Joseph Smith's qualification as a martyr - Revision history

GregSmith: /* Why did Joseph Smith attempt to leave through the window of Carthage Jail? */

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Why did Joseph Smith attempt to leave through the window of Carthage Jail?

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GregSmith: /* Was Joseph willing to die for his faith? */

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Was Joseph willing to die for his faith?

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	Joseph's history, words, and actions go contrary to many of his critics' picture of cowardliness. Joseph was well aware that the anti-Mormon sentiment was to "exterminate, utterly exterminate the wicked and abominable Mormon leaders, the authors of [their] troubles."<ref name="hc">{{HoC1\|vol=6}}</ref>{{Rp\|5:456}}		Joseph's history, words, and actions go contrary to many of his critics' picture of cowardliness. Joseph was well aware that the anti-Mormon sentiment was to "exterminate, utterly exterminate the wicked and abominable Mormon leaders, the authors of [their] troubles."<ref name="hc">{{HoC1\|vol=6}}</ref>{{Rp\|5:456}}

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	=Does using a gun to defend himself, his brother, and his friends from an armed mob mean Joseph wasn't a martyr?=		=Does using a gun to defend himself, his brother, and his friends from an armed mob mean Joseph wasn't a martyr?=

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	"Dear Emma, I am very much resigned to my lot, knowing I am justified, and have done the best that could be done. Give my love to the children and all my friends."<ref name="hc">{{HoC1\|vol=6}}></ref>{{Rp\|605}}		"Dear Emma, I am very much resigned to my lot, knowing I am justified, and have done the best that could be done. Give my love to the children and all my friends."<ref name="hc">{{HoC1\|vol=6}}</ref>{{Rp\|605}}
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GregSmith at 02:30, 21 May 2024

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	"Dear Emma, I am very much resigned to my lot, knowing I am justified, and have done the best that could be done. Give my love to the children and all my friends."<ref name="hc"{{HoC1\|vol=6}}></ref>{{Rp\|605}}		"Dear Emma, I am very much resigned to my lot, knowing I am justified, and have done the best that could be done. Give my love to the children and all my friends."<ref name="hc">{{HoC1\|vol=6}}></ref>{{Rp\|605}}
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GregSmith at 02:29, 21 May 2024

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	"Dear Emma, I am very much resigned to my lot, knowing I am justified, and have done the best that could be done. Give my love to the children and all my friends."<ref name="hc"{{~~HC1~~\|vol=6}}></ref>{{Rp\|605}}		"Dear Emma, I am very much resigned to my lot, knowing I am justified, and have done the best that could be done. Give my love to the children and all my friends."<ref name="hc"{{HoC1\|vol=6}}></ref>{{Rp\|605}}
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	* Citing: "Joseph Smith to Jonathan Dunham, 27 June 1844, in Jessee, ''Personal Writings of Joseph Smith'', xxv, 616-17; {{~~HC1~~\|vol=6\|start=529}} referred to this order but neither quoted nor summarized it....Allen J. Stout journal, 13; also T. B. H. Stenhouse, The Rocky Mountain Saints...,164n, told the incident without naming Dunham."<ref name="quinn">{{CriticalWork:Quinn:Mormon Hierarchy}}</ref>{{Rp\|141}}		* Citing: "Joseph Smith to Jonathan Dunham, 27 June 1844, in Jessee, ''Personal Writings of Joseph Smith'', xxv, 616-17; {{HoC1\|vol=6\|start=529}} referred to this order but neither quoted nor summarized it....Allen J. Stout journal, 13; also T. B. H. Stenhouse, The Rocky Mountain Saints...,164n, told the incident without naming Dunham."<ref name="quinn">{{CriticalWork:Quinn:Mormon Hierarchy}}</ref>{{Rp\|141}}
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	Joseph was safely away in Iowa with Hyrum. He returned to surrender himself to the Illinois governor, Thomas Ford, after being appealed to by Emma and others. Emma reported that Joseph said, "I will die before I will be called a coward."<ref>Elder Edmund C. Briggs, "A Visit to Nauvoo in 1856," ''Journal of History'' [Reorganized] 9 (October 1916): 453-54; cited by {{CarthageConspiracy1 \|start=27 n. 65}}</ref>		Joseph was safely away in Iowa with Hyrum. He returned to surrender himself to the Illinois governor, Thomas Ford, after being appealed to by Emma and others. Emma reported that Joseph said, "I will die before I will be called a coward."<ref>Elder Edmund C. Briggs, "A Visit to Nauvoo in 1856," ''Journal of History'' [Reorganized] 9 (October 1916): 453-54; cited by {{CarthageConspiracy1 \|start=27 n. 65}}</ref>

	Joseph also remarked that "If my life is of no value to my friends [those in Nauvoo who were urging him to return for fear of the mob] it is of none to myself....if they had let me alone there would have been no bloodshed but now I expect to be butchered. Hyrum likewise remarked that "We had better go back and die like men." And, on the way out of Nauvoo to Carthage, Joseph was reported to say, "I go like a lamb to the slaughter."<ref>{{CarthageConspiracy1 \|start=17}} Sources cited are: (a) {{~~HC1~~\|vol=6\|start=549}} (b) "Journal of Wandle Mace," 144 (c) {{TS1\|author=Editor\|article=Editorial\|vol=5\|date=15 July 1844\|start=585}}</ref>		Joseph also remarked that "If my life is of no value to my friends [those in Nauvoo who were urging him to return for fear of the mob] it is of none to myself....if they had let me alone there would have been no bloodshed but now I expect to be butchered. Hyrum likewise remarked that "We had better go back and die like men." And, on the way out of Nauvoo to Carthage, Joseph was reported to say, "I go like a lamb to the slaughter."<ref>{{CarthageConspiracy1 \|start=17}} Sources cited are: (a) {{HoC1\|vol=6\|start=549}} (b) "Journal of Wandle Mace," 144 (c) {{TS1\|author=Editor\|article=Editorial\|vol=5\|date=15 July 1844\|start=585}}</ref>

	=Joseph's attitude in Carthage=		=Joseph's attitude in Carthage=

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	I told Stephen Markham that if I and Hyrum were ever taken again we should be massacred, or I was not a prophet of God.<ref name="hc">{{~~HC1~~\|vol=6}}</ref>{{Rp\|546}}		I told Stephen Markham that if I and Hyrum were ever taken again we should be massacred, or I was not a prophet of God.<ref name="hc">{{HoC1\|vol=6}}</ref>{{Rp\|546}}
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	I do not regard my own life. I am ready to be offered a sacrifice for this people; for what can our enemies do? Only kill the body, and their power is then at an end. Stand firm, my friends; never flinch. Do not seek to save your lives, for he that is afraid to die for the truth, will lose eternal life.... God has tried you. You are a good people; therefore I love you with all my heart. Greater love hath no man than that he should lay down his life for his friends. You have stood by me in the hour of trouble, and I am willing to sacrifice my life for your preservation.<ref name="hc">{{~~HoC}}</ref>{{Rp~~\|~~500~~}}<ref>Danel Bachman, "Joseph Smith: A True Martyr," 328-329, from a speech given at the Joseph Smith Symposium, 22 February 1992, in Susan Easton Black & Charles D. Tate, Jr., eds., ''Joseph Smith: The Prophet'' (BYU Religious Studies Center 1993), 315-32.</ref>		I do not regard my own life. I am ready to be offered a sacrifice for this people; for what can our enemies do? Only kill the body, and their power is then at an end. Stand firm, my friends; never flinch. Do not seek to save your lives, for he that is afraid to die for the truth, will lose eternal life.... God has tried you. You are a good people; therefore I love you with all my heart. Greater love hath no man than that he should lay down his life for his friends. You have stood by me in the hour of trouble, and I am willing to sacrifice my life for your preservation.<ref name="hc">{{HoC1\|vol=6}}</ref>
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	I am going like a lamb to the slaughter, but I am calm as a summer's morning. I have a conscience void of offense toward God and toward all men. If they take my life I shall die an innocent man, and my blood shall cry from the ground for vengeance, and it shall be said of me "He was murdered in cold blood!" <ref name="hc">{{~~HC1~~\|vol=6}}</ref>{{Rp\|6:555}}		I am going like a lamb to the slaughter, but I am calm as a summer's morning. I have a conscience void of offense toward God and toward all men. If they take my life I shall die an innocent man, and my blood shall cry from the ground for vengeance, and it shall be said of me "He was murdered in cold blood!" <ref name="hc">{{HoC1\|vol=6}}</ref>{{Rp\|6:555}}
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	I thank God that I felt a determination to die, rather than deny the things which my eyes had seen, which my hands had handled, and which I had borne testimony to, wherever my lot had been cast; and I can assure my beloved brethren that I was enabled to bear as strong a testimony, when nothing but death presented itself, as ever I did in my life. My confidence in God was likewise unshaken."<ref>Bachman, "Joseph Smith, a True Martyr," 324-325.</ref>		I thank God that I felt a determination to die, rather than deny the things which my eyes had seen, which my hands had handled, and which I had borne testimony to, wherever my lot had been cast; and I can assure my beloved brethren that I was enabled to bear as strong a testimony, when nothing but death presented itself, as ever I did in my life. My confidence in God was likewise unshaken."<ref>Bachman, "Joseph Smith, a True Martyr," 324-325.</ref>
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	Joseph's history, words, and actions go contrary to many of his critics' picture of cowardliness. Joseph was well aware that the anti-Mormon sentiment was to "exterminate, utterly exterminate the wicked and abominable Mormon leaders, the authors of [their] troubles."<ref name="hc">{{~~HC1~~\|vol=6}}</ref>{{Rp\|5:456}}		Joseph's history, words, and actions go contrary to many of his critics' picture of cowardliness. Joseph was well aware that the anti-Mormon sentiment was to "exterminate, utterly exterminate the wicked and abominable Mormon leaders, the authors of [their] troubles."<ref name="hc">{{HoC1\|vol=6}}</ref>{{Rp\|5:456}}

	=Does using a gun to defend himself, his brother, and his friends from an armed mob mean Joseph wasn't a martyr?=		=Does using a gun to defend himself, his brother, and his friends from an armed mob mean Joseph wasn't a martyr?=
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	Complaint having been made on oath that a mob is preparing to make an attack upon this city and citizens of Nauvoo, and having directed the Marshal to keep the peace, you are hereby commanded to order the Nauvoo Legion to be in readiness to assist said Marshal in keeping the peace, and doing whatever may be necessary to preserve the dignity of the state and city....		Complaint having been made on oath that a mob is preparing to make an attack upon this city and citizens of Nauvoo, and having directed the Marshal to keep the peace, you are hereby commanded to order the Nauvoo Legion to be in readiness to assist said Marshal in keeping the peace, and doing whatever may be necessary to preserve the dignity of the state and city....

	You are hereby instructed to execute all orders of the Marshal, and perform all services with as little noise and confusion as possible, and take every precaution to prevent groups of citizens, &c., from gathering on the bank of the river, on the landing of boats or otherwise, and allay every cause and pretext of excitement as well as suspicion, and let your operations be efficient and decided.<ref name="hc">{{~~HC1~~\|vol=6}}</ref>{{Rp\|493}}		You are hereby instructed to execute all orders of the Marshal, and perform all services with as little noise and confusion as possible, and take every precaution to prevent groups of citizens, &c., from gathering on the bank of the river, on the landing of boats or otherwise, and allay every cause and pretext of excitement as well as suspicion, and let your operations be efficient and decided.<ref name="hc">{{HoC1\|vol=6}}</ref>{{Rp\|493}}
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	==On June 18, 1844 Joseph declared martial law==		==On June 18, 1844 Joseph declared martial law==

	On the 20th Joseph said, "I went with my staff and Major-General Dunham to the prairie, to view the situation of the ground, and to devise plans for the defense of the city, and select the proper locations to meet the mob, and made arrangements for provisions for the city, instructing my agent to pledge my farms for the purpose."<ref name="hc">{{~~HC1\|vol=6}}</ref>{{Rp\|507}} On the evening of the 22nd, Dunham was instructed to have the legion cohorts use entrenching tools to prepare the city's defense.<ref name="hc">{{HC1~~\|vol=6}}</ref>{{Rp\|528}}		On the 20th Joseph said, "I went with my staff and Major-General Dunham to the prairie, to view the situation of the ground, and to devise plans for the defense of the city, and select the proper locations to meet the mob, and made arrangements for provisions for the city, instructing my agent to pledge my farms for the purpose."<ref name="hc">{{HoC1\|vol=6}}</ref>{{Rp\|528}}

	==On June 22, 1844 Joseph instructed Dunham by letter to prepare the city for defense==		==On June 22, 1844 Joseph instructed Dunham by letter to prepare the city for defense==
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	You will proceed without delay, with the assistance of the Nauvoo Legion, to prepare the background [Eastern part] of said city for defense against an invasion by mobs, cause the Legion to be furnished with tents, and make your encampment in the vicinity of your labor.<ref name="hc">{{~~HC1~~\|vol=6}}</ref>{{Rp\|532}}		You will proceed without delay, with the assistance of the Nauvoo Legion, to prepare the background [Eastern part] of said city for defense against an invasion by mobs, cause the Legion to be furnished with tents, and make your encampment in the vicinity of your labor.<ref name="hc">{{HoC1\|vol=6}}</ref>{{Rp\|532}}
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	==On June 24, 1844 Joseph instructed Dunham to comply with the governor's order for the Nauvoo Legion to return state arms==		==On June 24, 1844 Joseph instructed Dunham to comply with the governor's order for the Nauvoo Legion to return state arms==

	Joseph instructed Dunham to comply with the governor's order for the Nauvoo Legion to return state arms.<ref name="hc">{{~~HC1~~\|vol=6}}</ref>{{Rp\|556}} The next day, Joseph and Hyrum surrendered themselves and went to Carthage.		Joseph instructed Dunham to comply with the governor's order for the Nauvoo Legion to return state arms.<ref name="hc">{{HoC1\|vol=6}}</ref>{{Rp\|556}} The next day, Joseph and Hyrum surrendered themselves and went to Carthage.

	==Joseph returned to surrender himself to the Illinois governor, Thomas Ford, after being appealed to by Emma and others==		==Joseph returned to surrender himself to the Illinois governor, Thomas Ford, after being appealed to by Emma and others==

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	I told Stephen Markham that if I and Hyrum were ever taken again we should be massacred, or I was not a prophet of God.<ref name="hc"></ref>{{Rp\|6:546}}		I told Stephen Markham that if I and Hyrum were ever taken again we should be massacred, or I was not a prophet of God.<ref name="hc">{{HC1\|vol=6}}</ref>{{Rp\|546}}
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	I am going like a lamb to the slaughter, but I am calm as a summer's morning. I have a conscience void of offense toward God and toward all men. If they take my life I shall die an innocent man, and my blood shall cry from the ground for vengeance, and it shall be said of me "He was murdered in cold blood!" <ref name="hc"></ref>{{Rp\|6:555}}		I am going like a lamb to the slaughter, but I am calm as a summer's morning. I have a conscience void of offense toward God and toward all men. If they take my life I shall die an innocent man, and my blood shall cry from the ground for vengeance, and it shall be said of me "He was murdered in cold blood!" <ref name="hc">{{HC1\|vol=6}}</ref>{{Rp\|6:555}}
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	"Dear Emma, I am very much resigned to my lot, knowing I am justified, and have done the best that could be done. Give my love to the children and all my friends."<ref name="hc"></ref>{{Rp\|6:605}}		"Dear Emma, I am very much resigned to my lot, knowing I am justified, and have done the best that could be done. Give my love to the children and all my friends."<ref name="hc"{{HC1\|vol=6}}></ref>{{Rp\|605}}
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	I thank God that I felt a determination to die, rather than deny the things which my eyes had seen, which my hands had handled, and which I had borne testimony to, wherever my lot had been cast; and I can assure my beloved brethren that I was enabled to bear as strong a testimony, when nothing but death presented itself, as ever I did in my life. My confidence in God was likewise unshaken."<ref>Bachman, "Joseph Smith, a True Martyr," 324-325.</ref>		I thank God that I felt a determination to die, rather than deny the things which my eyes had seen, which my hands had handled, and which I had borne testimony to, wherever my lot had been cast; and I can assure my beloved brethren that I was enabled to bear as strong a testimony, when nothing but death presented itself, as ever I did in my life. My confidence in God was likewise unshaken."<ref>Bachman, "Joseph Smith, a True Martyr," 324-325.</ref>
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	Joseph's history, words, and actions go contrary to many of his critics' picture of cowardliness. Joseph was well aware that the anti-Mormon sentiment was to "exterminate, utterly exterminate the wicked and abominable Mormon leaders, the authors of [their] troubles."<ref name="hc"></ref>{{Rp\|5:456}}		Joseph's history, words, and actions go contrary to many of his critics' picture of cowardliness. Joseph was well aware that the anti-Mormon sentiment was to "exterminate, utterly exterminate the wicked and abominable Mormon leaders, the authors of [their] troubles."<ref name="hc">{{HC1\|vol=6}}</ref>{{Rp\|5:456}}

	=Does using a gun to defend himself, his brother, and his friends from an armed mob mean Joseph wasn't a martyr?=		=Does using a gun to defend himself, his brother, and his friends from an armed mob mean Joseph wasn't a martyr?=
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	==On June 18, 1844 Joseph declared martial law==		==On June 18, 1844 Joseph declared martial law==

	On the 20th Joseph said, "I went with my staff and Major-General Dunham to the prairie, to view the situation of the ground, and to devise plans for the defense of the city, and select the proper locations to meet the mob, and made arrangements for provisions for the city, instructing my agent to pledge my farms for the purpose."<ref name="hc"></ref>{{Rp\|507}} On the evening of the 22nd, Dunham was instructed to have the legion cohorts use entrenching tools to prepare the city's defense.<ref name="hc"></ref>{{Rp\|528}}		On the 20th Joseph said, "I went with my staff and Major-General Dunham to the prairie, to view the situation of the ground, and to devise plans for the defense of the city, and select the proper locations to meet the mob, and made arrangements for provisions for the city, instructing my agent to pledge my farms for the purpose."<ref name="hc">{{HC1\|vol=6}}</ref>{{Rp\|507}} On the evening of the 22nd, Dunham was instructed to have the legion cohorts use entrenching tools to prepare the city's defense.<ref name="hc">{{HC1\|vol=6}}</ref>{{Rp\|528}}

	==On June 22, 1844 Joseph instructed Dunham by letter to prepare the city for defense==		==On June 22, 1844 Joseph instructed Dunham by letter to prepare the city for defense==
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	You will proceed without delay, with the assistance of the Nauvoo Legion, to prepare the background [Eastern part] of said city for defense against an invasion by mobs, cause the Legion to be furnished with tents, and make your encampment in the vicinity of your labor.<ref name="hc"></ref>{{Rp\|532}}		You will proceed without delay, with the assistance of the Nauvoo Legion, to prepare the background [Eastern part] of said city for defense against an invasion by mobs, cause the Legion to be furnished with tents, and make your encampment in the vicinity of your labor.<ref name="hc">{{HC1\|vol=6}}</ref>{{Rp\|532}}
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	==On June 24, 1844 Joseph instructed Dunham to comply with the governor's order for the Nauvoo Legion to return state arms==		==On June 24, 1844 Joseph instructed Dunham to comply with the governor's order for the Nauvoo Legion to return state arms==

	Joseph instructed Dunham to comply with the governor's order for the Nauvoo Legion to return state arms.<ref name="hc"></ref>{{Rp\|556}} The next day, Joseph and Hyrum surrendered themselves and went to Carthage.		Joseph instructed Dunham to comply with the governor's order for the Nauvoo Legion to return state arms.<ref name="hc">{{HC1\|vol=6}}</ref>{{Rp\|556}} The next day, Joseph and Hyrum surrendered themselves and went to Carthage.

	==Joseph returned to surrender himself to the Illinois governor, Thomas Ford, after being appealed to by Emma and others==		==Joseph returned to surrender himself to the Illinois governor, Thomas Ford, after being appealed to by Emma and others==

GregSmith: /* The idea that Joseph tried to escape through the window to save the lives of Richards and Taylor is in harmony with one of the reasons he went to Carthage to begin with */

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The idea that Joseph tried to escape through the window to save the lives of Richards and Taylor is in harmony with one of the reasons he went to Carthage to begin with

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	=Why did Joseph Smith attempt to leave through the window of Carthage Jail?=		=Why did Joseph Smith attempt to leave through the window of Carthage Jail?=
	==The idea that Joseph tried to escape through the window to save the lives of Richards and Taylor is in harmony with one of the reasons he went to Carthage ~~to begin with~~==		==The idea that Joseph tried to escape through the window to save the lives of Richards and Taylor is in harmony with one of the reasons he went to Carthage==

	Non-Mormon Colonel John Hay, an American poet and statesman, recorded the day's details leading up to the murder, shedding light on the mood of the mob that infamous day. He wrote:		Non-Mormon Colonel John Hay, an American poet and statesman, recorded the day's details leading up to the murder, shedding light on the mood of the mob that infamous day. He wrote:

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	Joseph's history, words, and actions go contrary to many of his critics' picture of cowardliness. Joseph was well aware that the anti-Mormon sentiment was to "exterminate, utterly exterminate the wicked and abominable Mormon leaders, the authors of [their] troubles."<ref name="hc"></ref>{{Rp\|5:456}}		Joseph's history, words, and actions go contrary to many of his critics' picture of cowardliness. Joseph was well aware that the anti-Mormon sentiment was to "exterminate, utterly exterminate the wicked and abominable Mormon leaders, the authors of [their] troubles."<ref name="hc"></ref>{{Rp\|5:456}}

	~~{{Polygamy_and_martyrdom_Hales_site_links}}~~

	=Does using a gun to defend himself, his brother, and his friends from an armed mob mean Joseph wasn't a martyr?=		=Does using a gun to defend himself, his brother, and his friends from an armed mob mean Joseph wasn't a martyr?=

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