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Amazon.com:	`http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140442685/`
BarnesAndNoble.com:	`http://shop.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?isbn=0140442685`
Chapters/Indigo:	`http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/item.asp?Catalog=books&Item=0140442685`
WHSmith(UK):	`http://books.whsmithonline.co.uk/ser/serdsp.asp?isbn=0140442685`
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Author

Year

Old
English

Modern
English

Notes

Easily
Available

Price

Michael Alexander (1973)

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1973

Y

**

Y

$10

Michael Alexander (1995)

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1995

Y

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Y

$13

William Alfred (Translator), et al.

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1963/1998

Y

$25

Thomas Arnold Translation:

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1876

Y

Y

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Harry Morgan Ayres Translation:

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1933

Y

Albert C. Baugh Translation:

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1925

Y

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1993

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$22

J. B. Bessinger

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1969

*****

Robert E. Bjork and John D. Niles (editors)

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1998

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Y

$28

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1987

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1958

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1880/2000

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Y

$21

S. A. J. Bradley

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1964/2001

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Y

$37

David Breeden

1999?

Y

Online

Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur

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1959

Elsie Straffin Bronson

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1910

Y

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$25

Colin Chase (editor)

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1997

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Y

$20

Howell D. Chickering Jr.

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1977

Y

Y

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Y

$15

Clarence Griffin Child Translation:

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1904

Y

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1918

Y

Samuel Harden Church Translation:

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1901

Y

John R. Clark Hall

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1894/2000

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$21

John R. Clark Hall

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1911/1963

Y

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John Josias Conybeare

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1826

Y

Y

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George W. Cox & Eustace Hinton Jones

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1886

Y

Kevin Crossley-Holland

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1982/1999

Y

Y

$11

Kevin Crossley-Holland

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1999

Y

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Y

$7

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1926

Y

Elliott van Kirk Dobbie

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1953

Y

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E. Talbot Donaldson

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1966/1975/2002

Y

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Y

$7

Michael Drout (editor)

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2002

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Y

$38

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1892

Y

****

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1985

Y

*

G. N. Garmonsway

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1971

Y

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James M. Garnett

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1882

Y

**

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1929

Y

John Gibb Translation:

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1884

Y

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1987

Y

*

Y

$23

Margaret E. Goldsmith

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1970

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Robert Kay Gordon

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1923/1992

Y

$2

A. Wigfall Green

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1935

Y

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1995

Y

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Stanley B. Greenfield (Editor), Alain Renoir (Editor)

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1982

Y

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$20

Nicolas Frederic Severin Grundtvig

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1865

Danish

Francis B. Gummere

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1910

Y

Albert W. Haley Translation:

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1978

Y

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1892

Y

James A. Harrison, Robert Sharp, [M. Heyne 1879]

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1883

Y

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2002

Y

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Y

$11

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2000/2001

Y

Y

**

Y

$13

Constance B. Hieatt

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1967/1988

Y

**

Y

$5

Florence Holbrook Translation:

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1905

Y

Dorothy Hosford Translation:

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1947

Y

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1990

Y

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Bernard F. Huppe

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1987

Y

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$7

Wentworth Huyshe

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1907

Y

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$50

Edward B. Irving

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1968

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Edward B. Irving

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1969

*****

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1997

Y

****

Y

$17

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2006

Y

**

Y

$13

John Mitchell Kemble

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1835/1837

Y

Y

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$200+

Charles W. Kennedy

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1940/1978

Y

**

Y

$11

Thomas C. Kennedy

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2001

Y

*

Y

$10

Kevin S. Kiernan

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Home Page Buy at UMich

1999

original
MS
Images

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Y

$150

Kevin S. Kiernan

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1981/1997

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Y

$30

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2005

Y

$16

Ernest J. B. Kirtlan

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1913

Y

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1922/1950

Y

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Ruth P. M. Lehmann

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1988

Y

*

Y

$11

William Ellery Leonard

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1923?

Y

**

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2000

Y

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Y

$8

H. W. Longfellow

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1849

**

$50

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1883

Y

**

$50

Donald A. Mackenzie

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1985

Y

Donald A. Mackenzie

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1995

Y

$25

Francis P. Magoun

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1958/1966

Y

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1908

Y

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2005

Y

**

$5

Bruce Mitchell and Fred C. Robinson

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1964/2001

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Y

$39

Bruce Mitchell and Fred C. Robinson

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1998

Y

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Y

$39

Charles Scott Moncrieff

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1921

Y

**

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1952

Y

**

$15

Michael Morpurgo

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2006

Y

Y

$18

William Morris & A. J. Wyatt

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1898

Y

*

Lewis E. Nicholson

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1963

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2000

Y

Y

$18

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1968/1982

Y

Y

$5

J. D. A. Ogilvy & Donald C. Baker

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1983

*****

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1990

Y

*

$55

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2003

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Y

$25

Marijane Osborn

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1986/2004

*****

Y

$16

Marijane Osborn

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1994

Y
Same as her
1983 translation

**

Marijane Osborn

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1983

Y

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Lucien Dean Pearson Translation:

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1965

Y

*

$30

Stephen Pollington

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1997

*****

$25

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1993/1995

Y

Y

*

$13

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1996

dragon
only

$19

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1979

*****

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2006

Y

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Y

$30

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1963

Y

$8

Zenaïde A. Ragozin

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1901

Y

*

$40

Frederick Rebsamen

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1971

Y

*

Frederick Rebsamen

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1991/2004

Y

**

Y

$6

Strafford Riggs

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1934

Y

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1994

*****

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1994

Y

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$13

Gildas Roberts Translation:

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1984

Y

**

Louis J. Rodrigues

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2002

Y

Y

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Soon

$20?

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2000

Y

*

Y

$65

Tim Romano

2000

Y

Online

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1980

Amusing
Short
Adaptation

Y

$8

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1941

Y

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1962

Y

W.J. Sedgefield Book:

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1913

Y

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Ian Serraillier (Editor)

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1954/1997

Y

Y

$15

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1927

Y

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1978

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Ben Slade

2002

Y

Y

******

Online

J. Duncan Spaeth Translation:

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1927

Y

Hazelton Spencer

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1951

Y

Archibald Strong

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1925

Y

*

A. Sullivan & T. Murphy

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2004

Y

*****

Y

$16

Michael Swanton (editor)

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1978/1997

Y

Y

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$20

Clara Linklater Thomson Translation:

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1904

Y

Benjamin Thorpe (1962 reprint)

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1962

Y

Y

Benjamin Thorpe (1865 original)

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1865

Y

Y

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1990

Y

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1968

Y

*

Chauncey B. Tinker

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1902

Y

*

Chauncey B. Tinker

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1903/1967

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$40

Richard M. Trask Translation:

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1998

Y

Y

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1805

Y

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$100

Sharon Turner - History Of The Anglo-Saxons (1805 1st edition) - Table of Contents From Volume IV

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1852

Y

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$425

Sharon Turner - History Of The Anglo-Saxons (1852 7th edition) - Table of Contents From Volume I

Sharon Turner - History Of The Anglo-Saxons (1852 7th edition) - Table of Contents From Volume II

Sharon Turner - History Of The Anglo-Saxons (1852 7th edition) - Table of Contents From Volume III

A.D. Wackerbarth

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1849

Y

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W. Wagner & M. W. MacDowall

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1917

Y

*

C.L. Wrenn and W.F. Bolton

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1953/1996

Y

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$18

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1957

Y

**

$9

Alfred J. Wyatt and R.W. Chambers

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1914/1920

Y

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1880/1959

Y

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