{"id":3747,"date":"2020-08-30T11:29:10","date_gmt":"2020-08-30T05:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/?p=3747"},"modified":"2020-08-30T11:33:41","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T06:03:41","slug":"amina-begums-mulmul-farshi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/amina-begums-mulmul-farshi\/","title":{"rendered":"Amina Begum\u2019s mulmul farshi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>TEXT BY FATMA SHAH AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY ZAINAB HUSSAIN <br><\/strong><em><strong>Lahore, Pakistan<\/strong> <\/em><br>A version of this piece was originally published as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefridaytimes.com\/vestiges-of-steps-taken\/\" class=\"rank-math-link broken_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u2018Vestiges of steps taken\u2019 <\/a>on 24 May 2019, on The Friday Times <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">Some months ago, my interest was piqued when a white <em>mulmul<\/em> <em>farshi<\/em> pajama from the 1920\u2019s, belonging to the family\u2019s great-aunt Amina Begum or Chachi Biwi, as she was called, was brought to my attention. The garment was clearly a treasured possession, which she had carried with her belongings from Panipat to Lahore and then, eventually to Sahiwal a few months after the Partition. Initially having opted to remain in India, she and her husband were forced to migrate from their ancestral home to Pakistan on three days notice in November 1947.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">After Chachi Biwi\u2019s passing in 1981, the <em>farshi <\/em>became a symbol of longing and loss for her daughter Tahira, who also recently passed away in January 2017. It rekindled not just the memories of her mother but the suppressed longing for a history, a heritage, a culture and an identity that had been their family hallmark for generations, and had scattered away with the merciless uprooting after Partition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"855\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/unnamed-copy-1024x855.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"3754\" data-link=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/?attachment_id=3754\" class=\"wp-image-3754\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/unnamed-copy-1024x855.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/unnamed-copy-600x501.jpg 600w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/unnamed-copy-768x641.jpg 768w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/unnamed-copy.jpg 1151w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"746\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Chachi-Biwi-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"3769\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Chachi-Biwi-copy.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/?attachment_id=3769\" class=\"wp-image-3769\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Chachi-Biwi-copy.jpg 960w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Chachi-Biwi-copy-600x466.jpg 600w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Chachi-Biwi-copy-768x597.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"728\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/unnamed-1-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"3755\" data-link=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/?attachment_id=3755\" class=\"wp-image-3755\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/unnamed-1-copy.jpg 960w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/unnamed-1-copy-600x455.jpg 600w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/unnamed-1-copy-768x582.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Amina Begum became an activist for the Pakistan Peoples Party and was elected as President of the Women\u2019s Wing in Sahiwal in 1969-70.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"746\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/tying-the-Imam-Zamin-on-his-arrival-at-the-house-.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"3756\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/tying-the-Imam-Zamin-on-his-arrival-at-the-house-.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/?attachment_id=3756\" class=\"wp-image-3756\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/tying-the-Imam-Zamin-on-his-arrival-at-the-house-.jpg 960w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/tying-the-Imam-Zamin-on-his-arrival-at-the-house--600x466.jpg 600w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/tying-the-Imam-Zamin-on-his-arrival-at-the-house--768x597.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Tying an &#8216;imam zaman&#8217; on Zulfikar\u00a0Ali\u00a0Bhutto&#8217;s upper arm, before he delivered a speech while on his campaign trail for the 1970 elections.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">Chachi Biwi, originally from Barast near Panipat, married Akhter Hasan, the youngest of five brothers of the Hakeemwala clan of Mohalla Ansar in 1926, who all lived in their Panipat homes as a close-knit joint family. With their husbands away working in other parts of India, it was the matriarchs who ran affairs of the home &#8211; the houses identified by the name of the woman &#8211; and they also became the official caretakers and managers of the agriculture land.&nbsp;Quite evidently, Chachi Biwi was a strong woman, who at 5 feet 9 inches eventually raised nine children. A gifted storyteller, her fantastic fables have also been published by her children as \u2018<em>Heera Man Tota\u2019<\/em>. According to her son Dr. Mehdi Hasan, that she became a political activist in the late 1960s and rose to become the head of the Women\u2019s Wing of the Pakistan People\u2019s Party (socialists), was also not surprising. After all the family had started the first girls\u2019 middle school in Panipat around 1930. After partition, she had provided shelter to a dozen destitute women and their children, in the premises of her own home in Sahiwal while supporting their educational &amp; vocational pursuits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">According to her nephew in-law Dr Mubashir Hasan, who passed away in March 2020, each season, everything was bought and ordered in bulk by all the young wives and daughters of the family, who exercised agency over what they could and couldn\u2019t wear. White was the colour worn in the hot summer months from April to June, when <em>chikan<\/em> and net <em>kurtas<\/em> and <em>dupattas<\/em>, were worn with multicoloured <em>kharra (straight cut drain-pipe)<\/em> pajamas around the house.&nbsp; However, all the women wore white <em>farshis<\/em> over the pajama when stepping outside their private domain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">A <em>farshi <\/em>is a long voluminous garment that generously falls to the ground, and when standing or walking has a long train. The copious flair is meant to be pulled up, folded and either tucked at the waist or draped over the left arm for the ease of moving around. The word <em>farshi <\/em>comes from \u2018farsh\u2019 or the ground\/floor, which the garment trails on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/LRM_EXPORT_246849809654895_20190520_210246824-1024x681.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3758\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/LRM_EXPORT_246849809654895_20190520_210246824-1024x681.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/LRM_EXPORT_246849809654895_20190520_210246824-600x399.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/LRM_EXPORT_246849809654895_20190520_210246824-768x511.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/LRM_EXPORT_246849809654895_20190520_210246824-1536x1021.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/LRM_EXPORT_246849809654895_20190520_210246824-2048x1362.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Mehr Hasan, the great granddaughter of Amina Begum, wearing the farshi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">However, contrary to its name the garment only touched the indoor <em>farsh<\/em> (floor) of any place, as the women travelled exclusively in small covered palanquins with two carriers. According to Dr. Mubashir Hasan, colours gradually came to inhabit the womens\u2019 wardrobes with the advent of sawan or <em>barsat<\/em> season, when multi-coloured chintz shirts would be worn starched and sprinkled with <em>abrak <\/em>or mica, and <em>chunna hua<\/em> <em>mul-mul<\/em> dupattas with <em>lehriya <\/em>(multi-coloured diagonal striped) and <em>chundri<\/em> (minute tie &amp; dye) patterns, were ordered with dyers who visited the house, for the entire season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">The <em>mulmul farshi<\/em>, a garment with an incredible cut and flair had almost a dozen <em>kalis<\/em>, &#8211; long triangular panels that determined the shape &#8211; carefully sewn together. It also had hand-turned seams and was finished with a 3-inch bias-cut border and a <em>chikan<\/em> braid (lace), invisibly attached with a handmade <em>kingri<\/em>, a tiny edging of co-joined triangles. Around the waistband was an inexplicable red band, and upon enquiry, Chachi Biwi\u2019s daughter, Tahira had explained to her daughter in-law, Rabia, that it was a mark of the owner. When all the women were home, their specific white <em>farshis,<\/em> all hung together on hooks in the central room or foyer, were identified only by the colour of the waistband.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-4 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Farshi-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"3761\" data-link=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/?attachment_id=3761\" class=\"wp-image-3761\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Farshi-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Farshi-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Farshi.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/unnamed-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"3762\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/unnamed.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/?attachment_id=3762\" class=\"wp-image-3762\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/unnamed-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/unnamed-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/unnamed.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">The family recalls <em>farshis <\/em>being worn in all parts of the United Province, Delhi, Awadh, Hyderabad and beyond in pre-Partition days, however the design elements of the garments would vary depending on the particular geography. Various permutations of the traditional <em>farshi <\/em>garments with real silver <em>zardozi <\/em>and <em>gota<\/em> work may be seen as family heirlooms, and in private collections and museums across the world today. Eventually, the more manageable <em>Ghararas<\/em> &#8211; akin to the Victorian tiered frock &#8211; are what became the de-rigueur as both formal and informal-wear in the 1930s and 1940s and subsequently as occasional or formal-wear along with saris, and the more elaborate <em>farshis<\/em> became confined to heirloom trunks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">Chachi Bibi\u2019s <em>farshi <\/em>caught the attention of all those who set their eyes on it. Enchanted by its simplicity and elegance, friends, family, artists and fashion designers saw it as a distinct style statement &#8211; a peek into an era where life was not only uncomplicated, but each garment was made with purpose. In order to figure out the garment\u2019s cut construction and design for anybody to wear similar <em>farshis, <\/em>an attempt to replicate it as-it-was seemed the only option. A women\u2019s co-operative, Better Tomorrow based in Rawalpindi, who still hand stitch traditional <em>ghararas<\/em> was commissioned and managed to rise to the challenge with overwhelming success, to produce a replica.&nbsp; It turned out to be a perfect fit for Meher, the great granddaughter of Chachi Biwi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">But the <em>farshi <\/em>was not merely a possession, so it could not merely be a fashion statement either. It had become a stimulus for her granddaughters and great grand daughters by which to re-populate collective memories \u201cand string them into a piece of history\u201d as textile historian Arti Sandhu says in her piece <a href=\"https:\/\/thevoiceoffashion.com\/intersections\/by-the-gram\/the-cupboard-of-displacement-3516\" class=\"rank-math-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u2018Cupboard of Displacement\u2019<\/a> (Voice of Fashion Jan 23, 2020). Textiles can carry the enduring legacy of a displaced culture and of ancestors, who the younger members of the family never had a chance to meet or know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-5 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"681\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/LRM_EXPORT_246762935457792_20190520_210119949-681x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"3764\" data-link=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/?attachment_id=3764\" class=\"wp-image-3764\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/LRM_EXPORT_246762935457792_20190520_210119949-681x1024.jpeg 681w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/LRM_EXPORT_246762935457792_20190520_210119949-399x600.jpeg 399w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/LRM_EXPORT_246762935457792_20190520_210119949-768x1155.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/LRM_EXPORT_246762935457792_20190520_210119949-1021x1536.jpeg 1021w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/LRM_EXPORT_246762935457792_20190520_210119949-1362x2048.jpeg 1362w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/LRM_EXPORT_246762935457792_20190520_210119949-scaled.jpeg 1702w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 681px) 100vw, 681px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/LRM_EXPORT_254636964161143_20190520_232341508-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"3765\" data-link=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/?attachment_id=3765\" class=\"wp-image-3765\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/LRM_EXPORT_254636964161143_20190520_232341508-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/LRM_EXPORT_254636964161143_20190520_232341508-450x600.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/LRM_EXPORT_254636964161143_20190520_232341508-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/LRM_EXPORT_254636964161143_20190520_232341508-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/LRM_EXPORT_254636964161143_20190520_232341508-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/LRM_EXPORT_1359842337590685_20190511_220106373-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"3766\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/LRM_EXPORT_1359842337590685_20190511_220106373-scaled.jpeg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/?attachment_id=3766\" class=\"wp-image-3766\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/LRM_EXPORT_1359842337590685_20190511_220106373-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/LRM_EXPORT_1359842337590685_20190511_220106373-450x600.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/LRM_EXPORT_1359842337590685_20190511_220106373-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/LRM_EXPORT_1359842337590685_20190511_220106373-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/LRM_EXPORT_1359842337590685_20190511_220106373-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:29px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">A garment made in <em>mulmul <\/em>became the vehicle that would lead the subsequent generations of the family into a past. It would become a commemoration of a cultural and sartorial history that spanned several generations in an undivided subcontinent. That in their new geography, the families of the four brothers had to settle in four different cities of Pakistan, also meant adopting new customs and disparate ways of life. In later photographs, she is seen wearing a <em>gharara, <\/em>as did all the other women of the family. It would be fair to assume that Amina Begum was completely oblivious to the cultural displacement that was to follow when they crossed the newly made border. By carrying this seemingly simple garment worn everyday in her life in Panipat before Partition, Amina Begum had also carried with her a culture, which eventually became impossible to retain. These beautiful <em>farshis <\/em>were never worn after 1947, and nor were there any palanquins. Gone were the ease and comfort and so many other intangibles that an undivided homeland had offered them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A farshi is a long voluminous garment that generously falls to the ground, and when standing or walking has a long train. The word farshi comes from \u2018farsh\u2019 or the ground\/floor, which the garment trails on. 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