BMP (Buffalo Music Players) Episode 39: Wendy at Scoop Shop

The vintage clothes and accessories game is still roaring at Scoop Shop on Elmwood Avenue. Wendy talked about her introduction to thrifting and antiquing, including helping at Scoop Shop as a young person. She is now the owner.

Every part of our community in Buffalo is important to the rest. Scoop Shop, also known for its travelling bus, has been the site of bands and musicians to ply their own craft outside her shop. Without venues, being a musician can be kind of tough. That's just one example of how we all help one another.

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Transcript

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SPEAKER_01 2:27

Hello, BMP listeners. This is Benjamin Joe. And I am Max. And uh me and Max are in the scoop shop on the corner of Elmwood and what's the intersection of Auburn? In Auburn, right down here in the Elmwood village of Buffalo, New York. And with us today is Wendy, the owner of Scoop Shop. Wendy, say hello. Hello. Wendy, how long have you been here in this little shop here?

SPEAKER_00 2:49

So I took over the scoop shop in 2012.

SPEAKER_01 2:52

Oh, there was somebody else before.

SPEAKER_00 2:54

There's three other people before. The scoop shop started in 1945. Whoa. Yeah, it's the oldest running consignment store in Buffalo.

SPEAKER_01 3:02

How does that's insane. I've only just heard about it because I know you have a lot of events in here. I see stuff happening on Instagram.

SPEAKER_00 3:09

Well, before I took it over, it was the best kept secret in Buffalo. I guess. I'm like, I'm not a secretive kind of person.

SPEAKER_01 3:17

You've really opened it up to the community in the last few months or so.

SPEAKER_00 3:21

Yeah, it's really fun. Like we're like had karaoke during the summer out here.

SPEAKER_01 3:25

Nice.

SPEAKER_00 3:26

And I'm always open to events. We do Porch Fest out here too. Nice. And anytime anyone wants to play, a band, any bands out there you want to play, come plug in. You know, um people pop up and do vending and stuff like that. But it started in uh 1937 as a clothing swap. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 3:50

Flossy Fenton, shout out Flossy Fenton. R I guess at this point.

SPEAKER_00 3:55

Um they couldn't get their fancy clothes because of the war, so they did a clothing swap. And then eventually they ended up renting the space out and having a consignment store so that the ladies who couldn't afford fancy clothes could get fancy clothes for a d a discount for a lower thing.

SPEAKER_01 4:12

You need your fancy clothes, that's incredible.

SPEAKER_00 4:15

Yeah, and uh a lot of women were going to work because the men were at war, so they also needed work clothes and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_01 4:21

Right. Yeah. We've seen the picture, the red bandanas and the uh dungaree Rosie the Riveter.

SPEAKER_00 4:28

Rosie the Riveter, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 4:30

We talked about this before, like off the pod, but um I wanted to talk about like uh how does it feel owning a store with so much legacy? Do you is it like a hindrance or is it like a you feel honored to deal with it?

SPEAKER_00 4:41

Yes, um it it feels good. I like that it's a legacy. I probably wouldn't have taken it over if it hadn't been here for so long. Um, and I ended up working for Mimi. She's the one that I bought it off of. And eventually Mimi turned 80 and decided she was tired, she didn't want to do it anymore, so I took it over.

SPEAKER_01 5:02

That's fair. Um shout out Annie.

SPEAKER_00 5:04

So what happens though from here is that like who's gonna take it over when I retire? That's the hard part. Because it isn't just running a store, it's running like a little community and a safe space in here that's welcoming. So it has to have that same kind of energy. There has to be a certain energy in here.

SPEAKER_03 5:20

Are you currently like training an apprentice type of thing?

SPEAKER_00 5:24

No. No, not really, no. No. I think you do it next. It's just I think it just has to organically happen. You know, I've had a couple intorns and a couple people, but there's one person that I really want to take it over, but I'm not gonna mention it.

SPEAKER_01 5:43

Your secret's safe with us. Buffalo's best kept secret.

SPEAKER_00 5:47

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:48

She knows. So did you always have gravitate towards the uh buying and selling and discovering items?

SPEAKER_00 5:58

Yes, I've always been a thrifter and going thrift and vintage and buying, you know, pre-loved clothing. Yeah, I've always liked doing that. So like and then I shopped here when I was in high school.

SPEAKER_01 6:11

Okay. Are you are you a Buffalo native? Or like wow, where did you grow up in Buffalo?

SPEAKER_00 6:16

The West Side. West Side? Great Massachusetts area. Ah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 6:20

I know what you mean.

SPEAKER_00 6:21

Which is considered five points now.

SPEAKER_01 6:23

Yeah, it's a really it's a really uh that wasn't it wasn't always that way. Like No, no. It's uh it kind of turned into a little book bohemian paradise around that area, if you like bread.

SPEAKER_00 6:35

It's yeah, it's it's pretty fun. When I grew up, ours was the only house that didn't smell like sauce on Sunday because we weren't a ca Italian. Oh the whole block was pretty much Italian. The West Side was predominantly Italian, that part of the West Side.

SPEAKER_01 6:51

That's interesting. Uh my my grandparents grew up in Wakefield, Massachusetts, big Italian center of Massachusetts. Um and um it's funny the huge families that they had back then. Um everybody, everybody had a huge family, and I think that's still going on. I I've I've noticed that there's a lot of like income credits for like kids and marriages and stuff like that. So I'm just like, hmm. Maybe the best thing for all of us is just to have sauce on Sunday and have like eight kids. No, I don't think so.

SPEAKER_03 7:19

It wouldn't be great for the kids. Not in this economy, it wouldn't be good for anybody. Um so how does it was that kind of like a full circle moment going from uh being like an urban treasure hunter because you were used to say that you were into thrifting to owning your own thrift shop?

SPEAKER_00 7:33

Yeah, it's really nice. Um it's a consignment store, so people bring the stuff to me, so I don't actually have to hunt anymore, though I still do.

SPEAKER_03 7:42

Yeah, never ends.

SPEAKER_00 7:43

Yeah, but you know, people bring in their like a bin of clothes or whatever, and so it's like Christmas every day because I'm never sure what what's gonna be in there, what treasure they're gonna bring.

SPEAKER_01 7:52

So what what what would have been some of the treasures that you have uh you've you've acquired from all these all these people coming in?

SPEAKER_00 8:00

Well, I'll tell you the one that I let get away, and I'm sorry that I sold them, but they were a pair of Peter Max shorts. Do you know who Peter Max is? He is a designer. Um he's very into psychedelic stuff in the 60s and 70s. So these shorts came in and I wouldn't sell them, I rented them for the longest time. I let people rent them. Yeah, yeah. You can rent them.

SPEAKER_03 8:22

You had a lot of faith in people that are. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:24

Yeah, I mean, so so to do that, it was like, okay, you you hold their credit card or you make them give you cash, and if they don't bring them back, it's but I didn't let just anyone do it. They were just people I knew, regular customers and stuff like that. But then finally, someone someone talked me into selling them. They gave they offered me good money for them and I let it go. And I still regret that, but it's okay.

SPEAKER_01 8:47

That that's that's amazing. I'm seeing all sorts of cool stuff in your shop. I'm looking at these this jewelry in the glass case right now. Looks really cool. A little beehigh, bee um brooch.

SPEAKER_00 8:59

Yeah, it's actually a hairpin. It's a hair pin. Oh, it is a hairpin. And my friend Lizette made that. So she made that. She so what she does is she um buys Chanel charms. Okay, and then she upcycles other stuff and and puts them on the like this little ring. So she has some of her stuff in here, and then I have another another person that brings me jewelry. Jewelry's the hardest thing because it's hard to price and tag it. So I've I've got a guy named Dean, and he prices it all himself. And then this lady Elizabeth over here does the same thing. She does jewelry parties out of her house, and I went to one and I was like, hey, how'd you like to fill my case with your stuff? Because it just makes it easier on me.

SPEAKER_01 9:51

How how is it that you're able to go and see value in what people might consider just kind of junk or scraps from the house? Like how what how what kind of eye do you need to have to go and like really? What do you decide to keep and what do you decide to keep? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 10:04

Well at first I wasn't sure. So like a couple times I've priced things and found out that I should have put a lot higher price on them. I never really knew designer or name brands or anything like that. Um, so it's just been trial and error. And at this point I just kind of know what sells and what the people are looking for. And also if I think it's cool, then you know, then I take it. You know, it's it's like, you know, the other consignment stores and vintage stores, everyone that owns it, we all have our own eye and we curate it all differently. Yeah, it's very cool.

SPEAKER_03 10:37

You know, yeah. Do you do you um ever have like a problem between like okay, the people like this, but I'm not really into this, and like choosing like this will sell, but I like this type of stuff more. You know what I mean? As far as the people yeah, like choosing like what you want rather than what you think other people want.

SPEAKER_00 10:57

Okay, yes. That it took me a while to do that too, because I used to just do that. And I was like, not everyone wants the crazy hippie stuff that I do anything. Guys, yeah. So, yes, I have to think outside the box and think about like you know, whatever. And and you know, and each year I kind of see what sells and what doesn't sell, and what do I need more of?

SPEAKER_01 11:19

Yeah, how long have you been doing this? Like, how long have you had the shops since 2012?

SPEAKER_00 11:23

I took it over. Yep, I'm the fourth owner, so I took it over in 2012.

SPEAKER_01 11:27

And you knew Mimi was the first day before you?

SPEAKER_00 11:29

Yep, so the first owner, Flossie Fenton, she started it in 1945, and then she sold it to her worker, Mary White, in 1965. Wow. Then Mary White sold it to Mimi in 1976. Well, Mimi had it in from 1976 until I took it over in 2012.

SPEAKER_01 11:51

Now, had you had a history of coming in here? Did you know Mimi for a long time? I came in here in high school, you said.

SPEAKER_00 11:56

Yeah, I came in here in high school with my boyfriend at the high school boyfriend's mother. She like was a big thrifter. So I'd come in here with her, but then I moved to California for a long time, and then I moved back here, and a friend of mine opened a store around the corner very briefly, and so I started re getting reacquainted. And then my friend closed her store, and Mimi reached out to her for my number and needed someone to work one day a week, and then it was two days a week, then it was four days a week. So that's how I ended up ha being, you know, like she wasn't really liked you.

SPEAKER_01 12:35

What do you think you brought to it?

SPEAKER_00 12:36

And so she's and she said too that like the reason she asked me to work a couple days was because in her back of her head she knew she was gonna retire. She was turning eighty.

SPEAKER_03 12:45

And oh god you'll do it.

SPEAKER_00 12:48

So I just like I was saying, you have to have the certain vibe, you have there's an aesthetic in here that you have to have an honor.

SPEAKER_01 12:56

Like an honor. Yeah, love for the game.

SPEAKER_00 12:59

Yeah, and and and for the people in the community around here. When I when I took over Scoop Shop, there was a lady named Barb that was her mom and Mimi were best friends, and so I got the scoop shop and I got Barb. And so Barb was a fixture in that chair for a very, very long time. She passed away a couple years ago.

SPEAKER_01 13:20

Oh, I Barb.

SPEAKER_00 13:22

Yep, miss you, Barb. Um, but now I have my friend Carla who occupies that chair.

SPEAKER_03 13:28

So Carla.

SPEAKER_00 13:30

Yeah, so there's a whole different, like we call them the scoop group that you know live down the street, or just customers or people that came in that are now like my best friends.

SPEAKER_01 13:39

That's so cool. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:40

And Mimi had her own group too, and each each person had their own group that they brought brought into it.

SPEAKER_01 13:46

Did you have any hardships like when you first started? Like was Mimi there. I imagine there was a certain point in time when you owned the shop of Mimi would continue to go and like train you or whatever.

SPEAKER_00 13:56

Like oh, there was no training.

SPEAKER_01 13:59

Oh, like a transition period of like, oh, this is what you do when this happens.

SPEAKER_00 14:02

Like, yeah, like it's so old school, like, like this is this is it. So this is my how I take care of it. But Mimi had like the old school receipt book, and then you would rip it off. Oh, yeah. She had a spike and put it on the spike. Like it was old school. That's her accounting. That was her accounting.

SPEAKER_03 14:21

I'm guessing there's no laptops here.

SPEAKER_00 14:23

There's no laptop here.

SPEAKER_03 14:24

No laptops here. Wow.

SPEAKER_00 14:25

Yeah, there needs to be a tablet. I'm gonna get a tablet in here just not to do accounting on it.

SPEAKER_01 14:32

I guess I was just wondering, like, what are the like if somebody were like to want to h open a shop like the one that you've got here, and I know a lot of people do, it's a real dream of many people. Right. You know, just to have a little business to go and you know, work a job and also have your business and just like be a part of the community that way. I mean, was it was it hard doing like you know, getting getting your your um your your your feet wet, uh or like your you know, your sea legs when it comes to business?

SPEAKER_00 14:57

Not really, because I'd worked in retail before.

SPEAKER_01 15:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:00

So I kind of already knew what was going on.

SPEAKER_01 15:03

Um and no problem with the taxes or no, her system was so simple.

SPEAKER_00 15:08

Yeah. It's just simple. You just it's yeah, it wasn't hard at all. The hardest thing is just well I don't even know. The hardest thing is when I do have to do the accounting.

SPEAKER_03 15:19

And you have to figure out just the act of actually sitting down and doing it.

SPEAKER_00 15:22

Yes, and going, all right, this belonged to this person, so they get this much money, and then you've got to pull their stuff when their consignment is up, because it's only it's a 60-day consignment. Right. So then I guess the hardest part is getting people to pick up their stuff. Especially in the winter.

SPEAKER_01 15:40

Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 15:42

No one wants to go outside, they can't even get to me sometimes.

SPEAKER_01 15:46

What's business like these days? Is it blooming? I mean, yeah, how is the winter for you?

SPEAKER_00 15:51

The winter is not good for anybody. That's true. Right. Yeah, yeah. So it's it's basically January, February. Anyone that's in retail, small businesses know that those are your downtimes. That's when you like rearrange or rethink or max. I just started like do putting stuff on Deepop. So Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 16:08

What is it?

SPEAKER_00 16:10

Depop is an app that you can sell on.

SPEAKER_01 16:12

Oh, okay. Oh, so oh yeah, so you probably do a lot of online sales. I didn't even think about that. Yeah, obviously that looks like that.

SPEAKER_00 16:18

I've been I've been trying not to, because I'd like someone to buy, you know, that hat and I want to be able to see it out in the wild in Buffalo, but do you see that a lot?

SPEAKER_01 16:29

Do you see your your stuff being worn? That's cool.

SPEAKER_00 16:32

Or or sometimes if I don't remember, they'll come up to me and say, I got this at the scoop shop.

SPEAKER_01 16:36

Nice.

SPEAKER_00 16:37

I don't remember every piece.

SPEAKER_01 16:40

Now you've been really plugged in with like the youth of the area too. I know Talia Warren and um Lucky Day and the different um groups of people. I see all like I said, all sorts of stuff. Like how exciting is that to go on.

SPEAKER_00 16:52

Oh, it's so great. I love all the young energy.

SPEAKER_01 16:55

Yeah, I think you're young yourself.

SPEAKER_03 16:57

Yeah, breast of what's going on, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 16:59

Yeah, yeah. I I love it. I mean, and like uh urban elegance and um all these all these kids, young men, young women are so talented. There's so much talented you guys know just with the music. Yeah, so much talent in Buffalo.

SPEAKER_01 17:13

It's uh it's a very rare thing to go and see a gem like Buffalo, like for anybody who just is coming through. I came in as a transplant and uh had a kid here and you know basically lived here for 20 years, and I'm still blown away by how how awesome Buffalo is. And like I try to explain it to other people in different cities, they're just like, no, it's so it's just like you know, the Bills are and stuff. Yeah, it is the Bills, but like it's smaller than that, it's more than just that. It's just it's a very um eclectic, like I maybe I'm going further than than I should, but I I think of like Greenwich Village a lot of times when I'm in Elmwood Village or like different parts of Buffalo. Right. I think to myself, there's somebody you'll just be walking down the street and you'll see a poet or you'll see like a singer or or or a band will be playing in this place, or there's a patio happening, or a cat's library, or who the heck knows? You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_00 18:00

Exactly, exactly. Or or and then just people popping up and selling, like a lot of pop-ups, a lot of pop-ups. Summer people just started selling on at Bidwell, not part of the the farmers market on the other side. Yeah. So I have a I have a short school bus that I sell out of. Right, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:20

Yeah, I've seen it over at Amy's place a couple of times. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 18:23

So I just pulled up on the someone was doing a free clothing swap. Cool. And I took the stuff on the bus, I was done with it. And so I just pulled up on the lawn on Bidwell, and my friend was working the the event, and I was like, here are my keys, I gotta open the shop. Here are the keys in case someone comes and yells, because we're I'm parked on the lawn, but no one did, and I got back and pretty much 90% of everything on my bus was gone, was taken. And the girls who were doing it, um at first they were folding things on tables. I was like, honey, they're gonna just gonna don't even leave it in the bags, leave it in the bins. People just so they were they they loved it, and I guess the next day they had it again. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:09

That's so sweet. That's just that is thrifting. It's like going through bags, going through boxes and just finding what you can do.

SPEAKER_00 19:15

Sometimes I look around and like sometimes I get flipped out because like it's a mess in here, you know, and stuff is here and stuff is there. Yeah, but it's your mess. But it's my mess. And I think people like finding the treasure.

SPEAKER_01 19:29

Yeah. Yeah. You know, yeah, it's it's it's part of that, like with music, like before there was like, you know, internet telling you what to go and do, like you would literally go to the bins and you would just be like, that has a cool cover. Right. And I'll and I'll buy it just based on that cool cover, and I'll bring it home and I'll play it.

SPEAKER_00 19:45

You didn't have a way to know what it sounded like unless you knew the band.

SPEAKER_01 19:48

Unless you knew the band, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 19:50

But um or happen to hear them on the radio and press play or record with your little cassette.

SPEAKER_01 19:58

Oh yeah, on the radio. Oh, I remember when I was a kid, yeah, I would just be like, I'd be like hitting the record button on like my favorite radio show. Um, speaking of music, um our our pod is a lot, yeah. I think Max will vouch this. We pay attention to music quite a bit. Yeah. We love we love the musical scenes.

SPEAKER_03 20:17

It's the cornerstone of our thing. Nice, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 20:19

The music scene. So we try to go and highlight a band or an artist or you know, a singer or a vocalist or just uh an instrumentalist. Every single time we ask our guests, the person who we're speaking with, to kind of tell us who they like to hear, and we try to play a clip of their songs to go and you know local bands. Local bands, local bands. It could be you know, yeah, far arranged, it doesn't have to be like downtown Buffalo or like in the various neighborhoods of Buffalo, it could be as far away as like Clarence or something like that, you know. But somewhere in the in the greater Buffalo area, I guess even Niagara Falls. I would still say Niagara Falls is just you know separated from us by like I don't know, like very small, like Grand Island, that's it.

SPEAKER_00 21:02

Yeah, yeah, it's it's very close. It's very close.

SPEAKER_01 21:06

So um we did ask you to prepare a band that I was wondering if if you would come to a decision.

SPEAKER_00 21:10

Um Prairie Pavement. Prairie Pavement, yeah. Yes, I'd never even heard of them before. And at the Urban Elegance um gala on Saturday, they were playing their like the opening band. Yeah. And they were fantastic.

SPEAKER_01 21:23

What did you like about them?

SPEAKER_00 21:24

Oh well, you know what's interesting is like they were playing some kind of jazzy stuff at the at the um at the gala.

SPEAKER_01 21:31

Yeah, they're very talented.

SPEAKER_00 21:32

And then when I listened to them later on Spotify, it wasn't jazzy at all, but they just they're raw. Like I like how like I don't know, they just sound raw and I liked it.

SPEAKER_01 21:43

They have they have they have such a youthful, like, just passion about them.

SPEAKER_00 21:46

Yes, yes.

SPEAKER_01 21:47

I I've interviewed the guys from Perry Pavement a couple times. I've seen them in a few shows, and they are just great. They're just like you know, quintessentially Buffalonian musicians. You know, they're everything that makes Me feel good about this city. Maybe that's going a little far, but let's listen to uh do you do you remember a song by them by a chance?

SPEAKER_00 22:06

Um, I think Circe?

SPEAKER_01 22:08

Circe?

SPEAKER_00 22:09

I like that one.

SPEAKER_01 22:10

Cool. Well, let's give it a listen.

SPEAKER_00 22:11

Alright.

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SPEAKER_01 23:30

And we're back, BMP listeners. We're still talking to Wendy over at the Scoop Shop. We're just we were just talking off mic about uh how um Scoop Shop got involved with the musical seat itself um through the Kenmore Porch Fest. Elmo Village. Elmwood Village Porch Fest, yes.

SPEAKER_00 23:45

Yes, yes, yeah. So I signed I applied to have bands play, and then um Allison from Velvet Bethany was one of the ones. Shout out to I knew Allison, and then I ended up um getting Starjuice to play. This is amazing. They they were so good. Um, and then a couple other bands have played here acoustic distortion disorders. I probably I don't know if I'd say acoustic disorder distortion and distortion disorder. I'm not really sure. Um my nephew, he has a Ramones cover band, so they play very cool. So now all of a sudden I'm the punk rock host because that's what they give me is the punk bands that are oh very cool.

SPEAKER_01 24:29

Broken locker. Broken locker, love them.

SPEAKER_00 24:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 24:32

What's his name? Uh Brandon?

unknown 24:34

I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 24:35

I I forgot. I'll not embarrass embarrassing ourselves and numbers of the Broken Locker.

SPEAKER_00 24:40

I don't I don't say a cardboard homestead play too. Oh wow, yeah, they're good too. Oh yeah. Every everyone's amazing.

SPEAKER_01 24:46

Yeah, have you noticed the energy really pick up during the summer here? I mean, this summer series are probably the best part of like being in a shop in Umwood Village.

SPEAKER_00 24:54

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 24:54

Lot of energy.

SPEAKER_00 24:55

A lot of energy. I won't like always have someone popping up out here, or we just have tables and chairs out there and people just kind of sit and hang out. If I don't have a band, I'll have my speaker out there. Nice.

SPEAKER_01 25:08

Really brings you back. You're from you went to California for a few years.

SPEAKER_00 25:13

After high school. After high school, cool.

SPEAKER_01 25:15

Which part of California?

SPEAKER_00 25:16

Um at first I lived in Venice Beach. Wow. Yeah, which this was like 1980, so it was when Venice Beach was really cool. And then I ended up um staying in living in Huntington Beach. Oh, okay. And again, that was when it was all just little shops like this up and down that wasn't taken over by commercialism or anything.

SPEAKER_01 25:38

That's so incredible.

SPEAKER_00 25:39

Yeah, it was really fun. It was a good it was a good time.

SPEAKER_01 25:43

Do you think that such times are coming to the Buffalo area, or is that kind of in the past, like forever?

SPEAKER_00 25:49

No, uh, because we have like the little shops and it and all these new stores that are popping up, all these new vintage stores, and people are doing like the pop-ups and the peddler market and things like that. So, and with just the music and the local scene. So I think it is. I think it's here. I think it's here. It's it reminds me of it back then.

SPEAKER_01 26:09

All right. So uh what are your hours? I guess we'll we'll end with that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 26:14

I'm open Wednesday through Sunday, 12 to 5.

SPEAKER_01 26:17

12 to 5. Alright, awesome. Pleasure talking to you.

SPEAKER_00 26:21

Thank you. That was fun. Thank you, guys.

SPEAKER_01 26:23

Yeah, come on down to Scoop Shop, guys. It's uh Buffalo Music Players approved um shopping area. Say hi to Wendy and um have a very nice day. Alright.

SPEAKER_03 26:40

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unknown 28:24

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