Words of love and precious memories 

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This started as a simple #HarvestHER giveaway. If the post is “liked”, you’re entered in the drawing. However, if you leave a comment, the chance of having your name drawn is better. The question to answer (as a comment) was, “What’s one of your fondest memories of your mom or grandma?”

The response was AMAZING! And even better…the words of love and adoration for the mom/grandma. Some really tugged at the ‘ole heartstrings. Therefore, I felt they were worthy of being shared.

The whole time you’re mothering or grandmothering, you never really know what actions or words will leave an impression or create a forever memory. Most memories are the simple, yet meaningful acts. The love of a mother/grandmother is deep and so very meaningful to the person on the receiving end.

I hope you enjoy these mini stories from so many who responded to my simple question.  It’s the moments created today that become the memories remembered tomorrow…and know your actions and words of love mean so much!

Happy Mother’s Day! 

Growing up one of my favorite memories was going to my Granny Jo’s house and baking Christmas cookies.  – Kylee DeBock

Well this memory would be of my mom and grandma. I was always helping in the yard garden and flowers when little and now it’s my happy place. Love yard work and my garden. Also playing cards or dominoes with grandma. – Taryn Jo Hauso

My mom sewed a lot…in fact all my clothes until who I got a job and could buy what I wanted. Many times she and I AND my Barbie had the same outfit!! – Beverly Robertson Thomason

Planting the garden with mom every mothers day growing up! – Desirae Gapinski

I think my fondest memory of my mom was watching her hold my daughter for the first time 🙂 my heart melted as I watched my momma hold my most prized possession and look at her like she was the most precious thing she had ever seen. (even though i know she is). – Kayla Don Keith

Grandma used to always stick a chicken in the roaster for Sunday dinner along with that she had potatoes and carrots best meal ever. – Anita Sakala DeWeese

My mom was always sewing, crocheting or gardening when living on the farm. Always praying while doing this. – Denise Metz

Making and taking full harvest meals to the field for 20+ guys. – Sara Neill

Baking 🙂 – Cassie Smieja

The fondest memory of my mom is her coming over every Wednesday to visit and hang out since I’ve become a stay at home mom/ harvest wife! 😘 – Shiela Groseclose Houser

One of my many memories of my mom would be before her Alzheimers was real bad we found out I was pregnant and I already had 4 children she told me the week before my ultrasound I was hoping you weren’t going to have anymore but since you are I hope its twin girls and sure enough that’s what the ultra sound told us she thought she did it lol goodness I miss my mom she’s been gone from this earth for 17 years but was gone from us way before that l love you mom and I miss you so much til we meet in heaven again r.i.p. – Melanie Allen Smith

Submitted by Melanie Allen Smith

Fondest memories is of being at the lakelot as a kid, with all my cousins, my mom, aunty, and grandma! 😁 – Christi Friesen

Growing up one of my best memories of my Grandma was that she taught me how to be a great cook in the kitchen as well as how to can. I love that i can teach my skills to my friends. – Melissa Fortsch Deml

My mother grandma and great-aunt (also my mother) cooking in the kitchen. – Sarah Hopken-Strnad

My fondest memories of my mom and baba are all based around us being in the kitchen together spending time and making goodies, and memories! – Stacie Sagon

Having my mom right beside me for 2 years of HARVEST. She drove one of our trucks, and did not miss a best. Also we can sit in recliners and she’ll peas all day. Great times!!! – Tawanna Tutor Zeller

I miss my mom’s home cooking. I loved how she would loved to cook for anybody. – Carolyn Woods Ahrens

Going to the farmhouse to see if Grandma had baked up a pie and getting some leftover crust with cinnamon and sugar. – Sarah Mae Lindell

I have so many fond memories of my Great Grandma, Grandma and mom but, I would have to say the most recent is having mom and grandma cook for our crew while we are in CO for harvest. I love that we get to park in their yard and be able to spend time there. The guys always look forward to being there too. – Sheri Blake Strehlow

My grandma…. pitting cherries, playing Skipbo and making homemade bread! 💗💗Miss her so so much. – Lacey Markes Young

Working in the garden & learning how to roll cabbage rolls! – Lisa Anderson

My mother’s family lives on the coast and always has fresh seafood. Lots of memories of trips to the beach. It’s not something every central Texas family get to experience. Now I get to share all of this with my kids. We even get to squeeze in beach time on Harvest! – Jennifer Hardy

I have so many “fondest” memories of mom. Too many to choose just one. That being said my favorite times with my mom are driving through the cows & just talking. Quiet time together. – Tammie Hardy Anderson

One year for family vacation, (my family of 5 plus a set of grandparents) my mom sewed all the girls & ladies, rompers and all the guys had shirts made out of matching material! We were really styling! – Lois Haken

My fondest memories of my mom come from working beside her as a kid. The woman can literally do ANYthing! – Cari Beauchamp

When I was little I spent a lot of time at my grandmas in the summer! We would go to parks, the zoo and pools! Loved every minute of it! I have a lot of memories with my mom! Anywhere from camping to plating flowers, cheering me on in sports, family vacations or just always being there when I need her! – Kimberly Neumiller

So many great harvest memories, Loved baking cookies and delivering them to the workers during harvest time. – Jenny Bertagna Holtermann

Being in the kitchen with my mom was the best! – Keri R Bancroft

Lots of memories sitting in the kitchen chatting to mom about the day while she prepared supper. ☺ Ashley Bontrager

I have to many memories to pick from and we are still making more! I cherish every moment with her❤ – Fern Wesley Marsden

The fondest memory of my mother is when she would lead me on my pony down all the side roads. We would walk for hours just talking and taking in the scenery. – Justine Chaput

Giant family water fights in the back yard. – Melissa Brown

Baking together or mom picking me up from school on my horse. Best day ever! – Casey Graham

I’d say my fondest memory isn’t one specific memory but it is my mother teaching me how to sew, quilt, cross stitch and other craft projects. – Tacita Simons

Grandma in her garden! She’s grown a garden for 75 years as that was her job on the homestead. This will be the first year she hasn’t grown one since age six as she’s 83 and a resident of the Kelvingdell Lodge. – Alicia Longman

When my sister and I were little, my mom always planned surprise family picnics (inside, with usually a movie) and make some of the best food ever(still does). Happy Mother’s Day to all the mom’s out there! 💙💙 – Leona Gosvener

So many memories….but some of the best are the dinners she brought to the harvest field every wheat harvest! Not sure why but those meals she brought to the field tasted so good!!! I know that she would no more get home from bringing us all a hot dinner and start on supper to bring to the field! Her dad and brother had birthdays in July and if we were still cutting wheat she would make homemade ice cream and cake for their birthdays and bring it to the field that night for dessert!!! – Diana Pollnow-Steinmetz

One of the many memories of my Momma is how she taught to make Buttermilk biscuits! She has taught me so well that she tells me my biscuits are one of the best and if any of you that knows my Momma-she is one heck of a cook! And that is definitely a compliment! – Liz Ann

My fondest memory of my mom is when she would load us kids and our cousins and friends up in the car and take us on adventures. – Sharon Walker

Mom and I best memories are riding horses together and going to horse shows. My grandma and i’s are watching Lawrence Welk and eating popcorn. – Lydia Jo Wolheter

Watching my mom in the field driving combine alongside her family! My grandma having tea parties with my sister and I! Priceless! <3 <3 – Darcy Erickson

Helping my mom and grandparents plant there gardens! They always had the best gardens. 🍅🍓🍆🌽 – Cindy Schneyder

Grandma’s pancakes. And still makes them for us before we leave every time we come home. 😊 – Jeni Weilert

For both of my Grandma’s, they were the best babysitter’s ever!! I got to spend a lot of time with them making many memories!! (And of course getting spoiled!) Miss them 😫 – Wendy Woerner

Love going to visit my mammaw and her making us her famous meatloaf. It was so good and no one can make it like she did! She was a sweetheart! – Tracy Galyon

My favourite memory of my grandma (a farmer in her own right!) making her famous homemade cinnamon buns! 💜 – Lynn Stone

My great-grandma taught me how to sew buttons. Luci Sheriff

Learning how to make homemade bread and cooking with my grandma! – Katie Wenger

One time I was making field supper with my grandma, and my job was to make the grape kool-aid! Little did my 6-year-old self know that you had to add sugar to it. And when grandpa took that first swig in the field it was hilarious! Grandma giggled and tasted it and told me I forgot the sugar! Everyone drank it because I had made it and didn’t want to make me feel bad! Grandma still talks about my kool aid. – Alanna Turner

My fondest memory of my grandma was learning to cook with her when I was little during harvest time and her letting me also be the taste tester!! – Keeli Parker

My siblings and I were raised by a steller harvester mother, Colleen. She fed a lot of kids and hired hands on the harvest and at home on the farm. Lots of my memories are of Mom singing in various camper trailers in many a small town across the midwest, doing dishes or making meals to take to the field: Radio appreciated but not needed. She still has a song for every situation! – Brooke Jacobson

My favorite memory of my grandmother is her driving the tractor with the peanut digger and harvesting our crop before going and making a huge lunch for all of us who helped. – Emily Murphree

My mother is always there for me ❤ – Chelsey Buck

The thing I remember is the homemade bread and her fried chicken it waste best. – Pam Taylor

My favorite memory is my grandma always being my number one fan and being there for me! – Stephanie Franke

Picking crocuses in the field! – Robyn Eresman

Baking with my grandmother. She was a great cook. – Samantha Hawkins

Being in the kitchen making buns with my grandma and mom ❤️ – Kylie Weber

One memory I will never forget is baking meals for the field with my gramma, when she wasn’t in the field herself. – Sara Irving

My love of coffee is from my mom. I used to live a few blocks away and loved sitting on the porch drinking coffee morning and/or evening. We love coffee! 😆 Of course the whole time talking. Not close enough to do it very often now. – Cindy Adams

Lefsa and meatballs for Christmas! ❤️❤️ – Tina Marie

(photo submitted by Tina Marie)

In response to the above picture: That’s a great picture! Your Grandma was a terrific cook/baker. I loved her meatballs and lefsa!!!!!!!!!! – Linda Kustka

My fondest memory is being out at the farm with my grandma and cooking dinner and taking it to the fields with her during harvest 🙂 <3 – Nina Hiemstra

Great cook homemade cinnamon rolls and the best lemon pie 😊❤️ – Ann Worthington

Mom dancing to the YMCA and spelling it wrong! – Jessica Armacost

My favorite memory of my mom was her love, her servant’s heart and her immense faith in God. ❤ but really when your mom is a memory every thing is your favorite…from how she peeled potatoes to how she was a master with a fly swatter, the list could go on and on. – Kathryn VanEe Doyle

My fondest memories of my grandmas were all the love they always had for their grandkids! – Cindy Troendle Christensen

Picking blueberries in the bush with her, and her yelling out loud to scare the Bears away. – Angele Gagnon

Baking pepper-nuts with my great grandma, grandma and mom. – Darcy McNeal

Fondest memory of my mom, Nancy Eberts 🤔: too many to be honest but it would boil down to her consistent (sometimes frustrating) ability to see the good in any/every situation as well as her wit and uncanny ability to make anyone laugh. She also has a heck of a whistle that can make the hair on the back of your neck stand straight up! 😉 – Adrienne Belland

My mothers cooking! While the rest of the family was out doing chores, chasing cattle, or taking care of harvest, there was always a delicious hot meal waiting any time. Even if she was needed out there somewhere. This time of year always brings up the memories. – Karen Hancock

My fondest memory of my grandma…oh man she’s too much of a mess! Fondest memory of my mom Sarah Vicars Allgood is probably my most recent memories of her and addie together. Seeing her face light up when she gets to see Addie is the best feeling! – Kasey Guidry

My favourite memories are meals In the field & everyone working in the field!! ( Grandma on the combine, mom in the truck, & me in the swather) !!😃🌾 – Melissa Denning

My mother taught me love & affection. Which I hope my children have learned. We always say I love you & hugged a lot. I still kiss her goodnight when I’m at her house. I love her lots! My mother in law, I love her dearly. She was a harvesters wife, so she understood what it was all about. She helped me tremendously. She’s still living, but not doing very good at this moment. – Karlyn Jantz

Watching my aunt comb Grandma’s very long hair and then braid it again. She was in her late 80’s. – Mary Egan Kittleson

Picking tomatoes with mom from the garden! – Katie Brower

Playing cards with my Grandma. – Denise Finlay

My fondest memory of my grandma would be when she and papa went camping one weekend (I always went) and this particular weekend I wasn’t allowed to go so I sat in the back alley and cried saying don’t leave me grandma lol We talk about this story lots. I married a farmer and I’m glad my kids get to grow up bring farmers! – Dawn Williams

Sunday after-church dinners and chocolate cake. – Stephanie Coltrain Marteney

The good old home cooking with her… especially her cinnamon rolls, miss her 😥 – Patricia M Schwind

Grandma Peanut- watching her cook while whistling. Hearing her laugh in church. Grandma Cocoa- running errands, going shopping, watching the Golden Girls while she sipped red wine. Mom- going on walks, going to the grocery store and fruit stand, playing Boggle or Scrabble. – Joanne Genn

My Mom is quite the singer, we spent hours setting in elevator lines wait to dump corn when I was little. We sand many a song going, sitting and headed back to the fields.🌽🌽🌽. Good memories! – Mary Sanders

Loved listening to my grandma who was a concert pianist play into her nineties. – Terry Egan

My grandma was my best friend and she loved to bake chocolate cake for grandpa!! – Twyla Voldseth

Our yearly trips to Medora. – Carrie Jo Haar

Wedding dress shopping with them both, my grannie ordered a margarita at dinner with me. Good day! My mom, road trips: the funniest things happen to her on the road; one way streets, crazy birds running down the road, hitting a pole with her mirror at the fast food drive up because she was too close to the building.. 💛💚💙💕 – Tina Shepperd

My baba always took us to bottle feed the calves 😍😍 – Courtney Soloway

My Grandma made me the best snacks! One she spoiled me with was frozen pickle juice!! – Molly Gardner Linssen

Elaine Speckmann you are the worlds greatest hands down! Don’t know what we would do with out you ❤️ – Keri Rasby

I have so many memories of my grandmother it is hard to pick just one. She was a hard-working farm wife that could cook the best meals. I miss her everyday. – Lynn Worthington

Making fried chicken and homemade ice cream. – Carlotta Jo Patterson

My fondest memories of my mom is all her wonderful cooking and all her great advice she has given me throughout the years…I just love her to pieces 🙂 – Megan Deibert Bertsch

Going and spending 2 weeks every summer with my grandma. She taught me to crochet, and wish she was still around to refresh my memory on how to do that again! – Cindra Williams

My mom still to this day is my best friend! We live within minutes of each other & talk several times a day. When we are away on harvest she is the one that makes sure my yard is mowed & my mail is collected along with anything else to help my little family out! She may not go on harvest, but she plays a big part in helping us do what we do!! – Shana Gregory

Meals to the field, picking berries at a u-pick berry farm and fall canning! ❤ – Brittany Van Driesten

Shopping and cooking 🙂 – Kristin Rahe

My favorite memory of my mom was just 8 weeks ago! After my son was born, she stayed with me at the hospital until 2am, just enjoying the new baby, talking, and helping me get settled. – Molly Anne Jacobson

It’s so hard to choose because I have so many fond memories of my grandma Ruby! But I have to say most of all her love and laughter. – Jamie Chandler-Frederick

Fondest memories are of all the special treats she would bake for us! – Dana Petersen

When I was in college, I came home one weekend to visit. When I got back to my lonely dorm, mom had slipped a $20 in my wallet with a post-it note saying “Love you, Mom”. – Stephanie Ann Osowski

Making homemade noodles whenever grandma came to visit. – Lynda Hoffman

Grandma always having red vines and Mom helping me bake! – York Farm & Brown Cow Soap

My grandma is one of those one in a million kinda people she’s was one of the best people around.. my favorite memory of her was going to church and her smiling for ear to ear with a full pew she smile even more when there was more than one pew full.. I miss her everyday.. She was an amazing role model.. she taught me her love for God and believing in your self. She passed away February 14, 2015. –  Jois Daniel Hutzenbiler

My fondest? Too many. Here’s something and everything: it’s nothing very spectacular to many, and no words are even said, just the image of mom doing what she does best, standing over the grill, one hand on her hip, a smile on her face, and the fact that she does it all for the rest of us, completely selfless. She could complain of the summers heat or the blazing fire from the grill, bugs coming to check out what’s cooking… but she doesn’t. Because she’s a mom. And she’s awesome. She’s MY mom 😍 – Emma Misener

Playing cards for hours on end with Mom and Grandma! – Andrea Richman

Cooking and spending time with them.  – Janet McLain

My grandma always having time to cook all day and then China paint in the afternoons. Loved the smell of the oils and paint and her precision on painting roses on plates. Beautiful artist. – Joni Mann-Guyer

Our morning trips with Grandma for Ice cream!. – Jamie Rushly

Going flower shopping with my Mom she is such a green thumb! – Kelly Obrigewitch

My mom was ornery….dad was working on adding a room to the house and she decided to “moon”‘him through the window by standing on the sofa. We pulled up about that time and honked as usual and she tried jumping down fast and pulling her pants back up and fell…rolled across the floor laughing. She barely had them up when we walked in. Loved hearing her laughter and miss it like crazy. 15 years ago this month she went to heaven. – Wendy Winkler Hughes

Making quilts. – Zoe Wilson Jones

My grandma made the best pickle ever. She would get me a jar out of the cellar every time I came over. My other grandma was just the best everything. – Melissa Lockhart

My grandma was the best piano player around. She could play any song in any key without music. Loved singing together with family at gatherings. – Brenda Jones Hamer

Good long quading trips 😍. This is alway great with my mom. – Shelly Garner Jean

On the really hot “moving days” I would ride with my grandma in the pickup because it had a/c. We would eat sweet tart candies and sing all kinds of Sunday school songs. If it wasn’t a moving day, we’d play bingo in the camper to stay cool. Whoever won got to eat a piece of candy. I could go on for days with memories I have with my grandma on harvest! My mom too! – Brenda Zongker

Most of my fondest memories are with my harvest grandma. She never had a daughter so she spoiled me! And most memories are of harvest…going to town to do laundry, lunch at Pizza Hut and maybe a “black cow” (root beer float), grocery and clothes shopping and she loved to teach me about the history of the towns we’d visit. When I was a little girl, she would have tea parties with me – used instant coffee. And she made the best darn pancakes. She had a strawberry patch in her backyard and I remember taking a bowl and filling it to the brim. She taught me a lot about what I do now and I will forever be grateful for that. I can still hear her singing and sometimes I SWEAR I can smell her. I can’t wait to see her again! ❤️ – Tracy Zeorian

After our dinner, Mom loading up my sister, baby brother and I in the boat of a Pontiac we had in the ’60s. The smell of roast beef, carrots, potatoes and onions. Dad’s harvest dinner wrapped in T-towels to keep it warm as we bumped over the field to take him his midday meal. Mom keeping on eye on us as we played in the powdery, black dirt, as she and Dad talked while he ate. Mom dishing up pie for desert, we’d sit on the car bumper and eat our. I loved those picnics. I though everyone did this in August, when I was a kid. Mom cooked everything from scratch, she did this until the he harvest was in. As a Mom myself, I am in awe of her and my grandmother. Those ladies did it all. – Yvonne Rediger

Meals brought out to the fields! – Carrie Hounjet

Grandma bringing her “chicken-killing dress” (an old dark-colored dress) along with her on a visit….. That big, nasty rooster made some great chicken and dumplings…..❣️ – Toni Hoch Pflughoeft

Rounding up pigs with my great gran Emma Williams. – Emma Eaders 

My grandmother Nell Lancaster was an amazing woman. She was always wearing her sun bonnet with the long brim if she was outside. She would let us grandkids help gather eggs and hatch baby chicks. She always made each family member their favorite pie during the holidays and was constantly cooking, baking or canning. – Wendy Grove

My favorite memory with my mom was when she would teach us all how to cook. I’m so grateful she was able to do that. Now a days most moms have to work and are unable to share those memories with their children. It’s heartbreaking too say the least. – Cassandra Davis

Best memories of my mom, is the no compromise foundation. She gave me. Many people say they love God, and follow his word when it’s convenient. She taught me to never compromise. My Grandma on the other hand was quite the pistol. Lol. She taught me to stand up for myself and not back down. When I was about 10 she bought a ring from JCPenney, and wanted to take it back. They wouldn’t take it back, and she told the poor girl she would come over the counter and make her take it. I remember my mom being embarrassed and walking away, and I was embarrassed too, but stood right there with her. The girl took it back, and she didn’t have to climb over the counter. My dad’s mom has always had unwavering faith in God, and has the sweetest voice. I come from a strong legacy of women. So thankful. They instilled in me faith in God, no compromise, to stand up for what I believe in, and not back away from a fight worth fighting. – Rana Begley Zeller

My Fondest Memories of my mom is she was always there to help me out when I needed it. She was the best mom I could ever have she’s 83 now and still going strong. – Carolyn Garrison

My great grandma started our family farm on her own and we are still going today! – Alysia Wilde

One of my fondest memories of my mom is when she would pack up meals for the field and made sure I had my own special plate and cup to take to the field; they were yellow Tupperware! – Colleen Vany

One of my fondest memories of my mom is watching her driving through the yard with the chisel plow on the back of the 1800 Oliver tractor headed to the field. The wind blowing through hair, she was wearing an old drawstring pink blue and white-flowered sleeveless polyester shirt and smiling. We had of course just finished milking cows. She could do it all and I don’t really ever remember any anger only smiles. She did it all! That moment, on that sunny day in the spring is one of those “burned in” moments that I can close my eyes and see whenever I need to! – Nancy Eberts

My Nana was one of the most important people in my life. There isn’t enough room in all the Internet for me to list the precious memories I have of her. ❤ – Tricia Smith    I second this, her Nana was incredible. She wasn’t my grandmother but I seriously miss that woman so much I’m tearing up writing this. – Emily Kubley

All the years of gardening and canning with my mom and learning all her recipes in the kitchen and making up our own!! Plus all the tractor rides we had together when i was little! She was always right there along side my dad working in the fields along side him! – Kenna Lichty Dible

Both my mother & mother-in-law were great women who taught me so much especially about being tough when need be! – Carol Frederick

On Mothers’ Day my dad would always treat mom by allowing her to get KFC for a picnic in the field. I surprised her with that this past Sunday (we celebrated early), and we talked about lots of memorable farming days! Mom kept us fed and hydrated, among a gazillion other things – my favorite was her homemade iced tea!! – Inga Niehoff

One of my favorite memories of my mom is actually from when I was very, very young. Before bed my mom would make up these sweet bedtime stories she called “Bunny Bunny” stories. They were about Bunny Bunny and his adventures with Madelyn (me) and Thomas (my little brother). They were my favorite thing to listen to and I remember begging every night for her to tell us a Bunny Bunny story before bed! I’m sure they were full of great teachable moments but what I remember most is my mom taking the extra time to tell us those stories before tucking us in to bed at night. Now that I am a mother myself I realize and appreciate those stories even more because I know at the end of a long day at home with the kids bedtime is like sweet bliss and some days can’t come soon enough. So I KNOW it was a precious sacrifice and act of love for her to extend bedtime routine even longer to include time to make up stories and let us have a wonderful make-believe adventure before bed. ❤️ – Madelyn Vieth

When I graduated from High school my mom and I took a girl trip, just the two of us, to Memphis TN to visit Graceland and see the King (Elvis). – Audra Barton Zimmerman

Her laugh and general lust for life. She taught me how to handle the worst of situations with complete grace and understanding. – Brandee Bowey

One of my fondest memories of my mom would be when she was a single mom, we lived on a farm not too far from where my hubby farms now. I remember hiding in a small cupboard (our “pantry”) and eating raw spaghetti noodles while mom was trying to find me. All while in the background Shania Twain or Fleetwood Mac would be playing. We made memories of what little we had and filled our home with laughter even though times may have been tough for her. I am forever grateful for my mom. – Danielle Korven

Additional comments added to the above…”Awe we were proof that you don’t need money to be rich”. – Nancy Beaulieu

We would bake chocolate chip cookies and taking supper out to the fields!!! – Stacie Hedberg

My Mom is always there for our family. I remember as a child when my Grandpa and Uncles harvested my Mom was right out in the field with them. My Grandma would cook the meals and we would take them to the field for them. I can remember one year we had the 4th of July celebration in the snow because harvest was in full swing over the 4th. So many great loving memories with my Mom and her family!! – Monique Eaton

My grandmother was a model farm wife! You never knew how many people would show up for any given meal and there was ALWAYS enough food! – Megan Wever

My mom is a great cook – thankful she taught me everything she knew. I didn’t grow up on a farm but now as a farm wife taking meals to the field this has been very helpful. – Hannah Bailey Willms

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