Do you think that it took Barney a long time to figure out something was strange about his neighbors? Would it have taken you that long? Why or why not?
GK1221, I'm not really sure what our next assignment is going to be about! I think This book is a little slow, and I hope it picks up soon! I wonder why the game is called "Interstellar Pig?" It is a little suspicious... If you ask me. Maybe our next assignment will be to make our own version of Interstellar Pig! I wonder what the deal is with that new family that moved in. Or maybe that creepy ghost story about the ship and his brother who was basically thrown overboard!? If I were Barney, I would be a little scared to be sleeping in that room because of the scratch marks on his walls! I wonder why Barney's parents are acting so strange. Usually they don't like the newcomers that come in there nice cabin area for the summer, but something about this family is different, I suppose. Why did the other family lie about fire? I think is was so they could get a good long look in the other house.
* S I D E N O T E S *
~ Barney is a very strange name! ~ Zena and her family are important in this book... ~ Everyone in this book will have a role to play! I'm excited to see exactly WHAT that is!
I am responding to co1003. I think Zena is very suspicious. I don't think most adults would pay barely any attention to a kid Barney's age. I found it suspicious right away when Zena and the two men interacted with Barney as much as they did. I also found it odd about how blunt she was about things at times and about how sneaky she could be at other times. I think it will affect the book greatly as Barney finds out more about her. I think Barney will get closer to Zena and the two men to make it easier to learn more about them. If I were Barney I would've told my parents about what I found. It seems Barney thinks he can handle it on his own.
CO1003, Well I think Zena is very suspicous. In many different ways. Well if it was me I think she is a very weird girl. And also very strange. For an example she's is like a really weird person when it comes to games. Cause to me I think inside she's starting to like the game even more but she doesn't show it. I don't know what makes me think that but it does. But I'm nor sure if she'll like the game at the end. -From GK1221
Responding to LG1011 Well if I was Barney I would have taken a long time. Cause I don't pay attention to my neighbors. Well besides my friends. Cause I'm at their house a lot. By the way if they were weird they wouldn't be my friends. -From GK1221
I am responding to gk1221. I am not sure what the next assignment will be. I wasn't interested in the book at first, but as it went on it started to spark my attention. I am wondering why they are so interested in the story about the sailor and the house he lived in. It doesn't quite make sense to me why they are worried about the house and they sailor story when the book is supposed to be about the game. I feel like we haven't found out much about the game. This book is leaving me with a lot of questions and that makes me want to keep reading it. I am looking forward to seeing how the story and the game are connected. The author did a great job about pulling me into the book with a lot of curiosity.
Lg1011, You think she is suspicious, too? I mean sometimes it's okay but she is like, really weird! Why did she lie about the firewood? Why would they play interstellar Pig when barney is there? That's not very polite..................
Zena............... Suspicious Barney............... Reminds me of Shelock Homles Mom & Dad.............. Acting strange 2 random men............. I don't know about them.
When I first started to read I made a connection to how she didn't put sunscreen on cause she thought is was to late of the day and souldn't get burnt and I always do that and I end up getting burnt after all. From-GK1221
Did you think that the guy with the plastic surfboards was a little weird or strange at first, cause I did. Maybe even a little weird. What do you think?Explain!!! -From GK1221
Responding to CO1003, I would have to agree with CO1003 on how he think that the parents are acting very strange. And also I think that Zena is very Suspicious.
Do you think that Zena, Joe, and Manny realize that Barney stole the box from the boulder at the island? What do you think the Intersteller Pig Game have to do with finding the box on the island?
I think zena is getting more suspicious all the time. On page 101, after they invited Barney to come play a 4 player game of Interstellar Pig, Zena yelled at him and accused him of being a cheater and a liar when he hadn't cheated. I think it is also very odd that Barney's parents think that Zena, Joe, and Manny are very important, intelligent people. I think that they are sneaky. If I were Barney's parents I wouldn't let Barney hang out with those people without knowing more about them. If I were Barney I would've told my parents about my suspicions about the neighbors. I am really wondering how the Interstellar Pig Game and the sailor story are connected. This book is leaving me with a lot of questions.
Do you think that Barney did the right thing of telling his dad about the game? Cause I don't think that that was the right thing to do. What do you think? Explain you answer. -GK1221
Responding to GK1221..., I think Barney shouldn't have told his dad about the game because Dad was already kind of suspicious, and now he's probably even more suspicious! I think that Barney is getting obsessed with Interstellar Pig just like how Zena, Manny, and Joe are obsessed with it! I hope all turns out for the best.
Ohh noo! Now Zena, Manny and Joe are all offering Barney the best stuff there is in the world all for the piggy. What's so special about that boring ol' piggy anyway? If I had to pick an offer for the pig, It would be the one that Joe gave me. Hyperspace! Think about that!
To gk1221, Totally disagree. The piggy talks to the player who was him! Barney has no clue if he should talk to him before. I think the Piggy is just trying to get people to beleive him, and whoever takes him will suffer a severe death! I think it's funny how people would kill other people for the piggy. I would totally be scared of Barney. One question- Wouldn't Barney be scared if his parents didn't show up? I mean really?
So Co1003 and LG1011 I hear that we are almost done with the book, and I have one final question to ask, Do you think the ending of the book was good or bad?????
I know that he's trying to get people to believe him, but I don't get why he does some of the stuff he does. He's just so weird, well the whole book is weird too!!!
I think it was a bad idea to tell his Dad about the game. I think it would have been ok if he had a different Dad, but his Dad liked those people and wanted to know more about them so he wouldn't believe Barney if he said something bad about them. If I had told my Dad he would have told me to stay away from them. I think his parents are acting very strange. If I had left my son alone at home and was invited to dinner and he didn't answer the phone I would've gone home right away. Especially with a storm coming. If I were Barney I would be EXTREMELY scared being in a storm without a feeling of protection from my parents. Barney and his parents are a lot different than my family and I, so it's hard for me to understand why they act and think the way they do.
I think the Piggy isn't important after all! I mean all he did was lie to Barney when he could have told him the truth. He really wanted to be with the litchen, but when he was with the Litchen, he did the same old routine he did with Barney. He just kept repeating things he read from the yearbook he was stashed away in. I think Monya was really mean to Barney when Barney decided to try to save her by helping her out to the outside so she could blast to her little spaceship thing. But right when Barney set her down, she gashed him in the arm! Meanie! I was also a little confused at how one time, Manny was a boy. Then this Monya thing comes and she's a girl! I was a little shocked by that. Interstellar Pig kind of left me hanging at the end. I was looking forward to see the explanation of the piggy and how it would all piece together but it didn't really describe anything. I was reading and it didn't even talk about my favorite characters at the end- Mom and Dad! Did they end up sleeping over at the old peoples' house? Or did they come home to try and see if Barney was okay. And how did they trust Zena, Manny, and Joe? I would never let my kid be even NEAR a trio like those three. I think if Barney told his parents about how they were looking though her house for the Piggy they wouldn't be very fond of them. At first I had no clue why those three were looking franticly though his summer home. I thought it was just to see if they had good taste in furniture or something boring like that. But then when Barney found the game at that island, it all started to piece together. They WERE obsessed with some stupid game. They WERE out for the piggy, and they WERE A bunch of whack jobs.
William Sleator did a really good job of describing the characters of Monya, JRLB, and Zulma. It gave me a really funny feeling of uncomfortable and a sort of scared feeling for Barney! If I was Barney, I wouldn't have made it though the whole game. My conclusion of the book is that the game "Interstellar Pig" will end up never ending. I think it will just keep going on and on and on. If it DID end, however, I would hope Barney's theroy would be the correct one. There is so much more I could type about, but I think i'll let this sink in for a while.
Responding to gk1221. I think the ending of the book was ok. I would've personally liked to know more about what happens in the ending. Some people might like being left hanging at the end of books though. I found out that there is a sequel to the book and I wonder if it explains more of what happens in that book. The ending is keeping me guessing and I think the author made the ending like that to make the readers want to read the second book. I think the ending of the book would've been terrible without epilogue.
Responding to co1003. Congratulations on being able to write so much!!!!!! I think the Piggy isn't important either. All the Piggy does is record what he hears so he doesn't have any useful information. I don't understand why he would want to be a linchen. From how Barney described it being a linchen wasn't enjoyable! I wonder if Mom and Dad will be explained more in the second book. I read the back cover also and it said that in the first four versions that were turned down by the editor of Interstellar Pig didn't include the game. The setting and characters ere the same and the creatures come disguised as people and Barney knows they are looking for something, but he never find out what it is they're looking for? Do you think you would've liked the original four versions or the Interstellar Pig we read?
Interstellar Pig is a good book and I was wondering if anyone wants to go to read the second one? Personally I wouldn't read the second one... but would any of yall?
I think Barney's character was very different then mine. He was very adventurous, curious, and brave. I think he was a lot braver then most kids our age. I think he is also very smart. He put a lot of thought into what he did. Most of my predictions came true. One of my predictions that came true was when he figured out what the scratches on the window meant. A prediction that I didn't get right was that he found the Piggy on the island. I thought he would find something more related toward the captain's brother's story, like a transcript. The book surprised me at the end and I hadn't had a prediction at all close to him becoming part of the game. In the book Barney showed great bravery when he found out his neighbors were not normal. After a lot of inquires and investigations he found out the addictive game they played was not just a game, but real. He became part of the game and saved the Earth after figuring out something that none of the other more experienced players had ever figured out. He figured out that what the players thought they needed to win the game, the Piggy, was really what they didn't want. With that information he saved Earth from something mysterious and dangerous.
For my character I would choose Barney, I choose Barney because there's something I like about his personality, and just like my fellow classmate CO1003 said, I don't know how he made it thought the whole game, you would have to have a lot of guts, bravery, and strength. I know I wouldn't have mad it through the whole game. Some of the prediction I made turned out to be nothing. Like the guy with the plastic surf boards was gonna have a real big affect on the book. But he turned out to do nothing at all.
To rap up Interstellar Pig I would have to say that the book didn't catch me at first, but when he found the game and met Mr. Piggy, I really started to get into the book.
For my character, I chose Barney, but not because he was the "easiest" to do, or because he was the main character, but because of his bravery. I don't know anybody at the age of 17 would be able to do the things he did. I really enjoyed the awesomeness of him. I had a lot of predictions. One of the many I had was when the piggy was something you didn't want! I predicted that the piggy was bad because of how sinister it looked and how super-rebelious it acted and seemed like. I think Barney kinda saw that coming as well. Another prediction I had was Barney's parents would come home at the end of the book and they would be like "WHAT IS THAT?!?" And Barney would say something like "...Dead Litchen..." and it would have been really funny. But obviously, that didn't happen. My last prediction was that Zena would end up getting blasted by Barney. I just wanted Zena to kind of get NAILED for playing Barney.
*BARNEY'S CHARACTERISTICS* -Smart -Lanky -not-the-average-person -creative -He always knew what he was doing -liked his parents -Super-stictious -Nerdy -Loved books
My wrap-up of this book would be that it was really good. I would give it an 7 1/2 out of 10. I think the only part I didn't like was the part about how it just leaves you hanging at the end. I was so excited to see what would happen with the Litchen, Zena, Monya, and JRLB, but it didn't even really discribe what happened then. I think the author got in to much of a hurry. I was also disappointed when it didn't say anything about mother and Father! They were my faveorite characters, and it doesn't even say a word about them!! Did they really go to the old persons' house? Or were they pushed off of a boat by Joe? I was just really confused by the ending. The epilouge helped a little bit, though. Overall, a decent book.
What do you think is suspicious about Zena? Why? How do you think this will affect the book? Explain your answer.
ReplyDeleteDo you think that it took Barney a long time to figure out something was strange about his neighbors? Would it have taken you that long? Why or why not?
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ReplyDeleteI'm not really sure what our next assignment is going to be about! I think This book is a little slow, and I hope it picks up soon! I wonder why the game is called "Interstellar Pig?" It is a little suspicious... If you ask me. Maybe our next assignment will be to make our own version of Interstellar Pig! I wonder what the deal is with that new family that moved in. Or maybe that creepy ghost story about the ship and his brother who was basically thrown overboard!? If I were Barney, I would be a little scared to be sleeping in that room because of the scratch marks on his walls! I wonder why Barney's parents are acting so strange. Usually they don't like the newcomers that come in there nice cabin area for the summer, but something about this family is different, I suppose. Why did the other family lie about fire? I think is was so they could get a good long look in the other house.
* S I D E N O T E S *
~ Barney is a very strange name!
~ Zena and her family are important in this book...
~ Everyone in this book will have a role to play! I'm excited to see exactly WHAT that is!
I am responding to co1003. I think Zena is very suspicious. I don't think most adults would pay barely any attention to a kid Barney's age. I found it suspicious right away when Zena and the two men interacted with Barney as much as they did. I also found it odd about how blunt she was about things at times and about how sneaky she could be at other times. I think it will affect the book greatly as Barney finds out more about her. I think Barney will get closer to Zena and the two men to make it easier to learn more about them. If I were Barney I would've told my parents about what I found. It seems Barney thinks he can handle it on his own.
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ReplyDeleteWell I think Zena is very suspicous. In many different ways. Well if it was me I think she is a very weird girl. And also very strange. For an example she's is like a really weird person when it comes to games. Cause to me I think inside she's starting to like the game even more but she doesn't show it. I don't know what makes me think that but it does. But I'm nor sure if she'll like the game at the end.
-From GK1221
Responding to LG1011
ReplyDeleteWell if I was Barney I would have taken a long time. Cause I don't pay attention to my neighbors. Well besides my friends. Cause I'm at their house a lot. By the way if they were weird they wouldn't be my friends.
-From GK1221
I am responding to gk1221. I am not sure what the next assignment will be. I wasn't interested in the book at first, but as it went on it started to spark my attention. I am wondering why they are so interested in the story about the sailor and the house he lived in. It doesn't quite make sense to me why they are worried about the house and they sailor story when the book is supposed to be about the game. I feel like we haven't found out much about the game. This book is leaving me with a lot of questions and that makes me want to keep reading it. I am looking forward to seeing how the story and the game are connected. The author did a great job about pulling me into the book with a lot of curiosity.
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ReplyDeleteYou think she is suspicious, too? I mean sometimes it's okay but she is like, really weird! Why did she lie about the firewood? Why would they play interstellar Pig when barney is there? That's not very polite..................
Zena............... Suspicious
Barney............... Reminds me of Shelock Homles
Mom & Dad.............. Acting strange
2 random men............. I don't know about them.
Okay the weird thing is I think Zena is a bad person...? Is anyone out there in agreement with me?
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ReplyDeleteya i was wondering what was up with the sailor talk! I mean is it all that big of a deal?
Zena- I dontlikeher
When I first started to read I made a connection to how she didn't put sunscreen on cause she thought is was to late of the day and souldn't get burnt and I always do that and I end up getting burnt after all.
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Did you think that the guy with the plastic surfboards was a little weird or strange at first, cause I did. Maybe even a little weird. What do you think?Explain!!!
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Responding to CO1003,
ReplyDeleteI would have to agree with CO1003 on how he think that the parents are acting very strange. And also I think that Zena is very Suspicious.
Do you think that Zena, Joe, and Manny realize that Barney stole the box from the boulder at the island? What do you think the Intersteller Pig Game have to do with finding the box on the island?
ReplyDeleteI think zena is getting more suspicious all the time. On page 101, after they invited Barney to come play a 4 player game of Interstellar Pig, Zena yelled at him and accused him of being a cheater and a liar when he hadn't cheated. I think it is also very odd that Barney's parents think that Zena, Joe, and Manny are very important, intelligent people. I think that they are sneaky. If I were Barney's parents I wouldn't let Barney hang out with those people without knowing more about them. If I were Barney I would've told my parents about my suspicions about the neighbors. I am really wondering how the Interstellar Pig Game and the sailor story are connected. This book is leaving me with a lot of questions.
ReplyDeleteDo you think that Barney did the right thing of telling his dad about the game? Cause I don't think that that was the right thing to do. What do you think? Explain you answer.
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ReplyDeleteWhy do the scratch marks point to that particular island???
ReplyDeleteLG1011,
ReplyDeleteI think that was a good question. I wonder if the island has anything to do with the game????
Responding to GK1221...,
ReplyDeleteI think Barney shouldn't have told his dad about the game because Dad was already kind of suspicious, and now he's probably even more suspicious! I think that Barney is getting obsessed with Interstellar Pig just like how Zena, Manny, and Joe are obsessed with it! I hope all turns out for the best.
Ohh noo! Now Zena, Manny and Joe are all offering Barney the best stuff there is in the world all for the piggy. What's so special about that boring ol' piggy anyway? If I had to pick an offer for the pig, It would be the one that Joe gave me. Hyperspace! Think about that!
ReplyDeleteI dont like those three :/
ReplyDeleteResponding to Co1003,
ReplyDeleteI think Mr. Piggy is very special. As in metally special. He is so boring he does absolutely nothing!!!!!!!
To gk1221,
ReplyDeleteTotally disagree. The piggy talks to the player who was him! Barney has no clue if he should talk to him before. I think the Piggy is just trying to get people to beleive him, and whoever takes him will suffer a severe death! I think it's funny how people would kill other people for the piggy. I would totally be scared of Barney. One question- Wouldn't Barney be scared if his parents didn't show up? I mean really?
So Co1003 and LG1011 I hear that we are almost done with the book, and I have one final question to ask, Do you think the ending of the book was good or bad?????
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Responding to CO1003,
ReplyDeleteI know that he's trying to get people to believe him, but I don't get why he does some of the stuff he does. He's just so weird, well the whole book is weird too!!!
I think it was a bad idea to tell his Dad about the game. I think it would have been ok if he had a different Dad, but his Dad liked those people and wanted to know more about them so he wouldn't believe Barney if he said something bad about them. If I had told my Dad he would have told me to stay away from them. I think his parents are acting very strange. If I had left my son alone at home and was invited to dinner and he didn't answer the phone I would've gone home right away. Especially with a storm coming. If I were Barney I would be EXTREMELY scared being in a storm without a feeling of protection from my parents. Barney and his parents are a lot different than my family and I, so it's hard for me to understand why they act and think the way they do.
ReplyDeleteI think the Piggy isn't important after all! I mean all he did was lie to Barney when he could have told him the truth. He really wanted to be with the litchen, but when he was with the Litchen, he did the same old routine he did with Barney. He just kept repeating things he read from the yearbook he was stashed away in. I think Monya was really mean to Barney when Barney decided to try to save her by helping her out to the outside so she could blast to her little spaceship thing. But right when Barney set her down, she gashed him in the arm! Meanie! I was also a little confused at how one time, Manny was a boy. Then this Monya thing comes and she's a girl! I was a little shocked by that. Interstellar Pig kind of left me hanging at the end. I was looking forward to see the explanation of the piggy and how it would all piece together but it didn't really describe anything. I was reading and it didn't even talk about my favorite characters at the end- Mom and Dad! Did they end up sleeping over at the old peoples' house? Or did they come home to try and see if Barney was okay. And how did they trust Zena, Manny, and Joe? I would never let my kid be even NEAR a trio like those three. I think if Barney told his parents about how they were looking though her house for the Piggy they wouldn't be very fond of them. At first I had no clue why those three were looking franticly though his summer home. I thought it was just to see if they had good taste in furniture or something boring like that. But then when Barney found the game at that island, it all started to piece together. They WERE obsessed with some stupid game. They WERE out for the piggy, and they WERE A bunch of whack jobs.
ReplyDeleteWilliam Sleator did a really good job of describing the characters of Monya, JRLB, and Zulma. It gave me a really funny feeling of uncomfortable and a sort of scared feeling for Barney! If I was Barney, I wouldn't have made it though the whole game. My conclusion of the book is that the game "Interstellar Pig" will end up never ending. I think it will just keep going on and on and on. If it DID end, however, I would hope Barney's theroy would be the correct one. There is so much more I could type about, but I think i'll let this sink in for a while.
Responding to gk1221.
ReplyDeleteI think the ending of the book was ok. I would've personally liked to know more about what happens in the ending. Some people might like being left hanging at the end of books though. I found out that there is a sequel to the book and I wonder if it explains more of what happens in that book. The ending is keeping me guessing and I think the author made the ending like that to make the readers want to read the second book. I think the ending of the book would've been terrible without epilogue.
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ReplyDeleteI agree, the book would've been BAAD without that epilogue.
ReplyDeleteResponding to co1003.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on being able to write so much!!!!!! I think the Piggy isn't important either. All the Piggy does is record what he hears so he doesn't have any useful information. I don't understand why he would want to be a linchen. From how Barney described it being a linchen wasn't enjoyable! I wonder if Mom and Dad will be explained more in the second book. I read the back cover also and it said that in the first four versions that were turned down by the editor of Interstellar Pig didn't include the game. The setting and characters ere the same and the creatures come disguised as people and Barney knows they are looking for something, but he never find out what it is they're looking for? Do you think you would've liked the original four versions or the Interstellar Pig we read?
Interstellar Pig is a good book and I was wondering if anyone wants to go to read the second one? Personally I wouldn't read the second one... but would any of yall?
ReplyDeleteI think Barney's character was very different then mine. He was very adventurous, curious, and brave. I think he was a lot braver then most kids our age. I think he is also very smart. He put a lot of thought into what he did. Most of my predictions came true. One of my predictions that came true was when he figured out what the scratches on the window meant. A prediction that I didn't get right was that he found the Piggy on the island. I thought he would find something more related toward the captain's brother's story, like a transcript. The book surprised me at the end and I hadn't had a prediction at all close to him becoming part of the game. In the book Barney showed great bravery when he found out his neighbors were not normal. After a lot of inquires and investigations he found out the addictive game they played was not just a game, but real. He became part of the game and saved the Earth after figuring out something that none of the other more experienced players had ever figured out. He figured out that what the players thought they needed to win the game, the Piggy, was really what they didn't want. With that information he saved Earth from something mysterious and dangerous.
ReplyDeleteFor my character I would choose Barney, I choose Barney because there's something I like about his personality, and just like my fellow classmate CO1003 said, I don't know how he made it thought the whole game, you would have to have a lot of guts, bravery, and strength. I know I wouldn't have mad it through the whole game. Some of the prediction I made turned out to be nothing. Like the guy with the plastic surf boards was gonna have a real big affect on the book. But he turned out to do nothing at all.
ReplyDeleteTo rap up Interstellar Pig I would have to say that the book didn't catch me at first, but when he found the game and met Mr. Piggy, I really started to get into the book.
For my character, I chose Barney, but not because he was the "easiest" to do, or because he was the main character, but because of his bravery. I don't know anybody at the age of 17 would be able to do the things he did. I really enjoyed the awesomeness of him. I had a lot of predictions. One of the many I had was when the piggy was something you didn't want! I predicted that the piggy was bad because of how sinister it looked and how super-rebelious it acted and seemed like. I think Barney kinda saw that coming as well. Another prediction I had was Barney's parents would come home at the end of the book and they would be like "WHAT IS THAT?!?" And Barney would say something like "...Dead Litchen..." and it would have been really funny. But obviously, that didn't happen. My last prediction was that Zena would end up getting blasted by Barney. I just wanted Zena to kind of get NAILED for playing Barney.
ReplyDelete*BARNEY'S CHARACTERISTICS*
-Smart
-Lanky
-not-the-average-person
-creative
-He always knew what he was doing
-liked his parents
-Super-stictious
-Nerdy
-Loved books
My wrap-up of this book would be that it was really good. I would give it an 7 1/2 out of 10.
I think the only part I didn't like was the part about how it just leaves you hanging at the end. I was so excited to see what would happen with the Litchen, Zena, Monya, and JRLB, but it didn't even really discribe what happened then. I think the author got in to much of a hurry. I was also disappointed when it didn't say anything about mother and Father! They were my faveorite characters, and it doesn't even say a word about them!! Did they really go to the old persons' house? Or were they pushed off of a boat by Joe? I was just really confused by the ending. The epilouge helped a little bit, though. Overall, a decent book.
I agree with GK about the "didn't catch my atttention part.
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