Please note I am certified in AIDS/HIV Awareness & Prevention, The fundamentals of virology and infectious diseases. What kind of garbage is this? Her illness ''was an enormous shock,'' her father said. She was an unpromiscuous heterosexual woman, a responsible, sober and affluent product of Park Ave. Firstly, Shingles is a form of Herpes Simplex 1. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this sites author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. I know now I was having an anxiety attack. If it were not for my biological fathers connections in the military perhaps their plot would have been successful. Gertz died of AIDS-related pneumonia. Back in the 70s, 80s and 90s the Gertz department stores were a thing in New York. You cant claim one person deliberately infected another person with AIDS without any evidence. A gay mens group might have made a better demographic fit. This article is my empathic opinion and you are making it about others. A doctor told her it was ''probably just a bug,'' she said. I could be one of them, or their daughter. was inspired by Gertz's story.[9]. Like the Gertzs daughter I am the only child for my adoptive parents and biological mother, and they were consumed with shaking down my boyfriend and my parents for consolation pay since they could not raga-raga me as they liked. She was portrayed by Molly Ringwald in a 1992 made-for-TV movie. Because you never know what poison is lurking in the other persons mind. Alison Gertz struggles against AIDS with the benefit of a number of factors unknown to most patients-she has a determined optimism bolstered by the love of family and friends, financial aid and first-class medical care. But I was still clinically depressed, certainly still in danger. Gertz has since learned that the man was bisexual. After a couple of weeks of nonstop tests, doctors reported they still had no answers. Ms. Gertz was first . Over the years the press has alluded to this fact. She is learning psychological and behavioral techniques to withstand it, and doctors have promised medication if she needs it. Just because it doesnt look like Im running frantic and busily producing doesnt mean Im not running frantic and busily producing.. Alison was born on February 27, 1966 in New York. Because the source of her infection is not known, when she does develop AIDS her case will have to be classified a No Identifiable Risk (NIR).. Ms. Gertz believed she contracted H.I.V. I want to talk to these kids who think they're immortal. I would jokingly say, Not even if I were Aids infested, missed the last man in the world and desperate for companionship, it would have to be a super cold day in hell.. I don't know quite what I'm going to do tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow." They had their first and only sexual encounter in . Alison L. Gertz (February 27, 1966 - August 8, 1992) was an American AIDS activist in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Gertz died of AIDS-related pneumonia. '', Gertz is an only child. infection to heterosexuals, died on Saturday at her parents' summer home in Westhampton Beach, L.I., surrounded by family and friends who vowed to continue her public fight. Given that Cort Brown died of AIDS in 1988, there is no way he was symptomatic of AIDS in 1982. The doctor asked her if she would like him to order an AIDS test. but he did not name her. She was diagnosed with AIDS at the age of twenty-one. By the end of May 1989, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported a total of 97,193 cases of AIDS in the United States since 1981, and of that number 56,468 deaths. Alison L. Gertz wasn`t supposed to get AIDS. The source of infection for the other 25 percent remains a mystery. She quickly determined where this conversation might lead, but found the doctor easy to talk to and had no problem answering his questions. The poignance was palpable. Love Heals was founded in 1992 to carry on the work of the late AIDS activist Alison Gertz. This was her story: Gertz was born in Manhattan and was raised in an apartment on Park Avenue. The I.V.-drug-using community is the potential bridge to the general spread of AIDS., When the woman interviewed for this story asked her doctor if she needed to furnish him with a list of names and addresses of all her sexual partners, he said, No, only if you want.. He was a bisexual bartender whom Gertz met at Studio 54 when she was 16. Nonetheless, it is presumed that she was infected through sexual contact. - : .j- K I SUNDAY, MARCH 29, 192 y ? Im not withering away, she says. We ordered a pizza and I couldnt eat it. She is someone people like to be with. Gertz later found out that she had contracted HIV from a 27-year-old man named Cort Brown. [4] [5] Gertz later found out that she had contracted HIV from a 27-year-old man named Cort Brown. A statutory rapist gave her aids, sickening! He was a bisexual bartender whom Gertz met at Studio 54 when she was 16. ''They think it doesn`t apply to them. From a source that remains unknown, she had contracted the HIV infection. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to [Margaret Joolz Juliet Bailey] and WordPress.com with appropriate and specific direction to the original content. If you wanna know anymore information about Alison please look out for the Movie Starring Molly Ringwald Called. What, besides impending death, did she have in common with convicts and heroin addicts? Gertz, a precocious 16yearold, was infatuated with an older man and Michael Neill After all, women can behave like spoilt children when they dont get their way. Deze film gaat over Alison Gertz en haar gevecht tegen het HIV-virus. It is difficult to imagine the emotional upheaval she has weathered in the past ten months the shock of discovery, the anxiety attacks, the depression, the suicide attempt. Alison Gertz. Two weeks later, she developed pneumonia. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. Gertz, a precocious 1. To keep her functioning normally, Gertz each day takes AZT, Ganciclovir and Bactrim pills, which fight the virus and opportunistic diseases. 91 likes. I thought I would lose control of my bowels. The doctor had given me a prescription for Valium. I WILL REITERATE FOR THE UMPTEENTH TIME: I AM AN EMPATH AND THESE THOUGHTS ARE MERLEY MY OPINION. Gertz went to Horace Mann, an exclusive private school in the Bronx, then studied art at Parsons School of Design in Manhattan. She has gained a not-necessarily desired twenty pounds since she was diagnosed. s ( f7I 7 "" 'i r- Going off to camp WW f'tiLtif y - - child Middle . He may also have been flattered by the invitation and the invitation may have increased his attraction for her. She still spends time with her good friends and they are many. The federal government does require any state accepting certain types of federal funds for its AIDS programs to set up partner-notification services. He would have been HIV positive, since otherwise he couldnt have infected Ali Gertz with HIV, but he wouldnt have known he was HIV positive. They have to deal with this.''. ''It certainly turned our lives around,'' Mrs. Gertz said. They can't turn the page on me. That was it. Below the countdown to Alison Gertz upcoming birthday. It was then, my admirer and his cohorts decided to rattle our relationship by threatening my partner. But as the old saying goes, There is no greater motivation than a man scorned.. She was hospitalized and underwent testing to determine the cause of her illness. She was the only child of Jerrold, a real estate executive, and Carol Gertz, the founder of a womans clothing store Tennis Lady. For each day in the countdown to Christmas, there was a verse. In the meantime, she concentrates on simplifying her life. Therefore, knowing this bit of information, he should have refrained from physical contact. Mrs. THERE ARE PUBLICATIONS OUT THERE WHO SHARE THESE VIEWS KINDLY SEEK THEM OUT TO HARASS AS THEY ARE WORLDWIDE. He died of AIDS in 1988. wikepedia.org. We cannot ignore the possibility that Gertz, a 16 year old girl in a trendy New York nightclub, might have initiated the encounter. A bronchoscopy revealed that Gertz had AIDS. Had she known his past then, she said, she doubts it would have made a difference. Depression dulled her very Roman Catholic sensibilities and she got wild for about two years. For her, every day starts with a morning call to her daughter`s apartment. ''I was worried about my previous boyfriends,'' she said. '', But she added: ''They can`t turn the page on me. By BROOKE KROEGER Gertz was never tested for AIDS because doctors did not consider her to be in a "high-risk group" for the disease. She swims everyday, goes horseback riding, foxhunts, plays squash. Ali Gertz sleeps in a queensize bed in a lace and rosechintz bedroom with a cat named Sambuca and a dog named Sake. That was my cure. People have sick ideas about life, love and living, and by mere happenstance you could end up being some perverts grand obsession. He's an acquaintance of Alison's and she thinks he's "the most beautiful man" she's ever seen. There is no national register of people who carry the HIV virus but have not yet developed AIDS. I think this is a reasonable estimate, says Elizabeth M. Whelan, Ph.D., president of the American Council on Science and Health. After Ali Gertz found out she had Aids she went to get in touch with him and he had already died that was in 1988. Alison Gertz, AIDS activist, 30 year anniversary of her death - YouTube Alison Gertz passed away 30 years ago today. This is a digitized version of an article from The Timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. http://www.bardachreports.com/articles/v_19891000.html. ''I said: `Oh, my God. and to continue carrying Ms. Gertz's warning to young people. One thing I have learned throughout this whole ordeal is, never take any admiration as a minor event. Alisonknown as Ali by her family and friendshad been at home with flu-like symptoms for over a week before her mother admitted her to a top-tier New York hospital. There is zero evidence for any of the claims made here, and there is plenty of evidence that they are not true. Marshall Miller (2001): "Ethically Questionable?", Journal of Bisexuality, 2:1, 93-112. It is odd how sometimes you can run a joke with someone and then not realize they are more serious than a heart attack . I needed to get my pulse rate below one hundred. ''Yes, you can have safe sex. Currently, Alison Gertz is 56 years, 11 months and 11 days old. Alison Gertz; Nome completo Alison L. Gertz Nascimento 27 de fevereiro de 1966 Manhattan, Nova York, Estados Unidos: Morte 8 de agosto de 1992 (26 anos) Long Island, Nova York, Estados Unidos: Nacionalidade norte-americana: Ocupao Ativista Although there is no evidence that AIDS is spreading rampantly among other heterosexuals in this country-as it is in Haiti and parts of Africa-cases like Gertz`s do exist. The daughter and only child of business executives Jerrold and Carol Gertz, she grew up in Manhattan, New York. A bronchoscopy revealed that Gertz had AIDS. Cort Brown would not have had AIDS in 1982. Alison Gertz (February 27, 1966 - August 8, 1992) was an AIDS activist who died of AIDS in Westhampton Beach, New York. My first writing platforms were Jamaicans.com (My Granny Series) , keepitcoming.net and myhiddentalent.com. Clearly you need to read about HIV and AIDS from multiple sources, and read objectively. This is my personal blog and the constitution gives me the right to express myself. This means that he must have developed AIDS around 1986 or 1987. In 1982, AIDS was associated with homosexuals and was called the gay plague. The stewardess didnt know what to make of me. Molly Ringwald stars as Alison Gertz, an upscale Manhattanite who thinks she knows her way around. Many of those who would be HIV-positive are not motivated to get tested, she says, so there is no way we could count all of them. A message for doctors who may miss a diagnosis; Gertz spent three weeks undergoing exhaustive hospital tests for all other conceivable causes of her illness before AIDS was discovered. To qualify as a heterosexual case, the individual must report specific heterosexual contact with someone who is considered to be at high risk for AIDS a bisexual, an I.V.-drug user, a hemophiliac, someone who received a blood transfusion before screening began, or someone of African or Caribbean origin (in those countries, AIDS occurs predominantly in heterosexuals. Cort Brown was a bartender and worked at the Studio 54 in the late 70s and early 80s. He was the one who showed up at her home with wine and roses. His premise is that people should not be lulled into a fake sense of security because of their conventional lifestyles or the relatively small number of recorded cases of heterosexual AIDS in this country. However, it has been left to each state to interpret this requirement. She was born on February 27, 1966 and her birthplace is New York. ''And as I said it, I thought to myself, `No I`m not. A year after she meets him, he comes to her home (she's picked a time when her parents are away) bringing champagne, candles, roses and something else. And no condoms; they didnt seem necessary. But for most people, heterosexual AIDS is not something that poses a very significant risk. However, it is documented that he had shingles around that time. But there was one thing they hadn't tested for: HIV. Secondly, I am not angry with the world about a darn thing. more than a whisper in New York City. She wishes she had insisted on condoms and spermicides. Carpet Direct Quote from 9/26/20 post: Ali is shown as initiating the sexual encounter with Cort Brown, who is called Darren in the film. Comments such as yours would upset her family and dishonor her memory. If you read my article correctly you will find I was merely using her situation to reference an experience in my life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv1GhXTj3sk. People with AIDS symptoms in 1982 did not survive six years. The title is called Fatal Love. Something to Live For: The Alison Gertz Story was one of a myriad of early 1990s TV movies centering around the AIDS issue. Early life. The fatigue was easily explained away. In loving memory. New York City club where he was a bartender. Only if you want? she shot back. But that kind of thinking is not part of who she has become. She was diagnosed with AIDS at the age of twenty one. What the f- is that when someone is out there spreading death? She thought surely it would be required by law. Birth Name: Alison Gertz Occupation: Activist Place Of Birth: New York Date Of Birth: February 27, 1966 Date Of Death: August 8, 1992 Cause Of Death: N/A Ethnicity: White Nationality: *In the days of Studio 54 it was not uncommon for their bartenders to also work as gigolos. Remembered for her HIV and AIDS activism, this New York woman tragically died of the disease when she was only twenty six years old. They have to deal with this. The family hired Gertz as their lawyer. Ms. Gertz was none of the above. He was a bisexual bartender whom Gertz met at Studio 54 when she was 16. If I die, I would like to have left something, to make the world a little bit better before I go, to help people sick like me and prevent others from getting this. ''She was with me at Studio 54 during those earlier years, and she was much more sexually active than I was. He was the most beautiful man I'd ever seen . (Im sure I could handle the suicide calls, she jokes.) ''It changes your perspective on what`s important.'' She tries not to moralize, knowing how pointless that would be. Alison L. "Ali" Gertz (February 27, 1966 - August 8, 1992) was an American AIDS activist in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Over the coming weeks, the test would be repeated twice to confirm its devastating result. And even though she had good reason to be tiredfourteen hour, adrenalin-charged work days would wear anyone out it felt too much like the mononucleosis of her adolescence. Please remove your article from the internet, as it makes totally false and slanderous comments about Cort Brown. All the evidence indicates that you are just using the tragic lives of Ali Gertz and Cort Brown as an excuse to portray men as evil and heartless, when nothing is further from the truth. My heart was racing out of my chest. 54 Carol Gertz Photos and Premium High Res Pictures - Getty Images CREATIVE Collections Project #ShowUs Creative Insights EDITORIAL VIDEO BBC Motion Gallery NBC News Archives MUSIC BLOG BROWSE PRICING ENTERPRISE VisualGPS INSIGHTS BOARDS CART SIGN IN Editorial Images Images Creative Editorial Video Creative Editorial FILTERS CREATIVE EDITORIAL Her mother would cry with her and that would make her feel worse. So you see, Brown really had no alternative but to agree to Gertzs very strong advances because it was the only polite thing to do. Alison Gertz has AIDS. I used to suspect they magnified the statistics to get research money.'' New York City has recorded 524 cases in which women got acquired immune deficiency syndrome through sexual intercourse. Do you? Ms. Gertz's friends plan to begin a new group, Love Heals, to help people with H.I.V. Mourning Begins, and Battle Against AIDS Goes On, https://www.nytimes.com/1992/08/10/nyregion/mourning-begins-and-battle-against-aids-goes-on.html. Together, the woman and her doctor drafted a letter, sent without signature, to all the men she had slept with. I began writing recipes, and then graduated to writing poetry by the time I was thirteen years old. I thought I was wasting away.. This results in her contracting HIV. A person who has shingles has a form of herpes simplex 1 therefore such an individual should not be engaging in any type of intimate acts. . A young man who had contracted Aids was angry at the world and wanted to make sure someone paid.. Before that, he would not have had symptoms, except possibly for a flu like illness right after infection, which would have occurred years before 1982, since it takes about 10 years from infection to death, so he would have been infected in about 1978. I stood up and started pacing like an animal in a cage, looking out the window. Love Heals' mission is to empower young people in New York City and elsewhere to make informed choices by educating them about and increasing their. Alison Gertz, United States Activist. for a year, except that there was a very strong physical attraction. At the age of 26, Alison L. Gertz, a national symbol of the risk of H.I.V. He served on the board of directors of the Dune Road Association and was the organization's president for two years. This blog is about surviving lifes journey and emotional upheavals with humor, grace and style. A message for heterosexuals who could make a potentially fatal mistake if they dismiss the threat of AIDS. It also undermines the message that Ali Gertz devoted herself to in her final years that she caught HIV by a single sexual encounter with a man who was completely unaware that he was HIV positive, and that this kind of infection could therefore happen to ANYONE, and therefore that EVERYONE needs to exercise caution in their sex lives by practising either abstinence or using a condom. She later discovered that she had contracted the disease six years earlier during a one-time encounter with a much-older, biual man named Cort Brown. There were several articles written on the subject. TRIVIA Elle a tudi la clbre Parsons The New School de New York pour la conception. Cort Brown is 27, and a bartender. She had lost her virginity at twenty, the oldest among her friends, and married the first man she slept with, but divorced him two years later. When a mans advances are spurned, there are no levels to his despicable behavior. ''The nurses told me this one resident doctor, a woman, insisted that I must have used IV drugs or must have had anal sex,'' Gertz said. [3] [5] Activism [ edit] She knew all these men of the Brooks-Brothers-Suit-Brigade. Stop harassing the truth and the memory of the dead, or their living relatives. If he had rejected her advances, she might have been angry with him. I read both of the articles you posted as supporting your theory and see nothing in either that allude to her being given AIDS by Cort Brown as intentional. I suggest you read the People Magazine article that states he had symptoms of Aids before he met Ali Gertz. Finally, on Saturday, when her three friends began laughing over old stories at her bedside in an abrupt departure from the grim mood that had prevailed there, Ms. Gertz began to slip away. It was a very seedy place, and was a social hub for promiscuous and homosexual individuals, something that was known at the time, and which Gertz would certainly have been aware of by going there. But you cant image how uncharacteristic my behavior was., When the test result first came back, she says her reaction was primordial. Although their perilous plot was set in motion, with military precision, God allowed me to side step their shenanigans. . He was a bisexual bartender whom Gertz met at Studio 54 when she was 16. ''We just have to keep her healthy until there`s a breakthrough and they find a cure,'' her mother said. This is believable too, because a 16 year old in a trendy nightclub is already behaving in a way that defies normal morality. While watching a soap opera love scene one day, she said, ''I started to cry softly. If you cannot be positive then kindly refrain from being negative. Her mother left an Advent calendar by her bedside. Engaging in any intimate act with the possible knowledge of being ill does suggest an element of intent to deceive. ''I decided when I was in the hospital I would give as much time as I can to help people who are going through this, and warn others of the danger.''. I was in complete shock, she says. ''I want to talk to these kids who think they`re immortal,'' Gertz said. Most Popular Boost . Your story and claims are complete garbage and must be deleted from the internet. And smoking cigarettes. Still, Alison conducts an "unprotected" one-night affair, which results in her contacting the AIDS virus. NEW YORK . It happens everyday. I know the facts, and so does he. I will reiterate that I do not believe Cort Brown to have been a horrible person. At the beginning of the song, various members of the group say their names. 2.9K views, 67 likes, 68 loves, 7 comments, 24 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from The AIDS Memorial: Alison Gertz (February 27, 1966 - August 8, 1992) was an AIDS activist who died of AIDS in. Fewer than thirty states require reporting of those who test HIV-positive, and she does not live in one of them. ''I haven`t gotten one dime. Her father, Jerrold E. Gertz, is a real-estate executive; her mother, Carol, is the co-founder of Tennis Lady, a national chain of high-fashion shops. He since has died of AIDS. Working backwards from that figure, Jody Robinson, M.D., a Washington, D.C. physician with a background in immunology, epidemiology, and international medicine, estimates the number of infected heterosexuals to be as high as 400,000 (regardless of how they got the virus.) Only death.. Please visit https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/risk/vaginalsex.html if you are unclear about the transmission of Aids. They had their first and only . . Ali went public with her story. . views, likes, loves, comments, shares, Facebook Watch Videos from The AIDS Memorial: Alison Gertz (February 27, 1966 - August 8, 1992) was an AIDS activist who died of AIDS in. It was only by a fluke that a doctor would think to suggest that someone with her socioeconomic profile and no symptoms should be tested for AIDS and that the test would come back HIV-positive. 159-162 From Associated Press. Here is an excerpt from the movie documentary made about Alison Gertz (played by Molly Ringwald) is an upscale and self-assured Manhattanite. People didnt properly understand what it was or how it was spread. His best friend was gay, but when I asked Mr. Gertz summered in Westhampton Beach for more than 50 years. She bought a first-class air ticket on the first possible flight to see her brother. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. [4][5], Gertz later found out that she had contracted HIV from a 27-year-old man named Cort Brown. ''I want to tell them: I`m heterosexual, and it took only one time for me. And thats when I started getting better, she goes on. Her doctor says he thinks the virulence of her rash may have been an indication of a taxed immune system, but this is hindsight. Unbeknownst to me, many times ground control had to be alerted when I traveled to International destinations, because I was in grave danger. I`m going to die.` '' she recalled. They had their first and only sexual encounter in 1982. I know perfectly well what the wikipedia article on Ali Gertz says too. Our girl next door has stopped spending time worrying about who her donor was. In his autobiography, Scott Brown writes of his visits to Studio 54 and tells of going home with a well known NYC socialite of the day and of waking up the next morning and seeing numerous framed photos of his new friend and her celebrity pals around the apartment . I want to tell them: I'm heterosexual, and it took only one time for me.[4]. I`m never going to have sex again. I could be acting as wild as I was after my divorce or even wilder, she says. The worst bout of depression came at Thanksgiving. home; home; US politics world opinion sports soccer tech arts lifestyle. Shes someone with good values who likes to party. ALL HATEFUL REMARKS WILL BE DELETED, BLOCKED AND FORWARDED TO THE PROPER AUTHORITIES!!!!!! http://people.com/archive/cover-story-one-womans-brave-battle-with-aids-vol-34-no-4/. Her mother formed The Alison Gertz Foundation after she died! Her story unfolds in flashbacks. Browse 392 alison gertz foundation stock photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images. She located all but one of them. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. As for now, she has taken medical leave from work. ''I think the insurance company owes me about $50,000,'' she said. But that is not to minimize the problem. Dr. Robinson has brandished the threat of AIDS to the general, heterosexual population in a series of op-ed page pieces forThe Wall Street Journal,The Washington Post,theSt. Louis Post-Dispatch, andThe Atlanta Constitution. You would think that there would have been a letter from at least one of them, even an anonymous one, saying he was HIV-positive and I should be tested. A Single Encounter. I am the Director for ACRIA, the organisation that acquired, in 2016, the organization called Love Heals: The Alison Gertz Foundation for AIDS Education: https://www.acria.org/news/2017/3/28/a-special-announcement-from-acria. No anal intercourse except for one distasteful, twenty-second attempt while she was married that did not result in penetration or ejaculation. Not too many people may remember the story of the Gertz Heiress. For example: http://www.nytimes.com/1992/08/09/nyregion/alison-l-gertz-whose-infection-alerted-many-to-aids-dies-at-26.html. A seedy nightclub, full of promiscuous people, is no place for a 14 year old girl to start frequenting. His premise is that people should not be lulled into a false sense of security because o their conventional lifestyles or the relatively small number of recorded cases of heterosexual AIDS in this country. . Until youve done this, you cant imagine the humor, she says. And Stewart Renfro is also absolutely right about how it was very unfortunate that Gertz was allowed to go to Studio 54 in the first place. (LogOut/ document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Is It Really The End Of The NinetiesTorture? On our website . They think it doesn't apply to them. But the risk is not zero, she says, and the woman you have just described is a very good example. If Dr. Robinson is anywhere near correct and no one at the CDC is willing to say then the potential threat to the general heterosexual population could be greater than usually presumed. My first writing platforms were Jamaicans.com (My Granny Series) , keepitcoming.net and myhiddentalent.com. What makes her story worth telling is that she is utter ordinary, the girl next door. ''There were roses and champagne and everything. In 1989, when Ms. Gertz told the story of her infection in an interview with The New York Times, AIDS was still widely perceived to be stalking only gay men, intravenous-drug abusers and blood-transfusion recipients. named Cort Brown, whom she had met a year earlier at Studio 54, the flashy New York City club where he was a bartender. Alison L. Gertz wasn`t supposed to get AIDS. Itwasthe 1980s. It wasn`t my mortality she was facing; it was her own. He since has died of AIDS. THIS IS MERELY AN OPINION. In short, if the Africa example is adjusted to the prevailing conditions in this country, it may well mean that the worst is yet to come. Alison Gertz is a member of Activist I am a naturopath, author, marriage officiant and minister. Many are denying their risk. It is a viral infection. You quoting it does not support your claims. 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