Ode to the Front End: Home Depot
By Charles Ford
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Everyone living in America recognizes Home Depot. They are a staple. It is a poem containing 2,500 quatrains that contain life as a part time cashier in a small Home Depot store. It is not always easy reading but it has appeal and value for anyone willing to read it.
What are the takeaways? For me the greatest takeaway is humility. The people portrayed in thsi writing are far superior to me. I am not worthy to be the proverbial gum on their shoe. Their trust and friendship provided me is more valuable than gold from Ophir. They live very difficult lives in an extraordinary manner. They never had a level playing filed. they must climb Mt Everest each day.
There is humor, pathos and at times Upton Sinclair type muckraking all mixed into the writing. The work shows the good and the bad of life, work and in some ways America today.
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Ode to the Front End - Charles Ford
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Ode to the Front End: Home Depot Volume II
Published by Gatekeeper Press
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Copyright © 2023 by Charles Ford
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2022951239
ISBN (paperback): 9781662936043
eISBN: 9781662936050
To Jesus Christ my Lord and Savior who has entrusted me as a Steward over this project, a most unlikely servant.
To Susan Marguerite Gordon: I will always love you and your twin brother. I hope you can forgive me for not having courage then to marry you at Wake Forest.
To Natalie: For choosing me and bringing a great light into my life after so much darkness and despair.
Quota pars operis tanti nobis committitur
Velikovsky
Foreword
I am not the author but steward of what is contained in this book. Never written a line of poetry in my life and many readers have far better skill sets for this. The author is God who has used me as a practicing Christian to be His steward over this project.
I am a kingdom dweller. God brought me in one night by literally pulling my leg. He grabbed my congenitally short leg and pushed it out to the same length of my other leg. I have never recovered.
Anyone reading this has a choice and the freewill to make it. You can receive Jesus as Lord in your heart and believe that the Father raised Him from the dead. He died to create this inheritance for you. Name it and claim it. That is your right paid for by the sacrifice and death of God incarnate to provide you this inheritance.
The journey begins when I retired from a consultancy in risk management and wanted something to do that involved people contact. I joined the Home Depot as a front-end cashier in late January of 2019.
I discovered a collection of people living very difficult lives in an extraordinary manner that greatly humbled me. They are far better human beings than I can ever be as I quickly discovered. Earning their trust and business friendship means more to me than anything ever in my half century insurance career. This is a blessing beyond measure more valuable than any amount of gold or silver.
About six months ago returning home from work a little ditty entered my mind set from a short poem written by the defenders of Bataan. It was titled Battling Bastards of Bataan written by Frank Hewlett bureau chief at Manila when Japan attacked. He is credited with the following short poem. …We are the battling bastards of Bataan No aunts, no uncles, no nephews, no nieces. No pills, no planes, no artillery pieces and nobody gives a damn.
I used the last piece as a tag line that appears throughout each stanza and quatrain. Initially the poem was to have been a page or two and then be shared with employees for a good laugh. Little did I know the Lord had other plans that turned this project into the work that follows. Doing the writing used every ounce of my limited intellectual and creative ability. At times I was almost driven to keep going when exhaustion had overcome effort. When stopping late at night and early morning I collapsed in bed unable to even move.
The work has curb appeal. Home Depot is a household name throughout the United States. It reflects the good and bad and dark and light in America. Anyone that comes across this title will have their curiosity piqued.
The book is unique. A 2,500 plus quatrain poem. Are you serious? The Lord revealed to me one night why this format. He asked me to pick a quatrain and read it. I did. He then asked could I write a narrative expanding it. I said yes. For some could I write a chapter or even a book and I said yes. He then said exactly. That writing encompassing all the quatrains would exceed 10,000 pages. Why he chose me to be His conduit for this project I will never know and trust me I resisted Him just as much as Moses back in the day.
Who is the audience? Everyone. No matter who you are or where you are or even what you are there is a lot in this work for you. Warning, it is not always easy reading. The poem runs from humor of various types to specification applications of humans struggling to callous corporate indifference and most anything in between. A preacher can find many opportunities to make a sermon. A reader looking for a laugh will be well served. An investment banker will find some of the quatrains a major source of disbelief if not heart burn. Just look at the cover.
The appendix provides some real-world examples of corporate disdain for employees and anything else not found on a spread sheet or profit and loss statement. The big box store crushes human spirit into fear and loathing. Control is maintained through systemic disparagement, denial, and dismissiveness. Depot is simply a prime example. Will there be a volume 2? No beginning and no end indicate that this will be the case but that is up to Him. I am His steward and nothing more.
Ode to the Front End II
This Lemming from sea’s edge returned
Looking for more to learn in this term
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
This Lemming still does not give a Damn.
Chris down in Lumber helping close the door
Shared pictures of Jetta interior really soar
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Twenty year old car looks new Damn.
Adam appeared working to sun up
Just part of receiving cut ups
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Adam still missed in Front End Damn.
Depot pigs at trough eating slop
Employees the slop customers mop
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Mops don’t give a Damn.
Associates assigned to rows inside
No one available for outside
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Can’t do both at once Damn.
Use numbers on employee allocation
Reduce numbers ignore dislocation
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Then wonder why no service Damn.
Nick victimized by numbers management
Came to attention no help from sergeant
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Nick alone and forlorn Damn.
Operations and process not numbers on spreadsheet
Ignored disheveled bedeviled high level escheat
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Numbers don’t give a Damn.
Numbers feed income statement short run
Drain balance sheet completely long run
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Balance sheet drained no fun Damn.
Ants gather locusts consume
Depot Management discovery ruin
No Mamma No Pappa No uncle Sam
Management plagues doom Damn.
Nick declines help for work and roles
Painful to watch Dead Sea scroll
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Can’t help won’t Damn.
Skyler joyful in Middle Saturday night
Presence made entire store more bright
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Skyler great to be around Damn.
Nick attitude and disdain unpleasant for all
Almost desires to take big fall
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Nick in pain Damn.
Suppress truth in unrighteous numbers of Mammon
Futile in speculations impurity supreme Backgammon
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Backgammon management Damn.
Bewitched deceived tossed to and fro isms evil
Management lost rudderless nowhere upheaval
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Management in travail Damn.
Peer pressure and deception join clever persuasion
Who what where when why dark awful procession
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
This procession doomed Damn.
Enlightened in own minds know best
Spells nothing but mess for rest
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Hubris does not give a Damn.
Wisdom and knowledge not available at Depot collage
Treasures hidden like lamp smothered in montage
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Lamp of truth hidden Damn.
Store 0884 made for employee playpen
Management wonders why use stipends
No Mamma No Pappa No uncle Sam
Adults in playpens don’t give a Damn.
If store adult playpen when not storage bin
Requiring diapers on face really no sin
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Incontinent don’t give a Damn.
Management offended when employees bark
Stupidity done unsmart and that no lark
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Unsmart does not give a Damn.
What to do when four deep endless bolts screws nuts
Determine value charge obliquely crazy smuts
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
People waiting in line Damn.
Never fails when customers come as cluster
First in line has five gift cards muster
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
This muster does not give a Damn.
Hate to see much less say when line assembled
Customer determines multiple transactions jingle
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Another endless process delay Damn.
When customers arrive simultaneously
Learn to move fast externally
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Pick up your game Damn.
Employees ignoring 401 K offer
Probably why many remain pauper
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Won’t help themselves Damn.
Battle of Wasps continues in Garden ascendant
Bug spray and bites frequently resplendent
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Can’t find the hive ouch Damn.
Charlie walked by and agreed to say hi
Ten minutes before end grinned said bye
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Charlie happy to say bye Damn.
Steve in Paint acting like saint
Customers listen to sermons attaint
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Paint covered like the morning dew Damn.
Lying pens from home office scribes
Make truth lies and lies truth subscribe
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Lying pens don’t give a Damn.
Mirrors and bath tubs proper expunctions
At Depot proclaim superiority of function
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Management looking in mirror Damn.
Loss for employees management bane
Why company will go down drain
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Take from employees Damn.
Tongues bent like bows for arrows sent
Employees target recent malcontents
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Malcontents don’t give a Damn.
Christy said trust no one ever
Supplanters deceivers clever
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Never trust anyone Damn.
Deceive mock disparage deceit falsehoods
Does not make friendly neighborhood
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Orange life revealed Damn.
Depot a future house of ruins
No one passes through trouble brewing
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Ruins do not give a Damn.
Wormwood poisons water in sink
Home Depot does well to think
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Wormwood does not give a Damn.
Mourning and wailing in board room stable
Better to have been Cain or Abel
No Mamma No Pappa No uncle Sam
Stables for horses Damn.
Plundered ruined confounded shamed
Depot no longer will have any fame
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Plundered do not give a Damn.
Boast in wisdom skills strength power
Wealthy riches soon in ditches cower
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Power does not give a Damn.
Practice kindness humility righteousness
Delight in profit earned justice graciousness
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
How to build balance sheet Damn.
Flame and fire feeds Depot orange glow
Management musings continue big show
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
This Orange glow does not give a Damn.
If Depot becomes mortally sick
Not one Employee gives a lick
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
The licked don’t give a Damn.
Riches gleaned by unjust means
Even fools know what this brings
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Fools are fools Damn.
Depot forsaken lost like writing on ground
No more will anyone care to make a sound
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Writing erased is lost Damn.
Ears tingle foretell approaching jingle
Accounting magic useless shingle
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Tingled ears don’t give a Damn.
High places and board assemble offerings
Better to prepare for future slaughtering
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Burnt offerings don’t give a Damn.
Plans and counsel of Depot clan voided
No vision just perish like Freud did
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Every failed company had a plan Damn.
Astonishment horror everyone hissing
Home Depot registered missing
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Astonishment and hissing Damn.
A billion ones stacked equal one RCA building
Depot almost one thousand stacked not milding
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
RCA does not give a Damn.
House of cards leveraged to hilt
Wind may blow over resulting stilt
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Just cards after all Damn.
Potter’s vessel broken not mended
Depot operations far from splendid
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Not mended much less splendid Damn.
Lehman Brothers torn to pieces Pashur
Depot taffy stretched too far cashier
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Pashur does not give a Damn.
Labor riches profit delivered to another
Depot Associates under weather oh brother
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Oh brother does not give a Damn.
Depot words reproach insult deride
Difficult for employees to survive
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
The derided don’t give a Damn.
Rumor mongering whispering defaming
Employees need better explaining
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Scuttlebutt at Depot toxic Damn.
Accountability for fruit of doings
Seed eaten trouble brewing
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
No accountability Damn.
Store managers very self indulgent
Employees find horribly repellant
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Vanity mirrors and bathwater Damn.
Covetousness profit indulgence oppression
Depot Management obsession for suppression
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Repressed obsessed who gives a Damn.
Wind of adversity blows down diversity
Confounded dismayed crushed perversity
No Mamma No Pappa No uncle Sam
Perversed and adversed do not give a Damn.
Management folly leads to err astray
Employees and customers pay
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Err and astray who gives a Damn.
Straw to wheat uncommon nourishment
Management cure pure discouragement
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Straw does not nourish Damn.
Associates controversy Depot employer
Stop acting like depth charging destroyer
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Employer destroyer and who gives a Damn.
Work at first light not bright
Depot believes customers in sight
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
First light and don’t give a Damn.
Tell customers register closed suppose
Watch them light up when expose
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Reverse course and they say thanks Damn.
Explain to some that cart too full to drum
Make exception and give them fun relieves glum
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Appreciate service more then Damn.
Great fun to involve them in checkout
Makes them happy and acting out
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Customer happy wants to return Damn.
Some look at checkout as show and tell
Hard to know when ringing bell
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Show and tell do give a Damn.
Returned from Garden to cold store
King Arthur awaited Bard inside door
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Just keep moving Damn.
Explain items not allowed at this register
Always believe then laugh messenger
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Laughing customers happy Damn.
Look in eye smile and converse
Customers more enjoy traverse
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Most want some fun Damn.
Yo Yo in Puerto Rico visiting family
Earthquakes and hurricanes Hispania
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Stay safe Yo Yo Damn.
Omega and Stephanie still disabled
Cancer and shoulder still unable
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Need these two back Damn.
New employee mutters and groans a bit
Sounds like Store Manager in Training SMIT
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
SMIT does not give a Damn.
Off week in new hours only two
Several expires lose and blue
No Mamma No Pappa No uncle Sam
More code blues Damn.
Defibrillator deployed on floor
Not trusting anyone abhor
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Think space heaters in water Damn.
Endless rain and lightning all Summer long
Very hard to work through ding dong
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Ding dong and lightning Damn.
Great to have the young’uns engage old boar
Keeps work moving far greater roar
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Old boar still roars Damn.
AMA confused unable to determine baby gender
Sounds like Home Depot training mind benders
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Blind do not see Damn.
Hurricanes and storms coming Decatur
Increase sales from event calculator
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
And make those numbers Damn.
Lumber prices falling faster than souffle cold air
Depot breathing less air dancing like Fred Astaire
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Less traffic and inflated prices Damn.
Returning to store after four off in a row
Depot management raring to go
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Driver starts Bard’s engine Damn.
Comme se comme ca maintain stability
Never promote based on merited ability
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Never changes and who gives a Damn.
Dracula required wooden stake through heart
Depot sells wood and hammer how smart
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Bela Lugosi does not give a Damn.
Depot a Bear negotiated food employee needing coat
Employee received coat Depot food all she wrote
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Bear always wins and does not give a Damn.
Arrived at Depot at wrong time of day for extended stay
Skyler and Bo Peep nothing to say except go away
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Stay there eight hours straight no way Damn.
Down goes Frazier Down goes Frazier Cosell did scream
Lowes earnings and sales Home Depot let off steam
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Another six billion sales lost Depot Damn.
Electric cart wailing in parking lot
No employee connects to megawatt
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Just bring it in who gives a Damn.
Three buggies blocking aisle
Employees walk around wearing argyle
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Don’t touch abandoned buggy Damn.
Mary in Flooring veteran exploring
Customers find more than adoring
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Mary in Flooring adored Damn.
Christy took leave to Friday eve
Reverting to practices no longer believe
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Burn that time off and don’t give a Damn.
Lisa the trucker cashier packed her bag
Decided no more attachment to Depot rag
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Let them truckers roll ten four Damn.
Grabbed Wasco and asked for help
Buggy blown tire screeched yelp
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
This time really fix the wheel Damn.
Depot flummoxed at Lowes’s success
Six percent less customers big stress
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Dressed for success Damn.
Joey and Rocky covering lumber tonight
Humor helped them make dark sky bright
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Rocky and pal Joey Damn.
Covering on hand looks like claw
Asked if found a bit too raw McCaw
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
The Human Claw Damn.
Noah made employee of the month (EOM) great stunt
Really helps employees working strong popular front
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
EOA like Special Olympics Damn.
Skylar set sail at six stardust in eye
Store grew darker when said goodbye
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Lights grow dim when her smile leaves Damn.
Jesse to PRO for Bard break
Stayed in chair causing a stomach ache
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Yes Jesse you are in the poem Damn.
HR Squared seen in store running forklift
Better make sure does not become spendthrift
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
A long way from HR Damn.
Bean counter running store this eve with HR Squared
Showtime for visibility in main square unimpaired
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Showboats don’t give a Damn.
Customer waiting on refrigerator called three people
Bean counter finally found Erica repeater
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Erica brought refrigerator up alone Damn.
Hit one hundred black clouds rolled in thundered
Keeping store wide open nearly a blunder
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
You can hear the sirens wail Damn.
Jesse saw Bard reflex toward locker room
Explained there to go in event of big boom
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Tornadoes don’t give a Damn.
Rebooted register as Bo Peep arrived to close
Thought she might punch in nose
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Give her boxing gloves Damn.
Scheduled eight days in a row world ended
Bo Peep tears from fatigue blended
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Try twenty three in a row then cry Damn.
Olive opened door after store closed
Bard ready to leave superimposed
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Olive spot on Damn.
She and Kimme not in store days coming
If seen prepare for second coming
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Doppelgangers don’t give a Damn.
Lisa thin as a rail looking pale
Still at work through cancer travail
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Lisa a battler Damn.
Chasmyn encompassing a large box
Said hi and watched move the rock
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Chasmyn still Wonder Woman Damn.
Bard’s daughter red lined giving birth
Returned to life dramatically no mirth
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Prodigals don’t give a Damn.
Jesse hair now ice blue like frozen pops
Ate so many now becoming triceratops
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Triceratops extinct Damn.
Bard resetting register at close
Bo Peep Threatened shepherd’s staff in nose
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Bo Peep and staff scary Damn.
Steve from Paint cameo in PRO
Unable to let Afghan waste go
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Just another loser war ended Damn.
Sylvia stayed an hour over for customer order
Bragged on her to him high clover
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Sylvia can give a Damn.
Purchase Order arrived with Rocky did not scan
System died and foiled brilliant service plan
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Customer named Natasha Damn.
New buddy for Joey in Lumber
Ready to work create thunder
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Thunder in Lumber Damn.
Raced Olive to front door to leave
She with broken ankle reprieve
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
She almost won Damn.
Offered Bo Peep ride to car in rain
Declined but thought kindly just the same
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Keep HC s dry Damn.
Bo Peep spied returns gathered
Took them to Customer Service haphazard
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Saved cashier from doing Damn.
Paul absent on vacation in Lumber
Took two in management encumber
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Paul missed Damn.
JC on tour band of renown
Not in plumbing found
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
No sunshine when gone Damn.
Attendance not measured by absent beans
Just count the few the proud the Marines
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Favored position AWOL Damn.
EOM did not know about garbage liners
Left cans undressed no definers
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
No liners in garbage again Damn.
Lot phone more lost than found
No one hears it make a sound
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Can’t call Lot again Damn.
Rocky lost over order left phone in rough
Bean Counter tracked gave right stuff
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Rocky and Donna phone adverse Damn.
One tube warning developed mid shift
Strips incomplete casting everyone adrift
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Send tubes Damn.
Rebooted register updates took ten minutes
Machine not restarted doing penance
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Install updates Damn.
Burning fire of righteousness eternal flame
Depot considers wasted game
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
No spreadsheet for righteousness Damn.
Spreadsheets P&L neither right nor wrong
Measure funds flowing head long
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Mammon has no value Damn.
If falsehood increases profit why not
Increase shareholder value aught
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Profit is profit Damn.
Pallets of Jacksons abandoned in Kabul
Depot suppliers surely not thrilled
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Jacksons on pallets abandoned Damn.
Profit made is profit made
Why matter how displayed
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This display does not give a Damn.
Depot tells EEOC what is when not
When cornered will be in bad spot
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
Making it up again Damn.
EEOC sent Bard SOP for review and response
Take time make count no remorse ensconce
No Mamma No Pappa No Uncle Sam
This will be a book Damn.
EEOC on medical leave granting reprieve
Depot prepares more tricks up sleeve
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Trick or