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AFTER TEARS
Nontsikelelo Mabaso · 17 min
A funeral is no place to fall for your ex all over again, ladies. Somebody please tell Themba.
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Serialised South African romance and erotic fiction, illustrated chapter by chapter. New chapters published regularly.
58 stories
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ON THE HOUSE
Nontsikelelo Mabaso · 9 min
Stood up for the second time, she blocks him before her coffee goes cold. Then the barista she has never really looked at brings her dessert on the house, and sits down.
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#OnTheHouse
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SIN AT THE MANSE
Zakes Mdluli · 12 min · 21 min listen
4.1
Nokuthula is meant to show a visitor around Durban. Nobody warned her the real tour would begin behind her own front door.
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#SinAtTheManse
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THE BOSS AND HIS PA
Zakes Mdluli · 10 min · 18 min listen
3.6
Lerato has loved her boss for three years. On their first date, he gives her a safeword and asks what she wants.
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#TheBossAndHisPA
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TINY FOR TONIGHT
Zakes Mdluli · 7 min · 13 min listen
3.4
Lunga paid for one anonymous shrinking fantasy in Umhlanga. The woman who finds him owns the app—and has ideas of her own.
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#TinyForTonight
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THE NEIGHBOUR'S RULE
Zakes Mdluli · 20 min · 36 min listen
4.0
He asked her for discipline — she gave him rules. By the next night, his girlfriend was begging for both.
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#TheNeighboursRule
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HIS WIFE AT HOME
Zakes Mdluli · 8 min · 14 min listen
5.0
A late client call, a locked glass office and an assistant who asks exactly the wrong question: should she stop?
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#HisWifeAtHome
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SOMEBODY'S HUSBAND
Zakes Mdluli · 13 min · 22 min listen
3.0
Kea is only supposed to mind Bonga after school. Then his still-married father starts coming home early.
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#SomebodysHusband
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NEIGHBOUR CRUSH
Zakes Mdluli · 23 min · 39 min listen
4.1
Thando comes home for Christmas nursing a broken heart and leaves a bar with a stranger. By morning, she discovers he is the boy next door she never had the nerve to want.
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#NeighbourCrush
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ONE BED
Zakes Mdluli · 10 min · 17 min listen
4.2
Naledi thinks one hotel bed might finally put her close to Siyabonga. She does not know Zinhle has been keeping his hands, his mouth and their secret all to herself.
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#OneBed
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THE EXECUTIVE FLOOR
Zakes Mdluli · 13 min · 23 min listen
4.2
Mxolisi Hadebe owns the office, the rules and the key. The only thing he refuses to own is her answer.
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#TheExecutiveFloor
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TAKING ORDERS FROM THE BOSS
Zakes Mdluli · 12 min · 21 min listen
4.1
The office is empty, the rain is coming down, and her new boss has one final instruction. Is one reckless afternoon ever only one?
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#TakingOrdersFromTheBoss
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OVER HIS KNEE
Zakes Mdluli · 14 min · 26 min listen
4.0
One accidental video call lets an older gardener see exactly how reckless Nolwazi has been. When he offers to teach her a lesson, she invites him over before she can change her mind.
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#OverHisKnee
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THE GIANT'S TOY
Zakes Mdluli · 10 min · 19 min listen
3.4
Xolani books one private fantasy at the Saxon and wakes up fifteen centimetres tall. The woman who finds him is not his date — she is the founder who made the impossible possible.
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#TheGiantsToy
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THE OLDER NEIGHBOUR
Zakes Mdluli · 9 min · 15 min listen
3.0
Zama has spent years being the good girl. Tonight, she chooses the man who makes honesty feel dangerous.
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#TheOlderNeighbour
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THE SECRET GETAWAY
Zakes Mdluli · 11 min · 19 min listen
Mpho drove six hours with chicken, chips and one impossible question: what do you want? Sibongile has spent years pretending she does not have an answer.
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#TheSecretGetaway
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THE SPIRIT'S SLAVE
Zakes Mdluli · 26 min · 45 min listen
4.1
Sihle remembers Akhona from the pits. Now he waits beyond the mirror, and the only thing more dangerous than wanting him is asking him to return.
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#TheSpiritsSlave
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THE TWIN GETAWAY
Zakes Mdluli · 14 min · 25 min listen
Nosipho comes to Harties for three quiet days and finds two men who make silence impossible. One is supposed to be a mistake, but the other refuses to feel like one.
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#TheTwinGetaway
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SLUTTY HOUSEWIFE
Zakes Mdluli · 18 min · 29 min listen
3.5
Andile is a legend of the team's initiation tradition. Tonight's prize is the hottest one any fresher has ever brought home — and he knows her voice.
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#SluttyHousewife
BOUND
Zakes Mdluli · 39 min · 1 h 12 min listen
4.5
Nathi can make any man surrender safely. Kitso is the first who asks whether she can trust him too.
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#Bound
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PASTOR'S DOWNFALL
Zakes Mdluli · 9 min · 17 min listen
3.8
Hlobisile has watched women watch her husband from the front pew for years. This Sunday, suspicion is no longer enough.
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#PastorsDownfall
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HUNG REPAIRMAN
Zakes Mdluli · 14 min · 22 min listen
3.7
Zweli has fixed a hundred washing machines on the Dolphin Coast. Today he's ruining something else entirely — and she'll be begging him to do it.
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#HungRepairman
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THE FARMER'S SEED
Zakes Mdluli · 18 min · 29 min listen
3.0
Nqobile's marriage runs on a schedule — fifteen minutes, three nights a week. The farm boy she dumped twelve years ago does not.
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#TheFarmersSeed
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WATCH ME
Zakes Mdluli · 26 min · 49 min listen
5.0
Months of talk, one black dress, no panties — and a collar. Their first night at the club changes everything about their marriage.
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#WatchMe
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THE PREACHER'S WIFE
Zakes Mdluli · 1 hr 2 min · 1 h 44 min listen
4.0
Mmabatho's marriage is lights-off, three minutes, duty. Then a stranger at a strip club shows her what her body was actually for.
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#ThePreachersWife
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CURTAINS OPEN
Zakes Mdluli · 41 min · 1 h 6 min listen
4.6
Slindile has watched her neighbour through his window for a year. The blinds were never closed — because he knew.
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#CurtainsOpen
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THE ANNIVERSARY GIFT
Zakes Mdluli · 57 min · 1 h 28 min listen
4.1
Lehlohonolo watched the nanny through the wrong window once. Now she lives in his guest room, and his wife is acting suspiciously happy.
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#TheAnniversaryGift
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THE ROOMMATE AGREEMENT
Zakes Mdluli · 56 min · 1 h 29 min listen
3.7
He picked the flat, planted the ad, and waited seven months. The rent was never about the money.
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#TheRoommateAgreement
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THE WEEKEND SLAVE
Zakes Mdluli · 28 min · 43 min listen
4.0
Mamello knows the rules — the collar, the bench, the safeword he checks even mid-punishment. What he doesn't know is what her own note said.
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#TheWeekendSlave
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COMFORTING THE WIDOWER
Zakes Mdluli · 53 min · 1 h 28 min listen
4.0
Ntombi only went in to quiet his nightmares. A year of grief, one sleeping embrace — and a want she can no longer hide.
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#ComfortingTheWidower
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RATCHET WEEKEND
Zakes Mdluli · 25 min · 42 min listen
4.0
KT writes erotica for a living. The Jozis live it — and one weekend behind their camera ruins him for fiction.
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#RatchetWeekend
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THE ASSISTANT
Zakes Mdluli · 44 min · 1 h 12 min listen
4.0
Bongiwe came to the twentieth floor for her career. Then she found the paddle in the petty-cash drawer — and asked him to use it.
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#TheAssistant
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GAME OVER
Zakes Mdluli · 34 min · 1 h listen
3.8
Thembeka never loses at 30 Seconds — until she bets herself to get him back to the table. Any hole, any time, all weekend.
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#GameOver
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THE VIEWING
Zakes Mdluli · 21 min · 35 min listen
5.0
Lungile needed a cheap flat near campus. The after-hours agent has a perfect one — private, quiet, and a trap.
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#TheViewing
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PAYING IN KIND
Zakes Mdluli · 12 min · 20 min listen
3.8
Nomi is six weeks behind on rent. The landlords invite her to dinner — and the menu is her.
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#PayingInKind
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THE NANNY'S FAVOUR
Zakes Mdluli · 18 min · 31 min listen
3.8
Realeboga nearly lost the perfect nanny job over her ex's joint. Her boss offered to forget it — for a favour.
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#TheNannysFavour
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HOLD THE FENCE
Zakes Mdluli · 31 min · 50 min listen
4.2
He protected her at the fence, ruined her panties, and vanished. Then she showed up with his birthday puppy.
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#HoldTheFence
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THE BEST MAN
Zakes Mdluli · 42 min · 1 h 6 min listen
4.2
Sanele's one-night stand unmatched her by morning. By the rehearsal dinner, he was her wedding date — with conditions.
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#TheBestMan
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FLIGHT RISK
Zakes Mdluli · 11 hr · 18 h 25 min listen
4.3
One team charter, one season, and two people who would each lose everything if anyone saw them. His rule was simple: she would have to be the one to ask.
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#FlightRisk
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MINA NAWE
Zakes Mdluli · 8 hr · 13 h 29 min listen
4.6
Two years divorced, and Naledi still opens the restaurant with him every morning. Nobody ever told her how to stop wanting a man she was the one to walk away from.
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#MinaNawe
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SAY THE WORD
Zakes Mdluli · 2 hr 33 min · 4 h 31 min listen
4.8
She plans her meals two weeks ahead and sorts her socks by day of the week. Tonight she is going to do exactly one reckless thing, and it is going to take five weeks to find out what she started.
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#SayTheWord
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THE PARAGON
Zakes Mdluli · 6 hr · 11 h 35 min listen
4.3
I went to time the walk to my first proper job and ended up flat on the marble of a Sandton lobby, looking up at the man who owns the building. By Thursday he had told me exactly what he wanted from me — no dinner, no flowers, no romance in it anywhere.
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#TheParagon
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THE SECOND TAKE
Zakes Mdluli · 3 hr 39 min · 6 h 3 min listen
4.5
At eighteen, Chandré Cupido spent one night on her parents' roof with the quietest boy on the team, and the next day he inherited everything her family had been promised. Twelve years later he walks back in — rich, famous, and still looking at her exactly the same way.
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UBUYILE
Zakes Mdluli · 1 hr 36 min · 2 h 39 min listen
4.5
He is the correspondent the country trusts with the worst news; she is the face it wakes up to every morning. Between them they have a stage, a big screen, a few hundred students and nowhere private left to finish a twenty-year-old conversation.
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#Ubuyile
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93 DAYS
Zakes Mdluli · 7 hr · 13 h 23 min listen
Vusi Hadebe has ninety-three days before they fly him to the Gaborone gallows. He will only talk to one reporter — a woman two months into the job, who has never understood why her. By the time she does, it is far too late for either of them to be saved.
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#93Days
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NO SIGNAL
Zakes Mdluli · 3 hr 14 min · 5 h 57 min listen
4.4
The car dies on a Waterberg gravel road with no signal, no traffic and one weathered board pointing eight kilometres down a farm track. The farm is not what the board says it is.
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#NoSignal
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SINDISWA
Zakes Mdluli · 1 hr 17 min · 2 h 10 min listen
4.0
He told her once — one time only. She took five days, then she took the neighbour, and the worst part was what it did to him, watching.
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#Sindiswa
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UMOYA
Zakes Mdluli · 1 hr 41 min · 2 h 55 min listen
4.3
The spa burned down the morning we were meant to leave, so I booked the first upmarket place with a vacancy and a discount. Nobody explained what “play is allowed everywhere except the dining room” actually meant until we had already unpacked.
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#Umoya
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GOOD GIRL
Zakes Mdluli · 6 hr · 10 h 11 min listen
4.4
He runs a members-only club where people pay to be told exactly what they are worth. She is twenty-one, broke, and the last woman in Durban who should have knelt on his office carpet.
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#GoodGirl
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ZASHA HOUSE PART 1
Zakes Mdluli · 1 hr 11 min · 2 h 4 min listen
4.4
Mandla booked the resort to fix a marriage that had gone quiet. Standing on his side of the wall, listening to his wife come apart for a stranger, he finds something better than a fix.
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#ZashaHouse
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ZASHA HOUSE PART 2
Zakes Mdluli · 2 hr 3 min · 3 h 27 min listen
4.4
Kagiso booked the Lodge to give his new wife a honeymoon she'd never forget. He just didn't expect to be watching when she found out what she really wanted.
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#ZashaHouse
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ZASHA HOUSE PART 3
Zakes Mdluli · 1 hr 18 min · 2 h 20 min listen
4.6
A black envelope every morning, a new experience every night — and Nomsa is about to discover exactly how far she'll go at Zasha House's coastal retreat.
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#ZashaHouse
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THE AUDIT
Nontsikelelo Mabaso · 23 min · 42 min listen
I went undercover in my own client's building to catch whoever was lying about my cleaners. Then the man on the 14th floor made me coffee, and I forgot I was the lie.
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#TheAudit
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SAFE LOVE
Tracy Nxumalo · 14 min · 25 min listen
I was six the day I learned what men can take. Twenty-two years later, I let one give. He didn't tell me he was married until I was already in love.
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#SafeLove
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KHOTSO LE PALESA
Nontsikelelo Mabaso · 27 min · 52 min listen
Every family on the platinum corridor has a man the mines kept. Palesa crossed a border for a first date — and found out exactly what hers had kept there.
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#KhotsoLePalesa
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THE TENANT
Nontsikelelo Mabaso · 48 min · 1 h 26 min listen
He paid six months' rent in cash and asked no questions about the lease. I should have asked one.
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#TheTenant
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THE WRONG ONE
Nontsikelelo Mabaso · 29 min · 55 min listen
She chose the man who ticked all the boxes. Then found the one who ticks the one box she didn't have. Now what?!
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#TheWrongOne
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The Wrong One · 2 of 2Audio
THE WRONG ONE: HIS SIDE
Nontsikelelo Mabaso · 47 min · 1 h 27 min listen
He walked away from the woman who made him laugh during sex. He married the woman who made him feel correct. Now they're both staring at phones in the dark.
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