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(or) WIFE of
(Husband's name in full)
6 Age of husband or wife if alive years
7 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
8 AGE
15 Years. Months Days
If less than 1 day
.Hours.
Minutes
Usual
9 Occupation :
Marce
Disabled
Industry
10 or Business :
11 Social Security No .. Movie
12 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country)
E. Boston Mars
13 NAME OF
FATHER
antonia Vuorro
14 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City)
Italy
(State or country)
15 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Madeline Ruggero
16 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
(State or country)
Boston
mass.
17 Informant. ( Address) El woodside d
Chetigning Guajoe Fattiel)
I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the burial or transit permit was issued : Www. D. Children
(Signature of Agent of Board of Health of other)
Health
officer
9/8/4/
( Official Designation) (Date of Issue of Permit)
16 DATE OF
DEATH
Pent
5
1941
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
19 | HEREBY CERTIFY,
Jest 5
1941
Sept 5
to ....
1941
...
I last saw h. Kama .... allve on.
sept 5
.....
19.2/ .... death Is sald to
have ocourred on the date stated above, at.
6 p.m.
Duration IMPORTANT
.........
8 years
Due to.
Due to.
Other conditions
(Include pregnancy within 3 months of death)
IMPORTANT Physician
Major findings :
Of operations.
Brain Tumor-DX
Children's Hospital
Date of 1937
Of autopsy.
What test confirmed diagnosis ?
Underline the cause to which death should be charged sta- tistically.
20 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased ? 120 If so, specify
(Signed)
Charles y Cataldo
M. D.
48 3ymm OH Z.B Date 9-6
(Address)
Malden
Place of Burial, Cremation or Removal
19.5.1.
21
Holy Cross Cem
DATE OF BURIAL
Lept.
8
(City or Town)
7 ..
19.41
22 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR ..
aunquet Semonta
ADDRESS
215 North St. 1 Sistem
Received and filed 1943. .19
( Registrar)
100m (d)-1-41-4667
If deceased was a U. S. War Veteran, G. L. Chap. 46, Section 10, requires physicians to insert a reoltal to that effeot. extracts from the laws on back of certificate. terms, so that it may be properly classified. Exact statement of OCCUPATION is very important. See instructions and PARENTS
No.
or Togn Woodside ave.
PHYSICIAN - IMPORTANT
(Was deceased a
U. S. War Veteran,
If so ppeolfy WAR)
( If nonresident, give city of town and State)
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
Immedlate oause of death Brain Tumor
That I attended deceased from
(Give maiden name of wife in full)
Relation, if any
EXTRACTS FROM THE LAWS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNING THE
RETURN OF CERTIFICATES OF DEATH
A physician or registered hospital medical officer shall forthwith, after the death of a person whom he has attended during his last illness, at the request of an undertaker or other authorized person or of any member of the family of the deceased, furnish for registration a standard certificate of death, stating to the best of his knowledge and belief the name of the deceased, his supposed age, the disease of which he died, defined as re- quired by section one, where same was contracted. the duration of his last illness, when last seen alive by the physiciau or officer aud the date of his death ... Gen. Laws, Chap. 46. Sec. 9.
A physician or officer furnishing a certificate of death as required by the preceding section or by section forty-five of chapter one hundred and four- teen, shall, if the deceased, to the best of his knowledge and belief, served in the army, navy or marine corps of the United States in any war in which it has been engaged, insert in the certificate a recital to that effect, speci- fying the war, and shall also certify in such certificate both the primary and the secondary or immediate cause of death as nearly as he can state the same. For neglect to comply with any provision of this section, such physician or officer shall forfeit ten dollars. For the purposes of this sec- tion and of sections forty-five, forty-six and forty-seven of said chapter one hundred and fourteen, the word "war" shall include the China relief ex- pedition and the Philippine insurrection, which shall, for said purposes, be deemed to have taken place between February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight and July fourth, nineteen hundred and two, and the Mexi- can border service of nineteen hundred and sixteen and nineteen hundred and seventeen. G. L. Chap. 46, Sec. 10.
No undertaker or other person shall bury or otherwise dispose of a human body in a town, or remove therefrom a human body which has not been buried, until he has received a permit from the board of health, or its agent appointed to issue such permits, or if there is no such board, from the clerk of the town where the person died; and no undertaker or other person shall exhume a human body and remove it from a town, from one cenielery to another, or from one grave or tomb other than the receiving tomb to another in the saine cemetery, until he has received a permit fromn the board of health or its agent aforesaid or from the clerk of the town where the body is buried. No such permit shall he issued until there shall have been delivered to such board, agent or clerk, as the case may be, a satisfactory written statement containing the facts required by law to be returned and recorded, which shall be accompanied, in case of an original internient, by a satisfactory certificate of the attending physician, if any, as required by law, or in lieu thereof a certificate as hereinafter provided. If there is no attemling physician, or if, for sufficient reasons, his certificate cannot be obtained early enough for the purpose, or is insufficient, a physi- cian who is a member of the board of health, or employed by it or hy the selectmen for the purpose, shall upon application make the certificate re- quired of the attending physician. If death is caused by violence, the medi- cal examiner shall make such certificate. If such a permit for the removal of a human hody, not previously interred, from one town to another within the conumonwealth cannot be obtained carly enough for the purpose, the certificate of death made as above provided and in the possession of the undertaker desiring to make such removal shall constitute a permit for auch removal; provided, that such body shall be returned to the town from which it was removed within thirty-six hours after such removal, unless a permit in the usual form for the removal of such body has been sooner obtained hereunder. If the death certificate contains a recital, as required
by section ten of chapter forty-six, that the deceased aerved in the army, navy or marine corps of the United States in any war in which it has been engaged, such recital shall appear upon the permit. The board of health, or its agent, upon receipt of such statement and certificate, shall forthwith countersign it and transmit it to the clerk of the town for registration. The person to whom the permit is so given and the physician certifying the cause of death shall thereafter furnish for registration any other ueces- sary information which can be obtained as to the deceased, or as to the manner or cause of the death, which the clerk or registrar may require .- Chap. 114, Sec. 45, G. L., (Tercentenary Edition).
No undertaker or other person shall bury a human body or the ashes thereof which have been brought into the commonwealth until he haa re- ceived a permit so to do from the board of health or its agent appointed to issue such permits, or if there is no such board, from the clerk of the town where the body is to be buried or the funeral is to be held, or from a person appointed to have the care of the cemetery or burial ground in which the interment is made. .. . Chap. 114, Sec. 46. G. L., (Terccutenary Edition).
Medical examiners shall make examination upon the view of the dead bodies of only such persons as are supposed to have died by violence. If a medical examiner has notice that there ia within his county the body of such a person, he shall forthwith go to the place where the body lies and take charge of the same; ... - General Laws, Chap. 38, Sec. 6.
RULES OF PRACTICE
The fulfillment of the purpose of these laws calls for the observance of the following rules of practice :
(1) Attending physicians will certify to such deaths only as those of persons to whoin they have given bedside care during a last illness from disease uurelated to any form of injury.
(2) Board of Health physicians will certify to such deaths only as those of persons who, though disabled by recognized disease unrelated to any form of injury, have died without recent medical attendance or whose physi- cian is absent from home when the certificate of death is needed.
(3) Medical Examiners will investigate and certify to all deaths sup- posably due to injury. These include not only deaths caused directly or in- directly by trauinatism (including resulting septicemia), and by the action of chemical (drugs or poisons), thermal. or electrical agents, qu' deaths following abortion, but also deatiis from disease resulting from injury or infection related to occupation, the sudden deaths of persons hot disabled by recognized disease, and those of persons found dead.
Statement of Cause of Death .- Cause of death means the disease, or complication which causes death, not the mode of dying, e. g., heart failure, asphyxia, asthenia, etc. As principal cause name the disease causing death, As related causes, name earlier morbid conditions, if any, related to the principal cause and any important complication of the principal cause.
Statement of Occupation .- l'recise statement of occupation is very im- portant, so that the relative healthfulness of various pursuits can be known. Make somnie entry in this section for every person aged 10 years or over. If the occupation had been given up or changed on account of the disease causing death, report the usual occupation prior to illness. If the deceased had retired from business, report the usual occupation prior to retirement. Children not gainfully employed may be returned as at school or at home. For a woman whose only occupation was that of home housework, write housework. For a person engaged in domestic service for wages, however, designate the occupation by the appropriate terms, aa housekeeper-private fainily, cook-hotel, etc. For a person who had no occupation whatever write none.
SPACE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
R-303A
PLACE OF DEATH
Suffolk (County)
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS MEDICAL EXAMINER'S CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
To be filed for burial permit with Board of Health or its Agent.
Registered No
167
§ (If death occurred In a hospital or institution, ¿ give its NAME instead of street and number)
2 FULL NAME George Michael I Laughlin
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
132 Locust St Without
... St.
(If nonresident, give city or town and state)
months
days.
In this community / 0 yrs.
mos.
days.
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
18 DATE OF
DEATH
September 7 -1941
(Month)
(Bay)
(Year)
19 | HEREBY CERTIFY that I have investigated the death of the person above-named and that the CAUSE AND MANNER thereof are as follows: (If an injury was involved, state fully.) Proune
accidental
20 Accident, suicide or homicide (specify)
Date of occurrence.
Jefit-7
1944
Where did
Injury occur ?.
(City or Town and State)
Did injury occur in or about home, on farm, in industrial place, in public place?
ocean
(Specify type of place)
Manner of
Injury
Have made bat upset
Nature of
Injury
While at work ?..
Was there an autopsy ?.
no
21 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased?
If so, specify
(Signed)
M. D.
Date 20-
.19 SJ ..!
(Address)
Place of Burial, Cremation or Removal.
(City or Town)
DATE OF BURIAL ...
Left 21
1966/
23 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
Sau F. OMaley
ADDRESS
Received and filed
19
(Registrar)
--
25m-2-'40-D-729-b
1
(City or Town)
No Ocean kean Great Head
(a) Residence. No ...
(Usual place of abode)
Length of stay: In hospital or institution.
(Specify whether)
years
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
3 SEX
4 COLOR OR RACE
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED
White
male
5a If married, widowed, or divorced
HUSBAND of ..
(Give maiden name of wife in full)
(or) WIFE of.
(Husband's name in full)
6 Age of husband or wife if alive.
7 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
8
AGE 10 Years.
3
Months ..........
Days !.
If less than 1 day
Usual
9 Occupation :....
student
Hours.
Industry
10 or Business :.......
Schmap
11 Social Security No ...
W intutto
12 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country)
13 NAME OF
14 BIRTHPLACE OF
nevotos
FATHER (City)
(State or country)
mago
15 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Lathering O'Gara
PARENTS
16 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City).
(State or country)
Deland.
17
Catherine Milaughlin
Relation, if any?
Informant
(Address)
132 acest It Wentto
I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death
was filed with me BEFORE the burial or transit permit was issued:
William D. Childrens
of Death. See reverse side for extracts from the laws relative to the return of certificates of death.
DEATH in plain terms, so that it may be properly classified under the International Classification of Causes
information should be carefully supplied. MEDICAL EXAMINERS should state CAUSE AND MANNER OF
(Signature of Agent of Board of Health or other)
Ce gent
Sept. 20/41
N. B .- WRITE PLAINLY, WITH UNFADING BLACK INK-THIS IS A PERMANENT RECORD. Every item of
FATHER
Jances Mclaughlin
5 SINGLE
(write the word)
Lingue
years
Minutes
(Officlal Designation) (Date of Issue of Perinlt,
St.
(If U. S.
War Veteran,
specify WAR)
N
U
EXTRACTS FROM THE LAWS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNING THE
RETURN OF CERTIFICATES OF DEATH
A physician or registered hospital medical officer shall forthwith, after the death of a person whom be has attended during his last illness, at the request of an undertaker or other authorized person or of any member of the family of the deceased, furnish for registration a standard certificate of death, stating to the best of his knowledge and belief the name of the deceased, his supposed age, the disease of which he died, defined as required hy section one, where same was contracted, the duration of his last illness, when last seen alive by the physician or officer and the date of his death . . . Gen. Laws, Chap. 46, Sec. 9.
No undertaker or other person shall hury or otherwise dispose of a buman body in a town, or remove tberefrom a human body which has not heen buried, until he has received a permit from the board of health, or its agent appointed to issue such permits, or if there is no such hoard, from the clerk of the town where the person died; and no undertaker or other person shall exhume a human hody and remove it from a town, from one cemetery to another. or from one grave or tomb other than the receiv- ing tomb to another in the same cemetery, until he has received a permit from the hoard of bealth or its agent aforesaid or from the clerk of the town where the hody is buried. No such permit shall be issued until there shall have been delivered to sucb hoard, agent or clerk. as the case may be, a satisfactory written statement containing the facts required by law to be returned and recorded. which shall be accompanied, in case of an original interment, by a satisfactory certificate of tbe attending physician, if any, as required hy law, or in lieu thereof a certificate as hereinafter provided. If there is no attending physician, or if, for sufficient reasons, his certificate cannot be obtained early enough for the purpose, or is in- sufficient, a physician who is a member of the hoard of health, or em- ployed hy it or hy the selectmen for the purpose, shall upon application make the certificate required of the attending physician. If death is caused by violence. the medical examiner shall make such certificate. If such a permit for the removal of a human hody, not previously interred, from one town to another within the commonwealth cannot he obtained early enough for the purpose, the certificate of death made as ahove provided and in the possession of the undertaker desiring to make such removal shall constitute a permit for such removal; provided, that such body shall be returned to the town from which it was removed within thirty-six hours after such removal, unless a permit in the usual form for the re- moval of such body bas been sooner obtained hereunder. If the deatb certificate contains a recital, as required hy section ten of chapter forty- six, that the deceased served in the army, navy or marine corps of the United States in any war in which it has been engaged. such recital sball appear upon the permit. The board of health, or its agent, upon receipt of such statement and certificate, shall forthwith countersign it and transmit it to the clerk of the town for registration. The person to whom the permit is so given and the physician certifying the cause of death shall thereafter furnish for registration any otber necessary information which can he ohtained as to the deceased, or as to the manner or cause of the death, which the clerk or registrar may require .- Chop. 114, Sec. 45, G. L., (Tercentenary Edition).
No undertaker or other person shall hury a human body or the ashes thereof wblch have been hrought into the commonwealth until he bas received a permit so to do from the board of health or its agent appointed to issue such permits, or if there Is no such board, from the clerk of the town where the body is to he buried or the funeral Is to he held, or from a person appointed to have the care of the cemetery or hurial ground In which the interment is inade. . . . Chap. 114, Sec. 46, G. L., (Tercentenary Edition).
Medical examiners shall make examination upon the view of the dead bodies of only such persons as are supposed to have died by violence. If a medical examiner has notice that there is within his county the body of such a person, he shall forthwith go to the place where the body lies and take charge of the same; . . . - General Laws, Chap. 38, Sec. 6.
. He shall in all cases certify to the town clerk or registrar in the place where the deceased died his name and residence, if known; otber- wise a description as full as may be, with the cause and manner of death. -General Laws, Chap. 38, Sec. 7.
. The medical examiner certifies the cause and manner of death to the best of his knowledge and belief.
RULES OF PRACTICE
The fulfillment of the purpose of these laws calls for the observance of the following rules of practice:
(1) Attending physicians will certify to sucb deatbs only as those of persons to whom they have given bedside care during a last illness from disease unrelated to any form of injury.
(2) Board of Health physicians will certify to such deaths only as those of persons who, though disahled by recognized disease unrelated to any form of injury, have died without recent medical attendance or whose physician is absent from home when the certificate of death is needed.
(3) Medical Examiners will investigate and certify to all deaths supposably due to injury. These include not only deaths caused directly or indirectly hy traumatism (including resulting septicemia), and hy the action of chemical (drugs or poisons), thermal, or electrical agents, and deaths following abortion, but also deaths from disease resulting from injury or infection related to occupation, the sudden deaths of persons not disabled by recognized dlsease, and those of persons found dead.
STATEMENT OF CAUSE OF DEATH
Medical Examiners in certifying to a deatb will state the cause and manner thereof, and will specify: (1) Under cause, the nature of an injury and of its consequences; and (2) under manner, the mode of its production together with the circumstances when these are known. For example: "Compound fracture of the femur with ensuing septicemia (gas hacillus) caused by a steam railway accident." "Pistol shot wound of the chest with associated hemorrhage, homicidal." "Asphyxiation by suspension, suicidal." "Syncope while under the Influence of ether administered as a surgical anaesthetic." "Fracture of the skull witb asso- ciated internal injury sustained under circumstances unknown."
If disease or injury was related to occupation, specify. If investigation shows the death to have heen due to disease, specify: (1) Under cause its known or presumahle nature; and (2) under manner, indicate the cir- cumstances leading to medico-legal inquiry. For example: "Heinorrhage spontaneous, of the brain (basal ganglia) (found dead in bed)." "Heart disease, presumably coronary sclerosis. (Sudden death.)"
DESCRIPTION (for unknown person)
NOTICE TO UNDERTAKERS: No embalming fluid, or any substitute therefor, shall be injected into the body of any person supposed to have met his death by violence, until a permit, signed by the Medical Examiner, has first been obtained .- General Laws, Chap. 38, Sec. 14.
THIS CERTIFICATE CONSTITUTES SUCH PERMIT
R.303A
PLACE OF DEATH
Suppilk (County) Hruthat. (City or Town)
No.E.C ......
continent Her.
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS MEDICAL EXAMINER'S CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
To be filed for burial permit with Board of Health or its Agent.
Registered No.
168
§ (If death occurred In a hospital or institution, St. ¿ give its NAME instead of street and number)
(If U. S.
War Veteran.
specify WAR)
St.
(If nonresident, give city or town and state)
months
days.
In this community
yrs.
mos.
days.
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
4 COLOR OR RACE
Finale Mente
5 SINGLE
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED
(write the word)
Single
Sa If married, widowed, or divorced HUSBAND of. (Give maiden name of wife in full)
(Husband's name in full)
6 Age of husband or wife if alive.
years
7 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
AGE Years .Months. Days
If less than 1 day .Hours .Minutes
9 Occupation :.
student
Industry
10 or Business:
School
11 Social Security No ...
12 BIRTHPLACE (City).
(State or country)
13 NAME OF
James MC Loughlin
14 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City) ...
(State of country)
mark
Newton
15 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Catherine I Gara.
16 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City) ...
(State or country)
Irland
17 Catherine MaCourbe
Informant
(Address)
132 Focus RSx
I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the burial or transit permit was issued:
Um. A. Le huldreux (Signature of Agent of Board of, Health or other)
14.0 Sept. 19-1941
(Official Designation) (Date of Issue of Permit)/
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
18 DATE OF
DEATH
September 7-1941
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
19 | HEREBY CERTIFY that I have investigated the death of the person above-named and that the CAUSE AND MANNER thereof are as follows: (If an injury was involved, state fully.)
20 Accident, suicide or homicide (specify) eccolalet
Date of occurrence.
Left. 7, 194, Puss Bril
19
Where did
Mittwoch
Injury occur?
(City or Town and State) Did injury occur in or about home, on farm, in industrial place, in public place?
(Specify type of place)
Manner of
Injury
Home made bout wh et
Nature of
Injury.
While at work?
.Was there an autopsy ?.
21 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased?
If so, specify.
(Signed)
Date
9/19
.19.4
(Address)
Relation, if any 22. Wincharge
Place of Burial, Cremation or Removal (City or Town)
DATE OF BURIAL.
Left 21
19.L.
23 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
John it. Maley
ADDRESS Winther Muy
Received and filed
19
(Registrar)
25m-2-'40-D-729-b
1 (or) WIFE of 8 8 Usual PARENTS of Death. See reverse side for extracts from the laws relative to the return of certificates of death. DEATH in plain terms, so that it may be properly classified under the International Classification of Causes information should be carefully supplied. MEDICAL EXAMINERS should state CAUSE AND MANNER OF N. B .- WRITE PLAINLI, WITH UNFADING BLACK INK-THIS IS A PERMANENT RECORD. Every item of FATHER
2 FULL NAME !.
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
(a) Residence. No. 1.32
(Usual place of abode)
Length of stay: In hospital or institution.
et It.
(Specify whether)
years
M. D.
2
EXTRACTS FROM THE LAWS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNING THE
RETURN OF CERTIFICATES OF DEATH
A physician or registered hospital medical officer shall forthwith, after the death of a person whom he has attended during his last illness, at the request of an undertaker or other authorized person or of any member of the family of the deceased, furnish for registration a standard certificate of death, stating to the hest of his knowledge and belief the name of the deceased, his supposed age, the disease of which he died, defined as required hy section one, where same was contracted, the duration of his last illness, when last seen alive by the physician or officer and the date of his death . . . Gen. Laws, Chap. 46, Sec. 9.
No undertaker or other person shall bury or otherwise dispose of a human body in a town, or remove therefrom a human body which has not been huried, until he has received a permit from the board of health, or its agent appointed to issue such permits, or if there is no such board, from the clerk of the town where the person died; and no undertaker or other person shall exhume a human body and remove it from a town, from one cemetery to another, or from one grave or tomb other than the receiv- ing tomh to another in the same cemetery, until he has received a permit from the board of health or its agent aforesaid or from the clerk of the town where the body is buried. No such permit shall he issued until there shall have been delivered to such board, agent or clerk, as the case may be, a satisfactory written statement containing the facts required by law to he returned and recorded, which shall be accompanied, in case of an original interment, by a satisfactory certificate of the attending physician, if any. as required by law, or in lieu thereof a certificate as hereinafter provided. If there is no attending physician, or if, for sufficient reasons, his certificate cannot be obtained early enough for the purpose, or is in- sufficient, a physician who is a member of the board of health, or em- ployed by it or by the selectmen for the purpose, shall upon application make the certificate required of the attending physician. If death is caused by violence, the medical examiner shall make such certificate. If such a permit for the removal of a human hody, not previously interred, from one town to another within the commonwealth cannot he obtained early enough for the purpose, the certificate of death made as ahove provided and in the possession of the undertaker desiring to make such removal shall constitute a permit for such removal; provided, that such body shall be returned to the town from which it was removed within thirty-six hours after such removal, unless a permit in the usual form for the re- moval of such body has been sooner obtained hereunder. If the death certificate contains a recital, as required hy section ten of chapter forty- six, that the deceased served in the army, navy or marine corps of the United States in any war in which it has been engaged, such recital shall appear upon the permit. The board of health, or its agent, upon receipt of such statement and certificate, shall forthwith countersign it and transmit it to the clerk of the town for registration. The person to whom the permit 18 80 given and the physician certifying the cause of death shall thereafter furnish for registration any other necessary information which can be obtained as to the deceased, or as to the manner or cause of the death, which the clerk or registrar may require .- Chap. 114, Sec. 45, G. L., (Tercentenary Edition).
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