But shes not yet a recluse. Fig. She plays the poet. Failed to report flower. This Emily lives with her family in Amherst, and the trips to Boston are over. Dickinson becomes radiant with loneliness. 3. children (at least): Sampson W b. Image courtesy Double Dutch International, Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard. Moments with Buffam are filled with witty dialogue. You really have to rethink Dickinson as a reclusive spinster after that rendition.. If you have questions, please contact [emailprotected]. Thanks for your help! Emily expresses her admiration for George Eliot and the Brontes, and her disdain for the king of 19th century American poetry, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Fig. I dont want to give too much away, but the movie explores the meaningful relationships that Emily forged and maintained throughout her life. Required fields are marked *. There was something new and extraordinary in the air this year, and it had to do with the intersection of history and memory. Nixons Dickinson would like, rather, to make a little noise, and when she does so its with a disagreeable, disruptive, hostile bitterness that exemplifies Daviess view of the poets unhappy anonymity. Try again later. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/131666422/vryling-wilder-buffum. Metaphysical horror is at the core of Daviess Dickinson, a relentless awareness that life is a brief and fragile bubble afloat on a sea of death, and that the mightiest public manifestation of collective confrontation with that appalling factnamely, religionhas degenerated into a rigid bureaucracy and a stifling instrument of control. Screening at the Kendall Square Cinema, Cambridge, MA and the West Newton Cinema. Learn about how to make the most of a memorial. Emily becomes close with a spunky socialite named Vryling Buffam (Catherine Bailey), and they share their aspirations and frustrations of marriage. Found more than one record for entered Email, You need to confirm this account before you can sign in. As time passes, Emilys sparky contrariness calcifies into bitterness, the sharpness of her prose also lacerating her romantic prospects; the meticulous guarding of her souls independence creating a chasm between her success and her self-esteem. The story of American poet Emily Dickinson from her early days as a young schoolgirl to her later years as a reclusive, unrecognized artist. Among cartoons that imagine Dickinsons Instagram account (@recluse1830) and OKCupid profile (ethnicity: white as alabaster) are fake scholarly tomes whose titles send up our fascination with Dickinsons personal life: Her Daily Bread: Emily Dickinsons Silent Struggle with Gluten Intolerance, and Emily Wiccanson: The Poet and Her Craft, exploring her possible involvement in witchcraft. Vryling Buffam was a real woman who lived in Amherst during Emily Dickinson's lifetime, but there is no evidence that the two ever met. For the last decades of her life, she kept to her room in the Homestead, the house in Amherst, Massachusetts, where she had been born. Emily (left, Molly Shannon) and Sue (right, Susan Zeigler) stand in a kitchen, in front of open cabinets and a large window, and both look at papers in Susans hand. By structuring the film as a kind of flashback correcting Mabel Loomis Todds lectures to promote her edition of Dickinsons poems, Olneks film essentially speaks back to decades of Dickinson scholarship that echoed the version of Dickinson that Todd constructed to market her book. However, the pace lags and the tone soon turns morbid; Emilys physical health deteriorates, with several gruelling scenes of her fitting and thrashing. It seems to have taken hold almost as soon as her poems found their audience. She is surrounded by her family in a half circle, all others knelt in prayer. Emily Dickinson. The actress seems to share something of the poets facial features too. Acclaimed British director Terence Davies (House of Mirth, The Deep Blue Sea) exquisitely evokes Dickinson . In key ways, he deeply relates to her. died aged 83y 8m 26ds; single; female; retired librarian; died at 80 Roxbury St., Keene, N.H.; burial Evergreen Cemetery, Winchester, N.H., Frank J Foley undertaker; informant Mrs LaFell Dickinsondau of Sampson W Buffum & Mary (Tower) Buffumboth parents born in Lancaster, Mass. Olneks research, which is funded by a Guggenheim fellowship, was inspired by the use of infrared technology to access crossed out and erased words in Dickinsons papers. Its pieced together from the most outlandish details of Dickinsons biography: her penchant for dressing in white, her reluctance to leave her bedroom, her habit of addressing visitors through a door rather than face to face. And she wrote very funny things too, she says. A Quiet Passion. Tag Archives: vryling buffam Joseph Brooker on Damsels in Distress and A Quiet Passion. She grows to adulthood a process represented in a strangely eerie digital transformation of her photographic portrait and is portrayed by Nixon from then on. The film has yet to get an official release date (possibly in September in the U.K.). Thats it for romance. This memorial has been copied to your clipboard. But Vryling manages to delight in the silly constrictions of their society where Emily is deeply conflicted and tormented by pressures of piety, decorum and what she feels is right. The title is a paradox, like Bergmans Cries and Whispers. To revisit this article, select My Account, thenView saved stories, To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. There is a nearly surrealistic whimsy in her prose voice as well as in her poetry, which Nixon endows with a singular, fanciful lilt that treats the writers language, with its unique phrasing and punctuation, as if it were a musical score. Its only by peeking at film reviews by educated Dickinsonians did I have confirmed what I strongly suspected: Davies makes things up. A luminous biography of the poet Emily Dickinson, captured flawlessly by Cynthia Nixon. The email does not appear to be a valid email address. Jennifer Ehle, Keith Carradine, Duncan Duff, and Catherine Bailey co-star. Thanks for using Find a Grave, if you have any feedback we would love to hear from you. Though no review Ive read has expressly objected to the fictionalization of Vryling Buffum or the friendship, critique of the friendship is inescapably bound to the dramatic liberties that Davies exercises in its depiction. This relationship is not possible based on lifespan dates. Dickinson's eventual illness and seizures, which Davies had his cinematographer, Florian . When Vryling Buffam marries, originally, there were some shots in the church and some shots outside. Ad Choices, A Quiet Passion andThe Fate of the Furious. Drag images here or select from your computer for Vryling Wilder Buffum memorial. Thats either narcissism or an example of extremely subjective cinema. She also read widely and was aware of political realities, including the American Civil War, that were going on around her. Are you sure that you want to delete this photo? An email has been sent to the person who requested the photo informing them that you have fulfilled their request, There is an open photo request for this memorial. The family sits in a parlor-like room of the Dickinson Homestead, with yellow wallpaper and dark mustard drapes. to Be Confused About This Economy. Her incarnation of Dickinson seems to rise outward from the bone; she seems frozenly poised with, yes, a quiet passion thats all the more impassioned for its unplanned quietness. Yet for Davies film, it is not Emilys death that is the most interesting it is the death of Emilys mother, Emily Dickinson Sr. One area of Dickinson scholarship that is perhaps understudied is a consideration of Emily and Lavinias work as caretakers for their mother. [1]On this point of reading Emily and Lavinia as caretakers, I am indebted to the discussions for the DEA undergraduate internship group during the spring 2019 semester with E. M. Patterson, Deanna Stephen, and then-co-project manager Setsuko Yokoyama. Much of the film's midsection is given over to airless reams of run-on aphorisms, as Dickinson, her doting younger sister, Lavinia (Jennifer Ehle), and her irreverent best friend, Vryling Buffam . The other splendid performance is a triumph of unorthodox casting: 1970s hippy actor Keith Carradine as Emilys stern patriarchal father. As Emily Dickinson in A Quiet Passion, Cynthia Nixon reveals her depth of range and skill as a performer emotionally, physically, and technically. In real life, Vryling Buffam (Catherine Bailey) was closer to Vinnie than Emily, but Davies has polished and sharpened, turning her into a composite of Dickinson's closest friends, and the two women's exchanges on men, family and the disadvantages of marriage are a lot of fun, a word I never thought I'd use about a Davies film. [I}t is a horrible feeling. A Quiet Passion will take its place as one of his finest creations, as one of the great movies of the time. I knew, as everyone does, of her close friendship with her sister-in-law, Susan Gilbert (played in the film by Jodhi May); but in A Quiet Passion, that relationship, though crucial (because its centered on intimate matters), is second, intellectually, to Emilys bond with Vryling, a name that will be far less familiar to viewers with only casual knowledge of the poet. Photos larger than 8Mb will be reduced. Resend Activation Email. Davies: For ten years, people werent interested in my work, they werent interested at all. Who Are You? Weve updated the security on the site. Emily se rebela contra el orden . It's a pity that it should come as part of the lengthy exploration of the poet's friendship with Miss Vryling Buffam (Catherine Bailey), a coquettishly outspoken proto-feminist who seems to have walked out of a play by Oscar Wilde. Please enter your email and password to sign in. The conventions of the period would also lead her independently minded friend Vryling Buffam (Catherine Bailey) to yield eventually to marrying as expected. As a single university graduate, shed tell anyone who asked that she hoped to become the Emily Dickinson of comedy the joke being that Dickinson wasnt funny. Her mother (Joanna Bacon), a depressive, cries over a 19-year-old boy she once loved, who died so young. And in the household itself, things change. Jodhi May Susan Gilbert. Personal calamities ensue: her inspiringly witty and rebellious friend Vryling Buffam (Catherine Bailey) meekly submits to marriage and moves away a rather Austenian betrayal, like Charlotte Lucas marrying Mr Collins in Pride and Prejudice. Against her, Davies sets the vivacious and lovely Vryling Buffam, who understands and approves Emily's cause but refuses to share her fate. Davies has been, for thirty years, among the worlds best filmmakers, certainly not as concealed or unheralded in his time as Dickinson was in hers, but not nearly receiving the acclaim or the support that he has deserved. Its only part of the story, however, and Davies film is just one of a series of creative projects seeking to show other sides of Emily Dickinson. Like Bruno and Vega, Atherton was an early convert to Dickinsons poetry. If you notice a problem with the translation, please send a message to [emailprotected] and include a link to the page and details about the problem. Anda bisa melihatnya di trailer film itu, saat Dickinson dan temannya, seorang proto-feminis yang usil, Vryling Buffam, menganalisis pria-pria sambil berkipas. As Nixon puts it, Dickinson is the patron saint of shy persons. While Schweitzers re-grounding of Dickinson within her historical and cultural contexts is undoubtedly important, especially as we continue to consume fictionalized representations of Dickinsons life and her contemporaries, part of the joy of consuming the films is indulging in the visions of Dickinson each presents. And Emily was never bosom pals with a fluffy woman named Vryling Buffam (Catherine Bailey), who gads about spouting pithy epigrams which seem like borrowings from Oscar Wildes The Important of Being Earnest. (Although, in counterpoint, the scenes showing him bearing up under the outrageously dogmatic pettiness of his wife, played by Simone Milsdochter, have a devastatingly acerbic comedy.) She gets giddy over the new pastor in town, Reverend Charles Wadsworth, whom she lets read some of her poetry and loves it. There is a superb scene in which pious visitors will not accept the stimulants of tea or coffee, and in the ensuing ghastly embarrassment, the water jug clinks deafeningly against the teacups. Were working to restore it. Jennifer Ehle as Lavinia "Vinnie" Dickinson Emily's sister. Close this window, and upload the photo(s) again. Visit the DEA1, "Some keep the Sabbath going to Church -/ I keep it, staying at Home-": Dickinson in Film by Jeannette Schollaert, Copyright 2013 Dickinson Editing Collective, The Ghosts of Emily Dickinson: Hauntings in Popular Culture, Introduction: Which Dickinson? Cynthia Nixon delivers a triumphant performance as Emily Dickinson as she personifies the wit, intellectual independence and pathos of the poet whose genius only came to be recognized after her death. Image Description: Promotional poster for Wild Nights With Emily, picturing Susan Zeigler as Susan Dickinson to the left, and Molly Shannon as Emily Dickinson to the right. Is this Dickinson or Sex and the City's . She was not shy or reticent about sharing her work with them., A lock of the poets hair is among the personal effects, manuscripts and other items currently on display at the Morgan Library in New York City (Credit: Amherst College Archives), To the extent that she did later opt for physical isolation, it would be a mistake to read timidity into that choice. Emily is now an agoraphobe and recluse. Are you adding a grave photo that will fulfill this request? Her only solaces are her kindhearted sister (Jennifer Ehle) and writing but even that can send her into despair, knowing. Schweitzers focus on both national and international events from the year 1862 lend insight to what Dickinsons atmosphere might have been like, using primary sources and linked documents to directly illustrate her point. More at IMDbPro Contact info They both consider a draft of Emilys writing. Emily's quick-witted best friend, Vryling Buffam (Catherine Bailey), provides much of the comic relief, with her barbed repartee and outrageous views. To use this feature, use a newer browser. Davies dramatizes those furiesand their profound philosophical essencein A Quiet Passion, thanks in significant measure to a dramatic twist that sent me scurrying (albeit long after viewing) to online searches in quest of an exotic personage. 0 cemeteries found in Winchester, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA. Boston's Online Arts Magazine: Dance, Film, Literature, Music, Theater, and more. Verify and try again. Cloistered Cynthia Dixon as Emily Dickinson in A Quiet Passion. Include gps location with grave photos where possible. Search above to list available cemeteries. By signing up, you agree to our User Agreement and Privacy Policy & Cookie Statement. cemeteries found within kilometers of your location will be saved to your photo volunteer list. In imagining Dickinsons friendship with Buffum, Davies breaksfrom the external facts of Dickinsons life. +44 207 636 6123 info@loudandclearvoices.com. She has wit and she's hungry for friends who can help her exercise it. Please enter your email address and we will send you an email with a reset password code. cemeteries found within miles of your location will be saved to your photo volunteer list. died aged 83y 8m 26ds; single; female; retired librarian; died at 80 Roxbury St., Keene, N.H.; burial Evergreen Cemetery, Winchester, N.H., Frank J Foley undertaker; informant Mrs LaFell Dickinson dau of Sampson W Buffum & Mary (Tower) Buffum both parents born in Lancaster, Mass. Terence Daviess film follows the American poets descent from wisecracking repartee to isolated creative rigour. If this were the 21st century, this Emily would be on the way to an enthralling life with countless possibilities. The lot of women as portrayed here may mean that A Quiet Passion has appeal for feminists, but the film also recognises the loss that Emily felt in never finding a suitable man to marry . Would Emily and her brother really have a heated discussion about gender? dau of Levi Wilder & Sarah Sally (Stoddard) Wilder m. Jedidiah Buffum 27 Apr 1807 at Lancaster, Mass. Although there are some beautiful images and Nixons performance is heartfelt, A Quiet Passion does only one thing perfectly: it is the quintessential parody of the earnest art film. The film creates and enlarges Buffam's role in Emily's life, and Nixons Dickinson is devastated when the quick-quipping Buffam marries and leaves town, yet the film strangely misses an opportunity to show Dickinsons close relationship with her sister-in-law Susan. Buffam, an outgoing socialite who likes to keep men on their toes ("he dances like a polar bear"), is played with infectious verve by Catherine Bailey who, in light of the restrictions of the. Nixon plays Dickinsons death like a childbirth scene in which the body is wrenched apart to yield up the soul, which then doesnt ascend to heaven but remains on Earth to inhabit the world more fully after death than Dickinson ever managed to do in lifethe wicked metaphysical irony of posthumous renown. Oops, we were unable to send the email. It has the elegance and detail of a drawing room comedy. Rating PG-13 for thematic elements, disturbing. Failed to delete memorial. Winchester, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA, Keene, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA. It isnt Dickinsons gift for poetry that gets thrust in prison but her gift for love, and not thrust by her, either. Oops, something didn't work. Image description: Promotional still from Wild Nights with Emily. She explicitly frames her project as a reaction, in part, to the representations of Dickinson in recent films that counteract the myth of the quaint recluse removed from the world (White Heat). And Davies can relate to Dickinson writing all those genius poems in anonymity, only six of them published (barely) while she was alive. It certainly isnt how youd imagine literatures most famous recluse conducting herself. And what words they are. Edward Dickinson. So many versions of Dickinson went unchallenged, yet Olneks version perhaps the version that most readily cites its evidence in the film itself, via the prominent notice of permissions from Harvard and explicit ties to Smiths scholarship faces calls for elaboration and explanation. A Quiet Passion review: The singular life of poet Emily Dickinson. by Jeannette Schollaert, Dickinsons (In)visible Emily by Elizabeth Dinneny, A Queer Visual Poem: Ghosts in the E-Chart, Big Reputations: Celebrity and Temporal Duration in/of Dickinson Lyrics by Elizabeth Dinneny, Ghosts in the Algorithm: The Dickinsons on TikTok by Elizabeth Dinneny, Dickinsons (In)visible Emily by Elizabeth Dinneny , Reading at Home: Emily Dickinsons Domestic Contexts. Davies films his literary script with a directorial daring thats both precise and free, blending delicately composed close-ups and group portraits with audaciously confrontational and uninhibited visual imagination, involving three-hundred-and-sixty-degree pans and haunting special effects (including a jolting documentary interlude regarding the Civil War). I cant wait to see it againand to see it become widely available. At one point Emily declares her that Vryling Buffam (Catherine Bailey) "could never seem smug!" In fact this supposed "proto-feminist" comes off as exactly that. The films interest in Dickinsons religious journey is paired with an exploration of the choices available to women in the nineteenth century. There was an error deleting this problem. The agonizing death scenes are inspired by Davies memories of his fathers suffering; the dialog is a pastiche of favorite films of Davies youth; the characters exist and do things because Davies finds them amusing. Learn more about merges. I wanted Miss Vryling Buffam to be irreverent and say exactly what she likes that's charming and is very beguiling, that kind of openness. In depicting Dickinsons life, fixed mainly at the family home, in Amherst, Davies (who both directed the film and wrote the script) turns the story into a laceratingly epigrammatic comical satire on New Englands narrow moresuntil the movie turns into an ink-black physical and moral and spiritual tragedy of thwarted love, thwarted renown, and illness and death confronted brutally, cushioned by no religious convictions. Is this Dickinson or Sex and the Citys Miranda Hobbes in olden days garb? Lovers and a career. Nobody goes to a Terence Davies film to be cheered up. Incorporated into the voiceover narration as an internal monologue, they're a link to the scene outside Dickinson's window, reflecting time's passing in the changing of the seasons. Others whom Emily loves die or disappear from her life or let her down, and she succumbs to illness and disillusion, dressing in strange anti-mourning white and scorning visitors. And the world only seems to disappoint Emily as time goes on. Davies charts her gradual withdrawal to the room upstairs with an impeccable evocation of the Dickinsons' stitched-up milieu at the centre of New England's Puritan society. She describes herself as a "kangaroo among beauties" in regard to the former, and a "no-hoper" in regard to the latter. Price Match Guarantee. What, though, of Jennifer Ehle, who plays Dickinson's cheerful, good-natured, and devoted sister Vinnie; Jodhi May, who plays their virtuous sister-in-law Susan, a victim of adultery; and Catherine Bailey, who plays their knowing, liberated friend Vryling Buffam? Family members linked to this person will appear here. Released just about a year apart, the two most recent big screen representations of Emily Dickinson could not tell more different stories about Dickinsons life. Remove advertising from a memorial by sponsoring it for just $5. Emily finds a lively companion in Vryling Buffam (Catherine Bailey), who is even more modern than Emily. For example, Emilys married brother, Austin Dickinson (Duncan Duff) did have a long affair with Mabel Loomis Todd, who later, as a literary editor, would bring Dickinsons unknown poetry to the public. The films special music is that of Dickinsons poems, which are heard, throughout, in recitations by Nixon that catch the glint of raging inner furies looming deep within the poems plain surfaces and lullingly singsong hymnal rhythms. Da noive! Cynthia Nixon is a great Emily Dickinson, so deeply angry, so heartbreaking in her fools life of stoic suffering. "They all go!" Emily . Like Dickinson, Davies came from a large family in Great Britain, a family he has looked at with great nostalgia in his autobiographical films. Shes still possessed of spirit and humor and a certain attraction but shes on the way toward spinsterhood. When his strong-minded daughter wants to stay up at night to write poetry, between three in the morning and dawn, he gives her leave to do so, and thus begins the life of the artist. Loud and Clear Voices 2022 Made by Mantas Garnelis T&Cs | Privacy & Cookies | Copyright Made by Mantas Garnelis T&Cs . She was born in 1803 and . And Charles Wadsworth (Eric Loren), the local pastor, who gives the poems the praise Dickinson craves, eventually leaves for another parish. Vryling Buffam. Use Escape keyboard button or the Close button to close the carousel. Please try again later. The days of Amherst go by uneventfully enough at first. In one of A Quiet Passions early scenes, the poet Emily Dickinson quips that an argument about gender is an argument about war. The poems, beautifully read by Nixon, just float onto the soundtrack at various moments in the movie, elegant and mysterious. And then there is the death of her father, the death of her mother. Please try again later. Mrs. Dickinson never leaves the upstairs of the house. Resend Activation Email, Please check the I'm not a robot checkbox, If you want to be a Photo Volunteer you must enter a ZIP Code or select your location on the map. You can see it even in the trailer, in which Dickinson and her mischievous proto-feminist friend, Vryling Buffam, eye up men while fluttering their fans. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Bostons online arts magazine since 2007. He also makes exemplary use of Dickinsons poetry, recited by Nixon, on the soundtrack, playing like a sort of music that meshes with the actual music track, which is dominated by well-chosen touches of further New England audacity, such as Charles Ivess The Unanswered Question.. If you would like to comment on this story or anything else you have seen on BBC Culture, head over to ourFacebookpage or message us onTwitter. About. First Vryling gets married and moves away, and then Emily's father dies. It is a face that changes as she grows older and moves along the spectrum of genius, publishing little or nothing, angry about the non-consolation of posterity. Austin, who lives next door with Susan and their children, begins what will become a long affair with a flamboyant neighbour, Mabel Loomis Todd (Noemie Schellens), and there are significant consequences for them all. Fig. Try again later. Terence Daviess elegant film benefits from a terrific performance by Nixon, who makes the reclusive 19th-century poet seem radiant with loneliness. But this is the pre-Civil War 19th century, and theres no place for women to go. Dickinson the social media star may be the stuff of satire, but as a young woman, the poet was indeed socially active. With sumptuous costumes and hidden meanings, Park Chan-wook's The Handmaiden is a complex feminist thriller while A Quiet Passion also explores an oppressive society in its telling of the life . 9 and . Actress Catherine Bailey who plays the role of Vryling Buffam is totally stealing the show in that first scene! The acting is capable, although sometimes the 19th century dialogue is not well suited to the actors' temperaments. (Asked whether she is ill, she replies that she was suffering from an acute case of evangelism.) But the freest venting of Emilys free thought is inspired by her friendship with a newcomer to Amherst, Vryling Buffum (Catherine Bailey), who mocks her own name (it sounds like an anagram) and more or less everything and everyone within her purview. And if you liked this story,sign up for the weekly bbc.com features newsletter, called If You Only Read 6 Things This Week. We both agree that a lot of this movie is really about the filmmaker. Who Are You? Dickinsons mythology is often misread by scholars and teachers. Tantalising though these discoveries are, theyre also a reminder to stick with what Dickinson left behind: her words. Catherine Bailey. You may not upload any more photos to this memorial, This photo was not uploaded because this memorial already has 20 photos, This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 5 photos to this memorial, This photo was not uploaded because this memorial already has 30 photos, This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 15 photos to this memorial. Even when Emily and friend Vryling Buffam (Catherine Bailey) gaily exchange rebellious repartee, it feels stilted and too much, the words creating overkill; in all, it's a very, very talky film . We will review the memorials and decide if they should be merged. Her constant, "clever . I feel like [the real] story has just been hiding in plain sight. In matters of the soul, you are rigorous, says Vinnie (Jennifer Ehle) to her sister. DRAMA; Who was Emily Dickinson? When Flaubert said, Emma Bovary, cest moi! or something like that. By signing up, you agree to our User Agreement and Privacy Policy & Cookie Statement. The only evidence of Buffam's connection to the Dickinsons is a citation that Buffam sat next to Lavinia Dickinson during the March 1898 lawsuit over a piece of land that Mable Loomis Todd claimed that Austin Dickinson, with whom Mabel was having an affair, supposedly gifted to her (Longsworth 416, 325n). This biopic traces the life of 19th century American poet Emily Dickinson (Cynthia Nixon), depicting how her romantic frustrations, relationships with her family, and reclusive nature helped shape her development as a writer. As Schweitzer notes in her ethos of the project description, she aimed to embrace serendipity in her project. Personal calamities ensue: her inspiringly witty and rebellious friend Vryling Buffam (Catherine Bailey) meekly submits to marriage and moves away - a rather Austenian betrayal, like Charlotte . She wrote a stream of letters to the friends she had made in her youth at school and college and during her early forays into the wider world. 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