One day I come home from school giddy with news. In front of the apartment a television news crew waits beside a van. Natasha Trethewey describes an idyllic childhood growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi. Joel, this is Tasha, my mother said to him. Theyre anguishing to read. You dont rely solely on memory for this book. I have been promoted to editor on the newspaper staff. In 1999, Tretheweys watershed year, Pulitzer Prize winner and former U.S. poet laureate Rita Dove selected the manuscript forDomestic Work as the winner of the inaugural Cave Canem Prize, an annual award for the best first collection of poems by an African American poet. I knew immediately something must be wrong but I didnt want to let on that I was worried. Will do. That saved my life': an extract from Natasha Trethewey's Memorial Drive. For what seemed a long time we stood against the guardrail, waiting for help to arrive. Dont ride the bus home from school. To her, the symbolism matters. Not long after I went to the kitchen to announce that I needed to walk up the street on an errand. Hans Ostrom and J. David Macey Jr. (Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 2005), s.v. Box 310, Valdosta, GA 31603, PRO S.E. Their hopes dim, though, when the man who would become her stepfather enters their lives. All requests for permission to publish or reproduce the resource must be submitted to the rights holder. Im sorry.Its okay. She doesnt mention the fire at all. A perfect example of that is the very first poem in Monument called Imperatives for Carrying on in the Aftermath. I turned over a sheet of paper and started working on that poem in response to all the ridiculous things that people say about victims of domestic violence. In the past, Joel has also been known as Joe Grimmette, Joseph Gerimmette and Joe T Grimmette. She won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her 2006 collection Native Guard, and she is the Poet Laureate of Mississippi. The nation's former poet laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Trethewey turns tragic details about her mother's life and death into a journey of discovery, meaning and understanding. This moment is different, and I know the cost. Later that night you hear it, your mothers voice as she tells Joel: Tasha knows.. Native Guard was dedicated to Tretheweys mother, and after it won the Pulitzer, journalists mined the poet's life for background material. In 1984 her mother divorced her second husband, Joel Grimmette; a year later, Grimmette shot his ex-wife to death. Trethewey's Grandmother. Joel Thomas Grimmette age 49. Tretheweys young adulthood was ruptured by violence and tragedy. This article appears in our September 2020 issue. Just over a decade before, the schools had been officially desegregated. From the book Memorial Drive: A Daughters Memoir by Natasha Trethewey. Jim Grimmett Found 11 people in West Virginia, Idaho and 11 other states. Both the literal and the figurative, when they come together that's when I'm. Joel Grimmette had a history of inflicting serious physical abuse on Gwendolyn Grimmette both during the marriage and after their divorce in 1983. I got to the courthouse, but it was over. She says she never even contemplated chronicling any of her life past 1985. [1] [2] Early life [ edit] Photograph by Sarah E. McKee, New Georgia Encyclopedia. I was busy writing that scene, and I started reading her letters from around the time we would have left, and there it was: her letter to my father when she says the drive took eight hours or whatever. She sort of makes it seem like everything is fine. Her parents divorced, and in 1972, Trethewey, called Tasha by her family, joined Gwendolyn in Atlanta, arriving as it was transitioning into what she laughingly calls a chocolate city. (She kept in touch with her father, also a poet, but lived with her mother.) Get this The Atlanta Constitution page for free from Wednesday, July 1, 1987 Ira Jackson as 1st black president JEKYLL ISLAND, Ga. - Atlanta City Councilman Ira Jackson was named president of the . Nineteen-year-old Trethewey, who was finishing her freshman year at the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens, where she was an English major and a varsity cheerleader, turned to writing poetry to deal with her grief. Is that something you believe in?Thou art thy mothers glass and she in thee/ Calls back the lovely April of her prime. I feel as though she lives through me. The author of this memoir was very close to this person growing up. You hear her desperate hope that his knowing you know will put an end to the abuse. Winner of the 2003 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Book Prize, Bellocqs Ophelia was a finalist for both the Academy of American Poets James Laughlin and Lenore Marshall prizes, and was named a 2003 Notable Book by the American Library Association. He pled guilty on September 24, 1985, and that same day was sentenced to life in prison for malice murder, a consecutive term of life in prison for kidnapping with bodily injury, three terms of twenty years in prison for the aggravated assault and burglary charges, to be served concurrently with the sentence for kidnapping with bodily injury and consecutively to the malice murder sentence, and five years in prison for committing terroristic threats and acts, to be served concurrently with the kidnapping with bodily injury, aggravated assault, and burglary sentences, and consecutively to the malice murder sentence. In poems that are polished, controlled, and often based on traditional forms, Trethewey grapples with the dualities and oppositions that define her personal history: Black and white, native and outsider, rural and urban, the memorialized and the forgotten. In a fit of racist pique, the state of Georgia bought the property not long after the Supreme Court's ruling in the landmark civil rights case Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka. Prior to moving for an out-of-time appeal, Grimmette filed a petition for habeas corpus, apparently arguing that trial counsel was ineffective. But you can keep it clean and live with it. I had been excited about the school trip for months, and my father had promised half the cost so that I would be able to go. He doesnt even look up from his plate when he says it. The irony isnt lost on Trethewey that shes commemorating her mother a career woman, a quiet revolutionary, a woman who gave her daughter room to thrive even in the throes of abuse just as statues of unworthy men are being yanked down with ropes across the country. Neither did I. It was a gesture familiar to meI had seen the nuns at Head Start perform itbut I did not know why my mother, who had been raised in the Baptist church, did it then. For the first time in years everything felt normal. FindLaw.com Free, trusted legal information for consumers and legal professionals, SuperLawyers.com Directory of U.S. attorneys with the exclusive Super Lawyers rating, Abogado.com The #1 Spanish-language legal website for consumers, LawInfo.com Nationwide attorney directory and legal consumer resources. That didnt happen. WE POST AND WRITE THOUSANDS OF NEWS STORIES A YEAR, MOST WANTED STORIES, EDITORIALS (UNDER CATEGORIES - BLOG) AND STORIES OF EXONERATIONS. JOEL GRIMMETTE, Petitioner, Pro Se. . "The wound is the place where the light enters you.". She was wearing the lime-green jumpsuit that I loved: short pants and a wide belt cinched at her tiny waist. What the DA needed was evidence of those threats not simply her word so the assistant DA installed a recording device in her apartment, connected to her phone. Trethewey writes with calm and quiet love of the school she entered there, a place where Black intellectuals and heroes were studied year-round and children performed James Weldon Johnsons The Creation. Then Joel Grimmette came along. In 2005-6 she served as the Lehman Brady Visiting Joint Chair Professor in Documentary and American Studies at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. WHATEVER. Its no wonder that shed be drawn to the city that epitomized the emergence of the New South. And in the telling of my backstory, there was mention of my mother as a footnote or an afterthought, as this victim, as this murdered woman. Joel Grimmette Public Records. The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature, vol. The next day my father, Joey and I go to her apartment to collect some of her things. The murderer was Turnbough's ex-husband . He looked at me a little sideways. What if Id told her before that? The only child of an academic and a social worker, she was surrounded by a doting extended family of aunts and uncles and her beloved grandmother. This is when you hear it, the loud smack as Joels fist hits her. OK, I said. Natasha thought often of the Brady Bunch. I don't know. She understands the impulse. Ive replayed this scene in my head countless times: She. You get a good job, so you go where it is. But Trethewey doesnt want Stone Mountain dynamited into dust. Trethewey, Natasha.. She couldnt save her mother, but she could reanimate her memory and welcome her spirit back into her life. You have moved to a new house only a few months before, and sometimes your brother is still afraid to sleep in his new bedroom alone. Often, I wonder whether the course of our lives would have been different had I told my mother, early on, the ways Joel had begun to torment me when she was not at home. When the time came, I was indeed allowed to go, most likely because my mother had intervened, telling Joel that my father would be upset when he found out that I was being kept from going on an educational field trip. View contact information: phones, addresses, emails and networks. He hit me once about the head. The email address cannot be subscribed. Joel Grimmette, 38, was watching television in a motel room in nearby Griffin when officers broke in and arrested him about 1:30 a.m., police said. Frasier released tape recordings of phone calls to Mrs. Grimmette in which a voice Frasier identified as Grimmettes said, I can make keys to your apartment and come in at night. The New Georgia Encyclopedia does not hold the copyright for this media resource and can neither grant nor deny permission to republish or reproduce the image online or in print. The Daily Report delivers breaking legal news, trends, and analysis to the metro-Atlanta and Georgia market with an emphasis on the intersection of law, insurance and healthcare. The book eschews the common memoiristic route of picking apart the aftermath of trauma. Who was Natasha Trethewey stepfather? You think somehow you can protect her. As we stopped, I saw her cross herself, her lips silently moving. Trethewey doesn't speak much during our conversation about the abuse her former stepfather brought into the family home. Even now I hear in my mothers voice, her measured restraint, the origins of my own. She wants. But also the reason Im able to write is because of her fierce love and the resilience that she taught me. You have a new baby brother, she said, as declarative and matter-of-fact as shed always been. See Stewart v. State, supra. Im going to be a writer! I announce. One section flits between first and second person that is me, she tells me, "trying to confront myself about these years of willed forgetting How do you integrate the self again, when something has divided you?. She came to be with me. Or was it evidence of my mother not telling my father about the trouble we had? The monument was first commissioned in 1915, she reminds me, but wasnt completed until 1972, the year she moved to Atlanta with her mother. The crimes occurred on June 5, 1985. Learn more about FindLaws newsletters, including our terms of use and privacy policy. Was your mother Gwen Grimmette? he asked. I dont think Joel ever mentioned the diary to my mother, that he had broken the lock and read it. You talk in the book about the power of silence and how destructive it can be in a family. Life in Atlanta could be lonely but turned to nightmare when her mother married Joel Grimmette, who was cold and cruel to Natasha from the start. Though he did this again and again, the threat he made always the same, I was young enough, or frightened enough, to believe that he would one day carry out his promise. Oct 24, 2022. Grimmette contends that there was no factual showing on the record that he committed kidnapping with bodily injury. You are ashamed and you dont know why. My mother held me close to her, cars speeding by us. their industry, this reminder of what Although Domestic Work began as Tretheweys homage to her maternal grandmothers lifelong labors, the embedding of personal particulars within a historical context transforms the work into a portrait of a generation, in poems with a distinct musicality. "Natasha Trethewey." Perhaps thats what made me wary of him something in his gestures even as he played the role of helpful boyfriend to my mother, volunteering to babysit me in the afternoons whenever she was in class. Was Ghost Brothers cancelled? There is yellow police tape still stuck to the apartment door when I pass through it. . The young Natasha spent her teenage years in Atlanta, where her mother met and married another man,. And the second wound: losing my mother when I was 19. You can feel like, how did this happen to me? But now he just comes into my room and starts harassing me as soon as you leave the house. You decide that you must do something. Gwen died on the sidewalk outside the Atlanta Memorial Drive apartment where she had lived with her two children . Often, in his self-induced rage, he makes her pack her bags and then takes her on long oppressively silent car journeys to nowhere before returning home. I think of Memorial Drive as a long poem in sections. In the dream, Trethewey walks with her mother around a path. I want to get out of this place, she wrote, but I know my state needs me. By the end of the summer of 1964, my mothers desire to move to a better place must have begun to outpace her will to stay. I clung to her then, pressing my cheek against the ribbed fabric and tilting my head up toward the city on its distant, hilly terrain. Gwendolyn Ann Turnbough had been shot twice at close range by Tretheweys former stepfather, a man she called Big Joe. I wish I could have been there, she says. They said he offered no resistance. In my recollection it is always the same song, the Temptations Just My Imagination, though I know that cant be right. Charles Henry Rowell, Inscriptive Restorations: An Interview with Natasha Trethewey, Callaloo 27.4 (2004). thedispatch.com. And Joel and I are married. I refused. Years ago, on a research trip through her home state of Mississippi for her third poetry collection, Native Guard, she was staying in an antebellum mansion that had been converted into an inn. My first act of resistance. Whereas if I try to say all the things that the poem is getting at, in prose, it would have taken a lot longer, and I dont think it would have had the same energy. He must have been watching her all the time, said DeKalb County Police Chief Bobby Burgess. It wasnt long before I came home from school one day to find the lock on the diary broken. With the evidence obtained in several recorded conversations, the magistrate issued an arrest warrant at 1am on 5 June 1985. You hear in your mothers words a plea to get him to stop. Like any good poet, she quotes Rumi on this. He was also a veteran of the Royal Canadian Navy. Joel Francisco was 14 years into a life sentence for selling crack cocaine when he got his second chance. If she had known early on [that my stepfather harassed me]not when I finally told her in high school. Did I conflate a different day with that day? In 1960 blacks had made up less than a third of the citys residents, but by 1970 they represented more than half of the population. Grimmette, a Head Start coordinator from a warm family, gives birth in a segregated hospital; Trethewey's father, a poet and scholar, teaches his daughter about metaphor and myth. In Memorial Drive, former U. S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey unearths the past to understand her wounds, especially the June 1985 shooting murder of her mother, Gwen Grimmette, by her former stepfather, Joel, when the author was only nineteen years old, a college student. My mother is seated to my right and I see her out of the corner of my eye, a deep furrow between her brows, her jaw clenched so tight she seems to speak with her mouth closed: She. Poet Natasha Trethewey on her new memoir and her bittersweet relationship with Block by Block: Stories from the streets that connect us, 2020 Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Designer Showhouse, DINES: A Taste of the Citys Best Restaurants, Is Waffle House Southern? (read more Characters) He filed a motion for an out-of-time appeal on July 10, 2000, which was denied on July 20, 2000. The family, including Trethewey's younger half-brother, also named Joel, was subjected to years of psychological, emotional, and physical abuse at the hands of her stepfather. Stay up-to-date with how the law affects your life. 782, 784-785(4), 463 S.E.2d 365 (1995). As the smoke rose from the car toward the skyline, I couldnt help thinking that, at any moment, everything we had would be consumed by flames. For her, it had been eye-opening to be out of Mississippi [on a college theater tour when three civil rights workers were slain and their bodies went missing for weeks in her home state], watching some of the events of those months from afar in larger towns around the South. At FindLaw.com, we pride ourselves on being the number one source of free legal information and resources on the web. Natasha Trethewey. I asked him what he wanted. Joel Grimmette is 48 years old and was born on 08/15/1973. The physical barricades that prevented blacks from moving into white neighbourhoods were, by court order, removed, and what had been a gradual flight of white residents to the surrounding suburbs had rapidly increased. Even now, It took her seven years to write. And its clearly emotional for you to talk about it. So, I wanted to set the record straight. This was the story I held on to for years, telling it again and again to distance myself from this new family I did not want. 2. Its massive bas-relief sculpture of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson a Confederate Mt. Grimmette did not appeal at that time. I was keeping the silences that I knew. I was careful not to fidget, or do anything to attract his attention, speaking only if he addressed me. I had no intention of going back. In 2008, she was named the Georgia Woman of the Year and also received the Mississippi Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts. Natasha Tretheweyserved as poet laureate of the United States from 2012 to 2014. Retrieved Apr 14, 2021, from https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/natasha-trethewey-b-1966/. Joel was sitting at the table watching her wipe down the counter. The former US poet laureate returns to her childhood and the day her stepfather killed her mother. And then the knock came the womens shelter had called the police and in that moment, she said, she knew that shed been saved. I dont feel that. Still, the police officer posted to watch my mothers apartment left in the early morning hours even though it was his assignment to stay. Joel T Grimmette. John Thomas Morgan, III, D.A., 700 DeKalb County Courthouse, 556 North McDonough Street, Decatur, GA 30030, Robert M. Coker, A.D.A., 700 DeKalb County Courthouse, 556 North McDonough Street, Decatur, GA 30030, Attorneys for Appellee. He held many jobs before becoming a poet and professor including the lead singer of a band, songwriter and guitarist, reporter, longshoreman, and light heavy-weight Louisiana Golden Gloves boxer. Log in or sign up for Facebook to connect with friends, family and people you know. Sign up for any of our newsletters below for occasional free editions. After Years Of 'Willed Amnesia,' Trethewey Opens Up About Her Murdered Mother. What do you hope the takeaway is for readers of Memorial Drive?If I was really honest, I would want for people to fall a little bit in love with her the way I love her. She tried to keep it from her mother. How do you cope with all the feelings this process dredges up?Ive had a long time to learn how to deal with a wound that never heals. Figuratively, I am a person who has always been driven by the desire to remember and memorialize. Find your friends on Facebook. what happened to joel grimmette Let's discuss. Joel Grimmette currently lives in Gulfport, MS; in the past Joel has also lived in Decatur GA. He begins to torment Natasha when her mother isn't around. Hell and high water: A harrowing journey from Myanmar to Clarkston, Georgia. Sam Venable, its owner in the early 20th century, granted the incipient second wave of the Ku Klux Klan permission to hold a cross burning there on Thanksgiving Eve 1915. Joel went to prison, nearly a year-long sentence ahead of him, and she was, for the first time in 10 years, free. You are in the fifth grade the first time you hear your mother being beaten. With her father, she was accorded respect; with her mother, sneers and threats. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Poet Natasha Trethewey signs books following a reading at the University of Georgia on January 16, 2008. Even though I lived there for 16 years and made a life there and had good friends and colleagues, I still imagined getting out of there. 1. This memorial website was created in memory of Gwendolyn Grimmette, 40, born on June 16, 1944 and passed away on June 0, 1985. But thats also to say, even when Im writing prose and filling up the whole page, Im writing it very much like a poem. Just. When I was growing up, if I did anything well, white people would always say things like, Oh, well, that's your white side.. I recall only the moment I saw her again that evening. Take a virtual tour of Georgia's museums and galleries, Fashion and politics from Georgia-born designer Frankie Welch. 2. And I was keeping it, too. Flickering in between are visions of her mother sometimes bruised, sometimes dancing. In 1972, her parents divorced. John Thomas Morgan, III, D.A., 700 DeKalb County . He competed in his first ice dancing competition at the age of eleven. MUGSHOTS.COM. The clip is on a loop as the newscaster speaks, showing over and over the same scene: a young woman walking up to the door of an apartment and stepping in, shutting it behind her. Hed been sitting at the kitchen table, eating his breakfast. In July 2000, he moved for an out-of-time appeal, and the court denied the motion. Joel T. Grimmette, EF 185220, Valdosta State Prison, P. O. She wants.. Mississippi named Trethewey state poet laureate in 2012, and that same year she began her tenure as U.S. poet laureate. Rushmore, the largest of its kind looms at the very end of the titular Memorial Drive,visible from the front gate of the apartment where Gwendolyn Ann Turnbough (her mother's maiden name, the one Trethewey prefers) lived and died. Copyright 2020 by Natasha Trethewey. In 1985, Grimmette entered pleas of guilty to charges of malice murder, kidnapping with bodily injury, aggravated assault, terroristic threat, and two counts of burglary in connection with the killing of his former wife, Gwendolyn Grimmette; the State did not seek the death penalty. Appellant. The voice at the other end of the line informed her that her mother was dead. Go back and finish your breakfast. The early pages. Preceeding him in death were his parents, James and Ila (Steele) Grimmette; his beloved brothers and sisters, Frank (Irene) Grimmette, Jim (Betty) Grimmette, Dallas (Ruth) Grimmette, Shirley (Art) Edwards, Stella (Quentin) Farley and Roberta Whitt. For all you know this is the first time. A pivotal point of the story provides the origins for the Women's Resource Center, founded in response to the events 35 years ago. When I left Atlanta, vowing never to return, she writes of the years immediately after the killing, I took with me what I had cultivated all those years: mute avoidance of my past, silence and willed amnesia buried deep in me like a root., To tell her mothers story and her own as her mothers child she had to reclaim the totems and memories and documentary evidence of the years between 1973 and 1985, when Joel Grimmette, her stepfather and her mothers killer, abused and tormented both of them. On the days that he kept me wed often take drives around the city. She didnt open the box immediately, Trethewey says in her rich and deliberate voice. Shes going to be beaten tonight for that, I think, the tone even inside my head resigned, matter of fact. Then hed take me back home, my face streaked and puffy, hours still before my mother would return. Leretta Dixon Turnbough, 92, of Gulfport, died Wednesday July 30, 2008 in Atlanta, Georgia where she had been living since Hurricane Katrina. Joel Grimmette, III, and Silas Shinn. You stupid motherfucker! I wrote. It would be more than a decade before I learned she had converted to Catholicism, though, over the years, I would see her make the sign of the cross frequently: a gesture Id come to think of as more talisman than prayer. This is what has stayed with me: my mother shutting off the engine, gripping the wheel tightly and letting the car coast to the side of the highway. Grimmette v. Hunstein et al Access additional case information on PACER Use the links below to access additional information about this case on the US Court's PACER system. Trethewey was finishing her freshman year at the University of Georgia when she got the call that her mother was dead; Grimmette had shot her outside her apartment building. She is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University, where she also directs the Creative Writing Program. Public records for Joel Grimmette, 48 years old. After decades spent dotting her work with remnants of her mother, the fullest expression of Tretheweys grief was to offer up what shed found in that box. The New Georgia Encyclopedia is supported by funding from A More Perfect Union, a special initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Trethewey read selections from Native Guard, which won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 2007. Later that morning, with the police watch discontinued, Joel arrived at her apartment. Copyright 2023, Thomson Reuters. He was distant, not sexually abusive, but . Some will not. Permanence and what we choose to commemorate has preoccupied Trethewey for decades. I just kind of started wailing, because it's all there. All the Justices concur, except HUNSTEIN, J., who is disqualified. Memorial Drive is even more naked, a specimen of found poetry. Before I knew it I was telling her, at last, all the things I had been holding back for years. Connect with the definitive source for global and local news. I just saw Mama and Daddy get in the car and drive away together, he told me. I know how to fix you, hed say. Lived: 40 years. She won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for her . the mound is a blister on my heart, Please dont hit me again. or. Joel T. Grimmette, EF 185220, Valdosta State Prison, P. O. In 2007, she won a Pulitzer Prize for poetry for Native Guard, and five years later was named the nations poet laureate recognized for work that shimmies the American Souths history of racism right up alongside the palpable pleasures of its thousand shades of green. And that wounded me, the way that she was constantly being portrayed, and I think even diminished.. Trethewey mined her own experiences as a mixed-race woman for her second book, Bellocqs Ophelia (2002), based on E. J. Bellocqs early-twentieth-century photographs of prostitutes in the infamous Storyville District of New Orleans. Pearl Amelia McHaney, An Interview with Natasha Trethewey, Five Points: Journal of Literature and Art 11.3 (2007). When he chose a seat just in front of my friend and her father, I could no longer pretend not to notice him, so I waved, smiling and mouthing the words, Hey, Big Joe.. Less than a week later, unable to find the womens shelter we moved to, he came to the place he knew Id be on a Friday night: the high school football game at Panthersville Stadium. She is smiling at me and I am like a daffodil, lifting my face to the sun. During the civil rights era Atlanta would garner a reputation for being racially progressive, and in the aftermath of the tumultuous 1960s it would be nicknamed by city leaderswithout ironythe City Too Busy to Hate. Long before that, however, it had another name: Founded in 1837, Atlanta began as the end of the line. The proposed meeting point of the railroads, it was originally called Terminus. I think that had to do with knowing there was a possibility one day of [Big Joe] getting out, and I didnt want to be in the same place. My poems are rooted in my personal history, they're autobiographical, she says. Access this case on the Georgia Northern District Court's Electronic Court Filings (ECF) System Search for Party Aliases Associated Cases Kevin Young, ed., Giant Steps: The New Generation of African American Writers (New York: Perennial, 2000). Standing in front of her, eye level, you say quietly: Mommy do you know how, when you love someone and you know they are hurting, it hurts you, too? You hold her gaze for the moment it takes until her mouth falls open. Remind me to tell you about it. You can call me whatever you like, he said, grinning, his smile uneven, a twitch in his upper lip. Possible relatives for Joel Grimmette include Joe Grimmette. Do you sense her spirit? Grimmett Found 11 people in West Virginia, Idaho and 11 other states,! 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