New book, “Life Will Teach You,” is a grieving father’s letter to his daughters

5 Apr

In June 2017, Brian Bohannon’s life turned upside down. Over a period of just four days, his wife Christine passed away from cancer, leaving him to raise their then 4-year old and 7-year old daughters by himself. Christine was just 39 years old.

As he worked through his grief and started to build his new life, Brian was saddened by the fact that his wife would not be around to guide their daughters through the ups and downs of life, would not be there to answer their questions, or give them a shoulder to cry on. Determined not to lose whatever chance he had to do that for them, he wrote Life Will Teach You: Lessons for Teens and Their Parents on Life, Death, Health, Love, and Loss. 

“My initial goal,” Brian said, “was to pass this down to my daughters with everything their mother would have taught if she lived to tell them. I also wanted to give this to them before I die and lose the chance.” His original plan was for it to be a memoir and letter to his daughters. But as it developed, he realized it might be something that could benefit a lot of people.

Brian calls Life Will Teach You “a handbook for life. … There is a lot on grief and loss, life and death, but also lessons from my high school health class.”

In the Amazon.com listing he writes,     

This is a love story … a life or death story … a story of overcoming grief and loss, but ultimately, a be all you can be story. It’s a story for teens and their parents on how to pursue mental, physical, spiritual, and financial health. It is everything I think young people need to know about life, full of lessons from my 30 years of teaching high school health.

The book is a “Road Less Traveled” for teens, young adults, high school and college graduates, and their parents. Everything your parents should have taught you. Everything you didn’t have a chance to ask your parents. Everything you should have learned in school. Life, death, love, loss, health, and everything in between. My version of “everything, everywhere, all at once,” in one book.

He kinds of sums it in a second subtitle he’s attached to the book: “Confessions of a High School Health Teacher, Widower, and Girl Dad on Everything Young People Need to Know About Life.”

Life Will Teach You: Lessons for Teens and Their Parents on Life, Death, Health, Love, and Loss was published in November 2024, and is available on Amazon for Kindle, in paperback and hardcover, starting at $15.95.

Brian Bohannon grew up in Webster and graduated from Webster Thomas High School. He now lives in Williamson with his daughters.

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(posted 4/5/2025)

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Spry Middle School vocal groups earn top NYSSMA honors

4 Apr

Congratulations to two Spry Middle School vocal groups who achieved top honors at the recent NYSSMA Major Organization Evaluation Festival.

Spry Middle School’s two vocal powerhouses, SoundWave 6 and SoundWave 7/8, both received a Gold Rating at the festival, held in Honeoye on Tuesday April 1. The rating is awarded to ensembles that demonstrate an outstanding level of technical and artistic skill in their performance, an incredible accomplishment that reflects the high standards and hard work of these singing Warriors.

SoundWave 6 is directed by Katie Goodman, who also co-directs SoundWave 7/8 with Stephen Costanza. 

“These students go above and beyond, giving up their lunch study periods to participate in SoundWave, showing true dedication to their craft and their ensemble,” Goodman said. “We are so proud of their commitment, teamwork, and musical excellence.”

This is the first time in 15 years that Spry Middle School has been awarded Gold at this prestigious event. Congratulations to all these talented students,and their directors, for making Webster proud.

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(posted 4/4/2025)

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Rich Marlin named Webster Chamber Business Person of the Year

3 Apr

Congratulations to Rich Marlin, financial advisor with Edward Jones in Webster, who was recently named Webster Chamber of Commerce 2025 Business Person of the Year.

A financial advisor for 43 years and an Edward Jones partner for more than 30 years, Rich is a husband, father, business owner and advisor to many. He’s also an active volunteer who’s been involved with many community efforts in addition to his involvement with the Chamber of Commerce.

Outside the office, Rich is passionate about sharing his time, treasure and talent with local non-profits. In addition to his Chamber Committee work with the Program and Membership committees, Rich leads the Chamber’s coordination for the annual United Way Day of Caring. He has sponsored Chamber connecting events such as Connect at Noon and has led past Power Hour presentations.

Rich has contributed financially to many charitable causes including the Webster Community Chest and Comfort Care Home, Hope Ministry, Webster Health & Education Network, Christopher’s Challenge, the Webster Garlic Festival, Wreaths Across America, One Soldier at a Time, the Webster Association of Senior Program Supporters, and the Heritage Christian Stables Day of Caring. AND he was a Boy Scout leader for more than 20 years.    

Rich’s efforts with the Finger Lakes Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association is a project especially dear to his heart. Since 2021 he’s served on the Walk to End Alzheimer’s Committee as a board member and chairperson. The event has raised more than $1,100,000 and Rich personally has raised more than $7000.

We have a plaque for him today that is inscribed with these words: “2025 Business Person of the Year presented by the Webster Chamber of Commerce to Rich Marlin in recognition of your outstanding contributions to the Webster Chamber of Commerce and your commitment to the community”.

In honor of his contributions to our community, Rich was presented with a plaque at the Webster Chamber of Commerce’s February Breakfast Before Business meeting. The Chamber also made a donation to an organization of Rich’s choosing.

The Business Person of the Year is an individual who is recognized as having set a standard of accomplishment in both business and the community. Nominations are from the Chamber’s business members who have made a significant impact on the role of business in the community. The nominee must have been an active member of the Chamber for at least 18 months, someone who is always willing to go above and beyond and be a leader that motivates others. He or she must have a level of community participation by contributing resources in the form of time, talent, or money to our community via projects, clubs, churches, and not-for-profit organizations.

(Pictured above, L-R: Webster Chamber of Commerce President & CEO Barry Howard, Deb Gargantiel from Rich Marlin’s staff, Business Person of the Year Rich Marlin, Rich’s wife Kathy Marlin, and Elena Heisel from Rich Marlin’s staff)

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(posted 4/3/2025)

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Webster community mailbag

2 Apr

Color Webster Green and Webster Public Library are presenting a special program all about recycling on Tuesday April 8.

The hour-long program, called “Recycling 101: Understanding Monroe County’s Recycling Systems,” will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the library’s community room. Meagan Evans-Saurini, the Environmental Educator for Monroe County’s Department of Environmental Services will help clear up the confusion about what can and cannot be recycled, tell us more about the county’s recycling programs, how to “Recycle Right,” and provide information regarding the Monroe County/WM ecopark.

The program will be held Tuesday April 8 at the Webster Public Library, beginning at 6:30 p.m. Bring your questions! Please register here.

Calling all (former) Dancing With Denise Dancers

Denise Baller is celebrating her Dancing With Denise dance studio’s 40th anniversary this year, and she’s looking for help to do that.

“Miss Denise” is planning a huge 40th anniversary recital on Saturday, May 24 (and some other special events are in the works) and is asking for help from past students and families to make the milestone even more special. I’ll be writing a more detailed blog about her plans in the coming weeks, but in the meantime, If you have pictures from the studio’s history over the past 40 years, please send them to dwdmissdenise@gmail.com. Your memories will help paint a beautiful tapestry of the studio’s journey.

Stay tuned for more information, but start looking through your photos now!

Next blood drive to feature cookies from the Women’s Club of Webster

The American Red Cross is sponsoring a blood donor drive from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 26 at St. Martin Lutheran Church, 813 Bay Road, Webster.  

Blood donors will be warmly greeted at the cantina by members of the Women’s Club of Webster, and enjoy supremely scrumptious homemade cookies to enjoy with their juice.

The whole process takes only about an hour. Appointments are not required. Donors should feel free to just drop in. For more information about the blood drive, please contact Katie Houtat 585-353-9964.

News from the Friends of Webster Trails

The Friends of Webster Trails has a workday coming up this month, scheduled at the State Road Nature Preserve, 1571 State Rd. (just west of Salt Rd.).

The trails at this new preserve need some TLC, including trimming brush from the sides of the trails, removing stumps in the trail, and cleaning out some trash. There’s a variety of tasks, suitable for many skill levels.

Volunteers should bring shovels, pick axe, loppers, pruning shears, a hand saw and water. Wear long sleeves and pants, boots (State Road NP can be muddy), gloves and bug spray.

Work will last from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Please click here to register.

Second Call for Trail Partners

The Friends of Webster Trails has also just put out another call for trail partners, volunteers who love our trails and would like to help maintain them.

The Friends are looking for volunteers to help with these few specific trails: 

  • Whiting Road Nature Preserve Blue Trail
  • Whiting Road Nature Preserve Yellow Trail
  • Four Mile Creek Preserve Yellow Trail
  • Four Mile Creek Preserve Red Trail
  • Four Mile Creek Preserve Orange Trail

If you’re interested, contact Trail Committee Chair Linda A. Siple at lindasiple52@gmail.com.

What happening at the library in April?

For children and families:

  • Egg Hunt on Friday April 18 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Bring the family to search for Easter eggs at the library after hours, and enjoy some craft time afterwards. Registration is not required.
  • Earth Day Drop-in Crafts, Saturday April 19 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Up-cycle materials into creative crafts to celebrate Earth Day. All ages are welcome. Registration is not required.

For teens and tweens:

For adults:

  • Adventures on the Appalachian Trail, Tuesday April 22, 6 to 8 p.m. Phil Arnold shares stories and video from his backpacking adventures. Registration is required.
  • Mysteries in Stone: Headstone Symbols and the Graveyard Poets, Thursday April 24, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Cherie Wood reveals hidden meanings carved in the gravestones of our colonial and Victorian ancestors. Registration is required.

This month’s Community Exchange is party supplies! Bring in your unused party stuff and swap it out for something New-to-you! And April’s Donation Station is accepting period products for NY Hope, and food, personal care and household items for Willow Domestic Violence Center.

Women’s Club announces April luncheon

The April luncheon meeting of the Women’s Club of Webster will be held on Thursday April 17 at the Penfield Country Club, 1784 Jackson Rd. Diane Miller, Associate Broker with the Re/Max Realty Group, will offer tips for people thinking of making a move, for those wanting to age in place safely, and tips for organizing life information to reduce stress.

The event begins at 11:15 a.m. with social time, followed by lunch at noon and Diane’s presentation. Cost of the luncheon is $22. Send your check made out to the Women’s Club of Webster by April 10 (FIRM) to Carolyn Rittenhouse, 405 County Line Road, Ontario, NY 14519. 

Webster Arboretum program

The Webster Arboretum will present a program on Thursday April 24 all about Orioles and Hummingbirds.

The presentation begins at 7 p.m. and will take place in the Curry Building. The Webster Arboretum is located at 1700 Schlegel Rd. Click here to RSVP and to learn about future Arboretum programs.

Books books books (cheap books!)

The Friends of the Webster Public Library’s Book Sale will be held April 30 through May 3. The first day of the sale, Wednesday April 30 from 4 to 7 p.m., is exclusively for Friends Members. The public is welcome Thursday, May 1 from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m, when hardcover books will be $1 each and paperbacks are only 50 cents each. Friday May 2 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and May 3 from 10 a.m. to noon are Bring-Your-Own-Bag Sale days, when you can fill your bag with books for only $5.

And don’t forget about the Special Needs Parent Resource Fair scheduled for Saturday April 19 from 10 a.m. to noon. More details about this to come, but stick it on your calendar now. No registration is necessary for this event!

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(posted 4/2/2025)

Mail Call at the Webster Public Library

1 Apr

Chances are pretty good you’ve heard about the “Mail Call: Letters From Home” challenge recently — especially since I’ve been writing about it a lot.

In short, it’s a month-long challenge for Webster to write 1,000 cards and letters to our deployed troops, which will then be included in care packages sent overseas in June. (You can read more about it here.) You may have already noticed one or more of the “Mail Call” mailboxes which have been placed in a dozen businesses and agencies throughout town. There are cards and pens placed next to each one, so perhaps you’ve even taken the moment to write out a personal message and placed it in the box.

But if you haven’t had a chance to do that yet and would like to help our town achieve this monumental goal, here’s an easy way to do that:

This Saturday, April 5 you can stop by the Webster Public Library from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. for a community card-making event in the Community Room. All supplies will be provided, and no registration is required. You can bring the kids, invite your neighbors and friends, and have a little fun while brightening the lives of our deployed service members. The library is located at 980 Ridge Rd., at the back of Webster Plaza.

Won’t be able to make it on Saturday? The library will have supplies out at a table all next week, so you can stop in anytime. And of course you can make some cards at home and drop them in the Mail Call mailbox in the library, or in any Mail Call mailbox in town.

Here are where the mailboxes are located:

  • American Legion Cottreall-Warner Post 942: 818 Ridge Rd (back entrance).
  • Jersey Mike’s Subs: 975 Ridge Rd.
  • Key Bank: 1848 Empire Blvd.
  • Key Bank: 980 Ridge Rd.
  • Lowes Home Improvement: 900 Five Mile Line Rd.
  • Mama Lor’s Cafe: 1891 Ridge Rd.
  • Pearl Vision: (Wegmans plaza) 900 Holt Rd.
  • Salvatore’s Old Fashioned Pizzeria: 195 North Ave/ (Rt 250)
  • Village Quilt Shoppe: 21 E Main St.
  • Webster Public Library: 980 Ridge Rd.
  • Webster Recreation Center: 1350 Chiyoda Dr.
  • Webster Town Hall: 1000 Ridge Rd.

Let’s DO this, Webster!!!!

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(posted 4/1/2025)

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Girl Scout cookies for our troops S.O.S.!

1 Apr

You’ve been hearing a lot about this month’s Mail Call Challenge, when we as a town are joining forces to write 1,000 cards and letters for our troops. (There’s more information about that in tonight’s blog.)

The Blue Star Mothers will be shipping those letters overseas in care packages this June. They’d also like to include a box of Girl Scout Cookies in each of those care packages. But right now they’re about 60 boxes short.

Girl Scout Troop 60344 is still taking online orders for cookies to send with the care packages, and are REALLY hoping you can help them meet their goal. Here’s all you have to do:

  • Click here to go to the online cookie store.
  • Scroll all the way down until you see this option:
  • Choose how many boxes you’d like to donate (a variety will be automatically chosen for you) and then check out.

Thank you for helping our Girl Scouts fulfill their mission of service, and for bringing joy to our deployed service members.

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(posted 4/1/2025)

Webster Quilt Guild celebrates 50 years

31 Mar

The announcement, published in the October 8, 1975 edition of the Webster Herald, was brief. It was tucked away back on page 32, and if you were scanning the newspaper too quickly, you could have easily missed it.

Headlined “Quilt Guild Forms Here,” the item announced that the inaugural meeting of the Webster Quilt Guild had been scheduled for the next day, to be held at the Webster Public Library. Anyone interested in quilting was invited to attend, share their work, learn new techniques, and help the brand new club grow.

Clearly that meeting was a success, because 50 years later, the Webster Quilt Guild is still going strong. Membership is robust, and at the monthly meetings, dozens of quilters and crafters are still sharing their projects, learning new tips and tricks from one another, and enjoying presentations by guest speakers.

The Webster Quilt Guild will celebrate their long history at their “50 Golden Years of Quilting” quilt show, scheduled for Saturday and Sunday April 12 at 13 at Holy Trinity Church, 1460 Ridge Rd., Webster.

The show will feature:

  • More than 200 quilts (including an antique quilt display)
  • Display of donation quilts made for the Breast Cancer and the Asbury Storehouse
  • Huge boutique and door hanging sale
  • Scrap Fest
  • Raffles
  • Vendors
  • Annotated History of the Webster Quilt Guild
  • Food tent 

And of course one of the highlights of the show is this year’s beautiful Raffle Quilt. Tickets for this incredible piece of quilting art are just $1 each, or six for $5. (If you’d like to buy tickets before the show, email rafflequilt@websterquiltguild.com.)

The show will be held at Holy Trinity Church (1460 Ridge Rd.) on Saturday and Sunday April 12 at 13. Hours are 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, noon to 3:30 p.m. on Sunday. Admission is $5 for adults and children under 12 are free.

Look for the quilt-covered car pointing the right way to go!

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(posted 3/31/2025)

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Big things are happening at Bella’s Bumbas

30 Mar

My regular readers know that I frequently write about Bella’s Bumbas. Today I want to tell you about how this awesome local organization is looking to expand, and could use some help from the Webster community to do so.

Bella’s Bumbas is a non-profit grassroots organization run by Webster residents Marty Parzynski and Rebecca Orr, dedicated to building miniature wheelchairs for children with a wide variety of mobility issues. In the eight years since Marty built the first Bella’s Bumba for their niece Bella, they’ve shipped more than 3,000 chairs to children in 68 countries, often adapting the chairs for each child’s individual needs, and charging the parents only for shipping.

Since the beginning, Marty and Rebecca have been operating Bella’s Bumbas out of a small house just north of the village. As the number of chairs they were building and shipping continued to grow, they got creative with using the space they had available. First the living room was the office and the kitchen the workshop. Then the kitchen was the office and the larger family room was the workshop. Shelves were built everywhere to accommodate all the parts. Bubble wrap and shipping boxes were stacked in every available corner and stuffed into a ramshackle garage and adjacent chicken coop.

For eight years, that worked. But now, they’re out of room, which is beginning to hamper their ability to keep growing and offer life-changing mobility to even more children with disabilities.

So Rebecca and Marty have set their sights on building a new barn, which will accommodate all of their storage and inventory needs and free up valuable space inside the workshop.

The plan is to demolish the chicken coop and the existing garage — which is basically falling over — and replace it with a 22′ by 30′ garage. The new garage (which will be about three times the size of the old one and the chicken coop combined) will have a concrete floor and lots of shelving space, with plenty of room for future expansion. They’re also planning to replace the current (crumbling) driveway, which will be pretty much destroyed during demolition.

Rebecca and Marty have estimated the cost of the entire project to be about $60,000, and they’d really like to have it completed sometime this summer. That’s an ambitious goal, but I know that our Webster community will come together and help them achieve it.

Here are a few ways you can help:

  • Attend a Spaghetti Dinner Fundraiser, Friday May 2 at the Webster Masonic Lodge, 30 Orchard St., from 5 to 7 p.m. Cost is $12 for adults, $6 for children and you can eat in or take out (cash only, please). In addition to the dinner, there will be a 50/50 raffle, basket raffles and Bella’s Bumbas merchandise for sale. There will also be some Bumbas there for children to try out.
  • Attend the Mr. Batavia Talent Show on Friday April 4 at Batavia High School. Eleven seniors from Batavia High School will compete in this 12th annual competition. Each participant chooses a nonprofit agency to receive a portion of the ticket sales if they win one of the top three spots. This year, Kahler Evans has chosen Bella’s Bumbas as his chosen charity. Tickets are $10 each and will be available at the door.
  • Send a donation check directly to Bella’s Bumbas LTD, 1170 Ridge Rd. #208, Webster, NY 14580. Please mark “WEP” on the check note to indicate it’s for the Workplace Expansion Project. (Donation receipts provided on request.)
  • When the time comes, volunteer to help with some manual tasks during the construction, like cleaning out the old garage. Keep an eye on the Bella’s Bumbas Facebook page for updates.
  • Are you a business owner? Gary Inzana from Top Tier Recruiting and Consulting has donated $1,000 and is challenging other businesses to match or exceed his donation and set their own challenge.

And a huge shout-out to the Pennsylvania Grand Chapter Order of the Eastern Star, which has adopted Bella’s Bumbas as one of their state-wide charities in 2025, which means that Bella’s Bumbas will benefit from their fundraising efforts all year long.

Visit the Bella’s Bumbas website to read more about their story and the incredible things they’re doing for our world’s children.

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(posted 3/30/2025)

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Rec Center hosts clean-up day to honor Tom Smock

29 Mar

The Webster Recreation Center is organizing a community-wide clean-up event to honor a beloved long-time staff member who passed away in 2023.  

It’s called the Helping Heroes Clean-up Day, scheduled for Saturday, April 26, held in honor of Tom Smock, who was not only a valued member of the Webster Recreation Center community, but the greater Webster community as well. 

The whole idea of Helping Heroes Clean-up Day is for households, especially the elderly, who need some extra help cleaning up yard debris, to sign up for assistance, AND – to honor Tom’s giving spirit — for community members to sign up to volunteer. 

Helping Heroes Day is a very appropriate way to honor Tom. Recreation Supervisor Julie Schillaci wrote, 

Tom worked for us from November 2016 to September 2023 as a part-time custodian.  However, he was so much more! He interacted daily with the 55+ folks, fitness members, and all the kids in our building. … Tom was such a generous and humble guy.  He would always lend a hand with whatever was needed at the Recreation Center and he is sorely missed around here.

But Tom’s kindness and generosity stretched well beyond the confines of the Webster Recreation Center. In the eulogy she gave at Tom’s funeral, long-time friend Pat Font painted a picture of the kind of guy Tom was:  

Tom was a simple guy who loved the simple pleasures of life. He had lots of wonderful qualities – he was a very likeable guy to anyone who met him. … (He) had the biggest heart ever – he would give anyone the shirt off his back. He constantly gave to charities, never missed anyone’s birthday, and gave of his time and talents to anyone who needed help. 

Tom was a registered nurse, an active outdoors-man, accomplished gardener and great at repairing pretty much everything. He was a devoted Rotarian and served as the organization’s president. No matter what challenge he chose to tackle, Tom Smock committed his time and talents to their fullest. 

Right now the Rec Center has about 10 houses registered for spring clean, and about 30 volunteers signed up so far. They’d LOVE for more homes to sign up, so spread the word to you elderly neighbors. They’d also LOVE LOVE for a lot more volunteers to help out. Many hands make light work.

To register or volunteer, call the Webster Recreation Center at (585) 872-7103.  

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(posted 3/29/2025)

Cookies and cupcakes and brownies, oh my! Sweet Square Bakery is open

28 Mar

The word has spread quickly through the village: Sweet Square Bakery is FINALLY open at 1 West Main St., at the Village’s four corners.

We’ve all been carefully watching this vacant storefront for months, ever since Buffalo Bleached moved out about a year ago. The prospect of having a cute little coffee shop right in the middle of town was very exciting, so much so that their first few days, the line stretched out the door pretty much the entire time they were open.

I still haven’t been able to connect with the owner, but I didn’t want to wait any longer to introduce this new Village of Webster gem to everyone.

And it is a gem. Now, I’ll be the first to say that the Village Bakery is a wonderful place for coffee and treats, a convenient spot to meet friends and set up your laptop. But it’s kind of noisy and usually pretty crowded.

The new Sweet Square Bakery offers a much different ambiance, which I can only describe as quaint and cozy. There are five cafe tables which seat 20 comfortably, and every visitor is welcomed warmly by the staff members. The large front windows let in all sorts of sunshine, making the entire shop bright and airy. The display cases are filled with delectable treats including cupcakes, cookies, brownies, cakes and more (ranging in price from $3.25 to $6.50, depending on the baked good) and there are several coffee options.

So basically, it’s another wonderful place in the Village of Webster for coffee and treats, a convenient spot to meet friends and to fire up your laptop. And it’s right in the center of town.

Here’s a look inside; all photos are courtesy the Village of Webster.

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(posted 3/28/2025)

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