Potomac, MD September 2020

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SEPTEMBER 2020

Fashion & Style Issue STYLED BY COMMUNITY

VELMA LEE DESIGNS SHE’S GOT YOU COVERED

TONY POWELL ACCLAIMED PHOTOGRAPHER

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LIFESTYLE LETTER

SEPTEMBER 2020 PUBLISHER

KC Cole | KC.Cole@Lifestylepubs.com EDITORIAL COORDINATOR

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Spicy September Style FASHIONISTAS, THIS MONTH’S ISSUE IS FOR YOU. We have scoured all our local boutiques and salons in pursuit of the greatest style in Potomac, and believe us when we say our community has some impeccable taste.

It was no easy feat narrowing down the hottest trends for this fall season, but we did just that, to bring you the absolute best. Grab your credit card because by the time you finish reading this issue, you’ll be halfway out the door and on your way to a brand-new look.

In our TrendSetter feature, you can read a bit about my personal story, and of course,

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Ana Gutierrez Covarrubias, Tony Powell, Jennifer Eastman

I’m also sharing my style in great looks from local boutiques and designers.

I wanted to personally thank all the designers and fashionistas who helped create this issue.

The goal was to work with local entrepreneurs who are movers and shakers in the industry.

The Pandemic has hurt so many of our beloved businesses and I wanted to showcase a few of my favorites and not only talk about local collaboration but to also truly support local!

Our Cover is of me showcased with a beautiful Pink Jacket by Nina McLemore. She is not only a designer but also a philanthropist who has many passions! McLemore designs a collection of clothing to address the needs of senior professionals, executive women and women who are active in their communities. She brings style elegance, vibrant color, fine fabrics, a great fit and visual impression.

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In this issue, we also introduce dressmaker Velma Lee who creates completely cus-

ART DIRECTOR Sara Minor

tom designs, specializing in wedding-wear for bridesmaids, moms, brides and more.

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Through her company Bespoke Southerly, Sheri Turnbow is equal parts sustainability

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expert and fashion designer. And, while the Hat Man Anthony Gaskins can put the right

REGIONAL SALES DIRECTOR Eric Williams

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On page after page, our photographer Tony Powell captures the glamour, emotion and beauty with his stunning shots.

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ON THE COVER KC Cole of Potomac Lifestyle Magazine Featured in Nina McLemore Pink Dupioni Ruffle Suzanne Jacket

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INSIDE THE ISSUE SEPTEMBER 2020

FEATURES 16 Meet KC Cole Publisher of Potomac Lifestyle Continuing a Lifetime of Giving Back to the Community

22 Velma Lee Designs Whatever the Occasion, She’s Got You Covered!

28 Tony Powell He’s An Acclaimed Photographer and So Much More

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32 Quarantine Bliss If You Must Stay Home, You Might As Well Love It

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With a goal of raising $250,000 annually, Anthony Gaskins, through Hugs and Hats, partners with the non-profit Team Unity Incorporated, to help people fighting cancer

ANTHONY GASKINS Anthony Gaskins knows people. In particular, he knows the look of someone fighting cancer and experiencing chemo. “I have spent a lot of time in chemo wards,” he explained with a heavy sigh as he recalled losing both parents and a sister to cancer within a few months of each other in 2012. Now, when he spots a person with that look, he offers them a hug and a hat.

Anthony also knows hats. He grew up in a family well connected in the fashion industry, and by age 20, when he approached the owner of the Hattery in Georgetown Park Mall with a critique of the store’s inventory, the owner hired him

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on the spot, as the store buyer and manager, a position Anthony held for decades.

Eventually, John, the store owner was dying of cancer and he left the store to Anthony.

Anthony recalled John saying, “This is your calling and I want you to keep it going.”

And Anthony did keep the business going for another 15 years until a new company bought the mall “and everyone had to move out,” he said.

Far from being discouraged, however, Anthony took it as a sign. “The two best days of my life so far,” he said, “have been the day I was born and the day I realized why God put me on this earth - to encourage people fighting cancer.” And that’s when he merged the part of him that knows people and the part of him that knows hats into his new initiative, called Hugs and Hats, to use hats to help cancer patients. “Because I knew exactly what they were going through,” he said.

“Every hat,” he said, “has its own personality. Hats let people display their culture and their style.”

For cancer patients, a hat means even more. “Words can’t describe how it feels to give someone fighting cancer a hat,” Anthony explained, and added, “To put them in something that totally transforms their whole mindset and how they feel about the sickness that they have and that they are fighting. So, I decided to start teaching classes to chemo patients kids and adults. You come into my class. It doesn’t cost you anything. Before you walk out, you’re going to have a one-of-a-kind of piece that you made yourself, that I hope will give you strength in your fighting.”

Anthony taught a few hat-making classes at the Smithsonian Castle and at a homeless shelter. There were some cancer survivors in each class. “That’s where the idea came from to start teaching patients and family members,” he said. He reached out to universities, hospitals, churches, homeless shelters and more, and they were enthusiastic about the idea, but soon, Covid changed everything.

At the classes, sometimes Anthony brought “raw hats” and embellishments for people to personalize the hats. Other times, he’d teach a two-day class that involved forming the hat, as well as embellishing. Initially, he paid for the materials himself. Now he accepts donations at AnthonyTheHatMan.org.

Covid also meant the temporary closing of a Logan Circle booth where Anthony had been selling his personal hat creations.

“As soon as Covid is over, doors will open up and I will start doing my classes,” said Anthony, who himself prefers a fedora “like Bogart,” he said, or maybe a Panama straw hat in summer, or an Italian Borsalino. Whatever hat he’s wearing, he remains on the lookout for cancer patients and when he spots someone who looks like they could benefit from a hat, The Hat Man will always have one ready.

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SHERI TURNBOW For savvy women, the lily, the camelia, the iris and the magnolia are more than flowers. They’re the answer to a fashion conundrum: What to wear to a wedding, charity ball, or other special occasion. Founder and lead designer of Bespoke Southerly, Sheri Turnbow named four of her made-to-order dresses after the quartet of flowers. “Finding dresses for entertaining and events often resulted in disappointment. Dresses were risqué or matronly, and poorly constructed,” Sheri said of her own shopping experience.

Sheri, who grew up in Georgia and Virginia, continued, “Men can customize their suiting but there was nothing like that for women; in particular women going to special events.” So, Sheri introduced classic, timeless dresses in beautiful fabrics, with customizable options, that also have flair.

Sheri’s experience from two career paths converged into what became Bespoke Southerly. After college, Sheri worked as an agent for fashion models and actors, and then for an in-house ad agency for a major retailer. “I came into contact with different aspects of the fashion industry,” she recalled. When she and her husband moved to the DMV, Sheri worked for non-profits including the World Wildlife Fund, where she became immersed in sustainability practices and corporate engagement. She enjoyed the mission-driven work and found it “incredibly meaningful,” she said, but she also missed the creativity of fashion.

She said, “I grew up with an attitude of investment dressing. It’s what you call it in the south. You have fewer clothing items but they are timeless and created to last. That’s how you build your wardrobe: You invest in key pieces.”

When Sheri launched Bespoke Southerly in October 2018, she said, “I was able to use my knowledge and connections to embed sustainability into the business from the ground up.”

Sheri designs her dresses in her Potomac studio. She works with a pattern maker in New York. Sewing and manufacturing is done in Alabama and Florida.

Her fabrics are imported from US-based wholesalers.

“I really try to support made-in-the-USA products,” she said. “It supplies jobs for local communities and the pollution regulations in the U.S. are much stricter than elsewhere in the world.” She said it also ensures good working conditions and living wages. And, because each garment is cut one at a time using only the materials necessary, there is little to no waste, and no excess inventory to go to a landfill. “We partner with a reseller for any unused pieces, so they are not discarded,” Sheri added.

Bespoke Southerly received the 2019 Good Brand Award by Sublime Magazine for the company’s commitment to sustainable and ethical business practices. Sheri was also a finalist in the 2020 Fashion Group International Rising Star Awards.

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The Lily Dress- Strapless full skirted dress in silk faille shown in lipstick red with optional grosgrain ribbon straps. Available with pockets, organza bodice ruffle or woven ribbon detail and any hem length. Photo by: William Heuberger

Sheri with client Imelda Budiman Mrs. World Indonesia 2014

When shopping at BespokeSoutherly.com, women first choose a silhouette and style. “They have a range of options,” Sheri said. “Maybe they want to add a ruffle or pockets, and we can do any hem length in one-inch increments. Some styles are beautiful as full-length gowns.” Shoppers can also choose their color and additional details.

Dresses are available in sizes 0 to 16.

Sheri “reaches out to every single customer to confirm sizing and to make sure they know the process and are getting the personal touch.”

Any final tailoring (which is rarely needed), she said, is best done in person where the customer lives, as Sheri does not yet offer made-to-measure items. “Technology is not where it needs to be yet to ensure they will get a garment that fits perfectly,” she explained.

Sheri is excited to introduce new customization options this fall, with fingers crossed in hopes that special events soon return to calendars everywhere.

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KC attended The State University in Delaware on a full scholarship and was nationally ranked as an All American Track Star, earning a B.A. in Business, Marketing and Public Relations.

An avid golfer, she recently won a trophy at the Neediest Kids Pro Am Invitational at the Avenel Golf Club. She smiles as she says, “I would like to mention that I was Mrs. Maryland ‘99 First Runner up, and my life today is to serve as if I won first place!”

Her professional career started in the investments industry as a successful Licensed Financial Advisor in Chevy Chase. She then segued to working in banking for over a decade in Washington, earning many awards such as “President’s Circle of Excellence”, “Best in Bank”, etc. In recent years she followed her heart and was recruited back to Montgomery County to have the honor to work with the Federal Credit Union as Vice President and Director of Community Relations. As the core creator of the credit union’s Employee Benefits and Financial Wellness Programs for county residents, she works closely with Montgomery County businesses, schools and residences.

KC also serves as a Board Member of the Coalition for the Advancement of Financial Education — CAFE Montgomery MD — which promotes policies that advance the financial well being of all Montgomery County residents, especially the most vulnerable. She most recently was nominated to PREAKNESS READY ANTHONY GASKINS, IRWIN GROSS, SHERI TURNBOW

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2021” where she aspires to actively collaborate with other leaders to find ways to strengthen the community. eighty magazines nationwide under the “Lifestyle” umbrella.

To her, publishing the magazine is another way to promote and inspire community involvement and help local businesses. She is succeeding!

To contact KC email her at kc.cole@lifestylepubs.com

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According to Forbes, “They had to outsource special talent for this project.” Reebok even offered fans an online chance to win the limited-edition doggy track jacket for their own pet. Her work on the Khalid Reebok Collaboration was shown in Billboard, Rolling Stone Magazine, Hypebeast and Yahoo Entertainment, to name a few of the venues.

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gowns (including modest wedding gowns for Orthodox ceremonies), and bridesmaid, mother of the bride and groom outfits, to clown costumes, gowns worn by actresses for appearances during the Tony Awards, and uniforms for the Redskins Cheerleaders. She has made everything from coverings for shoes to purses and comforters. She is also much in demand as a designer of high school graduation gowns and has outfitted young women from local schools including Holton Arms, Holy Child and Stone Ridge. Her daughters attended Holton Arms and she is the costume for the school’s Creative Summer Camp. Through this camp she met the stage manager for Disney Cruises and designed some costumes for cruise entertainers as well.

For 30 years she has been a creative designer offering bespoke outfits to her customers while she also worked as a tailor and seamstress. When potential customers come to her home office, chock-full of bolts of beautiful, unique fabrics, they sit down with her and design an outfit together. Lee usually will purchase her After making over 3000+ masks, Velma has a patent pending for a revolutionary easier to breath comfort wear all day hangdown mask for every person of every age available now.

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fabric in New York, and she makes regular trips to stores there. Sometimes she is asked to reconstruct a young

bride’s grandmother’s wedding gown. Often such a job can take over 200 hours to rework the dress, match the fabric and tailor it to fit a new bride. Lee emphasizes that she designs for all sizes – she can always make an outfit work. She also works with every client to assure their purchase is within their budget. Many clients come to her and aren’t sure what they want and Lee says she often won’t sleep worrying that the outfit will please the client.

She explains: “My motto is to be kind and be thoughtful. Do your best – even alterations are important. Then people will trust you.” She has even supplied shoes in a pinch. “I’m a full-service designer”, she laughs.

As a designer she didn’t foresee what would be one of her most in-demand creations: masks. When the pandemic started she was asked to design some attractive

“MY MOTTO IS TO BE KIND AND BE THOUGHTFUL. DO YOUR BEST – E VEN ALTERATION S ARE IMPORTANT. THEN PEOPLE W I L L T R U S T Y O U.” SHE HAS EVEN SUPPLIED SHOES IN A PINCH. “ I ’ M A F U L L- S E R V I C E D E S I G N E R ”, S H E L A U G H S .

face coverings. She started with a plea from a senior living facility in Massachusetts called “Life Care”. After sewing several hundred requests came pouring in both out of state and locally as their availability spread by word of mouth. By the middle of July she had made 2,500 masks and keeps going. They have been distributed to a senior

that as people came in for special orders she often had

living facility in Kensington, to the post office in Potomac,

to tailor them to specific sizes. She learned how to sew

to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York

from her older sister and by taking apart different out-

to a local Safeway. The demand hasn’t let up. Lee said

fits and studying how they were designed. After five

that she often stays up all night making the masks and

years she sold the shop and moved to Potomac and

considers it her mission to help during this difficult time.

started her own design firm.

She has made three trips to date to Massachusetts and doesn’t see herself slowing down any time soon.

In Maryland she raised her three daughters who are high-achievers in their own right. Velma laughs about

Lee’s patrons are from various walks of life but she is

being a “Tiger Mother” but is rightfully proud of all three.

discreet in mentioning well-known customers. She will

After graduating from Holton Arms in Bethesda her two

mention how she came to display a picture of herself with

oldest daughters attended the University of Maryland.

the famous director Steven Spielberg in her home. Her

Oldest daughter Sydney graduated number one inf her

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as an intern at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

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Steven’s sister, and two to his mother Leah.

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Lee’s didn’t follow a straight route to become a lux-

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attended Brandeis University and graduated from

Spencer transferred from Harvard to the University of

Rutgers Law School. After practicing law she decided

Florida to pursue winning a Division I National Title in

she wanted a change and thirty years ago bought a

collegiate tennis. She accomplished that twice and is

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TON Y POW ELL HE'S AN ACCLAIMED PHOTOGRAPHER AND SO MUCH MORE

IF YOU HAVE EVER ATTENDED ANY OF THE

nine at Chevy Chase Elementary School when Howard

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performance for all the students. Out of hundreds of kids

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IEST PHOTOGRAPHER IN THE ROOM, SCOOTING

that were noticed by the director of the drama depart-

FROM TABLE TO TABLE AND COVERING EVERY

ment. When he was called into the principal’s office over

SQUARE FOOT OF THE EVENT. Odds are great that

the loud-speaker Powell was mystified – he thought must

the picture taker is Tony Powell, DC’s go-to photog-

have done something wrong but couldn’t guess what that

rapher chronicling some of Washington’s best-known

might have been. He was summoned to audition for the

functions. Starting with portraits and event photogra-

role of Travis in the European premier of Raisin, and at the

phy published in Washington Life magazine, through

young age of nine he found himself traveling on tour to

the years demand for his brand has exploded; he

Switzerland, Germany and Paris for six months.

now employs eleven photographers he can call on to

Although Powell says he was always an artist, play-

cover events he can’t attend. His photos have been

ing the piano and trumpet at six and drawing at nine,

featured in many well-known publications such as

the experience of touring with a national theater troupe

National Geographic, The Washington Post, Forbes,

opened up all the arts to him. “I had a chance to observe

Washingtonian Magazine and Vogue.com. His photo

how the dances were created, how all the parts of the

portfolio includes portraits of cabinet members, celeb-

orchestra came together. I learned lighting design, set

rities, ambassadors, and the current and former presi-

design, how to sing and act. Being exposed to all of these

dents. Another feather in his cap: he recently scored his

aspects of the arts in once place influenced me greatly.”

first photo shoot for a major New York fashion house …

Nicole Miller NYC’s 2020 Fall Fashion Campaign.

Arriving home he finished grade school and high school, participating every summer in Howard

Powell’s painstaking process of ordering the 14

University’s Children’s Theater. His interest in pho-

ingredients for the two acai bowels he assembles each

tography came along in junior high. He also kept busy

day at Georgetown’s South Block (kale, coconut water,

appearing on tv and performing in local plays and musi-

almond milk, acai, chia and goji, to name a few) mirrors

cals. When college beckoned he came close to going to

the perfectionist approach he applies in his photogra-

architecture school but acceptance at Julliard trumped

phy work, involving as many clicks of the shutter – and

all else. While there he supported himself taking photos

as much time as it takes – to get what he wants (see KC

for the Julliard Journal and the New York City Ballet. For

Cole’s photos for an example).

three years he thrived at Julliard, studying dance and

Powell has a remarkable story to tell, a journey that

music and rubbing shoulders with such well-known

would make a riveting movie with its incredible highs

actors as Laura Linney and Jean Tripplehorn and musi-

and lows. He starts by recounting how his life totally

cians Wynton Marsalis and Miles Davis. Things weren’t

changed when his family moved from DC to Montgomery

all great, however, and he finally hit a barrier that stopped

County, Maryland. Powell was “discovered” at the age of

his education in its tracks: alcoholism.

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Because of his heavy drinking he wasn’t allowed to graduate but two of his favorite professors lobbied on his behalf and after five years of sobriety he was allowed to complete his degree.

Returning to Julliard in 1995 he was given the opportunity to live with modern dance pioneer Anna Sokolow, “a pivotal figure in my life.” Sokolow was 85 when Powell lived with her and “got to take care of her.” She introduced him to the major figures in the dance world including Jerome Robbins and Agnes de Mille, whose portraits he was able to take as a result.

Returning to Washington he founded his own nonprofit Tony Powell/Music&Movement as a vehicle for the creation of his music, choreography and films. He was seemingly everywhere, making his mark in the arts in many mediums, choreographing many ballets, composing numerous orchestral scores and creating over a dozen avant-garde films, many of which were screened at the Hirshhorn Museum. His multi-dimensional and prolific output had The Washington Post calling him “A Renaissance Man”, and others dubbed him “a polymath” and a “one-man art movement.”

But then he hit another roadblock: the battle with drugs and alcohol tripped him up and his amazing career stalled once again.

Powell is candid about this difficult time. His addiction caused him to lose his wife, children and business. But hitting bottom was a blessing in disguise, he realized: “It wasn’t until I lost everything that I could build a foundation to build a new life.” While in rehab in 2009 he had a profound spiritual transformation that he views as “the beginning of the rest of my life.” He became a strict vegan, quit smoking, drinking and using drugs and became a Buddhist.

Today he has been sober for eleven years and life has never been better. His youngest child was born in his sobriety and all four of his children are with him once again. Business is booming – even in the pandemic he managed to photograph three socially-distanced weddings. Several other weddings and other events have been temporarily postponed but the little downtime he can enjoy allows him more time to travel, another passion. He views photography “as a spiritual thing.” With his photography he has built friendships with amazing clientele including Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin and his wife Louise Linton, Secretary of the Treasury Wilbur Ross and his wife Hilary, Presidential Counselor Kellyanne Conway, billionaire and philanthropist David Rubenstein, the Albrittons and the Bradleys. When Pope Francis visited Washington in 2015 Powell, at the behest of Catholic Charities, was his photographer. He even has a selfie of himself with the pontiff!

One on-going source of joy for Powell is the principal investment he made in the hedge fund he cofounded with his best friend in Los Angeles in 2014. His stake in the hedge fund continues to give him the financial freedom for even more artistic pursuits. He reflects on his journey: “After having lost so much I’m finally where I always dreamed I could be and excited to see how much better it can get.”

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Actor Tom Hanks poses with Powell after their photo-shoot Backstage at the Anthem for Washington Life Magazine.

Powell with Pope Franรงois during his first US visit while on assignment for Catholic Charities.

Powell takes a break from shooting to catch up with actress Meryl Streep before taking her portrait at The US State Department.

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To begin a project, Jonathan and Jennifer, or Jon and Jen as they’re known, meet with clients to look at the space. Once they have a contract, Jen said she is “the one who takes care of design, drawings, permitting and selections. Everything is in house so then it gets passed on to Jon and he takes care of construction.”

Along the way, they keep customers feeling confident and comfortable by providing schedules and timelines. “Each day, you get an update of what’s going to happen and, at the start of each week, we give an update of the milestones for that week, about when your cabinets are coming (for example),” she explained.

While Jen said kitchens and baths are the company’s “bread and butter,” their services also include decks, patios and additions, as well as furniture selection, custom millwork, painting, drywall work, and more. Jen especially enjoys helping clients select lighting and hardware. “It’s like the jewelry in a space.”

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This Olney kitchen by Kadi Design + Build, features white perimeter cabinets with a navy island. Brass hardware ties the look together. Brass pendants offer drama that works beautifully with the richly colored rug and oak flooring. The new GE CafĂŠ line invites mix-and-match metals as seen in the pro-style gas range in a popular white matte finish, and other appliances in classic stainless. Just visible above the range, is a custom hood.

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Kadi Design + Build transformed a rarely used formal living room and dining room into this bright everyday dining space featuring a live-edge walnut table from a local craftsman. The newly renovated space leads to a repositioned gourmet kitchen, looking out into a lush backyard from a new garden window.

Porcelain tile that resembles marble makes a stunning shower in this Laurel bathroom by Kadi Design + Build. A frameless glass enclosure shows off the space. Hardware, including the lighting, and the waterfall spout in the soaking tub, is done in chrome. A sputnik chandelier hangs over the tub, glistening in light from the adjacent window.

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