The House That Christmas Forgot
The text came at 3:17 a.m., the blue glow of my phone slicing through the darkness of my bedroom like a knife. I reached for it instinctively, my heart already racing with that particular dread mothers know—the kind that says something’s wrong, someone needs you, drop everything now.
Sarah: Mom, I know you paid $280k for this house… but Richard’s mom doesn’t want you at Christmas dinner.
I stared at the words until they blurred. Read them again. Then again. Somewhere in my chest, something I’d been holding together for months finally cracked clean through.
I typed one word back: Understood.
Then I set my phone down, pulled on my robe, and walked downstairs through my quiet townhouse to make coffee I didn’t want and wouldn’t taste. But I needed the ritual. The grinding of beans. The smell filling the kitchen. The hot ceramic mug between my palms. I needed something familiar while my world rearranged itself into a shape I’d been refusing to see.
My name is Emily Carter. I’m fifty-eight years old. I raised two children mostly on my own after my husband Paul died twelve years ago. I worked as a paralegal, then went to law school at forty-three, passed the bar on my first try, and built a small but solid practice specializing in real estate contracts. I know what documents mean. I know what fine print says. I know how to read between the lines when people are using careful language to hide uncomfortable truths.
And somehow, despite all that knowledge, I’d let myself be used.
I sat at my kitchen table as dawn broke gray and cold over the December skyline, and I pulled out a file folder I’d been keeping in my desk drawer. Inside: the deed to the house where my daughter Sarah lived with her husband Richard and their two children, Emma and Noah. My grandchildren. Ages seven and five.
The house I’d purchased eighteen months ago for $280,000 cash.
The house I’d bought so my daughter’s family could have stability, good schools, a yard for the kids to play in. The house where I’d imagined holiday dinners, birthday parties, lazy Sunday afternoons with my grandkids. The house where, according to a text message sent at three in the morning, I was no longer welcome for Christmas dinner because Richard’s mother—a woman I’d met exactly four times—didn’t want me there.
I spread the papers across my kitchen table. Purchase agreement. Closing documents. Title transfer. Wire transfer receipts showing $280,000 moving from my account to the seller’s. And there, in paragraph seven of the family use agreement I’d drafted myself, a clause I’d included as insurance, as protection, as a way to ensure this generous gift couldn’t be twisted into something else.
“In the event of material breach of agreed family use terms, including but not limited to exclusion of grantor from family gatherings or significant reduction in grantor’s access to minor grandchildren, grantor retains full right to reclaim property with 30 days notice or initiate sale proceedings.”
I’d written it late one night, that little voice in my head—the lawyer voice—whispering that I should protect myself. That love and family were wonderful, but paper and signatures were real. Sarah had signed it. Richard had signed it. They’d barely read it, honestly, too excited about the house, too grateful for the help.
I’d hoped I’d never need to use it.
At 3:17 a.m. on December 23rd, I realized I’d been hoping wrong.
Let me back up. Let me tell you how we got here, because it didn’t happen all at once. It never does. These things are slow erosions, tiny compromises that seem reasonable in the moment, small hurts you absorb because you don’t want to be difficult.
Eighteen months ago, Sarah and Richard were struggling. They had two kids, two car payments, student loans, and rent on a cramped apartment in a school district they hated. Richard worked in pharmaceutical sales—good income, but inconsistent. Sarah had gone back to work part-time as a dental hygienist after Noah was born, but childcare ate most of what she made.
They were stressed. The kids were suffering. Emma was acting out at school. Noah had started having nightmares. One Sunday dinner at my place, Sarah broke down crying over reheated lasagna and told me she felt like she was failing her children.
“We can’t give them what they need,” she said, mascara running, Emma and Noah watching cartoons in my living room, oblivious. “We can’t afford a house in a decent district. We’re barely making rent. And Richard’s mother keeps offering to help, but there are always strings attached, always comments about how I’m not managing money well or how we wouldn’t need help if I stayed home with the kids full-time.”
Richard’s mother—Patricia. Wealthy from a previous marriage, opinionated about everything, wielded money like a weapon and generosity like a leash. I’d met her three times by then and disliked her instantly. Not because she was awful—she wasn’t, exactly. But because she made my daughter feel small.
“What if I helped?” I said.
Sarah looked up, eyes red. “Mom, you’ve already done so much—”
“What if I bought you a house?”
The words surprised even me. But once they were out, they felt right. I’d sold Paul’s life insurance policy years ago, invested it carefully, added my own savings. I had enough. More than enough. What was I saving it for, anyway? To die with it in the bank? To leave it to Sarah in a will she’d read through tears someday?
Why not give it now, when she needed it?
“I can’t ask you to do that,” Sarah said.
“You’re not asking. I’m offering.”
Over the next month, we looked at houses. Found one in a good school district, four bedrooms, a backyard with a swing set. Listed at $295,000. I offered $280,000 cash, no contingencies, close in three weeks. The sellers accepted.
Sarah cried when I told her. Richard was stunned, grateful, couldn’t believe it. Patricia, when she found out, made a comment at some family gathering about how “generous” I was being, the word dripping with something that wasn’t quite approval.
I drafted the paperwork myself. Put the house in my name with a family use agreement. Sarah and Richard would live there, maintain it, pay utilities and property taxes. I’d maintain ownership. It protected everyone—protected them from losing the house if something went wrong financially, protected me from… well, I wasn’t sure what. I just knew I should protect myself.
They signed. We closed. They moved in.
For a while, it was perfect.
I came over for Sunday dinners. Spent weekends with Emma and Noah, took them to parks and museums and ice cream shops. I had a key. I had a guest room—the smallest bedroom, which was fine. It was painted a soft blue, had a comfortable bed, a reading chair by the window. My space.
Then, slowly, things changed.
It started small. A Sunday dinner canceled because Patricia was in town and they were having dinner with her instead. Okay, fine. I understood. She didn’t visit often.
Then my birthday dinner, planned weeks in advance, was moved because Patricia had decided to throw a party for Richard’s birthday the same weekend and “it would be weird to have two parties.” My birthday came and went with a card and a grocery store cake eaten at my own kitchen table.
The guest room gradually filled with storage. Boxes of Richard’s old college textbooks. Sarah’s craft supplies. Seasonal decorations. When I mentioned it—gently, carefully—Sarah said they were just “temporarily” storing things until they cleaned out the garage. The boxes never moved.
I still had my key, but I was asked to text before coming over. Reasonable, right? People need privacy. Except Emma’s school play—I texted I was coming, got no response, showed up anyway. Patricia was already there, sitting in the front row, seat saved next to her for Sarah. I sat three rows back.
Thanksgiving, I was told Patricia was hosting and it would be “too complicated” to have both families. I spent Thanksgiving with my friend Margaret, eating catered turkey and pretending it was fine.
Each incident, taken alone, seemed reasonable. Explainable. Not worth making a fuss over. But together, they formed a pattern. A slow, systematic erasure of my place in my daughter’s life.
I told myself I was being sensitive. Told myself every family navigates these dynamics. Told myself I should be grateful they were letting me be involved at all, that I was lucky to see my grandchildren as much as I did.
I swallowed it. All of it. Because I loved Sarah. Because I loved Emma and Noah. Because I didn’t want to be the difficult mother-in-law, the demanding grandmother, the problem.
And then came that text message at 3:17 a.m.
Christmas had always been my holiday. When Sarah and her brother Michael were little, when Paul was still alive, I’d go all out. Decorations everywhere. Cookies baked for weeks. A tree so tall Paul had to cut the top off to fit it in the house. Music, lights, joy, magic.
After Paul died, I scaled back. But I kept the traditions that mattered. Christmas Eve dinner—my sweet potato casserole with the pecan topping, green beans almondine, Paul’s mother’s recipe for dinner rolls. Christmas morning with the kids, watching them open presents, their faces lit with wonder.
This year, I’d assumed I’d spend Christmas Eve at Sarah’s house. My house, technically, but I’d stopped thinking of it that way. I’d texted two weeks prior: What time should I come over Christmas Eve?
Sarah: Oh, let me check with Richard and get back to you.
She never got back to me.
I texted again a week later. Just want to make sure I know the plan for Christmas Eve!
Sarah: Still figuring it out. Patricia might be coming.
My stomach dropped, but I typed back cheerfully: That’s fine! The more the merrier.
No response.
Three days before Christmas, I called. Sarah didn’t answer. I left a voicemail. She texted back hours later: Sorry, crazy busy. Will call you later. She didn’t call.
Then came December 23rd. The middle of the night. That text message that confirmed what I’d been refusing to accept.
I wasn’t being excluded because of logistics or scheduling conflicts. I was being excluded because Patricia didn’t want me there. And my daughter was choosing her mother-in-law over her own mother.
I sat at my kitchen table with my coffee and my papers and my cracked-open heart, and I made a decision.
I wasn’t going to beg. I wasn’t going to cry or guilt-trip or make myself smaller to fit into spaces where I wasn’t wanted. I wasn’t going to apologize for existing, for being generous, for buying a house I wasn’t allowed to spend Christmas in.
I was going to do what I should have done months ago.
I was going to read the fine print.
At nine a.m., I called my office. Well, not my office anymore—I’d semi-retired two years ago, kept a few consulting clients, mostly helped younger attorneys with complex real estate contracts. But I still knew people. One of them was Marcus Webb, a real estate attorney I’d mentored when he was fresh out of law school.
“Emily, hey! Merry almost Christmas.”
“Marcus, I need a favor. Are you busy today?”
“I’m wrapping presents and avoiding my in-laws. I am very available.”
I explained the situation. Clinical, professional, just the facts. A property I owned, a family use agreement being violated, a need to take action quickly but legally.
“You wrote the agreement yourself?” Marcus asked.
“I did.”
“Then you already know what you can do.”
“I know what the paper says. I need you to tell me I’m not being a monster.”
Silence on the line. Then: “Emily, you’re the least monstrous person I know. And from what you’re describing, you’re not the one who violated the agreement. They did.”
“She’s my daughter.”
“I know. And I’m sure that makes this incredibly painful. But you set clear terms. They signed them. They’re breaking them. You have every right to enforce your contract.”
“Even at Christmas?”
“Especially at Christmas. Emily, they’re excluding you from Christmas. In your own house. That’s not an accident. That’s a choice. You’re allowed to have consequences for that choice.”
I closed my eyes. “What do I need to do?”
“Do you want to initiate sale proceedings or just… make a point?”
“I don’t know yet. Maybe start with making a point.”
“Okay. I can draft a formal notice. Cite the clause, outline the violation, give them thirty days to remedy or face sale proceedings. It’s heavy, but it’s legal and it’s clear.”
“How fast can you do it?”
“How fast do you need it?”
I thought about the Christmas tree I’d imagined decorating with my grandchildren. The cookies I’d planned to bake. The Christmas morning I’d already lost.
“Today,” I said. “I need it today.”
“Give me two hours.”
Marcus delivered. By noon, I had a legal notice, professionally formatted, citing the family use agreement clause and outlining the material breach. It was formal, cold, and absolutely airtight.
I read it three times. Made one small edit. Approved it.
“When do you want me to send it?” Marcus asked.
I looked at my calendar. December 23rd. Tomorrow was Christmas Eve. The Christmas Eve dinner I wasn’t invited to.
“I want it delivered tomorrow evening,” I said. “Seven-thirty p.m.”
“Emily—”
“I know how it sounds. But Marcus, they sent me that text at three in the morning. They knew exactly what they were doing. They knew it would hurt. They just didn’t care.”
“You’re right,” he said quietly. “Okay. Seven-thirty p.m. Christmas Eve. I’ll arrange a courier.”
“Thank you.”
“Emily? For what it’s worth? I think you’re doing the right thing.”
I wished I felt the same certainty.
Christmas Eve morning, I woke up in my own bed, in my own townhouse, alone. I made coffee, ate toast I didn’t taste, and sat in my living room looking at the small tree I’d put up for myself. It was pretty—white lights, silver ornaments, a few special ones from when Sarah and Michael were kids.
But it was quiet. So quiet.
My phone rang. Sarah. I almost didn’t answer.
“Mom, hi. Listen, I’m sorry about the confusion with Christmas. I should have called sooner.”
“It’s fine,” I said, my voice steady.
“It’s just that Patricia really wanted to host this year, and you know how she is—”
“I know exactly how she is.”
“—and Richard thought it would be easier if we just did Christmas with his family this year. We can do something with you next week, maybe? Take the kids to see that new animated movie?”
Next week. After Christmas. A consolation prize.
“That sounds fine,” I said.
“Really? You’re not mad?”
“I’m not mad, Sarah.”
“Oh good. I was worried you’d make this into a big thing.”
Make this into a big thing. As if I was the problem. As if my hurt was an inconvenience.
“Have a lovely Christmas dinner,” I said.
“We will. Love you, Mom.”
She hung up before I could respond.
I sat there with the phone in my hand, staring at nothing. Then I got dressed, drove to the mall, and bought presents for Emma and Noah. A doll Emma had been wanting. A dinosaur set for Noah. I wrapped them carefully, with paper covered in snowflakes, with ribbons and bows and tags that said “Love, Grandma.”
I dropped them off at Sarah’s house—my house—while they were out. Left them on the porch. Texted Sarah: Presents for the kids on your porch. Merry Christmas.
She texted back a heart emoji.
That was it. A heart emoji for eighteen months of being erased. For $280,000 and a guest room filled with storage boxes. For a Christmas I wasn’t invited to in a house I owned.
I went home and waited.
Seven-thirty p.m. came slowly. I’d made myself dinner—roasted chicken, green beans, a glass of wine. I ate mechanically, checking my phone every few minutes, imagining the scene at my daughter’s house.
They’d be finishing dinner right about now. Patricia would have brought expensive wine and bragged about it. Richard would be laughing at his mother’s jokes. Sarah would be clearing plates, anxious to make everything perfect. Emma and Noah would be bouncing off the walls with excitement about Santa coming.
At 7:28, I poured myself another glass of wine and sat on my couch, phone in hand.
At 7:31, my phone rang. Sarah.
I let it ring once. Twice. Three times. Answered.
“Mom, what the hell is this?”
Her voice was shrill, panicked. I could hear chaos in the background—Richard’s voice, Patricia’s sharp tone, someone crying.
“I assume you received the notice,” I said calmly.
“A courier just showed up at the door! On Christmas Eve! With legal papers saying we’re in breach of contract and you’re going to sell the house!”
“That’s not quite accurate. The notice says you’re in material breach of the family use agreement and I’m giving you thirty days to remedy the situation or I’ll initiate sale proceedings. There’s a difference.”
“Are you insane? This is our home!”
“No, Sarah. It’s my home. I bought it. My name is on the deed. You signed an agreement, and you’ve been violating it for months.”
“Because we didn’t invite you to one Christmas dinner?”
“No. Because you’ve been systematically excluding me from your lives. Because you canceled my birthday dinner. Because you filled my guest room with storage. Because you chose Richard’s mother over your own mother at every opportunity. And because when I asked about Christmas, you sent me a text at three in the morning like you were ashamed to face me during daylight hours.”
Silence. Then: “I can’t believe you’re doing this.”
“I can’t believe you thought I wouldn’t.”
“This is cruel, Mom. This is vindictive. We have children—”
“Yes, my grandchildren. Whom I barely get to see anymore because Patricia might be offended.”
“That’s not fair—”
“Sarah, I gave you a house. I bought you stability and security. I asked for nothing in return except to be part of your family. And you chose to make me a guest. Then you chose to uninvite me. You made me feel like my generosity was an imposition. Like my presence was a burden.”
“I never said that—”
“You didn’t have to say it. You showed it. Every canceled dinner. Every changed plan. Every time you chose Patricia over me without even asking what I wanted.”
I could hear her breathing, fast and shallow. Heard Richard in the background: “What does she want?”
“What do you want?” Sarah asked, her voice breaking.
“I want you to read the agreement you signed. I want you to understand that love and generosity are not the same as permission to take advantage. And I want you to decide, in the next thirty days, whether you want to honor the terms we agreed to or whether you’d rather I sell the house and we can start over with clearer boundaries.”
“You’d really do that? You’d really take our home?”
“You already took mine,” I said quietly. “The one I imagined when I bought that house. The one where I was welcome. Where I mattered.”
“Mom—”
“Merry Christmas, Sarah.”
I hung up.
My hand was shaking. My heart was pounding. I felt sick and vindicated and heartbroken all at once.
My phone immediately started ringing again. I turned it off.
I didn’t sleep that night. Lay in bed staring at the ceiling, replaying the conversation, second-guessing everything. Was I being petty? Vindictive? Was I using money as a weapon the same way Patricia did?
But every time I spiraled into guilt, I remembered that text. 3:17 a.m. Casual cruelty wrapped in a message that made me the problem, that made my hurt unreasonable.
I remembered the guest room filled with boxes. The birthday forgotten. The Thanksgiving spent alone.
I remembered being made to feel like I should be grateful for scraps of attention from my own daughter.
No. I wasn’t being cruel. I was being clear.
Christmas morning came. I opened presents from Margaret—a scarf, a book, a bottle of my favorite bourbon. I texted her thanks. She called immediately.
“How are you holding up?”
“I’m okay.”
“You’re a terrible liar.”
I laughed, and it came out half sob. “I served her with legal papers on Christmas Eve, Margaret.”
“I know. You told me you were going to.”
“It’s brutal.”
“What they did to you was brutal. You’re just the one who finally said enough.”
“What if she never forgives me?”
“Then you’ll know where you stand. And you can stop hoping for something that was never going to happen.”
Margaret always knew how to cut straight to the truth.
The thirty days crawled by. Sarah didn’t call. Richard didn’t call. Patricia, I imagined, had plenty to say, none of it flattering.
I went to work—such as it was. Had coffee with friends. Went to yoga. Lived my life.
On day ten, Michael called. My son, who lived in Denver with his wife and their new baby, who I hadn’t wanted to burden with family drama.
“Sarah called me,” he said. “Told me what happened.”
“I’m sure she did.”
“Mom… is it true? You’re really going to sell their house?”
“I’m giving them the option to honor the agreement they signed or to renegotiate our arrangement. If they choose neither, then yes, I’ll sell it.”
“That’s pretty harsh.”
“Michael, she uninvited me from Christmas. In a house I bought her. After eighteen months of making me feel like I didn’t matter.”
“I know. And that’s shitty, really shitty. But this is nuclear.”
“They went nuclear first. I’m just holding the paper that proves it.”
Long pause. Then: “Are you okay?”
That question—the simple concern in it—almost broke me.
“I don’t know,” I admitted. “I don’t know if I did the right thing. I don’t know if I’m ever going to have a relationship with my daughter again. I don’t know if Emma and Noah are going to grow up thinking I’m the villain. I just know I couldn’t keep disappearing to make everyone else comfortable.”
“For what it’s worth,” Michael said, “I’m proud of you. Sarah’s been taking you for granted for years. Maybe this will wake her up.”
“Or maybe I just lost my daughter.”
“If you did, you lost her a long time ago. You’re just the only one brave enough to admit it.”
On day twenty-seven, Sarah called.
I stared at my phone for a full minute before answering.
“Mom.”
“Hi, Sarah.”
“Can we talk? In person?”
“Okay.”
We met at a coffee shop halfway between our homes. Neutral ground. She looked terrible—exhausted, red-eyed, thinner than I’d seen her in months.
We sat across from each other with overpriced lattes neither of us wanted.
“I’m sorry,” she said finally.
“For what, specifically?”
She flinched. “Don’t make me list it.”
“I’m not trying to punish you, Sarah. I genuinely want to know what you think you’re apologizing for. Because I need to know that you understand what happened.”
She took a shaky breath. “I’m sorry I excluded you. I’m sorry I let Patricia dictate our family plans. I’m sorry I didn’t stand up for you. I’m sorry I took your generosity for granted and made you feel like you didn’t matter.”
The words were right. But her tone was rehearsed, like she’d practiced them.
“Why did you do it?” I asked.
“I don’t know. Patricia is just… she’s so forceful. And Richard hates conflict. And it was easier to just go along with what she wanted than to deal with the fallout of saying no.”
“Easier for who?”
“For everyone.”
“Not for me.”
“No,” she said quietly. “Not for you.”
We sat in silence. Outside, people walked by with shopping bags and coffee cups, living normal lives where daughters didn’t serve their mothers with eviction notices on Christmas Eve.
“Do you love me?” I asked.
Sarah’s eyes filled with tears. “Of course I do. How can you even ask that?”
“Because love is supposed to make you want someone around. It’s supposed to make you fight for them. Stand up for them. Choose them. And you haven’t done any of that.”
“I know.”
“Do you? Because from where I’m sitting, you love what I can give you. The house. The free babysitting. The money. But you don’t love me enough to actually make room for me in your life.”
“That’s not true—”
“Then prove it. Tell me right now: if Patricia said she didn’t want me at Easter, what would you do?”
She opened her mouth. Closed it. Looked away.
And that silence told me everything.
“I thought so,” I said.
“Mom, please. I’m trying. I told Richard we need to set better boundaries with his mom. I told Patricia she can’t dictate our family plans anymore. I’m cleaning out your guest room this weekend. I want to fix this.”
“Why? Because you feel guilty? Or because you might lose the house?”
She didn’t answer.
“Sarah, I don’t want you to accommodate me out of fear or obligation. I want you to want me there. I want you to choose me because you love me, not because I’m holding the deed hostage.”
“I do love you—”
“Then show me. Not with words. With actions. With choices. With actually standing up to Patricia when she tries to push me out. Can you do that?”
She wiped her eyes. “I don’t know. I’ll try.”
“That’s not good enough.”
“What do you want from me?” she asked, her voice rising. “You want me to cut off Richard’s mother? Blow up my marriage? Destroy my family?”
“I want you to include me in your family. That’s all I’ve ever wanted.”
“And if I can’t do both? If Richard won’t agree to it?”
I stood up. “Then you have a choice to make. And you have three more days to make it.”
Day thirty arrived. I sat in my office with Marcus, the papers ready. Two options: a revised family use agreement with clear, specific terms about my involvement, including regular visits, holiday inclusion, and restored access to the guest room. Or sale proceedings beginning immediately.
At three p.m., my phone rang. Sarah.
“We’ll sign the new agreement,” she said, her voice flat.
“Put Richard on the phone.”
Rustling. Then Richard’s voice, tight with barely controlled anger. “We’ll sign it. We don’t have a choice, do we?”
“You always had a choice, Richard. You just kept making the wrong one.”
“My mother is very upset.”
“I’m sure she is. She’ll get over it.”
“Will you?”
The question hung in the air. Would I? Would I ever really get over the fact that my daughter chose someone else’s comfort over my presence? That she only came back to me under threat of losing the house?
“I don’t know,” I said honestly. “But I’m willing to try if you are.”
Silence. Then: “Fine. Send the papers.”
I sent them. They signed. Marcus filed everything properly. The house remained in my name, with a much more detailed agreement about family use, holiday inclusion, and my rights as both owner and grandmother.
It was a victory, I suppose.
It didn’t feel like one.
Six months later, things are… better. Different. Still complicated.
I have dinner with Sarah and the kids every other week. I was included in Easter—Patricia was there too, and we were icily polite to each other. I take Emma and Noah one weekend a month, and we go to museums and parks and make cookies in my kitchen.
The guest room is clean now. My space again. I use it sometimes when I visit, though it still doesn’t quite feel like home.
Sarah tries. I can see her trying. She stands up to Patricia more, though not always. She makes an effort to include me, though sometimes it feels performative, like she’s checking boxes on a list rather than actually wanting me there.
Richard tolerates me. That’s the best word for it. He tolerates my presence because the alternative is losing the house.
Is it enough? I don’t know.
What I do know is this: I stopped disappearing. I stopped apologizing for existing. I stopped accepting crumbs and calling it love.
The cost was high. My relationship with my daughter is forever changed. There’s a wariness now, a distance that didn’t exist before. Emma asked me once why Grandma Patricia didn’t like me, and I had to figure out how to answer honestly without poisoning her against anyone.
But I can breathe now. I can sit at holiday tables without feeling like I’m intruding. I can call my daughter without wondering if I’m bothering her. I can visit my grandchildren in my house without feeling like a guest in someone else’s space.
I own my home again. Not just legally—I always owned it legally. But emotionally. Spiritually. I own the space I take up in the world.
And if that makes me the villain in Patricia’s version of this story, or even in Sarah’s sometimes, I can live with that.
Because the alternative—shrinking, apologizing, disappearing—almost killed me.
I’m fifty-eight years old. I spent twenty years raising children and twelve years grieving my husband and eighteen months being erased by my own daughter.
I’m done being erased.
The house stands on its tree-lined street, white with black shutters, a swing set in the backyard. My name is on the deed. My grandchildren play in the yard. My daughter cooks dinner in the kitchen I paid for.
And I sit at the table, not in the corner, not apologizing, not grateful for scraps.
I sit at the table because I belong there.
Finally.
THE END
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