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Welcome to Joey King Fan, your number one source for all things Joey King. She is best known for her roles in several films such as The Princess, A Family Affair, the The Kissing Booth film series, and in television shows such as The Act and We Were the Lucky Ones. Thanks for stopping by, and please visit us again soon!

I’ve added HD screencaps of Joey (and Hunter) on Nailed It. Sorry for the delay. I’ve had them for ages and just hadn’t had time to get around to sorting them. Enjoy!

Joey King | The Freedom, The Sanctity of Cerebral Flight

The European stonechat, a member of the robin family, tends to build its nest on or near the ground. Youngsters tumble out into the world as soon as they can, before they can even fly. Apparently, the prospect of flapping without flight amidst the dangers away from the nest pales in comparison to being grounded—a sitting duck, so to speak, for the numerous predators afoot. It is tempting to imagine what the world will be like when the masks come off and gates re-open, where the future has ambition and promise again. Instead, we spend countless hours a day trying to convince ourselves that the same bird who flew out into the world with ease and not a tendril of hesitation is the same one that, at present, doesn’t leave the comfort of their sheets. As we are learning, we must try to keep the heads, in which we spend most of our time, a suitable place to live, regardless of exterior influences. Actor Joey King inspires such force with a simple repeating of her morning hymn, “I am above ground.”

As the first months of 2021 transition to memory, King speaks from a newly found perspective after surviving the seemingly never-ending and ever-changing year of 2020. But while time continues to prove itself to be a construct, King has not wasted a single second. Her fresh and bright demeanor fills her Los Angeles home as she shares an appreciation for the constants that have grounded her in place, when the urge to float away becomes too overwhelming. She speaks kindly of Angel, her fourteen-year-old dog, who is “spunky and bright as ever,” cooking as a form of healing, and self-discovery through introspection and autonomy, encapsulating what it truly means to be young and learning through a pandemic.

King’s standout role as Elle Evans in Netflix’s The Kissing Booth—based on the book of the same title by Beth Reekles—is where she reached a new level of presence. The trilogy follows a spirited high schooler as she navigates her way through the wormhole that is young adulthood, with friendship an evergreen guiding light. And viewers ate it up. The 2018 debut shattered viewership records with 66 million-member views in its first month’s release, launching King to newfound heights. In the first installment, Elle’s turbulent relationship with high school bad boy Noah, played by Jacob Elordi (also of Euphoria fame), sees a wrench thrown into her friendship with Noah’s younger brother. The Kissing Booth 2 sees Noah now off to Harvard, and Elle back for her senior year, with all new problems arising. Closing out the trilogy, King is faced with the decision of where to go to college (and we might assume some push and pull from long time darling Noah). Both installments two and three were filmed in South Africa, the latter to release this summer, and King shows nothing but staggering humility and gratitude for the closing of this five-year run of romantic turbulence and emotional inquiry.

When it seemed like King could not soar any higher, she landed her Emmy-nominated role as Gypsy Rose Blanchard, opposite Patricia Arquette’s overbearing Dee Dee Blanchard, in the critically-acclaimed Hulu true-crime limited series, The Act, about the toxic mother-daughter relationship turned criminal. She also finds herself opposite Brad Pitt in the upcoming action-thriller Bullet Train, a no doubt gripping tale of five assassins on a bullet train who find their missions to be not so unrelated. With her impressive curriculum vitae of thoughtfully crafted roles, King has honed her talent of elegantly evoking an audience, chiefly with her warm countenance and distinct authenticity. She states, “I think that being able to be an everyday person who is able to transform into someone like Elle Evans, to just be like every girl and able to be a lead of a movie, is meaningful. And also to become someone like Gypsy and completely strip away my vanity. I think people resonate with that, that vanity is not my top focus.”

King has also found her way to the producer’s chair, where she has discovered new autonomy in her creativity. Perching herself on the other side of the casting table, she is able to not only develop a deeper understanding of the industry she has dedicated her life to, but advocate for narratives and stories in a different way than she has before. King is set to executive produce and star in Netflix’s Uglies, a film adaptation of Scott Westerfeld’s international best-selling dystopian fantasy novel of the same name, set 300 years in the future when everyone must undergo plastic surgery at 16 years old to meet globally dictated beauty standards. Passionately, she says, “I feel so frickin’ grateful to have reached such a certain amount of success where I am now able to decide what I want to produce, and create opportunities for myself that maybe otherwise wouldn’t have presented themselves to me.”

As the recently turned twenty-one-year-old makes her graceful ascent from childhood actor into international stardom, she is no stranger to the glamour and grit of the industry. After the success of The Kissing Booth, she found herself under a different kind of microscope. King confesses, “Being an actor is so tough, because you have this image of who you are and what kind of image you want to present to other people, when in reality you have no control of what people think of you.”

Amassing over 18 million followers on Instagram alone, King finds herself under a spotlight unfathomable by most. With its constant axiom of connection and community only being fulfilled through notifications and likes, social media has achieved a place in our psyche unequivocal to anything before. King confesses, “I started to see the downside of people having so much information about you or to your personality or personal information.” As a result, she has been more hesitant in what she allows for the public to see. She acknowledges the true weight we carry on account of our addictive cyber connections, and she hopes that “this new generation is taking the signs that are being thrown at them and why it is taking a downhill direction.” She urges her peers to “acknowledge it and not participate in the dark side of it.” She then adds, “I have had to remind myself more now of reasons to be confident than I used to.”

Our early twenties are a time of self-discovery. But maybe they’re less about finding ourselves and more about cultivating understanding of others and our world. While it is tempting to hide from our own furies, King instead finds a way to cohabit them, to simply acknowledge that they are there. She says that “being able to pay attention to why you feel a certain way and being able to be okay with that” is one of the most crucial steps you can take for your wellbeing. King hopes to normalize feelings of anxiety and doubt, especially during this time of unwavering confusion. With occasional days spent alone and the distractions of the outside world kept to a dull hum, she has sharpened her intuition, listening to her thoughts with the urgency and intention as if she was listening to a close friend. “I try not put too much pressure on myself,” she says, “because I always feel like I have, so being able to be like, ‘Hey, it’s okay that you’re anxious’, or ‘It’s okay you’re overwhelmed and only answer one email.’ Just being able to say that, I feel better.”

King has become cathectic towards herself, something she acknowledges we don’t do enough. “I have done a lot of work for myself this year,” she shares. “I started therapy this year, which is something I have never done before. I started it to be the best version of myself that I am trying to be.” She speaks hopefully, with the curiosity and positivity of one day knowing more of the course she is on and who she is becoming. In so doing, she sends a sweet reminder to be gentle with ourselves, to speak with soft words, and allow us the space to be patient. “I think that is something that I am really working on and something that I carry through to my life,” she remarks. “I don’t think I am the most patient person. I think that is something I have to work on.”

As the world begins to show some signs of healing, or at least forward momentum, a new perspective is calling from every corner, on so many layers. King reminds us, when considering distance and reflection, to consider the ideology of a bird’s eye view, only seeing what will stand the test of time. “If I lost everything I had right now,” she contemplates, “would I still be happy? If the answer I feel at this moment is yes, then I am doing the work and succeeding at the work hopefully.”

Joey King’s aide-memoire reminds us of the present. With acting comes the need for a presence from mind and body, an awareness of the abundance in each and every moment we breathe in and out. King proclaims, in closing, on the pinball thoughts that grace our everyday, “You kind of have to be in the moment with them. Be intuitive. Be present. Be risky.” From now on, as every morning unfolds with its unique banter of bird chirrup, paired with our current inability to see beyond the edges of the present day, we can only hope to remind ourselves to go into the world, soar, and save the moment.
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Watch the trailer for Nailed It! Double Trouble, where teams of two, including Joey King and her sister, go head to head.

Netflix’s Nailed It! is returning for another season of epic baking mishaps.

PEOPLE can exclusively unveil the first trailer for the new spin-off season of the Emmy-nominated baking series, Nailed It! Double Trouble, premiering March 26 on Netflix.

Hosted by Nicole Byer and Jacques Torres once again, the new season will feature a massive twist: For the first time ever, home bakers will pair up in teams of two to take a shot at recreating edible masterpieces for a $10,000 prize and the coveted “nailed it” trophy.

Among the contestants this season is actress Joey King, who will partner with one of her sisters as they attempt to beat out the other duos in the high-stakes competition.

“With double the help, maybe we’ll get a better cake?” Byer, 34, apprehensively says in the trailer.

“This is painful to watch,” adds Torres.

Guest judges this season will include Andrea Savage, Ron Funches, Lil Rey Howery, Bobby Lee, Brian Posehn, A$AP Ferg.

“From best buds to brothers and sisters, these bakers are twice as bad,” Netflix’s logline for the new season reads. “This season, we go far and wide for inspiration, ranging from delicious baked treats inspired by Greek mythology to sugary desserts from dear old Grandma.”

Nailed It! premiered its first season in 2018 with solo bakers giving their best shot at creating some unforgettable desserts. There have been an additional three regular seasons of the show released, as well as two holiday-themed seasons.

The show has been nominated for three Emmy Awards, twice for outstanding competition program in 2019 and 2020 and once for outstanding host for Byer.

Nailed It! Double Trouble premieres March 26 on Netflix.
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I’ve added HD screencaps of Joey in Radium Girls. You can watch the film on Netflix, Amazon Prime, or other paid streaming services. Enjoy!

Joey attended and won The People’s Choice Award for Comedy Movie Star of 2020 thanks her fans and confirms some details about the final film in the franchise! Check out video clips below and photos in the gallery. She looked lovely! Enjoy!

It’s that time of the year: fall weather, matching sweatsuit sets, and the impending election that has left many Americans on the edge of their seats. Joey King is ready for it all with a new Blumhouse horror film ready to promote, the LA sunsets to keep her golden, and her first election to prepare for. At just 21, Joey’s career is full speed ahead, appearing in countless projects and rightfully having the internet crown her the newest queen of Netflix. But if there’s anything the star wants you to know, it’s that she is just like you and me.

Joey is warm and natural like that friend from college that was always cooler than you but made you feel like you were an equal nonetheless. Our Zoom call vibe was girlie chat meets messy buns, tank tops, and our dogs. Mine: three loud ass hounds, Joey’s: a modelesque yorkie named Angel. And even though Joey and I have never met, it felt like we were catching up on old times. I forgot I was talking to an Emmy nominee, the girl who was my summer envy as she kissed all those boys in that booth. I was just talking to Joey.

Joey is the type of actress to never fall into a typecast. At just 11, the star made a name for herself alongside Selena Gomez in “Ramona and Beezus.” From there she’s bounced between music video appearances, quintessential rom-coms, horror, animated comedy, drama, and of course, The Kissing Booth (which deserves its own genre as a Netflix, young adult comedy filled with beautiful men.) And while it seems that no matter what Joey does it is impossible to hit new ground, she just proved us wrong: She will try her hand at executive producing her newest project of Netflix’s adaptation for “The Uglies” book series. Pre-COVID, Joey took her idea of a movie adaptation to network and they loved it.

“Ever since I was young, this was my favorite book series ever. I was always obsessed with the idea of playing Tally Youngblood and was always just hoping and praying that one day they made a movie of it so that I could,” she says. “I just have a desire to create things that make me happy and just work on things that ignite a fire in my heart. So I was like you know what? I’m just gonna do it myself,” she says smiling into the camera. She credits Scott Westerfeld, the author of the series, for allowing her to star and produce this project. I noticed her body shift closer into the camera as I felt her passion. “It’s been a dream of mine for a very long time,” she says.

She cites the series’ relatability as the fuel to her fire. “I got told when I was younger that I wasn’t pretty enough for a few roles,” she says. “People’s perception of you really changes your own perception of yourself and so this book was always something that was so near and dear to my heart. That these ‘uglies’ were finding ways to really embrace their own actual beauty.”

One thing about Joey that is quick to note is how confidently she carries herself. She knows she’s a badass – in the least Hollywood asshole way possible – and reminds people that it doesn’t matter what people think. “It’s really hard with the amount of people that say really creative mean things,” she says. “It’s important to remember that for every person who says something like that, there’s so many more that feel a different way about you. There’s also your family and friends who love you. So who actually cares about what these people who don’t know anything about you besides what they think they know? Who gives a shit!”

Besides serving as a role model to young people, she is also feeling the pressure to do something to ensure that 2021 doesn’t end up like the shit storm this year was–is. “My hope for 2021 is just overall betterness. But the thing is like, I think what’s kind of scary is that a lot of people are like, ‘oh, I’m so over 2020, I can’t wait for 2021’ as if New Year’s Eve is just gonna magically cure the world. Cause it’s not–it’s going to be a long road ahead of us.” But Joey says her hope for 2021 is a Biden and Harris administration and that, “the whole world stops burning,” she says with a giggle, but I know she’s not joking. This place is a mess.

Luckily though, Joey is 21 and can actually vote in this year’s election. “I voted yesterday and it feels so good,” she says smiling and dancing into the camera. “It’s the most exciting thing that you can do as an adult. You literally get a say in your future and others’ futures and the state of the world. It’s just the coolest thing you can do!”

Her personal tip is to do your research before trying to fill out the ballot and listening to each other regardless of party. “People are just listening to respond and no one is listening to listen. I think if you are a Democrat, if you are a Republican, or any other party, I think the most important thing is to not sit on your high horse about what party you’re in.” For Joey, the values are more important than elephant or donkey, red or blue, conservative or liberal.

While the election is definitely spooky, Blumhouse Productions decided to add to the scares by dropping eight new horror films on Amazon, including Joey’s new film, “The Lie.” “What initially attracted me to that role was that I liked that it was a Blumhouse movie but it wasn’t straight-up horror. It was a mental game,” she told me. Having watched the film the night prior, I would agree. The plot twist at the end left my jaw dropped and slightly uncomfortable with all that went down–in the best way. “Performance-wise I was excited to try and figure out how to make someone worth having empathy but also be the villain.”

As for keeping sane, Joey is settling down with her intuitions, not caring what people think, and listening to good music. “I am very eclectic with my taste. Right now I’m listening to the new Sufjan Stevens album, and this album called Lagoons by Tigers in the Sky, a lot of Sigur Rós. And then I sort of take it back, I’ve been listening to Steeler’s wheel a lot, a lil Frankie Valley in there, throw in some Billy Joel, I am all over the place.”

So are we Joey, so are we.
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I’ve added photos of Joey from The Lie which you can stream on Amazon Prime. What did you think of it? Let us know on twitter. Enjoy the photos.

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I’ve added hundreds of missing additional photos of Joey from 2020 that I’ve had saved and haven’t had time to sort and add to the site. I’ll be adding missing scans and photo sessions next. Enjoy all the goodies!

Joey King Knows Hollywood Wasn’t Made for Young Women to Thrive
If it were up to Joey King, we’d be talking about something, anything, other than Joey King. Sure, the 21-year-old Los Angeles native, who’s been acting for more years of her life than not, is a professional famous person, but even she knows that when the country is going through a total and painful reckoning of its racist past and present—while also battling a pandemic that doesn’t seem to be going anywhere—the last thing anyone needs is a celebrity profile.

And yet: “I get it,” she says about our interview. “We got some shit to cover.” This is, after all, part of the deal when you’re a young Hollywood star. For every Big Splashy Project you book, you have to do press so everyone knows about—and wants to see—the project. This makes The Next Big Splashy Project a little easier to book. Oh, and did I mention you have to do it all with a smile on your face, even when asked waaay too personal questions about your intimate relationships, all while it feels like the world is ending around you?

Not that Joey gives up control that easily. It was her idea that we have lunch together on a Monday afternoon in June—well, it’s sort of lunch. And we’re not at all together. She’s home in L.A., quarantining with family, which is relatable, while managing the renovation of said home because it’s hers, which is not. (“Don’t worry, everybody’s wearing masks and gloves,” she explains over the sound of a construction crew ripping out carpets.) Joey’s teacup Yorkie, Angel, is happily hopping on her lap.

I’m also home, in Grand Haven, Michigan, having left New York City to quarantine with Mom and Dad in a town that is the opposite of New York City. I basically begged my parents to take our black Lab, Finn, out for two hours so he wouldn’t bark while I was on this Zoom. Well, it was supposed to be a Zoom, but half an hour in, the app self-destructed just as Joey was showing me around her bedroom (it’s filled with a giant ornate bed, for her, and lots of little beds, for her “old as fuck” dogs). So anyway, now we’re on FaceTime. We’re doing what she calls lunch-delivery roulette. You each order for the other person from a local restaurant in their town—“gotta support small businesses,” her publicist enthusiastically explained via email—then talk through why you chose each dish. The time-zone difference puts me three hours past lunchtime, but what is time, really, when you’ve been sitting inside your house for the past four months?

I picked a spread for Joey of my favorite New York City foods (pastrami sandwich, matzo ball soup, a black-and-white cookie) because I’m homesick. Her verdict: “I’m so happy, you don’t even know.” My own Grubhub options are McDonald’s, Wendy’s, and Subway, so I painstakingly curated a list of acceptable Middle of Nowhere, Michigan, restaurants for her to choose from. She ordered me “Italian”: chicken Francesca with kale Caesar salad, aka Midwest for “chicken and greens covered in cheese.” “I ordered bruschetta too,” she says as we unbox our lunches. “And they were like, ‘We don’t have any bread.’ I was like, Are you joking?! Everything I’m trying to do is going to shit!”

This, of course, is a lie. Not the bruschetta, the other thing. Just looking around her house proves the opposite: a picture of her and Patricia Arquette in costume from The Act; a shadow box with the teddy bear her character, Gypsy Rose, was obsessed with; a painting from the set of White House Down. I can tell she’s not arrogantly hoarding this stuff for some sort of trophy wall—it’s more like how you’d hang on to old sorority sweatshirts because they still spark joy.

And consider the reason we’re here at all: Joey has just returned to the Kissing Booth franchise (the sequel to the 2018 Netflix movie premiered July 24) that made her a household name. And this time, she didn’t just act, she also co-executive-produced the damn thing.

She has other projects in the works she’s excited about too, some she’s not ready to share just yet and one that sounds kind of major: a TV series about two women living in the woods, starring herself and her friend, the Booksmart actress Kaitlyn Dever—and produced by Margot Robbie. (“Margot Robbie, are you fucking kidding me?” says Joey. “I love her so much.”)

Yeah, so even though this year has been kind of a nightmare, she’s trying to make the most of it. Emphasis on “trying.” This morning, she was planning on getting up early, like 8 a.m., and exercising. It didn’t happen. She’s still wearing the workout clothes, though (leggings with cool cutouts and a Hulu logo sweatshirt perfectly draped off her shoulders), as she sits on the floor of her soothingly gray bedroom feeling that slept-through-my-workout guilt. “Some people are really good about setting goals—if they set a goal, they know they have to do it and they won’t feel good until they do it,” she says. “I am the same way, yet I still let myself not get it done for some reason.”

The truth is that in spite of her success, Joey, like you, like me, like all of us, is having trouble coping. Her mood has been “so bad”—the day before our interview, she didn’t even leave her room.

“2020…at first, everything was on fire, then we were going into World War III,” she says, like she’s counting off realities on her fingers. “Then the coronavirus hit.” In February, she was at Fashion Week in Paris and had just stepped into the lobby of the Louvre Museum when it was abruptly evacuated and closed due to COVID-19. “Your brain goes to the worst-case scenario. Like, What if every single person in the universe dies?”

“And then the protests started,” she says, returning to her list. When we talk, it’s been only a few days since people started flooding streets across the country to peacefully protest the brutal killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery and too many others. Before our call, Joey had planned to go to a protest that ended up getting canceled.

She spent her morning researching organizations and donating to fundraisers instead. But none of it really seemed like enough, and just feeling down at all was a struggle when she knows—like so many of us know—that there is someone, so many someones, suffering so much more this very second.

“I preach a lot about being proactive about your mental health and not feeling selfish for feeling depressed or upset,” she says, “but then when I sink into these weird moods, I immediately feel super selfish, which makes me feel worse. When it comes to taking care of yourself, there is a certain level of selfishness you have to have, but it’s hard. I haven’t found that balance yet. Because I in no way, shape, or form want to make any conversation that I start right now about me.”

She’s trying to be an ally in the Black Lives Matter movement, having tough conversations with extended family members, reading books (Joey’s sister Hunter told me they’ve been working through a copy of So You Want to Talk About Race together), and using her platform to post resources and raise awareness.

Basically, doing what any white girl of extreme privilege with a big platform should be doing right now. “I am a guest,” she says. “Like every white person who enters, we are guests. This is not an issue we have to make about ourselves. We don’t get to make it about ourselves.”

There are, though, between racial injustice stories and “Juneteenth facts” posts on her IG, others about the new Kissing Booth trailer and outtakes from photo shoots like this one. Like she said, she knows she’s one of the last people her fans need to hear from right now…but she also wants to be really good at her job, which, again, means she needs you to hear from her. A lot. Including in magazines like this one.

And “selfishly,” her job, even if she isn’t on actual movie sets right now, gives her some semblance of normalcy. She’s been doing it for so long that she knows the industry like other 21-year-olds might know the back of the menu at their favorite bar. Joey was 6 years old for her first-ever TV appearance, on The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, a Disney Channel show I most definitely watched when I was 11, when I most definitely had a crush on the Sprouse twins.

Hers is a very child-actress-turned-grown-up-actress origin story, even the part where she knows that being in front of the camera might not be enough for her. She already gets it: Hollywood—like, well, the world—wasn’t built to empower young women. In fact, it’s built to do the exact opposite, keeping them in a small box labeled Pretty Young Thing. Joey has experienced ageism her entire career, she says, especially because she looks so young. It’s gotten better as she’s become more successful, but that’s frustrating in and of itself. “You shouldn’t have to become something for people to listen to you,” she says, throwing her hands in the air.

Remember how liberated and annoyed you felt the first time it seemed like you’d actually been taken seriously? It’s like that feeling when you’re watching a movie and all your friends start to catch on to something in the last act when you’d figured it out in the first 30 minutes.

Equally frustrating is the one thing about Joey that people have almost always taken too seriously: her love life. (Yes, you’ve arrived at *that* part of the interview. There’s always a *that* part.) When Netflix announced it was making a second Kissing Booth movie, the big thing everyone—the fans, the internet, me—wanted to know was whether Jacob Elordi, who played Joey’s onscreen BF, would be returning. Between movies, the two stars were romantically attached…and then not. News of their split broke fans and the dozens of stan accounts scattered across social media.

Joey knows I’m going to ask the question even as I awkwardly attempt to bring it up. “Ask it. I don’t give a shit,” she says. So I do: “What was it like to have to act with someone who you might now feel really guarded around?”

After a few false starts, a few “wells” and “you knows,” she says, “No one’s thinking to themselves, That was easy, because it wasn’t. I’m sure people will analyze every movement and every detail. And you know what? Let them. But at the end of the day, I was just thrilled to be Elle Evans again.”

Okay, but now that she’s faced with a press tour and a version of the above question on repeat—“What was it like to work with your ex-boyfriend every day?”—could she go into just a little more detail?

“There’s so much I want to say,” she starts, then pauses for a second to laugh. “What’s the most, um, correct way to go about this? Elle Evans needs her Noah Flynn, and whatever that means for my personal life, I’ll do anything to make sure the story of my character who I care about so much is complete.” For the record: Joey, um, seems to be seeing someone else now. She’s hesitant to say much when I bring it up, but when I ask, she’s not…not smiling?

Just like the ending of every teen romance ever, Joey is moving on. Right now, she’s particularly focused on pitching that new TV show with her friend Kaitlyn. (“Any time I’m invited to fancy parties and I know Joey will be there,” Kaitlyn later tells me, “I know we’ll be able to go in a corner together and eat snacks.”) It’s one of the things that, 2020 be damned, is making Joey cautiously optimistic about what comes next. If the project doesn’t get picked up, well, she’s already familiar with the heartbreak of disappointment. It’s fine. “I have to tell myself that if it doesn’t go my way, I can pick myself back up,” she says. “And I won’t cry for too long.”

She wants me—and more importantly, you—to feel that too. She’s hoping that by the time you read this, things will look a little brighter and the idea of optimism itself will start to seem a little less Hollywood and a little more real life.

“2020 is a piece of shit,” she says before we hang up. “And I know it’s silly to hope that everything’s beautiful by September because it won’t be. So I’m hoping that there’s hope. That’s more realistic.”
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