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{{Infobox album
| name       = Stand!
| type       = [[Album]]
| artist     = [[Sly and the Family Stone]]
| cover      = Stand-slyfam.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = April 1969<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ySgEAAAAMBAJ&q=sly+and+the+family+stone+stand%21&pg=PA63 ''Billboard'' April 12, 1969]</ref>
| recorded   = 1968–1969
| venue      =
| studio     = [[Pacific High Recording|Pacific High]] (San Francisco)
| genre      = {{hlist|[[Psychedelic soul]]<ref>{{cite web|title=10 Essential Psychedelic Soul Albums|url=https://www.treblezine.com/22712-10-essential-psychedelic-soul-albums/|last1=Abdurraqib|first1=Hanif|last2=Bossenger|first2=A.T.|date=16 April 2015|website=Treble|access-date=3 May 2020|last3=Pearson|first3=Paul|last4=Terich|first4=Jeff}}</ref>|[[funk rock]]<ref>{{cite web|title=50 Years Ago: How Sly and the Family Stone Defined an Era With 'Stand'|url=https://ultimateclassicrock.com/sly-and-the-family-stone-stand/|last=Deriso|first=Nick|date=3 May 2019|website=Ultimate Classic Rock|access-date=5 April 2020}}</ref>|[[funk]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Sly and the Family Stone: Higher! Album Review|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/18442-sly-and-the-family-stone-higher/|last=Patrin|first=Nate|date=29 August 2013|website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]|access-date=5 April 2020}}</ref>|[[progressive soul]]<ref>{{cite news|last=Himes|first=Geoffrey|authorlink=Geoffrey Himes|date=May 16, 1990|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1990/05/16/records/428be2d6-aeac-4263-a825-3b08a82535a2/|title=Records|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=January 26, 2021}}</ref>|[[psychedelic funk]]<ref>{{cite book|last=Hanson|first=Michael Stephen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3ChPAQAAMAAJ|title=People Get Ready: Race, Place and Political Identity in Post-civil Rights Black Popular Music, 1965-1975|date=2004|publisher=UC Berkeley|page=124}}</ref>}}
| length     = 41:27
| label      = [[Epic Records|Epic]]
| producer   = [[Sly Stone]]
| prev_title = [[Life (Sly & the Family Stone album)|Life]]
| prev_year  = 1968
| next_title = [[Greatest Hits (Sly and the Family Stone album)|Greatest Hits]]
| next_year  = 1970
| misc       = {{Singles
| name        = Stand!
| type        = studio
| single1     = [[Everyday People]]" / "[[Sing a Simple Song]]
| single1date = November 1968
| single2     = [[Stand! (song)|Stand!]]" / "[[I Want to Take You Higher]]
| single2date = March 1969
}}
}}
'''''Stand!''''' is the fourth album by [[soul music|soul]]/[[funk music|funk]] band [[Sly and the Family Stone]], released in April 1969. Written and produced by lead singer and multi-instrumentalist [[Sly Stone]], ''Stand!'' is considered an artistic high-point of the band's career. Released by [[Epic Records]], just before the group's celebrated performance at the [[Woodstock]] festival, it became the band's most commercially successful album to date.<ref name="Allmusic"/> It includes several well-known songs, among them [[hit single]]s, such as "[[Sing a Simple Song]]", "[[I Want to Take You Higher]]", "[[Stand! (song)|Stand!]]", and "[[Everyday People (Sly & the Family Stone song)|Everyday People]]". The album was reissued in 1990 on [[compact disc]] and vinyl, and again in 2007 as a [[remastered]] numbered edition [[digipack]] CD with bonus tracks and, in the UK, as only a [[CD]] with [[bonus tracks]].
The album sold 500,000 copies in 1969 and was certified [[RIAA certification|gold]] in sales by the [[Recording Industry Association of America|RIAA]] on December 4 of that year. It peaked at number 13 on the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]] and stayed on the chart for nearly two years.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4AgEAAAAMBAJ&q=sly+%26+the+family+stone&pg=PA1|title = Billboard|date = 27 March 1971}}</ref> By 1986 it had sold well over 1&nbsp;million copies and was certified platinum in sales by the RIAA on November 21 of that same year.<ref>{{cite web|title=Stand! - Gold & Platinum|url=https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award&ar=SLY+%26amp%3B+THE+FAMILY+STONE&ti=STAND%21|website=[[Recording Industry Association of America|RIAA]]|access-date=3 May 2020}}</ref> It then went on to sell over three million copies, becoming one of the most successful albums of the 1960s.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sly & the Family Stone {{!}} Biography & History|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/sly-the-family-stone-mn0000033161/biography|last=Erlewine|first=Stephen Thomas|website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=18 January 2007}}</ref> In 2003, the album was ranked number 118 on ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' magazine's list of [[Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time|the 500 greatest albums of all time]],<ref>{{cite book|last=Levy|first=Joe|title=[[Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time]]|author2=Steven Van Zandt|publisher=Turnaround|year=2006|isbn=1-932958-61-4|edition=3rd|location=London|chapter=Stand! - Sly and the Family Stone|oclc=70672814|ref=RS500|access-date=16 August 2008|orig-year=2005|chapter-url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-19691231/stand-sly-and-the-family-stone-19691231}}</ref> 121 in a 2012 revised list,<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-156826/sly-and-the-family-stone-stand-2-170761/|date=31 May 2012| title=500 Greatest Albums of All Time Rolling Stone's definitive list of the 500 greatest albums of all time| publisher=[[Rolling Stone]]| access-date= 19 September 2019}}</ref> and number 119 in a 2020 reboot of the list.<ref>{{cite magazine|date=22 September 2020|title=The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/|access-date=5 October 2021|magazine=Rolling Stone}}</ref> In 2015, the album was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the [[Library of Congress]] and selected for inclusion in the [[National Recording Registry]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-15-041/national-recording-registry-to-ac-cent-tchu-ate-the-positive/2015-03-25/|title=National Recording Registry To "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive"|website=Library of Congress}}</ref>
==Production==
''Stand!'' was recorded after ''[[Life (Sly & the Family Stone album)|Life]]'', a commercially unsuccessful album.  Although the Family Stone's single "[[Dance to the Music (song)|Dance to the Music]]" was a top ten hit in early 1968, none of the band's first three albums reached above 100 on the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]]. ''Stand!'' reached number thirteen and launched Sly Stone and his bandmates [[Freddie Stone]], [[Larry Graham]], [[Rose Stone]], [[Cynthia Robinson]], [[Jerry Martini]], and [[Greg Errico]] into the pop music mainstream.
Much of the album was recorded at [[Pacific High Recording|Pacific High Recording Studios]] in [[San Francisco]]. The band's [[A&R]] director and photographer [[Stephen Paley]] recalled how "together" Sly Stone was while working on ''Stand!'', constantly referring to [[Walter Piston]]'s ''Orchestration'' textbook,<ref name="StandRecording">[[Joel Selvin|Selvin, Joel]] (1998), pp. 69–71</ref> unlike his erratic behavior and work after he became dependent upon [[cocaine]] within a year of the album's success.<ref name="SlyAddiction">Selvin, Joel (1998), pp. 113–115</ref>
==Songs==
''Stand!'' begins with [[Stand! (song)|the title track]] on which Sly sings lead, a mid-tempo number launching into a gospel break for its final forty-nine seconds.<ref name="StandRecording" /> Most of the Family Stone was unavailable for the session at which this [[coda (music)|coda]] was recorded: Sly, drummer [[Gregg Errico]] and horn players [[Cynthia Robinson]] and [[Jerry Martini]] were augmented by session players instead. Errico recalls that many liked the gospel extension more than they did the song proper, and that; "People would always ask, 'why didn't you go there and let that be the song?'"<ref name="StandRecording" /> The second track, titled "Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey", has few lyrics save for the chorus ''Don't call me "[[nigger]]", whitey/Don't call me "whitey", nigger'' and a single verse sung by Rose Stone. On "[[I Want to Take You Higher]]" Freddie Stone, Larry Graham, Rose Stone, and Sly Stone take turns delivering the lead vocal and all seven band-members deliver the shouted backing vocals. Sly Stone, Robinson, Freddie Stone, Graham, and Martini all play instrumental solos.{{Listen
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On "[[Somebody's Watching You]]" Sly Stone, Graham, Freddie Stone, and Rose Stone deliver the vocal in unison. The song's slightly pessimistic tone would be expanded upon later in the band's career with "[[Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)]]" and the ''[[There's a Riot Goin' On]]'' LP,<ref>{{cite web|title=Somebody's Watching You - Sly & the Family Stone {{!}} Song Info|url=https://www.allmusic.com/song/somebodys-watching-you-mt0011796050|last=Greenwald|first=Matthew|website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=5 February 2007}}</ref> and would be a hit for the Family Stone's vocal group [[Little Sister (band)|Little Sister]], the first Top 40 single to use a [[drum machine]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Introduction to Sly, Little Sister and the Family Stone|url=https://www.slyslilsis.com/intro.cfm|website=Sly's Lil Sis/Little Sister Website|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170407043409/https://www.slyslilsis.com/intro.cfm|archive-date=7 April 2017|access-date=18 January 2007}}</ref> "[[Sing a Simple Song]]" urges the audience to "try a little [[Solfege|do re mi fa so la ti do]]". [[Diana Ross & the Supremes]], [[The Temptations]] and [[The Jackson 5]] all recorded cover versions of the song. The track's guitar riff is heard on [[Ike & Tina Turner]]'s "Bold Soul Sister" (from ''The Hunter'', 1969), [[Jimi Hendrix]]'s ''[[Band of Gypsys]]'' (1970) and [[Miles Davis]]' ''[[A Tribute to Jack Johnson]]'' (1971).{{Original research inline|date=July 2022}}
"[[Everyday People (Sly & the Family Stone song)|Everyday People]]", already a number-one hit single in the United States by the time of the album's release, opens Side B. The most familiar song on the album, "Everyday People" popularized the expression "different strokes for different folks".<ref>{{cite web|title=Different strokes for different folks|url=https://www.there1.com/browse_articles.php?action=view_record&idnum=109|last=Kaliss|first=Jeff|website=There1.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060212060616/https://www.there1.com/browse_articles.php?action=view_record&idnum=109|archive-date=12 February 2006|access-date=18 January 2007}}</ref>  Sly Stone, Rose Stone and Cynthia Robinson sing lead and Larry Graham introduces the [[Slapping (music)|slap-pop]] style of bass he expanded on "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)". "Sex Machine" is a thirteen-minute [[jam (music)|jam]] that features Sly scatting through amplified distortion and allows each band member a solo. Gregg Errico's drum solo closes the song and the band members are heard bursting into laughter during the final seconds. ''Stand!'' concludes with "[[You Can Make It If You Try]]", sung by Sly Stone, Freddie Stone, and Larry Graham. Sly Stone instead of Larry Graham played the bass.<ref name="StandRecording132">Selvin, Joel (1998), pp. 132</ref> It was, at one point, planned for a single release in mid-1969, following up "Stand!", but this was dropped in favor of the non-album track "[[Hot Fun in the Summertime]]". The unused mono single mix was later included on the 2007 CD reissue.
==Critical reception and legacy==
{{Album ratings
| title = Retrospective professional reviews
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref name="Allmusic">{{cite web|title=Stand! - Sly & the Family Stone {{!}} Songs, Reviews, Credits {{!}}|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/stand!-mw0000195756|last=Erlewine|first=Stephen Thomas|author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine|website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=18 January 2005}}</ref>
|rev2 = ''[[The Austin Chronicle]]''
|rev2score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2007-05-04/471773/|title=Sly & the Family Stone: The Collection Album Review|website=www.austinchronicle.com}}</ref>
|rev3 = ''[[The Guardian]]''
|rev3score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/apr/06/urban.shopping|title=CDs: Sly and the Family Stone, back catalogue|first=Alexis|last=Petridis|newspaper=The Guardian |date=5 April 2007|via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref>
|rev4 = [[Tom Hull (critic)|Tom Hull]]
|rev4Score = A<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tomhull.com/ocston/nm/notes/rmeta2007.php|title=2007 Year End List Mentions: Anthologies/Reissues|last=Hull|first=Tom|author-link=Tom Hull (critic)|website=tomhull.com|access-date=7 April 2020|date=n.d.}}</ref>
| rev5 = ''[[MusicHound|MusicHound R&B]]''
| rev5Score = {{rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite book|chapter=Sly & the Family Stone|editor1-first=Gary|editor1-last=Graff|editor-link1=Gary Graff|editor2-first=Josh Freedom|editor2-last=du Lac|editor3-first=Jim|editor3-last=McFarlin|year=1998|title=MusicHound R&B: The Essential Album Guide|publisher=[[Visible Ink Press]]|isbn=1578590264|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/musichoundrbesse00graf}}</ref>
| rev6 = ''[[PopMatters]]''
| rev6score = 10/10<ref>{{cite web|title=Sly's the Limit|url=https://www.popmatters.com/slys-the-limit-2495802586.html|last=Lundy|first=Zeth|date=1 April 2007|website=[[PopMatters]]|access-date=3 May 2020}}</ref>
|rev7 = ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]''
|rev7score = {{rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tower.com/stand-sly-family-stone-cd/wapi/106148243|title=Q review}}</ref>
| rev8 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
| rev8score = {{rating|4.5|5}}<ref name="RS">{{cite news |newspaper=[[Rolling Stone]] |issue=1025/1026 |date=3 May 2007 |page=151 |first=Robert |last=Christgau |author-link=Robert Christgau |title=Extended Family |url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/rs/sly-07.php |access-date=16 August 2008 |ref=RS}}</ref>
|rev9 = ''[[Stylus Magazine]]''
|rev9score = A<ref>{{cite web|last=Stouthall|first=Nick|title=Sly & The Family Stone|url=http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/sly-the-family-stone/a-whole-new-thing-dance-to-the-music-life-stand-theres-a-riot-going-on-fresh-sm.htm|website=Stylus Magazine|access-date=16 August 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070427095030/http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/sly-the-family-stone/a-whole-new-thing-dance-to-the-music-life-stand-theres-a-riot-going-on-fresh-sm.htm|archive-date=27 April 2007}}</ref>
|rev10 = ''[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]''
|rev10score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref name="Uncut">{{cite magazine|last=Shapiro|first=Peter|author-link=Peter Shapiro (journalist)|date=March 20, 2007|url=https://www.uncut.co.uk/reviews/sly-and-the-family-stone-reissues-10122/|title=Sly And The Family Stone – Reissues|magazine=[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]|access-date=7 April 2020}}</ref>
}}
Reviewing for ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' in July 1969, Alec Dubro observed a "very evident sense of moral purpose" in the content and a rawness in its brand of soul music, which he said "depends on sheer energy more than anything else". Overall, he found the album provocative and "effective", recommended "for anyone who can groove on a bunch of very raucous kids charging through a record, telling you exactly what they think whether you want to hear it that way or not."<ref name="RSorig">{{cite magazine |last=Dubro |first=Alec |date=26 July 1969 |title=Sly & the Family Stone ''Stand!'' |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/stand-19690726 |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |issue=38 |pages=37 |location=San Francisco |publisher=Straight Arrow Publishers, Inc. |access-date=10 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071002000114/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/slythefamilystone/albums/album/98189/review/6068018/stand |archive-date=2 October 2007 |ref=RSorig}}</ref> In the same magazine, covering [[Epic Records|Epic]]/[[Legacy Recordings|Legacy]]'s 2007 reissue of the band's catalogue, [[Robert Christgau]] said that "''Stand!'' revealed the magnificence of which this band would all too briefly be capable. 'Sex Machine,' which precipitated [[Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine|James Brown]]'s, wah-wahs on a bit, but everything else is etched in Stone, from the equally precipitous 'Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey' to the [[Chaka Khan]] fave 'Somebody's Watching You' to, yes you can, 'You Can Make It If You Try.'"<ref name="RS"/> Also appraising the reissue campaign, [[Peter Shapiro (journalist)|Peter Shapiro]] wrote in ''[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]'' that ''Stand!'' was "the group’s true breakthrough" as its "seamless blend of rock, funk and soul, and the soaring mix of black and white voices, made [[crossover (music)|crossover]] seem like Utopia." Commenting on the music's historical context, Shapiro added:
{{quote|At a time when the [[civil rights movement|civil rights coalition]] was breaking apart, when [[flower power]] was mutating into [[Black Power movement|armed struggle]], the Family Stone clung desperately to the belief that 'You Can Make it If You Try' and had the gall to deliver the decade's most powerful message of unity as a singsong nursery rhyme. Of course, maybe 'Everyday People' was believable as a nursery rhyme because, on songs like 'Don’t Call Me Nigger, Whitey' and 'Somebody’s Watching You', Sly watches [[Counterculture of the 1960s|the '60s dream]] disintegrate before his eyes.<ref name="Uncut"/>}}
The Jackson 5 covered both "Stand!" and "Want to Take You Higher"  on their album ''[[Goin' Back to Indiana]]''.
[[Rapper]] [[Ice-T]], [[Body Count (band)|Body Count]], and [[Jane's Addiction]] performed "Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey" during the 1991 [[Lollapalooza]] tour and in the 1993 [[Perry Farrell]] film ''[[Gift (1993 film)|Gift]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://disinfo.com/2013/06/perry-farrells-gift/ |title=Perry Farrell's film Gift |last=Nolan |first=Joe |date=25 June 2013 |website=Disinformation |publisher=Disinformation.com |access-date=8 October 2013}}</ref>
==Track listing==
All songs written, produced and arranged by [[Sly Stone]] for Stone Flower Productions.
=== Side one ===
#"[[Stand! (song)|Stand!]]" – 3:08
#"Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey" – 5:58
#"[[I Want to Take You Higher]]" – 5:22
#"[[Somebody's Watching You]]" – 3:20
#"[[Sing a Simple Song]]" – 3:56
=== Side two ===
#"[[Everyday People]]" – 2:21
#"Sex Machine" – 13:45
#"[[You Can Make It If You Try]]" – 3:37
=== 2007 limited edition CD reissue bonus tracks ===
*"Stand!" (mono single version)
*"I Want to Take You Higher" (mono single version)
*"You Can Make It If You Try" (mono single version)
*"Soul Clappin' II" (previously unreleased)
*"My Brain (Zig-Zag)" (previously unreleased instrumental)
==Personnel==
;Sly and the Family Stone
* [[Sly Stone]] – vocals, [[organ (music)|organ]], [[guitar]], [[piano]], [[harmonica]], [[vocoder]]; [[bass guitar]] on "You Can Make it if You Try"
* [[Rose Stone]] – vocals, [[piano]], [[Keyboard instrument|keyboards]]
* [[Freddie Stone]] – vocals, [[guitar]]
* [[Larry Graham]] – vocals, [[bass guitar]] (except on "You Can Make it if You Try")
* [[Greg Errico]] – [[Drum kit|drums]], background vocals on "I Want to Take You Higher"
* [[Cynthia Robinson]] – [[trumpet]], vocal [[ad-libs]]; background vocals on "I Want to Take You Higher"
* [[Jerry Martini]] – [[saxophone]]; background vocals on "I Want to Take You Higher"
* [[Little Sister (band)|Little Sister]] ([[Vet Stone]], [[Mary McCreary]], [[Elva Mouton]]) – background vocals on "Stand!", "Sing a Simple Song", "Everyday People" and "I Want to Take you Higher"
;Technical
*Don Puluse, Brian Ross-Myring, Phil Macey – engineering
==Chart history==
===Album===
{|class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
!align="left"|Name
!align="left"|Chart (1969–1970)
!align="center"|Peak<br />position
|-
|''Stand!''
|align="left"|U.S. Billboard Pop Albums
|align="center"|13
|-
|''Stand!''
|align="left"|U.S. Top R&B Albums
|align="center"|3
|-
|''Stand!''
|Australia ([[Kent Music Report]])<ref name=aus>{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=296}}</ref>
|align="center"|9
|}
{|class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
|"Everyday People"
|align="left"|U.S. Billboard Pop Singles
|align="center"|1
|-
|"Everyday People"
|align="left"|U.S. Billboard R&B Singles
|align="center"|1
|-
|"Sing a Simple Song"
|align="left"|U.S. Billboard Pop Singles
|align="center"|89
|-
|"Sing a Simple Song"
|align="left"|U.S. Billboard R&B Singles
|align="center"|28
|-
|"Stand!"
|align="left"|U.S. Billboard Pop Singles
|align="center"|22
|-
|"Stand!"
|align="left"|U.S. Billboard R&B Singles
|align="center"|14
|-
|"I Want to Take You Higher"
|align="left"|U.S. Billboard Pop Singles
|align="center"|38
|-
|"I Want to Take You Higher"
|align="left"|U.S. Billboard R&B Singles
|align="center"|24
|}
===Singles===
*"Everyday People"
**Epic single 10407, 1968; [[B-side]]: "[[Sing a Simple Song]]"
*"Stand!"
**Epic single 10450, 1969; B-side: "[[I Want to Take You Higher]]"
**Later reissued in 1970 with sides reversed.
==References==
{{Reflist}}
===Sources===
* [[Joel Selvin|Selvin, Joel]] (1998). For the Record: Sly and the Family Stone: An Oral History. New York: Quill Publishing. {{ISBN|0-380-79377-6}}.
==External links==
* [http://music.yahoo.com/release/59105 Lyrics] at [[Yahoo! Music]]
* [https://www.discogs.com/Sly-The-Family-Stone-Stand/release/813168 Sly and the Family Stone - ''Stand!'' (1969) album releases & credits] at [[Discogs]]
* [https://open.spotify.com/album/7iwS1r6JHYJe9xpPjzmWqD Sly and the Family Stone - ''Stand!'' (1969) album to be listened] as stream on [[Spotify]]
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