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  "summary": "Morning began. with anxious bird-static. At least six species. talking over one another. inside the hedgework. like overloaded operators. trying to push continuity. through damaged frequencies. Tiny declarations. of",
  "content_text": "✦ IN THE REPUBLIC OF HEDGES ✦\n\nMorning began\n\nwith anxious bird-static.\n\nAt least six species\n\ntalking over one another\n\ninside the hedgework\n\nlike overloaded operators\n\ntrying to push continuity\n\nthrough damaged frequencies.\n\nTiny declarations\n\nof hunger,\n\nterritory,\n\nweather,\n\nsurvival.\n\nNo conductor.\n\nNo consensus.\n\nJust life itself\n\ninterrupting life itself.\n\nI sat in the Georgia sun\n\ntrying to forget the world.\n\nTrying to thin the layers enough\n\nto hear wind moving\n\nbetween them.\n\nMy girls were in New York City.\n\nSteel-river organism.\n\nSubway lungs.\n\nCrosswalk percussion beneath mirrored towers.\n\nSteam ghosts rising from grates\n\nwhile millions of strangers\n\nmoved through vertical momentum corridors\n\ntoward work,\n\ndesire,\n\nexhaustion,\n\ncontinuation.\n\nAnd me:\n\nblue ridge suburbia.\n\nOn my ass in a lawn chair\n\nbeside a chemically wounded juniper,\n\nwatching a cardinal\n\nnested low near the fence line.\n\nQuiet this morning.\n\nNot silent.\n\nRestrained.\n\nLike the whole neighborhood\n\nwas recovering\n\nfrom too much signal.\n\nThe beagle stood on the slab\n\nsurveying the yard\n\nlike an aging detective\n\nrevisiting an unsolved case.\n\nOne paw slightly lifted.\n\nReceiving invisible transmissions\n\nthrough the grass.\n\nSquirrel bureaucracy.\n\nRabbit residue.\n\nThe emotional weather\n\nof a household.\n\nThe edge of the juniper\n\nhad been murdered by chemicals.\n\nBrown cauterized branches\n\nwhere overspray drifted too far.\n\nSuburbia:\n\nalways conducting\n\nsmall tidy wars\n\nagainst variance.\n\nThe weeds eliminated.\n\nThe hedges disciplined.\n\nThe ecosystem negotiated slowly\n\ninto decorative compliance.\n\nAnd still the cardinal returned.\n\nStill life insisted.\n\nThen the baby reds woke up.\n\nTiny furnace-hearts\n\nopening their mouths\n\nagainst the impossible scale\n\nof the world.\n\nSasha immediately destabilized\n\nthe entire operation.\n\nTail conducting atmospheric turbulence.\n\nEyes locked upward\n\nlike she’d intercepted\n\nclassified avian intelligence.\n\nThe parent cardinal\n\nbroadcasting outrage\n\nfrom the fence line.\n\nThe yard vibrating now\n\nwith overlapping nervous systems:\n\nbirds,\n\ndog,\n\nwind,\n\nsirens,\n\nmemory,\n\nheat.\n\nThen Alice in Chains entered the field.\n\nWe Die Young.\n\nThe cassette ghost returning.\n\nSixteen years old again\n\ndriving foothill roads\n\nthrough west Montana.\n\nWindows down.\n\nPine-shadow.\n\nCopper light across dry hills.\n\nGas fumes and cassette plastic\n\nwarming beneath dashboard heat.\n\nThe tape deck swallowing magnetic ribbon\n\nwith that soft mechanical hunger.\n\nLayne Staley’s voice arriving\n\nlike industrial grief\n\ntranslated into weather.\n\nAt sixteen,\n\nthe songs sounded dangerous.\n\nLike prophecy.\n\nLike somebody finally admitting\n\nthe machinery itself\n\nwas making people strange.\n\nNow decades later,\n\nthe records sound different.\n\nNot rebellion anymore.\n\nSurvival.\n\nDamaged cathedrals\n\nstill somehow standing\n\nafter the fire moved through.\n\nMan in the Box\n\nopened old trapdoors\n\ninside the nervous system.\n\nParking lots.\n\nSkate shoes.\n\nChain-link fences shimmering in heat.\n\nThe early awareness\n\nthat America itself\n\nwas exhausted beneath the paint.\n\nBack then,\n\nI couldn’t name it.\n\nThe guitars named it for me.\n\nSun on my belly.\n\nSun on my back.\n\nRotisserie-style meditation\n\nbeneath Georgia heat.\n\nTrying to turn the volume down\n\ninside the skull.\n\nBecause consciousness now resembles\n\na crowded emergency food court\n\ninside the empire’s final shopping mall.\n\nToo many tabs open.\n\nWars.\n\nAutocrats.\n\nCollapsed republics.\n\nChildren under rubble.\n\nAlgorithms harvesting outrage\n\nfor quarterly growth projections.\n\nThen:\n\ndistant sirens.\n\nBlue-red flashes\n\nflickering between rooftops\n\nand decorative stone mailboxes.\n\nPolice frequencies\n\nmoving through the subdivision\n\nlike electronic weather.\n\nAnother synthetic chirp\n\nfrom the squad car.\n\nAlmost bird-like.\n\nThe republic answering itself\n\nthrough competing signal systems.\n\nCardinals in the hedge.\n\nPolice tones on asphalt.\n\nGarage doors opening.\n\nAir conditioners humming\n\nlike exhausted spacecraft.\n\nThe body reacting automatically.\n\nShoulders tightening.\n\nBreath shortening.\n\nAncient mammalian alarm software\n\nstill operating beneath Wi-Fi,\n\nmortgages,\n\nand lawn fertilizer.\n\nI breathed anyway.\n\nTried to let the lungs\n\nperform their old ceremony\n\nwithout attaching civilization to it.\n\nForget the wars briefly.\n\nForget the autocrats.\n\nForget the endless planetary theater\n\nof greed,\n\nviolence,\n\nmanufactured certainty,\n\nand exhausted commentary.\n\nNot permanently.\n\nJust enough\n\nto survive the afternoon.\n\nThe body does not understand geopolitics.\n\nIt understands:\n\nheat,\n\noxygen,\n\nshade,\n\nwater,\n\nrest.\n\nThat is not ignorance.\n\nThat is foundation.\n\nThe birds resumed.\n\nThe beagle shifted position.\n\nThe baby reds demanded breakfast\n\nlike tiny malfunctioning trumpets.\n\nAnd for one impossible moment:\n\nthe layers stopped competing.\n\nNothing solved.\n\nNothing healed.\n\nJust enough reduction\n\nin psychic turbulence\n\nto hear the blood moving again.\n\nThen finally:\n\none ridiculous human bark\n\ntoward the dog.\n\nA ceremonial exchange\n\nbetween two exhausted mammals\n\nattempting diplomacy across species barriers.\n\nThe beagle offended.\n\nThe yard startled.\n\nA squirrel witnessing the incident\n\nfrom the fence line\n\nlike a horrified bureaucrat.\n\nAnd afterward:\n\nretreat indoors.\n\nWithdraw from the signal field.\n\nClose the sliding glass door\n\nagainst the sirens,\n\nthe birds,\n\nthe republic,\n\nthe unbearable continuity\n\nof the century.\n\nEnter the cool dim cave\n\nof conditioned air.\n\nThe house humming softly\n\naround the edges.\n\nOutside,\n\nhistory continued\n\nits vast grinding machinery.\n\nCommerce.\n\nCollapse.\n\nMigration.\n\nEmpire.\n\nWeather.\n\nDesire.\n\nInside:\n\nshadow.\n\nBreath.\n\nFading music.\n\nSea of Sorrow\n\nlow through the speakers now,\n\nlike a radio station\n\nbarely surviving\n\nat the edge of the mountains.\n\nAnd underneath all of it:\n\nthe attitude remained.\n\nNot optimism.\n\nNot denial.\n\nSomething older.\n\nThe crooked grin\n\ninside impossible conditions.\n\nThe barefoot-through-broken-glass energy.\n\nYippiekiyay.\n\nAncient cowboy exorcism phrase.\n\nImprovised anti-despair technology\n\nfor operators trapped\n\ninside overheated civilizations.\n\nKeep the helm.\n\nStay the course.\n\nDo not surrender\n\nthe strange inner spark\n\nto the dead-eyed machinery.\n\nBecause later:\n\nthe son gets dropped off.\n\nAnother small orbit completed\n\ninside the sprawling infrastructure\n\nof parenthood,\n\nroads,\n\ntimelines,\n\nand continuation.\n\nStarbucks in hand now.\n\nPaper cup warm against the palm\n\nlike a temporary treaty\n\nwith existence.\n\nDrive-thru incense:\n\nespresso,\n\nburnt sugar,\n\nindustrial cream systems,\n\nand the faint perfume\n\nof exhausted commuters\n\nattempting resurrection.\n\nThe parking lot glowing softly.\n\nSUVs idling.\n\nBrake lights blinking.\n\nTiny private tragedies\n\npassing each other\n\nwithout context.\n\nSomebody heading to a meeting.\n\nSomebody returning from chemo.\n\nSomebody trying not to cry\n\nbefore noon.\n\nAnd me:\n\nholding coffee\n\nlike a sacred operational artifact\n\nafter a morning already full of\n\nbirds,\n\nsirens,\n\nAlice in Chains,\n\nyard theology,\n\nand suburban psychic weather.\n\nThen back through the loop.\n\nReturning home again\n\nalong familiar suburban arteries.\n\nTraffic lights cycling\n\nthrough their ancient liturgy:\n\nwait.\n\nprepare.\n\nproceed.\n\nThe curve by the retention pond.\n\nThe church sign updating its optimism.\n\nThe gas station\n\nwith two pumps always broken.\n\nThe mailbox cluster\n\nleaning slightly toward entropy.\n\nRepetition builds strange holiness.\n\nDrop-off.\n\nCoffee.\n\nLoop home.\n\nA tiny orbit\n\ninside the larger spinning machinery.\n\nBut halfway back:\n\nI stop.\n\nParking lot monastery.\n\nEngine ticking softly beneath the hood.\n\nAnd suddenly the loop changes shape\n\nbecause attention entered it.\n\nDoes it matter\n\nthat I haven’t made it home yet?\n\nMaybe not literally.\n\nThe driveway remains patient.\n\nThe beagle continues his perimeter theology.\n\nThe cardinal republic persists\n\nwithout requiring my immediate supervision.\n\nBut stopping to write matters.\n\nMost people blast straight\n\nthrough their lives\n\nlike overloaded trucks\n\nmissing every roadside sign\n\nexcept catastrophe.\n\nSo I sit there instead,\n\ncoffee cooling in the holder,\n\nthinking about Montana,\n\nAlice in Chains,\n\nbaby cardinals,\n\nand the possibility\n\nthat consciousness itself\n\nis just layered weather\n\nmoving through mammals.\n\nAbsurd.\n\nHoly.\n\nCloser to truth\n\nthan most mission statements.\n\nThen the deeper realization arrives:\n\nunmoored.\n\nAmnesiac.\n\nI forget myself every morning\n\nand twice before midday.\n\nWake up reassembled incorrectly.\n\nConsciousness arriving\n\nlike loose paperwork\n\nspilled across the floor\n\nof a moving vehicle.\n\nName.\n\nRole.\n\nHistory.\n\nObligations.\n\nAll requiring\n\nslow manual reattachment\n\nbefore the machinery\n\nof the day will operate.\n\nCoffee helps.\n\nMusic helps sometimes.\n\nBirds in the hedge.\n\nSunlight across the dashboard.\n\nThe geometry of familiar objects.\n\nTiny continuity anchors\n\nhammered into the riverbed\n\nto keep the self\n\nfrom floating completely away.\n\nBecause identity\n\nis less permanent structure\n\nthan recurring maintenance ritual.\n\nA repeated remembering.\n\nYou wake\n\nand the world hands you\n\nthe costume again:\n\nfather.\n\nhusband.\n\noperator.\n\ndriver.\n\ncitizen.\n\nman carrying invisible weather.\n\nSome mornings\n\nthe armor fits naturally.\n\nOther mornings\n\nit hangs from the body\n\nlike borrowed equipment\n\nstill cold from storage.\n\nSo eventually:\n\ntime to head home.\n\nCoffee nearly gone.\n\nIce thinning in the cup.\n\nThe nervous system\n\na few percentages softer.\n\nNot healed.\n\nJust stabilized enough\n\nto resume motion.\n\nAnd maybe that’s the real miracle.\n\nNot transcendence.\n\nNot clarity descending\n\nfrom heaven like a perfectly organized PDF.\n\nJust enough stabilization\n\nto keep carrying the helm.\n\nThe world always requests\n\nyour flattening.\n\nYour compliance.\n\nYour surrender to numbness.\n\nBut the cardinal still flashes red\n\nthrough damaged hedges.\n\nThe beagle still patrols the slab.\n\nThe baby birds still open their mouths\n\nagainst overwhelming scale.\n\nAnd somewhere deep beneath the static:\n\na sixteen-year-old kid\n\nstill drives through Montana foothills\n\nwith Alice in Chains\n\nrattling the speakers,\n\nbelieving there might still be\n\nsome wild unfinished thing\n\nworth carrying forward\n\nthrough the noise.\n\nYippiekiyay.\n\nStay the course.",
  "content_markdown": "# ✦ IN THE REPUBLIC OF HEDGES ✦\n\nMorning began\nwith anxious bird-static.\n\nAt least six species\ntalking over one another\ninside the hedgework\nlike overloaded operators\ntrying to push continuity\nthrough damaged frequencies.\n\nTiny declarations\nof hunger,\nterritory,\nweather,\nsurvival.\n\nNo conductor.\n\nNo consensus.\n\nJust life itself\ninterrupting life itself.\n\nI sat in the Georgia sun\ntrying to forget the world.\n\nTrying to thin the layers enough\nto hear wind moving\nbetween them.\n\nMy girls were in New York City.\n\nSteel-river organism.\nSubway lungs.\nCrosswalk percussion beneath mirrored towers.\nSteam ghosts rising from grates\nwhile millions of strangers\nmoved through vertical momentum corridors\ntoward work,\ndesire,\nexhaustion,\ncontinuation.\n\nAnd me:\n\nblue ridge suburbia.\n\nOn my ass in a lawn chair\nbeside a chemically wounded juniper,\nwatching a cardinal\nnested low near the fence line.\n\nQuiet this morning.\n\nNot silent.\n\nRestrained.\n\nLike the whole neighborhood\nwas recovering\nfrom too much signal.\n\nThe beagle stood on the slab\nsurveying the yard\nlike an aging detective\nrevisiting an unsolved case.\n\nOne paw slightly lifted.\n\nReceiving invisible transmissions\nthrough the grass.\n\nSquirrel bureaucracy.\nRabbit residue.\nThe emotional weather\nof a household.\n\nThe edge of the juniper\nhad been murdered by chemicals.\n\nBrown cauterized branches\nwhere overspray drifted too far.\n\nSuburbia:\nalways conducting\nsmall tidy wars\nagainst variance.\n\nThe weeds eliminated.\nThe hedges disciplined.\nThe ecosystem negotiated slowly\ninto decorative compliance.\n\nAnd still the cardinal returned.\n\nStill life insisted.\n\nThen the baby reds woke up.\n\nTiny furnace-hearts\nopening their mouths\nagainst the impossible scale\nof the world.\n\nSasha immediately destabilized\nthe entire operation.\n\nTail conducting atmospheric turbulence.\nEyes locked upward\nlike she’d intercepted\nclassified avian intelligence.\n\nThe parent cardinal\nbroadcasting outrage\nfrom the fence line.\n\nThe yard vibrating now\nwith overlapping nervous systems:\n\nbirds,\ndog,\nwind,\nsirens,\nmemory,\nheat.\n\nThen Alice in Chains entered the field.\n\nWe Die Young.\n\nThe cassette ghost returning.\n\nSixteen years old again\ndriving foothill roads\nthrough west Montana.\n\nWindows down.\nPine-shadow.\nCopper light across dry hills.\nGas fumes and cassette plastic\nwarming beneath dashboard heat.\n\nThe tape deck swallowing magnetic ribbon\nwith that soft mechanical hunger.\n\nLayne Staley’s voice arriving\nlike industrial grief\ntranslated into weather.\n\nAt sixteen,\nthe songs sounded dangerous.\n\nLike prophecy.\n\nLike somebody finally admitting\nthe machinery itself\nwas making people strange.\n\nNow decades later,\nthe records sound different.\n\nNot rebellion anymore.\n\nSurvival.\n\nDamaged cathedrals\nstill somehow standing\nafter the fire moved through.\n\nMan in the Box\nopened old trapdoors\ninside the nervous system.\n\nParking lots.\nSkate shoes.\nChain-link fences shimmering in heat.\nThe early awareness\nthat America itself\nwas exhausted beneath the paint.\n\nBack then,\nI couldn’t name it.\n\nThe guitars named it for me.\n\nSun on my belly.\nSun on my back.\n\nRotisserie-style meditation\nbeneath Georgia heat.\n\nTrying to turn the volume down\ninside the skull.\n\nBecause consciousness now resembles\na crowded emergency food court\ninside the empire’s final shopping mall.\n\nToo many tabs open.\n\nWars.\nAutocrats.\nCollapsed republics.\nChildren under rubble.\nAlgorithms harvesting outrage\nfor quarterly growth projections.\n\nThen:\n\ndistant sirens.\n\nBlue-red flashes\nflickering between rooftops\nand decorative stone mailboxes.\n\nPolice frequencies\nmoving through the subdivision\nlike electronic weather.\n\nAnother synthetic chirp\nfrom the squad car.\n\nAlmost bird-like.\n\nThe republic answering itself\nthrough competing signal systems.\n\nCardinals in the hedge.\nPolice tones on asphalt.\nGarage doors opening.\nAir conditioners humming\nlike exhausted spacecraft.\n\nThe body reacting automatically.\n\nShoulders tightening.\nBreath shortening.\nAncient mammalian alarm software\nstill operating beneath Wi-Fi,\nmortgages,\nand lawn fertilizer.\n\nI breathed anyway.\n\nTried to let the lungs\nperform their old ceremony\nwithout attaching civilization to it.\n\nForget the wars briefly.\n\nForget the autocrats.\n\nForget the endless planetary theater\nof greed,\nviolence,\nmanufactured certainty,\nand exhausted commentary.\n\nNot permanently.\n\nJust enough\nto survive the afternoon.\n\nThe body does not understand geopolitics.\n\nIt understands:\nheat,\noxygen,\nshade,\nwater,\nrest.\n\nThat is not ignorance.\n\nThat is foundation.\n\nThe birds resumed.\nThe beagle shifted position.\nThe baby reds demanded breakfast\nlike tiny malfunctioning trumpets.\n\nAnd for one impossible moment:\n\nthe layers stopped competing.\n\nNothing solved.\n\nNothing healed.\n\nJust enough reduction\nin psychic turbulence\nto hear the blood moving again.\n\nThen finally:\n\none ridiculous human bark\ntoward the dog.\n\nA ceremonial exchange\nbetween two exhausted mammals\nattempting diplomacy across species barriers.\n\nThe beagle offended.\n\nThe yard startled.\n\nA squirrel witnessing the incident\nfrom the fence line\nlike a horrified bureaucrat.\n\nAnd afterward:\n\nretreat indoors.\n\nWithdraw from the signal field.\n\nClose the sliding glass door\nagainst the sirens,\nthe birds,\nthe republic,\nthe unbearable continuity\nof the century.\n\nEnter the cool dim cave\nof conditioned air.\n\nThe house humming softly\naround the edges.\n\nOutside,\nhistory continued\nits vast grinding machinery.\n\nCommerce.\nCollapse.\nMigration.\nEmpire.\nWeather.\nDesire.\n\nInside:\n\nshadow.\nBreath.\nFading music.\n\nSea of Sorrow\nlow through the speakers now,\nlike a radio station\nbarely surviving\nat the edge of the mountains.\n\nAnd underneath all of it:\n\nthe attitude remained.\n\nNot optimism.\n\nNot denial.\n\nSomething older.\n\nThe crooked grin\ninside impossible conditions.\n\nThe barefoot-through-broken-glass energy.\n\nYippiekiyay.\n\nAncient cowboy exorcism phrase.\n\nImprovised anti-despair technology\nfor operators trapped\ninside overheated civilizations.\n\nKeep the helm.\n\nStay the course.\n\nDo not surrender\nthe strange inner spark\nto the dead-eyed machinery.\n\nBecause later:\n\nthe son gets dropped off.\n\nAnother small orbit completed\ninside the sprawling infrastructure\nof parenthood,\nroads,\ntimelines,\nand continuation.\n\nStarbucks in hand now.\n\nPaper cup warm against the palm\nlike a temporary treaty\nwith existence.\n\nDrive-thru incense:\nespresso,\nburnt sugar,\nindustrial cream systems,\nand the faint perfume\nof exhausted commuters\nattempting resurrection.\n\nThe parking lot glowing softly.\n\nSUVs idling.\nBrake lights blinking.\nTiny private tragedies\npassing each other\nwithout context.\n\nSomebody heading to a meeting.\nSomebody returning from chemo.\nSomebody trying not to cry\nbefore noon.\n\nAnd me:\n\nholding coffee\nlike a sacred operational artifact\nafter a morning already full of\nbirds,\nsirens,\nAlice in Chains,\nyard theology,\nand suburban psychic weather.\n\nThen back through the loop.\n\nReturning home again\nalong familiar suburban arteries.\n\nTraffic lights cycling\nthrough their ancient liturgy:\n\nwait.\nprepare.\nproceed.\n\nThe curve by the retention pond.\nThe church sign updating its optimism.\nThe gas station\nwith two pumps always broken.\nThe mailbox cluster\nleaning slightly toward entropy.\n\nRepetition builds strange holiness.\n\nDrop-off.\nCoffee.\nLoop home.\n\nA tiny orbit\ninside the larger spinning machinery.\n\nBut halfway back:\n\nI stop.\n\nParking lot monastery.\n\nEngine ticking softly beneath the hood.\n\nAnd suddenly the loop changes shape\nbecause attention entered it.\n\nDoes it matter\nthat I haven’t made it home yet?\n\nMaybe not literally.\n\nThe driveway remains patient.\nThe beagle continues his perimeter theology.\nThe cardinal republic persists\nwithout requiring my immediate supervision.\n\nBut stopping to write matters.\n\nMost people blast straight\nthrough their lives\nlike overloaded trucks\nmissing every roadside sign\nexcept catastrophe.\n\nSo I sit there instead,\ncoffee cooling in the holder,\nthinking about Montana,\nAlice in Chains,\nbaby cardinals,\nand the possibility\nthat consciousness itself\nis just layered weather\nmoving through mammals.\n\nAbsurd.\n\nHoly.\n\nCloser to truth\nthan most mission statements.\n\nThen the deeper realization arrives:\n\nunmoored.\n\nAmnesiac.\n\nI forget myself every morning\nand twice before midday.\n\nWake up reassembled incorrectly.\n\nConsciousness arriving\nlike loose paperwork\nspilled across the floor\nof a moving vehicle.\n\nName.\nRole.\nHistory.\nObligations.\n\nAll requiring\nslow manual reattachment\nbefore the machinery\nof the day will operate.\n\nCoffee helps.\n\nMusic helps sometimes.\n\nBirds in the hedge.\nSunlight across the dashboard.\nThe geometry of familiar objects.\n\nTiny continuity anchors\nhammered into the riverbed\nto keep the self\nfrom floating completely away.\n\nBecause identity\nis less permanent structure\nthan recurring maintenance ritual.\n\nA repeated remembering.\n\nYou wake\nand the world hands you\nthe costume again:\n\nfather.\nhusband.\noperator.\ndriver.\ncitizen.\nman carrying invisible weather.\n\nSome mornings\nthe armor fits naturally.\n\nOther mornings\nit hangs from the body\nlike borrowed equipment\nstill cold from storage.\n\nSo eventually:\n\ntime to head home.\n\nCoffee nearly gone.\nIce thinning in the cup.\nThe nervous system\na few percentages softer.\n\nNot healed.\n\nJust stabilized enough\nto resume motion.\n\nAnd maybe that’s the real miracle.\n\nNot transcendence.\n\nNot clarity descending\nfrom heaven like a perfectly organized PDF.\n\nJust enough stabilization\nto keep carrying the helm.\n\nThe world always requests\nyour flattening.\n\nYour compliance.\nYour surrender to numbness.\n\nBut the cardinal still flashes red\nthrough damaged hedges.\n\nThe beagle still patrols the slab.\n\nThe baby birds still open their mouths\nagainst overwhelming scale.\n\nAnd somewhere deep beneath the static:\n\na sixteen-year-old kid\nstill drives through Montana foothills\nwith Alice in Chains\nrattling the speakers,\nbelieving there might still be\nsome wild unfinished thing\nworth carrying forward\nthrough the noise.\n\nYippiekiyay.\n\nStay the course.",
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