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	<title>f o c a l m a t t e r &#187; fashion</title>
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	<description>photos that aren&#039;t entirely crap</description>
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		<title>cinderella</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/cinderella/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/cinderella/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 06:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[the city]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cinderella]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nyc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[subway]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Somewhere in New York, a princess is missing her slipper.]]></description>
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		<title>tandem</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/tandem/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/tandem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 04:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[street shooting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the city]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[evf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tandem bike]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[toy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=685</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I love my GF1 a little more each day. I was able to get down nice and low for this shot thanks to the electronic viewfinder, that can angle up at 90º. Even if I had shot this using the main LCD--which grants some level of leeway when it comes to shooting angles--I still would've had to position myself awkwardly to get the capture.]]></description>
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		<title>cliché</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/cliche/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/cliche/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 03:27:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[self-portraits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mirror]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reflection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the office]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=683</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I don't know what it is about "shooting reflection" self-portraits that make them such a popular cliché. They're pretty much the one-man version of the "taking a picture of someone taking a picture of you" cliché that we all love so much. ]]></description>
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		<title>Have we reached the end of the era of &#8220;iconic photojournalism&#8221;?</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/have-we-reached-the-end-of-the-era-of-iconic-photojournalism/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/have-we-reached-the-end-of-the-era-of-iconic-photojournalism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[words]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[afghan girl]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photojournalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tank man]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=680</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I can't help but wonder if, just as we will never again see another band like The Beatles, does the saturation of images brought on by the dSLR revolution and the fragmentation of major news outlets mean we will likewise never again see images with the global and cultural resonance of Afghan Girl or Tank Man? If there is more wheat now than there was chaff yesterday, has it become nigh-impossible for any single image to make a meaningful impact? Have we reached the end of iconic documentary images?]]></description>
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		<title>from the hip</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/from-the-hip/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/from-the-hip/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 03:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the city]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nyc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shooting from the hip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[subway]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=677</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I've been playing with shooting from the hip again lately. It's a bit of an art, because not only do you have to properly frame and compose the shot, but you have to keep the camera still, which is tougher than you'd think because you also have to shoot clandestinely. Well, maybe not "have to," but it's part of the fun of shooting from the hip--capturing people when they don't realize they're being captured.]]></description>
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		<title>donebrella</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/donebrella/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/donebrella/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 04:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[street shooting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the city]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nyc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[umbrellas]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=675</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[New Yorkers don't seem to like umbrellas very much. Or perhaps they just don't like owning or carrying them. Whenever a decent amount of rainfall hits, they all buy cheap $5 street corner umbrellas, use them for a day, then toss them into trash cans when it stops raining. I call them "donebrellas." ]]></description>
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		<title>the beautiful people</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/the-beautiful-people/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/the-beautiful-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[street shooting]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=672</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I always found it interesting that companies (especially, though not limited to, clothing companies) would market their wares to the entire world by showcasing them on people who probably fall into the top 1% of the global beauty scale.]]></description>
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		<title>all they surveyed</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/all-they-surveyed/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/all-they-surveyed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:08:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[places]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the country]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[camping]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[west virginia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wilderness]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=669</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An older photo, stumbled upon while working on my portfolio. It was taken on the same camping trip that this photo came from. In fact, that cross was only a hundred or so feet away from where we were standing.]]></description>
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		<title>jonny</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/jonny/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/jonny/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nyc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rome]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=667</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night was the Natuzzi event I mentioned in my last entry. For some reason, I always find myself best connecting with and having most fun with the people behind-the-scenes than anyone else. Which isn't to say that the partygoers aren't nice enough people, just that I seem to have more in common with the salt of the earth than the crème de la crème.]]></description>
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		<title>natuzzi</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/natuzzi/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/natuzzi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interiors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the city]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alliteration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[event]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[natuzzi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nyc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[soho]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=663</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was recently approached to cover an upcoming event at Natuzzi SoHo, a showroom for what is apparently the largest leather furniture manufacturer in the world. I stopped by earlier tonight to scout the location and get the lowdown on the location, layout, and lighting (alliteration in the house, what up). ]]></description>
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		<title>sesame skid row</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/sesame-skid-row/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/sesame-skid-row/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 06:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[self-portraits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the city]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[muppet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nyc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tempest]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=659</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is Rick. My sister took me to FAO Schwartz to put him together, a birthday gift months in the making. Like me, he enjoys a good Irish whiskey from time to time. Perhaps too much.]]></description>
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		<title>on colden pond</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/02/on-colden-pond/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/02/on-colden-pond/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 06:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[the city]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[central park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[harmonica]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nyc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[winter]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=644</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have never seen as many people out with cameras as I did today. At one point I saw about five or six people on the same small bridge, all looking out over one of the railings, shooting The Lake. It was kinda ridiculous.]]></description>
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		<title>the upside to blizzards</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/02/the-upside-to-blizzards/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/02/the-upside-to-blizzards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 05:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[the city]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[commute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nyc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[subway]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=642</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If someone had told me sooner that a perk to working on heavy snow days was virtually empty trains, I'd have done it a long time ago.]]></description>
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		<title>trainachronism</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/02/trainachronism/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/02/trainachronism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:47:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[casablanca]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[commuter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[station]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[train]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=640</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Train stations, especially by night, invoke a certain image and commuter cars just ain't it. ]]></description>
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		<title>epic beard man</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/02/epic-beard-man/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/02/epic-beard-man/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:27:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the city]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[beard man]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nyc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[penn station]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=638</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today's update will be little more than this shot of a random traveler spotted in Penn Station. He's not the real Epic Beard Man, but as the original is more of a Beard Man who happens to be Epic and this guy is more of a Man who happens to have an Epic Beard, I figure the distinction is enough to let it pass.]]></description>
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		<title>rest in peace</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/02/rest-in-peace/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/02/rest-in-peace/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 04:17:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the city]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[astoria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[memorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nyc]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=626</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I die, I hope they use the photo from my "About Me" page, or something similarly silly. I don't take myself seriously in life, I'd hate to start after I was dead.]]></description>
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		<title>the chase</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/02/the-chase/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/02/the-chase/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:16:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[animals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exercise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[running]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[snow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[winter]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=623</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Winter runners always make me feel especially lazy. I can't be bothered to run when it's nice out, and these guys are running in cold winter weather.]]></description>
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		<title>happy accidents</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/02/happy-accidents/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/02/happy-accidents/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[the city]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accidents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new york]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nyc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[snow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tree]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[winter]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=610</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The longer you shoot, the more you get used to things like this, these "happy accidents." Photos where the thing that makes it work the most (or at least one of them) was completely unplanned. It happens more often than one would think. For all the control you try to exert on your shoot, making sure that everything -- the gear, the location, the talent, the lighting, the timing, everything -- is exactly as it needs to be, randomness always manages to creep in.]]></description>
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		<title>Hell Gate</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/02/hell-gate/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/02/hell-gate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:39:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[the city]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[astoria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bridge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new york]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nyc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[train]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=608</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I just love that the bridge is called Hell Gate Bridge. It brings to mind images of demons and hellspawn erupting from some portal to the netherworld. Trains go in through one side of the portal, and a massive snakelike demon emerges from the other, wreaking havoc and laying waste to the countryside.]]></description>
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		<title>long train runnin&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/02/long-train-runnin/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/02/long-train-runnin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:51:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[the city]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hg wells]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new york]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=605</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The minute a New Yorker gets on a train, all bets are off. What might pass for a civilized society above ground turns into a free-for-all under its streets. Stock brokers, school teachers, pastors, deacons, and all manner of person shed off their friendly personae when they enter the tunnels of the New York transit system. They are no longer men, they are morlocks in a Wellsian nightmare. ]]></description>
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		<title>snowfall</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/02/snowfall/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/02/snowfall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:34:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[places]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[astoria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dry spell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new york]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nyc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shooter's block]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[snow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[winter]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=603</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My first update in over two weeks. The shame is so great, if this were feudal Japan I'd be forced to disembowel myself to regain honor. Luckily it's not, and I get to keep my guts where they are.]]></description>
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		<title>how i spent my bummer vacation</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/01/how-i-spent-my-bummer-vacation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:38:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[self-portraits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dexter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hibernation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sloth]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=600</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This has been my view for much of the three-day weekend. I wish I could blame my sloth on illness or other, but I got over my cold sometime on Thursday or Friday. It has been raining, though. That miserable, cold, chilling rain. It's a pity, too, because it's "warmed up some" and actually hit the mid-40s this weekend. If not for the rain, I might've been incensed to go out and do something.]]></description>
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		<title>tas shooting</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/01/tas-shooting/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/01/tas-shooting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 07:21:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chocolate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[max brenner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tas]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=597</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My buddy Tas, shooting some of the chocolate on display at Max Brenner in Union Square. I've eaten at that restaurant far too many times for someone who doesn't have a crack-like addiction to chocolate.]]></description>
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		<title>ravens wood</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/01/ravens-wood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 09:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[misc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[karaoke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wifi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The shot above was taken while on a karaoke outing with some coworkers the day before last. We had a private room and a lot to drink -- the perfect recipe for fun karaoke times.]]></description>
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		<title>cycled</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/01/cycled/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/01/cycled/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 06:21:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[etc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[holidays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[christmas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fernicide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[holiday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tree]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[yule]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/blog/?p=593</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ I've been trying to convince my mom to replace the rotting cherry tree on the front lawn with an evergreen. Then she could just dress it every Christmas and not have to slaughter an innocent tree.]]></description>
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