Trump’s Family Fortune Originated in a Canadian Gold-Rush Brothel

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I found this fascinating! a look into our presidents family history and perhaps a glimpse into what went into his making!

A brief quote..the article is long:

"Buried in a ghost town in Canada’s subarctic are the roots of the family fortune that paved Donald Trump’s path to prominence.
Only shards of glass bottles remain on the lake shore in Bennett, British Columbia—remnants perhaps of the lively establishment operated by Trump’s grandfather that was known for good food, booze and ready women. A church sits further up the slope, its lonely spire peeking out from a thicket of pines.

F_Trump_400.jpg

Friedrich Trump, circa 1918. Source: Wikipedia.
Bennett was once a thriving transit point for prospectors in the Klondike gold rush at the turn of the 20th century, and Friedrich Trump made a killing running a restaurant and bar. The nest egg he generated in just two years grew into the fortune that has supported his grandson’s bid for the U.S. presidency.

“Who else can say that someone running for president of the United States of America owes his fortune to your hometown?,” says Scott Etches, 55, a shop owner hawking Trump t-shirts in Whitehorse, Yukon, about 100 kilometers (62 miles) north of Bennett. “It doesn’t matter whether you support or oppose Trump. It’s actually a great history.”

More than a century after Trump’s grandfather left the Yukon, Canadian developers and entrepreneurs are torn over whether to exploit the connection to one of the most recognized surnames on the planet. A luxury wilderness resort is planned for Bennett, complete with a lodge that would look just like Trump’s watering hole.
“There’s so much history, so many stories around here—Trump is just one of them,” says Nelson Lepine, who runs the development arm of an indigenous group leading the project.
The Trump family’s gold-rush story began when Fred, as he was known, left Germany at the age of 16 with little more than a suitcase. He headed to New York to work as a barber before venturing west in search of riches. Following stints in Seattle and now-defunct Monte Cristo, the gold fever carried him to Bennett, where he and partner Ernest Levin built the Arctic Restaurant, which touted itself as the best-equipped in town.

It was open around the clock with “private boxes for ladies and parties,” according to an advertisement in the Dec. 9, 1899 edition of the Bennett Sun newspaper. The boxes typically included a bed and scale for weighing gold dust used to pay for “services,” according to a three-generational biography by Gwenda Blair, who traced the origins of the Trump family’s wealth. Of course, in the rough-and-tumble frontier towns of that era, the Arctic’s business model built on food, booze and sex was common."
 
Wow

The TDS is off the charts!
Huh? How odd a remark. This is history dimwit...and interesting..why would you even think it negative..a rags to riches story that is uniquely American?
Unless you believe it false or distorted? If you think so..how about a cogent rebuttal..instead of some TDS bullshit?

That is,of course, if you are able to do so.
 
I found this fascinating! a look into our presidents family history and perhaps a glimpse into what went into his making!

A brief quote..the article is long:

"Buried in a ghost town in Canada’s subarctic are the roots of the family fortune that paved Donald Trump’s path to prominence.
Only shards of glass bottles remain on the lake shore in Bennett, British Columbia—remnants perhaps of the lively establishment operated by Trump’s grandfather that was known for good food, booze and ready women. A church sits further up the slope, its lonely spire peeking out from a thicket of pines.

F_Trump_400.jpg

Friedrich Trump, circa 1918. Source: Wikipedia.
Bennett was once a thriving transit point for prospectors in the Klondike gold rush at the turn of the 20th century, and Friedrich Trump made a killing running a restaurant and bar. The nest egg he generated in just two years grew into the fortune that has supported his grandson’s bid for the U.S. presidency.

“Who else can say that someone running for president of the United States of America owes his fortune to your hometown?,” says Scott Etches, 55, a shop owner hawking Trump t-shirts in Whitehorse, Yukon, about 100 kilometers (62 miles) north of Bennett. “It doesn’t matter whether you support or oppose Trump. It’s actually a great history.”

More than a century after Trump’s grandfather left the Yukon, Canadian developers and entrepreneurs are torn over whether to exploit the connection to one of the most recognized surnames on the planet. A luxury wilderness resort is planned for Bennett, complete with a lodge that would look just like Trump’s watering hole.
“There’s so much history, so many stories around here—Trump is just one of them,” says Nelson Lepine, who runs the development arm of an indigenous group leading the project.
The Trump family’s gold-rush story began when Fred, as he was known, left Germany at the age of 16 with little more than a suitcase. He headed to New York to work as a barber before venturing west in search of riches. Following stints in Seattle and now-defunct Monte Cristo, the gold fever carried him to Bennett, where he and partner Ernest Levin built the Arctic Restaurant, which touted itself as the best-equipped in town.

It was open around the clock with “private boxes for ladies and parties,” according to an advertisement in the Dec. 9, 1899 edition of the Bennett Sun newspaper. The boxes typically included a bed and scale for weighing gold dust used to pay for “services,” according to a three-generational biography by Gwenda Blair, who traced the origins of the Trump family’s wealth. Of course, in the rough-and-tumble frontier towns of that era, the Arctic’s business model built on food, booze and sex was common."


AH!

And your grandfather was a Roman Catholic priest!
 
I found this fascinating! a look into our presidents family history and perhaps a glimpse into what went into his making!

A brief quote..the article is long:

"Buried in a ghost town in Canada’s subarctic are the roots of the family fortune that paved Donald Trump’s path to prominence.
Only shards of glass bottles remain on the lake shore in Bennett, British Columbia—remnants perhaps of the lively establishment operated by Trump’s grandfather that was known for good food, booze and ready women. A church sits further up the slope, its lonely spire peeking out from a thicket of pines.

F_Trump_400.jpg

Friedrich Trump, circa 1918. Source: Wikipedia.
Bennett was once a thriving transit point for prospectors in the Klondike gold rush at the turn of the 20th century, and Friedrich Trump made a killing running a restaurant and bar. The nest egg he generated in just two years grew into the fortune that has supported his grandson’s bid for the U.S. presidency.

“Who else can say that someone running for president of the United States of America owes his fortune to your hometown?,” says Scott Etches, 55, a shop owner hawking Trump t-shirts in Whitehorse, Yukon, about 100 kilometers (62 miles) north of Bennett. “It doesn’t matter whether you support or oppose Trump. It’s actually a great history.”

More than a century after Trump’s grandfather left the Yukon, Canadian developers and entrepreneurs are torn over whether to exploit the connection to one of the most recognized surnames on the planet. A luxury wilderness resort is planned for Bennett, complete with a lodge that would look just like Trump’s watering hole.
“There’s so much history, so many stories around here—Trump is just one of them,” says Nelson Lepine, who runs the development arm of an indigenous group leading the project.
The Trump family’s gold-rush story began when Fred, as he was known, left Germany at the age of 16 with little more than a suitcase. He headed to New York to work as a barber before venturing west in search of riches. Following stints in Seattle and now-defunct Monte Cristo, the gold fever carried him to Bennett, where he and partner Ernest Levin built the Arctic Restaurant, which touted itself as the best-equipped in town.

It was open around the clock with “private boxes for ladies and parties,” according to an advertisement in the Dec. 9, 1899 edition of the Bennett Sun newspaper. The boxes typically included a bed and scale for weighing gold dust used to pay for “services,” according to a three-generational biography by Gwenda Blair, who traced the origins of the Trump family’s wealth. Of course, in the rough-and-tumble frontier towns of that era, the Arctic’s business model built on food, booze and sex was common."


AH!

And your grandfather was a priest!
ROTLMAO! Unlikely! My grandfather..Dad's side..was a Blacksmith who brought his forge and anvil from Illinois to California after the Spanish-American War.

He had 12 children..so i guess there's the Catholic side you're looking for!

Look..this is not a Trump smear..it's just history...something to learn from and to marvel at.
 
I found this fascinating! a look into our presidents family history and perhaps a glimpse into what went into his making!

A brief quote..the article is long:

"Buried in a ghost town in Canada’s subarctic are the roots of the family fortune that paved Donald Trump’s path to prominence.
Only shards of glass bottles remain on the lake shore in Bennett, British Columbia—remnants perhaps of the lively establishment operated by Trump’s grandfather that was known for good food, booze and ready women. A church sits further up the slope, its lonely spire peeking out from a thicket of pines.

F_Trump_400.jpg

Friedrich Trump, circa 1918. Source: Wikipedia.
Bennett was once a thriving transit point for prospectors in the Klondike gold rush at the turn of the 20th century, and Friedrich Trump made a killing running a restaurant and bar. The nest egg he generated in just two years grew into the fortune that has supported his grandson’s bid for the U.S. presidency.

“Who else can say that someone running for president of the United States of America owes his fortune to your hometown?,” says Scott Etches, 55, a shop owner hawking Trump t-shirts in Whitehorse, Yukon, about 100 kilometers (62 miles) north of Bennett. “It doesn’t matter whether you support or oppose Trump. It’s actually a great history.”

More than a century after Trump’s grandfather left the Yukon, Canadian developers and entrepreneurs are torn over whether to exploit the connection to one of the most recognized surnames on the planet. A luxury wilderness resort is planned for Bennett, complete with a lodge that would look just like Trump’s watering hole.
“There’s so much history, so many stories around here—Trump is just one of them,” says Nelson Lepine, who runs the development arm of an indigenous group leading the project.
The Trump family’s gold-rush story began when Fred, as he was known, left Germany at the age of 16 with little more than a suitcase. He headed to New York to work as a barber before venturing west in search of riches. Following stints in Seattle and now-defunct Monte Cristo, the gold fever carried him to Bennett, where he and partner Ernest Levin built the Arctic Restaurant, which touted itself as the best-equipped in town.

It was open around the clock with “private boxes for ladies and parties,” according to an advertisement in the Dec. 9, 1899 edition of the Bennett Sun newspaper. The boxes typically included a bed and scale for weighing gold dust used to pay for “services,” according to a three-generational biography by Gwenda Blair, who traced the origins of the Trump family’s wealth. Of course, in the rough-and-tumble frontier towns of that era, the Arctic’s business model built on food, booze and sex was common."
That is entirely accurate. Trumps granddad struck it rich mining miners in the Klondike.
My wife's great grand dad did the same kinda thing in Kalispell, MT. There weren't many miners in that neck of the woods though.
 
So I can't say that I find it hard to believe as many such establishments were common in the times before we decided to outlaw them. Simply because wives looked down on them because sometimes their husbands would wander.
If you are trying to insinuate something I don't think it will work.
The family fortune of the Kennedys was made from bootleg whiskey and gin during prohibition. All three sons went on to become influential in politics. Though one has to wonder about that little Capaquidick episode of Teddys.
 
Wow

The TDS is off the charts!
Huh? How odd a remark. This is history dimwit...and interesting..why would you even think it negative..a rags to riches story that is uniquely American?
Unless you believe it false or distorted? If you think so..how about a cogent rebuttal..instead of some TDS bullshit?

That is,of course, if you are able to do so.

Yabbut it's Canadian....

We did this a few years ago. Frederich skipped out of his military service, literally snuck off in the dead of night to sail across the Atlantic. Worked as a barber in NYC for a while then went back to Germany to get married but they stripped him of his German citizenship for dodging military service. Then he came back and went to the Yukon thing.

In 1918 Frederich dropped dead from the pandemic of that era at the ripe old age of 49 while walking with his son Fred, Rump's father. Somehow Rump claimed not to know people could die from the flu despite this family history.
 
I found this fascinating! a look into our presidents family history and perhaps a glimpse into what went into his making!

A brief quote..the article is long:

"Buried in a ghost town in Canada’s subarctic are the roots of the family fortune that paved Donald Trump’s path to prominence.
Only shards of glass bottles remain on the lake shore in Bennett, British Columbia—remnants perhaps of the lively establishment operated by Trump’s grandfather that was known for good food, booze and ready women. A church sits further up the slope, its lonely spire peeking out from a thicket of pines.

F_Trump_400.jpg

Friedrich Trump, circa 1918. Source: Wikipedia.
Bennett was once a thriving transit point for prospectors in the Klondike gold rush at the turn of the 20th century, and Friedrich Trump made a killing running a restaurant and bar. The nest egg he generated in just two years grew into the fortune that has supported his grandson’s bid for the U.S. presidency.

“Who else can say that someone running for president of the United States of America owes his fortune to your hometown?,” says Scott Etches, 55, a shop owner hawking Trump t-shirts in Whitehorse, Yukon, about 100 kilometers (62 miles) north of Bennett. “It doesn’t matter whether you support or oppose Trump. It’s actually a great history.”

More than a century after Trump’s grandfather left the Yukon, Canadian developers and entrepreneurs are torn over whether to exploit the connection to one of the most recognized surnames on the planet. A luxury wilderness resort is planned for Bennett, complete with a lodge that would look just like Trump’s watering hole.
“There’s so much history, so many stories around here—Trump is just one of them,” says Nelson Lepine, who runs the development arm of an indigenous group leading the project.
The Trump family’s gold-rush story began when Fred, as he was known, left Germany at the age of 16 with little more than a suitcase. He headed to New York to work as a barber before venturing west in search of riches. Following stints in Seattle and now-defunct Monte Cristo, the gold fever carried him to Bennett, where he and partner Ernest Levin built the Arctic Restaurant, which touted itself as the best-equipped in town.

It was open around the clock with “private boxes for ladies and parties,” according to an advertisement in the Dec. 9, 1899 edition of the Bennett Sun newspaper. The boxes typically included a bed and scale for weighing gold dust used to pay for “services,” according to a three-generational biography by Gwenda Blair, who traced the origins of the Trump family’s wealth. Of course, in the rough-and-tumble frontier towns of that era, the Arctic’s business model built on food, booze and sex was common."

The west was literally alive with whore houses back in those days. I live in California gold country and an old 49er mining town in. They were legend around here, one of em is only a mile away.
 
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So I can't say that I find it hard to believe as many such establishments were common in the times before we decided to outlaw them. Simply because wives looked down on them because sometimes their husbands would wander.
If you are trying to insinuate something I don't think it will work.
The family fortune of the Kennedys was made from bootleg whiskey and gin during prohibition. All three sons went on to become influential in politics. Though one has to wonder about that little Capaquidick episode of Teddys.
Not to mention that Soros and the ChiComs currently own the democrat Party
 
Wow

The TDS is off the charts!
Huh? How odd a remark. This is history dimwit...and interesting..why would you even think it negative..a rags to riches story that is uniquely American?
Unless you believe it false or distorted? If you think so..how about a cogent rebuttal..instead of some TDS bullshit?

That is,of course, if you are able to do so.

Yabbut it's Canadian....

We did this a few years ago. Frederich skipped out of his military service, literally snuck off in the dead of night to sail across the Atlantic. Worked as a barber in NYC for a while then went back to Germany to get married but they stripped him of his German citizenship for dodging military service. Then he came back and went to the Yukon thing.

In 1918 Frederich dropped dead from the pandemic of that era at the ripe old age of 49 while walking with his son Fred, Rump's father. Somehow Rump claimed not to know people could die from the flu despite this family history.
Yeah I know a number of people that can't tell you much of their family history past their grandparents. Some can't even tell you that much about their grandparents. So your point is he should know everything about his family history? Or is it some obscure partisan thing?
 
Wow

The TDS is off the charts!
Huh? How odd a remark. This is history dimwit...and interesting..why would you even think it negative..a rags to riches story that is uniquely American?
Unless you believe it false or distorted? If you think so..how about a cogent rebuttal..instead of some TDS bullshit?

That is,of course, if you are able to do so.

Yabbut it's Canadian....

We did this a few years ago. Frederich skipped out of his military service, literally snuck off in the dead of night to sail across the Atlantic. Worked as a barber in NYC for a while then went back to Germany to get married but they stripped him of his German citizenship for dodging military service. Then he came back and went to the Yukon thing.

In 1918 Frederich dropped dead from the pandemic of that era at the ripe old age of 49 while walking with his son Fred, Rump's father. Somehow Rump claimed not to know people could die from the flu despite this family history.
Yeah I know a number of people that can't tell you much of their family history past their grandparents. Some can't even tell you that much about their grandparents. So your point is he should know everything about his family history? Or is it some obscure partisan thing?

When you've written a BOOK about your background (claiming your father was Swedish before you claimed he was from Germany), you can't very well not know that. Besides which Rump's father Fred --- the source of his money --- was walking with him at the time and was left fatherless at the age of twelve. That in turn means Rump never knew his paternal grandfather.

If you'd never known a grandparent, wouldn't you know why?
 
I found this fascinating! a look into our presidents family history and perhaps a glimpse into what went into his making!

A brief quote..the article is long:

"Buried in a ghost town in Canada’s subarctic are the roots of the family fortune that paved Donald Trump’s path to prominence.
Only shards of glass bottles remain on the lake shore in Bennett, British Columbia—remnants perhaps of the lively establishment operated by Trump’s grandfather that was known for good food, booze and ready women. A church sits further up the slope, its lonely spire peeking out from a thicket of pines.

F_Trump_400.jpg

Friedrich Trump, circa 1918. Source: Wikipedia.
Bennett was once a thriving transit point for prospectors in the Klondike gold rush at the turn of the 20th century, and Friedrich Trump made a killing running a restaurant and bar. The nest egg he generated in just two years grew into the fortune that has supported his grandson’s bid for the U.S. presidency.

“Who else can say that someone running for president of the United States of America owes his fortune to your hometown?,” says Scott Etches, 55, a shop owner hawking Trump t-shirts in Whitehorse, Yukon, about 100 kilometers (62 miles) north of Bennett. “It doesn’t matter whether you support or oppose Trump. It’s actually a great history.”

More than a century after Trump’s grandfather left the Yukon, Canadian developers and entrepreneurs are torn over whether to exploit the connection to one of the most recognized surnames on the planet. A luxury wilderness resort is planned for Bennett, complete with a lodge that would look just like Trump’s watering hole.
“There’s so much history, so many stories around here—Trump is just one of them,” says Nelson Lepine, who runs the development arm of an indigenous group leading the project.
The Trump family’s gold-rush story began when Fred, as he was known, left Germany at the age of 16 with little more than a suitcase. He headed to New York to work as a barber before venturing west in search of riches. Following stints in Seattle and now-defunct Monte Cristo, the gold fever carried him to Bennett, where he and partner Ernest Levin built the Arctic Restaurant, which touted itself as the best-equipped in town.

It was open around the clock with “private boxes for ladies and parties,” according to an advertisement in the Dec. 9, 1899 edition of the Bennett Sun newspaper. The boxes typically included a bed and scale for weighing gold dust used to pay for “services,” according to a three-generational biography by Gwenda Blair, who traced the origins of the Trump family’s wealth. Of course, in the rough-and-tumble frontier towns of that era, the Arctic’s business model built on food, booze and sex was common."

So?

Jo
 
Wow

The TDS is off the charts!
Huh? How odd a remark. This is history dimwit...and interesting..why would you even think it negative..a rags to riches story that is uniquely American?
Unless you believe it false or distorted? If you think so..how about a cogent rebuttal..instead of some TDS bullshit?

That is,of course, if you are able to do so.

Yabbut it's Canadian....

We did this a few years ago. Frederich skipped out of his military service, literally snuck off in the dead of night to sail across the Atlantic. Worked as a barber in NYC for a while then went back to Germany to get married but they stripped him of his German citizenship for dodging military service. Then he came back and went to the Yukon thing.

In 1918 Frederich dropped dead from the pandemic of that era at the ripe old age of 49 while walking with his son Fred, Rump's father. Somehow Rump claimed not to know people could die from the flu despite this family history.
Yeah I know a number of people that can't tell you much of their family history past their grandparents. Some can't even tell you that much about their grandparents. So your point is he should know everything about his family history? Or is it some obscure partisan thing?

When you've written a BOOK about your background (claiming your father was Swedish before you claimed he was from Germany), you can't very well not know that. Besides which Rump's father Fred --- the source of his money --- was walking with him at the time and was left fatherless at the age of twelve. That in turn means Rump never knew his paternal grandfather.

If you'd never known a grandparent, wouldn't you know why?
First off if you think Trump wrote the book then I don't believe that you have a clue.
Second he might not have known anything other then he died.

I was adopted at the age of two. I have no idea about my real family and have no intrest in knowing. I know of places that make large amounts of money from DNA tests that tell you about your heritage and others that make large amounts of money out of family histories. Given that I think that there are an awful lot of people that don't know those kinds of details.
 
Wow

The TDS is off the charts!
Huh? How odd a remark. This is history dimwit...and interesting..why would you even think it negative..a rags to riches story that is uniquely American?
Unless you believe it false or distorted? If you think so..how about a cogent rebuttal..instead of some TDS bullshit?

That is,of course, if you are able to do so.

Yabbut it's Canadian....

We did this a few years ago. Frederich skipped out of his military service, literally snuck off in the dead of night to sail across the Atlantic. Worked as a barber in NYC for a while then went back to Germany to get married but they stripped him of his German citizenship for dodging military service. Then he came back and went to the Yukon thing.

In 1918 Frederich dropped dead from the pandemic of that era at the ripe old age of 49 while walking with his son Fred, Rump's father. Somehow Rump claimed not to know people could die from the flu despite this family history.
Yeah I know a number of people that can't tell you much of their family history past their grandparents. Some can't even tell you that much about their grandparents. So your point is he should know everything about his family history? Or is it some obscure partisan thing?

When you've written a BOOK about your background (claiming your father was Swedish before you claimed he was from Germany), you can't very well not know that. Besides which Rump's father Fred --- the source of his money --- was walking with him at the time and was left fatherless at the age of twelve. That in turn means Rump never knew his paternal grandfather.

If you'd never known a grandparent, wouldn't you know why?
First off if you think Trump wrote the book then I don't believe that you have a clue.
Second he might not have known anything other then he died.

I was adopted at the age of two. I have no idea about my real family and have no intrest in knowing. I know of places that make large amounts of money from DNA tests that tell you about your heritage and others that make large amounts of money out of family histories. Given that I think that there are an awful lot of people that don't know those kinds of details.

Irrelevant.
 
I found this fascinating! a look into our presidents family history and perhaps a glimpse into what went into his making!

A brief quote..the article is long:

"Buried in a ghost town in Canada’s subarctic are the roots of the family fortune that paved Donald Trump’s path to prominence.
Only shards of glass bottles remain on the lake shore in Bennett, British Columbia—remnants perhaps of the lively establishment operated by Trump’s grandfather that was known for good food, booze and ready women. A church sits further up the slope, its lonely spire peeking out from a thicket of pines.

F_Trump_400.jpg

Friedrich Trump, circa 1918. Source: Wikipedia.
Bennett was once a thriving transit point for prospectors in the Klondike gold rush at the turn of the 20th century, and Friedrich Trump made a killing running a restaurant and bar. The nest egg he generated in just two years grew into the fortune that has supported his grandson’s bid for the U.S. presidency.

“Who else can say that someone running for president of the United States of America owes his fortune to your hometown?,” says Scott Etches, 55, a shop owner hawking Trump t-shirts in Whitehorse, Yukon, about 100 kilometers (62 miles) north of Bennett. “It doesn’t matter whether you support or oppose Trump. It’s actually a great history.”

More than a century after Trump’s grandfather left the Yukon, Canadian developers and entrepreneurs are torn over whether to exploit the connection to one of the most recognized surnames on the planet. A luxury wilderness resort is planned for Bennett, complete with a lodge that would look just like Trump’s watering hole.
“There’s so much history, so many stories around here—Trump is just one of them,” says Nelson Lepine, who runs the development arm of an indigenous group leading the project.
The Trump family’s gold-rush story began when Fred, as he was known, left Germany at the age of 16 with little more than a suitcase. He headed to New York to work as a barber before venturing west in search of riches. Following stints in Seattle and now-defunct Monte Cristo, the gold fever carried him to Bennett, where he and partner Ernest Levin built the Arctic Restaurant, which touted itself as the best-equipped in town.

It was open around the clock with “private boxes for ladies and parties,” according to an advertisement in the Dec. 9, 1899 edition of the Bennett Sun newspaper. The boxes typically included a bed and scale for weighing gold dust used to pay for “services,” according to a three-generational biography by Gwenda Blair, who traced the origins of the Trump family’s wealth. Of course, in the rough-and-tumble frontier towns of that era, the Arctic’s business model built on food, booze and sex was common."
Wow

The TDS is off the charts!
Huh? How odd a remark. This is history dimwit...and interesting..why would you even think it negative..a rags to riches story that is uniquely American?
Unless you believe it false or distorted? If you think so..how about a cogent rebuttal..instead of some TDS bullshit?

That is,of course, if you are able to do so.
It is negative because you are obviously drawing special attention to the sex aspect of the business to throw mud on the Trump name. Don't hurt yourself back peddling so fast.
 

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