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For someone that has known a man like Elvis Presley as many years
and in the capacity that you did, I know it's difficult when someone says,
tell me about Elvis Presley.
Tell me how you feel, your impressions of him
as you look back over those years.
But yet I imagine there are certain things
that do come to the surface when someone asks you about Elvis.
[Bb] He's my friend.
Do you still feel that way?
Oh, I know so.
When did you first meet Elvis?
[A] He was [Ab] 14.
And if I told you how old I was, then you'd know how [N] old I was now.
But he was 14 years old [Ab] and used to come [Bb] here us.
I didn't know his name back then [G] until he made it and I learned that he was Elvis.
[A] He was that [Bb] kid until then.
[Bb] When did you first realize there was something special about him?
[N] Well, not until he made it.
Up until that [Gb] time, he just asked a lot of, how you do this, how [N] you
But the next thing I knew, [G] he'd already made it because I was busy myself in [Gm] my career
and he'd already made [Bb] it.
[Ab] He told me he made $4 million the first [Eb] year and every year it got worse,
[Gbm] so he was pretty busy too.
[Bb] If someone asked you why Elvis Presley, what was the charisma,
what was the power and that force that he exerted over audiences, [Bbm] how would you define it?
Well, Elvis [G] had [Gb]
charisma, [A] the greatest [G] charisma [N] anybody I've ever been around.
If he was here now walking this room [Bb] back up,
[Ab] charisma is [Bb]
[N] you, him and me
and [N] there'd be four people here because somebody goes with him, that's what charisma is.
And Elvis had more than [B] anybody I ever knew.
[Gb] If I knew and could [B] have it, then I'd do the same [Bb] thing.
We'd have more Elvis's, definitely.
When you think of Elvis, do you think of a man that was funny, quiet, intelligent, sensitive?
How would you describe him?
[Ab] Very [B] timid, very [Bb] backward, always trying to [Gb] please, [F]
never being rude,
[Bb]
kindest, most [Ab] gentle person that I ever, until he [G] found out [G] that he was the [N] most un-gentle person I ever.
But he'd done everything he could to make everything.
How did you see him change over the years?
Well, he began to get more mellow, a lot more mellow, I think anybody does with age.
Age does [Ab] a lot of things to people, but Elvis, he never did [G] realize what [Abm] he was, but he began [Gb] to [N] appreciate more.
He said to me that you can't see the [Ab] outside [G] of the house from within.
[Bb] [N] And he never knew, [Ab] he knew that he was popular, [Gb] but he never had any [N] idea of his popularity.
Do you think he was a happy person?
Yeah, if he wasn't, if he wasn't, you can't get happy.
I was never around a happier person, because he got up happy and went to bed [Db] happy.
He was happy.
He had fun [Bb] with a double F.
You know, nothing [Eb] wasn't fun to him.
[Bb]
Later on, in the dark side, people around him, and supposedly, you know, he began to get into things that he shouldn't have.
Did you see him change then, or was he still underneath the same person?
Well, when you say he [A] began to do things that he [Bb] shouldn't, he didn't get [Gb] into the things that they said he got into.
Elvis [Gbm] wasn't a dope addict.
[Ab] He was stuck uppers and sleeping pills, [Fm] [Bb] cocaine.
He would fire you if you [G] smoked marijuana, [A] and he [N] didn't drink.
So, what they say about Elvis and the real Elvis is two different things.
Elvis was [Eb] on [Gb] medication.
He was not [A] a dope addict.
He wasn't a drug [B] addict.
He did take uppers.
He did take sleeping pills.
If he abused [G] anything, it was sleeping pills, because he had trouble sleeping.
He kept trying to count his money.
Couldn't [Bb] go to sleep.
Better than sheep.
How did you feel when you first heard that Elvis had died?
[G] I didn't believe it.
[Bb] I [A]
was on his [N] plane, picked to leave for a date, and [Ab] I thought that, [N] well, this is something they're saying.
I thought his daddy had died.
His daddy was very sick.
I didn't realize until I got to Memphis and saw the body.
[F] [G] Dad told me that he wanted me to [Ab] be in charge of his funeral, because he knew that I knew [Gb] Elvis's likes better than he did.
So, [B] I didn't really believe it until I got [Bb] to Memphis.
I thought it was a [G] colonel's publicity.
A nut for crazy publicity.
Was there a time then for you, for tears?
Beg your pardon?
Was there a time then for you while you were putting the funeral together, for tears, to cry, to be sad?
Or did that come [A] later?
[Bb]
Oh, [Bb] they still come.
It seems as if you miss him very much.
Yeah.
Do [G] you think we'll ever see another man to [Bb] live to that standard?
Beg your pardon?
Do you think we'll ever see another man that will live to that [Gb] standard?
No.
[Ab] No, I don't think so.
[Bb]
How many people you know [G] by their first name?
Not Frank Sinatra.
You can say Frank.
Hitler, Elvis, Jesus.
They only come [Gb] along very, very seldom.
What does his loss mean to you personally?
[N] The loss to me personally, a real friend.
[G] When you lose a friend, [C] it's pretty sad.
[Bb]
[B] [F]
[Bb] [N] Not that I would have cared, because I would do him [Gm] the same way I knew Elvis,
[Gb] but I just would imagine what it would do to my family.
[Bb] He'd say, I wonder if the [Am] old so-and-so wants to [Eb] smoke now.
Take him a [Db] cigarette and see if he'll [Dbm] smoke it.
I mean, you know, he just done [N] it to keep them crying.
There's people like that.
But I never, if I had known, because I was with him until he,
that's what I'll say, I mean, people didn't know Elvis and [F] they're speaking [Gb] for Elvis.
It makes me, to hear people make statements when they don't,
[Bb] they just didn't know [N] from 1969 until he passed away,
well, the people that are speaking for him now didn't know him.
They wasn't around him, they'd never seen him, so [D] it makes you pretty mad.
I'll get your mic, I [B] don't want you to get out.
Oh, yeah, you, [D] I'll ask you to carry the mic with me.
For someone that has known a man like Elvis Presley as many years
and in the capacity that you did, I know it's difficult when someone says,
tell me about Elvis Presley.
Tell me how you feel, your impressions of him
as you look back over those years.
But yet I imagine there are certain things
that do come to the surface when someone asks you about Elvis.
[Bb] He's my friend.
Do you still feel that way?
Oh, I know so.
When did you first meet Elvis?
[A] He was [Ab] 14.
And if I told you how old I was, then you'd know how [N] old I was now.
But he was 14 years old [Ab] and used to come [Bb] here us.
I didn't know his name back then [G] until he made it and I learned that he was Elvis.
[A] He was that [Bb] kid until then.
[Bb] When did you first realize there was something special about him?
[N] Well, not until he made it.
Up until that [Gb] time, he just asked a lot of, how you do this, how [N] you
But the next thing I knew, [G] he'd already made it because I was busy myself in [Gm] my career
and he'd already made [Bb] it.
[Ab] He told me he made $4 million the first [Eb] year and every year it got worse,
[Gbm] so he was pretty busy too.
[Bb] If someone asked you why Elvis Presley, what was the charisma,
what was the power and that force that he exerted over audiences, [Bbm] how would you define it?
Well, Elvis [G] had [Gb]
charisma, [A] the greatest [G] charisma [N] anybody I've ever been around.
If he was here now walking this room [Bb] back up,
[Ab] charisma is [Bb]
[N] you, him and me
and [N] there'd be four people here because somebody goes with him, that's what charisma is.
And Elvis had more than [B] anybody I ever knew.
[Gb] If I knew and could [B] have it, then I'd do the same [Bb] thing.
We'd have more Elvis's, definitely.
When you think of Elvis, do you think of a man that was funny, quiet, intelligent, sensitive?
How would you describe him?
[Ab] Very [B] timid, very [Bb] backward, always trying to [Gb] please, [F]
never being rude,
[Bb]
kindest, most [Ab] gentle person that I ever, until he [G] found out [G] that he was the [N] most un-gentle person I ever.
But he'd done everything he could to make everything.
How did you see him change over the years?
Well, he began to get more mellow, a lot more mellow, I think anybody does with age.
Age does [Ab] a lot of things to people, but Elvis, he never did [G] realize what [Abm] he was, but he began [Gb] to [N] appreciate more.
He said to me that you can't see the [Ab] outside [G] of the house from within.
[Bb] [N] And he never knew, [Ab] he knew that he was popular, [Gb] but he never had any [N] idea of his popularity.
Do you think he was a happy person?
Yeah, if he wasn't, if he wasn't, you can't get happy.
I was never around a happier person, because he got up happy and went to bed [Db] happy.
He was happy.
He had fun [Bb] with a double F.
You know, nothing [Eb] wasn't fun to him.
[Bb]
Later on, in the dark side, people around him, and supposedly, you know, he began to get into things that he shouldn't have.
Did you see him change then, or was he still underneath the same person?
Well, when you say he [A] began to do things that he [Bb] shouldn't, he didn't get [Gb] into the things that they said he got into.
Elvis [Gbm] wasn't a dope addict.
[Ab] He was stuck uppers and sleeping pills, [Fm] [Bb] cocaine.
He would fire you if you [G] smoked marijuana, [A] and he [N] didn't drink.
So, what they say about Elvis and the real Elvis is two different things.
Elvis was [Eb] on [Gb] medication.
He was not [A] a dope addict.
He wasn't a drug [B] addict.
He did take uppers.
He did take sleeping pills.
If he abused [G] anything, it was sleeping pills, because he had trouble sleeping.
He kept trying to count his money.
Couldn't [Bb] go to sleep.
Better than sheep.
How did you feel when you first heard that Elvis had died?
[G] I didn't believe it.
[Bb] I [A]
was on his [N] plane, picked to leave for a date, and [Ab] I thought that, [N] well, this is something they're saying.
I thought his daddy had died.
His daddy was very sick.
I didn't realize until I got to Memphis and saw the body.
[F] [G] Dad told me that he wanted me to [Ab] be in charge of his funeral, because he knew that I knew [Gb] Elvis's likes better than he did.
So, [B] I didn't really believe it until I got [Bb] to Memphis.
I thought it was a [G] colonel's publicity.
A nut for crazy publicity.
Was there a time then for you, for tears?
Beg your pardon?
Was there a time then for you while you were putting the funeral together, for tears, to cry, to be sad?
Or did that come [A] later?
[Bb]
Oh, [Bb] they still come.
It seems as if you miss him very much.
Yeah.
Do [G] you think we'll ever see another man to [Bb] live to that standard?
Beg your pardon?
Do you think we'll ever see another man that will live to that [Gb] standard?
No.
[Ab] No, I don't think so.
[Bb]
How many people you know [G] by their first name?
Not Frank Sinatra.
You can say Frank.
Hitler, Elvis, Jesus.
They only come [Gb] along very, very seldom.
What does his loss mean to you personally?
[N] The loss to me personally, a real friend.
[G] When you lose a friend, [C] it's pretty sad.
[Bb]
[B] [F]
[Bb] [N] Not that I would have cared, because I would do him [Gm] the same way I knew Elvis,
[Gb] but I just would imagine what it would do to my family.
[Bb] He'd say, I wonder if the [Am] old so-and-so wants to [Eb] smoke now.
Take him a [Db] cigarette and see if he'll [Dbm] smoke it.
I mean, you know, he just done [N] it to keep them crying.
There's people like that.
But I never, if I had known, because I was with him until he,
that's what I'll say, I mean, people didn't know Elvis and [F] they're speaking [Gb] for Elvis.
It makes me, to hear people make statements when they don't,
[Bb] they just didn't know [N] from 1969 until he passed away,
well, the people that are speaking for him now didn't know him.
They wasn't around him, they'd never seen him, so [D] it makes you pretty mad.
I'll get your mic, I [B] don't want you to get out.
Oh, yeah, you, [D] I'll ask you to carry the mic with me.
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_ _ _ Take seven, six, five, four, [Bbm] three, [Bb] _ two_
_ For someone that has known a man like Elvis Presley as many years
and in the capacity that you did, I know it's difficult when someone says,
tell me about Elvis Presley.
Tell me how you feel, your impressions of him
as you look back over those years.
But yet I imagine there are certain things
that do come to the surface when someone asks you about Elvis.
_ [Bb] He's my friend.
Do you still feel that way?
Oh, I know so.
When did you first meet Elvis?
[A] He was [Ab] 14.
And if I told you how old I was, then you'd know how [N] old I was now.
But he was 14 years old [Ab] and used to come [Bb] here us.
I didn't know his name back then [G] until he made it and I learned that he was Elvis.
[A] He was that [Bb] kid until then.
[Bb] _ When did you first realize there was something special about him?
[N] _ Well, not until he made it.
_ Up until that [Gb] time, he just asked a lot of, how you do this, how [N] _ you_
But the next thing I knew, _ [G] he'd already made it because I was busy myself in [Gm] my career
and he'd already made [Bb] _ it.
[Ab] He told me he made $4 million the first [Eb] year and every year it got worse,
[Gbm] so he was pretty busy too.
[Bb] _ If someone asked you why Elvis Presley, what was the charisma,
what was the power and that force that he exerted over audiences, [Bbm] how would you define it?
Well, _ Elvis [G] had _ [Gb]
charisma, _ [A] the greatest [G] charisma [N] anybody I've ever been around.
If he was here now walking this room [Bb] back up, _ _
_ _ [Ab] charisma is _ [Bb] _ _
_ [N] _ _ you, him and _ _ me
and [N] there'd be four people here because somebody goes with him, that's what charisma is.
And Elvis had more than [B] anybody I ever knew.
[Gb] If I knew and could _ [B] _ have it, then I'd do the same [Bb] thing.
We'd have more Elvis's, definitely.
When you think of Elvis, do you think of a man that was funny, quiet, intelligent, sensitive?
How would you describe him?
[Ab] Very [B] timid, very [Bb] backward, _ _ always trying to [Gb] please, _ [F] _
never being rude,
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _
kindest, most [Ab] gentle person that I ever, _ _ until he [G] found out _ _ [G] _ that he was the [N] most un-gentle person I ever.
But he'd done everything he could to make everything.
_ _ How did you see him change over the years? _
Well, he began to get more mellow, a lot more mellow, I think anybody does with age.
Age does [Ab] a lot of things to people, but Elvis, he never did [G] realize what [Abm] he was, but he began [Gb] to [N] appreciate more. _ _
_ He said to me that you can't see the [Ab] outside [G] of the house from within.
[Bb] _ [N] And he never knew, [Ab] he knew that he was popular, [Gb] but he never had any [N] idea of his popularity.
Do you think he was a happy person?
Yeah, if he wasn't, _ _ _ if he wasn't, you can't get happy.
I was never around a happier person, _ because he got up happy and went to bed [Db] happy.
He was happy.
He had fun [Bb] with a double F.
You know, nothing [Eb] wasn't fun to him.
[Bb]
Later on, in the dark side, people around him, and supposedly, you know, he began to get into things that he shouldn't have.
Did you see him change then, or was he still underneath the same person?
Well, when you say he [A] began to do things that he [Bb] shouldn't, he didn't get [Gb] into the things that they said he got into.
Elvis [Gbm] wasn't a dope addict.
[Ab] He was stuck uppers and sleeping pills, [Fm] _ _ [Bb] cocaine.
He would fire you if you [G] smoked marijuana, _ [A] and he [N] didn't drink.
_ _ _ So, what they say about Elvis and the real Elvis is two different things.
Elvis was [Eb] on [Gb] medication.
He was not [A] a dope addict.
He wasn't a drug [B] addict.
He did take uppers.
He did take sleeping pills.
If he abused [G] anything, it was sleeping pills, because he had trouble sleeping.
He kept trying to count his money.
Couldn't [Bb] go to sleep. _
Better than sheep.
How did you feel when you first heard that Elvis had died?
_ [G] I didn't believe it.
[Bb] I _ _ [A]
was on his [N] plane, picked to leave for a date, and [Ab] I thought that, [N] well, this is something they're saying.
I thought his daddy had died.
His daddy was very sick.
I didn't realize until I got to Memphis and saw the body. _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ [G] Dad told me that he wanted me to [Ab] be in charge of his funeral, because he knew that I knew [Gb] Elvis's likes better than he did.
So, [B] I didn't really believe it until I got [Bb] to Memphis.
I thought it was a [G] colonel's publicity.
_ _ A nut for crazy publicity.
_ _ Was there a time then for you, for tears?
Beg your pardon?
Was there a time then for you while you were putting the funeral together, for tears, to cry, to be sad?
Or did that come [A] later?
_ [Bb] _
Oh, _ _ [Bb] they still come. _ _
_ _ It seems as if you miss him very much.
Yeah.
_ _ Do [G] you think we'll ever see another man to [Bb] live to that standard?
Beg your pardon?
Do you think we'll ever see another man that will live to that [Gb] standard?
No.
[Ab] No, I don't think so.
[Bb] _
_ How many people you know [G] by their first name?
Not Frank Sinatra.
You can say Frank.
Hitler, Elvis, _ _ Jesus.
_ They only come [Gb] along very, very seldom.
What does his loss mean to you personally?
[N] The loss to me personally, a real friend.
[G] When you lose a friend, [C] it's pretty sad.
_ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [B] _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [N] Not that I would have cared, because I would do him [Gm] the same way I knew Elvis,
[Gb] but I just would imagine what it would do to my family.
_ [Bb] He'd say, I wonder if the [Am] old so-and-so wants to [Eb] smoke now.
Take him a [Db] cigarette and see if he'll [Dbm] smoke it.
I mean, you know, he just done [N] it to keep them crying.
There's people like that.
But I never, if I had known, _ _ _ _ because I was with him until he,
_ that's what I'll say, I mean, people didn't know Elvis and [F] they're speaking [Gb] for Elvis.
It makes me, _ _ _ to hear people make statements when they don't,
_ _ [Bb] they just didn't know [N] from 1969 until he passed away,
well, the people that are speaking for him now didn't know him.
They wasn't around him, they'd never seen him, so [D] it makes you pretty mad.
_ I'll get your mic, I [B] don't want you to get out.
Oh, yeah, you, [D] I'll ask you to carry the mic with me.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ For someone that has known a man like Elvis Presley as many years
and in the capacity that you did, I know it's difficult when someone says,
tell me about Elvis Presley.
Tell me how you feel, your impressions of him
as you look back over those years.
But yet I imagine there are certain things
that do come to the surface when someone asks you about Elvis.
_ [Bb] He's my friend.
Do you still feel that way?
Oh, I know so.
When did you first meet Elvis?
[A] He was [Ab] 14.
And if I told you how old I was, then you'd know how [N] old I was now.
But he was 14 years old [Ab] and used to come [Bb] here us.
I didn't know his name back then [G] until he made it and I learned that he was Elvis.
[A] He was that [Bb] kid until then.
[Bb] _ When did you first realize there was something special about him?
[N] _ Well, not until he made it.
_ Up until that [Gb] time, he just asked a lot of, how you do this, how [N] _ you_
But the next thing I knew, _ [G] he'd already made it because I was busy myself in [Gm] my career
and he'd already made [Bb] _ it.
[Ab] He told me he made $4 million the first [Eb] year and every year it got worse,
[Gbm] so he was pretty busy too.
[Bb] _ If someone asked you why Elvis Presley, what was the charisma,
what was the power and that force that he exerted over audiences, [Bbm] how would you define it?
Well, _ Elvis [G] had _ [Gb]
charisma, _ [A] the greatest [G] charisma [N] anybody I've ever been around.
If he was here now walking this room [Bb] back up, _ _
_ _ [Ab] charisma is _ [Bb] _ _
_ [N] _ _ you, him and _ _ me
and [N] there'd be four people here because somebody goes with him, that's what charisma is.
And Elvis had more than [B] anybody I ever knew.
[Gb] If I knew and could _ [B] _ have it, then I'd do the same [Bb] thing.
We'd have more Elvis's, definitely.
When you think of Elvis, do you think of a man that was funny, quiet, intelligent, sensitive?
How would you describe him?
[Ab] Very [B] timid, very [Bb] backward, _ _ always trying to [Gb] please, _ [F] _
never being rude,
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _
kindest, most [Ab] gentle person that I ever, _ _ until he [G] found out _ _ [G] _ that he was the [N] most un-gentle person I ever.
But he'd done everything he could to make everything.
_ _ How did you see him change over the years? _
Well, he began to get more mellow, a lot more mellow, I think anybody does with age.
Age does [Ab] a lot of things to people, but Elvis, he never did [G] realize what [Abm] he was, but he began [Gb] to [N] appreciate more. _ _
_ He said to me that you can't see the [Ab] outside [G] of the house from within.
[Bb] _ [N] And he never knew, [Ab] he knew that he was popular, [Gb] but he never had any [N] idea of his popularity.
Do you think he was a happy person?
Yeah, if he wasn't, _ _ _ if he wasn't, you can't get happy.
I was never around a happier person, _ because he got up happy and went to bed [Db] happy.
He was happy.
He had fun [Bb] with a double F.
You know, nothing [Eb] wasn't fun to him.
[Bb]
Later on, in the dark side, people around him, and supposedly, you know, he began to get into things that he shouldn't have.
Did you see him change then, or was he still underneath the same person?
Well, when you say he [A] began to do things that he [Bb] shouldn't, he didn't get [Gb] into the things that they said he got into.
Elvis [Gbm] wasn't a dope addict.
[Ab] He was stuck uppers and sleeping pills, [Fm] _ _ [Bb] cocaine.
He would fire you if you [G] smoked marijuana, _ [A] and he [N] didn't drink.
_ _ _ So, what they say about Elvis and the real Elvis is two different things.
Elvis was [Eb] on [Gb] medication.
He was not [A] a dope addict.
He wasn't a drug [B] addict.
He did take uppers.
He did take sleeping pills.
If he abused [G] anything, it was sleeping pills, because he had trouble sleeping.
He kept trying to count his money.
Couldn't [Bb] go to sleep. _
Better than sheep.
How did you feel when you first heard that Elvis had died?
_ [G] I didn't believe it.
[Bb] I _ _ [A]
was on his [N] plane, picked to leave for a date, and [Ab] I thought that, [N] well, this is something they're saying.
I thought his daddy had died.
His daddy was very sick.
I didn't realize until I got to Memphis and saw the body. _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ [G] Dad told me that he wanted me to [Ab] be in charge of his funeral, because he knew that I knew [Gb] Elvis's likes better than he did.
So, [B] I didn't really believe it until I got [Bb] to Memphis.
I thought it was a [G] colonel's publicity.
_ _ A nut for crazy publicity.
_ _ Was there a time then for you, for tears?
Beg your pardon?
Was there a time then for you while you were putting the funeral together, for tears, to cry, to be sad?
Or did that come [A] later?
_ [Bb] _
Oh, _ _ [Bb] they still come. _ _
_ _ It seems as if you miss him very much.
Yeah.
_ _ Do [G] you think we'll ever see another man to [Bb] live to that standard?
Beg your pardon?
Do you think we'll ever see another man that will live to that [Gb] standard?
No.
[Ab] No, I don't think so.
[Bb] _
_ How many people you know [G] by their first name?
Not Frank Sinatra.
You can say Frank.
Hitler, Elvis, _ _ Jesus.
_ They only come [Gb] along very, very seldom.
What does his loss mean to you personally?
[N] The loss to me personally, a real friend.
[G] When you lose a friend, [C] it's pretty sad.
_ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
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_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [N] Not that I would have cared, because I would do him [Gm] the same way I knew Elvis,
[Gb] but I just would imagine what it would do to my family.
_ [Bb] He'd say, I wonder if the [Am] old so-and-so wants to [Eb] smoke now.
Take him a [Db] cigarette and see if he'll [Dbm] smoke it.
I mean, you know, he just done [N] it to keep them crying.
There's people like that.
But I never, if I had known, _ _ _ _ because I was with him until he,
_ that's what I'll say, I mean, people didn't know Elvis and [F] they're speaking [Gb] for Elvis.
It makes me, _ _ _ to hear people make statements when they don't,
_ _ [Bb] they just didn't know [N] from 1969 until he passed away,
well, the people that are speaking for him now didn't know him.
They wasn't around him, they'd never seen him, so [D] it makes you pretty mad.
_ I'll get your mic, I [B] don't want you to get out.
Oh, yeah, you, [D] I'll ask you to carry the mic with me.
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