{{Short description|American short story writer (1936–2023)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2018}} {{Use American English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox person | name = Edith Pearlman | image = Edith Pearlman 2011 NBCC Awards 2012 Shankbone 2.JPG | alt = <!-- descriptive text for use by speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software --> | caption = Pearlman in 2012 | birth_name = Edith Ann Grossman | birth_date = {{Birth date|1936|06|26}} | birth_place = Providence, Rhode Island, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|2023|01|01|1936|06|26}} | death_place = Brookline, Massachusetts, U.S. | alma_mater = Radcliffe College | other_names = | occupation = Writer | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }}
'''Edith Ann Pearlman''' (''née'' '''Grossman'''; June 26, 1936 – January 1, 2023) was an American short story writer.<ref name=random>[http://www.randomhouse.com/anchor/ohenry/spotlight/pearlman.html Edith Pearlman], Author Spotlight, Pen/O. Henry Prize Stories</ref>
==Early life and career== Pearlman was born in Providence, Rhode Island, where she grew up in a middle-class Jewish neighborhood, the daughter of Edna (Rosen) and Herman Paul Grossman, an ophthalmologist. Her father was born in Ukraine, and her maternal grandparents emigrated from Poland.<ref name=nyt/> She graduated from Radcliffe College.<ref>[http://www.radcliffe.edu/about/quarterly/s03_pearlman.aspx] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100620062728/http://www.radcliffe.edu/about/quarterly/s03_pearlman.aspx|date=June 20, 2010}} "Love Among the Greats by Edith Pearlman '57", ''Radcliffe Quarterly'', Summer 2003</ref> She has worked in a computer firm and a soup kitchen and has served in the Town Meeting of Brookline, Massachusetts.{{citation needed|date=June 2012}}
Her non-fiction has appeared in ''The Atlantic Monthly'', ''Smithsonian'', ''Preservation'', and ''Ploughshares''. Her travel writing – about the Cotswolds, Budapest, Jerusalem, Paris, and Tokyo – has been published in ''The New York Times''<ref>[http://travel.nytimes.com/gst/travel/travsearch2.html?term=byline%3ABy%20EDITH%20PEARLMAN]{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Works by Edith Pearlman, ''New York Times'', "Travel" section</ref> and elsewhere.
In January 2015, her fifth collection of short stories, ''Honeydew'', was chosen as one of Oprah Winfrey's "top 19 books to read right now".
==Personal life and death== Pearlman lived in Brookline, Massachusetts, with her husband.<ref>[http://www.pw.org/content/edith_pearlman_1] Edith Pearlman, ''Poets & Writers'', Directory of Writers</ref> They had two children.
Pearlman died in Brookline on January 1, 2023, at the age of 86.<ref name=nyt>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/01/obituaries/edith-pearlman-dead.html|title=Edith Pearlman, Writer Who Won Acclaim Late in Life, Dies at 86|work=The New York Times|first=Rebecca|last=Chace|date=1 January 2023|access-date=1 January 2023}}</ref>
==Awards and honors== Source:<ref>[http://www.edithpearlman.com/awards/index.htm] Edith Pearlman website</ref>
*2014 Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize, shortlist, ''Binocular Vision''<ref>{{cite press release|url=http://www.booktrade.info/index.php/showarticle/50988/|title=The 2014 Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize Shortlist|date=November 27, 2013|accessdate=November 30, 2013|publisher=Book Trade|archive-url=https://archive.today/20131130084624/http://www.booktrade.info/index.php/showarticle/50988/|archive-date=November 30, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> *2012 National Book Critics Circle Award, ''Binocular Vision'' *2011 Edward Lewis Wallant Award, ''Binocular Vision'' *2011 PEN/Malamud Award *2011 National Book Award for Fiction, finalist, ''Binocular Vision'' *2008 Pushcart Prize XXXIII, "Door Psalm" *2006 ''The Best American Short Stories 2006'', "Self-Reliance" *2003 The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, "The Story" *2001 Pushcart Prize XXV, "Mates" *2000 ''The Best American Short Stories 2000'', "Allog" *1999 The Antioch Review Distinguished Fiction Award *1998 ''The Best American Short Stories 1998'', "Chance" *1991 Syndicated Fiction Award (from NEA) *1987 Syndicated Fiction Award *1984 The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, "Conveniences" *1978 The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, "Hanging Fire"
==Works== ===Short story collections=== *{{Cite book |title=Vaquita and Other Stories |url=https://archive.org/details/vaquitaotherstor00edit |url-access=registration |publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press |year=1996 |isbn=9780822962113}} Winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize *{{Cite book |title=Love Among the Greats and Other Stories |publisher=Eastern Washington University Press |year=2002 |isbn=9780910055802}} Winner of Spokane Prize for Literature *{{Cite book|title=How to Fall: Stories|publisher=Sarabande Books|year=2005|isbn=9781932511116}} Winner of Mary McCarthy Prize *{{Cite book|title=Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories|publisher=Lookout Books|year=2011|isbn=9780982338292|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/binocularvisionn00pear}} *{{Cite book|title=Honeydew: Stories|publisher=Little, Brown and Company|year=2014|isbn=9780316297226}}
===Anthologies=== *{{Cite book|title=An Inn Near Kyoto: Writing by American Women Abroad|editor1=Kathleen Coskran |editor2=Calvin William Truesdale|publisher=New Rivers Press|year=1998|isbn=9780898231816|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/innnearkyotowrit0000unse}} *{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8Gx4ol83l00C&q=Edith+Pearlman&pg=PA117|chapter=The Kiss|title=Prague and the Czech Republic: True Stories|editor1=David Farley |editor2=Jessie Sholl|publisher=Travelers' Tales|year=2006|isbn=9781932361339}}
===Stories=== {| class="wikitable" |+ |- ! Title !! Publication !! Collected in |- | "Which Eleanor Am I?" || ''Seventeen'' (May 1969) || - |- | "The Liniments of Love" || ''Seventeen'' (September 1969) || - |- | "Ring Out the New" || ''Seventeen'' (December 1969) || - |- | "Her Own Kind" || ''Seventeen'' (May 1970) || - |- | "One Touch of a Wizard's Wand" || ''Redbook'' (August 1972) || - |- | "At Miss Elvira's" || ''Ingenue'' (April 1973) || - |- | "Menage" || ''Carleton Miscellany'' 15.1 (Fall 1974-Winter 1975) || - |- | "New Year's Eve at the Litvans'" || ''Ascent'' 3.1 (Winter 1977) || - |- | "Hanging Fire" || ''The Massachusetts Review'' 18.1 (Spring 1977) || ''Binocular Vision'' |- | "Sydney" || ''Ascent'' 4.1 (Winter 1978) || - |- | "Bun" || ''Ascent'' (1980–81) || - |- | "Dreaming" || ''Ascent'' (1981) || - |- | "Conveniences" || ''Ascent'' 8.1 (Winter 1982) || ''Honeydew'' |- | "The Book" || ''New England Review'' 4.3 (Spring 1982) || - |- | "The Silent Wound" || ''Ascent'' (1983) || - |- | "National Characters" || ''StoryQuarterly'' (Spring 1984) || - |- | "Legacy" || ''Ascent'' (Fall 1984) || - |- | "Lou in New York" || ''CrossCurrents'' 5.2 (Spring 1985) || - |- | "Settlers" || ''Commentary'' (January 1986) || rowspan=2| ''Vaquita'' |- | "Felix's Business" || ''New England Review/Bread Loaf Quarterly'' 8.4 (Summer 1986) |- | "A Family Trait" || ''Ascent'' (Spring 1987) || - |- | "Boy Meets Girl" || ''PEN Syndicated Fiction'' (Summer 1987) || - |- | "Sunday Suppers" || ''Other Voices'' 6/7 (Fall 1987) || - |- | "The Large Lady" || ''CrossCurrents'' (Fall 1987) || ''How to Fall'' |- | "Art of the Camera" || ''Oak Square'' (Fall 1987) || - |- | "Dear Hearts" || ''Boston Review'' (February 1988) || - |- | "Their Pride and Joy" || ''Redbook'' (May 1988) || - |- | "Hands Across the Sea" || ''Redstart'' (June 1988) || - |- | "Protector" || ''Ascent'' (Summer 1988) || - |- | "The King of Sweden" || ''The Alaska Quarterly Review'' 7.1/2 (Fall 1988-Winter 1989) || - |- | "Swampmaiden" || ''The Iowa Review'' 19.1 (Winter 1989) || - |- | "Tongues" || ''New England Review/Bread Loaf Quarterly'' 12.2 (Winter 1989) || - |- | "Edict" || ''Tikkun'' (March/April 1989) || - |- | "Blanche's Season" || ''Other Voices'' 10 (Spring 1989) || - |- | "Their Dan" || ''The Massachusetts Review'' 31.4 (Winter 1990) || - |- | "The Folks at Home" || ''The Iowa Review'' 20.1 (Winter 1990) || - |- | "June the Twentieth" || ''Oak Square'' (Winter 1990) || - |- | "Her Day" || ''Response'' (Winter 1990) || - |- | "Eighteen Questions" || ''The Alaska Quarterly Review'' 8.3/4 (Spring-Summer 1990) || - |- | "Donna's Heart" || ''Ascent'' (Fall 1990) || ''Vaquita'' |- | "Brief Lives" || ''Thema'' (Fall 1990) || - |- | "The Mid-Day Fairy" || ''The Fiddlehead'' 165 (Autumn 1990) || - |- | "The Handkerchief" || ''Phoebe: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Feminist Scholarship, Theory and Aesthetics'' 2.2 (Fall 1990) || - |- | "Aunt Irma Adjusts to Her New Surroundings" || ''Kalliope: A Journal of Women's Art'' 12.3 (1990) || - |- | "The Lives of the Aunts" || ''The Iowa Review'' 21.1 (Winter 1991) || - |- | "I Remember You" || ''CrossCurrents'' 5.4/6 (Winter 1991) || - |- | "Sweet Counsel" || ''Gopherwood Review'' (Winter 1991) || - |- | "Moving Day" || ''Villager'' (Winter 1991) || - |- | "Left-Handed Girl" || ''Thema'' (Spring 1991) || - |- | "Ledivan's Quest" || ''Ascent'' (Summer 1991) || - |- | "Honeymoon" || ''CrossCurrents'' (1991) || - |- | "One Not Chosen" || ''Event'' (Spring 1992) || - |- | "Some Turbulence" || ''Sound of Writing'' (Spring 1992) || - |- | "The Non-Combatant" || ''The Alaska Quarterly Review'' 10.3/4 (Spring-Summer 1992) || ''Vaquita'' |- | "The Game of the Name" || ''The Jewish Spectator'' (Summer 1992) || - |- | "Nate, Dead and Alive" || ''Emrys Journal'' (Summer 1992) || - |- | "Going to the Barn" || ''Gopherwood Review'' (Summer 1992) || - |- | "Madeleines" || ''Kalliope: A Journal of Women's Art'' 14.1 (1992) || - |- | "Stranger in the House" || ''Tikkun'' 8.1 (January–February 1993) || ''Vaquita'' |- | "Binocular Vision" || ''The Boston Globe'' (March 21, 1993) || ''Binocular Vision'' |- | "Dorothea" || ''Witness'' (Spring 1993) || rowspan=2| ''Vaquita'' |- | "Rehearsals" || ''Ascent'' (Spring 1993) |- | "I Follow My Wife" || ''The Massachusetts Review'' 34.1 (Spring 1993) || - |- | "The Cook" || ''The Alaska Quarterly Review'' 11.3/4 (Spring-Summer 1993) || ''Vaquita'' |- | "All the Things You Are" || ''Thema'' (Fall 1993) || - |- | "All Their Sins" || ''Whetstone'' (1993) || - |- | "Marlene Tighe Winokaur" || ''Kalliope: A Journal of Women's Art'' 15.2 (1993) || - |- | "The Thought of You" || ''Other Voices'' 20 (Spring 1994) || ''Love Among the Greats'' |- | "Worldviews" || ''Emrys Journal'' (Spring 1994) || - |- | "Quality Time" || ''Mothering'' (June 1994) || - |- | "Day of Awe"<br>aka "To Reach This Season" || ''The Alaska Quarterly Review'' 13.1/2 (Fall 1994-Winter 1995) || ''Vaquita'' |- | "Rules" || ''Witness'' 8.2 (1994) || ''How to Fall'' |- | "Timing" || ''Magic Realism'' (Winter 1995) || - |- | "Devil's Trill" || ''This'' (Winter 1995) || - |- | "Watching Isabel" || ''Event'' (Winter 1995) || - |- | "Sympathizer" || ''The Massachusetts Review'' 36.1 (Spring 1995) || - |- | "Swans" || ''Santa Barbara Review'' (Summer 1995) || - |- | "Vegetarian Chili" || ''Happy'' (Fall 1995) || ''How to Fall'' |- | "Inbound" || ''The Boston Globe'' (November 26, 1995) || rowspan=2| ''Vaquita'' |- | "Charity" || ''Ascent'' (Spring 1996) |- | "Allergies" || ''The Antioch Review'' 54.4 (Autumn 1996) || - |- | "Cavalier" || ''Witness'' 10.2 (1996) || rowspan=4| ''Vaquita'' |- | "Vaquita" || rowspan=3| ''Vaquita'' (November 1996) |- | "The Headwaiter's Son" |- | "Afternoons" |- | "Fedra's Wings" || ''Santa Barbara Review'' (Spring 1997) || - |- | "Abundance" || ''Widener Review'' (Summer 1997) || - |- | "Adventures of Henriette" || ''Whetstone'' (Summer 1997) || - |- | "Chance" || ''The Antioch Review'' 55.4 (Autumn 1997) || ''Love Among the Greats'' |- | "Eyesore" || ''Ascent'' (Fall 1997) || ''How to Fall'' |- | "Poste Restante" || ''Kalliope: A Journal of Women's Art'' 19.2 (1997) || - |- | "Gaffer's Delights" || ''The Antioch Review'' 56.4 (Autumn 1998) || - |- | "A Gentle Heart" || ''CrossCurrents'' (Fall 1998) || - |- | "Deliverance" || ''Ascent'' 23.1 (Fall 1998) || ''Honeydew'' |- | "Home Schooling" || ''The Alaska Quarterly Review'' 17.1/2 (Fall 1997-Winter 1998) || rowspan=2| ''How to Fall'' |- | "The Message" || ''An Inn in Kyoto: Writing by American Women Abroad'' (1998) |- | "Imre's Fate" || ''Sweet Annie & Sweet Pea Review'' (1998) || - |- | "ToyFolk" || ''Ascent'' (Winter 1999) || ''Love Among the Greats'' |- | "Christmas Eve" || ''Evansville Review'' (Spring 1999) || - |- | "Accomodators" || ''The Antioch Review'' 57.4 (Autumn 1999) || rowspan=2| ''Love Among the Greats'' |- | "Allog" || ''Ascent'' (Fall 1999) |- | "Rescue" || ''Bananafish'' (Fall 1999-Winter 2000) || - |- | "Girl and Marble Boy" || ''The Atlantic'' (December 29, 1999) || - |- | "The Shrug" || ''Witness'' 13.2 (1999) || - |- | "Fitting" || ''The Kenyon Review'' 22.1 (Winter 2000) || ''Love Among the Greats'' |- | "End of the World" || ''Larcom Review'' (January 2000) || - |- | "The Jigsaw Table" || ''Yankee'' (July–August 2000) || ''Love Among the Greats'' |- | "Skin Deep" || ''The Antioch Review'' 58.4 (Autumn 2000) || - |- | "Mates" || ''Pleiades'' (2000) || ''How to Fall'' |- | "Finery" || ''Ascent'' (2000) || - |- | "Love Among the Greats" || ''Ascent'' (Winter 2001) || rowspan=2| ''Love Among the Greats'' |- | "Neighbors" || ''Ascent'' (Fall 2001) |- | "Unravished Bride" || ''Pleiades'' (2001) || ''Binocular Vision'' |- | "Trifle" || ''West Branch'' (Spring 2002) || rowspan=3| ''How to Fall'' |- | "The Story" || ''The Alaska Quarterly Review'' 19.3/4 (Spring-Summer 2002) |- | "If Love Were All" || ''Turnrow'' 2.1 (Summer 2002) |- | "On Our Own" || ''On the Page'' 8 (Autumn 2002) || - |- | "Big Fish" || ''Pleiades'' || rowspan=4| ''Love Among the Greats'' |- | "Fidelity" || rowspan=3| ''Love Among the Greats'' (November 2002) |- | "Tess" aka "Tess's Team" |- | "Sonya's Place" |- | "Up" || ''Kalliope: A Journal of Women's Literature and Art'' 23.3/24.1 (2002) || - |- | "Calvin" || ''Witness'' 16.1 (2002) || - |- | "Shenanigans" || ''Ascent'' (Winter 2003) || ''How to Fall'' |- | "Beau Geste" || ''Ascent'' (Fall 2003) || - |- | "Night People" || ''Northeast Magazine'' (Fall 2003) || - |- | "Silence" || ''Hotel Amerika'' 2.1 (Fall 2003) || - |- | "How to Fall" || ''Idaho Review'' 5 (2003) || ''How to Fall'' |- | "Dream Children" || ''Post Road'' 7 (Fall 2003-Winter 2004) || ''Honeydew'' |- | "The Good Life" || ''Ascent'' (2003) || - |- | "Madame Guralnik" || ''Midstream'' (February–March 2004) || ''How to Fall'' |- | "Envy" || ''Thema'' 16.1 (Spring 2004) || - |- | "Lost Joy" || ''Epiphany'' 1 (Spring-Summer 2004) || - |- | "Prodigal Niece" || ''The Antioch Review'' 62.3 (Summer 2004) || - |- | "The Coat" || ''Idaho Review'' 6 (2004) || rowspan=2| ''How to Fall'' |- | "Purim Night" || ''Witness'' 18.1 (2004) |- | "Flip and Marian" || ''Kalliope: A Journal of Women's Literature and Art'' 26.2 (2004) || - |- | "Self-Reliance" || ''Lake Effect'' 9 (Spring 2005) || rowspan=2| ''Binocular Vision'' |- | "Granski" || ''The Antioch Review'' 63.3 (Summer 2005) |- | "South Market" || ''Pakn Treger'' (Summer 2005) || - |- | "Mimi" || ''Mid-American Review'' 26.1 (Fall 2005) || - |- | "Girl in Blue with Brown Bag" || ''West Branch'' 57 (Fall 2005-Winter 2006) || - |- | "Signs of Life" || ''How to Fall'' (2005) || ''How to Fall'' |- | "On Junius Bridge" || ''Agni'' 61 (2005) || ''Binocular Vision'' |- | "Diplomacy" || ''Salamander'' 11.1 (2005/2006) || - |- | "Speak to Me of Love" || ''Lake Effect'' 10 (Spring 2006) || - |- | "Aunt Telephone" || ''The Antioch Review'' 64.3 (Summer 2006) || ''Binocular Vision'' |- | "Life Jackets" || ''Crab Orchard Review'' 11.2 (Summer-Fall 2006) || - |- | "Lineage" || ''Idaho Review'' 8 (2006) || ''Binocular Vision'' |- | "Her Cousin Jamie" || ''Salamander'' 12.1 (2006/2007) || rowspan=2| ''Honeydew'' |- | "Puck" || ''Ascent'' 30.2 (Winter 2007) |- | "Relic and Type" || ''Pakn Treger'' (Spring 2007) || rowspan=2| ''Binocular Vision'' |- | "Elder Jinks" || ''The Antioch Review'' 65.4 (Fall 2007) |- | "The Golden Swan" || ''The Alaska Quarterly Review'' 24.3/4 (Fall-Winter 2007) || rowspan=2| ''Honeydew'' |- | "Cul-de-Sac" || ''Agni'' 65 (2007) |- | "Gifts" || ''An Intricate Weave'', ed. Marlene Miller (2007) || - |- | "The Ministry of Restraint" || ''Ecotone'' 7 (Winter 2008) || ''Binocular Vision'' |- | "Assisted Living" || ''Ascent'' 31.2 (Winter 2008) || rowspan=2| ''Honeydew'' |- | "Hat Trick" || ''The Cincinnati Review'' 4.2 (Winter 2008) |- | "Snoop" || ''Lake Effect'' 12 (Spring 2008) || - |- | "The Little Wife" || ''Ontario Review'' 68 (Spring-Summer 2008) || ''Binocular Vision'' |- | "Guides" || ''Ascent'' (Fall 2008) || - |- | "The Transparent House" || ''Writecorner Press'' (2008) || - |- | "First Fruits" || ''Sonora Review'' 52 (2008) || - |- | "Exit Nurse" || ''Superstition Review'' 3 (Spring 2009) || - |- | "Tale" || ''The Cincinnati Review'' 6.1 (Summer 2009) || - |- | "Castle 4" || ''The Alaska Quarterly Review'' 26.3/4 (Fall 2009-Winter 2010) || ''Honeydew'' |- | "Capers" || ''Ascent'' (2009) || rowspan=2| ''Binocular Vision'' |- | "Jan Term" || ''Idaho Review'' 10 (2009) |- | "It Is I" || ''VerbSap'' (Winter 2010) || - |- | "Niche" || ''The Antioch Review'' 36.2 (Spring 2010) || - |- | "Big Sister" || ''The Massachusetts Review'' 51.2 (Summer 2010) || - |- | "Flowers"<br>aka "Hearts and Flowers" || ''The Cincinnati Review'' 7.1 (Summer 2010) || ''Honeydew'' |- | "Vallies" || ''Ecotone'' 10 (Fall 2010) || ''Binocular Vision'' |- | "Tenderfoot" || ''Idaho Review'' 11/12 (2010-2011) || ''Honeydew'' |- | "Sentimental Ballads" || ''Passages North'' 32.1 (Winter-Spring 2011) || - |- | "Skylight" || ''Lake Effect'' 15 (Spring 2011) || - |- | "Honeydew" || ''Orion'' (September–October 2011) || ''Honeydew'' |- | "S. faux" || ''The American Scholar'' 81.1 (Winter 2012) || - |- | "Life Lessons" || ''The Cincinnati Review'' 8.2 (Winter 2012) || - |- | "Last Words" || ''Shenandoah'' (Winter-Spring 2012) || - |- | "Grossie" || ''The Antioch Review'' 70.3 (Summer 2012) || - |- | "Just So" || ''Virginia Quarterly Review'' 88.3 (Summer 2012) || - |- | "The Kargman Affliction" || ''Moment'' (July 2012) || - |- | "What the Ax Forgets the Tree Remembers"<br>aka "The Ax Forgets, the Tree Remembers" || ''Ecotone'' 14 (Fall 2012) || rowspan=2| ''Honeydew'' |- | "Stone" || ''Agni'' 75 (2012) |- | "The Gentle Girl" || ''Iron Horse Review'' 14.6 (2012) || - |- | "Wait and See" || ''The American Scholar'' 82.1 (Winter 2013) || ''Honeydew'' |- | "Decorum" || ''The Antioch Review'' 71.4 (Fall 2013) || - |- | "The Descent of Happiness" || ''Epiphany'' 13 (Fall 2013-Winter 2014) || rowspan=2| ''Honeydew'' |- | "Blessed Harry" || ''Harvard Review'' 44 (2013) |- | "Exultemus" || ''Imaginary Oklahoma'', ed. Jeff Martin (2013) || - |- | "Sonny" || ''Fifth Wednesday Journal'' 14 (Spring 2014) || rowspan=2| ''Honeydew'' |- | "Fishwater" || ''Ploughshares'' 40.2/3 (Fall 2014) |- | "First Lady" || ''Idaho Review'' 14 (2014) || - |- | "Comfort" || ''The Saturday Evening Post'' (July–August 2016) || - |- |}
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==External links== *{{official website|http://www.edithpearlman.com/}} *[http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/153995054?q=pearlman&c=article Trove] *[http://www.commentarymagazine.com/section/literary/ ''Commentary Magazine'']
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