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Title Page - The Bear's Den for 1956, Frost High School,
Frost, Texas; Picture of School
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Annual Staff- Mrs. Slater, Bobby Ellis, Barbara Bonnett,
Mike McMinn,
Jane Knight, Doug Harrison, Karen Long, Rosemary
Strain
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Dedication - Miss Beatrice Jones
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Board of Trustees - Mr. Leroy Downey, Mr. Chester Strain,
Mr. Norwood McMinn, Mr. Oran Williams - President, Mr. Fletcher
Bonnett - Secretary, Mr. Jimmy Caffey, Mr. Guy Tullos
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Superintendent's Message - Truman Newsom - Superintendent
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Principal's Message - Ronald Davis; Elementary School
Principal's Message - Daniel B. Nixon
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The Faculty - Superintendent, Truman Newsome; High
School Principal, Ronald Davis
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The Faculty - Mr. Truman Newsom, Mr. Ronald Davis, Mrs.
J. J. Slater, Mrs. Ralph Terry, Mrs. Chas. Martin, Mr. Chas.
Martin
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The Faculty - Mr. Dan Nixon, Mrs. George Crook, Mrs.
Jerry Scott, Mrs. L. C. Hasten, Miss Beatrice Jones, Mrs. G. I.
Warren, Mrs. J. T. Mason
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Senior Class Officers - Doug Harrison, Bobby Honea,
Jackie Slater,
Jane Knight
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Senior Class:
Barbara Bonnett, Lurene Crawford, Doug
Harrison, Charles Powell
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Senior Class: Jane Knight, John Neel, Karen Long, Bobby
Ellis
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Senior Class:
James Oliver Jobe, Jackie Slater, Jimmy
Strain, Joy Ballew
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Senior Class: Laddy Rejcek, Bettye Minze,
Curtis Muesse,
Betty Stringer
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Senior Class: Aaron May, Sue Scott, Bobby Honea, Betty
Elmore
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Junior Class Officers - E. L. Perry (not pictured),
Mike McMinn, Mary English, Maridell Jantz
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Junior Class - E. L. Perry, Lillian McClure, Mike McMinn,
Barbra Williams, Jarrett Dillard, Beatrice Williams, Donald
Bailey, Nelda Bell, Billy Hooser, Kay Shaw, Jerry Brown,
Virginia Lawrence
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Junior Class - Nedra Massengale, Lynn Downey, Mary
English, Janice Green, Glynell Crawford, Patsy Ballew, Barbara
May, Patsy Hunt, Jessie Bridger, Peggy Hunt, Maridell Jantz,
Neva Stubblefield, June Moore,
Joe Frederick, Lillie Key
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Sophomore Class Officers - Charles Dortch, Patsy Putman,
Larry Fields, Leah Ballew
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Sophomore Class - Tommy Jobe, Peggy Smith, Kenneth
Thompson, Jerry Malone, Alva Smith, Patsy Putman, Paul Faullin,
Leah Ballew, Charles Dortch, Marceline Raley, Larry Fields,
Sheila Kirkpatrick, Jenice Long, Richard Green, Judy Williams,
Marion Perry, Olen Dillard, John Dortch
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Freshman Class Officers - Kris Moore, Gary Moore, Linda
German, Wendell Dyer
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Freshman Class - Dorothy Stringer, John Moore, Jane Ross,
Wanda Cunningham, Jerry Howell, Linda German, Sandra English,
Gary Moore, Linda Smith, Mary Roberson, Wendell Dyer, Joy Dyer,
Patricia Vest, Lee Smithey, Jan Woolley, Nelda Adams, Roger
Omberg, Helen Morgan, Lewis Gentry, Lou Ann Elmore, Billy Price,
Kris Moore, Melba Rawlings, Mildred Rejcek, Donald Northern,
Juanita Hollifield
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Eighth Grade - J. Tullos, D. Hooser, J. Dyer, J. Dortch,
R. Dortch, L. Caffey, C. Bridger, L. Adams, W. Minze, S.
Stubblefield, M. Raines, C. Ballew, R. Bell, J. Williams, S.
Abbott, J. Bratcher, R. Raley, P. Massengale, Mr. Nixon, H.
Doyle, B. Johnson, M. French, L. Lawrence, G. Carroll
Seventh Grade - J. Parum, B. Gantt, C. Patterson, F.
Lewis, B. Bell, C. Lewis, M. Faulk, J. Maline, S. Green, M.
Green, B. Griffin, F. Watts, S. Strain, C. Stevenson, L.
Sanchez, B. English, Mrs. Crook, C. Moore, M. Crook, (not
pictured, T. Berryhill, D. Traylor)
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Sixth Grade - R. Green, R. Ballew, S. Hunt, J.
Bell, B. Dyer, D. Price, E. English, M. McMinn, M. Wilson, A.
Griffis, R. Woolley, D. German, C. Vest, R. Green, R. Martin, J.
Griffin, C. Jordan, Mrs. Scott, W. Speer, W. Wilbanks, A.
Rawlings, D. Carroll, K. Berryhill
Fifth Grade - J. Dortch, C. Bridger, M. Lewis, P. Putman,
L. Warren, J. Airheart, F. Young, C. Parum, M. Crook, F. Dortch,
B. Cockran, R. Selby, B. Henderson, L. Long, H. Williams, L.
Wilbanks, Mrs. Warren, J. Livar, (not pictured - D. Sanchez)
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Fourth Grade - L. Shuttlesworth, B. Wilson, B. Stevenson,
T. Green, R. Workman, C. Green, C. Dortch, M. Wilbanks, R.
Martin, D. German, B. Faulk, N. Long, J. Henderson, T. Raley, K.
Boulware, P. Pricer, B. Yates, M. Sanchez, J. English, Mrs.
Hasten, S. Scott, K. Rawlings
Third Grade - C. Livar, Z. Poulter, L. Jordan, W. Thomas,
J. Hollifield, B. Terry, J. Mitchell, D. Young, J. Brown, J.
Selby, S. Thompson, D. Sheppard, J. Raley, J. Pritchett, Teacher
- Miss Jones, H. Carroll, E. Villanuevo
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Second Grade - B. Williams, S. Tullos, B. Caffy, C.
Scott, G. Bridger, J. Faulk, R. Downey, M. Perkins, J. English,
D. Yarbrough, B. Dyer, L. Bell, S. Workman, D. Wilbanks, R.
Stevenson, K. Speer, T. Green, D. Carroll, S. Berryhill,
(Teachers: Mrs. Mason, Miss Jones)
First Grade - K. Price, J. Brown, K. York, A. Rawlings,
R. Adams, S. Perkins, R. Livar, N. Young, T. Henderson, C.
Green, (Teacher: Mrs. Mason)
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Favorites - Barbara Williams, Darla Vest, Patricia Vest,
Nedra Massengame, Barbara Bonnett, Lillian McClure, Jenice Long,
Don Stevenson, Sue Scott
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Most Beautiful - Barbara Bonnett
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Most Handsome - Jerry Brown
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Jane Knight, Bobby Honea, Charles Powell, Jackie Slater, Lillian
McClure, Donald Bailey
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Patsy Putman, Gary Moore, Rosemary Strain, Kris Moore, Patricia
Vest, Lynn Downey
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June Moore, Charles Dortch, Mike McMinn, Barbara Williams,
Carolyn Woolley, Alva Lynn Smith
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Lillian McClure, Charles Ray Powell, Jane Knight, Jerry Brown,
Carolyn Woolley, Alva Smith, Jackie Slater, Donald Bailey,
Barbara Bonnett, Bobby Honea
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Kris Moore, Rosemary Strain, Charles Dortch, June Moore, Gary
Moore, Patsy Putman, Mike McMinn, Barbara Williams, Lynn Downey,
Patrica Vest
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Most Respective Girl - Jackie Slater
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Most Respective Boy - Doug Harrison
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Senior Favorites - Doug Harrison, Bettye Minze; Junior
Favorites - Billy Hooser, Peggy Hunt
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Sophomore Favorites - Paul Faullin, Patsy Putman;
Freshman Favorites - Lee Smithy, Melba Rawlings
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Barbara Bonnett - First Duchess to the Queen; Barbara
Bonnett - Representative of Frost High School to the Navarro
County Far in Corsicana 1955
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High School Coronation - King and Queen of High School
Bobby Ellis, Lurene Crawford; Queen Lurene Crawford being
crowned
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Grade School Coronation - King and Queen of Grade School -
Jimmy Bratcher & Mary Catherine Raines
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Activities - Candid Photos
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Librarians - Bobby Honea, Mrs. Slater, Joy Ballew, Mrs.
Buie, Peggy Hunt, Patsy Putman; Speech Club - Mrs.
Slater, Virginia Lawrence, Betty Elmore, Nedra Massengale, Lynn
Downey, Karen Long, Sue Scott, Bobby Honea, Barbara Bonnett,
Jackie Slater, Jane Knight, Donald Bailey, Mike McMinn, Maridell
Jantz, James Jobe, Janice Green, Doug Harrison
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Music Club - Tullos, Caffey, Scott, Mitchell, Dortch,
Yates, Sheppard, Poulter, Brown, Putman, Airheart, Parum,
Warren, Griffis, Gantt, Thompson, Henderson, Crook, Patterson,
Hooser, Ballew, Green, Green, McMinn, Wilson, Smith, Raines,
Crook, Johnson, McMinn, Mrs. Mason, English, Strain, Dillard,
Griffin
Lettermen's Club - Williams, Ponder, Bonnett, Downey,
McClure, McMinn, Slater, Brown, Moore, Kirkpatrick, Green,
Scott, Long, Malone, Fredrick, Neel, Ballew, Strain, Mr. Larson,
Williams, Harrison, Bailey, Smith, Honea, Long, Scott, Green
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One Act Play - "No Greater Love" - Mrs. J. J. Slater,
Lynn Downey, Donald Bailey, Maridell Jantz, Jackie Slater,
Janice Green
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One Act Play - "Drums In The Night" - Janice Green, Mike
McMinn, Jackie Slater, Jane Knight, Sue Scott, Doug Harrison,
Barbara Bonnett
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Senior Play - "The Ghost House" - Doug Harrison, Jimmy
Strain, Jackie Slater, Lurene Crawford, Karen Long, Bobby Honea,
Sue Scott, Charles Powell, Barbara Bonnett, John Neel, Bettye
Minze, Laddie Rejcek, Curtis Muesse
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Junior Play - "A-Fuedin' Over Yonder, A Hillbilly Comedy" -
Patsy Ballew, Mary English, Nedra Massengale, Lynn Downey,
Mike McMinn, Janice Green, Maridell Jantz, Barbara Williams,
Donald Bailey, Wilbur Ponder, Billy Hooser, Joe Frederick, Peggy
Hunt, Kay Shaw, Rosemary Strain, E. L. Perry, Patsy Hunt
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F. H. A.
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F.F.A.
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F.F.A. Sweetheart - Linda Smith; F. H. A. Beau -
Charles Powell
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Pep Squad
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Pep Squad
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Grade School Pep Squad; Mrs. Cook Sponsor; Sandra Strain
- Sweetheart
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Coaches, Captains, Sports
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Football - Frost Polar Bears
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Football - John Neel, Bobby Honea, Doug Harrison, Paul
Faullin, Mike McMinn, Donald Bailey
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Football - Charles Dortch, John Dortch, Larry Fields, Lee
Smithey, Wendell Dyer, Roger Omberg
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Football - Jerry Brown, Lynn Doney, Wilbur Ponder, Joe
Frederick, Alva Smith, Richard Green
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High School Football Sweetheart - Patricia Vest,
Crowned at Frost Wortham Game by Captains Jimmy Strain,
Curtis Muesse, Billy Hooser
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Football Action Photos
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Football Action Photos
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Football Action Photos
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Football - Frost Cubs - B. Dyer, R. Martin, R. Ballew, J.
Griffin, J. Parum, D. Hooser, B. Griffin, J. Tullos, P.
Massengale, B. English, J. Dortch, J. Dyer, W. Spear, L. Caffey,
R. Dortch, H. Doyle, Coach Nixon; Sweetheart: Sandra
Strain; Coach: Mr. Dan Nixon
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Girl's Basket Ball - L. McClure, J. Long, S. Scott, J.
Slater, K. Long, B. Mnze, L. Crawford, S. Kirkpatrick, J.
Williams, B. Williams, P. Vest, J. Moore, B. Bonnett, J. Maline,
B. May, L. Smith, L. Elmore, M. Rejeck, D. Stringer, J. Woolley,
R. Strain; B. May, B. Wlliams, J. Slater, P Vest, J. Malone, L.
McClure, J. Long, B. Bonnett, S. Scott, J. Moore; Coach Truman
Newsom
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Girl's Basket Ball - Jackie Slater, Barbara Bonnett,
Lillian McClure, Jerry Maline, Patricia Vest, Jenice Long;
Barbara May, Sue Scott
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Boys Basketball Team - C. Moore, G. Moore, E. Perry, L.
Downey, C. Muesse, M. McMinn, W. Ponder, J. Moore, W. Dyer, J.
Neel, D. Harrison, R. Green, D. Bailey, A. Smith, L. Smithey,
Coach Davis; M. McMinn, E. L. Perry, C. Muesse, L. Downey, A.
Smith, D. Harrison, D. Bailey; Mr. Davis
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Boys Basketball Team - Doug Harrison, Curtis Muesse, Mike
McMinn, Lynn Downey, Don Bailey, E. L. Perry, Alva Smith
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Basketball Action Photos
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Basketball Action Photos
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Basketball Action Photos
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Cooks - Mrs. Harrison, Mrs. Adams, Mrs. Malone;
Janitors - Leroy Johnson & Arstein Younger; Bus Drivers
(not pictured) Mr. Cecil Putman, Mr. Truman Raley, Mr.
Leonard Green, Mr. Stanford Green
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Williams and Griffis Gins; Owners: R. L. Griffis & J. O.
Williams
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Ads - Gillen Chevrolet Company
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Ads - Frost Lumber Company; McCormick Funeral Home
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Ads - Patterson's Pharmacy; Webb Studio
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Ads - Corsicana Auction Company; Citizen's State Bank at
Frost, Texas
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Ads - Bailey Bros. Equip Co.; Bonnett's Dry Goods Store;
Norris-Hamilton Motors; R. J. Goldman Co.
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Ads - Polly, Connie & Curtis; Jackson Omberg Insurance;
Coca-Cola Bottling Company; Joe Ramsey - Jay Tom Holley
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Ads - Bill Wright Ford; Dr. Pepper Bottling Co.; Southland
Cotton Oil Company; George's Grill
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Ads - Sheppard Radio & TV; Perry's General Store; Scott's
Store; Smithey's Service Station; Kit Mitchell's Dress Shop -
Ocie Grantom Beauty Shop; Johnson's Dry Goods; A Friend; Mertens
Gin Company
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Ads - Ross Service Station; Joe York's Furniture; Joe's Cafe;
Taylor Studio; Alta's Snack Bar; Buck's Appliance Store; A
Friend; Corsicana Packaging Co.
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Ads - Tucker Brothers International Trucks, Corsicana;
Sanitary Laundry and Cleaners, Corsicana; Oil City Iron Works,
Corsicana; Omberg and Mitchell Garage, Frost; J. B. Brown
Grocery and Market, Frost, Superior Service Station, Corsicana;
The Modern Wholesaler, Hillsboro; Stroube Implement Company,
Ltd., Corsicana
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Ads - Bill's Cleaners, McAdams Pharmacy, Builders Supply Co.,
M. Evans, Rhoads Jewelers, Sears Roebuck and Company; Wholesale
Grocery Company; W. C. Wilks Co.
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Ads - City Office Supply, Johnson's Pharmacy; Harris and
Jacobs; Tatum Air Conditioning; Miles Furniture Co.; Corsicana
Laundry and Cleaners; Simon Daniels Co.; Leonard Bros.
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Ads - Mayo's Office Supplies; McLellans Stores Co; Cooper &
Spurlock; Roderick's; Green's Shoe Shop, Corsicana; Aston's
Furniture Store Corsicana; Kamen's Corsicna; Andrew's
Cafe, Hillsboro; Golden Bros., Corsicana
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Ads - Roney's Corsicana; Roy's Cafe, Corsicana; F. C.
Stewart, Corsicana; McColpin Grain Co., Corsicana; Ellis Studio,
Corsicana; Velvet Ice Cream Company, Corsicana; Daiches
Jewelers, Corsicana; J. M. Dyer Co., Corsicana
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Ads - Boswell's Mild; A. C. Smith, Frost; Humble Service
Station, Frost; Seniors 1954-1955; Frost Beauty Shop, Frost
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