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Pontardawe

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Pontardawe (– "bridge on the Tawe") is a town that houses some 5,000 inhabitants in the Swansea Valley (Welsh: Cwmtawe) in Wales. [1]

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A roads in Zone 4 of the Great Britain numbering scheme

List of A roads in zone 4 in Great Britain starting north of the A4 and south/west of the A5 (roads beginning with 4).

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A40 road

The A40 is a major trunk road connecting London to Goodwick (Fishguard), Wales, and officially called The London to Fishguard Trunk Road (A40) in all legal documents and Acts.

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A474 road

The A474 is a suburban main route in south Wales.

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Amman Valley Railway

The Amman Valley Railway Society (Rheilffordd Dyffryn Aman.) is situated near the former Gwaun Cae Gurwen branch line, that runs alongside the River Amman, some north of Swansea in west Wales.

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Anglicanism

Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that evolved out of the practices, liturgy and identity of the Church of England following the Protestant Reformation.

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Argos (retailer)

Argos Ltd, trading as Argos, is a British catalogue retailer operating in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and a subsidiary of Sainsbury's.

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Association football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball.

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Bethan Sayed

Bethan Sayed AM (née Jenkins, born 9 December 1981), is a Welsh politician, born in Aberdare, Wales, who has represented the South Wales West Region for Plaid Cymru as a Member of the National Assembly for Wales since 2007.

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Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England, with an estimated population of 1,101,360, making it the second most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Brecon

Brecon (Aberhonddu), archaically known as Brecknock, is a market town and community in Powys, Wales, with a population in 2001 of 7,901, increasing to 8,250 at the 2011 census.

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Brecon Beacons

The Brecon Beacons (Bannau Brycheiniog) is a mountain range in South Wales. In a narrow sense, the name refers to the range of Old Red Sandstone peaks which lie to the south of Brecon. Sometimes referred to as "the central Beacons" they include South Wales' highest mountain, Pen y Fan. The range forms the central section of the Brecon Beacons National Park (Parc Cenedlaethol Bannau Brycheiniog), a designation which also encompasses ranges both to the east and the west of "the central Beacons". This much wider area is also commonly referred to as "the Brecon Beacons", and it includes the Black Mountains to the east as well as the similarly named but quite distinct Black Mountain to the west. The highest peaks include Fan Brycheiniog to the west and Pen y Fan in the central part. They share the same basic geology as the central range, and so exhibit many similar features, such as the north-facing escarpment and glacial features such as lakes and cwms (cirques) below the escarpment. They all fall within the border of the national park.

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Bristol Channel

The Bristol Channel (Môr Hafren) is a major inlet in the island of Great Britain, separating South Wales from Devon and Somerset in South West England.

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Briton Ferry

Briton Ferry (Llansawel) is a town and community in the county borough of Neath Port Talbot, Wales.

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Brynamman

Brynamman (Brynaman) is a village on the south side of the Black Mountain (Y Mynydd Du), part of the Brecon Beacons National Park (Parc Cenedlaethol Bannau Brycheiniog).

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Caroline Jones (politician)

Caroline Yvonne Jones (born 1 April 1955) is a Welsh politician who is leader of UKIP in the Welsh Assembly.

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Cenarth

Cenarth is a village, parish and community in Carmarthenshire, adjoining the Cenarth Falls, bordering Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire, Wales.

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Coffeehouse

A coffeehouse, coffee shop or café (sometimes spelt cafe) is an establishment which primarily serves hot coffee, related coffee beverages (café latte, cappuccino, espresso), tea, and other hot beverages.

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Community (Wales)

A community (cymuned) is a division of land in Wales that forms the lowest tier of local government in Wales.

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Comprehensive school

A comprehensive school is a secondary school that is a state school and does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude, in contrast to the selective school system, where admission is restricted on the basis of selection criteria.

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Concert

A concert is a live music performance in front of an audience.

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County borough

County borough is a term introduced in 1889 in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (excluding Scotland), to refer to a borough or a city independent of county council control.

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Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players each on a cricket field, at the centre of which is a rectangular pitch with a target at each end called the wicket (a set of three wooden stumps upon which two bails sit).

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Cwmtawe Community School

Cwmtawe Community School (in Welsh: Ysgol Gymunedol Cwmtawe) Formerly known as Pontardawe Technical School and Cwmtawe Comprehensive School, is a modern, English-medium education comprehensive school situated in Pontardawe, South Wales.

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D. Gwenallt Jones

Gwenallt (the bardic name of David James Jones, 18 May 1899 – 24 December 1968), poet, critic, and scholar, was one of the most important figures of 20th-century Welsh-language literature.

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David Lloyd (Welsh politician)

David Rees "Dai" Lloyd (born 2 December 1956 in Tywyn, Gwynedd) is a Welsh politician.

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Drovers' road

A drovers' road, drove or droveway is a route for droving livestock on foot from one place to another, such as to market or between summer and winter pasture (see transhumance).

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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Estyn

Estyn is the education and training inspectorate for Wales.

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Farmfoods

Farmfoods Limited is a British frozen food supermarket chain based in Cumbernauld.

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First Cymru

First Cymru is an operator of bus services in South West Wales.

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Focus DIY

Focus DIY was a privately owned chain of DIY stores in the United Kingdom.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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General Certificate of Secondary Education

The General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) is an academic qualification, generally taken in a number of subjects by pupils in secondary education in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

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George V

George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936.

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Hereford

Hereford is a cathedral city, civil parish and county town of Herefordshire, England.

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Home Bargains

Home Bargains is a chain of discount stores founded in 1976 by Tom Morris in Liverpool, England, as Home and Bargain.

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Jeremy Miles

Jeremy Miles AM is the Welsh Labour and Co-operative Party Assembly Member in the National Assembly for Wales for Neath.

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Karate

(Okinawan pronunciation) is a martial art developed in the Ryukyu Kingdom.

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Kickboxing

Kickboxing is a group of stand-up combat sports based on kicking and punching, historically developed from karate mixed with boxing.

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Learndirect

Learndirect Ltd, stylised as learndirect, is a private company owned by the private equity firm Lloyds Development Capital (LDC).

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List of King George V Playing Fields in the United Kingdom

There were initially 471 King George V Playing Fields in the United Kingdom.

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Llandeilo

Llandeilo is a community and town in Carmarthenshire, Wales, situated at the crossing of the River Towy by the A483 on a 19th-century stone bridge.

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Lliw Valley

The Borough of Lliw Valley (Welsh: Dyffryn Lliw) was one of the four local government districts of West Glamorgan, Wales from 1974 to 1996.

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Lloyd Woolf

Lloyd Woolf is a British comedy actor and writer.

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Local Government Act 1972

The Local Government Act 1972 is an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom that reformed local government in England and Wales on 1 April 1974.

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Local government in Wales

Since 1 April 1996, Wales has been divided into 22 single-tier principal areas for local government purposes.

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Locminé

Locminé is a commune in the Morbihan department of the region of Brittany in north-western France.

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Malvern, Worcestershire

Malvern is a spa town and civil parish in Worcestershire, England.

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Mary Hopkin

Mary Hopkin (born 3 May 1950), credited on some recordings as Mary Visconti (from her marriage to Tony Visconti), is a Welsh folk singer best known for her 1968 UK number one single "Those Were the Days".

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Midland Railway

The Midland Railway (MR) was a railway company in the United Kingdom from 1844 to 1922, when it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.

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Morriston

Morriston (Treforys) is a community in the City and County of Swansea, Wales and falls within the Morriston ward.

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National Assembly for Wales

The National Assembly for Wales (Cynulliad Cenedlaethol Cymru; commonly known as the Welsh Assembly) is a devolved parliament with power to make legislation in Wales.

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National Cycle Route 43

National Cycle Network, Route 43 is part of the National Cycle Network and the Celtic Trail, which connects Swansea with Builth Wells.

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Neath

Neath (Castell-nedd) is a town and community situated in the principal area of Neath Port Talbot, Wales with a population of 19,258 in 2011.

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Neath (Assembly constituency)

Neath is a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales.

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Neath (UK Parliament constituency)

Neath (Welsh: Castell-nedd) is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Neath and Brecon Railway

The Dulas Valley Mineral Railway was incorporated in 1862 to bring coal from the Onllwyn area north-east of Neath to the quays there, and in the following year was reconstituted as the Neath and Brecon Railway.

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Neath Port Talbot

Neath Port Talbot (Castell-nedd Port Talbot) is a county borough and one of the unitary authority areas of Wales.

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Neath Port Talbot College

Neath Port Talbot College (NPTC) was a further education institution established as two campuses in Port Talbot and Neath in Wales, United Kingdom.

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Old Bridge, Pontypridd

The Old Bridge (Yr Hen Bont), which is now also known as the William Edwards Bridge or Pontypridd Bridge, was originally known as the New Bridge or Newbridge, is an arched single-span footbridge that spans the River Taff at Pontypridd in Wales.

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Pontardawe (electoral ward)

Pontardawe is an electoral ward of Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales.

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Pontardawe Arts Centre

Pontardawe Arts Centre is a multi-purpose cultural venue in Pontardawe, Neath Port Talbot, Wales.

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Pontardawe Festival

Pontardawe Festival is an annual festival of world music and dance which is held every August on the playing fields in Pontardawe, Wales, UK.

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Pontardawe RFC

Pontardawe Rugby Football club is a rugby union club based in Pontardawe, a small town in the valley of the River Tawe in Wales.

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Pontypridd

Pontypridd often colloquially known as Ponty, is both a community and the county town of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, and is situated 12 miles (19 km) north of the Welsh capital city of Cardiff.

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Pound sterling

The pound sterling (symbol: £; ISO code: GBP), commonly known as the pound and less commonly referred to as Sterling, is the official currency of the United Kingdom, Jersey, Guernsey, the Isle of Man, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, the British Antarctic Territory, and Tristan da Cunha.

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Poundstretcher

Poundstretcher (previously styled as £-stretcher or...instore) is a chain of discount stores operating in the United Kingdom.

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Rachel Thomas

Rachel Thomas OBE (10 February 1905 - 8 February 1995), was a Welsh character actress.

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River Tawe

The River Tawe (Welsh: Afon Tawe) is a river in the south of Wales.

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Rosie Ribbons

Rosemary "Rosie" Ribbons (born 22 July 1983) is an Australian-born, United Kingdom-raised singer-songwriter.

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Rugby sevens

Rugby sevens (commonly known simply as sevens), and originally known as Seven-a-side rugby is a variant of rugby union in which teams are made up of seven players playing seven minute halves, instead of the usual 15 players playing 40 minute halves.

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Rugby union

Rugby union, commonly known in most of the world as rugby, is a contact team sport which originated in England in the first half of the 19th century.

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Sennybridge

Sennybridge (Pont Senni) is a village in the historic county of Brecknockshire, Wales, now within the unitary authority area of Powys, situated some from Cardiff and from Swansea.

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Sir John Morris, 1st Baronet

Sir John Morris, 1st Baronet (15 July 1745 – 25 June 1819), was a British industrialist, active in copper-smelting and coal-mining in Swansea, South Wales.

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Sister city

Twin towns or sister cities are a form of legal or social agreement between towns, cities, counties, oblasts, prefectures, provinces, regions, states, and even countries in geographically and politically distinct areas to promote cultural and commercial ties.

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Spire

A spire is a tapering conical or pyramidal structure on the top of a building, often a skyscraper or a church tower, similar to a steep tented roof.

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Suzy Davies

Suzy Davies (born 3 January) is a Welsh Conservative Party politician, and first on the Conservative list for the region of South Wales West in the National Assembly for Wales election in May 2011.

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Swansea

Swansea (Abertawe), is a coastal city and county, officially known as the City and County of Swansea (Dinas a Sir Abertawe) in Wales, UK.

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Swansea Canal

The Swansea Canal (Welsh: Camlas Abertawe) was a canal constructed by the Swansea Canal Navigation Company between 1794 and 1798, running for from Swansea to Hen Neuadd, Abercraf in South Wales.

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Swansea docks

Swansea Docks is the collective name for several docks in Swansea, Wales.

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Swansea Vale Railway

The Swansea Vale Railway (SVR) was a railway line connecting the port of Swansea in South Wales to industries and coalfields along the River Tawe on the northern margin of Swansea, by taking over a tramroad in 1846.

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Swansea Valley

The Swansea Valley (Cwm Tawe), one of the South Wales Valleys, is the name often given to the valley of the River Tawe area in southern Wales, United Kingdom.

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Swim Wales

Swim Wales (Nofio Cymru) (WASA) (founded 1897 as the Welsh Amateur Swimming Association) is the national governing body of diving, swimming (including open water and synchronised swimming) and water polo, in Wales.

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Tesco

Tesco plc, trading as Tesco, is a British multinational groceries and general merchandise retailer with headquarters in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom.

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Tinplate

Tinplate consists of sheets of steel, coated with a thin layer of tin.

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Town

A town is a human settlement.

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Trebanos (electoral ward)

Trebanos is an electoral ward of Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales, part of the Pontardawe community.

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Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.

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Welsh language

Welsh (Cymraeg or y Gymraeg) is a member of the Brittonic branch of the Celtic languages.

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West Glamorgan

West Glamorgan (Gorllewin Morgannwg) is a preserved county and former administrative county of Wales, one of the divisions of the ancient county of Glamorgan.

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West Wales

West Wales (Gorllewin Cymru) is the western region of Wales.

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William Edwards (architect)

William Edwards (February 1719 – 7 August 1789) was a Welsh Methodist minister who also practised as a stonemason, architect and bridge engineer.

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Worcester

Worcester is a city in Worcestershire, England, southwest of Birmingham, west-northwest of London, north of Gloucester and northeast of Hereford.

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World music

World music (also called global music or international music) is a musical category encompassing many different styles of music from around the globe, which includes many genres including some forms of Western music represented by folk music, as well as selected forms of ethnic music, indigenous music, neotraditional music, and music where more than one cultural tradition, such as ethnic music and Western popular music, intermingle.

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Ystalyfera

Ystalyfera is a former industrial village in the upper Swansea Valley, on the River Tawe, about north-east of Swansea.

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Ystradgynlais

Ystradgynlais is a town on the banks of the River Tawe in southwest Powys, Wales.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontardawe

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