Ohio Communication Journal
Ohio Communication Journal is the official publication of the Ohio Communication Association. OCJ is published annually.
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VOLUME 62 - June 2024
Featured Articles
“You Don’t Have to do Anything to Deserve Food:” College Student’s Memorable Messages About Food and Self-Esteem
Carly Densmore & Jennifer Woolley Barone
pp. 1–12
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God Term and Devil Term Paradox: Discovering Artifact Meaning through the Deadpool Term
Paul A. Lucas & Jacob F. Burgette
pp. 13–25
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Civil Rights Movement Imagery, Collective Memory, and Group-Based Emotions
Martha Ramirez & David Stamps
pp. 26–39
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Giving Negative Evaluations in Romantic Relationships
Shuangyue Zhang & Richard Bello
pp. 40–49
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Short Essays
A Brief and Begrudged Reflection on AI in Education
Erik Gustafson
pp. 50-52
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Using Generative AI to Enhance Teaching and Learning
Paul R. Raptis
pp. 53-59
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Undergraduate Essay
This essay was awarded Top Student Paper at the Ohio Communication Association’s 87th Annual Conference in October 2023. The author was offered the opportunity to publish this work after undergoing additional review.
Memory Dis-Membered: A Call to Re-Member the Forgotten Rhetorical Canon
Ryan Eisenhuth
pp. 60-70
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VOLUME 61 - June 2023
Featured Articles
“To Restore the Soul of America:” Religious Rhetoric in Joe Biden’s President-Elect Victory Speech
Valerie Lynn Schrader
pp. 1-14
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“It’s Like Pulling Teeth”: Mothers’ Perception of Supportive Communication Postpartum
Sarah S. LeBlanc, Lindsay M. Butcher, Rachel P. Mitchell
pp. 15-24
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Implicit and Explicit Bias Towards Black and White Transgender and Cisgender Men
R. E. Purtell, Chrstine E. Kunkle
pp. 25-39
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“It’s Just a Guy Thing”: How Young Men Discursively Navigate Hegemonic Masculinity in Hookup Culture
Adam Whiteside
pp. 40-56
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Sponsoring Support: Community Colleges Influencing Returning Citizens
Heidi L. Arnold
pp. 57-67
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Short Essays
Fostering a Sense of Belonging and Connection in the classroom: Addressing Student Engagement Post COVID-19
Andrea L. Meluch
pp. 68-71
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Voicing a New/uanced Classroom
Karly Poyner-Smith
pp. 72-75
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In Defense of the Gray Squares: The Benefits of the Chat Function in the Online Classroom
Carlos Cruz
pp. 76-80
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VOLUME 60 - June 2022
Featured Articles
The Roles of Hierarchy and Relational Closeness in Confrontations about Idea Stealing
Nicole A. Ploeger-Lyons, Jennifer A. Butler, & Daniel P. Modaff
pp. 1–15
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The Impact of Interpersonal Expectancies on Family Experiences During the COVID-19 Global Pandemic
Nicole Blau & Melissa Rizzo Weller
pp. 16–26
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Tell Me What You Need: An Examination of Dialectical Tensions within Romantic Relationships with Depressed Partners
Leah C. Goodwin & Holly J. Payne
pp. 27–43
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Lessons Learned Struggling to Identify Positive Deviants in a Rural Southern Community
Caroline E. Wilson & J. Dean Farmer
pp. 44–61
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A Dyadic Assessment of Romantic Partners’ Disclosures during Stressor Conversations
Tara G. McManus & Stephanie Willes
pp. 62–78
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My Grandmother, My Hero: Storytelling, Resilience, and Intergenerational Solidarity
Kari J. Pink
pp. 79–90
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Communication Patterns, Host Receptivity, and Psychological Health in the Process of Cross-cultural Adaptation: A Study of Korean and Indonesian Expatriate Workers
Yang Soo Kim & Young Yun Kim
pp. 91–109
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Social Media Spectacle: Reconceptualizing the Medium and the Message of Online Political Spectacles
Carson S. Kay
pp. 110–126
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Black American Vaccine Hesitancy: Using the Black Public Sphere to Understand How Minority Health Organizations Address the COVID-19 Vaccine on Twitter
Aisha Powell
pp. 127–147
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The Ads Must Go On: A Thematic Analysis of COVID-19 in Global Ads
Mary E. Brooks, Shannon Bichard, Clay Craig, & Andrea Bergstrom
pp. 148–163
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Short Essays
Understanding Communication, Social Presence, and Dialectical Tensions of Pandemic Learning
Thomas R. Wagner & Narissra M. Punyanunt-Carter
pp. 164-169
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It’s Time to Move Beyond Empathy: Purposefully Building Compassion into Curriculums
Maria Hannah
pp. 170-174
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It’s About Relationship (Yes, Even Online)
Gina S. Reynolds
pp. 175-179
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Teaching Online During COVID-19: Lessons Learned About Creating Connection Through Trauma-Informed Teaching and Communicating Social Presence
Paul R. Raptis
pp. 180-186
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Mental Health Matters! – A Pedagogical Essay About The Practice of Compassion for Online University Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic
James L. Cartee, III
pp. 187-194
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Undergraduate Essays
Undergraduate manuscripts appearing in this journal received Top Student Paper Awards at the 2021 Ohio Communication Association Conference.
Examining Communication Between Couples Suffering From Cancer
Evaleigh Noel
pp. 195-203
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VOLUME 59 - April 2021
Featured Articles
Young Women’s Political Discussion on Social Media in the 2016 Presidential Election
Kelly L. Winfrey & Natalie Pennington
pp. 1-16
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“It was Like I had Murdered a Baby”: Hollywood Filmmakers’ Apologia Following “Bad” Films
Kevin A. Stein, Matthew H. Barton, & Kolton Pierson
pp. 17-31
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Sense-making Reputation: Examining Stakeholders’ Assessments of “Good” and “Bad” Companies
Lois Foreman-Wernet
pp. 32-48
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Beckoning “Boss Babes”: Examining Mary Kay’s Online Recruitment Rhetoric
Emily A. Winter
pp. 49-63
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Incel Mass Murderers: Masculinity, Narrative, and Identity
Kelly M. O’Donnell
pp. 64-76
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Applying Leader-Member Exchange Theory to the College Classroom: An Investigation of Student Communication Behaviors
Jordan Atkinson, Donell C. Murray, Madison Rounkles, Maria Selby, & Taylor Wallace
pp. 77-89
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Critical Reflections
Adherence to the Academy: Power Relations with the Colonized Student
Eric T. Wilkinson & Leanna L. Hartsough
pp. 90-96
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Access Before Praxis: Lessons Learned about Critical Communication Pedagogy and Socioeconomic Barriers from 2020
Nick Romerhausen, Meagan Winkelseth, & Katie Rasmussen
pp. 97-103
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Undergraduate Essays
Undergraduate manuscripts appearing in this journal received Top Student Paper Awards at the 2020 Ohio Communication Association Conference.
Interpersonal Relationship Dynamics: On the Perception of Conflict in College Students
Enrique Antonio
pp. 104-117
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“You Change the World When You Change Your Mind”: Social Judgment Theory in the Musical Kinky Boots
Courtney Weikel
pp. 118-126
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VOLUME 58 - March 2020
“We’re Out Here”: Black Identity and Digital Resistance in Instagram Travelogues
Tori Omega Arthur
pp. 1-11
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Environmental Injustice: Examining How The New York Times Frames the Flint Water Crisis Mark
Congdon Jr., Quang Ngo & Evan Young
pp. 12-25
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Between Friends, an “Implicit Trust”: Exploring the (Non)Disclosure of Private Mental Health-Related Information in Friendships
Robert D. Hall
pp. 26-39
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Twitter Users’ Sense of Empowerment and Communicative Behavior: An Examination of the #Burkini Conversations on Twitter
Imran Mazid & Zulfia Zaher
pp. 40-52
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Small but Mighty: Examining College Student Perceptions of Small Businesses’ Social Media Use
Alan Abitbol & Monica Rook
pp. 53-67
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Legislating Ohio’s Crisis: Using the Third-Person Effect Hypothesis to Ascertain Ohioans’ Attitudes Toward [Decriminalizing] Drug Addiction and Issue 1
Audrey E. Wagstaff, Casey L. Hess & Carley G. Wilson
pp. 68-90
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Still There for You? Why Millennials Still Love Generation X’s Friends
Kristin Fitzsimmons & Sarah Smith-Frigerio
pp. 91-104
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Resisting the New Legal Orthodoxy: “Religious Freedom” as Battle Cry in Religious Right Culture War Rhetoric
James W. Vining
pp. 105-119
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Reclaiming the “Native” in Organizational Communication Research
Brittany Peterson & Lacy McNamee
pp. 120-131
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Graduate Student Identity Salience and Mental Health
Caroline Waldbuesser & Angela M. Hosek
pp. 132-144
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VOLUME 57 - April 2019
Lessons Learned during a Life in the Academy
Raymie E. McKerrow, OCA 2018 Conference Keynote Speaker
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Testing Relational Turbulence Theory in Friends with Benefits Relationships
James B. Stein, Colter D. Ray, Lisa J. van Raalte, & Paul A. Mongeau
pp. 6-18 PDF FULL TEXT
I Knew College Was in the Cards for Me:” The Role of Memorable Messages in Foster Youths’ Post-Secondary Education Decisions
LaShawnda Kilgore & Aimee E. Miller-Ott
pp. 19-32 PDF FULL TEXT
A New Season for the Baylor Nation: Image Repair and Organizational Learning in Baylor’s Title IX Crisis
Rachel Riggs
pp. 33-46 PDF FULL TEXT
Student Veterans’ Assimilation in Higher Education: The Role of Identity Complexity
Eric B. Meiners
pp. 47-57 PDF FULL TEXT
An Epitaph in 140 Characters: TV Journalists’ Twitter Use Following the Roanoke Shootings
Gretchen Hoak & Rekha Sharma
pp. 58-74 PDF FULL TEXT
Health Information-Seeking Behaviors and Disparities Among Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: Testing Predictors of the Frequency of HISB with Doctors and Online
Nicole L. Johnson
pp. 75-90 PDF FULL TEXT
Tweetkeeping NBC’s Rio Olympics
Daniel Sipocz & Roxane Coche
pp. 91-104 PDF FULL TEXT
“Who’s Doing the Phubbing?”: Exploring Individual Factors that Predict Phubbing Behaviors During Interpersonal Interactions
Tara Suwinyattichaiporn & Mark Alan Generous
pp. 105-114 PDF FULL TEXT
Collective Communication within LGBT Leadership: Sharing the Vision
William Lucio Jr. & Sarah E. Riforgiate
pp. 115-131 PDF FULL TEXT
VOLUME 56 - March 2018
Volume 56 (COMPLETE VOLUME)
Power and Talk in Russian Political Culture
Natalie Kovalyova
pp. 1-18 PDF FULL TEXT
Framing Public Memory: Developing Moral Vernacular Discourse through Photographs of the New Sandy Hook Elementary School
Katrina N. Hanna
pp. 19-32 PDF FULL TEXT
Social Networks, Social Support, and Mental Health: Exploring Responses to Behavioral Cues Associated with Depression in an Online Social Network
Jessica Moore
pp. 33-46 PDF FULL TEXT
“It’s So Wrong, It’s Right!”: Analyzing Feminist Humor in Sitcoms
Nancy Bressler
pp. 47-58 PDF FULL TEXT
Rhetorical Re-Framing and Counter Narratives: An Ideological Critique of the Christian Hip-Hop Artist Lecrae Moore
Robert Razzante & jw Smith
pp. 59-68 PDF FULL TEXT
Waxing the Storyboard: Writing and Performing Stories of Family Loss
Alex J. Patti
pp. 69-78 PDF FULL TEXT
Broadcasting the Backstage: Essena O’Neill’s Facework as an Instagram Model
Julie Schuller & Valerie Schrader
pp. 79-92 PDF FULL TEXT
#YoSoy132’s Use of Social Media: Public Screens in a Mexican Youth Movement
Caroline Waldbuesser
pp. 93-105 PDF FULL TEXT
Playing Like a Girl: Establishing a Virtual Female Social Position through Discourse Building Tasks
Steffi Shook
pp. 106-119 PDF FULL TEXT
Civil Keystrokes: Examining Anonymity, Politeness, and Civility in Online Ohio Newspaper Forums
Kelly P. Dillon, Rachel L. Neo, & Natalie Seely
pp. 120-135 PDF FULL TEXT
Uncertainty Reduction and Technologically Mediated Communication: Implications to Marital Communication during Wartime Deployment
Margaret Stewart
pp. 136-148 PDF FULL TEXT
VOLUME 55 - February 2017
Volume 55 (COMPLETE VOLUME)
Perceptions of Workplace Bullying Narratives: Exploring Attributions
Stacy Tye-Williams & Racheal Ruble
pp. 1-15 PDF Full Text
Squid or Chalkie? The Role of Self-identity and Selective Perception in Processing Tendentious “Hillbilly” Humor
Nicholas David Bowman, Jennifer S. Hallett, Andy Boyan, & Jeremy Groskopf
pp. 16-28 PDF Full Text
Crafting a Culture of Patient Safety: Structuring Physicians’ Medical Error Disclosure and Apology
Heather J. Carmack
pp. 29-42 PDF Full Text
Avowal is Not Enough: Foucault and Public Shaming in a Socially Mediated World
Alane Presswood
pp. 43-53 PDF Full Text
Spiritual Intelligence, Moral Intensity, and the Intention to Help a Stranger Who Initiates Communication: A Study of Millennial College Students
Yang Lin, Kathleen D. Clark, & Virginia Maher
pp. 54-63 PDF Full Text
“Up in Smoke”: Shaping Attitudes Toward Legalizing Marijuana in Ohio
Audrey Wagstaff & Theresa Knopf
pp. 64-83 PDF Full Text
Examination of the Relationship Between Fan Identification and Student Utilization of Social Media in an NCAA Division I University
John P. Lukach, Alan S. Kornspan, Seungbum Lee, Michael A. Duve
pp. 84-95 PDF Full Text
“You’re Doing It Wrong, Tommy”: Embodied Audiencing Rituals, Cult Texts in Crisis, and the Struggle for The Room
Matthew M. Foy
pp. 96-108 PDF Full Text
“The Wiz Live! and Body Rhetoric: The Complexity of Increasing Diversity in a Whitewashed Entertainment Industry”
Michelle Flood
pp. 109-118 PDF Full Text
An Examination of Physician-Patient Communication in Context of a Spina Bifida Diagnosis
Kristopher Copeland & L. BreeAnna Lasater
pp. 119-130 PDF Full Text
Exploring the Relationship Between Online Health Information Seeking Motivations and Patient Narratives for Orthopedic Practice Web Sites
Liz Merdian Lareau & Nathan Miczo
pp. 131-145 PDF Full Text
Love, Brands, and Marriage: Audience Reception of LGBT Instagram Posts after the 2015 Supreme Court Ruling on Same-sex Marriage
Olguta Vilceanu & Alison N. Novak
pp. 146-164 PDF Full Text
“I Lived Because I Was Blessed”: Coping Strategies of American Prisoners of War
Scott Haden Church
pp. 165-178 PDF Full Text
Framing analysis of Syria’s 8/21/13 use of chemical weapons
Rita Daniels, Matthew M. Martin, Emily B. Hughart, & Jessica Fabbricatore
pp. 179-190 PDF Full Text
Communicating Gender in Jamaican HIV Advertisements: A Textual Analysis of Television Campaigns
Kay-Anne Darlington
pp. 191-207 PDF Full Text
VOLUME 54 - January 2016
Introduction to the Special Edition: The Roots and Branches of the Ohio Communication Association
Stefne Lenzmeier Broz
pp. 1-3
Exploring our Roots
Jerry D. Feezel
pp. 4-10
Untapped Potential: The Role of Faculty and State Associations in Developing the Undergraduate Student Researcher
Jeffrey Tyus
pp. 11-17
Getting your Feet Wet: Graduate Students and the Ohio Communication Association
Erin E. Hollenbaugh
pp. 18-22
The Long Road to Tenure: How the Ohio Communication Association Can Help
Nicole Blau
pp. 23-28
Roots and Branches of the Ohio Communication Association: Perspectives on Pedagogy
Liane M. Gray-Starner & Cody M. Clemens
pp. 29-35
Ohio Networks: Roots in Community, Culture and Communication
Adam C. Earnheardt
pp. 36-44
“You’re Going, Aren’t You?” An Encomium for the State Association
Matthew J. Smith
pp. 45-52
VOLUME 53
VOLUME 53 – OCTOBER 2015
The Dialogic Necessity: Acknowledging and Engaging Monologue
Ronald C. Arnett
pp. 1-10
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This is Not an Inside Joke: Perceptible Attributes Influence the Successful Communication of Humor
Andrew Dix
pp. 11-27
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Dining with “Mama”: Four Newcomer Socialization Experiences Inside a Small-Town Diner
Nathaniel Simmons
pp. 28-43
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The Romantic and the Practical: Using RDT 2.0 to Analyze Competing Cross-cultural Discourses
Carolyn M. Prentice
pp. 44-51
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Characterizations of Tim Tebow and the Cultural Phenomenon of Tebowmania: An Analysis of the Coverage of Tim Tebow by Three US Newspapers
Vaughn Myers & Yang Lin
pp. 52-61
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Support, Closeness, and Influence Tactics as Predictors of Acceptance and Unsolicited Parental Advice Regarding a Romantic Relationship During Emerging Adulthood
Alexie Hays & Sandra Metts
pp. 62-69
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Heeding the Call: Hillary Clinton’s Rhetoric of Identification and Women’s Human Rights at the Fourth World Conference on Women
Rose Helens-Hart
pp. 70-86
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VOLUME 52 - February 2017
Volume 52 – October 2014
Account Overdrawn: Analyzing Anti-Consumerism Messages in Animated Cartoons
Sharma, Rekha
pp. 1-19
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Mythic Rhetoric: Love, Power, and Compassionate Marriage in Puccini’s Turandot
Peterson, Valerie V.
pp. 20-35
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Looking Beyond the Baby Bump: The Role of Magazine Portrayals of Pregnant Celebrity Bodies in Social Comparison Processes in Pregnant Women
Hopper, Megan K.
pp. 36-54
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Nonverbal Immediacy and Attachment Styles in Dating: A Comparison Between US American and Chinese College Students
Gao, Huirui; Lin, Yang
pp. 55-63
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The Walking (Gendered) Dead: A Feminist Rhetorical Critique of Zombie Apocalypse Television Narrative
Greene, John; Meyer, Michaela D.E.
pp. 64-74
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Compared to “the Big City”: Cultural Discourses of Emplacement in the Rural Community
Reinig, Lydia
pp. 75-89
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