Nephosthe weather behind the paintings

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Black Mountain College Collection, gift of the Falcon Foundation. © Estate of Joseph Fiore / Fiore Art Center at the Maine Farmland Trust.

A study against the weather record

Joseph Fiore

Black Mountain Lake Eden

1954 · Watercolor on paper · Asheville Art Museum, 2012.53.01.22

A summer storm above Lake Eden? Nephos’s reading meets a dry season with repeated thunder.

23days with thunder reported at the airport during the summer quarter, while Black Mountain’s rain total was the lowest of 34 complete comparable windows.

Storm reading plausiblePainted day unknown

The recordsThe museum’s object record

The Nephos method

How this study was read

The method in full

  1. What is written

    Nephos reads the green foliage, foreground lake and dark cloud masses as a summer storm building or passing. This is Nephos’s visual interpretation, not a museum statement or an execution date. The college poster supplies a separate test window: 21 June–4 September 1954.

  2. Records of those days

    Not found or not yet searched

    • The depicted storm is a visual reading. No dated source identifies this watercolor’s day, month or execution session.
    • Black Mountain has no thunder entries for this 1954 window. Airport thunder is regional evidence; unreported thunder is not a confirmed absence.
    • No securely object-linked letter, preparatory view or lake-level record establishes what weather Fiore altered.

  3. Each claim tested

    • Could summer storms occur during a dry teaching season? Yes. Black Mountain recorded 120.8 mm, the driest of 34 complete matching windows, while the airport reported thunder on 23 days. A local newspaper also reports a lightning strike west of town.
    • How many substantial rain days occurred nearby? Black Mountain had 16 days with at least 1 mm, 3 with at least 10 mm and 1 with at least 25 mm. These are daily amounts, not storm intensity.
    • How does the same season compare with 1991–2020? Airport rain days: 16 in 1954 versus a 25.6-day reference mean. Reported thunder days: 23 versus 17.0. This is an archive comparison across station and reporting changes, not a climate trend.

  4. Verdict

    A storm sky within a dry summer: 120.8 mm at Black Mountain, the lowest of 34 complete session windows, and 23 reported thunder days at the airport. The records support the plausibility of the reading, without selecting a painted day.

    • Partially agreesSummer-storm reading Nephos’s visual reading is consistent with independent seasonal storm evidence.
    • ContradictsAn unusually wet season The local rain total is the lowest of 34 complete comparable windows.
    • UnknownA dated painted storm No source connects this watercolor to a particular event.

What this cannot tell you. The summer quarter is a hypothesis-testing window, not a date assigned to the picture. Foliage does not rule out late spring or early autumn. Ranks exclude every incomplete window and are not homogenized for gauge changes. Nearby gauges are never pooled. Rain days use station observation dates; GSOD thunder uses UTC dates. Aligned chart dates do not establish the same storm. GSOD zero means no or not reported. Modern thunder counts are reported occurrences, not a homogeneous thunderstorm climatology. The airport comparison uses all 30 matching windows in 1991–2020, calculated from daily data; it is not an official NOAA normal or a Lake Eden anomaly.

Step 1 · Read the painting

A storm sky above a green landscape

Nephos’s reading of the picture, not a museum statement: Green, fully leafed hills and trees, a lake in the foreground, and heavy dark rain clouds massed over the mountains: a summer storm building or passing over Lake Eden.

In the museum’s small color preview, leafy trees and green slopes carry the eye toward the ridge. Dark grey cloud masses fill much of the sky, broken by pale openings; the lake occupies the lower right. That combination makes a passing or gathering summer storm a useful reading to test. The pale gaps leave its direction unresolved. No lightning bolt or measurable rain shaft is visible, and foliage alone does not exclude late spring or early autumn.

The museum identifies the subject as the Lake Eden campus and dates the watercolor to 1954. The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center biography places Fiore’s teaching of painting and drawing between 1949 and 1956. He knew this landscape; the painting is evidence of how he represented it, even though no document identifies its day.

The test: did the summer teaching season contain storms, and was it especially wet? Those are different questions. A dark painted sky need not describe the prevailing weather of an entire summer.

Step 2 · Establish a window

The summer quarter: 21 June–4 September 1954

A surviving college poster, held by Asheville Art Museum as accession 2017.40.324, advertises the regular summer quarter and lists Fiore under painting. Its dates define a 76-day inclusive comparison. They are not a newly assigned date for this watercolor.

“JUNE 21 TO SEPTEMBER 4”

Black Mountain College summer 1954 poster, 2017.40.324; holder’s transcription

“PAINTING Joseph Fiore”

Black Mountain College summer 1954 poster, 2017.40.324; holder’s transcription

The dates are taken from the museum’s transcription of the contemporary announcement. The Western Regional Archives finding aid also lists the 1953–54 bulletin and 1951–54 publicity material; that catalogue establishes surviving records, not a second independently read timetable. A poster documents advertised teaching, not daily attendance or the making of this sheet.

The same 21 June–4 September dates are used in every comparison year. A separate June–August calculation checks whether the result depends on the college’s endpoints. No storm date is selected because it looks like the painting.

Step 3 · Test the storm reading

Storms in the driest comparable summer window

Black Mountain’s gauge recorded 120.8 mm: the lowest of 34 complete matching windows in its 1949–2010 archive. Yet the airport’s hourly-derived daily summaries report thunder on 23 days. The two records describe different aspects of the season: little accumulated rain locally, with repeated evidence of storms in the region.

Storms in a dry summer21 June to 4 September 1954. Black Mountain: 120.8 mm, the lowest rainfall of 34 complete matching summer windows. 16 days reach 1 mm; 3 reach 10 mm. The separate airport record reports thunder on 23 UTC days. The lower dots compare each complete Black Mountain window. Full values follow in the tables.120.8 mm at Black MountainLowest of 34 complete summer-session windowsDAILY RAIN · BLACK MOUNTAIN · mm010203021 June 1954: 0 mm recorded22 June 1954: 0 mm recorded23 June 1954: 0 mm recorded24 June 1954: 0 mm recorded25 June 1954: 0 mm recorded26 June 1954: 0 mm recorded27 June 1954: 0 mm recorded28 June 1954: 0.5 mm29 June 1954: 0 mm recorded30 June 1954: 0 mm recorded1 July 1954: 0 mm recorded2 July 1954: 0 mm recorded3 July 1954: 3.6 mm4 July 1954: 16.8 mm5 July 1954: 0 mm recorded6 July 1954: 0 mm recorded7 July 1954: 0 mm recorded8 July 1954: 5.6 mm9 July 1954: trace10 July 1954: 0 mm recorded11 July 1954: 0 mm recorded12 July 1954: 0 mm recorded13 July 1954: 0 mm recorded14 July 1954: 0 mm recorded15 July 1954: 0 mm recorded16 July 1954: 2.5 mm17 July 1954: trace18 July 1954: trace19 July 1954: 0 mm recorded20 July 1954: 0 mm recorded21 July 1954: 8.4 mm22 July 1954: 1.8 mm23 July 1954: trace24 July 1954: 0 mm recorded25 July 1954: 0 mm recorded26 July 1954: 0 mm recorded27 July 1954: 0 mm recorded28 July 1954: 0 mm recorded29 July 1954: 0 mm recorded30 July 1954: 0 mm recorded31 July 1954: 0 mm recorded1 August 1954: 0 mm recorded2 August 1954: 8.1 mm3 August 1954: trace4 August 1954: 0 mm recorded5 August 1954: 0 mm recorded6 August 1954: 6.1 mm7 August 1954: 0 mm recorded8 August 1954: 5.1 mm9 August 1954: 0 mm recorded10 August 1954: 11.7 mm11 August 1954: 0 mm recorded12 August 1954: 0 mm recorded13 August 1954: 0 mm recorded14 August 1954: 0 mm recorded15 August 1954: 0 mm recorded16 August 1954: 0 mm recorded17 August 1954: 0 mm recorded18 August 1954: 0 mm recorded19 August 1954: 0 mm recorded20 August 1954: 0 mm recorded21 August 1954: 6.4 mm22 August 1954: 0 mm recorded23 August 1954: 0 mm recorded24 August 1954: 0 mm recorded25 August 1954: 25.1 mm26 August 1954: trace27 August 1954: 6.9 mm28 August 1954: 1.3 mm29 August 1954: 9.4 mm30 August 1954: 1.5 mm31 August 1954: 0 mm recorded1 September 1954: 0 mm recorded2 September 1954: 0 mm recorded3 September 1954: 0 mm recorded4 September 1954: 0 mm recorded16 days ≥ 1 mm · 3 days ≥ 10 mm21 June1 July1 August4 SeptemberREPORTED THUNDER · ASHEVILLE AIRPORT · 23 days2 July 1954 UTC: thunder reported at the airport3 July 1954 UTC: thunder reported at the airport4 July 1954 UTC: thunder reported at the airport5 July 1954 UTC: thunder reported at the airport8 July 1954 UTC: thunder reported at the airport9 July 1954 UTC: thunder reported at the airport15 July 1954 UTC: thunder reported at the airport16 July 1954 UTC: thunder reported at the airport18 July 1954 UTC: thunder reported at the airport20 July 1954 UTC: thunder reported at the airport22 July 1954 UTC: thunder reported at the airport30 July 1954 UTC: thunder reported at the airport31 July 1954 UTC: thunder reported at the airport1 August 1954 UTC: thunder reported at the airport6 August 1954 UTC: thunder reported at the airport9 August 1954 UTC: thunder reported at the airport15 August 1954 UTC: thunder reported at the airport18 August 1954 UTC: thunder reported at the airport20 August 1954 UTC: thunder reported at the airport21 August 1954 UTC: thunder reported at the airport24 August 1954 UTC: thunder reported at the airport26 August 1954 UTC: thunder reported at the airport28 August 1954 UTC: thunder reported at the airportSeparate places and day boundaries. Blank thunder positions mean no / not reported.HOW DRY? · EACH DOT IS ONE COMPLETE BLACK MOUNTAIN WINDOW01002003004005001954: 120.8 mm19541976: 145.5 mm1973: 151.6 mm1993: 156.3 mm1957: 187.4 mm1958: 188.6 mm1963: 198.4 mm1968: 211.8 mm1951: 212.3 mm1980: 220.2 mm1956: 229.1 mm2008: 246.0 mm1952: 246.9 mm1975: 252.9 mm1950: 270.9 mm1959: 278.2 mm1992: 282.7 mm1966: 283.6 mm1989: 285.1 mm1971: 291.1 mm1970: 297.6 mm2003: 309.2 mm1969: 312.6 mm1991: 326.8 mm1965: 333.3 mm1961: 346.2 mm1962: 358.0 mm2004: 366.2 mm1955: 369.6 mm1972: 371.8 mm1960: 412.0 mm1964: 435.1 mm2005: 483.2 mm1967: 490.7 mm21 June–4 September rainfall · mm
Bars: Black Mountain daily precipitation. Diamonds: thunder reported at the separate Asheville–Hendersonville Airport. Dots below: every complete Black Mountain window, with 1954 singled out. Rain uses station observation dates; thunder uses UTC dates. The alignment does not pair individual storms. This chart tests seasonal context, not a painting date.
21 June–4 September 1954: separate gauges, identical thresholds
StationAccepted daysRain, mmDays ≥ 1 mmDays ≥ 10 mmDays ≥ 25 mm
Black Mountain76/76120.81631
North Fork76/76130.82041
Beetree Dam76/76121.31740
Asheville–Hendersonville Airport76/76141.81641

Here a rain day means at least 1 mm; 10 mm marks a substantial daily amount and 25 mm is this study’s heavy-rain threshold. These thresholds measure daily accumulation, not the intensity or number of storms. Black Mountain’s one day over 25 mm recorded 25.1 mm; at a stricter one-inch threshold (25.4 mm), its count becomes 0. A nearby thunderstorm can be heard or seen without delivering much rain to a particular gauge.

The catalogue gauge positions lie 2.6 km (Black Mountain), 3.9 km (North Fork) and 3.4 km (Beetree) from the mapped lake point. The 1954 airport site was about 24 km away. None is the scene or an easel location. The gauges are not averaged, and their differing daily totals matter.

Black Mountain has no thunder entries for this window in the inspected GHCN archive. That is unknown, not zero. The airport supplies positive thunder reports on 23 days, with daily summaries present for the whole window. NOAA defines a zero thunder flag as no or not reported, so 23 is a count of recorded occurrences, not proof that every other day was storm-free.

Check every day and the complete-window ranking

Every admitted window has 76 accepted daily precipitation amounts. Missing values, nonblank quality flags and missing-presumed-zero flags are rejected; incomplete present-weather-derived precipitation is also rejected. Traces retain their flag and the archived zero. 28 windows are excluded. This is an archive rank, not a homogenized estimate of climatic rarity.

The June–August sensitivity check gives 168.3 mm in 1954, also rank 1 from driest among 34 complete summers. The dry result therefore survives the alternative seasonal boundary.

Daily Black Mountain rain and separate airport thunder reports, 1954
Date labelRain, mmTrace flagAirport thunder, UTC day
21 June0.0—No / not reported
22 June0.0—No / not reported
23 June0.0—No / not reported
24 June0.0—No / not reported
25 June0.0—No / not reported
26 June0.0—No / not reported
27 June0.0—No / not reported
28 June0.5—No / not reported
29 June0.0—No / not reported
30 June0.0—No / not reported
1 July0.0—No / not reported
2 July0.0—Reported
3 July3.6—Reported
4 July16.8—Reported
5 July0.0—Reported
6 July0.0—No / not reported
7 July0.0—No / not reported
8 July5.6—Reported
9 July0.0TraceReported
10 July0.0—No / not reported
11 July0.0—No / not reported
12 July0.0—No / not reported
13 July0.0—No / not reported
14 July0.0—No / not reported
15 July0.0—Reported
16 July2.5—Reported
17 July0.0TraceNo / not reported
18 July0.0TraceReported
19 July0.0—No / not reported
20 July0.0—Reported
21 July8.4—No / not reported
22 July1.8—Reported
23 July0.0TraceNo / not reported
24 July0.0—No / not reported
25 July0.0—No / not reported
26 July0.0—No / not reported
27 July0.0—No / not reported
28 July0.0—No / not reported
29 July0.0—No / not reported
30 July0.0—Reported
31 July0.0—Reported
1 August0.0—Reported
2 August8.1—No / not reported
3 August0.0TraceNo / not reported
4 August0.0—No / not reported
5 August0.0—No / not reported
6 August6.1—Reported
7 August0.0—No / not reported
8 August5.1—No / not reported
9 August0.0—Reported
10 August11.7—No / not reported
11 August0.0—No / not reported
12 August0.0—No / not reported
13 August0.0—No / not reported
14 August0.0—No / not reported
15 August0.0—Reported
16 August0.0—No / not reported
17 August0.0—No / not reported
18 August0.0—Reported
19 August0.0—No / not reported
20 August0.0—Reported
21 August6.4—Reported
22 August0.0—No / not reported
23 August0.0—No / not reported
24 August0.0—Reported
25 August25.1—No / not reported
26 August0.0TraceReported
27 August6.9—No / not reported
28 August1.3—Reported
29 August9.4—No / not reported
30 August1.5—No / not reported
31 August0.0—No / not reported
1 September0.0—No / not reported
2 September0.0—No / not reported
3 September0.0—No / not reported
4 September0.0—No / not reported
Every complete Black Mountain session window
YearRain, mmDays ≥ 1 mmDays ≥ 25 mm
1950270.9292
1951212.3221
1952246.9281
1954120.8161
1955369.6284
1956229.1222
1957187.4171
1958188.6272
1959278.2313
1960412.0345
1961346.2353
1962358.0225
1963198.4211
1964435.1316
1965333.3233
1966283.6272
1967490.7326
1968211.8241
1969312.6266
1970297.6293
1971291.1282
1972371.8216
1973151.6211
1975252.9233
1976145.5220
1980220.2192
1989285.1294
1991326.8274
1992282.7273
1993156.3210
2003309.2244
2004366.2245
2005483.2308
2008246.0123

Excluded years: 1949, 1953, 1974, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010. The data companion preserves the rejected dates, flags, other gauges and full-year context.

Step 4 · Hear the contemporary witnesses

Dry gardens; a lightning strike west of town

The Black Mountain News supplies two local accounts from within the session. On 22 July, Mrs. C. M. Howie’s Bee Tree column describes hot, dry weather in the Bee Tree and Longs Branch sections, with struggling gardens. On 12 August, the front page reports a lightning strike roughly one mile west of Black Mountain on the preceding Monday afternoon, cutting power for an hour.

“We have had very little rain in the last two weeks.”

Bee Tree News, by Mrs. C. M. Howie, 22 July 1954, p. 2

“This was the first serious damage caused by an electrical storm this summer.”

Lightning Hits Line, Customers Blitz Office, 12 August 1954, p. 1

The lightning report places the event at about 1:40 p.m. The preceding Monday was 9 August. It describes the first serious damage of that summer, not its first thunderstorm. That distinction agrees with the broader finding: a dry season can still contain disruptive storms. Neither witness describes Fiore at work or a storm directly over Lake Eden.

Both short quotations were checked against the newspaper page scans; printed line-break hyphenation has been joined. This is the local weekly, not the Asheville Citizen-Times. The latter’s historical database is listed by UNCW Library, but no season-specific Citizen-Times article was verified here. That remains an access and research limit, not a claim that no witness survives.

Step 5 · Then and now

Less rain in 1954; thunder tells a different story

For the identical 21 June–4 September window, the airport series recorded 16 rain days in 1954, compared with a mean of 25.6 in 1991–2020. Its rain total was 141.8 mm against 306.3 mm. These are airport-to-airport archive comparisons; the modern mean is never substituted for Lake Eden.

Asheville airport series: the same 76 calendar dates in each year
Measure19541991–2020 mean
Precipitation, mm141.8306.3
Days ≥ 1 mm16.025.6
Days ≥ 10 mm4.010.1
Days ≥ 25 mm1.02.9
Days with thunder reported23.017.0

The means above are calculated from all 30 complete reference windows, not copied from an official monthly normal. The airport’s modern reported-thunder counts range from 6 to 34 days; 1954’s 23 lies within that range. Storm occurrence and accumulated rain do not rank seasons in the same way. By reported thunder days, 1954 ranks 8 from highest among these 31 windows (1954 plus 1991–2020). That is a rank of surviving reports.

This does not establish a decline in thunderstorms. The station history places the 1954 observations at the former Asheville–Hendersonville Airport, with the later record at Asheville Regional Airport; it also records a 1996 move and automation. Thunder flags depend on reporting practice, and zero conflates no with not reported. Neither the thunder counts nor the rain comparison has been homogenized for those changes.

At Black Mountain itself, only 7 complete session windows survive inside 1991–2020, so no 30-year local mean is presented. Its full surviving record supplies the ranking instead.

Step 6 · Return to the watercolor

The drama belongs to a moment, not a seasonal average

Nephos reads the contrast between bright green land and the dark, broken sky as the picture’s weather drama. The records make that reading historically plausible: summer storms occurred in the region even while local rainfall was unusually low within the surviving comparison. The watercolor need not stand for a rain-soaked summer.

What Fiore chose is visible; what he changed is not established. The loose grey washes of the sky, green slopes and small upright trees organize contrasts of tone and scale. That is Nephos’s account of the composition. The museum’s biography describes his broader combination of nature, abstraction and color experiments, but supplies no evidence that he darkened a particular cloud, invented a storm or altered the lake level in this sheet.

No securely object-linked letter or dated preparatory view inspected here fixes the painting session. The course dates remain a testing convention; 9 August remains a newspaper event, not a proposed painted day. Gauge readings are not lake levels, and airport thunder is not a Lake Eden observation. The warranted result is a supported seasonal possibility, not a reconstruction of the sky at the easel.

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  36. NOAA GSOD, Asheville airport, 2001; WBAN 03812Public domain: NOAA · retrieved 8 October 2026sha256 7163851a27172b4ba12a54f59f33e9ae322097be946e32083c23de129fa34cc3
  37. NOAA GSOD, Asheville airport, 2002; WBAN 03812Public domain: NOAA · retrieved 8 October 2026sha256 8077ee957a6d8fdbace6b1cf8d6e61c70715eaaa66a246416b4bf0d0097b276f
  38. NOAA GSOD, Asheville airport, 2003; WBAN 03812Public domain: NOAA · retrieved 8 October 2026sha256 f67517bd10c08cf5573a639ea322741e4ea4dded2868f5b5f9520d9a756ea6a7
  39. NOAA GSOD, Asheville airport, 2004; WBAN 03812Public domain: NOAA · retrieved 8 October 2026sha256 b98f3e119dd1b8c8f2190c73967a21a4737591ecc604bd02181e06f4a63d221e
  40. NOAA GSOD, Asheville airport, 2005; WBAN 03812Public domain: NOAA · retrieved 8 October 2026sha256 09fbe8d68e22b45643e98d67f66c104b7940c23bc2cc700d647e59bac3b4f836
  41. NOAA GSOD, Asheville airport, 2006; WBAN 03812Public domain: NOAA · retrieved 8 October 2026sha256 83fa6055d6d086350d1a03cfa706a67bbb381692e766ffe0c1e7835248b0a3a9
  42. NOAA GSOD, Asheville airport, 2007; WBAN 03812Public domain: NOAA · retrieved 8 October 2026sha256 c7174a2b6cea7db80cc7b28a3a317efab697a87e0d32f418cbc864b1bfb7a8a7
  43. NOAA GSOD, Asheville airport, 2008; WBAN 03812Public domain: NOAA · retrieved 8 October 2026sha256 27089ffc3d4d5c9550c8996e3d2a68d145e14b1bd08d0d5ea24ca3713934f7e1
  44. NOAA GSOD, Asheville airport, 2009; WBAN 03812Public domain: NOAA · retrieved 8 October 2026sha256 c4e8d2b74f1c9f56ffb9f87eb1b95c82a89a9a215e64b86698c6f870e627a857
  45. NOAA GSOD, Asheville airport, 2010; WBAN 03812Public domain: NOAA · retrieved 8 October 2026sha256 3e0de8a9e02437ba4420306f912716acf03b912ccad8aac259571533f9e7a561
  46. NOAA GSOD, Asheville airport, 2011; WBAN 03812Public domain: NOAA · retrieved 8 October 2026sha256 042bb7e22817aa591fece513809163dd386c859adada2bf7942a521aeff537da
  47. NOAA GSOD, Asheville airport, 2012; WBAN 03812Public domain: NOAA · retrieved 8 October 2026sha256 f84282110ab87cb46b6937c013767490a931f72c98401d2c3aa19480ba35cea5
  48. NOAA GSOD, Asheville airport, 2013; WBAN 03812Public domain: NOAA · retrieved 8 October 2026sha256 0cd29023ee4241f183147f2a28426cce40ba1ab1cf9b7d524821785a8e7aecd8
  49. NOAA GSOD, Asheville airport, 2014; WBAN 03812Public domain: NOAA · retrieved 8 October 2026sha256 3bc2a074925a9d00541cb97b307e397bc4cd71bd2a2f8aacd837476755f7d4c5
  50. NOAA GSOD, Asheville airport, 2015; WBAN 03812Public domain: NOAA · retrieved 8 October 2026sha256 cba5220af33c69c1a4b98aaec6806dd673ab350586d44d1c44e7858cec6801a9
  51. NOAA GSOD, Asheville airport, 2016; WBAN 03812Public domain: NOAA · retrieved 8 October 2026sha256 34655daae6eb579f29f1261c9d46218627d544928a9713b820b623e1d6d46ac9
  52. NOAA GSOD, Asheville airport, 2017; WBAN 03812Public domain: NOAA · retrieved 8 October 2026sha256 98811bc21e8d3ea43d2f1f93d94778e728365e3b03faf309fc4628a6b8d52528
  53. NOAA GSOD, Asheville airport, 2018; WBAN 03812Public domain: NOAA · retrieved 8 October 2026sha256 8499f0662df1938a6d6b748c8328adabe65d4baa277cf0ad20f4d8d47a3cc9b5
  54. NOAA GSOD, Asheville airport, 2019; WBAN 03812Public domain: NOAA · retrieved 8 October 2026sha256 cf6b6ecb89e95a72a0f040cbe009fda60ad29f811bc65a29aaf8822b0adc1400
  55. NOAA GSOD, Asheville airport, 2020; WBAN 03812Public domain: NOAA · retrieved 8 October 2026sha256 13705c9fb1f769a0ec5bdf2801bb54ba65de78c93f995105a2514f4550f95410

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