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  • #64976
    crazyfck
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    I wish I had full time to do this, there is so much to write

    On the wall I saw photographs of her in every stage of the drug, she was fit before, and her muscular development was unstoppable; I could see in her eyes over the photographs that she was addicted to it. Some photos were around her family becoming each month smaller at her side. “what are you looking in there?” she asked me from the bed.

    “Your development”

    She entered the closet.

    “Do think… that I did too much?”

    “You are asking the wrong guy”

    And we had sex in the shower. Kind of painfully, actually, too little space for me and her maneuvers. Above me, in bed she started a little show of her definition, size, I could lick her all day.

    “You never had anyone… muscular?” She asked when I felt her tremendous hard thighs with both hands.

    “Believe or not, I had a relationship with a bodybuilder before all that flavor thing. In LA I was bulking myself for a movie… see?” I flexed out my proud bicep.

    “Cute”

    “Cute… well, in the gym I met her, she was neither tall, or muscular as you… but she was big on those days standards. She was trying to build muscles, and without your wonder drug…”

    “Is not easy, know… but there were other drugs”

    “Yes, drugs that mess with your internal organs, hormones, and she was thinking in taking it”

    “She wanted to compete?” Margot waited for my response as I was absorbed in her left breast.

    “She didn’t know what she wanted, it was all about her body, you know that most bodybuilders have a kind of selfish behavior… I don’t know if they were always like that, or going six times a week in a gym spending all day does. She could not think in nothing but her training, her eating, which muscle is smaller, or bigger… in the beginning was fascinating for me, but then…”

    “And you liked her?”

    “I liked her, and I thought that I could bring her out from this ego-trip bubble; but it was a compulsion, and she wasn’t receiving a fix anymore."

    “how big she was?”

    “Pretty big, and she was naturally big, beautiful, her arms were almost bigger than mine, to not to say her legs. When she understood how I was totally into her muscles, she went real nuts”

    “Why?”

    “After that, she trained harder, and started to take all those pharmacology suffixes imaginable together”

    “And she gone bigger…”

    “Yes, in a couple of months, I was amazed, but each day I saw her using all that illegal stuff made in 'who knows where', tons of it, I couldn’t accept where she was going anymore, all her money was sinking to it, I was feeling responsible for that, guilty”

    “It was her life, after all…”

    “And mine… I said her to drop it or drop me”

    “She dropped you”

    “Well, she became hysterical, cried, angered, revolutions of sad emotions, she was lost, she had no real friends, her family despised what she was doing, no one took her seriously but me. Bodybuilding was everything she knew, and I was there saying to drop her dreams. When I touched her arm, she pushed my hand away and just plain shouted… get out”

    “when was that?”

    “Three years ago, maybe a little more.”

    “And never saw her again?”

    “She disappeared. Well, I found her profile on facebook, she seemed well” I said as I return my duties on Margot’s biceps, which she flexed for me repeatedly.

    “Is she bigger?”

    “She put only a face photo, by her neck and shoulder she seemed pretty big, not sure, she also seemed better looking, but the photo was tiny, black and white. She’s like… hiding herself.”

    “Maybe she’s preparing a comeback”

    “Yes, she’s obstinate. And revengeful.”

    “Revengeful? She loved you?”

    “If she loved, she would stop. Probably… she hates me.”

    “You are so clueless… I don’t know if all this will be heaven or hell for you”

    “it’s have being heaven” and she pushed me to bed again, her wide shoulder, her breasts covered all my view.

    Hell and heaven exists at the same time, all the time. My cell phone rings, it was my sister Julie… “hey, no… I’m coming, don’t worry, yes… me too” I turned it off and took my clothes from the chair “shit… my shirt is wrecked”

    “Sorry…” Margot said “pick one of mine, they will fit”

    “I doubt it”

    “The older ones… in the box, some are not… wrecked” It was hard to find something to wear, everything was ruined and stretched out, and this got me lost in my thoughts. There was a drug out there transforming the world in my fantasies. But my fantasies in this world can be dangerous, to be used against me by almost any woman.

    “How much time you didn’t see your family?” Margot asked as she was closing her huge bra. Her bra was not for support, but to tame those deviant breasts.

    “A year, I saw my older sisters yesterday. But not Julie, or my parents”

    “Not even… your mother?”

    “What about my mother?”

    “She’s taking the drug, tons of it, didn’t you know?”

    “That’s why I was feeling her voice is so different over the phone! It was gradual, but…Why the fuck she’s doing that? She’s not the kind… of person that would do that”

    “She’s the high-school principal, don’t you remember? Do you think that’s easy to be an authority with teens two feet taller than you? No one is bigger that Ms.Merchant or taller, or stronger… and she is your mom, how do you feel?”

    “awkward”

    Margot came over my back and whispered in my ear “awkward in thinking about mommy’s big biceps?”

    “hey, cut it out… wait a minute… and Julia? If my mother is on it…”

    “I think is better for you to go back to LA” She said laughing at it.

    “You know, Margot, Julie knows it, this amazon thing of me… she found it out, you know what she said to me about it?  That some girls are on it too.”

    “Do you think she fantasized in being an amazon?”

    “We read the same comics, played the same games, we are pretty much similar… in taste, music, political views… me and her always teamed against our two older sisters, that are on this flavor stuff too.”

    “You are right”

    “About what?”

    “In her fantasy of being an amazon”

    “How big is she? She’s just sixteen…”

    “Not bigger than your mother, that’s for sure”

    continues

    #64977
    alex
    Participant

    Amazon family! Amazon unstable ex-girlfriend-bodybuilder!  Great prospects for this story!  I can't wait to see what come next!

    #64978
    crazyfck
    Participant

    and now, the last one… of this year

    “You are right”

    “About what?”

    “In her fantasy of being an amazon”

    “How big is she? She’s just sixteen…”

    “Not bigger than your mother, that’s for sure”

    Margot left me at my car, lonely parked near the bar. I liked her; she didn’t even ask if I knew Jack Nicholson, which, of course, I didn’t. She wanted to know about my life, about who I really was. I told her a little too much… in such a little city, gossips spread instantaneously.

    From my car I looked at my old home, still the same as I moved three years ago. But there was some differences, the flowers… the pink orchidean flowers surrounding the house. Saw that they changed the doorway, obviously, for a taller one; if  mom is the amazon Margot told me, the bed, the car, everything would be bigger. It made me feel a little sick, I had an amazon family and didn’t knew it. I wasn’t prepared. Why Eve and Claudia didn’t tell me, why no one told me, not even Julie, who tells me everything?

    I was feeling the urge to accelerate and go away. But I turned off the engine, and concentrated to take courage to exit the car. Did mom know about my… nature? Mothers know us a whole lot more than we let. She was a lady, in every sense, and she was the principal of my school, I had mom at home, mom at school, and jocks always bullied me because of that. If mom did something on them, they would discount on me. And I never told it to her, as a mother or as a principal. It’s the code of honor, that bullies tend to abuse. But as I said, mothers know a lot more than we let, and in some level she knew that my life in school was troubled because of her. Mom and Julie were the ones who got more disturbed by my decision of leaving home. Dad became just angry by my choice, but my mother became sad; she knew I would never live in this town again.

    It was time to leave the car… when I saw someone hiding in the back of my old corolla. Dad’s old corolla in fact. The car started to lift some inches from the back, like a hydraulic jack “WTF?” and the car goes down. When the car stopped moving, I saw an amzon by my window, laughing at it, wearing a sleeveless top, with arms bulging, veins rising by her effort… it was Julie on top of all that. She saw my face and shamelessly hit a double bicep pose. How tall she was? Those arms seemed big as my head… I was startled. Julie continued to chuckle at my expense, we usually prank each other, but that was something else.

    She goes down and took the driver side of the car, shaking it “get out! Get out Lowe” she said smiling but acting as a monster of a b-movie. I exited by the passenger door.

    “What the hell, Julie?!”

    “Yes, its me, what do you think?” Julie took a spun for it.

    “I don’t know what to say… goddamn, you’re big.”

    “And muscular”

    “I can see that… shit, you lifted my fucking car… why you didn’t tell me? What’s the problem with you?”

    “All to see that face of yours”

    “so, since you are that strong, pick up my luggage.”

    “keep dreaming”

    “I brought a present for you, don’t you want it?”

    “All right, cheater” and Julie took out all my baggage in one lift. I saw her body from behind in the stairs; it looked like some UFO abducted her and put someone in her place. She was close to 6’6 barefooted, she hadn’t too much definition, but each muscle was evident, she didn’t seem muscular as Margot, but she was, perhaps, bigger. At least, her lower body was.

    “Where is everybody, are you alone?”

    “They are working… people work, don’t you know.”

    “Stop, you are beginning to sound like Eve” Julie dropped my stuff over her old bedroom; she got mine since I left. It still had the touch of her earlier years, kind of childish, in the way I remembered her. Opposite to what she has done to my old room, enhancing it.

    “Got a big plasma?” I said looking at her large screen in my old… her bedroom.

    “From birthday…”

    “Are you serious?” Dad never gave expensive gifts to anyone, he was a kind of Scrooge.

    “Dad is so much more flexible now…” she said with a whisper, taking off the hair from the forehead, displaying her right bicep.

    “Since when?”

    “Since I got a feet and a half taller than him” I stared at her to see if she was joking; she and dad never got along. In the same fashion as me and grandpa.

    “What you did to him?”

    “Long story, you’ll see, he’s lot better now. Where is my gift, show me, want to see…”

    “Okay, ok, it took one hour in line to buy it, so respect it”

    “It’s a jesusphone?”

    “yes, I`m that original” She kept asking for one all the time for the last month. It was the geek side that she inherited from me. I wanted one for myself, but money was short and I couldn`t let her down. But I did better; Steve Jobs cut 200 dollars on the price some months after.

    “It`s so tiny!” she squealed touching it.

    “Tiny?! It`s a brick!”

    “It`s perfect for me” Julie went to her computer to activate it. I missed her, more than anyone in family. I went with her to see the damn phone working; by her side, looking at her huge back, for more it was Julie, the amazon in front of me didn`t look like her. My brain couldn`t connect my Julie to what I was seeing.

    “I can see that you took care of my CDs”

    “They are precious”

    “What you did to dad?”

    “Can`t you imagine?” Julie asked me, puffed her chest in a heroine pose and gone back to itunes.

    “What? You beat him up? That`s it?”

    “Is not that simple, really”

    “Why don`t you tell it from start? Tell me everything, since when mom is on it too?”

    “Now you touch the critical point: Mom”

    “She beat him up?”

    “Is not that simple”

    “Tell me, from the beginning, everything, shoot”

    “Beginning… do you really want to know? I can`t hide anything from you, am I? It all started five years ago, when I found out our… fixation”

    “Skip this” I said as she laughed at my face again.

    “I read the silly stories that you wrote”

    “Skip this, I don`t want to know what you know”

    “Too late, dear brother, you asked for it. In the beginning I found you insane… what age I was… thirteen. You wrote stories about girls getting muscular, some had superpowers… the dialogues…”

    “Spare me”

    “But your stories lightened something in me…”

    “They were erotic stories, you know that?”

    “Exactly.”

    “I`m a little afraid to get what you mean…”

    She brought her both arms, making a quick flex “you are not that stupid…”

    “I guess I am.”

    “I learned something from your stories… that every woman has a goddess inside wanting to get out”

    “I don`t remember writing that”

    “Is between lines, and it is truth” she said standing up from her chair, looking down at me “and I choose to be” she hit a pose over me.

    “To be what? A goddess?”

    “They will worship me, someone will.”

    “You are scaring me”

    She started to laugh at my face again “am I scaring you? You were so much brighter than me before…” she bloated herself in taking me into her prank, I really felt offended. Julie that weren`t so smarter before. She gone back to the computer, and I took a deep breath:

    “Thank you, Julie, for remembering the sick fuck that I am.” And I stood up and got out.

    “No… it was only a joke…” was the last thing I heard before closing the door of my… her old bedroom. Surrounded by her old abandoned teddy bears. “What the hell I`m doing here” was my last thought before crashing in the bed.

    #64979
    alex
    Participant

    Stop doing whatever else you're doing, and continue to write this.

    No pressure though    ;D

    #64980
    crazyfck
    Participant

    we have now some taboos here, there is no escape from them

    “and I choose to be” she hit a pose over me.

    “To be what? A goddess?”

    “They will worship me, someone will.”

    “You are scaring me”

    She started to laugh at my face again “am I scaring you? You were so much brighter than me before…” she bloated herself in taking me into her prank, I really felt offended. Julie that weren`t so smarter before. She gone back to the computer, and I took a deep breath:

    “Thank you, Julie, for remembering the sick fuck that I am.” And I stood up and got out.

    “No… it was only a joke…” was the last thing I heard before closing the door of my… her old bedroom. Surrounded by her old abandoned teddy bears. “What the hell am I doing here” was my last thought before crashing in the bed.

    When I woke up, I turned to the side and splashed to the water. “what the hell?”  I was in our pool, someone put me in there. I then I saw Julie laughing hysterically and I yelled back “Fuck you!”

    “You shouldn`t start a fight with a… goddess”

    “Why you did that?! You aren`t thirteen anymore”

    “no, I`m sixteen, a hell lot worse”

    I did the same to her when she was kid, she slept so profoundly, as me, that I could carry her from the bed to someplace else, like the roof, or the basement, or… the pool. It was like she wanted to show me that our relationship didn’t change because she was an amazon. Every time we hurt each other feelings, one of us would come up with a practical joke. It was our way to show that we were above it. But I was the one who got used to do this, not her.

    And then someone appears, an amazon, and it was not my mother. Was Stacy, Julie’s best friend. In a bikini. A tanned amazon teen. That noisy little brat turned into a wet dream. She was a year above Julie, almost legal. And I knew almost everything about her; since kids they were close, and both would talk about boys, only. They discovered sex together, of `what is a penis` or `what is an orgasm`. They had the same crushes over the same guys. I sensed to where it was heading: betrayal. When I left, they were fighting over one boy. I was surprised to see that they were still together.

    But, of course, I was ten times more surprised by her body. Her breasts were starting to rise when I left, and now they reached their final stage and beyond. She was precocious than my sister, she menstruated first… as I said, I knew everything about her.  Or I thought that I knew:

    She came behind my sister and kissed her in the lips.

    I was speechless.

    The two muscular nymphs embrace each other feeling up their bodies, crushing each other tongues, wearing minimal clothes, microscopic bikinis, sweated by their sunbath.

    Two things crossed my mind: One, that I wasn`t Julie`s center of the universe anymore; and Two, that I was a dwarf in the face of these two amazons making out (that could lift my corolla easily). As a brick that fell in my head, I saw that Julie was light-years ahead of what I expected from her.

    Finally, after an eternity, they broke up the kiss. And, at least, they both looked at me:

    “Lowe, how are you?”  Stacy said, pretending that she not had seen me, but still embraced my sister with her heavy guns.

    I got up from the poll, wearing my wet clothes “damn Julie, were my only clean clothes!”

    “That was my idea to trap you” Stacy said coming closer. I saw that Julie left us, grinning. My relationship with Stacy was always weird, full of misunderstandings; I always suspected she was into me. She was a kid, now… shit, by her stare at me I could sense her pussy quivering, I went back to the water to hide another unsolicited boner.

    Julie brought two glasses of the cold sweated pink drink, and they both seated on the edge of the pool watching me.

    “Since when you are a lesbian, Julie?” I fired right away.

    “oh, tough question… when we discovered, Stacy?”

    “nine months ago, when Julie`s muscles started to grow like a cake in the oven” Stacy said laughing, seizing my sister’s arms.

    “So, you are into muscles too?”

    “Who doesn`t like muscles?” Stacy responded bringing her beefy leg from the water.

    “Are you drunk? Both of you?” I asked when I saw the already empty glasses.

    “It gets a long way to get us drunk” Julie said rising her eyebrows taking the last gulp.

    “are you going to marry each other?” I asked as Julie was touching Stacy thighs.

    “I hoped that he would come up with more interesting questions” Stacy commented with Julie, and she agreed with her. They both stood up and Julie whispered to Stacy ear, in a low voice enough for me to hear: “let`s suck each other to death”

    And they left me alone. What was all that? They were messing up with me; they had to be. It was another prank? It was all too surreal, but too surreal to be a prank. I took off my soaked jeans, my soaked burrowed shirt, and I went inside only in underwear to not flood the house.

    Halfway of the stairs, someone was closing the door, another amazon, bigger than Stacy, Julie, Margot or any other amazon that I ever seen. It was mom. And she was twenty years younger than I remembered.

    “Lowe! Lowe! Lowe…” before that I could react my muscular amazon mother embraced me lifting into the air, kissing my cheeks, I was something like a kitty to her. The embrace was so harder that the air of my lungs escaped from me.

    “Okay mom, ok, I`m here”

    “Why you are naked?” she held me in her arms looking at me.

    “I fell in the pool “

    “You fell? Are you on drugs?”

    “No mom, of course not”

    “Let`s dry your hair, you can get cold”

    “No mom, doesn`t need it, I`ll do myself”

    “Nonsense, come here” She took my arm and guided me to the kitchen, where she took a white towel from the laundry and came over shaking my head with it. I felt her breast to rest my back. She was wearing some business clothes, which only left her muscular thighs exposed. Her huge bunions faded away. Even as tall as she was now, she kept using high heels, enhancing even more her enhanced calves. By her leg, I could see that her skin was flawless. The scarier thought was that she looked my age, twenty-something.

    “Mom, look at you, you are…”

    “What?” She asked worried about herself. If even her son would call her of a monster as everyone else.

    “Young… and beautiful” I was not praising her, it was an fact.

    She embraced me again, discharging all the femininity that the drug induces in a woman. It was like anyone had touched this side of her until now. “oh, Lowe, is so good that you are here, I missed you so much” she kissed my forehead. Everything about her was different, even her smell. When she stood up, I felt her quad bumping into my back. I was a sick pervert, my cock started to rise. I hide it, but was hard with sopping underwear.

    “Mom, sorry, I… have to…” I saw her breathing faster “…mom?”  She caught my shoulder and pressed harder to her legs, when I try to get up, she held me against her breasts “…mom?!”  She pressed her legs against each other and her whole body trembled for some seconds before she released me. She looked down at me in near shame, but she recomposed herself. Without another word, she left me alone in the chair and gone upstairs to her bedroom.

    I knew that the drug creates an overload of hormones so strong that women couldn`t fight it.  And my mother was clearly a victim of that. And I am left to wonder: how`s dad is dealing with all that? His youngest daughter and wife becoming super-charged amazons, thinking in sex all the time, that they couldn’t escape from it. To Julie was easier since she was a teen, it was expected, but from mom, who always had a restrict moral code, an image to protect, daughter of the city mayor, principal of the city high-school; I was pretty sure she wouldn’t handle it. Sex have no boundaries, and then you have a drug overdose pushing sex to infinity; trying to block it is creating a nuclear blast that will destroy everything.

    I passed by Julie’s bedroom and I heard their muffled screams; the two teenager amazons were discharging their sexual batteries on each other, and mom was obviously accumulating. Dad was not the lady’s man. How he let them to overuse an unknown drug? It was my main question to Eve and Claudia.

    #64981
    alex
    Participant

    I'm glad you didn't shy away from the such a polemic issue as taboo. I think you're doing a very good job keeping the characters realistic, even under absurd cirunstances.

    Please continue.

    #64982
    crazyfck
    Participant

    yes, is easy to shy away, and that was a mild soft taboo, let's see how dirt it can be… but later. For now, our hero is still trying figure out what's happening

    I passed by Julie’s bedroom and I heard their muffled screams; the two teenager amazons were discharging their sexual batteries on each other, and mom was obviously accumulating. Dad wasn't the lady’s man. How he let them to overuse an unknown drug? It was my main question to Eve and Claudia.

    They were closing their flower shop when I arrived.

    “What the fuck happened in home? Can you explain to me how and why mom and Julia got that big?

    They glanced each other “What’s happened?”

    “Nothing… but they grew too much and too fast, am I the only one seeing the dangerous side of it?”

    Eve winked at me “I believe so.”

    “…and dad…” Claudia completed Eve.

    “He’s okay with it now, don’t you remember?” Eve replied and said to me “for some time he got some problems… accepting it. But mom had to do it”

    “Why? There are obvious benefits using it all right, but how tall is she? 7 feet?”

    “Didn’t you know what happened to her in school? In what world do you leave?”

    “California…”

    “She spent a month in the hospital right after your visit last year”

    “Fuck me, I was filming… I didn’t know… what happened?”

    “Do you remember a girl named Norma?” Of course I remembered her, she was the only daughter of our gardener. In the same age as Julie, but not cute as Julie, bright as Julie, rich as Julie, happy as Julie. Norma didn’t even have a mother, only her creepy father.

    “Yes, she stalked Julie… she did something to mom?”

    “Yes, she broke mom’s both arms, almost killing her. And Julie too if she had a chance.”

    “And this was in school…” I remembered that Julie complained about her, that each time Norma was suspended, she would come after Julie. And got another suspension because of that. Even school’s life of Julie was like mine. But at least she had a big brother.

    “In a class full of students, and no one could stop that crazy bitch from crushing mom.”

    “Mom got three days in induced coma” Claudia added.

    “Norma was heavy into the drug?”

    “The flavor? Yes, she was. She was the only gal in town that could be stronger than mom”

    “So, now can you see the stupidity of your idea of flooding the city with these flowers?”

    Eve pointed at me “No, is the right thing to do, so all women can be equal, to have the same chances”

    “You… thinking for anyone else besides yourself? What are you intending to? Giving free flowers instead of selling them? What do you really want from all this… charity?”

    “Fuck you” said Eve “you were the one who was not here when mom needed it, not even a call, you are the one who doesn’t care… so like dad”

    “so like all men, doesn’t Eve?”

    “If you are implying that men are somewhat… inferior… you are right, even before the flavor” Eve always says what she believes, for more nazi she was. She was a neocon bitch.

    “I see, like Norma crushing the life out of our mother… a good proof of that”

    “No kid should be stronger than an adult, that’s why mom did it, and all other women will have to do it”

    “And us, Eve? Who will protect men from being crushed?”

    “Who protected women until now?”

    “Hey, women never were… that weak . Julie can lift a car! She’s sixteen, she’s a teenager… fuck, discussing with you is a waste of time”

    “I agree” Eve said as she took her purse.

    I came to Claudia “how mom took it? Of what Norma did to her… and dad?”

    “Pretty bad, she was willing to quit principal position. Norma wasn’t the only amazon teen in school. And mom got very insecure, she wanted to install bars over the windows, even move to another city, transfer to another school… until Julie convinced her to take the flavor seriously. Dad fired the gardener, and sued him”

    “And Norma? What happened to her?”

    “She was expelled from school, and they, she and her father left the town”

    “Do you remember him? He was a kind of a… quiet guy”

    “Never liked him, but I admit that no one maintained our backyard so well as him, near perfection. He was the first one who showed us the might flower. I think he had a plantation of those, since Norma was a giantess.”

    “But still, mom had to be that big? And Julie?”

    “Julie is on it by her own, but mom just couldn’t stand to be near any student bigger than her. But it gave a boost in her, she’s doing a lot of things that she never had courage to do before. She’s fundraising the new building… did you see how school is looking now? It looks like new.”

    As Claudia was talking about mom accomplishments, I realized that Norma never spoke to me, not after I kicked hard her ass when she gave Julie a black eye. She was a kid then, now she’s a giantess. It was a scaring, disturbing thought. Maybe she’s the only one who truly hated my guts; she could bend iron, punch a hole in the wall… the drug had a limit? How she looks now? What Norma made of her life? All I knew she must be resented about our family. Was better to take some measures:

    “Don’t you think is better to call a private eye to see what Norma’s up to?”

    “Nahh, by the judge orders she must keep 10 miles of distance from mom, is almost the entire town” Claudia said to tranquilize me. The judge was our uncle; as I said to you: my family dominated the entire county.

    “And about me? I don’t live here, and what if she goes after me?”

    “Why you? She doesn’t even know that you live in California… I don’t think she even care about us” I hated Claudia’s constant optimism, because she always took the wrong bet. Terrible poker player. It was her karma, to be always wrong. From that day I knew, I would be confronted with Norma again.

    continues

    #64983
    sariel
    Participant

    just a reader here, wondering if there will be any more chapters of this fine story, no rush, creation takes time, I know! 🙂

    #64984
    KeithXZ
    Participant

    Hi Crazyfck, great story, as usual from you !

    I hope you have time soon to continue it.

    Thanks for what you have written for us so far.

    – Keith

    #64985
    Rudi
    Participant

    Woohooo.. Just went into the upside down paradise page, and discovered that there have been a secret update on the page, 17 january, wich I somehow missed.
    Gonna check it out now..

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