- The Don Monti Memorial Research Foundation

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The Don Monti
Memorial Research Foundation
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Founded June 21, 1972
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Dear Friends,
“What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others
and the world remains, and is immortal.” – Albert Pike
My parents’ vision when they created the Don Monti Memorial
Research Foundation in 1972 was to keep Don’s memory alive in
a way that would help others who have also been forced to embark
on their own journey with cancer. These beautiful words serve as
a tremendous inspiration to me as I work to carry on this legacy.
As you may know, we have decided to have our Ball every
other year. It is a fabulous event, and we are looking forward
to hosting the 46th Anniversary Ball of the year on November
the 11th, 2017. Please mark your calendars, and join us for
another spectacular evening.
In lieu of the ball this year, we are asking you to support
our Faith, Hope & Love Giving Campaign. In past years,
your tremendous support has enabled us to fulfill all of our
vital commitments to Northwell Health for patient care, Cold
Spring Harbor Laboratory for cancer research and LIU Post
for educational programs. Our financial commitments exceed
$1 million each year and as always, your support is the only way
we can succeed. Please remember that in giving to the Don Monti
Memorial Research Foundation, every dollar you donate goes
directly to our mission, as our family continues to underwrite
all administrative expenses incurred by the foundation.
That mission is described in more detail in the following pages,
and I hope that you will take the time to read about the significant
Tita and Joseph Monti
Founders
Richard Monti, Chairman; Caroline
Monti Saladino, President; Arthur
Saladino, Chairman
impact we are making in not only cancer research, but in easing
the journey for our patients, and investing in the education of our
future genetic counselors.
I thank you on behalf of the Don Monti Memorial Research
Foundation family, and especially the people that we are honored
to serve.
With faith, hope and love,
Caroline Monti Saladino
President
Vincent Vinciguerra, MD; George Raptis, MD; Caroline
Monti Saladino; Amy Robach; Michael Dowling.
Back, from left: Don Saladino, Anna Gevinski, Arthur Saladino, Richard
Monti, Erin Monti, Caroline Monti Saladino, Melissa Saladino, Caroline
Faria, Sarah Saladino.
Front, from left: Christopher Saladino, Gia Bolz, Amelia Saladino,
Donny Saladino, Erin Monti.
Please see the full article about Don Monti
Cancer Survivors Day beginning on page 2.
Summer 2016 Vol. 30, No. 2
Amy Robach with her daughters, Caroline Monti
Saladino, Sarah Saladino, Christopher Saladino.
Caroline Monti Saladino, Michael
Dowling, Karen Gleason, Vincent
Vinciguerra, MD.
addresses the crowd.
Don Monti Cancer Survivors Day
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Don Monti Cancer Survivors Day was held on June 11th, 2016, and was once again
a most joyous event as more than 2,000 cancer survivors and their families came to
celebrate under the tent at Northwell’s Monter Cancer Center.
Caroline Monti Saladino presented the Tita and Joseph Monti – Vincent
Vinciguerra Award for Excellence in Patient Care to Karen Gleason, who is the
Director of Patient Services at the Monter Cancer Center. “It is a great honor to be
presenting this award to a person who has dedicated her career to helping people
with cancer, and being a role model and leader to other nurses,” said Mrs. Saladino.
ABC’s Good Morning America News Anchor Amy Robach, who is a breast cancer
survivor, gave a heartwarming keynote address as well. 
Richard Monti, George Raptis, MD,
Caroline Monti Saladino.
Richard Goldstein, Caroline Monti
Saladino, Amy Robach, Michael Dowling.
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Caroline Faria and Caroline Monti Saladino celebrate
with cancer survivors and their families.
Morton Roggen receives a warm welcome.
Caroline Monti Saladino, Michael Dowling.
Anna Gevinski, Arthur Saladino.
Don Monti Division of Oncology staff.
Gia Bolz, Anna Gevinski, Caroline Faria.
DON MONTI CANCER
SURVIVORS DAY IS ALWAYS A
TRULY JOYOUS CELEBRATION.
www.donmontifoundation.org
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BMTU Celebration of Life Dinner
Brings Survivors and Donors Together
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The annual Bone Marrow Transplant Unit (BMTU) Celebration of
Life dinner is always a heartwarming event. Hosted by the Don Monti
Memorial Research Foundation, the festivities bring together bone
marrow transplant survivors and their donors.
Nassau County Police Officer Greg Holgerson needed a lifesaving
bone marrow transplant after he was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid
Leukemia three years ago. A thorough search of the bone marrow registry
revealed a perfect match in Susan Harrison of Northampton, England.
The setting was emotional as Holgerson and Harrison met for the first
time at Crest Hollow Country Club just before the dinner. “She’s the
real hero here,” said Holgerson, “and now she’s like a sister to me.”
“It was the chance to help someone,” answered the beaming Harrison,
“of course I had to do it.”
Another bone marrow transplant survivor, Leslaw Puszko, was excited
to meet his donor, as well. Alana Merkow got the call from the registry,
and knew right away that she would be happy to donate her bone marrow.
“She is an angel and a lifesaver,” said Leslaw’s wife, Bozenna Puszko.
“And she is young, so now Leslaw is young again, too!”
After the press conference, Dr. Ruthee-Lu Bayer, director of the Don
Monti Division of Oncology’s bone marrow transplant program at North
Shore University Hospital, addressed the crowd. Attendees were given
green glow sticks, which Dr. Bayer said symbolized renewal and hope, and
the room lit up in an overwhelming sea of green.
Patients often spend several months on the unit following a transplant,
and the bond that is formed with staff is quite strong. The BMTU staff
is known for their dedication and kindness, and desire to improve the
lives of their patients. They recently took up a collection among staff,
and presented Caroline Monti Saladino with a check for $3,000 at the
dinner. “We are so grateful for everything they do,” said Mrs. Saladino,
“for us, and for the patients. This donation will go directly back to patient
care on the unit.” 
Police Officer Greg Holgerson meets
his bone marrow donor, Susan Harrison
of Northampton England.
Leslaw Puszko meets his bone marrow
donor, Alana Merkow.
Caroline Monti Saladino Named 2016 Humanitarian
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In celebration of their 20th anniversary, Friends of Oheka held
a Garden Party at the castle on Wednesday, June 8th. An annual
event since 2003, the Garden Party raises funds for The Otto
Kahn Awards Program to grant scholarships to graduating high
school seniors from the Huntington area. The recipients must
demonstrate exceptional talent in the Arts. This year’s event
awarded seven $2,500 scholarships to local students Dayna
Ambrosio, Dylan DelGuidice, Aaron Feltman, Olivia Galante,
Emma Kowalchuck, David Gabriel Lerner and Caroline Tonks.
The committee also presented their Humanitarian Award to
Don Monti Memorial Research Foundation president, Caroline
Monti Saladino. “I would like to leave you with an inspiring
thought,” Mrs. Saladino told the students at the event. “Don
always wanted to become a physician or a scientist, and through
this foundation I believe he has accomplished that, because of the
thousands of people that we have been able to help in his name.
He is my hero; this is his award. I am just the messenger.” 
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Arthur Saladino, Don Matthew Saladino, Ruthee-Lu Bayer, MD,
Anna Gevinski, Susan Harrison, Greg Holgerson, Gabby
Travaglia, Melissa Saladino, Sophia Travaglia, Caroline Monti
Saladino, Sarah Saladino.
The Holgerson family extends a warm welcome to bone
marrow donor Susan Harrison of Northampton, England.
Dr. Ruthee-Lu Bayer is thrilled to see
the room light up in green, in what she
called a symbol of hope and renewal.
The staff of 7 Monti
presents Caroline
Monti Saladino
with a check from
proceeds they raised
on their own, in
order to give back
to the patients
they are honored
to serve.
celebrates with a survivor
and her family.
Caroline Monti Saladino addresses
the crowd.
Crest Hollow Country Club Executive Chef
Christopher Palmer, Caroline Monti Saladino,
Arthur Saladino. Chef always goes above and
beyond for Don Monti Foundation events, and
we are truly grateful!
2016 Faith, Hope & Love Giving Campaign
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In lieu of the Ball this year, we are asking you
to support our Faith, Hope & Love Giving
Campaign. Your unfailing support over the years
has always enabled us to fulfill our commitments
to Northwell Health, Cold Spring Harbor
Laboratory and LIU Post. These commitments
exceed $1 million each year and as always, your
support is essential to the success of the many
vital programs we fund.
You may wish to consider making your donation
in memory of, or in honor of, someone whose
life has been touched by cancer. All such tributes
will be published in our Winter Newsletter, and all
donors will be thanked in that issue as well.
If you would like to remember the Don Monti
Memorial Research Foundation as part of your
estate planning, please call us at (516) 367-5036
for information on joining our Faith, Hope &
Love Legacy Circle. 
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Monti Foundation Grant Establishes Nurse Navigator
Program to Assist Liver Cancer Patients
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Each year in the United States, about 20,000 men and
8,000 women get liver cancer, and about 16,000 men
and 7,000 women die from the disease, according to the
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is the
seventh leading disease-related cause of death in the U.S.
To help Northwell Health’s Sandra Atlas Bass Center
for Liver Diseases provide patients with the most effective,
compassionate care, the Don Monti Memorial Research
Foundation has provided extensive funding to support
the creation of a Patient Navigator Program. Funds have
been used to hire a nurse navigator, Monique Demabildo,
RN, who brings a humanistic, attentive approach to
coordinating the care of liver cancer patients being treated
at North Shore University Hospital’s Sandra Atlas Bass
Center for Liver Disease, a part of the Northwell
Health system.
The nurse navigator guides patients through the
often-confusing matrix of multi-specialty treatment,
coordinating clinical services throughout the health
system’s treatment centers, including interventional
radiology and transplantation. Ms. Demabildo also works
with health insurance companies to solve billing issues,
among other services.
HELPING PATIENTS FOCUS ON THEIR CARE
“A major focus of the position is to help ensure seamless,
multi-disciplinary continuity of care, with an emphasis on
making the experience as positive as possible for patients
and their families,” said David Bernstein, MD, chief of
hepatology at North Shore University Hospital’s Don
Monti Division of Oncology and Hematology. “When a
patient hears the diagnosis of cancer, it is all they hear —
cancer. We must make sure that all the logistics are taken
care of. The nurse navigator guides them through the
process of care. She links patients to care so they can
concentrate on beating the disease.”
For the Don Monti Memorial Research Foundation, the
grant is yet another example of the four decades of support
that has helped advance cancer treatment and research.
“My parents’ vision 44 years ago was to work toward easing
the journey for cancer patients and their families,” Monti
Foundation President Caroline Monti Saladino said of
the organization’s founders, Tita and Joseph Monti,
who established the foundation after the death of their
16-year-old son, Don Monti, in 1972.
“The nurse navigator position at the Center for Liver
Diseases reflects our continuing commitment to
improving patient care.” 
Recollections …
Caroline Monti Saladino with Joseph Monti
at Don Monti Cancer Survivors Day in 2003.
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Caroline Monti Saladino,
Tita Monti, Joseph Monti
and Richard Monti
celebrate as Tita and
Joseph were awarded their
Doctor of Humane Letters
honoris causa degrees by
LIU Post in 1998.
4th Annual
PinkTie.org
Networking Event
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May 9th, 2016, was an exciting day at the
beautiful Crest Hollow Country Club as
nearly 3,000 people “got their pink on”
in support of the Don Monti Memorial
Research Foundation. This was the second
consecutive year that all proceeds from
the event have been donated to support
our mission, and we are most grateful to
PinkTie.org founders Mike and Rich Cave
for their dedication to our cause. Their
generosity has raised more than $500,000
for us over the last two years, and enabled
us to fulfill our many obligations within
the Northwell Health System, Cold Spring
Harbor Laboratory and LIU Post.
The event included a spectacular
performance by Mike DelGuidice and
Big Shot, as well as appearances by many
athletes and celebrities who came out to
show their support for the work that
we do in striving to ease the burden of
Long Islanders living with cancer. 
Mike Norman,
Erin Monti
Steve Gevinski, Don Matthew Saladino, Robert
Monti, Erin Monti, Gabby Travaglia, Sophia
Travaglia, Arthur Saladino, Anna Gevinski,
Caroline Monti Saladino, Jackie Lomtevas,
Sarah Saladino, Danielle Faria
Arthur Saladino, Alan Gorman, DDS,
Joe Saladino
Sophia Travaglia, Steven Milner, Caroline Monti Saladino,
Gabby Travaglia, Scott Milner
Jackie Lomtevas, Arthur Saladino, Caroline
Monti Sladino, Michael Cunningham
Joyce Mennella, Elena D’Agostino, Anna Gevinski,
Danielle Faria, Sarah Saladino, Karen Orzel
Arthur & Caroline Monti Saladino,
Cheryl Caruso, Fred Assini
Mike DelGuidice & Big Shot
Jim Leyritz, Mike Cave, Caroline Monti
Saladino, Rich Cave, Arthur Saladino
Eric Davis, Caroline Monti Saladino,
Cecil Fielder, Arthur Saladino
Sophia Travaglia, Sarah Saladino, Gabby Travaglia
Steve Gevinski, Erin & Richard Monti
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2016 Meeting of the Board of Directors
On Monday, June 6th Don Monti Memorial Research
Foundation president Caroline Monti Saladino hosted
a meeting of the board of directors in order to announce
plans for the 2016 Faith, Hope & Love Giving Campaign.
The meeting was called to order and opening remarks
were made by Ed Travaglianti, president of TD Bank
and executive vice president of the Don Monti Memorial
Research Foundation. The featured speakers were Bruce
Stillman, Ph.D., president & CEO of Cold Spring
Harbor Laboratory, and Alessandro Bellucci, MD,
executive director of North Shore University Hospital.
Both Dr. Bellucci and Dr. Stillman are members of
the Don Monti Memorial Research Foundation’s
advisory board.
Dr. Bellucci spoke of the outstanding dedication of
the staff in the Don Monti Division of Oncology and the
extraordinary impact that the financial support provided
by the Foundation has on patient care.
Dr. Stillman provided insight into the successful
research and drug therapies already leading to improved
patient outcomes, which is only possible because of
extensive funding from the Don Monti Memorial
Research Foundation.
In addition to the board of directors, the meeting was
attended by many friends and staunch supporters of the
foundation, as well as physicians from the Don Monti
Division of Oncology and researchers from Cold Spring
Harbor Laboratory.
“Our commitments to patients being treated in
our four Don Monti Cancer Centers, as well as to
the researchers working so diligently in the Tita and
Joseph Monti Research Center at Cold Spring Harbor
Laboratory, continue to grow,” said Mrs. Saladino.
“This year’s giving campaign must grow as well, so that
we can provide even more funding as we strive to end this
dreadful disease. We need your support now more than
ever before, and we are grateful for all that you do.”
The meeting concluded with a cocktail reception at the
beautiful home of Arthur and Caroline Monti Saladino. 
Don Saladino, Greg Genovese
Danielle Faria, Anna Gevinski, Karen Orzel,
Bernard & Anne Reynolds, Bruce Stillman, Caroline Monti Saladino,
Arthur Saladino
Richard Monti, Bob Fitzsimmons
Ed & Pat Travaglianti,
Danielle Faria, Joe Saladino
William Frazier,
Tori Meagher,
Joe Saladino
Caroline Monti
Saladino, Lynne
Dowling, Fran
Gorman
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Cathy Bolz, Erin Monti, Teresa Bolz, Richard Monti
Judi Bua, Janice Minerley, Caroline Monti
Saladino, Sarah Saladino, Kathy Rayfield
Richard & Erin Monti, Bruce Stillman, Arthur & Caroline Monti Saladino,
Stuart Hayim, Alessandro Bellucci, MD, Ed Travaglianti
Alan Gorman, DDS, Arthur Saladino,
Peter & Irene Klein
Robert & Sylvia Aiello, Arthur Saladino
Bruce Stillman, Caroline Monti Saladino,
Stuart Hayim, Alessandro Bellucci, MD
Matt DeGiaimo, Mike Norman, Joe Faria
Tim & Donna Andrea, Richard & Erin Monti
Don Matthew Saladino,
Anna & Steve Gevinski,
Karen Orzel, Joseph Faria
Elaine Fruchtman, Anna Gevinski,
Neil Fruchtman
Scott Paternoster, John Cooleen, Maddie & Carl Lombardi,
Bob & Michele Fitzsimmons
Steve Gevinski, Wally Szczerbiak, Don Saladino
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Steven Savonna, MD, Steve Allen, MD,
Bruce Stillman, George Raptis, MD
Lora Weiselberg, MD, Danielle Faria, Ruthee-Lu Bayer, MD
Sharon & Robert Moinott, Melissa Saladino
Vincent Vinciguerra, MD, Nina
Vinciguerra, Amy & John Hughes
Gerard Brogan, MD, William Frazier,
Louis Potters, MD, Pat Bellucci, Alessandro
Bellucci, MD, Dennis Dowling
David Bernstein, MD, Helen Kim, MD,
Arthur Saladino
Robert & Melanie Cassandro,
Pat & Ed Travaglianti
William Frazier, Richard Monti,
Joe Saladino
Jack Kelly, David Boccia, Tim & Donna
Andrea, Caroline Monti Saladino
Jo Ann Hatsis,
Alex Hatsis, MD
Lynne & Dennis Dowling
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Melissa Saladino, Gwen Cooleen,
Carmela Kelly
Valerie & Dan Martin
10th Anniversary of Partnership Between
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and the
Don Monti Memorial Research Foundation
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s beautiful
Airslie was the setting for a recent reception in
honor of the Don Monti Memorial Research
Foundation. “It is with great pride that Cold
Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) this year
celebrates its 10th Anniversary of partnership
with the Don Monti Memorial Research
Foundation,” said CSHL President & CEO
Bruce Stillman. “The Foundation’s funding of
cancer research at the Lab has led to remarkable
accomplishments in understanding and treating
cancers such as leukemia and breast cancer. The
has helped move therapeutic strategies for these
diseases into clinical trials.”
In the past four years, CSHL scientist
Dr. Chris Vakoc has identified a new drug
target for a very lethal form of Acute Myeloid
Leukemia (AML) and now at least seven
pharmaceutical companies have ongoing trials
to test new drugs. Another CSHL researcher,
Dr. Nick Tonks, has developed a new drug for
a sub-type of breast cancer that entered human
clinical trials this spring.
In attendance were Don Monti Memorial
Research Foundation president, Caroline Monti
Saladino, as well as many foundation board
members, CSHL scientists and members of the
community. “It is an honor and a privilege for
us to be able to support the outstanding research
taking place here at Cold Spring Harbor
Laboratory,” said Mrs. Saladino. “My family
and our foundation are fully committed to this
partnership as we look forward to the day when
cancer becomes a disease of the past.”
“Caroline Saladino continues the legacy of
her parents’ commitment to the Long Island
community, raising awareness and advocating
for cancer patients and their families,” said
Dr. Stillman. “She embodies what it means to be
a philanthropist and we are all grateful for her
tireless efforts. We look forward to many more
years of productive collaboration with the Don
Monti Memorial Research Foundation and to
winning the fight against cancer.” 
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October 11, 1955 – June 21, 1972
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he
Don
Monti
Memorial Research Foundation
FOUNDER & FORMER PRESIDENT
Tita Scandalis Monti, FFSC
FORMER CHAIRMAN
OF THE BOARD
Joseph R. Monti, BFSC, KM
PRESIDENT
CHAIRMEN OF THE BOARD
Richard D. Monti
Arthur J. Saladino
EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT
TO THE PRESIDENT
Jackie Lomtevas
EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENTS
Matt DeGiaimo
Danielle & Joseph Faria, Esq.
Michele & Robert Fitzsimmons
Anna & Stephen Gevinski
Pat & Edward Travaglianti
ADVISORY BOARD
Ruthee-Lu Bayer, MD
Alessandro Bellucci, MD
David Bernstein, MD
Joan & William Healy III, MD
Irene & Peter Klein, CFA, CRPS
Howard & Margaret Cuomo Maier, MD
Jane & Michael G. Norman, CPA
George Raptis, MD
Joan & David J. Steinberg, PhD
Bruce Stillman, PhD
Nadya Swedan, MD
Vincent Vinciguerra, MD
Gary Wadler, MD
James D. Watson, PhD
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Sylvia & Robert Aiello
Donna & Frank Andrea
Christine & David Boccia
Judi & Richard Bua
Melanie & Robert Cassandro
Gwen & John Cooleen
Matilda R. Cuomo
Thomas J. Degnan, MD
Janine Dion
Dennis Dowling
Caroline B. Faria
Debora & David Feinblatt
Christina & Carmine A. Fiore
Katy & Marc Goodrich
Fran & Alan Gorman, DDS
Joe Gregory
Msgr. Thomas Hartman
Joann & Alex Hatsis, MD
Stuart Hayim
Carmela & Jack Kelly
Madelyn & Carl Lombardi
Terry Lynam
Valerie & Dan Martin
Mary-Lynn & Timothy McDevitt
Victoria & Edward Meagher
Donald Monti
Erin Monti
Karen Orzel
Scott Paternoster
Bro. Edmond Precourt, FSC
Randi Monti Puccio
Kathy Rayfield
Sarah & Joseph Saladino
Melissa & Don Saladino
Anthony Scotto
Christine & Denis Sheahan
Lori & Robert Soviero
Ella & Bernard V. Strianese
Shannon & Wally Szczerbiak
Donna Monti Trinko
George Tsunis
Kenneth Villani, R.Ph.
Who's Who
William A. Healy III, MD, FAAOS
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William A. Healy III is an Orthopedic Surgeon,
practicing in Huntington, New York since 1997.
He received his medical degree from New York
Medical College and completed his residency
at the State University of New York at Stony
Brook. He is a Fellow of the American Academy
of Orthopaedic Surgeons and is member of
the New York State Society of Orthopaedic
Surgeons; Irish American Orthopaedic Society;
Eastern Orthopaedic Surgeons as well as a
member of the Energeia Partnership Class,
2011. He is on the Advisory Board of the
and is an active contributor to the Townwide
Fund of Huntington.
In 2014, he joined Northwell Health’s
Physician Partners as the Director of Orthopedic
Strategic Initiatives Northern Suffolk County and Clinical Assistant Professor,
Orthopaedic Surgery, Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine.
Dr. Healy is very dedicated to the Huntington community and involved
with various charities and organizations in and around the Huntington area.
He resides in Centerport with his wife, Joan, and his three sons, William,
Nicholas and Patrick. 
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