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High Priestess Tarot Card Prompt
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Black and white pillars stand on the left and right. A young woman sits on a silver throne, wearing a light blue based dress, with a crescent moon crown on her head and covered by light blue lace-like cloth. A book is placed on her lap. At her feet lies a shining golden crescent moon object. Behind her, pink and pale orange roses bloom here and there. Inspired by the Tarot card 'The High Priestess'. No text or logos, please use aspect ratio 9:16.

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Hyper-realistic Desert Adventure Portrait
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Create a hyper-realistic full-body low-angle outdoor adventure portrait of the same young adult female character from the reference image, preserving her vivid violet-purple chin-length bob with straight bangs, fair porcelain skin, natural freckles across her nose and cheeks, hazel/light-brown eyes, delicate facial features, glossy lips, and slim physique. She is walking across a textured sand dune while bending forward, one hand reaching down toward the sand and her head looking downward. She wears a beige and olive-green technical outdoor jacket over a neutral inner top, beige high-waisted outdoor shorts, tall tan-and-olive hiking boots with socks, a brown fabric beanie, black chest harness straps, and a small carabiner clip. The background features beautiful desert sand dunes with detailed ripples, distant green trees, and a clear sky. Use warm natural daylight with soft shadows and a cinematic outdoor adventure atmosphere. Emphasize realistic sand texture, fabric details, hiking boots, individual hair strands, natural skin and freckles, cinematic depth of field, photorealistic quality, ultra-detailed 8K, premium outdoor editorial photography.

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Shopping Cart Parking Garage Lifestyle
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A photorealistic lifestyle photo of a young woman relaxing inside a large metal shopping cart on the rooftop of a modern parking garage. She has long, straight dark hair and wears sleek white oval sunglasses, an oversized light-gray sweatshirt, white ankle socks, and pastel pink retro sneakers with white stripes. She sits comfortably with her legs stretched across the cart, creating a playful and carefree pose. A small cream-colored quilted shoulder bag hangs from the side of the cart, with a cardboard box placed behind her. The rooftop parking area is spacious and mostly empty, with clearly marked parking spaces and EV charging stations along the wall. In the distance are modern high-rise residential buildings, power lines, and transmission towers beneath a clear blue sky. Warm late-afternoon sunlight casts long shadows across the asphalt and creates a soft golden glow. Candid street-fashion photography, realistic skin and hair texture, natural proportions, detailed clothing and metal cart, cinematic depth of field, high-resolution smartphone photo, slightly wide-angle perspective, vertical 4:5 composition.

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Convenience Store Cinematic Portrait
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A cinematic commercial comedy film still of a beautiful young blonde woman in her mid 20s standing centered inside a slightly dated convenience store. She wears oversized blue square glasses with warm tinted lenses, a blue patterned bandana, a deep purple robe, muted olive green high neck top, and chunky silver chain necklace. Medium close up, subtle low angle, 50mm spherical lens, eyes looking slightly upward with a mildly confused deadpan expression. Soft fluorescent practical lighting, cool blue green color bias, warm red neon glow in the background, softly blurred snack and bottle shelves, natural skin texture, restrained cinematic grain, quirky narrative film mood.

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Van Gogh Style Fish Head Soup Poem
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A split composition. The left side is a Van Gogh-style oil painting of an emaciated, scruffy man with wild black hair and a long nose, wearing a tattered blue coat. He sits at a wooden table eating from a large bowl containing a whole fish head and rice soup, holding a spoon. Behind him on the blue wall is a poster reading "A FOOL AND HIS FISH HEAD SOUP" featuring a caricature of a man in a top hat. To the far left, a window reveals hanging laundry and a bottle on the sill. The right side is a solid black background containing white text: a QR code at the top, followed by the poem "he's a bungler / a man without scruples / scruffy and vile / subsisting on a fool's diet / of fish head and rice soup", and credits below.

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Moody Indoor Fashion Portrait Prompt
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Hyper-realistic IMAX-level Netflix-style moody indoor fashion portrait, 9:16 vertical. Use the uploaded image as the primary visual reference and preserve the exact facial identity, proportions, and defining features. Create a woman wearing a fitted soft blush-pink short-sleeve T-shirt, high-waisted light-blue denim shorts with naturally frayed hems, and a delicate small pendant necklace. She stands beside a tall window with her body angled slightly toward the camera, her left hand resting lightly on the window ledge, right arm hanging naturally beside her body with relaxed fingers, hips subtly shifted to one side, one leg planted while the other crosses naturally in front, creating a gentle S-shaped posture; her shoulders remain relaxed and her head tilts slightly toward her right shoulder. She looks directly into the camera with a soft, warm expression, relaxed eyelids, gently curved eyebrows, a subtle closed-lip smile, relaxed jaw and an effortless feminine calm. Her long warm-brown hair is parted slightly off-center with a soft lifted crown, flowing in large natural waves over her left shoulder and down her back; the front layers curve around her cheek and jaw, while the lower sections form loose irregular waves with natural volume and a few fine flyaway strands around the face. Fair luminous porcelain skin with a bright ivory to light beige tone and neutral-cool undertone, natural realistic texture with soft tonal variation. A quiet bedroom interior surrounds her, with a tall window and sheer curtains on the left, a softly blurred bed on the right and minimal warm furnishings in the background. Moody window light enters from the left, illuminating one side of her face, hair and upper body with a soft muted glow while the opposite side falls into gentle shadow; the curtains diffuse the daylight so the highlights remain soft rather than bright, with subtle rim light tracing the outer hair and shoulder. Moody pastel colour grading with dusty blush, muted cream, warm beige, soft brown and desaturated blue tones, slightly warm highlights balanced by cooler shadows, lowered overall saturation, gentle contrast, deep but detailed shadows, soft highlight roll-off, natural skin preservation, subtle atmospheric softness, fine film grain and an elegant cinematic editorial finish. Negative prompt: changed identity, distorted face, deformed hands or feet, bad anatomy, stiff pose, flat hair, overly neat hairstyle, harsh lighting, overexposure, plastic skin, text, watermark.

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Kinetic Amber Surreal Portrait
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{ "vibe_title_en": "Kinetic Amber", "master_prompt": "A hyper-realistic, medium-format avant-garde portrait of The Protagonist at exact eye-level, locked in dead-center eye contact with a profoundly serene, focused expression. The subject is captured in mid-stride, initiating a sudden, dynamic twisting motion. They wear a high-necked, vibrant marigold silk garment that ripples violently in a sudden, invisible gust of wind. Surrounding and blooming from their head is an impossible, gravity-defying kinetic sculpture: massive, intricate coils resembling spiraling gourds or shells, constructed entirely of highly polished translucent amber, intricately carved mahogany, and spinning ribbons of thick, glossy liquid caramel frozen perfectly in mid-air by a 1/4000s high shutter speed. Set against a pitch-black infinite studio void. Shot on a Hasselblad H6D-100c with a 100mm f/2.2 lens. Cinematic, high-contrast Rembrandt lighting punches through the translucent amber, casting rich, luminous warm refractions onto hyper-detailed skin—revealing microscopic pores and peach fuzz. Authentic Kodak Portra 800 film stock, tactile analog grain, and absolute physical weight to the impossible elements. NO NEON.", "meta": { "intent": "Surreal Editorial Portrait", "priorities": "Kinetic motion, high-speed freezing, hyper-realistic analog textures, exact eye-level framing", "device_profile": "High-resolution retina displays" }, "frame": { "aspect": "4:5", "composition": "Center-weighted portrait, head and shoulders with an expansive, surreal headpiece filling the upper and lateral frame", "layout": "Subject positioned dead center, enveloped by negative space acting as a black void to emphasize the kinetic elements", "camera_angle": "Exact eye-level", "tilt_roll_degrees": "0" }, "subject": { "gender": "Female", "identity": "The Kinetic Muse", "demographics": "Ageless, ethereal editorial model", "face": "Symmetrical, hyper-detailed pores, flawless but natural skin texture with visible peach fuzz", "hair": "Concealed entirely by the swirling amber and silk structures", "body": "Slender neck, graceful posture caught in a state of high dynamic tension", "expression": "Dead-calm, serene yet intensely focused, establishing piercing eye contact", "pose": "Mid-stride torsion, torso twisting slightly in sudden movement while the head remains locked perfectly forward" }, "wardrobe_accessories": { "garments": [ { "item": "High-necked draped top", "material": "Flowing marigold silk", "color": "Vibrant marigold and deep amber", "fit": "Form-fitting at the neck, billowing and chaotic at the shoulders" } ], "accessories": [ { "item": "Surreal kinetic headpiece of spiraling, massive organic coils", "color": "Rich amber, burnt orange, golden yellow, dark mahogany", "material": "Polished translucent amber, carved wood, and thick ribbons of liquid caramel frozen in time", "brand_style": "Avant-garde Haute Couture" } ] }, "environment": { "setting": "Pitch-black infinite studio void", "surfaces": "None visible, deep shadow absorbing all background light", "depth": "Shallow depth of field, sharp drop-off into total blackness immediately behind the subject", "atmosphere": "Vacuum-like stillness interrupted only by the chaotic, frozen motion of the subject's adornments", "lens_interaction": "Micro-dust motes catching the spotlight, crisp specular highlights gleaming off the polished amber surfaces" }, "lighting": { "key": "Crisp, directional spotlight from the upper-left (Rembrandt style)", "fill": "Negative fill on the right side to crush shadows into absolute true black", "rim": "Subtle, razor-thin golden rim light on the flying silk and outer amber coils to separate them from the void", "shadows": "Deep, rich, high-contrast, completely swallowing the edges of the frame", "color_temperature": "Warm, cinematic golden hour tones (around 3200K)", "sensor_flare": "None, perfectly controlled and flagged studio lighting" }, "camera": { "lens_type": "Medium Format Portrait Prime", "focal_length": "100mm", "aperture": "f/2.2", "focus": "Tack sharp strictly on the subject's irises and eyelashes", "sensor_format": "Medium Format (Hasselblad H6D-100c)", "perspective_distortion": "Zero distortion, perfect orthographic-like facial flattening" }, "post_processing": { "color": "Rich, highly saturated warm tones (amber, gold, marigold) contrasted against pure true blacks", "tonality": "High-contrast chiaroscuro, cinematic film S-curve", "texture": "Authentic Kodak Portra 800 film grain, highly tactile micro-details on skin and polished resin", "digital_sharpening": "None, relies entirely on pristine optical medium-format sharpness", "chromatic_aberration": "Extremely subtle on the out-of-focus outer edges of the flying liquid/silk" }, "negative_specifications": [ "Neon lights", "Digital painting", "CGI look", "Smiling", "Messy background", "High angle", "Low angle", "Static pose", "Flat lighting", "Plastic skin", "Cartoonish surrealism" ] }

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Luxury Evening Portrait
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Create a highly realistic vertical 4:5 luxury evening portrait of a young woman posing in a sophisticated studio setting. She is turned slightly away from the camera, showing an elegant over-the-shoulder pose while looking back directly toward the camera with a confident, graceful expression. Her dark-brown hair is styled into a sleek low updo with a few soft face-framing strands around her cheeks. She has refined natural facial features, warm fair skin with realistic texture, expressive brown eyes, defined brows, subtle smoky burgundy eye makeup, soft blush, and deep rose-red glossy lips. She is wearing an elegant off-shoulder deep burgundy satin evening gown with a folded draped neckline and fitted silhouette. The back features delicate jeweled embellishments and a decorative sparkling detail. Add luxurious jewelry: a diamond necklace, dangling ruby-and-diamond earrings, multiple elegant rings, layered metallic bracelets, and a classic luxury wristwatch. Her nails are long and glossy with intricate deep-red and silver nail art. Her upper hand is posed delicately near her shoulder while the other rests naturally around her waist. Background is a rich dark burgundy studio wall with a soft cream-colored light area on one side, creating a dramatic two-tone backdrop. Cinematic warm lighting, soft highlights on the skin, subtle shadows, high-end jewelry campaign aesthetic, realistic fabric and jewelry details, natural hands and fingers, shallow depth of field, professional fashion photography, 85mm lens look, ultra-photorealistic, elegant and sophisticated, no text, no watermark.

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Street Selfie with Cat in Matching Cap
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A realistic close-up street selfie of a young woman with long, wavy light-brown hair and soft natural makeup, wearing a vintage blue denim baseball cap and a cozy blue patterned sweater. She is sitting outdoors on a city sidewalk, looking directly into the camera with a calm, slightly pouty expression. She is holding a cute ginger tabby cat in her arms, and the cat is wearing a small blue baseball cap, creating a playful matching look. The cat faces the camera with a relaxed expression and detailed fur. Behind them is an elegant European-style building with cream stone walls, tall windows decorated with vivid red curtains, red awnings, and a parked dark car along the street. Natural daytime lighting, candid smartphone selfie aesthetic, realistic skin and hair texture, detailed cat fur, shallow depth of field, slightly wide-angle perspective, vibrant but natural colors, high-resolution photography, vertical composition.

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GPT Image 2 Crowded Train Portrait
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Subject: White shirt on a crowded train Main Subject: The main subject is a woman wearing a white shirt gripping a strap in a crowded commuter train, centered in the frame. Character & Expression: Small oval face, large dark brown eyes, thin eyebrows, neat nose, glossy pale peach lips. Her expression is calm, enduring the heat by looking away to the right. Dark brown hair is tied in a low bun, leaving wet thin bangs and loose strands. Clothing & Pose: A white sleeveless collared button shirt that becomes translucent with sweat, black high-waist skirt, black leather shoulder bag. Right arm extended straight up to grip a triangular strap, left arm lowered by her side while standing. Background & Light: From left to right background, passengers in white shirts filling the sides and depth, silver poles, straps, fluorescent lights inside the train. Soft white fluorescent light from above evenly illuminates the face and sweat gloss. Composition & Camera: 3:4 vertical composition, close frontal camera at chest height capturing a half-body portrait from top of head to below waist. Person placed very large in center, occupying most of frame height. Raised arm and surrounding passengers cropped at edges, focus on profile and white shirt, background slightly blurred. Texture & Style: Photorealistic live-action photo. High definition skin, hair, clothing material, and surroundings; maintaining commuting colors of white, black, silver, and skin tone. Negative: Change strap pose; omit interior and white shirt

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Cinematic Fashion Photography Prompt
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Ultra-realistic professional cinematic fashion photography, a young woman with long light brown hair, soft waves, and natural volume. She is wearing a burgundy burgundy dress with a halter neck model with a large rose-shaped ruffle detail on the waist and chest. The layered long chiffon skirt spreads over the green grass, creating a soft and dramatic fabric texture. POSE & BODY POSITION: The subject lies sideways on the grass with the body position extending diagonally from left to right of the frame. The chest is slightly raised with one arm supporting the body, while the other arm is stretched out relaxed forward. The head is slightly turned to the left of the camera, with a soft look in his eyes and a natural candid expression. Long hair unraveled on the grass and partially covered the shoulders. The pose looks relaxed, feminine, and elegant, like an editorial photo shoot in a private garden. ENVIRONMENT: European palace garden with a natural-looking expanse of green grass and large shady trees. A large antique mirror with a gold frame stands upright behind the subject, showing the reflection of a garden path surrounded by symmetrical trees. On the right side of the frame is a classic white pavilion with a stone staircase. Sunlight penetrates the leaves, creating a beautiful natural bokeh. FOREGROUND DETAILS: Green grass with sharp strand details, some small flower petals that fall naturally, and a burgundy chiffon dress that spreads over the grass surface. The composition shows a contrast between burgundy fabric, green grass, and antique gold frame. MAKEUP & HAIR: Soft Korean glam makeup with glowing satin skin, natural pink blush, thin eyeliner, lentic eyelashes, neat eyebrows, and rose pink lips. Long wavy hair with natural volume, individual hair strands look realistic. CAMERA & LIGHTING: Professional outdoor portrait photography, low camera angle close to the grass surface, medium-wide composition, 50mm lens, f/2.8 aperture, natural daylight, soft directional sunlight, realistic shadows, subtle background blur, cinematic color grading, face details and dress texture are very sharp. Luxury fashion editorial, natural candid pose, realistic human anatomy, authentic skin texture, 8K photorealistic, vertical 9:16. Improve photo quality professionally, correction of exposure, sharpness, contrast, and color without making the skin look plastic or the result is like an AI image. Face morphing, identity change, different person, altered facial features, artificial skin, plastic skin, excessive beauty filter, overexposed highlights, unnatural shadows, oversaturated colors, distorted hands, extra fingers, deformed anatomy, unnatural body proportions, blurry face, low resolution, CGI, 3D render, cartoon, artificial-looking background, unrealistic reflections, duplicated objects, messy composition, excessive sharpening.

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Cyberpunk Industrial Corridor Scene
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A high-resolution, cinematic digital illustration with a cyberpunk aesthetic. The model is situated in a claustrophobic industrial corridor, facing a wall-mounted panel of servers and cables. A dense, explosive mass of bright orange liquid splashes violently outward from the tech panels, spreading across the surroundings. The young woman lightly touches the mass with her hand. The color palette is cool and dark—dominated by grays and blues—creating a dramatic, high-contrast effect against the orange. The image evokes a high-quality, surreal, and unsettling cyberpunk atmosphere.

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Naive Editorial Memory Card
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Use the uploaded photo as the only content source. Create a vertical 3:4 “real photo + minimal illustration” memory card based entirely on that image. Preserve the main subjects, subject count, pose, viewpoint, spatial relationships, and overall scene logic. Do not redesign the source or add unrelated content. Layout Split the card into two horizontal sections, about 50% top and 50% bottom. The top half keeps the uploaded photo with photographic texture. Crop naturally to fit, but do not stretch, mirror, rearrange, or alter the main subjects. Keep natural lighting, real materials, and the original color mood, with subtle editorial grading. The lower half uses a warm ivory handmade-paper background and shows a centered horizontal illustration of the same scene. The illustration occupies about 63-67% of the lower width, with generous blank space around it. Scene Translation In the lower illustration, preserve the most recognizable subjects, major structures, important objects, viewpoint, depth, relative scale, and key positions from the source. Remove tiny clutter, fine photographic texture, reflections, and complex shadows. Simplify the scene into slightly awkward geometric color blocks and thin hand-drawn lines. People and animals, when present, remain identifiable through silhouette, pose, hair or fur shape, clothing color, and placement, but facial detail may be reduced. Outlines may wobble, break, shift, or misalign slightly while the scene stays recognizable. Illustration Style Use restrained naive editorial drawing with soft geometric simplification and handmade quality. Combine thin sketchy linework with flat shapes. The lower scene should feel calm, clean, slightly imperfect, and visually reduced rather than technically precise. Avoid realistic rendering. Color Extract 4-6 representative colors from the uploaded photo and reinterpret them as a soft low-saturation palette. Use muted tones derived from the source, with flat fills and enough contrast to separate major subjects and scene layers. No complex gradients, glossy highlights, or heavy 3D modeling. Texture Blend crayon, pastel, screen-print, and old-book illustration qualities. Keep paper show-through, fine grain, slight pigment unevenness, worn edges, and subtle off-register shifts. The result should feel like an independent editorial illustration printed on aged paper: warm, quiet, nostalgic, and collectible. Typography Below the illustration, you may include exactly two short English lines related to the scene, mood, place, or moment. Use a small vintage serif font, left-aligned. If clean readable text cannot be rendered, leave the area blank. No other readable text. Cleanup Remove phone UI, subtitles, screenshot traces, and interface elements when present. Do not invent missing scenery or decorative props. Negative No major layout change, no added or missing primary subjects, no photoreal painting, no polished watercolor, no anime, no manga, no v

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Hat Shop Selfie Portrait Prompt
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The person has long wavy brown hair and light skin with long, polished nails. They are wearing a sage-green, loose-fitting short-sleeved top, light-colored pants or shorts, and a light cream crossbody strap across their torso. They are holding up a smartphone with a brown-and-white spotted phone case to take the selfie, partially covering their face while making a subtle pouting expression. Hat: They are wearing a wide-brimmed straw-style hat with a dark brown leather band around the crown and a brown chin cord hanging down. They are holding the brim of the hat with their right hand. Background: The background is filled with wooden shelves and displays packed with a wide variety of hats in diverse styles, shapes, and colors .including blue, black, brown, white, and tan.

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Comic Book Magic in Motion GPT Image 2.5
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Hyper-realistic IMAX-level Netflix-style surreal cinematic comic-book fantasy portrait, 9:16 vertical. Use the uploaded image as the primary visual reference and preserve the exact facial identity, proportions, and features. The subject appears as if stepping out of a vibrant, dynamic comic panel into reality. Dramatic lighting, bold colors, and motion blur effects surrounding the figure to suggest movement and energy. High detail, 8k resolution.

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AI Beauty Consultant & Hairstyle Advice Prompt
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Act like an aesthetic/beauty consultant and analyze my appearance from the attached photo. Identify the highest-impact changes that would make me look more refined and harmonious, including hairstyle/cut/color, eyebrows, eye makeup, skin/makeup placement, lips, and overall facial balance. Provide specific advice based on my actual features rather than generic suggestions. Then, generate a realistic "after" version of this exact photo, showcasing the recommended refreshed effect. Keep me recognizable as the same person and preserve my facial anatomy unless you specifically recommend subtle structural adjustments. Maintain the same pose, camera angle, expression, lighting, clothing, and background as much as possible. Make these changes sophisticated and realistic, not exaggerated beauty filters. Prioritize high-impact, low-risk styling adjustments. Do not automatically slim my face, shrink my nose, enlarge my lips, enlarge my eyes, or make my skin unrealistically perfect. For hair, choose a hairstyle, color, parting, volume, and framing that best complements my personal proportions. For makeup, optimize brow shape, eyeliner/lashes, blush/contour placement, lip definition, and skin tone while maintaining naturalness. Generate a before-and-after comparison photo with annotations explaining each change, similar to a professional beauty consultation.

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