Walls Must Fall: Day 10: Occupy the Land: Embrace Your Divine Authority

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Welcome to the Diary of a Black Woman podcast with your host,

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Connie Morris, where healing has a voice and truth is no longer silent.

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Father God, like Jabez, we cry out that thou would bless us indeed.

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Bless every woman listening beyond trauma, beyond limits, beyond what she thought

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was possible. Enlarge her territory.

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Expand her purpose. Let your hand be upon this moment.

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Saturate every word with oil and truth. break cycles, cancel every curse sent

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to silence her. This isn't just a podcast.

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This is holy ground. In Jesus' name, amen.

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Hello, and welcome back to Diary of a Black Woman podcast.

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We are on day 10 of the Walls Must Fall series, a 12-day Jericho fast of consecration and dedication.

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And today, we're going to title this one, Occupy the Land, Take Possession of the Promise.

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So glad that you are here. We have two foundational scriptures.

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Number one, found in Joshua 6, 27, and it reads, So the Lord was with Joshua,

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and his fame spread throughout the land.

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And then Joshua 1, 3 reads, every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon, I will give you.

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I love this because it says, occupy the land.

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The walls fell down. They conquered the land.

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And so now he says, occupy the land. The walls has fallen.

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The path is clear. Now the time is to occupy what God is giving you.

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This is where we get a

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little fearful a little doubtful and where our imposter syndrome can creep in

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because always good to celebrate and make a lot of noise until it's time to

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for the actual breakthrough to happen we cry out for a breakthrough but sometimes

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we forget that the breakthrough comes responsibility.

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God did not give Jericho to the Israelites so they can admire the ruins.

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He gave it so they can build it up, plant, and rule righteously.

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How many know that is to be true, true, true?

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When the Lord said, Connie, I want you to start a podcast, the podcast is not going to run itself.

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You got to get up. You got to do the script. You got to record the script,

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edit the script, add a little music to the script.

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As you know, I did a little bit of that. There's work to be done when you're

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occupying the land, when you're spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ,

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when you're building a business. There's work to be done.

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God did not give Jericho to the Israelites to look at it, to admire it and say,

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oh my gosh, I got a breakthrough. I got a breakthrough. Look what God has done.

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Yes, you can do that for a moment, but then comes the work.

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Do not forget, then comes the work. People want to join the church and sit and

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be cute in the pews, but then comes the work.

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We have to do the work. You were not meant to stand on the edge of the promise.

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You were meant to occupy.

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Occupy means to take hold of territory, to settle in, to exercise authority.

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This is a season to walk boldly into what God has given you,

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whether it's healing, restoration, new purpose, or an assignment.

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No more shrinking back, no more delaying obedience or delayed obedience.

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You've fasted, you have marched long enough. The Bible says you've been at this place long enough.

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Now it's time for you to take possession.

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My pastor ministered on shift change, shift change.

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A title of the message part one was shift change, that God is shifting things.

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And if he's shifting things, we're going to have to occupy some things.

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Like we've been crying out for victory.

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We've been crying out, give us our stuff back. Give us our 104 return.

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Give us our 30. Give us our 64 return. Give me my stuff back.

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But how many know that when you get your stuff back, it's going to require some work.

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You believe in God for a bigger house, it's going to require some work.

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A bigger yard, It's going to require work.

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Even if you're asking God for a dog, it's going to require work.

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A cat is going to require work. A new job is going to require some work.

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When God tells you to occupy, he wants you to take hold of your territory.

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What does that mean? He needs you to settle in. He wants you to occupy.

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He wants you to exercise your authority.

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You know, interesting because I didn't know I was going to share this,

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but I guess I am. It just came up right now.

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I'm like a fixer. I hate being a fixer because when I get into stuff, I like to fix it.

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One of the things that I happen to do right now is I'm the president of my HOA.

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Yeah, how did I get that job right? Exactly.

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It's getting organized, but it was a little bit dysfunctional coming in.

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Everybody was doing their own thing. Everybody wants to be the leader.

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The only leader is a monster. It was being very monstrous.

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And so getting things in order. So with strong women and everyone runs their

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own business and everybody want to run a different way,

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you have to exercise authority to pull some people back, especially when you got a lot of women.

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Too many women in a place can make things go tilt. Amen.

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And so God give me this territory, occupy this land.

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I've been living in this, it's a townhouse kind of similar with an HOA and I've

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been living here and I was like, okay, things are not as it's supposed to be.

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One of my neighbors asked me to go to a meeting. I went to the meeting and,

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you know, I knew what was going on and, you know, I wasn't really going to say

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anything, but I get there and then I said too much, you know, not too much.

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I talked, I was stating my opinion.

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And seeing why things were where they are. And lo and behold,

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I became the vice president because I wasn't really too busy to be the president.

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Then the president wasn't doing what she was supposed to do.

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I booted her out, became the president. And now I'm the president and I'm occupying this land.

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And every now and then I have to pull people back to put them in their place. Why?

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Because people like to, remember, we're all leaders and we all want to lead, but then there's order.

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God is not in the chaos. He is a God of order.

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And I was walking with him one day and I walk in the morning and I said, Lord, what do I do?

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This is, ah, you want to scream like, how did I get here? I don't want to do this anymore.

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And he said, you don't have to do this alone. I am with you.

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And I go, duh, like, whoa.

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Many times we go alone. We just, we cover that in our series about do not go

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without the ark. And I realized that.

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And then the Lord began, once I got that revelation, then the Lord began to

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give me insights on how to run the HOA from his perspective.

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And it caused me to really have to put, use some authority.

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And it was interesting because when I use it, I just, I always use it firmly

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and politely, but no curse words, no nothing. I'm very polite, but firm.

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Someone, you send an email to tell them to stop something and someone sent an

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email, I don't like that tone. Watch your tone.

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I said, there is no tone. You need to stay in your lane.

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And that calmed everything down. I'm not trying to be the boss.

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Just stay in your lane. You are supposed to do that job. You're delegating it.

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You are not in the position to delegate.

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You are out of order. And I always go, oh, Lord, that's good.

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Showing me how to exercise my authority. I don't know about how you guys are

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doing with the walls must fall.

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I hope you are building up some authority, some power, and feeling victorious,

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especially after we shout the walls down, especially after we burn some bridges

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and renewed our covenant, right?

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But now we're occupying the land.

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We can't go into our new land being afraid, being wimpy.

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We have to use our authority. So let's take possession.

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I don't know if Walmart still uses this commercial, but I like it.

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Lose the saying. It says, go big or go home.

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Come on now, go big or go home. need

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to Christians need to have that attitude why because

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we're not going alone I didn't say go alone I

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said go big you can go big because our God is

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big amen let's pray Lord I will not fear the promise I won't sabotage self-sabotage

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delay or disqualify myself you tore down the walls and now I receive the land

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help me to walk in faith take hold of the territory and build according to your plan.

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I will occupy every inch you have given me. In Jesus' name, amen.

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I decree that I will walk in the fullness of God's promise. I will not be a visitor.

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I am a rightful heir. I will plant, build, speak, and move in divine authority.

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The land is mine, and I will occupy it with wisdom.

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And courage. Deuteronomy 11, 24 reads, every place where you set your foot will be yours.

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Now, we believe that wouldn't we be walking everywhere, everywhere, you know, right?

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Everywhere I set my feet will be yours. So God tells me to walk in my newfound neighborhood.

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You think I'm not a walk-in? Come on now. He told me to do some things at work.

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You think I'm not doing those things, God gives you that space.

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He needs you to be his arms, his legs, his authority in the earth,

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not by yourself, but with his power and the power of the Holy Spirit.

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Fasting focus. As fast deepens, continue abstaining from what clouds your clarity.

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Today, visualize what it means to occupy your promise.

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Write it out. Speak it out. Take a prophetic step.

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Apply for a job. Start the outline.

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Clean up a space, make the call, make a faith move that you can occupy.

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And what I want you to write in your journal, just kind of think about these

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statements here, these questions.

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What have I been afraid to take possession of, even though God promised it?

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What are you leaving on the table?

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God said, go do it. You're saying, well, you know, I'm not ready.

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I need ABC. I need a degree. I need, you know, you need the alphabet soup.

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But God said, no, I need you to go, go, go do it. Amen.

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And next one, what action step can I take today to walk boldly into the promise?

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You know, Nike can did well, just do it.

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And I saw it on a, I watched Bicycle Races, the Tour de France,

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and I saw one had a glove on it says, whoosh, whoosh.

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It should have said, whoosh, whoosh, right?

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But God says, like what, I don't know what God didn't say. It says,

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what action steps can I take today to walk boldly in the promise?

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All right, ladies, occupy the land.

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Take possession of the promise. It's time. You asked for the breakthrough.

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The breakthrough is here. Now occupy till he come. I'll see you on the next episode.

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Thank you for listening to this episode. And before we close out,

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I want to speak a word of promise over you from Jeremiah 29, 11 through 14.

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Father God, you declared, I know the plans I have for you, plans to prosper

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you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

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So today we receive that truth.

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You said when we call on you, you will listen. So we pray.

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You said that when we seek you with our hearts, you will be found. so we pursue.

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You said you will restore us from captivity, so we declare freedom over every

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place where our listeners feel stuck, silenced, or small.

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Thank you for always drawing near when we show up in faith. In Jesus' name, amen.

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