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Best wishes,
Anna
A Cliff-Hanger Epilogue - Mrs. Jenny Matlock's Saturday Centus Week 90
Welcome to Mrs. Jenny Matlock's Saturday Centus, a weekly writng challenge in which participants write a text based on a given prompt using a limited number of words. This is week 90 and we are to write a an epilogue to a two-part story that we have already written using 150 words. We may use extra pictures if we wish.
Before we read my text let us look at part I & II fom last week and the week before:
Part I:
Charles took the footpath up the hill overlooking the town and the bay. It was misty at twilight, but he could still see the reflections of the city-lights in the sea. It started to rain when he reached the top, which was above a wall of seabirds' nests. They dug into the limestone making it hollow and it could crumple under your weight and leave you hanging off a cliff, if you were lucky enough not to fall 400 meters down onto the rocks.
With pencil and notebook in hand, he heard a voice. Turning around, he felt the ground sinking. 'No!' he gasped. (Word count: 104)
[Text Copyright 2012 Christina Wigren]
Part II:
Crawling toward the voice, Charles came to firmer ground, but found no one there. Thinking he saw a light, he found the right path. It was then he heard the wall, where he just stood, crashing to the rocks. Safe at home, he wondered who or what had saved him. (Word count: 50)
[Text Copyright 2012 Christina Wigren]
Here is my epilogue or part III:
Charles thought: The voice got me to crawl away in time, and the light helped me find a path down the mountain. But I saw no one. I was alone.
A volume of the encyclopedia lay open on his desk. I don't remember leaving this here. Underlined in pencil were these words:
Gnomes are invisible, are able to lift heavy objects, blow air, shine a light and even speak if a human is in danger. You were lucky I could help you, Charlie! Best wishes from Fredrika.
How is the possible? thought Charles. This book was printed in 1904.
He looked again at saw more underlined text:
'Gnomes can also alter text in printed books. Look tomorrow and this message will be gone.'
Charles made a note of the page and just as Fredrika had promised, the message was not to be found the next day.
[Text Copyright 2012 Christina Wigren]
Word count: 147
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Best wishes,
Anna
P.S.
That's alright Jenny. You can almost throw any assignment at us and most of us will be able to write a post out of it. We will love you always!
P.P.S.
Here is an epilogue to this epilogue. Talking about literary devices, I found this literary device in the 1950 film Harvey, starring James Stewart. There is a scene in which one of the characters looks up the word 'pooka' in a dictionary and reads a message inserted in the text from the Pooka himself. If a pooka can do this, why not a gnome?
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First Commenter:
xxxx
To visit other SC week 90-posts please go to this site or click on the image below:
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Saturday, January 21, 2012
Saturday Centus - a Mea Culpa AND another writing device
Welcome to week ninety of Saturday Centus.
Please consider this picture as an official olive branch between us.
Mea culpa! Mea culpa!
Since I simply cannot bring myself to use the phrase 'my bad' as an apology, all that remains is for me to say,"I'M SORRY!!!! I'M A JERK!!! AND A LIAR!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Our nightmare of kitchen destruction happened last Friday when I wrote the instructions for week 89. And, yes, that is my excuse. I did write you could use 100 words for part two, but then I reneged and made it 50.
Mea culpa, mea culpa!
But I'm hoping this weeks challenge redeems me.
Please consider this both a formal apology AND a challenge for this week.
How about an 'epilogue' to your cliff hanger?
You know...a new writing device for the week.
Epilogues are an inherent part of any story or poem and are essential to the structure of any written form. The epilogue is an important literary tool that acts as the afterword once the last chapter is over. The purpose of an epilogue is to add a little insight to some interesting developments that happen once the major plot is over.
So...
THE PROMPT THIS WEEK IS AN EPILOGUE OF BOTH PARTS OF YOUR CLIFFHANGER STORY
WORD COUNT - Since I cheated you on words last week, how about a few extra for this weeks prompt? Word count is not to exceed 150 words total.
STYLE OF WRITING - Any
ADDITIONAL PICTURES IF DESIRED
The regular restrictions apply: PG, no splitting of the prompt, play nicely and visit the other entries, any style or genre of writing you prefer.
Please display my link button or just a hyper-link back to Saturday Centus. Be careful to link your SC URL to the Linky and not just link to your main blog.
E-mail me directly with ???'s or ask your question in a comment and I will do my best to get back to you as soon as possible.
Feel free to link up anytime between now and next Saturday!
If you still like me, that is.
To quote one of our sweet Grandlittle's, I sorry.
A Cliffhanger Part II - Mrs. Jenny Matlock's Saturday Centus Week 89
Welcome to week eighty-nine of Saturday Centus.
This is PART Two of last week's PROMPT, 'Hanging off a cliff!'
THE PROMPT THIS WEEK IS A CONTINUATION OF YOUR STORY USING: Hanging off a cliff!
WORD COUNT - Not to exceed 50 words total.
STYLE OF WRITING - Any
ADDITIONAL PICTURES IF DESIRED
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Before we look at Part Two, let's re-read last week's text:
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Charles took the footpath up the hill overlooking the town and the bay. It was misty at twilight, but he could still see the reflections of the city-lights in the sea. It started to rain when he reached the top, which was above a wall of seabirds' nests. They dug into the limestone making it hollow and it could crumple under your weight and leave you hanging off a cliff, if you were lucky enough not to fall 400 meters down onto the rocks.
With pencil and notebook in hand, he heard a voice. Turning around, he felt the ground sinking. 'No!' he gasped.
With pencil and notebook in hand, he heard a voice. Turning around, he felt the ground sinking. 'No!' he gasped.
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And now, the rest of the story:
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Crawling toward the voice, Charles came to firmer ground, but found no one there. Thinking he saw a light, he found the right path. It was then he heard the wall, where he just stood, crashing to the rocks. Safe at home, he wondered who or what had saved him.
Word count according to WordCalc: 50
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Best wishes,
Anna
P.S.
About part two:
I like happy endings. I am inspired by a Danish children's TV Christmas series, Pagten (=The Pact; The Nowegian version has more information, if you can read Norwegian.) by Maya Ilsøe about a family of gnomes who are invisible to most people except one special boy who can see and speak to them. It sounds corny, I know, but they did an excellent job. My idea is that Charles, who is alone on his walk, has been saved by gnomes.
Source: Pakten
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About part two:
I like happy endings. I am inspired by a Danish children's TV Christmas series, Pagten (=The Pact; The Nowegian version has more information, if you can read Norwegian.) by Maya Ilsøe about a family of gnomes who are invisible to most people except one special boy who can see and speak to them. It sounds corny, I know, but they did an excellent job. My idea is that Charles, who is alone on his walk, has been saved by gnomes.
Source: Pakten
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First Commenter:
Anita
anitamombanita
of
Lovin' Life
Anita's Saturday Centus 89 - The Mountain Road Part II
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Here are Mrs. Jenny Matlock's instructions:
Welcome to week eighty-nine of Saturday Centus.
I am having a wicked time visiting blogs for some reason. Hopefully blogger will be more cooperative over the weekend.
So...
Last week we tried using the cliffhanger literary device...
...and hopefully you literally left us hanging.
There is no official prompt this week. Just a continuation of last weeks story.
...and because I want to challenge you AGAIN...
What about if we do the conclusion in fifty words.
Yes.
Five zero.
I was going to do ten but I thought you'd all throw a revolt.
So...
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New Year's Resolution! Romantic Friday Writers' Challenge No. 29
Welcome to the Romantic Friday Writers' fortnightly Writing Challenge, started and hosted by Denise Covey, L'Aussie, where participants share their own 300-400-word text - story or poem - on a given theme. This week's theme for Friday, 30th December, Challenge No. 28, is 'New Year's Resolution'. My text is written directly for this REW-challenge.
Here is my text :
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New Year's Resolution
Anita Karlsson found a moment to jot down her thoughts:
Dear Diary,
Today is Friday the thirteenth of January 2012 and after several weeks of neglect I have finally found a space of time to put pen to paper and visit with you my friend since I was twelve. Imagine that! I have been writing to you for 37 years!
I just recently had my forty-ninth birthday; next time I'll be fifty.
I feel that this past year has been a crossroads for me. So much as happened. My cat met a feline-tabby-Casanova one very cold afternoon in February last year and gave birth to kittens in April. (I am still looking for homes for them.) At about the same time, the divorce from Sverker became final. The most beautiful time of year - spring and summer - went to finding a new apartment, packing, moving and then unpacking. I'm not finished yet.
Yes, dear diary, I know. I should write a New Year's Resolution. What would that be? 'I resolve to never marry a man like my former husband again'? It seems unlikely that I'll even find someone to remarry. But I wish I could. Someone who really likes me. Someone who might learn to love me too. Someone I like, of course.
I could make a New Year's Resolution to stay cool and never to run after a man, even if I am infatuated in him. (I know. I scare the best ones off, like that cute guy Karl. He seemed interested at first and then cooled off.)
(Why is love so fragile?)
Now I know what I could promise! My New Year's Resolution is to take one day at a time. I read somewhere that 'how you spend your day, is how you fill your life*'.
'Til next time, Dear Diary!
Your friend,
Anita
Anita Karlsson found a moment to jot down her thoughts:
Dear Diary,
Today is Friday the thirteenth of January 2012 and after several weeks of neglect I have finally found a space of time to put pen to paper and visit with you my friend since I was twelve. Imagine that! I have been writing to you for 37 years!
I just recently had my forty-ninth birthday; next time I'll be fifty.
I feel that this past year has been a crossroads for me. So much as happened. My cat met a feline-tabby-Casanova one very cold afternoon in February last year and gave birth to kittens in April. (I am still looking for homes for them.) At about the same time, the divorce from Sverker became final. The most beautiful time of year - spring and summer - went to finding a new apartment, packing, moving and then unpacking. I'm not finished yet.
Yes, dear diary, I know. I should write a New Year's Resolution. What would that be? 'I resolve to never marry a man like my former husband again'? It seems unlikely that I'll even find someone to remarry. But I wish I could. Someone who really likes me. Someone who might learn to love me too. Someone I like, of course.
I could make a New Year's Resolution to stay cool and never to run after a man, even if I am infatuated in him. (I know. I scare the best ones off, like that cute guy Karl. He seemed interested at first and then cooled off.)
(Why is love so fragile?)
Now I know what I could promise! My New Year's Resolution is to take one day at a time. I read somewhere that 'how you spend your day, is how you fill your life*'.
'Til next time, Dear Diary!
Your friend,
Anita
Word count according to WordCalc: 308; 'NCCO' - No Critque, Comments Only.
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Best wishes,
Anna
P.S.
This is a fictional text even if Anita Karlsson shares some of my experience. Before the internet and online blogging there was perhaps more writing in a diary or journal with a pen on paper. I have actually written (by hand) a diary since I was twelve years old. It is no literary gem, but it is a personal document that I am glad to have. Even if the texts in my diary tend to be boring, repetitive and not very deep, the act of writing every day has helped me write with ease, even if the quality of what I write needs proof-reading and editing. (I am such a bad speller!)
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*This quote is from Mrs. Jenny Matlock's site 'Off My Tangent'. I don't know if it is her own words or if she is quoting someone else.
Oh no! I remembered incorrectly! This is what Jenny Matlock actually wrote (here):
P.P.S.
Here are what the kittens looked like in April:
Text & Photographs Copyright 2012 Christina Wigren
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This is a fictional text even if Anita Karlsson shares some of my experience. Before the internet and online blogging there was perhaps more writing in a diary or journal with a pen on paper. I have actually written (by hand) a diary since I was twelve years old. It is no literary gem, but it is a personal document that I am glad to have. Even if the texts in my diary tend to be boring, repetitive and not very deep, the act of writing every day has helped me write with ease, even if the quality of what I write needs proof-reading and editing. (I am such a bad speller!)
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*This quote is from Mrs. Jenny Matlock's site 'Off My Tangent'. I don't know if it is her own words or if she is quoting someone else.
Oh no! I remembered incorrectly! This is what Jenny Matlock actually wrote (here):
Every morning when I get up I remind myself that "how you live your days is how you live your life." I try to live each day to the fullest. Always. Whether it is a sad day or a happy day or a day filled with memories and loss it is a day that will never come again. Carpe Diem.Sorry Jenny!
P.P.S.
Here are what the kittens looked like in April:
Text & Photographs Copyright 2012 Christina Wigren
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First Commenter:
Laura
of
The Daily Dodo
To read other texts for Romantic Friday Writers Challenge No. 29, with the theme 'New Year's Resolution', please visit this site or click on the image below:
H is for Heatpumps, Hedgerows etc - Mrs. Jenny Matlock's Alphabe-Thursday - Round 4 - H
Welcome to Mrs. Jenny Matlock's weekly Challenge, Alphabe-Thursday, now in its fourth round! I've have missed A through F; started last week with G; and now we have come to the letter H!
This week's letter is H, and here is little ditty for the letter H:
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H is for Heatpumps, Hedgerows and Health,
Heather and Holly with a little gnome,
Happiness and Heart plus Heaps of wealth ,
H is for Hope; that makes a House a Home.
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Best wishes,
Anna
First Commenter:
Deb
of
The storybeader's journal
To visit other posts about the letter H, please go to this site or click on the image below:
Here are Mrs. Matlock's instructions:
Please link directly to your Alphabe-Thursday URL (if you don't know how to do this let me know!) and please continue to visit the five links before and after your link and leave a comment. Minimum of 10 links visited please. You can visit more if you like, of course.
I also want to let you know that each week I visit every blog. If it appears I haven't visited your blog by the following Thursday morning, please let me know! I have been super behind...I've had this ongoing strep issue for almost 10 days now but I promise I will be by!
If you have any difficulties with your link, please make sure to include the number of the link when you e-mail me. It is really difficult for me to find you easily otherwise.
If you have any questions about Alphabe-Thursday or problems doing your link just post it in a comment or send me an e-mail. I'll do my best to help you as quickly as I can.
The McLinkey will be live from 1:00 pm MST time Wednesday afternoon in an effort to assist our lovely "friends across the pond" and continue through 10:00 am MST time Friday morning!
And remember.... link back to this post, you need to be registered as a follower of my blog, PG posts only, and visit at least 10 other students (perhaps the 5 students before and after your post). The links will stay live after the final post deadline has passed so you can even wait and visit over the weekend or whenever you have more time.
Please link directly to your Alphabe-Thursday URL (if you don't know how to do this let me know!) and please continue to visit the five links before and after your link and leave a comment. Minimum of 10 links visited please. You can visit more if you like, of course.
I also want to let you know that each week I visit every blog. If it appears I haven't visited your blog by the following Thursday morning, please let me know! I have been super behind...I've had this ongoing strep issue for almost 10 days now but I promise I will be by!
If you have any difficulties with your link, please make sure to include the number of the link when you e-mail me. It is really difficult for me to find you easily otherwise.
If you have any questions about Alphabe-Thursday or problems doing your link just post it in a comment or send me an e-mail. I'll do my best to help you as quickly as I can.
The McLinkey will be live from 1:00 pm MST time Wednesday afternoon in an effort to assist our lovely "friends across the pond" and continue through 10:00 am MST time Friday morning!
And remember.... link back to this post, you need to be registered as a follower of my blog, PG posts only, and visit at least 10 other students (perhaps the 5 students before and after your post). The links will stay live after the final post deadline has passed so you can even wait and visit over the weekend or whenever you have more time.
A Cliff-Hanger Part I - Mrs. Jenny Matlock's Saturday Centus Week 88
Welcome to week eighty-eight of Saturday Centus.
THE PROMPT THIS WEEK IS: Hanging off a cliff! (Might as well be literal while we're attempting to use this literary device!)
WORD COUNT - Not to exceed 100 words plus the 4 words of the prompt. 104 words total.
STYLE OF WRITING - Any so long as you utilize a cliffhanger writing device to wrap your story up. Next week we'll do an additional 100 words for the rest of the story.
ADDITIONAL PICTURES IF DESIRED
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Here is my text:
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Charles took the footpath up the hill overlooking the town and the bay. It was misty at twilight, but he could still see the reflections of the city-lights in the sea. It started to rain when he reached the top, which was above a wall of seabirds' nests. They dug into the limestone making it hollow and it could crumple under your weight and leave you hanging off a cliff, if you were lucky enough not to fall 400 meters down onto the rocks.
With pencil and notebook in hand, he heard a voice. Turning around, he felt the ground sinking. 'No!' he gasped.
With pencil and notebook in hand, he heard a voice. Turning around, he felt the ground sinking. 'No!' he gasped.
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Word count according to WordCalc: 104
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Best wishes,
Anna
P.S.
This text is fictional, but the landscape and bird life are inspired by my many nature-walks when I lived on Iceland for a time, many years ago. But that was a very wild, natural landscape, with no city-lights reflected in the waters of a bay. It was a beautiful but dangerous place. Sometimes tourists did fall off cliffs and die.
Another source of inspiration for this text is one of the first scenes from Alfred Hitchcock's 1940 film, Rebecca, after Daphne du Maurier's novel, with the same name, where Maxin de Winter (Sir Laurence Olivier) is standing a little too close to the edge of a cliff over-looking Monte Carlo. This is were he meets his second (and never named) wife, played by actress Joan Fontaine.
This text is fictional, but the landscape and bird life are inspired by my many nature-walks when I lived on Iceland for a time, many years ago. But that was a very wild, natural landscape, with no city-lights reflected in the waters of a bay. It was a beautiful but dangerous place. Sometimes tourists did fall off cliffs and die.
Another source of inspiration for this text is one of the first scenes from Alfred Hitchcock's 1940 film, Rebecca, after Daphne du Maurier's novel, with the same name, where Maxin de Winter (Sir Laurence Olivier) is standing a little too close to the edge of a cliff over-looking Monte Carlo. This is were he meets his second (and never named) wife, played by actress Joan Fontaine.
First Commenter:
Judie McEwen
of
Rogue Artists
To visit other SC-posts please go to this site or click on the image below:
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Here are Mrs. Jenny Matlock's instructions:
Welcome to week eighty-eight of Saturday Centus. I am only one week behind in reading now! Go me!
So...
It's a new year and I'm feeling like we should stretch our brains just a tiny bit to rid ourselves of the last residues of fudge and sugar cookies.
Let's try a two week Saturday Centus.
Using a literary device.
Yes.
I said a literary device.
It's good for you.
Don't groan. Please.
This week I thought we could try to use a cliffhanger. A cliffhanger is defined as: The narrative ends unresolved, to draw the audience back to a future episode for the resolution.
Thus...
The two part challenge.
Next week we will conclude our cliffhanger centus.
Cool, right?
So...
It's a new year and I'm feeling like we should stretch our brains just a tiny bit to rid ourselves of the last residues of fudge and sugar cookies.
Let's try a two week Saturday Centus.
Using a literary device.
Yes.
I said a literary device.
It's good for you.
Don't groan. Please.
This week I thought we could try to use a cliffhanger. A cliffhanger is defined as: The narrative ends unresolved, to draw the audience back to a future episode for the resolution.
Thus...
The two part challenge.
Next week we will conclude our cliffhanger centus.
Cool, right?
The regular restrictions apply: PG, no splitting of the prompt, play nicely and visit the other entries, any style or genre of writing you prefer.
Please display my link button or just a hyper-link back to Saturday Centus. Be careful to link your SC URL to the Linky and not just link to your main blog.
E-mail me directly with ???'s or ask your question in a comment and I will do my best to get back to you as soon as possible.
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G is for Gardens, etc... Mrs. Jenny Matlock's Alphabe-Thursday, Round 4 - G
Welcome to Mrs. Jenny Matlock's weekly Challenge, Alphabe-Thursday, now in its fourth round! I've missed A through F; but this is not my first round with Mrs. Jenny.
This week's letter is G, and here is my offering:
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G is for Gardens, Green and Growing,
Great and Gracious, doing as it should,
Generous, Glad and always Glowing,
G is Grateful for all that is Good.
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Best wishes,
Anna
First Commenter:
Anita
of
Anitmombanita
To visit other posts about the letter G, please go to this site or click on the image below:
Here are Mrs. Matlock's instructions:
Please link directly to your Alphabe-Thursday URL (if you don't know how to do this let me know!) and please continue to visit the five links before and after your link and leave a comment. Minimum of 10 links visited please. You can visit more if you like, of course.
I also want to let you know that each week I visit every blog. If it appears I haven't visited your blog by the following Thursday morning, please let me know! I have been super behind...I've had this ongoing strep issue for almost 10 days now but I promise I will be by!
If you have any difficulties with your link, please make sure to include the number of the link when you e-mail me. It is really difficult for me to find you easily otherwise.
If you have any questions about Alphabe-Thursday or problems doing your link just post it in a comment or send me an e-mail. I'll do my best to help you as quickly as I can.
The McLinkey will be live from 1:00 pm MST time Wednesday afternoon in an effort to assist our lovely "friends across the pond" and continue through 10:00 am MST time Friday morning!
And remember.... link back to this post, you need to be registered as a follower of my blog, PG posts only, and visit at least 10 other students (perhaps the 5 students before and after your post). The links will stay live after the final post deadline has passed so you can even wait and visit over the weekend or whenever you have more time.
Please link directly to your Alphabe-Thursday URL (if you don't know how to do this let me know!) and please continue to visit the five links before and after your link and leave a comment. Minimum of 10 links visited please. You can visit more if you like, of course.
I also want to let you know that each week I visit every blog. If it appears I haven't visited your blog by the following Thursday morning, please let me know! I have been super behind...I've had this ongoing strep issue for almost 10 days now but I promise I will be by!
If you have any difficulties with your link, please make sure to include the number of the link when you e-mail me. It is really difficult for me to find you easily otherwise.
If you have any questions about Alphabe-Thursday or problems doing your link just post it in a comment or send me an e-mail. I'll do my best to help you as quickly as I can.
The McLinkey will be live from 1:00 pm MST time Wednesday afternoon in an effort to assist our lovely "friends across the pond" and continue through 10:00 am MST time Friday morning!
And remember.... link back to this post, you need to be registered as a follower of my blog, PG posts only, and visit at least 10 other students (perhaps the 5 students before and after your post). The links will stay live after the final post deadline has passed so you can even wait and visit over the weekend or whenever you have more time.
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