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What are the best 1990s period piece movies? (I.e., made after 1999, set in 90s)

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Navy theater stage coldplay fan
  05/27/25
Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1...
Chest-beating talking garrison codepig
  05/27/25
Who even watches these anymore?
Bateful lilac orchestra pit internal respiration
  05/27/25
I still watch Film
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idiotic locale
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Navy theater stage coldplay fan
  05/27/25
but yet you know nothing of it
galvanic goyim
  05/27/25
Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure ...
Flushed Feces Casino
  05/28/25
mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo
very tactful crawly french chef
  05/27/25
True Detective season one
Brilliant associate reading party
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  05/27/25
Best answer so far
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The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after ...
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  05/28/25
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Frozen Heaven
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Alpha Dog pops into mind first
Opaque Dilemma
  05/27/25
(Nick Cassavetes) (JT)
Bonkers rehab
  05/29/25
There are not a lot - certainly no great films. Add The F...
Navy theater stage coldplay fan
  05/27/25
How to train your dragon
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  05/27/25
social network.
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Wolf of Wall Street
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Razzle-dazzle confused school telephone
  05/27/25
Mostly an 80s movie though.
Navy theater stage coldplay fan
  05/27/25
Speed
slippery bossy puppy
  05/27/25
I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP&rsquo...
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  05/27/25
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  05/27/25
Nigger Feet
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  05/27/25
"period" is a gross word.
arrogant knife becky
  05/27/25
The Diaper
idiotic locale
  05/27/25
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  05/27/25
I think this has to do with Klosterman’s theory about ...
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  05/27/25
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The Queen (2006) The Fighter (2010) Erin Brocovich (2000) ...
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  05/27/25
Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers
Navy theater stage coldplay fan
  05/28/25
Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 9...
Coiffed Patrolman Meetinghouse
  05/27/25
Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their t...
Navy theater stage coldplay fan
  05/28/25
I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthe...
Navy theater stage coldplay fan
  05/28/25
Same for Napoleon dynamite Technically set in 2003 but ru...
very tactful crawly french chef
  05/28/25
Good one
Navy theater stage coldplay fan
  05/28/25
lilo and stitch for the same reason
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Razzle-dazzle confused school telephone
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beta piazza
  06/07/25
Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly ...
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  06/14/25
Road Trip
slippery bossy puppy
  05/28/25
this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our me...
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Razzle-dazzle confused school telephone
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain Mid90s The Informant!
White Impressive Nursing Home Halford
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT
Exhilarant headpube
  05/29/25
Im a Curator
White Impressive Nursing Home Halford
  05/29/25
Three Kings
Frozen Heaven
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1999
White Impressive Nursing Home Halford
  05/28/25
One Day (2011) Love and Other Drugs (2010)
Rose Weed Whacker Set
  05/28/25
Black Hawk Down
walnut library
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this
hateful citrine national security agency
  05/29/25
Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia
Navy theater stage coldplay fan
  05/29/25
I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera ar...
Flushed Feces Casino
  05/29/25
the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux ca...
amethyst adventurous deer antler
  05/28/25
I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discu...
Navy theater stage coldplay fan
  05/29/25
Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the ...
hateful citrine national security agency
  05/29/25
No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using...
slippery bossy puppy
  05/29/25
tyvmft
hateful citrine national security agency
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The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Cr...
racy olive goal in life
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Harry Potter
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The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - t...
Mind-boggling Whorehouse Corn Cake
  06/03/25
Good one
Navy theater stage coldplay fan
  06/03/25
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Exhilarant headpube
  06/03/25
tv show but derry girls. wife insisted i watch it. i tho...
kink-friendly glittery boistinker
  06/07/25
It’s criminally underrated
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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:15 AM
Author: Navy theater stage coldplay fan



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:30 AM
Author: Chest-beating talking garrison codepig

Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1991.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: Bateful lilac orchestra pit internal respiration

Who even watches these anymore?

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: Flushed Feces Casino

I still watch Film

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: idiotic locale



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Navy theater stage coldplay fan



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: galvanic goyim

but yet you know nothing of it

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: Flushed Feces Casino

Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure I know about Film.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:32 AM
Author: very tactful crawly french chef

mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:34 AM
Author: Brilliant associate reading party

True Detective season one



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: Razzle-dazzle confused school telephone



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:02 PM
Author: Navy theater stage coldplay fan

Best answer so far

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:48 AM
Author: hateful citrine national security agency



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:23 PM
Author: Clear background story death wish



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:28 PM
Author: idiotic locale

tp

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Razzle-dazzle confused school telephone



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: Navy theater stage coldplay fan

The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after the lawnmower

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:34 AM
Author: Frozen Heaven



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:38 AM
Author: Opaque Dilemma

Alpha Dog pops into mind first

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:44 AM
Author: Bonkers rehab

(Nick Cassavetes)

(JT)

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:19 PM
Author: Navy theater stage coldplay fan

There are not a lot - certainly no great films.

Add The Fighter and Spring Breakers

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:22 PM
Author: Bateful lilac orchestra pit internal respiration

How to train your dragon

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:23 PM
Author: vermilion office

social network.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: Aqua violent spot

Wolf of Wall Street

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: cracking lay faggot firefighter



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: Razzle-dazzle confused school telephone



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:58 PM
Author: Navy theater stage coldplay fan

Mostly an 80s movie though.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48966409)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:45 PM
Author: slippery bossy puppy

Speed

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Navy theater stage coldplay fan

I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP’s criteria.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48966424)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: Razzle-dazzle confused school telephone

Autoadmit.com

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Bateful lilac orchestra pit internal respiration

Nigger Feet

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: arrogant knife becky

"period" is a gross word.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: idiotic locale

The Diaper

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Razzle-dazzle confused school telephone



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Navy theater stage coldplay fan

I think this has to do with Klosterman’s theory about the vanishing future. The internet has made it so the 90s never left. There’s no clear break with the past like Nirvana ending the 80s. So the era continues to live on in the culture (e.g. Friends and Seinfeld still Top 5 tv shows by hours watched) preventing us from developing a collective Nostalgia for the 1990s.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48966422)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: idiotic locale



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:08 PM
Author: Razzle-dazzle confused school telephone



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:44 AM
Author: cracking lay faggot firefighter



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:49 AM
Author: Razzle-dazzle confused school telephone



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: Unhinged gas station regret

The Queen (2006)

The Fighter (2010)

Erin Brocovich (2000)

I, Tonya (2017)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:50 AM
Author: Navy theater stage coldplay fan

Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:03 PM
Author: Coiffed Patrolman Meetinghouse

Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 90s.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48966568)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: Navy theater stage coldplay fan

Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their times (Clerks is great), but the 90s are massively underexplored by people from another, later time reflecting on the historical era and what it MEANS now that culture has some distance.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48966871)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:54 AM
Author: Navy theater stage coldplay fan

I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthetic and is based on Rogen and Stone’s high school years.

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Date: May 28th, 2025 7:05 AM
Author: very tactful crawly french chef

Same for Napoleon dynamite

Technically set in 2003 but rural Idaho was still in 1990

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:43 AM
Author: Navy theater stage coldplay fan

Good one

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:52 AM
Author: Onyx Milk

lilo and stitch for the same reason

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:55 AM
Author: Razzle-dazzle confused school telephone



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:43 AM
Author: beta piazza



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Date: June 14th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: Navy theater stage coldplay fan

Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly 90s

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#49014596)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:59 AM
Author: slippery bossy puppy

Road Trip

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: bisexual voyeur

this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our memories of problems in teh 90s. the late 90s movies (office space, american beauty, fight club) were all about the purposelessness of american life and culture.

kind of hard to reset a 90s film knowing what is going to happen

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:14 AM
Author: Razzle-dazzle confused school telephone



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:10 AM
Author: White Impressive Nursing Home Halford

Pain & Gain

Mid90s

The Informant!

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:23 AM
Author: Exhilarant headpube

Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:11 AM
Author: White Impressive Nursing Home Halford

Im a Curator

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: Frozen Heaven

Three Kings

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:38 AM
Author: White Impressive Nursing Home Halford

1999

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:44 AM
Author: Rose Weed Whacker Set

One Day (2011)

Love and Other Drugs (2010)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:48 PM
Author: walnut library

Black Hawk Down

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:13 AM
Author: hateful citrine national security agency

this

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:49 AM
Author: Navy theater stage coldplay fan

Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48969956)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 8:44 AM
Author: Flushed Feces Casino

I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera around then, it was 180.

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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:54 PM
Author: amethyst adventurous deer antler

the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux case.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48969260)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:08 AM
Author: Navy theater stage coldplay fan

I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discussing

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:14 AM
Author: hateful citrine national security agency

Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the tech used

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Date: May 29th, 2025 6:44 AM
Author: slippery bossy puppy

No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using the number pad for texting. Also Alec Baldwins character mentions the Patriot Act

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Date: May 29th, 2025 6:44 AM
Author: hateful citrine national security agency

tyvmft

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:25 AM
Author: racy olive goal in life

The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Creek.

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 1:22 AM
Author: 180 rebellious lodge travel guidebook

Harry Potter

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 3:07 AM
Author: Mind-boggling Whorehouse Corn Cake

The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - the drama with Cuba Gooding Jr. as OJ, not the documentary one.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48982587)



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Date: June 3rd, 2025 10:09 AM
Author: Navy theater stage coldplay fan

Good one

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 11:41 AM
Author: Exhilarant headpube



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:39 AM
Author: kink-friendly glittery boistinker

tv show but derry girls.

wife insisted i watch it. i thought it would suck but it’s 180

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Date: June 8th, 2025 8:34 PM
Author: 180 rebellious lodge travel guidebook

It’s criminally underrated

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Date: June 9th, 2025 11:12 AM
Author: kink-friendly glittery boistinker



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