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00:02 Canada. 00:04 There is a popular legend of 00:05 two wolves, I'm sure you've 00:07 heard it, it goes like this: 00:09 An old Cherokee is teaching 00:11 his grandson about life. 00:13 >> "A fight is going on" 00:15 "inside me," he said to the 00:17 boy, "It is a terrible fight" 00:20 "and it is between two wolves." 00:22 >> "One is evil, he is anger," 00:25 "sorrow, regret, greed," 00:26 "self-pity, guilt," 00:28 "and resentment." 00:30 >> He continued: "The other" 00:32 "is good." 00:33 "He is joy, peace, love," 00:35 "hope, humility, kindness," 00:37 "compassion and faith." 00:39 >> "The same fight is going" 00:41 "on inside you and inside" 00:43 "every person, too," the old 00:45 man warned his grandson. 00:48 >> The grandson thought about 00:50 it for a minute and then asked 00:52 his grandfather, "Which wolf" 00:54 "will win?" 00:56 >> The old Cherokee simply 00:57 replied, "The one you feed." 01:01 >> As a Christian, I can see 01:03 the conflict and struggle 01:05 between the two natures: 01:07 the old and the new nature 01:09 or the conflict between the 01:11 spirit and the flesh. 01:13 >> And how do we feed 01:15 the spirit? 01:16 Jesus answered this question 01:18 very clearly when He said, 01:20 "It is the Spirit who gives" 01:21 "life, the flesh" 01:23 "profits nothing." 01:24 "The words that I speak to" 01:26 "you are spirit and they" 01:28 "are life." 01:30 >> The prophet, Jeremiah, also 01:31 told us how to feed the 01:33 spirit when he announced, 01:35 "Your words were found and I" 01:37 "ate them and your word was" 01:39 "to me the joy and rejoicing" 01:42 "of my heart." 01:43 >> Our special guest on It Is 01:45 Written Canada today is 01:47 Ian McPherson, a young man who 01:49 was once part of a gang, 01:51 involved in a life of pain, 01:53 anger, resentment, and 01:55 addiction. 01:56 In a moment you will meet Ian 01:58 and hear his story of how he 02:00 is now daily deciding to feed 02:03 the spirit and starve 02:05 the flesh. 02:06 ♪♪ 02:50 >> Welcome again to 02:52 It Is Written Canada. 02:53 We are in Calgary, Alberta and 02:56 we're visiting with 02:58 Ian McPherson. 03:00 >> I first heard about Ian 03:02 from his two younger brothers, 03:04 Caleb and Jacob, when I was 03:05 teaching Bible class at 03:07 Fountainview Academy in 03:09 British Columbia. 03:11 And they would constantly say 03:13 to me, every time there was a 03:14 prayer request they would 03:16 raise their hands and say, 03:17 "Mrs. Lemon, you have to" 03:19 "pray-- we have to pray for" 03:20 "my br-- my older" 03:21 "brother, Ian." 03:22 And then eventually it was, 03:24 "We have to pray for Ian and" 03:25 "his little daughter," and so 03:27 the-- we prayed for Ian and 03:29 for his daughter 03:31 every single time. 03:33 And so, Ian, we're here now 03:37 and I finally get to meet you 03:40 and see how God has answered 03:43 all those prayers that we were 03:45 praying for you in our 03:46 Bible 10 class. 03:48 So welcome here to It Is 03:49 Written today. 03:51 >> Thank you. 03:52 Thank you so much for having 03:53 me, guys, it's a...it's a 03:54 it's a blessing and honour 03:56 to be here, thank you. 03:57 >> Yeah, I remember René 03:59 mentioning to me how your 04:02 brothers were praying for you 04:04 and we were all praying 04:06 for you, so... 04:07 And I know that, from your 04:08 story, that you had gotten 04:10 involved in going down a very 04:12 dark path with gangs, but 04:15 before we go there, it wasn't 04:17 always like that in your life, 04:19 you did have some good 04:21 early years. 04:21 You wanna take us back 04:22 to that? 04:23 >> Sure. 04:24 So I was born in Red Deer, 04:26 1991, my mom and my dad, they 04:29 were together for the first 04:31 three, four years of my life. 04:34 They had their problems, stuff 04:36 like that, they ended up 04:37 splitting up when I was about 04:39 four, five I think and my dad 04:43 wasn't living a Christian 04:44 lifestyle at that point 04:46 until he left my mom. 04:48 That's where they split 04:49 because my dad decided to go 04:51 back to the church. 04:54 Doing that, he ended up 04:55 meeting my stepmom, Julie. 04:57 Being the young fellow that I 04:59 was, I became very hurt, 05:01 anger, upset. 05:05 My youth, growing up, I was, 05:07 I was a bad kid. 05:09 I would torture my parents. 05:12 I had a lot of pain so I 05:14 figured if I put enough pain 05:16 maybe my stepmom will leave 05:18 and I can get my life back. 05:20 And so that's kinda what I did 05:23 and it didn't work out the 05:24 best for me as I got older. 05:26 I got smarter, I started doing 05:29 things that were way worse 05:31 than before. 05:32 My words were weapons, 05:34 everything I did was to hurt 05:36 and to drive my stepmom away 05:38 so that I could have my 05:39 family back. 05:41 >> So did you end up staying 05:43 at home with your stepmom and 05:45 your dad? 05:47 >> No, at thirteen years old 05:49 I ended up going to a 05:51 foster home. 05:53 I needed to go to the foster 05:55 home because my parents 05:56 couldn't afford to pay for the 05:58 psychology, for the counselling, 06:00 for whatever I needed 06:04 at that point because I would 06:05 outsmart the counsellors. 06:07 They left me there. 06:09 I started...I started using 06:12 drugs, gang stuff. 06:16 It was just hard growing up 06:18 having all that pain in the 06:20 heart, in the soul, resentment. 06:23 You wanna-- I wanted to take 06:24 it out on the world, I wanted 06:26 to be the worst of the worst. 06:28 My nickname was "Fez." 06:30 I grew up in a foster home 06:31 with all white guys, I was the 06:33 native guy, Fez is from The 06:35 70's Show, he's Mexican, but 06:38 nonetheless, that was my name, 06:39 teachers, everybody called me 06:40 "Fez," so that was my name. 06:42 It gave me a sense of 06:43 belonging, especially when I 06:46 started joining gangs, things 06:47 like that. 06:49 It gave me a sense of family 06:51 that I thought they had left 06:53 me behind, I thought God had 06:55 left me behind, I thought 06:56 everyone had left me behind, 06:57 but they were praying for me 07:00 and I'm glad because it saved 07:03 my life. 07:05 >> So, Ian, what was foster 07:06 care like for you? 07:08 >> Foster care, it was... 07:11 It was a mixture of wanting to 07:13 feel safe and not wanting to 07:15 be there at all. 07:17 It was OK, I mean in the 07:18 house, the foster brothers and 07:20 me, we formed a special bond. 07:23 That was our way of coping 07:24 with what was going on so we 07:26 became an unbreakable force, 07:28 all of us. 07:29 Even though we knew this was 07:30 all happening, we didn't wanna 07:31 say anything about it, we just 07:33 lived our lives the best we 07:35 could with what was going on. 07:39 He would use drugs and 07:41 alcohol, money, he did 07:44 anything he could to 07:46 manipulate us into getting 07:48 what he wanted. 07:49 So with these things going on, 07:52 he hurt us and he hurt me 07:55 and he hurt them. 07:57 And he just did it for his own, 07:59 his own sake, right. 08:02 And during that time in my 08:03 life I was in a gang lifestyle. 08:07 You don't talk, you don't say 08:09 nothing, right, so when the 08:10 cops came to ask me, "Hey," 08:12 "is he doing anything to you?" 08:13 I lied. 08:14 When the news people came, 08:15 I lied again, protecting him 08:17 because that was my mindset, 08:18 it was hardwired into me. 08:19 You don't say anything out 08:21 there, you don't show 08:22 emotions, you don't do 08:24 anything like that. 08:25 It's a dark world. 08:28 You're not allowed to feel 08:29 happy 'cause that's weakness, 08:30 you're not allowed to feel 08:32 sad, you're not allowed to be 08:33 scared 'cause the moment you 08:35 show fear, they'll jump on you 08:37 and they'll take everything 08:38 you have. 08:39 >> So who was this person who 08:40 was doing-- what was 08:41 happening? 08:42 Were they charged? 08:44 >> Yeah, Gary was, he was 08:45 sentenced to, I believe, ten 08:48 years in prison. 08:50 He served eight and he's out 08:52 now, just recently got out, 08:55 but the foster brothers, like 08:57 I said, we came together. 08:58 We were a group like this. 09:01 And I'm like, "Has anything" 09:03 "happened to you guys?" 09:05 I'm like, "I'm not trying to" 09:06 "be weird about this, I just" 09:08 "want to know." 09:09 And they said, "Yes." 09:11 So we decided, let's take it 09:12 to the police. 09:14 The house was for troubled 09:15 teen boys and he played on 09:19 that because it's where nobody 09:21 else wants them, no group 09:22 home, no other foster home 09:23 wants them because they're 09:25 troubled teen boys that no 09:26 one's given a shot and he used 09:29 that for himself, selfishly, 09:31 which caused a lot of anger 09:33 and pain that I wanted to 09:35 project to the world 'cause if 09:37 I have to feel it, why should 09:39 other people not feel it? 09:40 That was my logic. 09:42 My pain is your pain, everyone 09:44 needs to feel it with me. 09:47 And that's where it brought me 09:49 to, that pain, built on with 09:52 what had happened as a kid 09:54 with my mom and dad, it seemed 09:56 like the pain wasn't gonna 09:58 stop and the only way I could 10:00 get it to stop was to drink, 10:02 to do drugs, to go hurt 10:04 other people. 10:07 To go to jail as a vacation 10:09 away from him because... 10:13 you wanna escape, you wanna 10:15 escape that. 10:16 >> So you'd rather be in jail 10:19 than with this pedophile who 10:21 was abusing you boys. 10:23 >> Yeah. 10:24 And that was the story for a 10:26 lot of us. 10:27 And unfortunately a couple of 10:30 my foster brothers overdosed 10:32 and passed away because... 10:35 Because they didn't find God 10:36 like I did. 10:38 They didn't have the chance 10:39 that I had. 10:41 >> So, Ian, can you tell us 10:43 what life was like being part 10:45 of a gang and being on the 10:47 streets and also do you have 10:49 any regrets about that time? 10:52 >> Sure. 10:54 My life on the streets was 10:56 basically one thing: survive. 10:59 Living out there, I started my 11:03 first gang tour, you could 11:06 call it, when I was 13, 14. 11:08 So I just joined up with a 11:10 gang called DT here in Calgary. 11:14 We did everything from 11:15 stealing cars, jumping people, 11:16 robbing people, extorting 11:18 women, selling drugs, we did 11:19 it all. 11:20 So I was good at doing that 11:22 and I got better and better 11:23 at it. 11:24 People in bigger gangs started 11:26 noticing me and taking a 11:27 liking to me and starting to 11:29 try and pull me into 11:30 bigger gangs. 11:32 It's not-- the gang life, 11:34 they're like, "Yes, we're" 11:35 "bros, we're stuck together" 11:36 "we're for life," everything 11:38 like that, but when it really 11:39 comes down do it, it's not. 11:41 You're alone, there's no one 11:42 there but the Devil. 11:46 And bringing good people into 11:49 bad situations, I thought 11:51 that's what... 11:53 I thought that's what it meant 11:54 to be a good gangster, a good 11:56 thug, something that's, I don't 12:00 know, all that and a bag of 12:01 chips out on the street, 12:03 right, 'cause on the street 12:04 when you're a thug, you're a 12:06 gangster, you're crazy, people 12:08 know your name, you're 12:09 respected and left alone. 12:13 It's a survival tactic. 12:14 The worse you are, the better 12:16 off you'll be. 12:19 >> So when you look back on 12:20 that, do you have any regrets 12:22 about any of that behaviour or 12:24 activity you were involved in? 12:26 >> Yes, I do. 12:28 I regret the people I hurt, 12:31 the people that I brought down 12:33 to my level so I didn't have 12:35 to feel alone, I regret not 12:38 finding God sooner 12:41 and I regret not being able to 12:43 share God with the friends and 12:45 family that I've lost. 12:47 All my friends, they started 12:49 dropping like flies and I 12:50 regret that I wasn't able to 12:52 help them. 12:53 And anyway, I wasn't able to 12:55 help myself. 12:56 I've lost so much material 12:58 things, people, relationships, 13:01 I almost lost myself. 13:04 Almost lost myself, my life, 13:06 everything. 13:07 >> And while you were going 13:08 through that, how did you deal 13:09 with the pain? 13:10 >> I would fill my God-shaped 13:12 hole with drugs and alcohol, 13:14 it's what I thought I needed 13:16 to do, I needed to drink 13:18 my pain away. 13:19 As soon as I drink, where's 13:20 the drugs? 13:21 I still feel pain, I need 13:23 more, I need more, 13:24 I need more. 13:25 And it didn't matter how much 13:27 drugs and alcohol and nasty 13:28 things I did to people, it 13:30 didn't take the pain out of my 13:31 heart, it distracted me 13:32 temporarily so I thought it 13:34 was gone, but it was never 13:35 gone, it was always in there, 13:37 eating away at me, festering. 13:39 >> So, Ian, did you ever find 13:42 a way out? 13:43 >> I was trying to escape the 13:45 problem that was in my heart 13:46 rather than, you know, 13:48 dealing with it. 13:50 I was running around, running 13:51 here and there. 13:53 I thought maybe because I 13:54 tried fighting, that didn't 13:55 work out, maybe I should 13:57 try running. 13:58 And I went from city to city, 14:00 same problems, same people it 14:02 seemed like, I would find the 14:03 same people, same problems and 14:06 I just got sick of it, I got 14:08 tired of it, I just couldn't 14:09 do it anymore. 14:10 So... 14:13 I got to a point where I just 14:15 said, "You know what?" 14:17 "I'm done." 14:18 "I can't do this anymore." 14:20 "If I can't fight, if I can't" 14:21 "flight, what is there to do?" 14:24 And the only logical thing in 14:27 that moment was for me to 14:31 off myself. 14:33 So I'm standing there on the 14:35 edge, tenth story of this 14:38 building in Edmonton on my 14:39 aunty's balcony and I was 14:41 gonna jump off. 14:42 I remember holding the top 14:44 balcony, well, it was the roof 14:45 of the building, that's all 14:46 that was left, it was the top 14:47 floor, I remember feeling like 14:50 this kind of peace where I 14:52 just wanted to just go, but at 14:54 the same time I heard a voice 14:56 that said, "Ian," 14:58 "look in your pocket." 15:01 I'm like, "OK," so I look in 15:02 my pocket, it's a little piece 15:03 of paper for a suicide 15:05 prevention line and I have no 15:06 idea where it came from, but 15:07 it was there. 15:09 I called them, they came and 15:10 got me and talked me down, 15:13 brought me to the hospital and 15:14 that's when I knew, I knew 15:17 that there was more to life 15:19 and that God was looking 15:20 out for me. 15:21 ♪♪ 15:36 ♪I hear the Savior say 15:41 ♪Thy strength indeed is small 15:47 ♪Child of weakness 15:49 ♪watch and pray 15:53 ♪Find in Me thine all in all 15:59 ♪Jesus paid it all 16:05 ♪all to Him I owe 16:10 ♪Sin had left a crimson stain 16:16 ♪He washed it white as snow 16:22 ♪♪ 16:30 ♪Lord, now indeed I find 16:36 ♪Thy power and Thine alone 16:41 ♪Can changed the leper's spots 16:46 ♪And melt the heart of stone 16:53 ♪Jesus paid it all 16:58 ♪All to Him I owe 17:03 ♪Sin had left a crimson stain 17:08 ♪He washed it white as snow 17:14 ♪♪ 17:22 ♪And when before the throne 17:28 ♪I stand in Him complete 17:33 ♪I'll lay my trophies down 17:38 ♪All down at Jesus' feet 17:45 ♪Jesus paid it all 17:50 ♪All to Him I owe 17:55 ♪Sin had left a crimson stain 18:03 ♪He washed it white as snow 18:12 ♪♪ 18:27 >> Did you ever feel like you 18:29 had gone too far? 18:30 >> Yes, there has been times 18:32 where, you know, I've hurt 18:34 people, I've attacked them 18:37 with weapons, batons, mace, 18:40 tasers, stuff like that and 18:42 people have done it to me. 18:43 It's part of it and that kind 18:46 of stuff, it-- you have to 18:48 live with it the rest of 18:49 your days. 18:51 You have to live with the 18:53 regret and the pain and the 18:55 shame of hurting people. 18:58 For what...for what? 19:01 And there are times where I 19:03 took it too far. 19:05 And there was a time I almost 19:08 got charged with attempted 19:09 murder because I had hit 19:10 somebody so hard. 19:11 And honestly, I should have 19:12 been, I should have been 19:14 punished for that. 19:16 Things like that, you 19:17 shouldn't do that to people. 19:19 It's not the way God created 19:20 us, He created us to love, not 19:22 to hate, not to hurt. 19:25 And that's all that's out 19:26 there and it's discouraging in 19:28 that world 'cause that's all 19:29 you see, day in, day out. 19:31 How am I gonna survive today 19:33 in this darkness, this hate, 19:35 this pool of anger and evil? 19:39 >> And so after that evening 19:41 when your life was saved from 19:44 suicide, God came close to you. 19:47 Did He come close to 19:49 you again? 19:50 >> Yes, He did. 19:52 There was another time. 19:53 This was after I had been 19:54 sober for about a year. 19:58 Because drugs and alcohol had 20:00 been taken off the table, 20:02 I still had issues inside my 20:05 heart, inside my mind that I 20:07 hadn't dealt with so I figured 20:10 suicide would be the best way 20:12 to get rid it. 20:13 Drugs and alcohol, I can't 20:14 escape anymore, this is the 20:16 only escape for me. 20:18 So I was sitting in my living 20:19 room with a shotgun in my 20:21 mouth and I was about to pull 20:23 the trigger and I feel this 20:25 glow come into the room like, 20:28 it's kinda-- I don't know how 20:30 to describe it, it was like an 20:31 orange-y glow. 20:33 And then the most peaceful, 20:36 calming, relaxing voice just 20:37 says to me, "Ian, this isn't" 20:40 "the end." 20:41 "Your plans, there's so many" 20:43 "more plans for you." 20:44 "Don't do this." 20:47 And it just felt like, it's 20:49 giving be goosebumps 'cause it 20:50 was so calming, but I was 20:52 scared because I've never 20:53 heard that before. 20:55 But I felt so... 20:58 I can't describe it, I've 21:00 never felt a feeling like that 21:01 before in my life. 21:03 And since that moment it's lit 21:06 something inside of me, 21:08 something that hasn't been 21:09 extinguished no matter what 21:10 bad things have happened, and 21:12 there has been a lot, but 21:14 God has saved me. 21:18 God saved me that day, it was 21:19 something I can never put into 21:22 words, it's something that I 21:24 just wish everyone could feel, 21:26 I want everyone to feel that 21:27 feeling, it was-- it saved me, 21:30 God saved me. 21:32 >> Ian, in your addictions, 21:34 you were that child of 21:35 weakness and God was there for 21:37 you and Jesus is still there 21:39 for you, washing you 21:40 white as snow. 21:42 I wanna ask you, how was God 21:43 there for you? 21:44 Give us some details of that. 21:47 >> Well, the first one was 21:49 when He saved me from the 21:51 suicides. 21:54 And then, you know, when I was 21:56 in detox, there was-- all the 21:58 signs were there. 22:00 I'm in detox, "OK, you can" 22:02 "stay an extra few days," 22:03 whereas anybody else, no. 22:05 "Ian, we got you a door-to-" 22:07 "door ride from detox to" 22:09 "Grace House in Drumheller" 22:11 "so you can go to treatment." 22:12 Things just started falling 22:14 into place and I knew that it 22:15 was God guiding me the whole 22:17 way, it gave me so much hope 22:20 and excitement, I knew I was 22:21 on the right path. 22:22 And today I'm sober, still 22:25 sober, I'm in contact with my 22:27 parents, I'm in contact with 22:28 my daughter again, I have a 22:30 job, full-time job, I have a 22:32 place to live, I have food in 22:34 the fridge, everything is the 22:37 way it should be because God 22:38 has saved me again. 22:39 >> So, Ian, can you tell us 22:41 what your relationship is like 22:42 now with your step-mom? 22:44 >> For sure. 22:46 Actually, since this process 22:49 has all started, I've become 22:51 very close with my stepmom. 22:53 We love each other very much. 22:55 This last Mother's Day I 22:57 actually sent a text to her 22:58 saying, "Thank you for" 23:00 "putting up with me as a kid," 23:03 "I can't imagine that was easy." 23:05 "Thank you for praying for me" 23:07 "and not ever giving up" 23:09 "and thank you, Mom and Dad," 23:11 "for showing me the way" 23:12 "to live." 23:14 'Cause even though I started 23:16 feeding the right wolf, it 23:19 takes-- you have to know where 23:21 to go and if it wasn't for my 23:23 mom and dad showing me where 23:25 to go, how to live after 23:28 getting past the hard part of, 23:30 you know, getting out of 23:31 addiction and off the streets, 23:33 they showed me how to live. 23:35 They showed me, "Go back to" 23:37 "church, Ian," you know, 23:39 "Follow Jesus, make Him 100%" 23:41 "of your life and He will" 23:43 "make you 100% of His life" 23:45 "and together you guys can" 23:46 "do so much." 23:48 So having my parents set that 23:50 example at a young age was the 23:52 game-changer 'cause even 23:55 though I went out on my own, I 23:56 fed the other wolf, did the 23:58 dark thing for a while, 24:00 I still knew how and where to 24:02 come back and with God pushing 24:05 me and with the prayers from 24:07 my friends and family, 24:09 it saved me. 24:11 And nowadays, you should see 24:13 the friends that I have, it's 24:14 a completely different friend 24:16 set, I'm going to church, I 24:18 read my Bible every day, it's... 24:21 it's been freeing. 24:23 I feel like I've been... 24:25 washed and freed of everything 24:28 that was holding me down and I 24:31 really pray that everyone that 24:33 is stuck in a situation like 24:34 this can feel this feeling 24:37 of peace, of happiness, 24:40 serenity, freedom. 24:44 I-- now I don't have fear. 24:47 I don't have fear 'cause I 24:49 have God. 24:50 And fear, I never knew how 24:55 much it controlled my life. 24:57 It did, but now with God in my 24:59 life and with everyone else in 25:02 my life, my family, my new 25:03 friends, my new job, 25:05 everything, God has blessed me 25:07 in more ways than I can count 25:09 so I would love to, you know, 25:11 give that to other people, too, 25:13 and to my daughter. 25:15 I wanna show her the same life 25:16 that was shown to me, 25:19 that way she can be safe, too. 25:22 And I just-- I hope that 25:25 some-- that people can 25:27 find hope. 25:28 I made a YouTube channel 25:30 called "Ian's Channel of Hope" 25:31 because I just want people to 25:32 have hope, too. 25:34 >> That's beautiful. 25:35 So we've come to our end of 25:37 our time here together and I 25:38 thank you, Ian. 25:39 I wonder if you could have a 25:40 prayer for us as we close. 25:41 >> Of course. 25:44 Dear Heavenly Father, 25:46 I thank You so much for 25:48 bringing us together 25:50 today, Lord. 25:51 I thank You so much for 25:52 everything that You've done in 25:53 each of our lives, Lord, and I 25:55 pray that You can help the 25:56 people that are out there 25:58 suffering still, Lord. 25:59 Show them Your light, show 26:01 them Your love, show them the 26:02 hope that's out there to be 26:04 had, Lord. 26:05 In a world of darkness, that's 26:07 what we need, we need You more 26:08 than ever, Lord, and please 26:10 bless these people, too. 26:12 Thank You so much for 26:14 everything and I just wanna 26:17 pray that You keep them safe 26:19 and keep them healthy and keep 26:21 them strong and keep bringing 26:23 Your word to the people, Lord. 26:25 Thank You so much for this and 26:26 I ask You in Jesus' name, amen. 26:28 [MIKE & RENÉ] Amen. 26:29 >> Thank you, Ian, so much for 26:31 coming to It Is Written Canada 26:32 and for sharing your story. 26:33 >> Thank you for having me, 26:34 you guys. 26:35 It's been a great time. 26:37 >> Friends, freedom of choice 26:39 is one of the most precious 26:41 gifts God has entrusted to us. 26:44 Unfortunately, we often make 26:47 poor choices which may lead to 26:49 destructive habits that 26:51 enslave us, damage our health, 26:54 and even ruin our lives. 26:56 >> So our free offer for you 26:58 is this special Steps To 27:00 Christ Recovery Edition. 27:02 This 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