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scholarship's first drafts. A guided tour
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Contents
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SOCIAL MEDIUM HAPPY RETURNS TRUE ART'S COURSE
The boards of education Innovation after innovation, A portrait of the artists among us
James Reinhart '01 is reinventing
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LEE PELLEGRINI
BY JANELLE NANOS ’02
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The first time I left my radio on after midnight, tuned to WZBC, something strange happened. The familiar
riffs of indie rock gave way to a song best described as a final transmission from an alien planet.
—Letters, page 2
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Campus digest From the McMullen Alumni news
Museum and notes
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‘Why I remain' 38 60
Catholic in a time of Ireland's chance Obituaries
questioning Recovering the truth,
framing justice, after 62
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Advancing
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Boston College's new¬ Fr. McElroy's eyes 64
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medicine, character, INQUIRING
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As it stands curiosity Quizmaster
A much anticipated Psychologist Joshua
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MAGAZINE VOLUME 79 NUMBER 1 WINTER 2019
ACTING EDITOR
Anna Marie Murphy
SENIOR EDITOR
Thomas Cooper
PATHWAYS At Boston College there now are vet¬
AKReTi tDhI AREkCeT OR Re “Keyword: STEM,” by Thomas erans’ groups for undergraduates, gradu¬
Cooper (Fall 2018): It was great to read ates, and Law School students. There is a
PGHaOrTyO WGRaAyPnHe YG EilDbITeOrtR about both the number of students and faculty and staff veterans’ affinity group
the number of companies that turned out and a veterans’ alumni network. I urge all
SLEeNe IPOeRl lPeHgOriTnOi GRAPHER for the 2018 STEM Career Fair. For a Boston College-related veterans to join
long time the only career path advertised these groups. And I urge non-veterans to
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the Ph.D. track. However, a rigorous train¬ George Harrington ’80
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industry applicability. For example, Boston
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complex problems; they learn how to work Veterans’ Alumni Network.
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are master multitaskers and able to com¬ MIDNIGHT RAMBLERS
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During my time within those four ever-steady presence, and in reviewing Pop-Up Care Villages. I emerged from
walls, I always felt a deep sense of respon- these inscriptions, I feel both humbled and the summer with an appreciation of how
sibility-both to the editors who came deeply grateful to have these mementos of complex a problem homelessness is and
before me and to the future of indepen¬ an extraordinary life. the immense amount of systemic change
dent student journalism. It may sound Christopher Matthews needed to address the issue.
naive, but in those moments, our work was Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts The internship helped me understand
significant, and, for me, it was life-giving. the kind of work I want to engage in and
As the paper moves into its next cen¬ The writer is editor of New Testament where to direct my efforts in pursuit of a
tury, I challenge the men and women who Abstracts and research professor of New just society.
carry the torch to remain true to the pur¬ Testament at the School of Theology and David Jasso ’20
pose set forth by of our founders: to “print Ministry. Houston, Texas
both sides of all stories ... be fair and just
to all... constructive—not destructive.” MENU PLANNING PRIZE-WORTHY
Taylour Kumpf ’13 Re “Campus Digest,” by Thomas Cooper Re “And the Award Goes To...” by Zachary
Omaha, Nebraska (Summer 2018): I was delighted to read Jason (Summer 2018): Mr. Jason mistak¬
about the celebration of Green Week and enly describes me and my twin brother,
The writer was editor-in-chief of the Heights the publication by the student organiza¬ Philip, as having run a travel agency. We
in 2012. tion EcoPledge of a “plant-based” cook¬ were, in fact, attorneys in an eponymous
book, in which all the recipes had been Boston law firm for more than 50 years.
In addition to the areas highlighted in “veganized.” In addition to handling the Princess
your photo essay, I’d like to call attention It would be great for Boston College Grace of Monaco Award for French, my
to my colleagues in University Health to commit to Meatless Mondays and to brother and I, acting as honorary consuls
Services. They staff the facilities at 2150 having vegan meals available on a regular of the Republic of Chile, annually present
Commonwealth Avenue through the night the Andres Bello Award “to a senior who
seven days a week, providing high-level Jane Hoffman 75 has excelled in Spanish.”
and compassionate nursing care to stu¬ New York, New York Bello was the greatest polymath of
dents staying in the infirmary as well as to South America in the 19th century. He
those who visit or call UHS seeking care Julianne Stelmaszyk, the manager of regional was also the signatory of a treaty entitled,
and advice. and sustainable food for Dining Services, “General Convention of Peace, Amity,
Anne Pickett, RN, ’91 kindly provided the following update: All Commerce, and Navigation, between
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts University dining facilities offer vegan (and the United States of America and the
vegetarian) options at every meal, and the Republic of Chile,” signed May 16,1832
A LIFE'S WORK department is “working to decrease our in Santiago, Chile. It remains in force to
Re “Learned From Life,” by James Martin, animal protein purchases by reducing por¬ this day.
SJ, M.Div.’98, Th.M.’99 (Fall 2018): tions as well as the frequency of meat on our Paul William Garber
Having worked with Dan Harrington on menus.” Brighton, Massachusetts
New Testament Abstracts for nearly three
decades, initially as an assistant and then ON RETREAT FIELD-TESTED
as a co-editor and friend, I can easily Re “The Write Time,” by Zachary Jason Re “Club Minutes” (Summer 2018):
affirm Fr. Martin’s portrait of a remark¬ (Summer 2018): Reading the account of The women’s club lacrosse team had the
ably accomplished yet unfailingly gener¬ the Villa retreat and seeing the accompany¬ opportunity to play last spring in tour¬
ous human being. Dan had a tremendous ing photo awakened an understanding of naments at the University of Pittsburgh
capacity to follow biblical scholarship how any vacation can have the value of a and the University of Colorado, Boulder.
at the highest level, participate in it, and “retreat” if approached in that way—even Competing against top talent around the
make his own contributions, but he also if partially. country helped us clinch the New England
devoted significant time to making it com¬ John Vieira 71 title in April and secure a bid to the nation¬
prehensible to the readers in the pews via Washington, D.C. als in Round Rock, Texas, where we fin¬
his many paperback books. ished ninth.
I have dozens of such volumes on the SUMMER SESSION NoelleLove ’19
shelf behind my desk, all inscribed in Re “Open Season,” by Zachary Jason Armonk, New York
Dan’s bold and legible cursive: “with best (Summer 2018): In 2017, with the help
wishes,” “with thanks for friendship in of an Eagle Intern Fellowship, I had the BCM welcomes letters from readers.
our mutual tasks,” “with thanks for your pleasure of working with Lava Mae, a San Letters may be edited for length and clarity,
support and friendship.” I’m sure many Francisco nonprofit that seeks to rekindle and must be signed to be published. Our
others have similarly inscribed volumes dignity and hope among homeless people fax number is [phone]; our email
from Dan. It is a blessing to recall his through its Mobile Hygiene Service and address is [email protected].
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CONTENTS
6 'Why I remain'
Catholic in a time of questioning
8 Oxford bound
An interview with Boston
College's newest Rhodes Scholar The SERVPRO First Responder Bowl in )f( Emily Prud’hommeaux, an assis¬
Dallas, Texas, between Boston College tant professor of computer science, has
10 As it stands Q and Boise State was halted after nine received a $500,000 grant from the
A much anticipated recreation minutes and 52 seconds of football, due National Institutes of Health to study
facility will open in summer ^ to lightning. The weather cancellation speech patterns in adults with autism.
was the first in NCAA bowl history; the She will lead a team of researchers from
12 Words' worth sponsor’s slogan said it all: “like it never the University of Rochester Medical
The Lynch School expands even happened.” )f( The Carroll School Center, Rochester Institute of Technology,
its name of Management (CSOM) reported that and Oregon Health and Science Univer¬
645 undergraduates have chosen to minor sity. )J( The McMullen Museum of Art
13 Close-up in one of the school’s four new minors opened Eaglemania: Collecting Japanese
Toothsome created for non-CSOM students: finance Art in Gilded Age America, an exhibition
(331), marketing (222), accounting for featuring the recently restored 19th-
finance and consulting (77), and account¬ century bronze eagle that once perched
14 Practice squad
ing for CPAs (15). The preexisting minor, on the column at the end of Linden Lane
The undergraduate men of management and leadership, drew 270 (the current raptor is a replica). In
women's basketball students, bringing the total taking advan¬ addition to the eagle, a masterpiece of
tage of this initiative to 915. )J( APh.D. Meiji-period artistry, the exhibition
candidate and four master’s students in includes ceramics, paintings, carvings,
the School of Social Work—members and other bronzes from the Meiji and
of the school’s Latinix Leadership Initia¬ earlier Edo periods. Eaglemania will run
tive—received minority fellowships through June 2. )fC As the federal govern¬
from the national Council on Social ment shutdown entered its second month,
Work Education, to continue their work Martin Jarmond, the William V. Campbell
on mental health and/or substance abuse Director of Athletics, announced that
issues within under-represented minor¬ federal employees were welcome, free
ity communities. )f( Former governor of of charge, at all games for the duration of
Connecticut Dannel Malloy ’77, JD’80, the closure. )J( Endawoke Yizengaw, a
joined the Law School for the spring senior research scientist at the University’s
semester as the Rappaport Distinguished Institute for Scientific Research, was
Visiting Professor. Malloy was an outspo¬ awarded the American Geophysical
ken proponent of gun control after the Union’s Joanne Simpson Medal, given to
2012 Sandy Hook School massacre. For mid-career scientists for “transformative
his stand welcoming Syrian refugees to the scientific advances or breakthroughs in the
United States, he received the 2016 John earth and space sciences.” )J( More than
F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award. 270 sophomores in the Morrissey
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CONCORD—The annual Martin Luther King Jr. Unity Breakfast, sponsored by the Black Faculty, Staff, and Administrators Association, drew students, fac¬
ulty, and staff to the Heights Room at 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday, January 16. "Too often commemorating King means only remembering the parts of him
that do not challenge us—the parts that make us comfortable," said associate professor of French Regine Michelle Jean-Charles (above) in her keynote
talk. “May we choose to move beyond the dream and do the work of building a better world."
College of Arts and Sciences returned to legislators from around the country to columnist and best-selling author, was on
campus prior to the spring semester to consider best practices in the emerging campus for a three-day residency, lectur¬
participate in the Career Center’s fourth field. )f( Boston College ranked seventh ing, joining classes, and visiting with staff
annual Endeavor program. The three- in The Daily Meal’s 2018 “Best Colleges of the Heights, for which he wrote as an
day event explores the range of careers for Food in America.” X Mary Jo Izzio, undergraduate. )f( In the latest review
open to liberal arts students. Some 80 a professor of moral theology at the of undergraduate business schools by
alumni volunteered as coaches and men¬ School of Theology and Ministry, received PoetsandQuants.com, the Carroll School
tors. Ariel Belgrave Harris T1, a senior the St. Elizabeth Seton Medal, presented of Management ranked ninth. )J( A dis¬
project manager at Facebook, gave the by Mount St. Joseph University to rec¬ play in the O’Neill Library marked Public
keynote talk. )J( Reshma Saujani, founder ognize a woman’s contributions to the Domain Day 0anuary 1), the occasion
and CEO of Girls Who Code, was on field of theology. )J( As part of the NBC when works of a certain age (those pub¬
campus to address the annual Council for pregame show for the November 4 New lished in 1923 in this instance) no longer
Women of Boston College Colloquium. England Patriots-Green Bay Packers enjoy copyright protections. Among the
)J( On November 13, the Lynch School game, Sam Richardson, associate profes¬ examples featured were The Ego and the Id
of Education’s Center for Optimized sor of the practice of economics, faced off by Sigmund Freud, Bambi by Felix Salten,
Student Support cohosted a forum on against a colleague from the University and New Hampshire by Robert Frost. Also
the importance of addressing the non- of Wisconsin, Madison, in a blackboard entering the public arena this year are
academic needs of K-12 students to nar¬ battle of statistics to determine whether works by Virginia Woolf, Charlie Chaplin,
row persistent achievement gaps. The Tom Brady or Aaron Rodgers is the bet¬ George Bernard Shaw, and Picasso.
event drew educators, researchers, and ter quarterback. )J( Mike Lupica '74, —Thomas Cooper
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Speaking before a Robsham audience on November 27 were, from left, Professor Tiziana Dearing (social work), Sean Barry '21, Stephanie Sanchez MSW'18, and
Professor Stephen Pope (theology). Ambassador R. Nicholas Burns '78, H'02, moderated.
‘Why I remain remains “a catalyst and a resource for the
renewal of our Catholic Church,” its direc¬
tor, Karen Kiefer ’82, said in her greeting.
By William Bole Sixteen years later, developments have
once again “taken a serious toll on the
Catholic community in our country, leav¬
Catholic in a time of questioning ing too many Catholics hint, angry, and
T questioning their continued involvement
in the Church,” said University President
aking to the stage in a crowded Approximately 500 people—young- William P. Leahy, SJ, under whose leader¬
Robsham Theater on Tuesday, adult, middle-aged, and older—turned out ship C21 was founded. The Jesuit was
November 27, R. Nicholas Burns ’78, for the discussion, which was sponsored referring to a Pennsylvania grand jury
H’02, made a promise all too easy to keep. by Boston College’s Chinch in the 21st report last summer that identified more
“This is going to be a difficult conversa¬ Century Center (C21). The full 90 min¬ than 300 priests credibly accused of sexu¬
tion,” said the veteran U.S. diplomat and utes was also streamed on Facebook, with ally abusing more than 1,000 minors in
moderator of this forum convened in around 2,800 people watching on screen in six Catholic dioceses (in cases mostly
the wake of new revelations about clergy real time or within the next couple of days. decades old), as well as alleged sexual
sexual abuse in the United States. The For both speakers and audience, there misconduct by disgraced ex-Cardinal
pre-announced topic was “Why I Remain was a palpable sense of ecclesiastical deja Theodore McCarrick, former archbishop
a Catholic: Belief in a Time ofTurmoil,” vu. In 2002, C21 had come into being of Washington, D.C. This past fall saw a
but, before finally making their way to that under disturbingly similar circumstances, jarring spectacle of disharmony between
question, the panelists laid bare feelings of following an outbreak of abuse scandals U.S. bishops and the Vatican over how to
betrayal and disillusionment. in the Archdiocese of Boston. The center act in response to the scandals.
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Fr. Leahy added in his introductory Knight of the Boston College Knights of punctuating remarks on stage with fre¬
remarks: “Certainly our faith and sense of Columbus, admitted to feelings of “rage” quent applause and “ahh’s.”
what it means to be a Catholic and part over accounts of child molestation by “Gosh, there are a lot of good and holy
of the Church does not depend on one clergy, but said his faith has matured women who are ready to step up. And our
person or one event, but they have been with his realization that the Church can Church has silenced them or put them
and continue to be shaped by family, make shameful mistakes even as it nur¬ down and said, ‘You stay there’. And I’m
prayer, sacraments, relationships, and ser¬ tures values such as mercy and reconcilia¬ really tired of it. I really am,” Sanchez said,
vice of others.” tion. “Because my faith is not the Church,” speaking more quickly as applause mount¬
Burns—a professor of diplomacy he said. ed. “I love being a Catholic woman. I love
and international relations at Harvard’s In a similar vein, Sanchez said the latest it,” Sanchez underscored. “But that also
Kennedy School of Government and a tribulations have “added some fuel to the means I’m ready.... Let’s get women in the
former U.S. ambassador to Greece and fire” of her faith and to her determination room. I would be happy to be in the room.”
NATO—followed. Recalling the “shock to study theology. She now reflects more Undergraduate volunteers had been
and sense of disbelief and anger” in 2002, searchingly on “why we are serving. Why reaching into rows to collect index cards
he said Catholicism is back “in crisis,” do we go about loving every day, to follow with penciled questions from the audi¬
but that people have gathered in Robsham Christ, and five in that love? And if that ence. Burns conveyed a sampling of those,
“because the Church is worth saving.” means we have to grow and change along including this one: “My 14-year-old son
He cited the Church’s global works of with the Church, then that’s what we’re talks about becoming a priest. I’m strug¬
disaster relief and “conflict mediation,” called to do.” gling with how to react to that.”
as well as its “very powerful voice for Less willing to distance his faith from After the panel’s two lay men alluded
the 65 million refugees and internally the institution was the theology professor, to their vocational discernments (including
displaced people in the world today.” He Pope’s high-school thoughts of becoming
then presented the four panelists: Tiziana a Jesuit), Dearing added her perspective as
Dearing, a professor at Boston College’s The discussion turned a a women in a Church that limits ordina¬
School of Social Work; Sean Barry ’21, corner into issues of trans¬ tion to men. “I’ve been praying really hard
a midshipman in the U.S. Navy ROTC; parency, reform, and the last three or four minutes about wheth¬
Stephanie Sanchez, MSW’18, in the midst er or not to say what I’m about to say,” she
of wrapping up a second master’s at the accountability—inescapably said, her voice catching. “When I was in
University’s School of Theology and arriving at the singular high school, I wanted to be a priest too.”
Ministry; and Boston College theology question of women in the There was brief silence, then strong
professor Stephen Pope. applause. Dearing wiped away a tear and
With the four seated on tall director’s Church. The audience said no more on the subject.
chairs against a maroon-curtain backdrop, listened closely, punctuat¬ Not until the closing moments did
Burns posed his first question from the ing remarks on stage Burns explicitly raise the why-I-remain-
podium: How has a decade and a half of a-Catholic question, although, in a way,
abuse scandals affected you as a Catholic? with frequent applause the conversation had been orbiting it all
The first response, by Dearing, indicated and "ahh's." along. Taking quick turns, panelists spoke
one way she and undoubtedly many others of drawing hope from “people who care”
are processing the revelations—by putting about the Church and its mission to serve
noticeable daylight between the institu¬ Pope. “I think there are layers of deception, God and neighbor, especially at the parish
tional Church and their faith convictions. misplaced loyalty, hidden suffering that level (Pope); of turning away from “anger
“It tattered my relationship with the we’re just beginning to hear about,” he and rage” (Barry); and of realizing more
institution of the Church,” said Dearing, said, alluding in part to coverups by bish¬ clearly than ever that the sacraments, com¬
referring especially to the nationwide ops. “So I have to say I do find it shaking munity, and Mass are “how I know God”
cascade of scandals during the aughts. my faith. Not in the sense that I’m going to (Dearing).
(In the aftermath of those revelations, in abandon the Catholic Church. It’s shaking By then, the audience was applauding
2007 at age 36, she was appointed the first in that I continually have to wrestle with every utterance.
woman to direct Catholic Charities of the the hypocrisy of the Church... because “This Church is my home. This is
Archdiocese of Boston.) “And it is a rela¬ my faith is very ecclesial. It’s very churchy my place,” said Sanchez, mentioning the
tionship that is tattered now, but that’s dif¬ in the sense that I do believe in my heart “great gift of faith” she received grow¬
ferent than my faith,” she clarified. “And it that the Church was founded by Jesus.” ing up in a Hispanic family. “And I’m not
didn’t affect my faith.” From there, the discussion turned a going anywhere, even though we are ter¬
Barry followed, saying he has lived corner into issues of transparency, reform, ribly broken now.” The graduate student
practically his entire life with a “Church and accountability—inescapably arriving chooses to side with hope, she said—
in scandal. And it’s disheartening.” The at the singular question of women in the “because I also know that Jesus isn’t going
sophomore, who also serves as Grand Church. The audience listened closely,
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how race fits into our personal story and
the places where we grew up. I had class¬
mates from Chicago, from Milwaukee,
and they had such different interactions
with race and immigration.
Being able to combine my studies in
economics and statistics with this personal
analysis solidified in my mind what side
of the economic sphere I want to be on: I
don’t want to contribute to inequality. I’ve
seen the huge dividends and bonuses in the
private sector. I want to go into the public
policy sector, where I can contribute to
eradicating Bermuda’s inequalities.
Bermuda is a British protectorate.
In my senior economics thesis, I looked
into the role of colonialism in explain¬
ing income inequality today. A lot of past
economic studies have focused on how
Stone, in Hamilton, Bermuda, January 14. colonialism leads to the economic success
of a country, measured by variables such
as GDP. They look at the overall economic
performance, without looking at the
Oxford bound internal economic performance, including
the disparity between the descendants of
indigenous populations and descendants
By Zachary Jason of European settlers.
There are a lot of calls for indepen¬
dence within Bermuda right now, and my
An interview with Boston College's newest Rhodes Scholar project helped me reflect on the emotions
behind those calls. Becoming independent
would surely scare off investors. And we’d
I n late November, the Rhodes Trust Bermuda in 1999, when I was three, so it’s lose the educational privilege of studying
_I_ named Isabelle Stone ’18 a 2019 Rhodes the only home I’ve known. in the UK at the British-student rate. But
Scholar. Stone, who majored in economics There’s a big international business seeing the gross inequality linked to our
and minored in philosophy and Faith, Peace, sector in Bermuda—mainly, insurance colonial past helped me understand why
and Justice, is Boston College’s third recipient and reinsurance. And there was a wave of we would want to give those up.
of the prestigious award; in 2003, the schol¬ immigration in the 1990s, from the UK, My philosophy classes at Boston
arship, which carries the opportunity for U.S., and Canada, of people going to work College were very service-oriented, espe¬
advanced study at Oxford University, went in those industries. The average immigrant cially the Faith, Peace, and Justice ones.
to Paul Taylor ’04 and Brett Huneycutt ’03. on the island makes more than $100,000 My service with the homeless population
(Taylor is now a researcher at the National and is white. There are white Bermudians in Boston’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood
Institutes of Health’s brain imaging lab and too, but the local community is majority forced me to hear the stories and see the
Huneycutt is cofounder and chief operating black. faces behind the statistics you read in eco¬
officer of the online investment management nomics—to understand how many factors
service Wealthsimple.) Contributing editor How did your experience in Boston go into the struggle for success in educa¬
Zachary Jason spoke by phone with Stone, shape your view of Bermuda? tion, for example. Economics can some¬
who for the past six months has been work¬ times be a pretty black-and-white subject,
ing as an analyst for Bermuda-based Nephila I’ve had a lot of privilege. I went to private and, for me, service gave it more color.
Capital, a firm specializing in reinsurance. school. I’m trying to think of a way to
Their conversation has been edited for length. say this. There are 65,000 people on the I read that you came to Boston
island. Bermuda is a mile wide and it’s 20 College with a desire to get a high-
Where is home, for you? miles long, and the inequality is right in paying finance job.
your face. At Boston College, especially in
I was born in the UK, and both my par¬ my philosophy and my Faith, Peace, and It’s the culture. Public service isn’t really
ents are British and lawyers. We moved to Justice classes, we were asked to consider valued in Bermuda. I can’t remember any-
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