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One of Paula's favorite things to do is call viewers. In today's episode of What's Cooking with Paula Deen?, Paula calls Mildred from Chester County in Pennsylvania who surprises Paula with who she is related to. Later in the podcast, Paula talks about how she learned to cook and her favorite meals from her grandmother including chicken and dumplings. After the break Mildred and Paula talk about the dishes they both like to make including vegetable soup and potato salad.
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welcome to what's cooking with Paula
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Deen and you know this is like my
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favorite kind of day because I'm gonna
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be trying to make some calls to y'all
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of those of you that have sending
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questions to me so wish me luck I'm
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gonna try my best to get in touch with
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y'all good luck Paula okay here we go
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Mildred that's what my daddy used to
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call Bubba when he was a little boy he
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called me Millie I'm looking for Mildred
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how are you I'm good this is Paula Deen
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calling you miss Mildred well thank you
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and I'm very happy to talk to you what
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part of the u.s. do you live in
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Pennsylvania
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the young man shooting the camera
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shooting this phone call is from
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Pennsylvania know your clifford's
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grandmama well y'all have pulled a trick
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on me today
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[Laughter]
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have we met I guess it's just his mother
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and daddy
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yes that's what that's what Clifford
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just kind of mouth to me that it was the
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other grandmother well I'm glad to be
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talking to the other grandmother yeah
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I'm very happy to talk to you and you
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know Clifford's getting married no I'm
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we're no how do you feel about that and
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you're coming right well I don't have to
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wait you see I'm going to be 90 years
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old no well you don't
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sound like it Mildred I'm going to be
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nice
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your voice is so strong it's 72 my knees
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are shot Mildred oh my gosh
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it's high you did yes we can do it again
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oh yes I would yes I would
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I've had and it still works like new
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because I've heard that they there's a
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chance that they won't last but what ten
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or fifteen years and I may be confusing
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that with a heart surgery well I am so
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so happy to hear that and I'm so glad to
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be able to chat with you so let's get
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down to the nitty-gritty and you tell me
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some dirty things on Clifford like when
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he was a kid was he a booger eater or
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anything like that
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yay-hey he was a sweet boy well he's
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certainly a cute little boy yes yes
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Kenzie's a very nice girl
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you know Kinzie works at our corporate
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office yes yeah
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from my grandmother I did
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oh my gosh miss Mildred everything my
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grandmother cooked was so good and I
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cook so many of the things that she
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taught me to cook I cook them up to this
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day I know it was important that I
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learned how to make chicken and
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dumplings because that was my daddy's
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favorite meals but you know I lost my
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brother and I lost our parents when they
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were very young and we were very young
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we were orphaned at a fairly young age
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and that was my daddy's favorite meal
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and it was just so important to me that
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I learned how to make those just in case
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you know one through and you would show
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back up yes I gave birth to two sons and
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then I have a stepdaughter and a stepson
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that are there like mom now over the
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years you know you just holler love with
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them children wow you are Suzi girl
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listen Miss Mildred I just have now a
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total of nine grandchildren
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I had six grandsons up until October the
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9th and then my youngest son Bobby and
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his wife Claudia gave birth to triplets
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oh my gosh and I still can't believe it
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your triplets two girls and a boy
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one eight hundred six five nine 3300
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that's one eight hundred six five nine
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3300 well why is your what's your
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favorite thing to cook miss Mildred I do
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too I don't think alright how do you
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make your potato salad well I probably
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don't make it like you I cut celery and
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I cut egg and sometimes I put a little
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celery seed in with it and then I use
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mayonnaise and that's about it you and I
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make it just alike do you make it the
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same way that same way well that's very
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good anyway
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and yes and I don't like it dry and no I
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do not like it dry I like it yes I do
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too and I must like to make filling for
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turkey with my favorite things to make
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oh my god
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that was one thing that when you asked
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me what what my grandmother told me she
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taught me how to make an incredible
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dressing or stuff energy well you can
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find it in one of my cookbooks or on my
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facebook on the website but I don't try
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to remember everything pretty quickly
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the first thing that you need to have is
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a lot lot lot of good rich stock and my
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grandmother always used a hen and she
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would bawl her hand for 2 or 3 hours and
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have the most incredible rich stock so I
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don't like using the canned stock I
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don't like using the box stock oh I just
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buy enough chicken pieces that I wind up
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with a real good stock and you know you
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want to throw your onions your carrots
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you can throw some garlic in there you
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know to give it a little richer flavor
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and my grandmother also taught me to add
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one can of cream of celery soup yes just
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stir that in your broth you know before
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you start dropping your dumplings in but
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she taught me how to make the dumplings
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and she said they've got to be tough
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Paula you want to be able to cut that
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dumpling with your fork and all she did
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was use plain flour and salt and pepper
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if you were of a mind to and slowly add
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the ice water and it is so hard to roll
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out so hard because you don't want to
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put too much water you know just enough
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to moisten all that flour and I mean it
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takes me a good while to roll it and
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then I'll kind of let it sit in the air
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dry for a little bit and then drop them
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in my hot ball in broth but I think the
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secret is
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it's salty enough and sometimes I'll add
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a can of cream of chicken soup to my bra
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instead of cream of celery and I my
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cornbread I make a homemade cornbread
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you know no sugar you know any sugar in
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it and and my dried-out white bread and
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a sleeve of saltines okay and a bunch of
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raw eggs never you judge I mean every
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saltine crackers to just try it gives it
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it gives that dressing a good flavor a
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real jerk flavor but his Clifford never
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given you one of my cookbooks
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yeah I would say they shouldn't have one
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here yeah I hear you it's no fun to cook
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for one is it I think I think it's in my
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second cookbook which is a green and
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white check cover with an old man and
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two good-looking young sons I look just
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like an old man I had a fresh haircut
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and I am one ugly woman oh yo man I
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think yes I'm air fryer but Paula Deen
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cuts the fat no not my grandmother's
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dress and would not be in that one
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it would not be in that women well miss
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Mildred I've so enjoyed talking to you
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and before I'm hanging up go ahead well
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thank you dear thank you so much
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look look look who's looking in the
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camera miss Mildred
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hey mom okay you recognize this boy this
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pretty boy it is when you see this
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podcast you'll be able to see him and
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you know what this is the end of this
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particular podcast miss Mildred so we're
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going out on a wonderful note by being
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with you for a few minutes and Clifford
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says he sends you kisses kisses kisses
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love you mum mum
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best dishes in love y'all thank you miss
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Mildred oh thank you dear back at ya bye
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bye oh you're so lucky to still have
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your grandma
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if y'all out they have a grandma caller
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the space that you live in really
14:55
affects the way you feel so my first
14:58
recommendation is start by updating your
15:01
window treatments with Smith & Noble
15:04
Smith & Nobles beautiful handcrafted
15:06
blinds drapes shades and shutters are
15:08
custom made just for you and they offer
15:11
different service options to fit your
15:13
needs to get started today contact Smith
15:16
& Noble to get my special limited time
15:19
offer 25% off on your window treatments
15:23
plus free design consultation
15:25
tation create a space that you're gonna
15:28
love but details about my special offer
15:31
go to smith & noble.com / paulo that
15:35
smith & noble.com / paulo or call one
15:39
eight hundred six five nine 3300 that's
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one eight hundred sixty-five nine thirty
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three hundred
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