PART 6: My Brother Sold Dad’s Watch for $40—But Its Secret Changed Our Family Forever
Story by Dramaverdict
The woman who brought the broken chair into Scott’s workshop asked him three times whether he was sure about the price.
The first time, he thought she hadn’t heard him.
The second time, he wrote it down.
The third time, he finally looked up from the chair and noticed she was holding her purse with both hands.
“Thirty-five dollars,” he said gently. “That includes the new support underneath.”
She studied the estimate.
“And it will be safe?”
“Yes, ma’am.”
“For someone to sit in?”
He smiled.
“That’s the idea.”
But she didn’t smile back.
Her eyes moved toward the chair, and Scott realized she wasn’t asking an ordinary question.
The chair was old oak, with narrow arms and a seat worn smooth at the front. One leg had been repaired badly, probably more than once. A split ran beneath the seat where someone had driven a screw too close to the edge.
“My husband used to sit in it every morning,” she said.
Scott put down his pencil.
“He passed away?”
“Last spring.”
“I’m sorry.”
She nodded as though accepting something she had received so often she no longer knew where to put it.
“My grandson wants it. He’s moving into his first apartment.”
Scott looked at the chair again.
“He wants his grandfather’s chair?”
“He says he remembers sitting beside him while he did the crossword.”
Her hand moved along one armrest.
“I told him it was broken.”
Scott crouched beside it.
“We can do something about that.”
The woman left the chair and a ten-dollar deposit.
Her name was Ruth Mercer.
Before she stepped outside, she turned back.
“Your sign says Brennan.”
“Yes.”
“Any relation to Harold?”
Scott straightened.
“He was my father.”
For a moment, she simply looked at him.
Then she glanced around the workshop.
At Dad’s old bench.
At the tools hanging above it.
At the little plant on the windowsill, which had somehow survived my brother’s attention.
“I thought so,” she said.
And then she left.
Scott told us about her over Sunday dinner.
Mom was cutting a roast.
“What did she mean, she thought so?”
“I don’t know.”
“Did you ask?”
“She was already out the door.”
Mom paused.
“Mercer?”
“Ruth Mercer.”
“Her husband’s name?”
“Didn’t ask that either.”
Mom gave him a look.
“I repair furniture,” he said. “I’m still learning the interview portion.”
I laughed.
He smiled, but his attention drifted toward the window.
Business had been slow that month.
He hadn’t said so.
I knew because I had stopped by on two Saturdays and found him organizing screws that were already organized.
The workshop rent was reasonable, but reasonable bills still had to be paid.
His regular job covered his apartment, truck, food, and the payments he was still making on his old debts.
The workshop was supposed to begin paying for itself.
So far, it hadn’t.
“Thirty-five dollars seems low,” I said.
“It’s a straightforward repair.”
“How long will it take?”
“A couple of hours.”
“And materials?”
He reached for the potatoes.
“I’ve worked it out.”
I felt Mom’s eyes on me.
I stopped.
Scott had written his figures down before renting the workshop. He kept receipts. He had a separate account for the business.
He was doing the things we had once begged him to do.
Still, whenever money came up, I found myself leaning forward as though I needed to catch him before he fell.
He put the serving spoon down.
“I know you’re worried.”
“I didn’t say—”
“You don’t have to.”
There was no anger in his voice.
That made it harder.
Mom passed him the gravy.
“Did she say when she needs the chair?”
“Two weeks.”
“Then you’d better make it a good one.”
“I intend to.”
The following Saturday, I brought him lunch.
He was standing over the chair with its seat removed.
On the bench lay two bent screws, a handful of brittle padding, and a small square of wood.
He didn’t hear me come in.
“Busy?”
He turned.
“Oh. Hey.”
I held up the bag.
“Sandwiches.”
“You’re my favorite sister.”
“I’m your only sister.”
“Still a competitive field.”
I set the food on the counter.
“What’s wrong?”
He looked back at the chair.
“Nothing serious.”
“That sounded convincing.”
He picked up the small piece of wood.
“This was fitted under the seat. Whoever repaired it last used it to brace the split.”
He turned it over.
There were pencil marks on one side.
A measurement.
An arrow.
And two initials.
H.B.
I stared at them.
“Dad?”
“Maybe.”
“Scott.”
“I know.”
He handed it to me.
The letters were faded, but familiar.
Dad put his initials on nearly everything he lent out.
Tools.
Ladders.
The old wheelbarrow.
Once, when we were children, he wrote H.B. on the underside of a casserole dish after a neighbor kept it for six months.
Mom had laughed at him for weeks.
I ran my thumb near the pencil marks without touching them.
“He repaired this?”
“Looks that way.”
“When?”
“No date.”
The workshop felt suddenly crowded.
Not with people.
With the things we didn’t know about a man whose coat had hung beside our front door for most of our lives.
Scott took the brace back.
“I called Mrs. Mercer.”
“What did she say?”
“She’s coming Tuesday.”
“Did you tell her?”
“Yes.”
“And?”
He looked down at Dad’s initials.
“She said she wondered how long it would take me to find him.”
Mom insisted on coming.
So did I.
Scott looked at both of us when we arrived at the workshop on Tuesday afternoon.
“This is going to be very subtle.”
Mom took off her coat.
“I brought cookies.”
“That makes it a normal business meeting.”
“Exactly.”
Ruth Mercer arrived at three.
She wore a navy coat with a missing button and carried the same brown purse.
When she saw Mom, she stopped.
“Margaret?”
Mom stepped forward.
“Have we met?”
“Once. A long time ago. At the mill Christmas dinner.”
Mom studied her face.
Then something shifted.
“Your husband was Alan.”
Ruth nodded.
“He worked maintenance.”
“Yes.”
Mom took both her hands.
“Oh, Ruth.”
The two women stood there quietly.
Scott pulled out chairs.
For once, the broken chair wasn’t the most important piece of furniture in the room.
Alan Mercer had worked with Dad for eleven years.
He had injured his shoulder before I was old enough to remember, spent months recovering, and eventually taken a different job.
“Your father came by after the operation,” Ruth told us.
Scott sat beside the bench.
“To visit?”
“At first.”
She looked at the chair.
“Then he noticed Alan trying to fix that with one arm.”
Mom smiled faintly.
“That sounds like Harold.”
“Alan hated sitting still. Hated asking for help even more.”
“So did Dad,” I said.
Ruth nodded.
“They had that in common.”
She told us Dad had taken the chair into the garage, repaired it, and brought it back the following week.
When Alan asked what he owed, Dad told him to return his socket wrench.
“He’d borrowed it before the accident,” Ruth said. “Harold claimed the interest had become unbearable.”
Mom laughed.
Then Ruth’s expression changed.
“After that, he came by some Saturdays.”
“To see Alan?”
“Yes. Sometimes they worked on things. Sometimes they just sat.”
She looked at Mom.
“I’m not sure how much he told you.”
Mom folded her hands.
“He said he was helping a friend.”
“He was.”
There was a pause.
Ruth looked toward Scott.
“Your father didn’t like people knowing when he helped.”
Scott lowered his eyes.
“No,” he said. “He didn’t.”
I wanted to ask a hundred questions.
What else had Dad repaired?
How often had he visited?
Had Alan known Daniel?
Had they ever discussed the mill?
But Mom asked something else.
“Were they happy?”
Ruth looked at her.
“On those Saturdays?”
Mom nodded.
Ruth smiled.
“Yes. Usually filthy. Often argumentative. But happy.”
Mom breathed out slowly.
It occurred to me then that our discoveries about Dad had become so heavy that we had almost forgotten to look for anything light.
We had found fear.
Evidence.
Regret.
The cost of silence.
Mom wanted to know whether, somewhere in all those years, he had sat in a garage with a friend and enjoyed an ordinary afternoon.
Ruth gave her that.
She told us about a cabinet they assembled backward.
About a radio Alan insisted could be repaired until Dad discovered a mouse nest inside it.
About the time they spent four hours looking for a tiny spring that was stuck to the bottom of Dad’s shoe.
By the end, Mom was laughing through tears.
Scott had turned away toward the bench.
He was smiling too.
Before Ruth left, he showed her the new support beneath the chair.
“I couldn’t reuse this,” he said, holding Dad’s little wooden brace. “But I saved it.”
She took it carefully.
“Thank you.”
“I can fasten it underneath somewhere it won’t carry weight. If you want it to stay with the chair.”
Her eyes filled.
“Yes,” she said. “I would like that.”
He nodded.
Then she reached into her purse.
“The balance.”
“You can pay when you collect it.”
“I’d rather—”
“Honestly. When it’s finished.”
She put her purse down.
“All right.”
But while Scott helped Mom with her coat, Ruth caught my eye.
There was something in her expression I recognized.
The embarrassment of being seen calculating whether there was enough.
I looked away before she needed to explain.
Scott called me that night.
“She can’t afford it.”
“You don’t know that.”
“She asked whether I could keep the deposit and stop working.”
I sat down.
“What did you say?”
“That I’d already cut the new piece.”
He exhaled.
“Then she apologized.”
I remembered the purse in her lap.
“What are you going to do?”
“I don’t know.”
For a moment, I almost offered the money.
It would have been easy.
Twenty-five dollars.
The price of lunch, a few groceries, something I would barely remember spending.
But Scott hadn’t called to ask me for it.
He was trying to work something out.
“What would work for you?” I asked.
Silence.
Then he said, “I could give it to her.”
“Yes.”
“But I can’t give every job away.”
“No.”
“And I don’t want her thinking I only finished it because Dad knew her husband.”
I waited.
“She came here as a customer,” he said. “She trusted me with something.”
“What if you let her decide how to pay?”
“She already decided she couldn’t.”
“Did she? Or did she decide she couldn’t pay all of it now?”
He was quiet.
“I’ll call her tomorrow.”
Ruth collected the chair the following Saturday.
Her grandson came with her.
His name was Benjamin, and he looked young enough that moving into an apartment seemed like something somebody should check with his mother first.
He held the chair by its back and stared at it.
“This is the same one?”
Scott smiled.
“Mostly.”
The oak had been cleaned and lightly finished.
The damaged joint was firm.
Underneath the seat, Dad’s old brace had been mounted beside the new support.
Ben crouched to look.
Ruth pointed to the initials.
“A friend of your grandfather’s.”
Ben looked up at Scott.
“Your dad?”
“Yes.”
He studied the wood a moment longer.
“Can you put yours next to it?”
Scott didn’t answer immediately.
Ruth looked at him.
“If you wouldn’t mind.”
He picked up a pencil.
His hand was steady when he wrote.
S.B.
I had come to take photographs for his little business page.
I took one then.
Not of his face.
Of his hand resting beside Dad’s old work.
Ruth paid five dollars.
She would pay five more each month until the balance was settled.
Scott wrote the arrangement on her receipt.
No apology required.
No explanation printed beneath it.
Before they left, Ben asked whether Scott ever needed help carrying things.
“I can’t repair anything,” he said quickly. “But I’m good at the part where you lift it.”
Scott looked around the workshop.
“There’s a cabinet coming next Saturday.”
“What time?”
“Nine.”
Ben nodded.
“I can do nine.”
Ruth touched Scott’s arm.
“Thank you.”
He glanced at the receipt.
“We’ve got it worked out.”
But that wasn’t what she meant.
Everybody in the room knew it.
The photograph brought Scott more work.
Not a flood.
Three inquiries that week.
A dining table with a loose leg.
A damaged drawer.
Two chairs from a woman who said they had belonged to her mother and were “probably not worth anything.”
Scott had begun answering that sentence differently.
He used to say he would take a look.
Now he asked, “Do you want to keep them?”
If the answer was yes, he gave an estimate.
Sometimes the work cost more than replacing the furniture.
He said so.
Sometimes the piece was too damaged to make safe.
He said that too.
One afternoon, I heard him tell a man he wasn’t qualified to repair a cracked staircase.
The man offered cash.
Scott gave him the number of a carpenter.
After the customer left, I said, “That would have covered your rent.”
“For a month.”
He wiped down the bench.
“If someone falls through it, that lasts longer.”
I watched him put away his tools.
He caught me looking.
“What?”
“Nothing.”
“You’re doing that thing again.”
“What thing?”
“Looking like you’re mentally writing a report about my improvement.”
I laughed despite myself.
Then I stopped.
“Does it feel like that?”
“Sometimes.”
I leaned against the wall.
“I’m trying.”
“I know.”
He closed the toolbox.
“So am I.”
The trouble came in May.
It arrived in an envelope from the building owner.
Scott opened it on a Wednesday after work.
By Thursday evening, the paper had been folded and unfolded enough times that the crease was beginning to tear.
The repair shop next door was expanding.
The owner wanted the space Scott rented.
He had sixty days.
He told Mom over dinner.
She set down her fork.
“Can they do that?”
“It’s in the agreement.”
“Have you checked?”
“Yes.”
“Could Mr. Cole—”
“Mom.”
His voice was gentle, but firm.
“It’s allowed.”
She looked at him.
Then she nodded.
“What will you do?”
“Finish the jobs I have. Stop taking anything big.”
“And after that?”
He stared at his plate.
“I don’t know yet.”
I felt something tighten in my chest.
The workshop had become the place where all of us could see his progress.
Without it, I realized, I was afraid of losing more than a rented room.
Scott seemed to read my face.
“I still have my job.”
“I know.”
“And my apartment.”
“I know.”
He put down his fork.
“This is a problem with a building, Jen.”
I nodded.
But I wasn’t sure I believed him.
For two weeks, he searched.
The affordable places had no heat.
The heated places cost too much.
One had stairs so narrow he laughed when the landlord asked whether he needed help measuring.
He kept a notebook.
Addresses.
Prices.
Electrical outlets.
Door widths.
He crossed out more places than he circled.
Then he stopped talking about it.
That was when I began worrying properly.
He still went to work.
Still visited Mom.
Still checked in on Mrs. Ellis.
But the quick smile disappeared.
On Saturdays, he worked late.
One evening, I passed the workshop at nearly nine and saw the light on.
I parked.
Inside, he was sitting at Dad’s bench.
There was an open calculator beside him.
He looked tired.
“Did you eat?”
“Not hungry.”
I set my bag down.
“How bad?”
He rubbed his eyes.
“Depends what you mean.”
“Scott.”
“I can move into a place across town. Small industrial unit. Better electricity. Actual heating.”
“That sounds good.”
“It’s twice the rent.”
“Oh.”
“Plus the deposit.”
I looked at the notebook.
“What would you need to earn?”
He turned it toward me.
He had already done the figures.
There were no imaginary customers.
No best-case month disguised as a plan.
Just numbers.
They didn’t work.
He watched me finish reading.
“Yeah,” he said.
I asked him whether he had told Mom.
“No.”
“Why?”
“Because she’ll offer.”
“She might.”
“She will.”
He leaned back.
“She’s got savings. She’ll say it’s an investment. Or a loan. Or Dad would want her to.”
I didn’t argue.
He looked toward the workbench.
“I can’t do that.”
“Borrowing money doesn’t automatically mean you’ve failed.”
“I know.”
“Do you?”
“Yes, Jenny.”
He sounded exhausted.
I sat on the stool beside him.
For a while, all we heard was traffic outside.
Then he said, “I can’t tell whether I’m being responsible or scared.”
It was the most honest thing he could have said.
I looked at the figures again.
“Maybe both.”
He gave a small, unhappy laugh.
“That’s helpful.”
“I’m serious. You can be afraid and still have the numbers right.”
He rested his elbows on the bench.
“I like this.”
“I know.”
“No. I really like it.”
His voice broke on the last word.
He looked away.
“I spent so much of my life trying to get through a day. Now I get to Saturday and I want to be here.”
I reached for his hand.
He let me take it.
Mom found out on Sunday.
Not from me.
Scott told her himself.
He brought the notebook.
She listened.
Then, just as he predicted, she offered.
He thanked her.
Then he said no.
Her face fell.
“You haven’t even heard how much.”
“I don’t need to.”
“Scott, I can afford—”
“I know you can.”
“Then why?”
He looked at her.
“Because paying you back would mean taking more work than I can safely finish. Or keeping this place open while I hope things improve.”
She sat very still.
He swallowed.
“I don’t want to start calling hope a business plan.”
Mom looked down at the notebook.
For years, she had begged him to think before taking money.
Now he was thinking.
And it hurt her to let him.
“What if I don’t need you to pay it back?”
His eyes filled.
“Then I’d be asking you to pay for me to keep something I can’t afford.”
“You’re my son.”
“I know.”
He reached across the table.
“That’s why I’m trying to tell you before I make a mess.”
She took his hand.
Neither of them spoke for a while.
Then Mom closed the notebook.
“All right.”
Scott bowed his head.
It took more courage for her to say those two words than either of us understood that day.
The next morning, he called his customers.
He explained the closure date.
Promised to finish what he had accepted.
Returned a deposit for a job he couldn’t complete in time.
By noon, the workshop looked exactly as it had before.
Same tools.
Same bench.
Same plant.
But he had taken the sign out of the window.
Ben arrived that afternoon and stood in the doorway.
“You’re closing?”
“Moving out.”
“Where?”
“Haven’t found anywhere.”
Ben looked at the bare window.
“Oh.”
Scott picked up a cloth.
“I’ve got three jobs left. I could still use your help Saturday.”
“I’ll be here.”
He lingered.
Then he asked, “Is there anything else?”
Scott shook his head.
“Just nine o’clock.”
The offer came from Ed.
Of course it did.
He appeared carrying a broken footstool that neither of us believed was the reason for his visit.
Scott looked at it.
“Did you break that yourself?”
“Customer brought it in.”
“The customer being you?”
Ed set it down.
“Are you going to let an old man sit?”
Scott pulled out a chair.
Ed lowered himself into it and took a folded sheet from his pocket.
“There’s a room behind my shop.”
“No.”
“You haven’t heard the offer.”
“I know about the room.”
“So hear about it again.”
I stood very still beside the shelves.
Scott crossed his arms.
“Ed.”
“It has a back entrance. Double doors. Electricity. No plumbing, but you can use the shop bathroom.”
“It’s full of furniture.”
“Which needs repairing.”
Scott looked at him.
Ed slid the paper onto the bench.
“I’ve written down what I’m proposing.”
There was rent.
A small amount.
Set hours.
A three-month trial.
Separate estimates for repairs Ed wanted done.
No promise that it would become permanent.
Scott read the sheet twice.
Then he looked up.
“Did Mom ask you?”
“No.”
“Jenny?”
I shook my head.
Ed waited.
Scott tapped the page.
“This rent is low.”
“The room has earned me nothing for eleven years.”
“You could use it for storage.”
“I do. Badly.”
Scott almost smiled.
Ed leaned forward.
“I am offering you a room I own because I think we may both get something useful out of it.”
Scott looked at the paper again.
“And if it doesn’t work?”
“We say so.”
“No guilt?”
Ed raised an eyebrow.
“You planning to make me feel guilty?”
That got a laugh.
A real one.
The first I had heard from my brother in weeks.
They discussed it for an hour.
Scott asked questions.
Ed answered them.
They changed two lines.
Agreed on insurance before any tools moved.
Agreed Scott would keep his regular job.
Agreed the rent would begin when he could actually use the room.
When Ed left, Scott remained at the bench.
The paper lay in front of him.
“Well?” I asked.
He looked toward the empty window.
“I need to check a few things.”
“Of course.”
He looked at me sharply, as if expecting impatience.
I picked up the broken footstool.
“Starting with whether Ed has invented a customer.”
Scott laughed again.
Then he took it from me.
We moved him on the last Saturday in June.
Ben carried boxes.
Mrs. Ellis supervised from a folding chair.
Ruth brought sandwiches.
Mom wrapped the tools Dad had once owned in old towels, even though Scott said they had survived worse.
Ed held the back door open and complained cheerfully about how many screws one man could possess.
The room behind the shop smelled of dust and old wood.
There was a high window.
A concrete floor.
Enough space for Dad’s bench and two pieces of furniture.
Scott stood in the doorway for a long time before carrying anything inside.
Mom came up beside him.
“Well?”
He nodded.
“It’ll work.”
She looked around.
Then she rolled up her sleeves.
“Where’s the broom?”
By late afternoon, the bench was against the wall.
The tools were hanging.
The plant sat beneath the window.
Scott unpacked the last box.
Inside was the hand-painted sign.
BRENNAN REPAIRS.
He held it for a moment.
Then he looked at Ed.
“Where do you want it?”
“Your door.”
Scott carried it outside.
I followed him.
The entrance faced the narrow lane behind the shop.
Nothing grand.
A plain door.
A security light.
A place where someone could pull up with a broken chair.
He held the sign against the wall while I marked the holes.
Then he lowered it.
“What?”
I asked.
He looked at the paint.
“I thought losing the workshop meant I was back where I started.”
I waited.
He glanced through the open door.
Ben was helping Mom move a shelf.
Ed was arguing with Mrs. Ellis about whether he needed a rug.
Ruth was dividing the remaining sandwiches into parcels nobody had asked for.
Scott shook his head.
“I wasn’t.”
“No.”
He looked at me.
“I’m sorry I snapped at you.”
“I’m sorry I kept looking for the disaster.”
He smiled a little.
“You’ve had practice.”
“So have you.”
We stood there a moment longer.
Then he handed me the sign.
“Hold this straight.”
“I’m your older sister.”
“Yes. You’ve had practice telling me when something’s crooked.”
That evening, Mom brought Dad’s watch.
Not to leave.
Just to show Ed the box Scott had made.
She opened it on the counter at the front of the shop.
Ed leaned closer.
“Well.”
Scott stood beside her, looking as nervous as he had when he first brought it home.
Ed ran one finger along the walnut lid.
“Good work.”
“Thank you.”
He looked at the watch.
Then at Scott.
For a moment, none of us spoke.
The last time Dad’s watch had been inside that shop, Scott had left with forty dollars.
This time, he had arrived with his tools.
Mom closed the box.
Ed picked up the broken footstool.
“Right,” he said. “Since you’re here.”
Scott groaned.
“We haven’t even started the trial.”
“Time’s expensive.”
“So are repairs.”
“Good. You’re learning.”
We were almost finished cleaning when the bell over the front door rang.
Ed went to answer it.
I heard a woman ask whether the repair business was open yet.
“Nearly,” he said.
“I called earlier. Someone told me to come around.”
Scott wiped his hands and walked into the shop.
Mom and I followed.
The woman was perhaps in her sixties.
She stood beside a young man holding a large wooden case.
It was battered at the corners and secured with two old leather straps.
“I’m sorry,” she said. “I know you’re moving.”
“That’s all right,” Scott told her. “What have you got?”
She looked at the case.
“My father’s.”
The young man set it carefully on the counter.
For some reason, the woman didn’t reach for the straps.
She kept looking at Scott.
“You’re Harold Brennan’s son?”
He glanced at Mom.
“Yes.”
The woman pressed her lips together.
“I wasn’t sure I should come.”
Mom stepped forward.
“Did you know my husband?”
“Not well.”
She looked down.
“My father did.”
Ed moved a lamp closer.
The young man loosened one strap, then the other.
Inside the case was a wooden writing desk.
Small.
Portable.
The kind that unfolded into a sloping surface.
One hinge had torn loose.
A corner of the lid was cracked.
Scott leaned closer.
“I can repair the case. I’d need to examine—”
“There’s something underneath the lining,” the woman interrupted.
Her voice shook.
“We found it when the hinge broke.”
She took a clear sleeve from her bag.
Inside was an old envelope.
Not sealed.
Not addressed to Mom.
Across the front, in handwriting I didn’t recognize, were six words.
HAROLD BRENNAN WAS RIGHT ABOUT THE PAYMENT.
Mom gripped the edge of the counter.
Scott stopped moving.
The woman looked at us helplessly.
“My father died in March. I’ve been sorting his things.”
Nobody spoke.
“I read about the recovered mill records,” she continued. “But I didn’t understand the connection until I saw your business page. The photograph of your hands. Your initials beside his.”
Scott looked down at the envelope.
“What was your father’s name?”
The woman swallowed.
“Leonard Voss.”
Behind me, Mom drew in a sharp breath.
I turned.
Her face had gone pale.
“Mom?”
She was staring at the woman.
Then she looked at the envelope again.
“I know that name.”
Scott reached for a chair.
Mom didn’t sit.
“Your father,” she said slowly, “came to our house.”
The woman nodded once.
“Yes.”
“How do you know?”
“Because he wrote about it.”
She opened her bag again.
This time, she brought out a thin notebook.
She held it against her chest before setting it beside the envelope.
“I haven’t brought this to argue about what happened,” she said. “I haven’t come to defend him.”
Her eyes filled.
“I came because there’s a name in here that wasn’t in the newspaper.”
Scott looked at me.
I knew what he was thinking.
Daniel.
After everything.
After the records and the unanswered questions and Patricia learning to live with what might never be known.
The woman opened the notebook to a marked page.
Then she looked at Mom.
“My father wrote down where Daniel went that night.”
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