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Do you remember your first Clemson game?
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Do you remember your first Clemson game?


Aug 12, 2012, 12:45 PM

For me, It was the '99 Marshall game. Yes, Bowden's first as well. I remember being 5, sitting on the the wooden part of the hill between the west endzone stands and the north lower level. The cannon nearly made me pee myself and I remember being introduced to a variety of colorful language while leaving the stadium because as we all remember: the kicker lost the game.

Your first Tiger game?

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'82 BC @ Clemson...Doug Flutie brought them back to tie.***


Aug 12, 2012, 12:50 PM



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My first as well. Igwebuike tried an impossible FG as.....


Aug 12, 2012, 4:47 PM

time expired and rain began to fall.

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Maryland in 2000.


Aug 12, 2012, 12:52 PM

Clemson won 35-14

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The first I really remember


Aug 12, 2012, 12:53 PM

81 Wake game. I know I had been at some before with Mom and Dad, but it's the first one I really recall.

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Re: Do you remember your first Clemson game? I was at


Aug 12, 2012, 12:53 PM

the 99 game with friends. a few weeks before I ran into Gary Pinkel who coached Toledo at the time. I asked him about the game since Marshall was tearing up the MAC then. He said anything can happen in openers especially with a new staff. Turned out to be true, unfortunately

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Re: Do you remember your first Clemson game?


Aug 12, 2012, 12:56 PM

'09 Middle Tennessee State. It was my first game freshman year. It was my first experience ever being at an actual football game. I can't get enough of it now!

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September 1965: CU vs NC State....We won 21-7; the


Aug 12, 2012, 12:56 PM

next week we beat Virginia at home. We, also, beat TCU at home that year but lost a close one to Carolina in Columbia, 16-17. The following year Howard's Rock was placed on the hill, and the first game of 1967 the tradition of touching the rock began.


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Re: Do you remember your first Clemson game? '70 Citadel


Aug 12, 2012, 1:02 PM

I think we wond 10-7 or 10-3. Hotties debut. He eliminated running the Hill till his last game at Clemson. The guy was a bozo. 4 years of crappy football. I was so glad when he left

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I thought that was one of the dumbest moves made by a


Aug 12, 2012, 1:07 PM

coach, all for the sake of trying to put his own imprint on the team and program...and frankly, I was ready for him to go from the beginning.

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Western Carolina in 1995. Nealon Greene,


Aug 12, 2012, 1:04 PM

Raymond Priester, Brian Dawkins, Adrian Dingle, Anthony Simmons. Another talented team that underachieved.

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1997 clemson vs Nc state


Aug 12, 2012, 1:44 PM

we won 19-17 and it was hot as hell!!! I remember my dad bought me a snowcone and it melted in about one minute lol.

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Sept 1974 freshman year 21-17 over GT .....


Aug 12, 2012, 1:07 PM

we were 6-0 that year at DV under Red Parker. We beat UGA the next weekend at home.

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Re: Sept 1974 freshman year 21-17 over GT .....yep


Aug 12, 2012, 1:43 PM

I have some of the undefeated home season bottles from pepsi. 7-4 Beat GT and UGA and still got no bowl. Back when bowls rewarded excellence not just mediocrity

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I have one of those. How would it taste?......


Aug 12, 2012, 2:43 PM

Like a flat New Coke? :)

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Yep. Georgia. They killed us.***


Aug 12, 2012, 1:08 PM



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Wake Forest, Oct. 31, 1981


Aug 12, 2012, 1:10 PM

Enjoy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlDQqEyjInU

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That's a great beginning......


Aug 12, 2012, 1:23 PM

anybody remember the "great" WF head coach?

Hint. He's coaching at GT now.

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Hey, that was my first game too. Sat in the very top row!***


Aug 12, 2012, 6:10 PM [ in reply to Wake Forest, Oct. 31, 1981 ]



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1969 Clemson - Wake Forest - Charlie Waters, Ray Yauger***


Aug 12, 2012, 1:10 PM



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Texas A&M - 1973******


Aug 12, 2012, 1:15 PM



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My first game I attended was in 1993..when I was 2.


Aug 12, 2012, 1:19 PM

The first game I remember clearly was in 2000 against SCU...and what a great game it was. I haven't missed a home game since 2002 now.

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Re: Do you remember your first Clemson game?


Aug 12, 2012, 1:24 PM

1991

Virginia

Tie game 20-20
What a disappointment that was. :)

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1962--8 years old. Coots 17/ Tigers 20 What a way to start!***


Aug 12, 2012, 1:25 PM



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Tiger/Terrier


I remember going........


Aug 12, 2012, 1:26 PM

but I was very young and it was in 1954 and I don't know specifically who the Tigers played. I've always been told my Dad and I walked up the hill from the stadium to the entrance to the locker rooms beneath Fike to speak to one of my Dad's fellow students who was also a player as he came in from the game.

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Re: Do you remember your first Clemson game?


Aug 12, 2012, 1:37 PM

89 - furman. First college football game and converted me to a tiger fan.

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You know you've raised a real tiger fan when you ask your son what he wants his cub scout pinewood derby car to be and he says a Tiger!


Re: 1997 Clem-FSU


Aug 12, 2012, 1:38 PM

Not my first game, but the first I really remember. I was a freshman, and that was one of the loudest sporting events I have ever heard....the student section was crazy. We were terrible that year, only winning 3 games, I think. But we played FSu close and only lost by a TD...

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Aug 12, 2012, 1:49 PM

1979 Clemson/Georgia game..my dad and i sat on the Hill...he joined IPTAY and got season tickets the next year...and we are still going 33 seasons later

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1959 Clemson vs NC State


Aug 12, 2012, 1:51 PM

10/10/1959
Clemson--23
NC State-0

I was 6 years old, my Dad was good friends with a SCHP Sgt. we went with him, same year a friend of my Grand Parents started my IPTAY membership on my birthady, been Orange Blooded ever since.

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1994 tommy west's first year. Freshman in marching band....


Aug 12, 2012, 1:54 PM

First time experiencing the hill was with the band. Awesome.

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1972 Clemson homecoming vs Virginia


Aug 12, 2012, 2:22 PM

Mom and Dad got my brother and me out of school in Allendale County and we made the 3 1/2 hour trek to Clemson for Tigerrama in the stadium. It was my first time in Clemson. Tigerrama was always best outside under the cool, fall stars--I hate it inside these days. We had ice cream somewhere downtown(???). It was a pretty fall day on Saturday. I remember seeing the floats on Bowman Field like these people did.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgxndJOxxlM

We parked on Bowman Field back then. We also really had a tailgate picnic. Tailgating was not elaborate back then. Cold chicken and the fixings. Clemson won it and the Siren sounded. it was magical. At 7 years old I was in love with Clemson--the best place in the world!

GO TIGERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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Re: 1972 Clemson homecoming vs Virginia


Aug 12, 2012, 3:26 PM

The '72 game with UVA was certainly not my first Clemson game, but I have some fond memories of that game. It was one of the few games we won during that period under Hootie Ingram.

I had been a Clemson grad for 5 years and served 4 of those years as an Air Force officer. I was working for a textile company at the time, and my boss, the company president, had been a great Clemson player during the 50s.

My younger brother was a student and got me good tickets on about the 40 yd line in one of the lower rows. That had been an extremely busy week at work, and I wanted to get away from the job and relax. As my wife, 3 year old daughter, and I were waiting for the game to start, my boss and his family settled in next to us. Ironically, his seats were next to ours, and we all had a great time.

It was a good game, and we won. The UVA QB was George Allen, Jr, the son of the great NFL coach, who later became a senator and governor, I think.

During the game, my 3 year old was filmed cheering after a TD. That small clip became a part of a college football film, and she was shown around the country on TV for the next year or so.

One of Clemson's stars of that game was a RB named Wade Hughes. I ran into Wade at his business in Mechanicsville, VA in 2011. We had a nice visit, and I dropped in again on him this past July. Wade still loves Clemson but has no respect for Hootie.

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Thanks. It was an exciting thing for this little


Aug 12, 2012, 3:29 PM

buckaroo.

Go Tigers!

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CU at Ga Tech 1977. I'm sitting on 395 consecutive.........


Aug 12, 2012, 2:24 PM

BC will be 400 God willing I don't miss any before then. The last game I missed was '78 at Maryland.

Oh and I don't include Japan. But hey I was born in Okinawa so that should count for something. ;)

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That's one he!!uva streak. Hats off to you and your loyalty


Aug 12, 2012, 3:52 PM

to Clemson.

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Aug 12, 2012, 2:29 PM

1957 Big Thursday Tigers 13, SC 0

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Aug 12, 2012, 2:43 PM

September 1949 vs. P.C.

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1977 WF - Obed kicks a 53 yarder***


Aug 12, 2012, 2:48 PM



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Dirt ###### Stadium 1989...


Aug 12, 2012, 2:54 PM

Clemson debuts Orange britches on the road, and demolishes the coots 45-0.

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That's still one of my all time favorite Clemson games...


Aug 12, 2012, 3:53 PM

Terry Allen was hurt and only played in the 1st half and still had 92 yards rushing. Rodney Fletcher had his first touchdown reception of the season that game.

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1965, 6-0 loss to Maryland.***


Aug 12, 2012, 2:58 PM



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Nov. 21, 1964 vs South Carolina. I was 5 years old.


Aug 12, 2012, 3:23 PM

We led 3-0 almost the whole game and they returned a punt down close to the goal line late in the 4th qtr. Dan Reeves scored and we lost 7-3. One of the few times we lost to them in my lifespan, until recently.

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Clemson/Maryland 1978 in College Park.


Aug 12, 2012, 3:36 PM

Steve Fuller and Jerry Butler teamed up for a comeback win. I was 10 years old and became a Clemson fan from that day forward.

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cool story.***


Aug 12, 2012, 3:43 PM



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What I didn't mention


Aug 12, 2012, 3:50 PM

was that I was a Terp fan and my father who is a Clemson alum was going with a bunch of his Clemson buddies that lived in the Baltimore/Washington area. I was dying to go to my first college football game but was told the only way I could go with them was if I rooted for the Tigers. I agreed and the rest is history. ;)

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One of the best games ever! Definitely and Instant Classic


Aug 12, 2012, 3:58 PM

It was the first time I ever flew.....great trip!

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1984 home game vs duke, sat on the hill and watched….


Aug 12, 2012, 3:47 PM

William Perry eviscerate Duke's offense. The sun was so bright that day, and the stadium was so beautiful. I still remember it as if it happened yesterday. I was five years old at the time. One of the most special memories of my childhood.

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I was too young to remember it. The earliest one that I can


Aug 12, 2012, 3:49 PM

distinguish from the others was NC State in 1967 when the Clemson team painted their shoes orange. I have memories of being at games before that, but have no idea now who we were playing.

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Aug 12, 2012, 3:52 PM

nov. 25 '61 c.u. 23 nc state and all everything roman gabe -0 3rd of 4 in a row against nc stae..10 y.o at the time... all clemson all the time ever since !

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I think it was at Sirrine Stadium in Gville vs Furman 1958.


Aug 12, 2012, 3:54 PM

Sugar Bowl team

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1948, PC, I think.***


Aug 12, 2012, 4:19 PM



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Mary Land 1980


Aug 12, 2012, 4:22 PM

21-7 for title. Bought bumper sticker in parking lot after that said-- "A chicken kickin makes it perfect 11-0 !" And it was perfect 1 week later

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Vs. the Capons in 1972 in the Valley...


Aug 12, 2012, 4:22 PM

...cold rain becoming sleet, a good 15 degrees colder than when we left Charleston that morning with my brother-in-law. Stood on the hill (no one sat in that icy muck!) as we edged the Chickens.

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Aug 12, 2012, 4:23 PM

Yeah I think Mine was a loss to marshall.....98 was my freshmen year and it was a looooong season

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Aug 12, 2012, 5:44 PM

opps 99 was marshall...98 was the vt loss

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1991 CU vs GT...We won 9-7. Sheeesh***


Aug 12, 2012, 4:33 PM



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Georgia-1981


Aug 12, 2012, 5:42 PM

,

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FSU 2007


Aug 12, 2012, 5:44 PM

I was a freshman, and it was 1 of only 2 games i ever sat on the hill. What a game.

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9/30/1978


Aug 12, 2012, 5:45 PM

Went to the Villanova game with my Dad. We won big (31-0) and afterwards my typically understated Dad said "We might be pretty good this year"

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Georgia 1985, we lost.***


Aug 12, 2012, 5:53 PM



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VT game in 1980


Aug 12, 2012, 5:54 PM

Mom said I couldn't go, but I went ahead and jumped in the car with friends.

OMG... so worth the 9 weeks of grounding I got when I got home.

Of all my teenage disobedient actions this was one of the FEW that was worth it.

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The first???


Aug 12, 2012, 5:57 PM

I was 2, I don't remember that one. The first one I can recall was a Clemson/Georgia game in the mid '70's. I know we lost.

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1960 - I think it was Furman but am not certain.


Aug 12, 2012, 6:03 PM

Go Tigers!

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No...I was seven months old.***


Aug 12, 2012, 6:16 PM



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1981 National Championship....


Aug 12, 2012, 6:17 PM

don't really remember it because I was only 7 yrs old;)

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Aug 12, 2012, 6:38 PM

My first game was PC vs Clemson in 1956...we went 7-1-2 that year and Frank Howard won our first ACC Championship after the conference was formed. Only loss was to Miami.

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Just to show you the difference in now and then...


Aug 12, 2012, 6:47 PM

I can not remember the year, probably about 1960. Can't remember who we played. I had been brought up as a Tiger and this sealed the deal. What I do remember is I had to wear my Sunday best, along with the little white gloves (but, darn, I was cute,,;) ) My Dad was in his suit and my Mom in her Sunday suit and hat. I can remember the area where I sat. Everyone was dressed this way.

My, how times have changed, but one thing that has not changed is I am Orange forever.

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1974 versus Georgia


Aug 12, 2012, 6:50 PM

Bennie Cunningham had a big day !

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Aug 12, 2012, 7:00 PM

My first game as a spectator was 1944, as a ninth grader in high school. I remember very little of the game. I do recall, however, that my good friend (now deceased) and I were given tickets on the Carolina side, located at about the forty yard line, by a local attorney in our home town. I believe Clemson won 20-13. My next game attendance was in 1945 at Clemson, against Pensacola Naval Station, that was won by the Tigers 7-6. I think I am correct in recalling that Butch Butler, although not then having been discharged from the Navy, played as the Clemson punter in that game.

I am a proud Clemson graduate (Class of 1950) and would be pleased to know if there are any TigerNetters with an earlier game attendance than mine of 1944. If so, I think we might have some fond memories to relate.

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Aug 12, 2012, 7:40 PM

Georgia 2003, my freshman year. We got beat 30-0 and I got sun poisoning, but that was also the year of 63-17 so it equaled out.

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Same here, Marshall 1999.


Aug 12, 2012, 8:00 PM

It sounds like we even sat in the same section; I was a couple of years older though.

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1968 vs Citadel***


Aug 12, 2012, 8:31 PM



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1971 vs. Mryland***


Aug 12, 2012, 8:33 PM



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Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.


1975 Tulane***


Aug 12, 2012, 9:53 PM



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Re: 1975 Tulane***


Aug 12, 2012, 9:57 PM

I remember a sign in DV that day that said It's a one way road Two Lane.

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9-10-1977 Vs Maryland


Aug 12, 2012, 10:28 PM

We lost 21-14, but that was the year we were on the way back and the beginning of Clemson's Golden age.....

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Aug 12, 2012, 10:29 PM

Clemson vs. Georgia 87. Great game that ended with a long field goal for the win for the Tigers.

Great game and I fell in love with the Tigers that day.

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Aug 12, 2012, 10:54 PM

Wake Forest 1955 ... last night game for many years

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1973 - Freshman year: 14-12 over the Citadel


Aug 12, 2012, 10:58 PM

How about that? I had never been to a Clemson football game until the very first game my freshman year.

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1987: CU 33 GT 12***


Aug 12, 2012, 10:59 PM



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NC State in 1994


Aug 12, 2012, 11:13 PM

Tigers got smoked. Even in a loss, I fell in love with Clmeson and I was hooked. Selecting Clemson for grad school was one of the best decisions I have ever made.

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NC State in 1994


Aug 12, 2012, 11:16 PM

Tigers got smoked. Even in a loss, I fell in love with Clmeson and I was hooked. Selecting Clemson for grad school was one of the best decisions I have ever made.

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Rice... think we won like 19-0. maybe in 80 or 81***


Aug 12, 2012, 11:31 PM



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'77 @ SCar f/Fuller-to-Butler's "The Catch". Good time!***


Aug 13, 2012, 7:13 AM



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