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Mr. Whittemore is a member of Central Lodge, I. O. O. F. He is a member of the Board of Trade, Worcester County Mechanics' Association, Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church and has been a steward since 1895. In politics he is a Republican.
He married, at Worcester, June 2, 1880, Louise Iluntley, daughter of James and Margaret (Scott) Huntley. Their children are: I. Flora Isabelle, born in Worcester, January 30, 1882, married, June I, 1905, Howard Dickinson Brewer, son of E. Avery Brewer, wholesale druggist; the son is associated with his father in business. 2. Ernest Arthur, born in Worcester, June 8, 1891, student in South high school, class of 1908. 3. Carl Leslie, born May 9. 1894, in Worcester. 4. George Stanley, born at Worcester, May 12, 1895.
THOMAS CLIFTON SPARHAWK. Of the famous old families of New England, few have had a uniformly better record than that of the Sparhawks. The family since ancient times has been well and favorably known not only in America, but also in England.
(I) Lewis Sparhawk, of Dedham, Essex county. England, is the first ancestor to whom the Amer- ican branch of the family traces its descent. He was born about 1530, and married at Dedham, Feb- ruary 17, 1560, Elizabeth Bayning. Their children : I. Patience, baptized July 26, 1561. 2. Nathaniel, baptized July 2, 1564. 3. Daniel, baptized December 26, 1571. 4. Clement (daughter), born at Dedham. buried there December 2, 1561. 5. Samuel, see for- ward.
(II) Samuel Sparhawk, son of Lewis Sparhawk (I), was born in Dedham, Essex county, Eng- land, about 1565. His children: I. Daniel. baptized November 14, 1587. 2. John, baptized December 5, 1592. 3. Lewis, baptized November 9, 1595. 4. Nathaniel, see forward. 3. Mary, baptized Febru- ary I, 1600. 6. Edward, baptized May 22, 1602. 7. Benjamin. baptized March 6, 1604. 8. Clement (daughter), buried at Dedham. All the preceding were baptized and lived at Dedham. ii-26
(111) Nathaniel Sparhawk, fourth child of Sam- uel Sparhawk (2), was born in Dedham, Essex county, England, where he was baptized February 16, 1598. Some of the variations of the spelling of this surname are natural enough. The records show it as Sparhawke, Sparhauk, Sparhauke, Sparohauke, Sparrowhauke and Sparrow llawke, Nathaniel was the emigrant ancestor. He was at Cambridge, New England, as early as 1636, and was admitted a free- man there May 23, 1639. Ile was a deputy to the general court, was a leading citizen of the town, and was elected deacon of the church. His home- stall was on the east side of Brighton street, between Mt. Auburn and Harvard Square. In 1642 he owned five houses and five hundred acres of land, and subsequently purchased more. Over a thou- sand acres of land were sold in settling his estate, leaving a large quantity of land on the south side of the river, now in the Brighton district, some of which was lately and may be at present owned by members of the family, his descendants. He kept a public house, and was given permission to sell' wine and strong water in 1639. He married (first) Mary Angier, daughter of John Angier of Ded- ham, England. She died January 25, 1643-44. He married (second) Katherine -, who died July 5, 1647. Children of Nathaniel and Mary Spar- hawk: I. Nathaniel, see forward. 2. Anne, mar- ried (first) Deacon John Cooper and (second). James Convers. Sr., of Woburn. 3. Mary. 4. Esther, married Samuel Adams, of Chelmsford. 5. Samuel, born October 27, 1638, died October 13, 1639. 6. John, died September 21, 1644. Children of Na- thaniel and Katherine Sparhawk: 7. Ruth, born April 12, 1645, died May 9, 1645. S. Elizabeth, horn 1646, died unmarried November 9, 1692, aged about forty-seven. Nathaniel Sparhawk (father) died June 28, 1647, aged about fifty years,
(IV) Nathaniel Sparhawk, eldest child of Na- thaniel Sparhawk (3), was born in Dedham, Eng -- land, about 1630. He resided in the Brighton dis- trict of Cambridge, Massachusetts, which has been: the home of most of his descendants who have re- mained within the limits of ancient Cambridge. He was a distinguished citizen, was elected selectman in 1677, and served in that capacity for nine years afterward. He also was deacon of the church. His- will was dated December 29, 1686, and the in- ventory of his estate was filed January 20. 1686-87.
He married, October 3, 1649, Patience Newman, . daughter of Rev. Samuel Newman. Their chil -- dren: I. Nathaniel, born November 3. 1650, ved Ì February 12, 1650-51. 2. Mary, born 1652, married, October 8, 1673. William Barrett. 3. Sybil, born ahout 1655. died Angust 6, 1708; married (first) Dr. Jonathan Avery: (second) Rev. Michael Wig -. glesworth, of Malden. 4. Esther, baptized May' 5;, 1661. 5. Samuel, see forward. 6. Nathaniel. bap -- tized November 3. 1667. 7. John, born about 1672,. graduate of Harvard College, 1689, minister at Bris- tol, ancestor of the second Sir Andrew Pepperell; he died April 29, 1718.
(V) Samuel Sparhawk, fifth child of Nathaniel Sparhawk (4), was born in Brighton district, Cam- bridge, baptized February 5. 1664. died November 2, 1713, aged forty-nine years. He was admitted a freeman in 1690, was a leading man in the town of Cambridge, and from 1701 to 1710 served as selectman. He married Sarah Whiting, daugh- ter of Rev. Samuel Whiting. of Lynn, Massa- chusetts. She died December 8, 1752, aged eighty- four years. Their children : I.
Sarah, bap- tized September 5. 1697, died October 9, 1701. 2. Samuel, born October 2, 1698. 3. Saralı, born De-
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cember 22, 1700. 4. John, born June 12, 1702, grad- uate of llarvard College, 1723. 5. Thomas, see forward. 6. Joseph, born April 2, 1708.
(VI) Thomas Sparhawk, fifth child of Sampel Sparhawk (5), was born in righton district, Cam- bridge, Massachusetts, May 25, 1706. Like the three generations of his Sparhawk ancestors he was prom- inent in the town of Cambridge. He was select- man for the extraordinary period of twenty years, .from 1744 to 1764, and was justice of the peace, .the local squire. He married Mary Oliver, Janu- ary 14, 1730, daughter of Nathaniel Oliver. Their children : 1. Mary, born January 3, 1731-32, married, June 21. 1753, Isaac Gardner, Jr., of Brookline. 2. Elizabeth, baptized September 3, 1733, married, June 21. 1753, Elisha Gardner, of Brookline. 3. Sybil, born July 13, 1735, married, May 25, 1750. Samuel Aspinwall, of Brookline. 4. Thomas, see forward. 5. Luey. born August 14, 1738, married, October 4, 1762, Thomas Aspinwall, Jr., of Brook- line. 6. Katherine, born December, 1739. 7. Oliver, born April 1, 1742. S. Abigail, born April 19, 1746. (VII) Hon. Thomas Sparhawk, fourth child of Thomas Sparhawk (6), was born in Cambridge, March 16, 1736-37, died November, 1802, at Walpole, New Hampshire. lle was a graduate of Harvard College, 1755, and became a teacher in Lunenburg, Massachusetts. In 1769 he removed to Walpole, New Hampshire, and settled there. He carried on a farm, and was also the proprietor of the first general store in the town. Prior to the opening of this store the settlers had to go to Northfield to do their trading. He was one of the most prom- inent and best known men in the county, a worthy successor of his distinguished ancestry. He was the first representative that the town sent to the legis- Rature, in 1775, and he held many town offices. in- cluding clerk of courts and judge of probate of Cheshire county. He married, July 10, 1758, Re- 'becca Stearns, second daughter of Rev. David Stearns, who died October 31, 1803. Their children : I. Thomas, see forward. 2. Oliver Stearns, born at Lunenburg, July 23. 1764, died October 18, 1765. 3. Rebecca, born at Lunenburg, July 17, 1768. died 1702; married, 1788, Josiah Bellows. + Oliver Stearns, born at Walpole, July 16, 1771, graduate of Dartmouth, 1793. lawyer, clerk of courts. 5. Mary, born 1773, married, 1793, Josiah Bellows, who also married her sister Rebecca. 6. John Stearns, born in Walpole, graduate of Dartmouth, 1796, died 1800 7. Jonathan Hubbard, born 1781, graduated M. B. at Dartmouth, 1802. M. D., 1812; surgeon in the United States army it 1812; settled in Hart- ford: married Clarissa Porter. daughter of Dr. Thomas Porter, of East Windsor, Connecticut : he removed to Springfield, Massachusetts, 1818, died 1819. 8. Samuel, born 1786, died 1835: married, 1807. Sophronia Brown; they had eight children.
(\'III) Thomas Sparhawk, Jr., eldest son of " "Hon. Thomas Sparhawk (7), was born in Lunen- burg. Massachusetts, April 12, 1760, died in 1848. He was fully as prominent as his ancestors. He lived in Walpole, and was active in the church until he became disgusted with the conduct of some of the brethren at the time the old church was re- moved. He was a man of strict piety and good works all his life. He was a representative in the New Hampshire legislature in 1795-06-98-1701-03. and was a delegate to the state constitutional con- vention in 1783. Ile was a lieutenant in the militia. He married Octavia Frink, daughter of Dr. Thomas Frink, of Keene, New Hampshire. Their children : I. Thomas, born 1791. graduate of Dartmouth, 1815, admitted to the bar in 1817, died unmarried in 1838. 2. Rebecca, born 1793. 3. Octavia, born 1795. 4.
George, see forward. 5. Charles, born 1799. 6. John Stearns, born 1801, died 1841. 7. Mary Hub- bard, born 1802. 8. Henry, horn 1805, died 1807. 9. Henry, born 1807, died 1816.
(IX) George Sparhawk, fourth child of Thomas Sparhawk (8), was born in Walpole, 1797. He re- sided in Walpole and Keene, New Hampshire. He married Eliza Hammond, of the well known fam- ily of that name in Newton, Massachusetts. Their children : 1. Rebecca, born 1821. 2. George Henry, see forward. 3. Thomas, born 1827. 4. Emily, born 1830. 5. Mary O., twin of Emily, born 1830.
(X) George Henry Sparhawk, son of George Sparhawk (9), was born in Keene, New Hampshire, February 1, 1824. At an early age he moved with his parents to Lebanon, New Hampshire, where he received his early education in the common schools. He began his business career as clerk in the general store there, but on account of his father's scruples against the sale of intoxicating liquors which were at that time kept in stock by all the country stores, he gave up his position and went to work on the farm with his father. The family removed to the adjoining town of Rocking- hamn, Vermont, where Mr. Sparhawk, Sr., carried on a large farm known as the Bellow's farm, and this George Henry assisted in carrying on for a number of years. Later he carried on a farm on .his own account for a time, when he returned to the Bellow's farm, where he remained ten years, then removed to Walpole, on the old homestead, where his father had lived and died, and here he died February 1, 1873. He was a member of the Methodist Church at Bellows Falls, Vermont, and a Republican in polities. In proof of his character. it is related of him at one time that, being obliged to borrow a sum of money, he secured such a sum from a friend, one Otis Arms. On being criticised for not taking security, Mr. Arms replied, "I don't need to; his word is as good as his bond ; his honesty is unquestionable."
He married Fannie Maria Webb, born May 7, 1826, daughter of Colonel Bradford and Fannie Webb, of Bellows Falls, Vermont. Colonel Webb was a leading citizen in that section, a farmer and tavern keeper. Children of George H. and Fannie M. ( Webb) Sparhawk were: I. Arthur George, born June 25, 1851, died February 26, 1871. 2. Rollin Webb, born June 14, 1853, died May 7, 1879. 3. Thomas Clifton. see forward. 4. Carlton Edward. born July 14. 1861, at Rockingf am, Vermont, mar- ried, July 23, 1902, Margaret MeGillivray, of Canada. Mr. Sparhawk is now and has been post- master at Walpole, New Hampshire, for a number of years.
(XI) Thomas Clifton Sparhawk, third child of George Henry Sparhawk ( 10), was born at Walpole, New Hampshire, on what is known as the Kill- burn Farm, August 2, 1859. He received a com- mon school education in his native town, attend- ing the high schor' until eighteen years of age, when he began teaching. La er he entered the general store of George P. Porter, at Walpole, and re- mained as clerk there about three years. He then pursued a one year's course of study at Tilton Seminary, Tilton, New Hampshire, after which he accepted a position in the general store of Tux- bury & Stone, at Windsor, Vermont. In Septem- ber, 1883, he removed to Winchendon, where he worked for three years for F. A. Hayward, pro- prietor of a general store. After resting from labor for one year, on account of poor health, he entered the office of E. Murdock & Company, manufac- turers of wooden-ware, but after a short time ac- cepted a position with C. T. Stearns, a clothing mer-
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chant in the old Mason Block, Winchendon. In 1893, three years later, he purchased his present business, dealing in men's furnishings, boots and shoes. His store is in Union Block, Central street, and the business has been very prosperous. Since 1893, a period of thirteen years, Mrs. Sparhawk has been the valued assistant in the business, to which she has given of her strength and judgment. Previous to the above named year she had been an efficient and capable teacher in the schools of Winchendon.
Mr. Sparhawk has taken an active part in the affairs of the town. He is a director of the Win- chendon Co-operative Bank. He is an active Re- publican and has served frequently as a delegate to important conventions of the party. He is a member of the Walpole Congregational Church, Walpole, New Hampshire, secretary of the North Congregational Sunday school, Winchendon, Massa- chusetts, three years, and was assessor of the North Congregational Parish three years. He is a member of Monomonock Lodge, No. 121, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and was the treasurer one year. He formerly belonged to the Winchendon Country Club. May 4, 1906, Mr. Sparhawk purchased the D. H. Barnes estate on Lincoln avenue, and May 30 following entered his new home. This is a large and finely constructed house, with extensive grounds, a home of which anyone might well be proud. Mr. Sparhawk married, December 25, 1883, Della Grace Witt, born at Walpole, New Hampshire, May 24. 1863, daughter of Charles A and Sarah Fifield (Thurston) Witt, the former of whom was born October 24, 1837, was a carpenter and builder, and the latter born June 18, 1833.
CRANE FAMILY. Henry Crane (1), the immi- grant ancestor of the Crane family of Leicester, Massachusetts, was born in England in 1621, and died in Milton, Massachusetts, March 21, 1709. He settled in that part of Dorchester set off as Milton, his home being on the road from Roxbury to Brain- tree, and was living there before September I. 1654. An autograph letter of Henry Crane dated May 7. 1677, is preserved in the Massachusetts archives. It was his reply to the order of the colonial government for him to dispose of three Indian servants. He was selectman of Milton 1679- 80-81. He was one of the trustees of the first meet- ing house in Milton. He acquired considerable wealth. He was engaged in the iron manufactures in Dorchester and Milton.
He married (first) Tabitha Kinsley, daughter of Stephen Kinsley. He married (second), 1683. Elizabetlı The children of Henry and Tabitha Crane: Benjamin, born about 1656, was in King Philip's war and was wounded in the Swamp fight ; Stephen, born about 1657: Henry, Jr .: John, born January 30, 1658-59, see forward; Elizabeth. born August 14, 1663, married Eleazer Gilbert and (second) George Townsend : Ebenezer, born August 6, 1665: Mary, born November 22, 1666, married Samuel Hackett: Mercy, born January 1, 1668; Samuel, born June 8, 1669; Anna, removed to Taunton.
(II) John Crane, son of Henry Crane (1), was born January 30. 1658-59, in Dorchester, Massachu- setts, and died in Berkeley, Massachusetts, August 5, 1716. He married, December 13, 1686, Hannah Leonard, daughter of Captain James and Hannah Leonard. Captain Leonard was one of the brothers who started the first iron forge for iron work in America. Among his children was John, see for- ward. He was called Ensign John Crane from his military rank.
. (III) Captain John Crane, son of Ensign John Crane (2), was born in Berkeley, Massachusetts. where his father was among the first settlers. He lived there all his life and died there October 31. 1777. He married Hamah Adams, a descendant of the immigrant Henry Adams, of Braintree, who was also the progenitor of the Presidents Adams. Crane is buried at Oxford, Massachusetts. Among his children was Lemuel, see forward.
(1\) Lemuel Crane, son of Captain John Crane (3), was born in Berkeley, Massachusetts, October 29, 1736, died in Oxford, September 28, 1814. He was a Loyalist during the revolution and was im- prisoned in the Taunton jail on account of his political sentiments. The hard feeling caused by the war made him sell his farm in Berkeley and come to Oxford. He married, December 13, 1759, Bathsheba Gilbert, daughter of Colonel Thomas Gilbert, the Tory leader of New England, who left Boston with the British, March 17, 1776. The children, all born at Berkeley except the youngest who was born in Oxford, were: Lydia, born April 3, 1761, married Rodolphus Eaton; John, born Octo- ber 3, 1763; Hannah, born September 26, 1765, mar- ried Gideon Hovey ; Gilbert, born July 4, 1767, see forward; Bathsheba, born April 28, 1769, married Jeremialı Metcalf; Mary, born January 10, 1772, married Gideon Hovey and Jeremiah Dean; Deb- orah, born December 3, 1773, married John Hudson ; Abigail, married Nahum Pratt; Lemuel, born May 14, 1776; Oliver, born April 1, 1778, married Thomas Kendall; Margery, born September 1, 1780.
(V) Gilbert Crane, son of Lemuel Crane (4), was born in Berkeley, Massachusetts, July 4, 1767. He married, January 14, 1795, Dorcas Davis, daugli- ter of Ebenezer Davis, and they lived for a time at her father's house, Lot H 165, removed to Lot H 90, half a mile west of the north common, where they both died. The date of his death was June 21, 1849; she died aged eighty-four years, March 15, 1853. Their children, all born at Oxford, were : Lydia, born September 9, 1798, died September 20, 1819: Susanna D., born July 7, 1801, died unmar- ried October 8, 1875; Ebenezer D., born March 2, 1804. see forward.
(VI) Ebenezer D. Crane, son of Gilbert Crane (5), was born in Oxford, Massachusetts, March 2, 1804. He resided on the old homestead and followed farming. He married, October 1, 1832, Harriet Wood, born October 16, 1808, at Gardner. He died January 29, 1883, and she died at Leicester, 1891. Their children, all born at Oxford, were: Christo- pher, born July 25, 1833, see forward; Rebecca, born December 6, 1840, married, October, 1861, Stephen Webster Slingsby, born in Oxford, February II, 1836, son of Rufus and Sybil Slingsby; Rufus was born March 9. 1786, son of Daniel and Abigail Slingsby; Daniel was born August 16, 1760, son of Amasa and Elizabeth; Amasa was born February IO, 1738, at Oxford, son of Josiah and Mary Slingsby.
(VII) Christopher Crane, son of Ebenezer D. Crane (6), was born in Oxford, Massachusetts, July 25, 1833. He was educated in the public schools of his native town. During his youth he worked at home on the farm when not in school. Later he was apprenticed in the manufacture of card cloth- ing in the shop of the Murdocks at Leicester. After his three years he remained in the same shop, working altogether for a period of twenty-three years for the Murdock firm. When the American Card Clothing Company bought the Leicester busi- ness, he remained in the employment of the new concern and worked in Worcester and Leicester factories of this company until his death. His home
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was in Leicester during the period of his active life. He died there September 12, 1896.
He was an active member of the Episcopal Methodist Church of Leicester, and at the time of his death was one of the stewards. He had served the church also as treasurer and superintendent of the Sunday school for a number of years. He was a man of high character, an earnest Christian, and exemplary citizen. In politics he was a Republican and held a number of minor town offices. He owned a small farm in Leicester and in addition to the card clothing business carried on this place. He was fond of agriculture, and devoted most of his spare hours to his fruits and vegetable garden.
He married ( first) August 29, 1855, Eliza T. Bond, daughter of David and Sylvia Bond, of Lei- cester, Massachusetts ; she died December 19, 1872. He married ( second), February 24, 1875. Mrs. Sophronia Esther Vinton, widow of Alonzo Vin- ton, of Southbridge and Dudley, daughter of Silas B. and Sally D. Cutler, of Leicester, Massachusetts, and Killingly, Connecticut. Mrs. Crane and her daughters reside corner of Warren and Pleasant streets, Leicester. They formerly lived on Warren street. Children of Christopher and Eliza T. Crane were: Ida Sylvia, born in Leicester, November II, 1858, died March 23, 1894; married Allen Dobson, of Tolland, Connecticut, a farmer ; Carrie Elizabeth, born at Leicester, December 6, 1866, trained nurse, at present bookkeeper for Johnson's Express Com- pany. The only child of Christopher and Sophronia Esther (Cutler) Crane is Sarah Harriet, born in Leicester, December 5, 1875, studied musie with Mrs. Lillian Ilanson Gray, of Worcester, and is a teacher of music.
ALLEN FAMILY. Bouzoune (or Bozoune) Allen, the immigrant ancestor of Lyman Allen, of Lunenburg, Massachusetts, is one of the few of this name, among a large number who were early settlers, whose place of residence in England is known. He was from Lynn, England, a town in Norfolk county. Moreover, we know that his brother William lived at Grunston, Norfolk county, only a few miles from Lynn. The family consisted of three sons and a daughter living in 1643, viz .: Bo- zoune, Elizabeth, William and Thomas,
William Allen, brother of Bouzoune (or Bo- zoune) Allen, died unmarried at Grunston in 1648 His will was dated March, 1647, and proved April 28, 1648. Among numerous bequests to relatives, etc., he left a sum for a free school in Grunston, which seems to have been his native place. He mentions his brother Bouzoune and his sister.
Thomas Allen, the other brother of Bouzoune (or Bozoune) Allen, went to London as an apprentice to George Denham, citizen and leather dealer, and died there, unmarried, in 1645-46, His will was dated August 13, 1643, and proved February 16, 1646. It mentions brothers Bozoune and William, and sister Elizabeth, who married Robert Burcham. Bozoune Allen was the only one of the family to come to America. He was a "mercer" or trader. He came with wife and two servants from Lynn, England, in 1638, on the ship "Diligent" of Ipswich, John Martin, master, and settled first in Hingham, Massachusetts. Lynn is six miles from Grunston, where his brother lived. He became prominent in both civil and military life. He was a town officer at Hingham and deputy to the general court. He was captain of the military company in Hingham, Ile was admitted a freeman, June 2, 1641, and was in the general court in 1643 and seven other years, not consecutive, the last being 1652. He removed to Boston, where he joined the Artillery Company.
He died there September 14, 1652. His will, dated September 8, 1652, mentions his wife; his children as given below, his sisters Elizabeth Burcham and Joanna Peck, (the latter was not mentioned in the wills of his brothers) Mr. Hubbard, his pastor, and Matthew Hawks. The inventory of his estate con- tains the names of two hundred and eighty-six per- sons with whom he had accounts. He married Anne - -, who married ( second), May 13, 1653, Joseph Jewett, of Rowley. She died February 4, 1661. Children of Bozoune and Anne Allen were: Priscilla, born August, 1639; Ephraim (twin), born October 13, 1641, see forward; John (twin), born October 13, 1641; Ann, born October 8, 1643; Deb- oralı, born November 10, 1645, died young; Deb- oral, born November 20, 1648, died February 4, 1660-61; Isaac, born April 6, 1651; Bozoune, born February 13, 1652, married Rachel Houchin, and settled in Boston where he had a large family ; Martha, married Ebenezer Savage.
(II) Ephraim Allen, son of Bozoune Allen (1), was born at Hingham, Massachusetts, October 13, 1641. He settled in Roxbury, Massachusetts, where his son Ephraim was born about 1670.
(HI) Ephraim Allen, son of Ephraim Allen (2), was born at Roxbury, Massachusetts. He settled in what is now Northborough, Massachusetts, and pur- chased of Eleazer Howe a few acres of land with grist mill situate on it, the first and for many years the only grist mill in the town. He also had a son Ephraim, see forward.
(IV) Ephraim Allen, son of Ephraim Allen (3), was born in Northboro, a precinct of Marlbor- ough, about 1700. He settled in what is now West- borough, then Marlborough. He married Susannah and their children, all born in Westborough, were: Samuel, born September 7, 1720, baptized July 13. 1729; Susanna, born August 31, 1723, bap- tized July 13, 1729; William, resided at Rutland, Massachusetts; Elijah, born November 25. 1728, baptized August 17. 1729: Sarah, born 1729, bap- tized August 17, 1729; Ephraim, born October 24, 1731. see forward; Hannah, born April 28, 1734.
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