌲🌲🐻🧔🏽1️⃣👁🐎❄👦🏻🌲🌲👩🏻🧑🏻➡️🏡🧔🏻💭👰💭🧔🏻👨🏻🧑🏻🐎🏙🧑🏻➡️☦⛪🧔🏼👑💬🧔🏻💍👩🏼➕🧑🏼💍👧🏻💬❄👦🏻💎➡️🧔🏻❄👦🏻💬👩🏻💎❗💬🧔🏻💎➡️👩🏻🦳👩🏼😱👹👹👹👩🏼😡👩🏻👦🏼☦🐎🏡👦🏼☦👩🏼💬👩🏻🧙♀️➕🚫🍞🥛➡️👹👹👹💬🧔🏻💬👩🏻💍🧑🏽💬👩🏻😱🧑🏽🏹🐻🐻🐻👩🏻🐎🧒🏼🆗️🧑🏽😱🚫💍👩🏻👩🏻😊🗣💬👦🏼☦👦🏼☦💭🗣😇☦💭👩🏻🦳💎➡️👩🏻👩🏻🦳💀🗣👩🏼👦🏼☦💭👩🏻➡️☦⛪🧙♀️💭👩🏻➡️🌲🌳🌲🌲🌲👩🏻❄👦🏻🛖👩🏻🥰🐎🐦👦🏼☦👩🏼🌲🌳🌲🌲🌲🐻🧔🏽🔪👩🏼💀🧔🏻💬🚫🔪👩🏻💀🧔🏻💀❗💬🐻🧔🏽🔪🧔🏻🐻🧔🏽💤⛓🌳👩🏻🐎🐦➡️🌲🌳🌲🌲🌲❄👦🏻
Book #8
👩🏼😐🐈💀🧍♂️🔥➡️👩🏼🚫🎶🧒🏻🚫🎹👩🏫👩🏼😟👩🏼💭🥺🥺🥺💭👩🏼💭💀💀💀💭👩🏼↩💊💊💊🍷💀👩🏼🏫📚👩🏼📖👩🏼💍🧔🏽🏡🍸📖🎸🤘🥁📖🇦🇺📖🏊♂️📖🐻❄❄📖❤🧔🧑🏻🦰🤰👧🏼📖👩🏼💭🚫💀❗🏫📚➡️❗💭👩🏼🏫📚➡️👩🏼🚫💀👩🏼🤗
Book #9
🧔🏼👨🏫🏫🔬🆘️☀️🦠🆘️🧔🏼➡️👨🚀🛰➡️⭐☀️🛰👁🚀🧔🏼🕷💬🎵🎵💬🕷🆘️🪐☀️🆘️🧪🔭🔬🧔🏼🕷➡️🫂🧔🏼🕷➡️🌌🕷🤒🧔🏼⚕🧔🏼🕷↩👹🦠🧔🏼👋🕷🧔🏼➡️🌏👹🦠⬛🆘️🧔🏼💭🕷🚀😱💭🧔🏼➡️🚀🧔🏼🕷➡️🪐
Book #10
🇮🇹🎭👨🏻💬👨🏼👨🏻😡👩🏼💍👦🏿👦🏿⬆️👨⬇️👨🏻💬👨🏻👨🏼💬🧔🏼👩🏼💏👦🏿🧔🏼😡🇹🇷👨✈️🎖👨✈️🎖👨✈️🎖👨🏽👑🆘️👦🏿🎖💪🏿🧔🏼😡👦🏿🧔🏼💬🧙♀️👩🏼💬👦🏿💬👦🏿💕👩🏼💬👨🏽👑💬👦🏿😊💬👨🏻😡👨🏻💭💬👦🏿👩🏼💕👨💭👨🏻➡️👨🍺👊👦🏿😡👨👨😭👨💬👩🏼👦🏿💭👩🏼👨💭👦🏿😡👩🏼⬇️◻👩🏻⬆️👊➡️👨🏻◻👨🏻😈👨🏻➡️👦🏿💬◻👩🏼💏👨💬👦🏿😡😡👦🏿🔪🛏👩🏼💀👩🏻😱💬👩🏻◻➡️👨🏻💬👦🏿😱😭👨🏻🔪👩🏻💀👦🏿🔪👨🏻👦🏿🗡👦🏿💀
So yeah, that was it for today! Did you recognize any of these books? Bring on your guesses in the comments!
Also, if you hate me too much for overtaxing your brain like this, feel free to retaliate with emoji quizzes of your own 😁 I am probably not most certainly up for the challenge!
[Update: The answers are now up, so if you want, you can view them here!]
A Book Owl's Corner 
naemi WHYYY?? you’ve got me doubting my reader skills now. each of these will take loads of concentration soo is it ok if i comment multiple times whenever i recognise one of them?
the only one i got till now is number 6- Animal Farm
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I am simply ensuring that you guys are continuing to hone those reader skills 😇 It’s for your own good!! 😁 So yeah, of course many comments are welcome! The more ideas, the merrier! 🤗
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WAIT UP book 10 is Romeo & Juliet
and book 9 is Frankenstein i guess
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book 1 is Pride & Prejudice,, i’m SO glad i decided to read it two weeks back lol
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book 3 is giving Life of Pi vibes
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ok my last brain cell is exhausted but id say 5 books is pretty decent,, that is if they’re all correct
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Heehee, they’re not 😜 But some of them might be! I’m just not saying how many to give other people a chance to catch up with your insane guessing skills 😄 But thanks for participating, Rachel – I hope you had fun despite the exhausted brain cells! 💙
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i know how much time u have spent sorting out the emojis for each book but i am bad at guessing and i aint gonna try this time because i read it it. i didnt understand it. now i give up-
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I very much appreciate your appreciation of the time it took me to select and type out all of the emojis 🥰😇 Seriously, these posts always take FOREVER!! 🤣
I’m very sorry for all the confusion I’ve caused your poor brain, though… Hopefully, a few things will at least make sense once the answers are revealed! But until then, I guess you’re stuck wondering 😁
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I have no idea haha I am so impressed you ever have the energy to search through emojis and get all this done so far, I only have a guess for two books:
Book 6: Animal Farm
Book 9: Project Hail Mary. While I don’t remember reading spiders being involved, the space emojis made me think of this because every spider emoji just made me think Spider-Man comics and I highly doubt you picked one of those so, Project Hail Mary haha
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Haha, yeah, halfway through writing this I was definitely having second thoughts about whether I really wanted to give you guys ten books! 😂 But I’m glad you had fun guessing, Meena! As for whether or not you’re right, you’ll just have to wait and see…
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Haha understandable! 🤣 of course, I will be waiting~ haha
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I’m spending way too much time on this considering I could be watching Stranger Things 4 😂 Also considering that I think we’ve established that I don’t remember important plot points in books 😅 Still, I’m also so stubborn about guessing these that I’m not looking at other people’s answers before having made my own. And they are:
Book 4: …Is that City of Bones? It was the brief appearance of vampires combined with rats and possibly someone being turned into a rat. That can’t happen in more than one book.
Book 5: The Way of Kings – I will not be surprised if you tell me I’m wrong about this one. I’m just seeing bridges, deserts (that could be plains), fighting and storms.
Book 7: The Bear and the Nightingale – It’s definitely Winternight and I’m pretty confident you went with the first one. This was the only one I got pretty quickly so I feel very on brand 😁
Have I read anything else? I was looking for a Hobb book but I don’t think it’s there. However, I still want to give my thoughts on the some of the others since I managed to guess one I hadn’t read the last time 😁
Book 2: So much murder. I think you’ve mentioned A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder a few times so that’s what I’m thinking of.
Book 3: There are clearly too many animals in that one for me to have read it 😂 And both the Mexican and Japanese flags? I’m so confused.
Book 6: I’m 100% sure I’ve never read a book with that many pigs in it…
Book 10: That looks Shakesperean. And I think the only one I’ve read with a black character is Othello.
It’s going to be a very long week waiting for these answers!
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Wow, I greatly admire your dedication 😂 Particularly since my own plans to plan one lesson for every Stranger Things 4 episode I get to watch have already gone out the window… I’ve just finished watching Chapter 2 and still only have one lesson ready 🙈 Why do these episodes always end in such interesting cliffhangers?? 😅
But yeah, I suppose you’ll just have to wait that week out regarding those answers 😁 I mean, you have Stranger Things as a distraction, so you should be fine! And I obviously can’t tell you if you’ve read anything else, but maybe it’ll make you feel better if I tell you that I know for a fact that you haven’t read all of these this time… So your chances of avoiding another Christmas Carol situation are actually quite good! 😉
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It was a productive plan you had there, but there’s just something very bingeable about Stranger Things. I wouldn’t say I ever binge series but Stranger Things is the exception. Everytime a new season is released it’s like my brain thinks something bad is going to happen if I haven’t watched it all within 24 hours 😅 So it’s a bit optimistic to assume these seven episodes are going to last a week, but I’ll just have to find something else that can distract me from this excitement 😄
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Unfortunately, my brain seems to be thinking along those same lines – I stayed up way too late last night to make it all the way to Chapter 4 😅 And to at least get one other lesson in to relieve myself of some of the guilt… So I’m actually kind of relieved there are only seven episodes out or my sleep schedule and next week’s preparation would be in severe jeopardy! 🤣
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I’ve come up with another far-fetched guess: Book 9 is Children of Time (not read it but I know it’s sci-fi with spiders).
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You’ll just have to wait and see 🙃 (Gosh, not being allowed to respond to any of these theories is so freaking hard!! Whatever possessed me to say I would give you a week?? 😫)
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I really admire the time it must’ve taken to come up with all of that, but unfortunately my brain simply lacks the braincells necessary to try to guess 😂 My only thoughts are that book 6 must be Animal Farm and that book 10 is definitely Shakespeare, probably Othello?
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Haha, you’ll just have to wait and see! But I very much appreciate you forcing your brain to give this a try, despite the reluctant braincells! 😂 If it’s any consolation, my siblings, some of my friends, and I have an entire WhatsApp group dedicated to this kind of thing, and my brain is always horribly overwhelmed by the stories everyone else posts in the group, too… 😅🤣
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NAEMI I AM STRUGGLING TO GUESS A SINGLE ONE OF THESE AND AM COMPLETELY DOUBTING MY READER ABILITIES OVERALL??? I’m pretty sure I haven’t read any of these 😭💀
I’m so confused ahhh HOW DO I GUESS THESE??? you made them very very difficult hahah!
i cant think of any of the answers right now BUT I WILL COME BACK TO REDEEM MY READER HONOUR.
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MY EVIL MIND SIMPLY KNOWS HOW TO DRIVE MY FOLLOWERS’ BRAINS TO EXTREME FRUSTRATION MUHAHAHA 😈😂 Of course I couldn’t make this too easy!! But best of luck trying to redeem that bookish honor; after all, you’ve still got until Friday… 😉
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The sixth is animal farm. That’s all i guessed. I missed this post, haven’t seen the answers yet.
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Well, even if you were here a bit late, you were right about Animal Farm! Apparently, I must have done a better job portraying that one because way more people guessed it correctly than the rest of these 😅😂
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I mean the only book that has that many pigs is …🙂🐷
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True 😂 The only other book I can think of at the moment that heavily features pigs is Charlotte’s Web, and even that doesn’t come close to Animal Farm! 🐷🐷🐷
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Ooooh yes that also has a pig!!! I forgot
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