CONTENTS
Introduction Harley A. Rotbart
Chapter 1. SPECTACULAR SERENDIPITY
Father Karl’s Miraculous Timing Dale S. Adler
The elevator door opened and out fell a priest in full cardiac arrest. The location of that elevator, and the identity of the person waiting for it on the other side of the doors, could not have been more fortuitous.
An Unlikely Discovery by the Unlikeliest Person Ryan Jones, Claudette Dalton, Gilbert Upchurch Jr.
Volunteering as he did for many years as a “pretend” patient helping medical students learn to perform a physical exam, the topic of this session became too real for this man. This is the story of a student, a teacher, a surgeon, and a volunteer who that day became a real patient.
Three Teens and a Miraculous Machine Mary Catherine Finn Ring, Bruce L. Ring
In the devastation that was Haiti following the 2010 earthquake, a tiny clinic in an impoverished village received a donated EKG machine that was broken on arrival. This is the story of three teens and the miracles they made possible with that machine.
An Impossible Delivery Amanda Yeaton-Massey, Kay Daniels
A forty-year-old infertility patient gave up on her prayers of conceiving after many years and many tries at in vitro fertilization. Unbeknownst to her or her doctors, though, she did conceive. Then the unthinkable happened.
Exploding Blood Cells Philip L. Glick
This surgeon was standing at the operating room table ready to perform a routine procedure on a fourteen-year-old with a serious disease. As the boy was being prepared for surgery, a sudden, unexpected, and life-threatening complication developed.
Right Where She Needed to Be Matthew Old
A college freshman had been having alarming symptoms for more than five years. After seeing many doctors and receiving many wrong diagnoses, she began a new job that saved her life.
When Sister Bernie Prays for You Claudette Dalton
All they needed was the impossible: a mobile mammogram van at a moment’s notice. No such van or equipment was available, until a very special nun intervened. As a result, countless lives have been saved.
He Was Lucky He Had AIDS Mark F. Cotton, Barbara Laughton
For a baby infected with the AIDS virus, especially in Africa, the news was seldom good. But for this baby, the AIDS infection turned out to be a blessing in disguise.
A Gift to Others Becomes a Miracle for Their Child Rodney E. Willoughby
No one had ever survived a full-blown rabies infection until this teenager did after receiving an experimental treatment—and a hands-on blessing from the man who would later become a cardinal and the Archbishop of New York.
The First and Still the Most Miraculous Harley A. Rotbart
The first child diagnosed with AIDS in Colorado, and one of the first in the country, was born years before treatment was available. He has become one of that disease’s greatest survival stories, but first he had to overcome hurdles in his young life that made AIDS the least of his worries.
Too Close to Home Denise Bratcher
A ten-year-old boy was admitted to the hospital with bacterial meningitis. When he developed seizures and his right pupil became fixed and dilated, doctors were forced to tell his parents the dread prognosis. That became even more agonizing when one doctor recognized this child and his family.
A Vacation Like No Other Richard Westcott
This man’s asbestos-related cancer spread from inside his chest all the way through his ribs and onto his breast. With his condition deteriorating badly, his wife decided they needed a getaway from all the doctors and treatments. Their visit to a monastery on a Mediterranean island changed their lives.
The Whoosh of the Ventilator Mary Anne Jackson
A newborn baby developed severe respiratory failure, unresponsive to the most aggressive intensive care. As the medical staff and family prepared to withdraw the child’s breathing support, they put her on her mother’s lap for a final good-bye.
A Silent Miracle Christopher Stille
An eight-year-old child was found to have a huge tumor in her abdomen originating from, and still attached to, her spinal cord. This could only mean one thing, and it was bad.
When “Alternative” Becomes the Only Alternative David M. Polaner
A two-year-old girl was dying of respiratory failure despite receiving the maximum breathing support her doctors could provide with medicines and machines. Then her mother asked if she could call in a Chinese healer.
A man suddenly lost his vision from a blockage in the main artery in his eye, a condition that almost always results in permanent blindness. What his doctors saw, however, haunts them to this day.
The Short Discharge Summary Joann N. Bodurtha
A mysterious illness caused an eighteen-month-old baby to nearly shrivel away. His debilitated state left him in total body failure, stranded in a storm on a remote Native American reservation, twelve hours from the nearest hospital that could be expected to provide adequate care.
A Limp Dish Rag Adrienne Weiss-Harrison
A teenager arrived in her doctor’s office with a high fever and signs of severe infection. None of her caregivers could explain what happened within the next few minutes.
Whatever the Outcome, It Will Be Okay David Kimberlin
Their daughter had a dread fungus infection complicating her leukemia. The fungus invaded her eye and her brain, inevitably an incurable condition. But that’s not how they chose to see it.
The Self-Healing Heart Eugenia Raichlin
A pharmacy student developed a severe heart condition for which a heart transplant was his only hope. Just as a donor heart became available, he became infected with bacteria in his blood that would make transplantation impossible.
The Power of a Mother’s Touch Alan R. Spitzer
A tiny premature baby with lung disease seemed to be improving when suddenly he took a terrible turn for the worse. Unable to get enough oxygen into his system despite maximum support in the intensive care unit, his doctor prepared the baby’s parents for his inevitable death and let the mother touch her baby one last time.
Chapter 3. BREATHTAKING RESUSCITATIONS
A Spirit of Calm, an Aura of Awe Frank Maffei, Richard L. Lambert
A twenty-two-month-old infant went missing and was found thirty minutes later, facedown in an icy stream. After almost two hours of resuscitation attempts, recovery of his brain and vital organs would require more than his doctors alone could offer.
The Miracle of Teamwork Paul A. Skudder
Suffering a severe heart attack on a snowy mountain on a frigid day, this man desperately needed an intensive care unit if he was to have any chance for survival.
A Good Samaritan Repaid Fred M. Henretig
After an adult volunteer in a children’s hospital collapsed without a detectable heartbeat, more than an hour of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) failed. That’s when a visiting young trainee made a suggestion.
Please, God, I Have So Much More to Do Benjamin Honigman
A high school athlete collapsed and appeared dead on the running track, not breathing and without a pulse. Indeed, he may well have actually died there, as well as at several other moments later that day.
A Bona Fide Miracle Jeremy Garrett
After more than forty-five minutes without a pulse despite a heroic rescue and prolonged CPR, this teen’s family was called in to say good-bye. Then his mother loudly prayed for a miracle.
She Pointed Up to Heaven Michael Fleischer
When the new mother suffered a cardiac arrest following an uneventful caesarean delivery, doctors finally had to give up after more than forty-five minutes of CPR without the hint of a pulse and three hours without adequate blood pressure. After saying their good-byes, the woman’s family left her bedside in tears, holding hands and deep in prayer.
Chapter 4. EXTRAORDINARY AWAKENINGS
A Miraculous Smile Rodney E. Willoughby
In a coma for more than four months, there was little hope this teenager would ever recover from the tragic medication error that left her neurologically devastated. Then, the doctor whispered something in her ear.
As if Nothing Much Had Ever Happened Alan R. Spitzer
When a two-year-old child began losing consciousness and then lapsed into coma, the cause was determined to be a rare type of brain infection from which full recovery is virtually unheard of. The months of coma that followed only deepened everyone’s despair.
A Blonde Blur John W. Ogle
A drastic fall in blood pressure during a routine surgical procedure left a two-year-old girl in shock with a severe brain injury and no normal neurological findings. That was only the beginning of the complications she would suffer in the coming weeks. But everything changed on December 24.
The Lazarus Child Mary P. Glode
“Back from the dead” is how this physician described the incredible awakening of a nine-year-old boy after a baffling brain infection. The child’s greeting to the medical team on rounds, after weeks in a coma, is one they’ll never forget.
A Mother’s Voice, a Husband’s Devotion, a Patient’s Courage Anthony Suchman
After she suffered a massive stroke, this schoolteacher’s brain damage was feared to be insurmountable. Then she heard her mother’s voice on the phone.
Two young brothers, near-drowning victims, were hospitalized after a heroic rescue by the older brother of the younger. The younger brother recovered quickly, but the older one was not as fortunate. After weeks in a coma, just as discussions of brain death and plans for termination of care began, a physician-in-training felt something astonishing.
A Vacation Like No Other Richard Westcott
This man’s asbestos-related cancer spread from inside his chest all the way through his ribs and onto his breast. With his condition deteriorating badly, his wife decided they needed a getaway from all the doctors and treatments. Their visit to a monastery on a Mediterranean island changed their lives.
The Whoosh of the Ventilator Mary Anne Jackson
A newborn baby developed severe respiratory failure, unresponsive to the most aggressive intensive care. As the medical staff and family prepared to withdraw the child’s breathing support, they put her on her mother’s lap for a final good-bye.
A Silent Miracle Christopher Stille
An eight-year-old child was found to have a huge tumor in her abdomen originating from, and still attached to, her spinal cord. This could only mean one thing, and it was bad.
When “Alternative” Becomes the Only Alternative David M. Polaner
A two-year-old girl was dying of respiratory failure despite receiving the maximum breathing support her doctors could provide with medicines and machines. Then her mother asked if she could call in a Chinese healer.
It’s Alive! Robert J. Buys
A man suddenly lost his vision from a blockage in the main artery in his eye, a condition that almost always results in permanent blindness. What his doctors saw, however, haunts them to this day.
The Short Discharge Summary Joann N. Bodurtha
A mysterious illness caused an eighteen-month-old baby to nearly shrivel away. His debilitated state left him in total body failure, stranded in a storm on a remote Native American reservation, twelve hours from the nearest hospital that could be expected to provide adequate care.
A Limp Dish Rag Adrienne Weiss-Harrison
A teenager arrived in her doctor’s office with a high fever and signs of severe infection. None of her caregivers could explain what happened within the next few minutes.
Whatever the Outcome, It Will Be Okay David Kimberlin
Their daughter had a dread fungus infection complicating her leukemia. The fungus invaded her eye and her brain, inevitably an incurable condition. But that’s not how they chose to see it.
The Self-Healing Heart Eugenia Raichlin
A pharmacy student developed a severe heart condition for which a heart transplant was his only hope. Just as a donor heart became available, he became infected with bacteria in his blood that would make transplantation impossible.
The Power of a Mother’s Touch Alan R. Spitzer
A tiny premature baby with lung disease seemed to be improving when suddenly he took a terrible turn for the worse. Unable to get enough oxygen into his system despite maximum support in the intensive care unit, his doctor prepared the baby’s parents for his inevitable death and let the mother touch her baby one last time.
Chapter 3. BREATHTAKING RESUSCITATIONS
A Spirit of Calm, an Aura of Awe Frank Maffei, Richard L. Lambert
A twenty-two-month-old infant went missing and was found thirty minutes later, facedown in an icy stream. After almost two hours of resuscitation attempts, recovery of his brain and vital organs would require more than his doctors alone could offer.
The Miracle of Teamwork Paul A. Skudder
Suffering a severe heart attack on a snowy mountain on a frigid day, this man desperately needed an intensive care unit if he was to have any chance for survival.
A Good Samaritan Repaid Fred M. Henretig
After an adult volunteer in a children’s hospital collapsed without a detectable heartbeat, more than an hour of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) failed. That’s when a visiting young trainee made a suggestion.
Please, God, I Have So Much More to Do Benjamin Honigman
A high school athlete collapsed and appeared dead on the running track, not breathing and without a pulse. Indeed, he may well have actually died there, as well as at several other moments later that day.
A Bona Fide Miracle Jeremy Garrett
After more than forty-five minutes without a pulse despite a heroic rescue and prolonged CPR, this teen’s family was called in to say good-bye. Then his mother loudly prayed for a miracle.
She Pointed Up to Heaven Michael Fleischer
When the new mother suffered a cardiac arrest following an uneventful caesarean delivery, doctors finally had to give up after more than forty-five minutes of CPR without the hint of a pulse and three hours without adequate blood pressure. After saying their good-byes, the woman’s family left her bedside in tears, holding hands and deep in prayer.
Chapter 4. EXTRAORDINARY AWAKENINGS
A Miraculous Smile Rodney E. Willoughby
In a coma for more than four months, there was little hope this teenager would ever recover from the tragic medication error that left her neurologically devastated. Then, the doctor whispered something in her ear.
As if Nothing Much Had Ever Happened Alan R. Spitzer
When a two-year-old child began losing consciousness and then lapsed into coma, the cause was determined to be a rare type of brain infection from which full recovery is virtually unheard of. The months of coma that followed only deepened everyone’s despair.
A Blonde Blur John W. Ogle
A drastic fall in blood pressure during a routine surgical procedure left a two-year-old girl in shock with a severe brain injury and no normal neurological findings. That was only the beginning of the complications she would suffer in the coming weeks. But everything changed on December 24.
The Lazarus Child Mary P. Glode
“Back from the dead” is how this physician described the incredible awakening of a nine-year-old boy after a baffling brain infection. The child’s greeting to the medical team on rounds, after weeks in a coma, is one they’ll never forget.
A Mother’s Voice, a Husband’s Devotion, a Patient’s Courage Anthony Suchman
After she suffered a massive stroke, this schoolteacher’s brain damage was feared to be insurmountable. Then she heard her mother’s voice on the phone.
The Squeeze Harley A. Rotbart
Two young brothers, near-drowning victims, were hospitalized after a heroic rescue by the older brother of the younger. The younger brother recovered quickly, but the older one was not as fortunate. After weeks in a coma, just as discussions of brain death and plans for termination of care began, a physician-in-training felt something astonishing.
Chapter 5. UNIMAGINABLE DISASTERS
Free Fall—If You’re a Believer in Miracles, This Would Be One Philip S. Barie
Nearly 100 percent of people who fall from a height of ten stories are killed by the fall—they don’t even survive long enough to reach the hospital. When the emergency call came about a Manhattan window washer who had fallen forty-seven stories, there was no hope whatsoever.
Decapitated Richard Roberts
The devastating car accident caused this nine-year-old boy to suffer the unthinkable: a complete separation of his skull from his spinal column. Survival from this type of injury is less than 1 percent, and survival without neurological damage is almost unheard of.
When Lightning Struck James K. Todd
A lightning strike left a six-year-old girl with seizures that could only be controlled with a medically induced coma, which in turn suppressed her ability to breathe. Brain damage was inevitable as a result of the seizures, the coma, and the lack of oxygen to the brain.
Shrapnel—I Knew He Had Lost His Eye Robert J. Buys
A large metal shard exploded off the axe his grandfather was using and lodged in this twelve-year-old boy’s eye. The metal punctured the cornea at the front of eye and went all the way through the retina in back.
Shredded Valerie Pruitt
Every part of this ten-year-old girl’s little body seemed to have been chopped to pieces when she fell off a boat and became caught up in the propeller. No one had ever heard of survival in a case like this.
Kidnapped: The Story of Two Three-Year-Olds Richard D. Krugman
A kidnapped child was sexually abused and left to drown in the well of an outhouse in the woods. But for the chance convergence of two highly unlikely events, she would have. Her story, and that of her kidnapper, illuminate the disparate outcomes of child abuse.
Chapter 6. MYSTERIOUS PRESENCE
The Boy Who Saw Heaven Joanne Hilden
Dying from an incurable form of cancer, a five-year-old boy had a remarkable vision, unmistakable to this cancer specialist and the other caregivers in the room, just before taking his last breath.
The Man All Dressed in White Kathleen Farrell
A two-year-old child was saved from drowning in the deep end of a swimming pool by his five-year-old cousin. The cousin, although unable to swim herself, dove into the pool and pulled the little boy to safety. The reason she gave for performing such an extraordinary act of courage stunned everyone who heard it.
A Sea of Blood Matthew A. Metz
As a young physician-in-training, this surgeon witnessed a patient’s impossible-to-control bleeding on the operating room table. When all the senior physicians in the room were ready to give up, unable to find the catastrophically leaking blood vessel, the trainee asked if he could try. All he can say now is it wasn’t his hand alone that stopped the bleeding.
The Miracle Within Us David Slamowitz
A medical student caring for a woman with excruciating pain discovered what he already suspected—there’s a lot out there in medicine that goes beyond science and textbooks.
Witnessing the Unknown Meredith Belber
An elderly woman with a terminal condition seemed to be communicating with someone in the room no one else could see—and following his instructions.
The Miracle of a Single Sentence Frank O. Richards Jr.
On a coffee plantation on the side of a volcano in Guatemala was an impoverished village with epidemic levels of a dread parasitic infection that caused blindness. It was there that a villager’s single sentence changed this physician’s career.
The Miracle in the Middle Mark F. Cotton
Born too late to receive lifesaving medicines in a research trial, and too early to receive medicines from the government, this baby with AIDS, in one of the most impoverished villages of South Africa, had little chance of survival.
When the Student Is Ready, the Teacher Appears David Addiss
In a country where parasitic diseases are legion, this particular worm wreaked havoc on individuals’ lives and entire villages. The best treatments aide workers had to offer weren’t working—until a very special interaction with one villager enlightened them.
Chapter 8. MIRACLES IN THEIR OWN TIME
President Kennedy’s Baby—Born Too Soon for the Miracle Richard Johnston Jr.
Miracles can’t be called forth on demand—even if you’re the most powerful man in the world. This physician offers a firsthand account of President John F. and Jackie Kennedy’s tragic experience with their prematurely born son, with reflection on what it means for everyone involved when miracles don’t occur in a timely way.
Battlefield Miracles, from Generation to Generation Paul A. Skudder
A young soldier’s experiences in World War II changed his life and paved the way for the treatment of another young soldier two generations later.
Safe to Sleep Henry Sondheimer
Witnessing an impending case of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in a remote Native American hospital before the baby had a chance to die, this physician’s experience foretold the future of this dread disease.
The Vitamin That Worked Wonders Mortimer Poncz
A newborn dying of malnutrition and heart failure was discovered to have a rare condition that resulted in death or severe brain damage in all children previously known with the same problem.
The Thirty-Year Miracle Kenneth G. Adams
Some miracles are slow to evolve, a mix of inspiration and perspiration. Contrasting what we know now to what we knew years ago reveals miraculous progress in our understanding of health and disease.
A Miracle in Its Day, and Then Another Mark F. Cotton
In a time and place before treatment for AIDS was available, a baby with AIDS developed life-threatening blockage of his airway. His treatment broke new ground and his miracle led to another, which in turn changed the way all AIDS babies were treated in Africa.
With a Little Help from My Friends David Spiegel
A woman with metastatic breast cancer enrolled in group psychotherapy as part of a clinical trial, meeting regularly with others suffering from the same brutal illness. The outcomes of all of the women in the group defied conventional medical wisdom, and remind us of the healing power of the mind and the impact of emotional support.
Sharing the Miracle of Hope Trevor J. Bayliss
For a college freshman diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia, a dangerous bone marrow transplant was his only hope. But before the transplant could occur, he clinically deteriorated, making the transplant itself impossible. His last hope now gone, he was given only weeks to live.
A Disappearing Tumor Becomes a Source of Hope for Many Bradley A. George
For this worried family, surgery seemed to be the best option for their two-year-old son’s potentially malignant tumor. But between Atlanta and San Francisco, something extraordinary happened. Then the real miracles began.
Helping Create Miracles for Babies of the Future Richard F. Jacobs
Parents seeking more than their own baby’s recovery invigorated and inspired this physician through the generosity of their human spirit.
Making Miracles for Others Celia I. Kaye
A baby was born with an impossibly long list of problems, the greatest of which was an inability to tolerate feedings. By several months of age, she was failing, close to death.
A Dramatic Cure Leads to Many More Michael S. Kappy, Harley A. Rotbart
Many years ago, this young man’s paralysis prevented him from breathing. It was long before ventilator machines that could save his life were developed. At the time, the “iron lung” was a device of desperation, a last hope. His cure was one miracle. His contributions afterward created many more.
Chapter 10. DIFFICULT DECISIONS
Choosing to Celebrate Lia Gore
When an eleven-year-old girl’s spinal mass recurred despite receiving the most aggressive therapy available, she and her family had to make the most important choice they would ever face.
A Source of Light and Love Daniel Hyman
A typically fatal genetic defect forced this family into a corner when their baby developed severe respiratory distress, the potential end-of-life event they had been told to anticipate.
An Impossible Pregnancy Debra Gussman
A young woman with recurrent ectopic “tubal” pregnancies was left surgically sterile after painful decisions to remove both of her fallopian tubes to save her life. There was no biological possibility of a future normal pregnancy.
The Miracle of Good Information Philip L. Glick
The diagnosis of a large tumor in a baby still in the womb resulted in uninformed advice, corrected just in time and in the unlikeliest of ways. Thirteen years later, the miracle was on full display.
The Doctor-Patient Bond Ann Schongalla
A schizophrenic patient, debilitated by his disease and the side effects of his medications, suddenly appeared “cured,” posing an unusual challenge and presenting a unique quandary to his psychiatrist.
Ski’s Legs Bauer Sumpio
A seventy-two-year-old man had severe blood vessel disease throughout his body, including nearly complete loss of blood circulation to his legs. When one of his legs developed an infection that wouldn’t heal, it was clear he needed amputation.
A Family’s Prayers Sandra L. Friedman
A seventeen-year-old girl with profound intellectual disability and cerebral palsy couldn’t speak or walk, yet was a vital and beloved member of her family. When unrecognized pneumonia led to shock and organ failure, it appeared she had suffered near brain death due to lack of oxygen.
Don’t Feel Sorry for Samuel Stephen Ludwig
After losing a previous child in infancy to a genetic bone disease, these parents were horrified to learn their unborn baby was afflicted with the same lethal condition. That was just the beginning of the difficult decisions they would have to make.
The Miracle of a Single Question Andrew Sirotnak
A lethal birth defect left a family and physicians devastated until the right question was asked. Many years later, the same question still has healing power.
The Miracle of Purpose Dale S. Adler
A woman with terminal heart and kidney failure should have died years before. But there was a special family event she could not bear to miss.
The Thin Line Between Miracle and Tragedy Robert J. Buys
A mission to the Kingdom of Tonga in the South Pacific occurred just in time to save an islander’s only eye. But what happened to the surgeon was even more miraculous.
Redeemed Bruce Reidenberg
A baby with AIDS, in the days before approved therapy was available, was virtually abandoned by his mother at the hospital. As he neared death, his mother found herself—and her purpose.
The Tears We Shared Clara Escuder
Losing a baby in infancy is an unimaginable tragedy for a family, but it deeply affects the caregivers as well. The impact of a caregiver’s grief may be felt for years.
A Child’s View Edward J. Goldson
A big sister’s reaction to her new baby brother’s horrific physical deformity was both gut-wrenching and heartwarming, and taught all who heard it a powerful lesson.
The Miracle of Resilience Simon J. Hambidge
Parents devastated by the unexplained and incurable illness of their son raised the boy’s sisters with a remarkable spirit of resilience. This allowed them all to truly celebrate his memory and inspired one of his sisters toward a noble life goal.
The Miracle of Forgiveness Harvey Guttmann
This physician relives the personal tragedy of a patient whose life was altered, and ultimately shortened, by a procedure he had performed. The patient’s unwavering forgiveness, and the remarkable bond that formed between them, proved to be redeeming for physician and patient alike.
A Child’s Insight David Keller
An adolescent with cerebral palsy, seemingly completely dependent on his mother, showed wisdom beyond his years in recognizing his mother’s depression and addiction, and helping guide her to finding help.
Feeling His Pain Jeffrey S. Hyams
The fourteen-year-old boy in his office had gastrointestinal symptoms all too familiar to this specialist, reminding him to be ever-conscious of how very human we all are.
The Miracles of Grace and Patience Kathleen M. Gutierrez
After more than a dozen major surgeries to correct a serious birth defect, a rare and mysterious infection made the birth defect seem like the least of this young boy’s problems.
Unequal Twins Edward J. Goldson
Premature twins, a boy and a girl, took very different clinical paths after birth. The boy’s rough course was even rougher for his father.
Maybe Justin Will Be Different Jeffrey S. Hyams
A three-year-old child lost more than 90 percent of his intestine due to complications of a birth abnormality, making his chances of meaningful survival nearly impossible.
My First Patient Robert J. Buys
A twenty-four-year-old woman had her eyesight taken from her by the ravages of diabetes. When she gave birth to a healthy baby boy, she couldn’t see her new son at all. One eye was so diseased it had to be removed entirely, and she was totally blind in her remaining eye.
Thirty-Six Michael D. Lockshin
Devastated by a disease that took her youth, her heart, her kidneys, and ultimately her life, this young woman demonstrated an inner goodness that may have been shared by only a few others of her day.
Chapter 12. BACK TO THE BEGINNING
A Doctor’s Work: The Miracle of Professional Transformation Carol L. Storey-Johnson
Before a doctor can be entrusted with the care of patients, he or she must first make the critical transition to professionalism. That may be easier said than done.
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