@book{Abraham2003,
	author = {Arthur Abraham},
	publisher = {Edwin Mellen Press},
	title = {An Introduction to Pre-Colonial History of the {Mende} of {Sierra Leone}},
address = {London},
	year = {2003}
}

@phdthesis{Rogers1967,
	address = {New Haven},
	author = {Rogers, Henry E.},
	school = {Yale},
	title = {The phonology and morphology of {Sherbro}},
	year = {1967}
}

@phdthesis{Ménard2015,
	address = {Halle / Saale},
	author = {Ménard, Anaïs},
	publisher = {Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology},
school = {Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology},
	sortname = {Menard, Anais},
	title = {Beyond Autochthony Discourses: {S}herbro Identity and the (Re-)Construction of Social and National Cohesion in {Sierra Leone}},
	year = {2015}
}

@phdthesis{Childs1988,
	author = {Childs, G. Tucker},
	school = {University of California, Berkeley},
	title = {The phonology and morphology of {Kisi}},
	year = {1988}
}

@article{Vydrin2012,
	author = {Vydrin, Valentin F.},
    journal = {Langage, langues et cultures d’{Afrique} ({L}{L}{A}{C}{A}{N}), The {Niger}-{Congo} International Congress},
	title = {Towards Proto-{Mande}},
	year = {2012},
 note = {(Paper presented in Paris, 18--21 September 2012)}
}

@misc{ReedRobinsonforthcoming,
	ids = {ReedRobinson,ReedRobinson2013},
	author = {Reed, Tristan and James A. Robinson},
	title = {The Chiefdoms of {Sierra Leone}},
	pubstate = {forthcoming},
	url = {https://voices.uchicago.edu/jamesrobinson/2018/06/26/the-chiefdoms-of-sierra-leone}
}

@misc{NurseEtAl2013,
	author = {Nurse, Derek and Sarah Rose and John Hewson and Christa Beaudoin-Lietz},
	note = {Working Paper},
	title = {Tense and aspect systems of {Niger}-{Congo}},
	year = {2013}
}

@article{Joaque2017,
	author = {Joaque, Zainab},
journal = {Awoko Newspaper (Sierra Leone)},
	title = {Overfishing and inaction threatens fisheries},
	year = {2017}
}

@article{Ighobor2017,
	author = {Ighobor, Kingsley},
journal = {African Renewal Online},
	ids = {Ighobor1917},
	volume = {May-July 2017},
	title = {Overfishing destroying livelihoods},
	year = {2017}
}

@article{Childs2017,
	author = {Childs, G. Tucker},
	journal = {World Conference on {African} Linguistics ({W}{O}{C}{O}{L})},	
	pages = {289--312},
	title = {What’s really areal?},
volume = {8},
note = {(Paper presented in Kyoto, 21--24 August 2015)},
	year = {2017}
}

@article{Childs2016,
	author = {Childs, G. Tucker},
	note = {(Paper presented in Paris, 2016)}, 
journal = {Towards Proto-Niger-Congo: Comparison and Reconstruction, 2nd International Congress},
	title = {Reconstruction of the definite article in {Mel}},
	year = {2016}
}

@article{Childs2003a,
	author = {Childs, G. Tucker},
journal = {World Conference on African Linguistics / Annual Conference on African Linguistics},
volume = {4 / 34},
	note = {(Paper presented in New Brunswick, 17--22 June 2003)},
	title = {Genetic or Areal? {T}he {S}-{Aux}-{O}-{V} syntagm in the {Atlantic} languages},
	year = {2003}
}

@article{Childs2002b,
	author = {Childs, G. Tucker},
journal = {Annual Meeting of the Society of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics (SPCL)},
	note = {(Paper presented in San Francisco, 4--5 January 2002)},
	title = {Further evidence for a {Guinea} {Pidgin} {French}},
	year = {2002}
}

@article{Childs1999,
	author = {Childs, G. Tucker},
    journal = {Colloque International des Études Créoles},
	note = {(Paper presented in Aix-en-Provence, 1999)},
	title = {A first pass at {Guinea} {French}},
volume = {9},
	year = {1999}
}

@book{Yanker2016,
	address = {Shenge, Sierra Leone},
	author = {Yanker, Albert},
	publisher = {MS},
	title = {Brief history of the chieftaincy staff of {Kagboro Chiefdom}},
	year = {2016}
}

@book{Hall1938,
    author = {Hall, Henry U.},
    title = {The {Sherbro} of {Sierra Leone}: A preliminary report on the work of the university museum's expedition to {West Africa}, 1937},
    publisher = {The University Press, University of Pennsylvania},
    year = {1938}
}

@book{White1862,
	address = {Good Hope},
	author = {White, John},
	publisher = {Mendi Missionary Press},
	title = {Sherbro and {English} {Book}, {No} 1, containing the elements of grammar, a few easy lessons, and a copious vocabulary},
	year = {1862}
}

@book{White1860,
	address = {Good Hope},
	author = {White, John},
	publisher = {Mendi Missionary Press},
	title = {{Rai} Tammo {Lai} `{Y}our child's book' ({A} {Sherbro} Primer)},
	year = {1860}
}

@book{Welmers1973,
	address = {Los Angeles and Berkeley},
	author = {Welmers, William E.},
	publisher = {University of California Press},
	title = {{African} Language Structures},
	year = {1973}
}

@book{UNESCOAdHocExpertGrouponEndangeredLanguages2003,
	address = {New York},
	author = {{UNESCO Ad Hoc Expert Group on Endangered Languages}},
	shortauthor = {UNESCO},
	publisher = {United Nations},
	shortauthor = {UNESCO},
	title = {Language vitality and endangerment: {D}ocument adopted by the {International} Expert Meeting on {UNESCO} Programme Safeguarding of Endangered Languages},
	year = {2003}
}

@book{TISLL1979,
	address = {Freetown},
	author = {TISLL},
	publisher = {The Institute for Sierra Leonean Languages},
	sortname = {TISLL},
	title = {{Nthaɛ maMbolomdɛ} ({Bolom} ({Sherbro}) proverbs)},
	year = {1979}
}

@book{Sumner1921,
	address = {London},
	author = {Sumner, The Rev. A. T.},
	publisher = {The Crown Agents for the Colonies for the Government of Sierra Leone},
	title = {A Handbook of the {Sherbro} Language},
	year = {1921}
}

@book{StatisticsSierraLeone2016,
	address = {Freetown, Sierra Leone},
	author = {Statistics Sierra Leone},
	publisher = {Statistics Sierra Leone},
	title = {{Sierra Leone} 2015 Population and Housing Census},
	year = {2016}
}

@book{ShackSkinner1979,
	address = {Berkeley, CA},
	booktitle = {Strangers in {{African} Societies}},
	editor = {Shack, William and Elliott Skinner},
	publisher = {University of California Press},
	title = {Strangers in {{African} Societies}},
	year = {1979}
}

@incollection{Segerer2016,
	address = {Berkeley, CA},
	author = {Segerer, Guillaume},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the {Berkeley} Linguistics Society},
	editor = {Nicholas Rolle and Jeremy Steffman and John Sylak-Glassman},
	pages = {368--381},
	publisher = {Berkeley Linguistics Society},
	title = {Some hypotheses about possible isolates within the {{{Atlantic}}} branch of the {{Niger-{Congo}} phylum}},
	year = {2016}
}

@incollection{Sasse1992,
	address = {Berlin},
	author = {Sasse, Hans-Jürgen},
	booktitle = {Language Death: {P}ractical and Theoretical Explorations with Special Reference to {East} {Africa}},
	editor = {M. Brenzinger},
	pages = {7--30},
	publisher = {Mouton de Gruyter},
	sortname = {Sasse, Hans-Jurgen},
	title = {Theory of language death},
	year = {1992}
}

@book{Rodney1970,
	address = {Oxford, UK},
	author = {Rodney, Walter},
	publisher = {Clarendon Press},
	title = {A History of the {Upper {Guinea} Coast}, 1545--1800},
	year = {1970}
}

@book{Pichl1967,
	address = {Pittsburgh},
	author = {Pichl, Walter J.},
	publisher = {Duquesne University Press},
	title = {{Sherbro}-{English} Dictionary},
	year = {1967}
}

@incollection{Ohala1975,
	address = {Stanford},
	author = {Ohala, John J.},
	editor = {Charles A. Ferguson and Larry M. Hyman and John J. Ohala},
	booktitle = {Nasálfest: {P}apers from a Symposium on Nasals and Nasalization},
	pages = {289--316},
	publisher = {Stanford Universals Project},
	title = {Phonetic explanations for nasal sound patterns},
	year = {1975}
}

@book{Nurse2008,
	address = {Oxford, UK},
	author = {Nurse, Derek},
	publisher = {Oxford University Press},
	title = {Tense and Aspect in {Bantu}},
	year = {2008}
}

@book{Nurse2007,
	address = {London},
	author = {Nurse, Derek},
	editor = {Nancy C. Kula and Lutz Marten},
	booktitle = {{Bantu} in Bloomsbury: {S}pecial issue on {Bantu} linguistics},
	number = {15},
	pages = {239--256},
	publisher = {Department of Linguistics, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London},
	series = {SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics},
	title = {Did the Proto-{Bantu} verb have a synthetic or analytical structure?},
	year = {2007}
}

@incollection{Matisoff1975,
	address = {Stanford},
	author = {Matisoff, James A.},
	editor = {Charles A. Ferguson and Larry M. Hyman and John J. Ohala},
	booktitle = {Nasálfest: {P}apers from a Symposium on Nasals and Nasalization},
	pages = {265--287},
	publisher = {Stanford Universals Project},
	title = {Rhinoglottophilia: {T}he mysterious connection between nasality and glottality},
	year = {1975}
}

@incollection{MacCormack1982,
	address = {New York},
	author = {MacCormack, Carol P.},
	booktitle = {Ethnography of fertility and birth},
	editor = {Carol P. MacCormack},
	pages = {115--139},
	publisher = {Academic Press},
	title = {Health, fertility and birth in {Moyamba} {District}, {Sierra Leone}},
	year = {1982}
}

@incollection{Lüpke2020,
	address = {Oxford},
author = {Lüpke, Friederike},
	booktitle = {Atlantic},
	editor = {Lüpke, Friederike},
	pages = {439--450},
	publisher = {Oxford University Press},
	sortname = {Lupke, Friederike},
	title = {Atlantic},
	year = {2020}
}

@incollection{Lüpke2013,
	address = {Berlin},
	author = {Lüpke, Friederike},
	booktitle = {Repertoires and Choices in {African} Languages},
	editor = {Friederike Lüpke and Anne Storch},
	pages = {13--76},
	publisher = {De Gruyter Mouton},
	sortname = {Lupke, Friederike},
	title = {Multilingualism on the ground},
	year = {2013}
}

@book{Lowther2011,
	address = {Charleston, SC},
	author = {Lowther, Kevin},
	publisher = {University of South Carolina Press},
	title = {The {African} Odyssey of {John} {Kizell}: {T}he Life and Times of a {South} {Carolina} Slave who returned to fight the slave trade in his {African} homeland},
	year = {2011}
}

@book{Kuryłowicz1964,
	address = {Heidelberg},
	author = {Kuryłowicz, Jerzy},
	publisher = {Carl Winter Universitätsverlag},
	sortname = {Kurylowicz, Jerzy},
	title = {The inflectional categories of {Indo}-{European}},
	year = {1964}
}

@book{Jones1983,
	address = {Wiesbaden},
	author = {Jones, Adam},
	publisher = {Franz Steiner Verlag},
	title = {From Slaves to Palm Kernels: {A} History of the {Galinhas Country} ({West} {Africa}), 1730-1890},
	year = {1983}
}

@book{IversonCameron1986,
	address = {Freetown, Sierra Leone},
	author = {Iverson, Janelle and Barbara Cameron},
	publisher = {Institute for Sierra Leonean Languages},
	title = {A sociolinguistic survey of the {Bullom} languages of {Sierra Leone}},
	year = {1986}
}

@book{Innes1962,
	address = {London},
	author = {Innes, Gordon},
	publisher = {Macmillan},
	title = {A {Mende} Grammar},
	year = {1962}
}

@incollection{Hyman2014,
	address = {Amsterdam},
	author = {Hyman, Larry M.},
	booktitle = {Paradigm Change: {{I}}n the {Transeurasian} languages and beyond},
	editor = {Martine Robbeets and Walter Bisang},
	pages = {103–126},
	publisher = {John Benjamins},
	title = {Reconstructing the {Niger}-{Congo} Verb Extension Paradigm: {W}hat’s Cognate, Copied or Renewed?},
	year = {2014}
}

@incollection{Hyman2007,
	address = {Somerville},
	author = {Hyman, Larry M.},
	booktitle = {{{Selected proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference on {African} Linguistics}}},
	editor = {Doris L. Payne and Jaime Peña},
	pages = {149--163},
	publisher = {Cascadilla Press},
	title = {{Niger}-{Congo} verb extensions: {O}verview and discussion},
	year = {2007}
}

@incollection{Hyman1993,
	address = {Amsterdam},
	author = {Hyman, Larry M.},
	booktitle = {Topics in {African} Linguistics},
	editor = {Salikoko. S. Mufwene and Lioba Moshi},
	pages = {3--34},
	publisher = {John Benjamins},
	title = {Conceptual issues in the comparative study of the {Bantu} verb stem},
	year = {1993}
}

@book{Holmes1877,
	address = {Barnabas Root Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois},
	author = {Holmes, Jesse R.},
	publisher = {Privately published},
	title = {Knox Missionaries, Rev},
	year = {1877}
}

@book{Harrison2007,
	address = {Oxford},
	author = {Harrison, K. David},
	publisher = {Oxford University Press},
	title = {When Languages Die: {T}he Extinction of the World's Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge},
	year = {2007}
}

@book{Hanson1979b,
	address = {Freetown},
	author = {Hanson, Walter R.},
	publisher = {The Institute for Sierra Leone Languages (TISLL)},
	title = {A guide for writing the {Sherbro} language},
	year = {1979}
}

@book{Hanson1979a,
	address = {Freetown},
	author = {Hanson, Walter R.},
	publisher = {The Institute for Sierra Leone Languages (TISLL)},
	title = {Collected notes towards a phonology of the {Sherbro} language},
	year = {1979}
}

@book{Greenberg1978,
	address = {Stanford},
	author = {Greenberg, Joseph H.},
	booktitle = {Universals of Human Language},
	editor = {Joseph H. Greenberg and Charles A. Ferguson and Edith A. Moravcsik},
	pages = {47--82},
	publisher = {Stanford University Press},
	title = {How does a language acquire gender markers?},
	year = {1978}
}

@article{Economist2017,
	address = {London},
	journal = {{The Economist}},
	date = {2017-12-14},
	author = {{The Economist}},
	title = {Foreign trawlers are plundering unguarded {West} {African} waters: {W}hy {Sierra Leone} is running out of fish},
	year = {2017}
}

@book{Dwyer1998,
	address = {Trenton},
	author = {Dwyer, David J.},
	booktitle = {Language History and Linguistic Description in {Africa}},
	editor = {Ian Maddieson and Thomas J. Hinnebusch},
	pages = {27--36},
	publisher = {Africa World Press},
	title = {The Place of {Mande} in {Niger}-{Congo}},
	year = {1998}
}

@incollection{Dwyer1989,
	address = {Lanham},
	author = {Dwyer, David J.},
	booktitle = {The {Niger}-{Congo} Languages},
	editor = {J. Bendor-Samuel},
	pages = {47--66},
	publisher = {University Press of America, Inc},
	title = {Mande},
	year = {1989}
}

@book{Dixon1997,
	address = {Cambridge, UK},
	author = {Dixon, R. M. W.},
	publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
	title = {The Rise and Fall of Languages},
	year = {1997}
}

@book{Dingemanse2009,
	address = {London},
	author = {Dingemanse, Mark},
	publisher = {School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London},
	title = {How to do things with ideophones},
	year = {2009}
}

@incollection{DennyCreider1986,
	address = {Amsterdam},
	author = {Denny, J. Peter and Chet A. Creider},
	booktitle = {Noun Classes and Categorization},
	editor = {C. Craig},
	pages = {217--40},
	publisher = {John Benjamins},
	title = {The semantics of noun classes in {Proto}-{Bantu}},
	year = {1986}
}

@incollection{CreiderDenny1975,
	address = {Columbus},
	author = {Creider, Chet A. and J. Peter Denny},
	booktitle = {{Patterns in Language, Culture, and Society: {{S}}ub-{Saharan} {Africa} ({Proceedings of the Symposium on {Africa}n Language, Culture, and Society, {Columbus}})}},
	editor = {Robert K. Herbert},
	pages = {142--163},
	publisher = {Ohio State University},
	title = {The semantics of noun classes in {Proto}-{Bantu}},
	year = {1975}
}

@incollection{Craig1997,
	address = {Oxford},
	author = {Craig, Colette Grinevald},
	booktitle = {Handbook of Sociolinguistics},
	editor = {F. Coulmas},
	pages = {257--270},
	publisher = {Blackwell},
	title = {Language contact and language degeneration},
	year = {1997}
}

@phdthesis{Corcoraninprep,
	address = {Chicago},
	author = {Corcoran, Chris},
	school = {University of Chicago},
	title = {Lexico-grammatical categoriality and the noun classes of {Sherbro} ({Bolom}), a {Mel} language of {Sierra Leone}},
	pubstate = {in preparation}
}

@incollection{Childs2020,
	address = {Oxford, UK},
	author = {Childs, G. Tucker},
	booktitle = {The {{Oxford}} Handbook of {{African}} Languages},
	editor = {Gerrit J. Dimmendaal and Rainer Vossen},
	pages = {439--450},
	publisher = {Oxford University Press},
	title = {{Bom-Kim}},
	year = {2020}
}


@incollection{Childs2024c,
	address = {Oxford,},
	author = {Childs, G. Tucker},
	booktitle = {The {Oxford} Guide to the {Atlantic} Languages of {West} {Africa}},
	editor = {Friederike Lüpke},
	publisher = {Oxford University Press},
	title = {Kisi, the divergent Mel language of {{Atlantic}}},
	pages = {19.450--19.468},
	publisher = {Oxford University Press},
	title = {Kisi},
	year = {2024}
}

@incollection{Childs2024b,
	address = {Oxford, UK},
	author = {Childs, G. Tucker},
	booktitle = {The {Oxford} Guide to the {Atlantic} Languages of {West} {Africa}},
	editor = {Friederike Lüpke},
	publisher = {Oxford University Press},
	title = {Genetically motivated clusters within {{Atlantic}}},
	pages = {3.51--3.62},
	publisher = {Oxford University Press},
	title = {Genetically motivated clusters within {Atlantic}},
	year = {2024}
}

@incollection{Childs2024a,
	address = {Oxford, UK},
	author = {Childs, G. Tucker},
	booktitle = {The {Oxford} Guide to the {Atlantic} Languages of {West} {Africa}},
	editor = {Friederike Lüpke},
	publisher = {Oxford University Press},
	title = {The {Bom-Kim-Sherbro} cluster},
	pages = {20.469--20.474},
	publisher = {Oxford University Press},
	title = {{Bom-Kim}},
	year = {2024}
}

@incollection{Childs2019,
	address = {Amsterdam},
	author = {Childs, G. Tucker},
	booktitle = {Ideophones, Mimetics and Expressives},
	editor = {Kim Akita and Prashant Pardeshi},
	pages = {351--370},
	publisher = {John Benjamins},
	title = {Ideophones as a measure of multilingualism},
	year = {2019}
}

@incollection{Childs2015,
	address = {Oxford},
	author = {Childs, G. Tucker},
	editor = {John R. Taylor},
	booktitle = {The {Oxford} Handbook of The Word},
	pages = {284--302},
	publisher = {Oxford University Press},
	title = {Sound symbolism},
	year = {2015}
}

@book{Childs2011,
	address = {New York},
	author = {Childs, G. Tucker},
	publisher = {de Gruyter},
	title = {A Grammar of {Mani}},
	year = {2011}
}

@book{Childs2003b,
	address = {Amsterdam},
	author = {Childs, G. Tucker},
	publisher = {John Benjamins},
	title = {An Introduction to {African} Languages},
	year = {2003}
}

@incollection{Childs1998,
	address = {Thousand Oaks},
	author = {Childs, G. Tucker},
	booktitle = {The Sociolinguistics of Language and Society: {S}elected Papers from {{SS}} {{IX}}},
	editor = {Mahendra K. Verma},
	pages = {36--46},
	publisher = {Sage Publishers},
	title = {Ideophone variation is tied to local identity},
	year = {1998}
}

@incollection{Childs1997,
	address = {Berkeley},
	author = {Childs, G. Tucker},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the Twenty-third Annual Meeting of the {Berkeley} {Linguistics} {Society}, Special Session on Syntax and Semantics in {Africa}},
	editor = {Ashlee C. Bailey and Kevin E. Moore and Jeri L. Moxley},
	pages = {47--58},
	publisher = {Berkeley Linguistics Society},
	title = {Predicate clefting in {Kisi}},
note = {(Paper presented in Berkeley, February 14-17, 1997)},
	year = {1997}
}

@book{Childs1995,
	address = {Berlin and New York},
	author = {Childs, G. Tucker},
	publisher = {Mouton de Gruyter},
	title = {A Grammar of {Kisi}: {A} {Southern} {Atlantic} Language},
	year = {1995}
}

@incollection{Childs1994,
	address = {Cambridge, UK},
	author = {Childs, G. Tucker},
	booktitle = {Sound Symbolism},
	editor = {Leanne Hinton and Johanna Nichols and John J. Ohala},
	pages = {247--279},
	publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
	title = {{African} ideophones},
	year = {1994}
}

@incollection{Childs1989,
	address = {Urbana-Champaign},
	author = {Childs, G. Tucker},
	editor = {Eyamba G. Bokamba},
	booktitle = {The Contribution of {African} Linguistics to Linguistic Theory: {P}roceedings of the 20th Annual Conference on {African} Linguistics},
	number = {1},
	pages = {57--78},
	publisher = {Department of Linguistics, University of Illinois},
	series = {Studies in the Linguistic Sciences},
	title = {Where do ideophones come from?},
	year = {1989}
}

@incollection{Childs1987,
	address = {Dordrecht},
	author = {Childs, G. Tucker},
	booktitle = {Current Approaches to {African} Linguistics},
	editor = {D. Odden},
	pages = {73--91},
	publisher = {Foris Publications},
	title = {Verb extension renewal in {Kisi}},
	year = {1987}
}

@incollection{Childs1983,
	address = {Dordrecht},
	author = {Childs, G. Tucker},
	booktitle = {Current Approaches to {African} Linguistics 2},
	editor = {Jonathan D. Kaye and Hilda Koopman and Dominique Sportiche and André Dugas},
	pages = {17--29},
	publisher = {Foris Publications},
	title = {Noun class affix renewal in {Southern} {West} {Atlantic}},
	year = {1983}
}

@book{Caulker-Burnett2010,
	address = {The Caulkers of Sierra Leone},
	author = {Caulker-Burnett, Imodale},
	publisher = {Xlibris},
	title = {A Story of a Ruling Family and Their Times},
	year = {2010}
}

@incollection{CampbellMuntzel1989,
	address = {Cambridge},
	author = {Campbell, Lyle and Martha C. Muntzel},
	booktitle = {Investigating Obsolescence: {S}tudies in Language Contraction and Death},
	editor = {Nancy C. Dorian},
	pages = {181--196},
	publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
	title = {The structural consequences of language death},
	year = {1989}
}

@book{Calvet1974,
	address = {Paris},
	author = {Calvet, Louis-Jean},
	publisher = {Payot},
	title = {Linguistique et colonialisme: {P}etit traité de glottophagie},
	year = {1974}
}

@book{Brooks1993,
	address = {Boulder},
	author = {Brooks, George E.},
	publisher = {Westview Press},
	title = {Landlords and Strangers: {E}cology, Society, and Trade in {Western} {Africa}, 1000-1630},
	year = {1993}
}

@book{BadoeDiakité2001,
	address = {Toronto},
	author = {Badoe, Adwoa and Baba Wagué Diakité},
	publisher = {Groundwood Books / House of Anansi Press},
	sortname = {Badoe, Adwoa and Baba Wague Diakite},
	title = {The Pot of Wisdom: {A}nanse stories},
	year = {2001}
}

@book{Alie1990,
	
	author = {Alie, Joe A. D.},
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