My Hinge Date Said He Only Liked Me Because I’m Ugly — So I Blocked Him Forever
Part 2
I read the block of text three times just to make sure I wasn’t having a stroke.
‘I think a piece of it, and I truly mean a piece only because I cannot really understand myself, is that most people would not find you attractive.’
My jaw literally dropped.
‘But in my mind that makes you so effing beautiful to me because I see what others don’t.’
He was actually typing this out with his own two hands and hitting send.
‘And I can truly make you all mine without a lot of competition if this were to progress.’
A bitter, incredulous laugh escaped my lips.
He wasn’t complimenting me.
He was meticulously trying to break down my self-esteem.
‘That’s the type of person I’d want to marry.’
The audacity was practically leaking out of my phone screen.
‘The type of person I can trust and the type of person I can make love to because that is just so sexy to me.’
My skin crawled.
He viewed me not as a human being, but as some sort of unappealing stray dog he could easily claim.
He honestly believed that telling me I was universally undesirable would somehow make me grateful for his attention.
I stood up from the bathtub and paced across the bathroom floor.
Anger was quickly replacing the shock.
I needed to see how deep this delusion went.
‘Wait, why would most people not find me attractive?’
I sent the text and waited.
His response came through instantly.
‘modern standards are too high, it’s not even you.’
I rolled my eyes so hard it physically hurt.
‘I already told you how beautiful you are to me, it would be hard to describe the features I don’t see as beautiful.’
He was backpedaling while somehow still stepping entirely over the line.
‘And I’m not even just saying that my mind is effed, I’m serious.’
Yes, your mind is definitely messed up, I thought.
‘Look, I’d cuff you forever so don’t think I’m insulting you.’
A cold realization washed over me.
This was a calculated move.
He was purposefully isolating me, establishing himself as the only man who would ever ‘settle’ for me.
It was a classic manipulation tactic, dressed up as some bizarre, twisted romantic confession.
I tossed my phone onto the bed.
How do you even respond to a man who thinks insulting your entire existence is the key to locking you down?
Part 3
Brenda stared at the soft blue glow of her phone screen, her thumb hovering over the dating app logo.
It was a Friday night.
Outside her fourth-floor apartment window, the city was alive with the distant hum of traffic and the muffled bass of a nearby rooftop bar.
Inside, the only sound was the rhythmic purring of her cat, who was currently draped across Brenda’s lap like a heavily weighted blanket.
Brenda let out a long, quiet sigh.
The modern dating scene felt less like a search for romantic connection and more like a second, unpaid job.
It was an endless conveyor belt of small talk, ghosting, and men holding up freshly caught fish in their profile pictures.
She was twenty-three, with a degree in graphic design and a stable job at a boutique agency downtown.
She had her life relatively put together.
She paid her rent on time.
She kept a thriving collection of pothos plants alive on her balcony.
She had a close-knit group of friends who kept her grounded.
Yet, every time she opened a dating app, she felt entirely unmoored.
She tapped the icon, watching the screen illuminate her living room with a bright, artificial white.
The first profile belonged to a guy who claimed his primary love language was ‘sarcasm.’
Brenda swiped left immediately.
The second guy had a bio consisting entirely of emojis.
Left again.
Then, Craig’s profile appeared.
He was twenty-seven.
His photos were surprisingly normal.
There were no gym selfies in dirty mirrors.
There were no pictures of him surrounded by a dozen different women at a hotel pool party.
Instead, there was a candid shot of him laughing over a cup of coffee.
Another photo showed him hiking on a trail Brenda actually recognized.
His bio was simple, self-deprecating, and free of the usual bravado.
Brenda hesitated for a fraction of a second before swiping right.
The screen immediately exploded with a digital animation.
It was a match.
Usually, Brenda would close the app and wait a few days to see if the guy would initiate a conversation.
Before she could lock her phone, a message chimed through.
Craig had already messaged her.
‘I see you’re also a survivor of the great dating app fatigue of our generation,’ he wrote.
Brenda let out a genuine, surprised laugh.
It was a sharp, witty opening.
It bypassed the standard ‘Hey, how’s your weekend?’ entirely.
She typed back a quick response.
‘Barely surviving, to be honest.
I was about to throw my phone into the river.’
The conversation flowed effortlessly from there.
They texted back and forth for the next two days.
Craig was attentive and responsive.
He asked thoughtful questions about her design work.
He remembered small details she mentioned in passing, like her preference for oat milk over almond milk.
He seemed grounded.
He didn’t launch into inappropriate sexual innuendos or ask for pictures.
By a few days later, he asked her to dinner.
‘There’s this small local place on 4th street,’ he texted.
‘I’d love to take you there this evening.’
‘No pressure, just good pasta and a chance to prove I’m not a serial killer.’
Brenda agreed.
Friday evening arrived with a flurry of nervous energy.
Brenda stood in front of her full-length mirror, evaluating her outfit choices.
Her best friend, Megan, sat cross-legged on Brenda’s bed, aggressively scrolling through her phone.
Megan was a paralegal with a sharp tongue and a radar for nonsense.
‘I’m telling you, this guy seems almost too normal,’ Megan said, not looking up from her screen.
Brenda smoothed down the fabric of her dark green dress.
‘Can’t a guy just be normal, Megan?’
Brenda adjusted a silver necklace.
‘Normal on an app usually means they’re hiding a secret second family,’ Megan replied dryly.
Brenda rolled her eyes.
‘He’s twenty-seven.
I doubt he has a secret family.’
‘He might,’ Megan insisted, finally looking up.
‘Just keep your guard up.
The last guy who seemed this nice ended up explaining crypto to you for three hours.’
Brenda winced at the memory.
‘Craig is different,’ Brenda said, though a tiny kernel of doubt always lingered.
‘Just text me an emoji if you need a rescue call,’ Megan instructed.
‘The siren emoji means ‘call me with a fake emergency.”
‘The skull emoji means ‘he’s a murderer, call the police.”
Brenda laughed, grabbing her purse and a light jacket.
‘I promise to use the siren if he starts talking about blockchain.’
The restaurant was nestled between a dry cleaner and an old bookstore.
Its exterior was unassuming, with a faded awning and a small chalk sign on the sidewalk.
Inside, the atmosphere shifted entirely.
The lighting was dim and warm, casting a romantic glow over the small, intimately spaced tables.
The scent of garlic, fresh basil, and roasting tomatoes hung heavy in the air.
Brenda spotted Craig immediately.
He was sitting at a corner table, nursing a glass of water.
He looked exactly like his photos, maybe even a little sharper in person.
He wore a dark button-down shirt, the sleeves rolled up to his forearms.
When he saw her approaching, his face lit up.
He stood up immediately.
He didn’t just half-stand or wave from his seat.
He stood all the way up, stepping around the table to pull her chair out.
‘Brenda,’ he said, his voice smooth and welcoming.
‘Craig,’ she replied, taking her seat.
He pushed her chair in gently before returning to his own seat.
‘I have to admit,’ he said, leaning forward slightly.
‘You look even more beautiful in person.
The photos really didn’t do you justice.’
Brenda felt a warm flush creep up her neck.
It was a bold compliment for the first five minutes of a date.
Usually, men stumbled over their introductions.
Craig delivered it with a steady, unblinking confidence.
‘Thank you,’ Brenda smiled, unfolding her napkin.
‘And you look exactly like your hiking picture.
Minus the backpack.’
Craig laughed, a deep, easy sound.
The waiter approached, and Craig handled the wine order with practiced ease.
He asked Brenda for her preference, then selected a bottle that perfectly matched her taste.
The evening progressed smoothly.
It was almost suspiciously flawless.
Craig dominated the conversation, but not in an arrogant way.
He told engaging stories about his job in finance.
He struck a perfect balance of being funny and self-deprecating while asking Brenda thoughtful questions about her childhood, her favorite projects at work, and her long-term goals.
Throughout the entire conversation, he maintained intense eye contact.
He barely looked away when she spoke.
He didn’t check his phone once.
It felt like Brenda was the only person in the entire restaurant.
But as the night wore on, Brenda noticed tiny, almost imperceptible shifts in his demeanor.
When the waiter accidentally bumped Craig’s chair while carrying a tray, Craig’s smile vanished.
For a split second, his eyes went entirely cold.
It was a dead, flat stare that made the waiter stutter an apology.
Then, just as quickly, the charming smile returned.
Craig waved it off with a polite chuckle, telling the waiter not to worry.
Brenda noted it, a small flag planting itself in the back of her mind.
Later, while they were waiting for dessert, Brenda mentioned a recent promotion she had received.
‘That’s great,’ Craig said, his tone perfectly even.
‘It’s nice that they reward you for your little designs.’
Little designs.
The phrasing pricked at Brenda.
It was a microscopic diminishment of her career.
She brushed it off.
Maybe he just didn’t understand the industry.
Maybe she was being overly sensitive, corrupted by Megan’s inherent cynicism.
When the bill arrived, Craig snatched it before Brenda could even reach for her purse.
‘Absolutely not,’ he said firmly.
‘I asked you out.
This is on me.’
He paid with a dark metallic card, leaving a generous tip.
They walked out of the restaurant together.
The night air had cooled significantly.
Brenda wrapped her jacket a little tighter around herself.
Craig noticed immediately.
He shifted closer to her, blocking the wind.
‘Did you park far?’ he asked, his voice low.
‘Just a couple of blocks down,’ Brenda replied.
‘I’ll walk you,’ he insisted.
They strolled down the quiet street, their shoulders occasionally brushing.
Craig asked about her plans for the rest of the weekend.
He seemed genuinely interested in securing a second date.
Brenda felt that familiar, hopeful warmth expanding in her chest again.
Maybe the micro-aggressions were just her looking for problems where none existed.
Maybe he really was just a good, solid guy.
They reached her car.
Brenda leaned against the driver’s side door.
Craig stood a respectful distance away.
He had his hands in his pockets.
He didn’t try to force a kiss or push for an invitation inside.
‘I had a really wonderful time tonight, Brenda,’ he said, his eyes locking onto hers.
‘I did too, Craig,’ she replied honestly.
‘I’d really love to see you again,’ he added, his voice dropping slightly.
‘Soon.’
‘I’d like that,’ Brenda said.
He offered a soft smile, stepped back, and waited until she was safely locked inside her car before he turned to walk away.
Brenda started the engine.
She watched his retreating figure in her rearview mirror.
She let out a long breath.
She reached for her phone and pulled up her text thread with Megan.
‘No siren emoji needed,’ Brenda typed.
‘Actually a really great date.
He’s a gentleman.’
Megan replied immediately.
‘I’ll believe it when I see the background check.
But yay!’
Brenda drove home with the radio playing softly.
She felt a rare sense of peace.
The city lights blurred past her window.
She thought about Craig’s charming smile and the way he remembered her favorite wine.
She was ready to let her guard down.
She was ready to believe that dating didn’t have to be a miserable, soul-crushing experience.
She arrived at her apartment building, parked in her assigned spot, and rode the elevator up to the fourth floor.
The hallway was quiet, smelling faintly of someone else’s burnt popcorn.
Brenda unlocked her door.
her cat greeted her with a demanding meow.
Brenda dropped her keys into the ceramic bowl by the door.
She slipped off her shoes, her feet aching slightly from the heels.
She walked into the bathroom and turned on the harsh overhead vanity light.
She stared at her reflection.
Her makeup was still mostly intact, though her lipstick had faded during dinner.
She looked happy.
She grabbed a cotton pad and a bottle of micellar water.
She began the familiar ritual of wiping away the evening.
Her phone, resting on the edge of the sink, buzzed violently against the porcelain.
Brenda smiled.
She assumed it was a standard ‘did you get home safe’ text from Craig.
She dried her hands on a towel and picked up the device.
The screen illuminated.
There were three new messages from Craig.
They had all come through in rapid succession.
Brenda unlocked the phone and opened the thread.
The smile slowly slid off her face as she began to read.
The first message was long.
‘When I find an activity, substance, etc. that makes me feel positive, I chase it hard,’ it began.
Brenda frowned, her eyes scanning the words.
He added, ‘But when I find a person that makes me feel that way, I chase them 110%.’
She shifted her weight, the bathroom tiles suddenly feeling very cold beneath her bare feet.
This was an intense escalation from the light, witty banter they had shared all week.
He continued, ‘I can look through 10,000 profiles and find nobody that makes me feel anything.’
He was laying it on incredibly thick.
‘I get so bored talking to people and hoping the right person pops up and then some random person like you comes along and my brain goes crazy and all of a sudden I want to be living inside your skin 24/7.’
Brenda stopped reading.
She stared at the last sentence.
Living inside your skin.
It was a phrase that belonged in a psychological thriller, not a post-date text.
It wasn’t romantic.
It was suffocating.
It was a massive, waving red flag.
She quickly read the next message.
‘For no logical reason and I can’t even rationalize it and I think that’s what made me so desirable and successful in the past because to everyone else I am just so cold and careless?’
Brenda leaned against the sink.
The charming, attentive man from dinner was nowhere to be found in these texts.
This was someone deeply obsessed with his own perceived power.
He was bragging about being cold to others.
He was framing his sudden obsession with Brenda as some sort of chaotic, uncontrollable force.
He was a walking contradiction.
He claimed to be cold and careless, yet he was word-vomiting intense declarations of skin-crawling devotion.
Brenda felt a knot of pure anxiety tighten in her stomach.
She needed to know exactly what game he was playing.
She tapped the reply bar.
She kept her response deliberately light, trying to defuse the intensity.
‘Oh okay,’ Brenda typed.
‘But like, what triggered this passionate desire to live inside my skin?’
She hit send.
She waited.
The three grey typing dots appeared almost instantly.
They pulsed rhythmically.
Craig was writing a novel.
The dots vanished, then reappeared.
Brenda gripped the edges of the bathroom sink.
Finally, a single message came through.
He finally replied, ‘I think the truth would offend you.’
Brenda stared at the words.
A quiet anger began to simmer beneath her anxiety.
He was baiting her.
He was setting a trap, demanding that she ask for his insult.
She wasn’t going to play the terrified, fragile girl.
‘You can offend me,’ she replied instantly.
She braced herself.
She expected him to say he didn’t like her career, or her outfit, or her laugh.
She expected a standard, petty critique.
The typing dots danced across the screen one last time.
Then, the message that would shatter the entire illusion finally arrived.
His message read, ‘I think a piece of it, and I truly mean a piece only because I cannot really understand myself, is that most people would not find you attractive.’
Brenda read the sentence three times.
Her brain struggled to process the sheer audacity of the words displayed on her screen.
‘But in my mind that makes you so effing beautiful to me because I see what others don’t, and I can truly make you all mine without a lot of competition if this were to progress.’
Brenda let out a short, sharp gasp of disbelief.
He was actually saying this.
He had typed out these words, reviewed them, and decided they were a perfectly acceptable thing to send a woman he had just taken to dinner.
The message didn’t stop there.
He went on, ‘That’s the type of person I’d want to marry.’
Her jaw clenched tightly.
He typed, ‘The type of person I can trust and the type of person I can make love to because that is just so sexy to me.’
A wave of profound disgust washed over Brenda, replacing any lingering anxiety.
Her skin practically crawled at the phrase ‘make love to’ sandwiched between brutal, calculated insults.
He wasn’t confessing a deep, misunderstood romance.
He was attempting to systematically dismantle her self-worth.
He honestly believed that by telling her she was universally undesirable, she would fall to her knees in gratitude for his ‘unique’ attention.
He was establishing himself as her savior.
He wanted her to believe no other man would ever want her, securing her loyalty through manufactured insecurity.
It was textbook negging.
It was emotional abuse masquerading as vulnerability.
Brenda didn’t cry.
She didn’t feel heartbroken or insecure.
She felt a cold, furious clarity.
She took a screenshot of the entire massive text block.
She immediately forwarded the image to Megan.
Brenda didn’t even add a caption.
She just sent the screenshot and waited.
It took exactly forty-five seconds for her phone to ring.
Megan’s contact photo, a picture of her rolling her eyes, flashed on the screen.
Brenda answered and put the call on speaker.
‘I am going to drive to his house and set his car on fire,’ Megan announced loudly.
Brenda let out a humorless laugh, pacing across the bathroom floor.
‘I told you,’ Megan continued, her voice practically vibrating with anger.
‘I told you normal on an app was a cover.’
‘He wants to live in my skin, Megan,’ Brenda said dryly.
‘And he thinks I’m ugly.
It’s a really winning combination.’
‘He doesn’t think you’re ugly, Brenda,’ Megan snapped defensively.
‘He’s a sociopath trying to break you down so you don’t realize you’re entirely out of his league.’
‘I know,’ Brenda replied softly.
‘It’s just… the audacity.’
‘Block him right now,’ Megan demanded.
‘Do not pass go.
Do not collect two hundred dollars.
Block his number and delete his contact.’
Brenda stopped pacing.
She looked at her reflection in the mirror again.
The anger was crystallizing into something sharper, something entirely focused.
‘No,’ Brenda said.
‘Excuse me?’
Megan squawked in disbelief.
‘I’m not blocking him yet,’ Brenda explained, picking up the phone.
‘I want to see how far he’s willing to take this.
I want him to put his entire toxic playbook on the record.’
Megan sighed heavily on the other end of the line.
‘Brenda, he’s a walking red flag factory.
Don’t play games with a guy who talks about wearing your skin.’
‘I’m not playing games,’ Brenda said, her voice steady.
‘I’m just closing the loop.
I’ll call you back.’
Brenda hung up before Megan could argue further.
She opened the text thread with Craig again.
She needed to force him to explain himself.
She needed him to double down on his absurdity.
‘Wait,’ Brenda typed, keeping her tone deceptively innocent.
‘Why would most people not find me attractive?’
She added a crying emoji at the end for effect.
It felt gross to type, but she knew exactly the kind of validation he was fishing for.
He wanted her to be insecure.
He wanted her to beg for his reassurance.
Craig replied almost instantaneously.
His response was, ‘modern standards are too high, it’s not even you.’
Brenda rolled her eyes so hard she gave herself a mild headache.
He was deploying pseudo-intellectual jargon to justify his cruelty.
He was blaming ‘modern standards’ rather than owning his own toxic manipulation.
‘I already told you how beautiful you are to me,’ Craig continued in a second text.
‘It would be hard to describe the features I don’t see as beautiful.’
He was backpedaling, realizing perhaps that he had pushed slightly too hard, too fast.
He then sent, ‘And I’m not even just saying that my mind is effed, I’m serious.’
Brenda stared at the screen, a smirk pulling at the corner of her mouth.
He was completely unraveling.
His carefully constructed persona of the ‘cold, successful alpha male’ was collapsing into a desperate scramble for control.
Then came the final nail in his coffin.
He boldly claimed, ‘Look, I’d cuff you forever so don’t think I’m insulting you.’
Cuff you forever.
As if being chained to a man who fundamentally disrespected her was the ultimate prize.
Brenda had seen enough.
She had the full measure of the man.
He wasn’t a misunderstood romantic.
He was a predator who relied on tearing women down to build himself up.
He sought out women he perceived as vulnerable and tried to convince them he was their only option.
Brenda was not vulnerable.
Brenda knew exactly who she was.
She stepped out of the bathroom and walked into her living room.
She sat down on her velvet sofa, the city lights spilling through the window and illuminating her face.
She took a slow, deep breath.
She began to type her final response.
She didn’t use insults.
She didn’t match his chaotic, desperate energy.
She responded with cold, clinical precision.
‘Hey, I was thinking about it, and I’ve realized I don’t really feel comfortable being in a relationship with someone who finds me unattractive.’
She read the sentence over, ensuring the tone was perfectly flat.
‘I think it would be unhealthy and toxic for me, and I don’t want to put myself in that headspace.’
She was entirely rejecting his premise, refusing to accept the reality he was trying to force upon her.
‘But you seem very cool and it was super wonderful meeting you, so I wish you the best going forward.’
It was the ultimate dismissal.
It was polite, final, and offered absolutely no room for debate.
She pressed send.
She watched the green bubble appear on the screen.
She didn’t have to wait long for the fallout.
Craig’s typing indicator appeared, vanished, and reappeared in rapid succession.
He was panicking.
His manipulation tactic had failed spectacularly.
Instead of a desperate, insecure woman begging for his approval, he was facing a brick wall of self-assured rejection.
His response finally came through.
‘You are attractive to me, but I get it.’
He was trying to salvage his pride.
‘I was also very drunk, so don’t take it to heart.’
Brenda let out a loud, genuine laugh that echoed through the quiet apartment.
He was blaming alcohol.
He was trying to dismiss his meticulously crafted, multi-paragraph manifesto as a drunken mistake.
It was pathetic.
If he was truly getting that drunk alone after a first date and deciding to mentally abuse a woman, that was a massive problem in itself.
Alcohol didn’t create the toxicity; it merely removed the filter.
Brenda didn’t owe him an argument.
She didn’t owe him a lengthy explanation of why he was entirely unhinged.
She typed two final words.
‘Thank you, appreciate it.
Have a great day.’
Before the typing indicator could even attempt to reappear, Brenda tapped his contact name.
She scrolled down to the bottom of the screen.
She hit ‘Block caller.’
A small confirmation pop-up appeared.
Brenda tapped it without a second of hesitation.
The thread went dead.
Craig was gone, banished to the digital void.
Brenda tossed her phone onto the sofa cushion.
She felt a massive weight lift off her chest.
She had successfully navigated a minefield and emerged completely unscathed.
She picked her phone back up and called Megan.
‘He’s blocked,’ Brenda announced as soon as the call connected.
Megan let out a loud cheer on the other end.
‘Thank goodness.
I was literally putting my shoes on to come over there and smash your phone with a hammer.’
‘You don’t need to,’ Brenda laughed.
‘I handled it.’
‘I am so proud of you,’ Megan said warmly.
‘Most girls would have fallen for that trap.
It’s a sick game.’
‘It really is,’ Brenda agreed.
‘But I’m not playing.’
The weeks that followed were quiet.
Brenda deleted the dating app entirely.
She decided to take a break from the exhausting cycle of swiping and forced small talk.
She focused on her design work, landing a major client for the agency.
She spent her weekends exploring the city with Megan, trying new coffee shops and ignoring the pressures of modern dating.
She rarely thought about Craig.
He was just a bizarre footnote in her dating history, a story she would occasionally recount for shock value at brunch.
A month later, on an unusually warm Friday evening, Brenda and Megan were out celebrating Brenda’s new client.
They were at a crowded, upscale bar downtown.
The music was loud, a thumping bass line vibrating through the floorboards.
The air smelled of expensive gin and overpriced perfume.
Brenda was laughing at a joke Megan had just made, raising her cocktail glass to take a sip.
As she lowered her drink, her eyes scanned the room.
Through the sea of bodies, a familiar profile caught her attention.
It was Craig.
He was sitting at a small corner booth, looking exactly as he had on their date.
He wore a dark button-down shirt, the sleeves rolled up precisely to his forearms.
He was leaning forward across the table.
He was maintaining intense, unbroken eye contact with the woman sitting across from him.
The woman was beautiful, with dark curly hair and a bright, hopeful smile.
Craig reached across the table, gently bumping her hand with his own.
He said something, his voice lost over the loud music.
The woman blushed, looking down at her drink with a shy smile.
Brenda watched the scene unfold with a chilling sense of déjà vu.
He was running the exact same play.
He was deploying the charming, attentive gentleman routine.
He was setting the trap, preparing to pull the rug out from under her the moment she felt secure.
Megan followed Brenda’s gaze.
‘Oh my god,’ Megan whispered, her eyes widening.
‘Is that him?’
‘That’s him,’ Brenda confirmed softly.
‘Do we go over there?’
Megan’s protective instincts instantly flared.
‘Do we warn her?’
Brenda watched Craig smile at the woman.
It was a hollow, empty expression.
It was a mask worn by a man who fundamentally despised the women he sought to control.
Brenda felt a brief, sharp pang of pity for the curly-haired woman.
But she also knew that a random stranger screaming warnings in a crowded bar would likely only push the woman closer to him.
Craig would spin it.
He would paint Brenda as the ‘crazy, obsessed ex-date.’
He would use the interruption to cement his bond with his new target.
‘No,’ Brenda said quietly.
She turned away from the booth.
‘We can’t save everyone from a bad date,’ Brenda continued, looking at Megan.
‘She’ll figure it out.
Just like I did.’
Megan nodded slowly, accepting the logic.
Brenda raised her glass again, the ice clinking softly against the rim.
She looked at her own reflection in the long mirror behind the bar.
She didn’t see a victim.
She didn’t see someone who needed to be broken down to be loved.
She saw a woman who knew exactly what she was worth.
‘To dodging bullets,’ Megan said, raising her own glass.
‘To dodging bullets,’ Brenda echoed, a genuine smile breaking across her face.
They clinked their glasses together.
Brenda took a long sip, entirely unbothered by the predator in the corner.
He could keep his toxic games.
She was completely free.
THE END
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