When My Parents Called Me a “Burden” for Needing Help During Emergency Surgery, I Cut Off Their $320,000 Gravy Train Forever
While I was bleeding out from a car accident and desperately needed someone to watch my twins during emergency surgery, my family chose Taylor Swift tickets over my life. What they didn’t know was that the “burden” they dismissed had been quietly funding their entire lifestyle for eight years – and I was about to pull the plug on everything.
The metallic taste of blood filled my mouth as I stared at my phone screen, the words blurring through the haze of pain medication and disbelief. Around me, the trauma bay of Chicago General Hospital buzzed with controlled chaos – the same hospital where I worked as a chief cardiology resident, now fighting to save my life after a devastating car accident.
But I wasn’t calling for medical help. My colleagues were already doing everything possible to keep me alive. I was calling because I had forty-five minutes before emergency surgery to remove my ruptured spleen, and I needed someone – anyone – to take care of my three-year-old twins, Lily and Lucas.
What I received wasn’t concern or urgency. It was the moment that would finally kill the relationship I’d been funding with my silence for eight years.
The family group chat message glowed on my cracked screen: “Myra, you’ve always been a nuisance and a burden. We have Taylor Swift tickets with Vanessa tonight. We’ve been planning this for months. Figure it out yourself.”
The message was from my mother. Then came my father’s reply: “You’re a doctor. You’re used to hospitals. Don’t make this into something bigger than it is.”
And finally, from my sister Vanessa: a single crying-laughing emoji.
So I did figure it out. From my hospital bed, while my blood pressure dropped and my vision tunneled, I hired an emergency nanny service at triple rates to keep my children safe. Then I made a decision that would detonate the comfortable life my family had been living on my dime.
I cut them off. Completely.
Two weeks later, someone knocked on my door. But before I tell you about the federal judge who turned a birthday party into a courtroom, let me explain how a family can systematically exploit someone for nearly a decade while calling them worthless.
The Hierarchy That Defined Everything
In the Carver household, love was never unconditional. It was a commodity distributed according to a hierarchy I’d never understood but had always felt crushing me from above.
My sister Vanessa was the sun around which our family’s universe revolved. Three years older than me, effortlessly beautiful, possessed of that magnetic charisma that drew attention without trying. When she entered a room, my parents – Helen and Richard Carver – literally brightened, their faces transforming with genuine joy and pride.
When Vanessa announced at eighteen that she wanted to pursue fashion design, our mother cried tears of happiness. “Our little visionary!” our father proclaimed, immediately writing a check for her first semester at Parsons School of Design.
When I told them I wanted to become a surgeon, my father didn’t even look up from his newspaper.
“That’s practical,” he said, the word landing like a dismissal.
Practical. That became my role in the family ecosystem. I was the reliable appliance, the sturdy furniture that kept the house functioning while Vanessa was the artwork that made it beautiful.
I told myself it didn’t matter. I buried my need for approval in textbooks and study schedules. I aced every exam, clawed my way into an elite medical school through merit scholarships and crushing debt, and survived the brutal gauntlet of surgical residency through sheer determination.
Graduation from medical school should have been the pinnacle of my achievements – the moment when my parents finally saw me as more than just “practical.” They showed up two hours late.
“Sorry, sweetheart,” Mom said distractedly, avoiding my eyes while checking her phone. “Vanessa had a crisis with potential investors. We had to handle that first.”
There were no flowers. No celebratory dinner. Just a hurried photo in the parking lot before they rushed off to provide “emotional support” for Vanessa’s latest drama.
Compare that to Vanessa’s first fashion show three years earlier. The entire family flew to New York, stayed in a five-star hotel, and sat front row while Dad posted seventeen photos online with captions like “So proud of our brilliant daughter!”
For my medical school graduation? A halfhearted “Congrats, honey” buried in a social media timeline devoted entirely to my sister’s achievements.
The Financial Exploitation Disguised as Family
The emotional neglect was painful, but the financial exploitation that followed was devastating in ways I’m still processing.
It started eight years ago, right after I signed my first residency contract. The salary was modest – resident physicians are essentially highly educated indentured servants – but it represented financial independence for the first time in my life.
That’s when my father called, his voice carefully modulated with rehearsed embarrassment.
“Myra, we’re in a bit of a financial bind,” he said, the words obviously practiced. “The mortgage payment is due and cash flow is unexpectedly tight this month. The market’s been volatile. Could you help us out? Just this once.”
Just this once.
I sent $2,400 that night without hesitation. They were my parents. Of course I would help them through a temporary crisis.
But “just this once” became a monthly ritual. The mortgage payment. Then their health insurance when Dad’s coverage lapsed. Then the emergencies that always seemed to require immediate cash infusions: the roof repair, the Mercedes transmission, the furnace replacement, Vanessa’s “business investment opportunities.”
I never said no. Not once. I was starving for their approval, desperate to transform from “practical” into “valuable.” So I paid for their affection in monthly installments, hoping that my financial usefulness would eventually translate into emotional worth.
The requests became more frequent and more expensive. When I hesitated once about a particularly large transfer, my mother’s voice turned cold: “I guess we know where your priorities are. Family obviously doesn’t matter to you.”
The guilt was devastating. I sent the money within an hour.
When I became pregnant with twins at twenty-nine and their father abandoned us during my fifth month, I called my parents from the hospital after a terrifying bleeding episode. I was alone, scared, and aching for my mother’s comfort during the most vulnerable time of my life.
“Oh honey, we wish we could come,” Mom said with practiced sympathy. “But Vanessa is really struggling after that harsh review of her Milan collection. She needs us right now. You understand.”
They didn’t come for the emergency. They didn’t come for the birth. They didn’t come during the sleepless weeks when I was hallucinating from exhaustion, trying to feed two newborns while studying for board certification exams.
But the money transfers never stopped.
$2,400 on the first of every month. $800 on the fifteenth. Plus the emergencies, the special occasions, the “temporary” situations that became permanent obligations.
I kept a detailed spreadsheet – maybe the scientist in me needed concrete proof of what was happening. The total was staggering: over eight years, I had transferred approximately $320,000 to my parents.
I never demanded gratitude. I never asked for recognition. I just wanted them to see me as something more than a burden.
I had no idea that’s exactly what they would call me when I was literally dying.
The Accident That Revealed Everything
The crash happened on a rain-soaked Tuesday evening after a sixteen-hour shift in the cardiac surgery unit. My eyes burned with exhaustion, but my hands were steady as I drove through the familiar intersection near the hospital.
The traffic light was green. I entered the intersection at normal speed.
I never saw the delivery truck that ran the red light at fifty miles per hour.
The impact obliterated my driver’s side door, sending glass exploding through the cabin like shrapnel. Metal screamed against metal. The world spun into a blur of gray sky and red pain before going completely black.
I regained consciousness in the ambulance, a white-hot spear of agony ripping through my abdomen with every bump in the road. Through my haze, I recognized Dr. Marcus Smith, an emergency physician from my hospital who’d become a close friend over our years working together.
“Myra, stay with me,” he said, his voice tight with professional concern and personal fear. “We’re almost there. Possible splenic rupture, probable internal bleeding. You need surgery immediately.”
Surgery. The word penetrated the morphine fog like an ice pick. Emergency surgery meant hours in the operating room, hours when my children would be alone.
“My kids,” I gasped, trying to sit up despite the restraints and the lightning bolt of pain that shot through my core. “Lily and Lucas. The babysitter leaves at eight. It’s almost seven-thirty.”
Marcus checked his watch. “We’ll be at the hospital in five minutes. You have maybe forty minutes before we take you into surgery.”
Forty minutes. That was all I had to ensure my three-year-old twins would be safe while surgeons tried to save my life.
My blood-slick fingers fumbled for my phone. I called my parents’ number, my hands shaking as I waited for them to answer.
Four rings. Then my father’s voice, sharp with impatience and background noise – car doors slamming, music, the sound of excitement and anticipation.
“Myra? We’re about to leave for the concert. What is it?”
“Dad, I need help,” I said, my voice breaking with pain and desperation. “There’s been a serious accident. I’m in an ambulance. I need emergency surgery. Please – I need someone to watch the twins. Just for a few hours.”
Silence. Then muffled voices – I could hear my mother’s clipped tone, Vanessa’s unmistakable laugh, the sound of people who had more important things to do than deal with my crisis.
“Hold on,” Dad said. The line went dead.
A moment later, my phone buzzed with the family group chat notification.
My mother’s message appeared first: “Myra, you’ve always been a nuisance and a burden. We have Taylor Swift tickets with Vanessa tonight. We’ve been planning this for months. Figure it out yourself.”
I read it twice, certain I was hallucinating from blood loss. But the words stayed the same.
Then my father: “You’re a doctor. You’re used to hospitals. Don’t turn this into something bigger than it is.”
Then Vanessa:
A laughing emoji. My sister had responded to my medical emergency with a laughing emoji.
Marcus was watching me, and I knew he could see something fundamental dying in my eyes.
“Myra?” he asked quietly. “What did they say?”
I couldn’t speak. The betrayal was so complete, so devastating, that I felt something essential crack inside my chest.
“I need to borrow your phone,” I whispered. “Mine’s dying.”
Without hesitation, he handed me his device. I searched for an emergency nanny service – the kind that charged premium rates for last-minute requests. Within four minutes, I’d arranged care for my children at triple the normal cost.
“Can you screenshot those messages?” I asked, returning his phone.
He looked at the screen, his jaw tightening as he read my family’s response to my life-threatening emergency. “Done. I’ve got everything documented.”
As the ambulance doors burst open and the trauma team swarmed around my gurney, I closed my eyes and made a decision that would change everything.
From that hospital bed, while fighting for my life, I began the systematic dismantling of the financial empire I’d built for people who saw me as nothing more than a convenient ATM.
The Surgery That Clarified Everything
The operation lasted four hours. My spleen was removed, two liver lacerations were repaired, and I lost enough blood to require multiple transfusions. For three days, I drifted in and out of consciousness, surrounded by the steady beeping of monitors and the antiseptic smell of institutional care.
Not one call from my parents. Not a single text message. No flowers, no visit, no acknowledgment that their daughter and financial provider had nearly died.
The nanny service sent me hourly updates with photos: strangers bathing my children, feeding them dinner, reading bedtime stories, providing the care that should have come from family.
Complete strangers stepped in where my own family had refused to help.
On the third day, I asked my nurse for my laptop.
“Dr. Whitmore, you need to focus on healing,” she said gently, checking my IV drip.
“I need to stop a different kind of bleeding,” I replied.
I logged into my online banking and stared at eight years of financial history. Transfer after transfer, an endless stream of money flowing from my account to theirs.
Transfer: Helen & Richard Carver – Mortgage Payment Transfer: Helen & Richard Carver – Health Insurance Transfer: Helen & Richard Carver – Emergency Fund
One by one, I clicked “Cancel Recurring Payment.” Eight years of financial obligation eliminated with a few mouse clicks.
Then I blocked their phone numbers.
There was no anger in it, no vindictive satisfaction. Just the clean, precise calm of a surgeon removing diseased tissue to save the healthy organism.
Marcus stopped by that evening with terrible hospital coffee and genuine concern.
“How are you feeling?” he asked, studying my face for signs of pain or distress.
I met his eyes, surprised by my own answer. “Lighter. For the first time in my adult life, I feel genuinely lighter.”
The Knock That Changed Everything
Two weeks later, I was home and healing. Moving carefully to protect my surgical incisions, but alive and grateful for every ordinary moment with my children.
It was Saturday morning. The kitchen smelled like blueberry pancakes and maple syrup. Lily was helping me stir batter while Lucas banged his sippy cup against his high chair tray, both of them chattering about their plans for the day.
That’s when someone knocked on my door. Three sharp, authoritative raps that made my heart skip.
My first thought was panic – if my parents were here to demand explanations about the missing mortgage payment, I wasn’t sure I had the strength to face their anger yet.
I checked the peephole and froze.
A man I hadn’t seen in three years stood on my doorstep. Silver hair perfectly groomed, charcoal wool coat, posture so rigid he could have been carved from granite.
Judge Thomas Carver. My grandfather. My mother’s father, who had somehow remained absent from our family drama for reasons that were never quite explained but always accepted.
I opened the door, uncertain and wary.
“Grandpa?”
He said nothing at first. He stepped inside and pulled me into a fierce embrace, immediately loosening his grip when he felt me wince from my healing incisions.
“Careful,” he murmured, his voice rough with emotion I’d never heard from him before. “Eleanor told me everything.”
Eleanor. My mother’s estranged sister, the one family member who had always refused to participate in our dysfunction.
“Grandpa, I don’t understand—”
“You don’t need to explain anything,” he cut me off, his voice carrying the authority of someone accustomed to being obeyed. “But there are things that need to be said, and they need to be said in front of everyone.”
He reached into his coat and withdrew a thick, cream-colored envelope with elegant script addressing.
“My seventieth birthday party is next Saturday,” he said, his eyes locking onto mine with the intensity that had intimidated attorneys for forty years. “The entire family will be there. And it’s time for some truths to come to light.”
The Evidence That Would Destroy Them
Over the next hour, sitting at my small kitchen table while my twins played nearby, my grandfather revealed the scope of what he knew and what he planned to do about it.
“Eleanor called me the night of your accident,” he said, his voice carefully controlled. “I’d suspected favoritism for years, but I didn’t understand the extent of the financial abuse until she mentioned that you’d been covering their mortgage.”
He leaned forward, every inch the federal judge who had spent decades presiding over complex fraud cases. “Do you have records? Documentation of the transfers?”
I nodded, already knowing where this was heading. “Everything. I kept a detailed spreadsheet.”
“Good,” he said, standing with the deliberate movement of someone preparing for battle. “Print all of it. Every transaction, every receipt, every record you have. Put it in a proper presentation folder.”
“Why?” I asked, though I was beginning to understand.
“Because facts are the only weapons that destroy lies,” he said with quiet finality. “And next Saturday, we’re going to war.”
The week before the party passed in a haze of anxiety and preparation. I received a text from my cousin Rachel that showed me exactly how my family was controlling the narrative in my absence:
“Hey Myra, heard you’re having some kind of breakdown? Vanessa mentioned you’ve been acting erratic since the accident. Hope you’re getting the help you need. “
They were shaping the story before I could tell it. The money was gone, I was silent, so they were painting me as mentally unstable to explain away the missing financial support.
I showed the message to Aunt Eleanor as she helped me organize the evidence folder that would soon become the foundation of their destruction.
“Classic gaslighting,” she said with the weary expertise of someone who’d escaped this family’s dysfunction years earlier. “If they can paint you as crazy, they don’t have to admit they’re thieves.”
She flipped through the bank statements, her face growing harder with each page. “$364,200,” she read aloud. “Myra, you could have bought a house outright with what you gave them.”
“I know,” I whispered.
“You’re not destroying this family,” she said gently, placing her hand over mine. “You’re just turning on the lights. The roaches are the ones who should be afraid of what people will see.”
The Party That Became a Courtroom
Saturday evening arrived with all the inevitability of a death sentence. The Carver estate loomed before me – an imposing colonial mansion set on three acres of perfectly manicured grounds that screamed old money and established power.
I pulled into the circular driveway, my hands damp with sweat despite the cool October air. At least forty cars were already parked – everyone had come to celebrate my grandfather’s seventieth birthday.
I wore a simple navy dress with a high neckline and long sleeves that concealed the bruises still healing beneath. I wasn’t there to compete with Vanessa’s glamour. I was there as Dr. Myra Whitmore, armed with facts and supported by the grandfather I’d barely known but who had apparently been watching everything.
I walked inside carrying Lily and Lucas, their small hands gripping mine tightly as we entered the lion’s den.
The living room buzzed with animated conversation. Champagne flutes floated past on silver trays. A string quartet played classical music from the corner while guests in expensive clothes mingled and laughed.
I saw my parents immediately.
They stood near the marble fireplace, Dad polished and confident in his tailored suit, Mom elegant in silk that probably cost more than most people’s car payments. They were laughing at something, completely at ease in their social element.
Then they noticed me.
The laughter died. My father’s expression hardened into something cold and defensive.
Vanessa glided over within minutes, her smile perfectly calibrated for public consumption. She wore a dress I recognized from her Instagram posts – one that cost $4,000 because I’d paid the credit card bill that covered it just three months earlier.
“Myra!” she said, air-kissing my cheek with practiced warmth. “You made it! We were so worried about you. We heard the accident was… traumatizing.”
“It was a ruptured spleen, Vanessa,” I replied evenly. “I almost bled to death.”
She waved dismissively, as if I were being dramatic about a minor inconvenience. “Mom said it was just a fender bender. Anyway, you look… tired. Are you sure you should be here with the children? This might be too much stimulation.”
“I wouldn’t miss Grandpa’s birthday for anything,” I said.
The character assassination began thirty minutes later.
I stood near the dessert table, trying to keep my children entertained, when my mother’s voice carried just loudly enough to be overheard by nearby relatives.
“We’ve tried everything with Myra,” she was saying to a cluster of aunts, her tone perfectly calibrated to suggest long-suffering patience. “She’s completely cut us off. Won’t return calls, won’t let us see the children. I think the stress of single motherhood has finally broken her.”
“Poor dear,” one aunt murmured sympathetically.
“It’s heartbreaking,” my father added, stepping into the circle with rehearsed timing. “We’ve given her everything we could. Supported her through medical school, helped with the children. And this is how she repays us – by acting like we’re her enemies.”
I felt the room’s attention shifting toward me, whispers following in the wake of their carefully constructed narrative. The unstable daughter. The ungrateful child who had abandoned her loving, supportive family.
I stood there, frozen, watching them destroy my reputation with surgical precision.
Then a wine glass rang sharply against silver.
My grandfather stood on the raised hearth beside the fireplace, commanding the room’s attention with nothing more than his presence.
“Everyone,” he said, his voice carrying the authority of four decades on the federal bench, “if I could have your attention.”
The room fell silent with the speed that only true power can command.
“Before we cut the cake,” Grandpa said, his eyes scanning the assembled family with judicial precision, “I have a few words to share about family, loyalty, and the truth we’re celebrating tonight.”
My father stepped forward with a nervous smile, trying to maintain control of the narrative. “Dad, maybe we should keep this brief. Myra isn’t feeling well and—”
“Myra is perfectly fine,” Grandpa cut him off with icy precision. “Sit down, Richard.”
The command was delivered with such authority that my father actually stepped backward.
Grandpa reached into his jacket and withdrew a manila folder thick with documentation.
“I’ve heard some interesting stories tonight,” he said, his voice carrying to every corner of the silent room. “Stories about burden, about gratitude, about family support. I believe in evidence over emotion, so let’s examine the facts.”
My mother started to move toward him, panic flickering in her eyes. “Tom, this really isn’t appropriate for a birthday celebration—”
“This is exactly the appropriate venue,” he replied without looking at her. “Richard, who pays your mortgage?”
My father went pale. “What?”
“Your mortgage. Two thousand four hundred dollars per month. Who pays it?”
“We manage our own finances,” Dad stammered.
“Do you?” Grandpa opened the folder and withdrew the first set of bank statements. “Because I have eight years of electronic transfers from Myra’s account to your mortgage lender. Total: $230,400.”
A collective gasp rippled through the room.
“She offered!” my mother blurted desperately.
“Health insurance,” Grandpa continued, ignoring her interruption. “Eight hundred dollars per month for your coverage when Richard’s employment benefits lapsed. Paid by Myra. Car repairs, home maintenance, credit card payments – all paid by Myra while she completed her medical residency and raised twins as a single mother.”
He turned to Vanessa, who was trying to make herself invisible behind a marble pillar.
“That dress you’re wearing? Here’s the credit card statement from June showing the exact purchase amount transferred from Myra’s account.”
Vanessa’s face went white.
“Total financial support over eight years,” Grandpa read from his summary sheet. “$364,200. Paid by a resident physician earning thirty-eight thousand dollars annually while supporting two children alone.”
He slammed the folder shut, the sound echoing like a gunshot.
“And you called her a burden.”
The silence was so complete you could hear the grandfather clock ticking in the hallway.
“But money is just money,” Grandpa said, his voice dropping to the deadly quiet tone that had terrified defense attorneys for decades. “Let’s discuss character.”
He pulled out his phone and held it up so everyone could see the screen.
“Two months ago, Myra was in a life-threatening car accident. She called you from an ambulance, facing emergency surgery, desperately needing help with her children.”
His voice rose as he read the message that would destroy them forever.
“This is the text Helen sent her daughter while she was bleeding internally: ‘Myra, you’ve always been a nuisance and a burden. We have Taylor Swift tickets with Vanessa tonight. Figure it out yourself.'”
The reaction was immediate and devastating. Gasps, whispers, the sound of people physically recoiling from my parents as the true scope of their cruelty became clear.
“Oh my God,” someone whispered.
“That’s not what it meant!” Vanessa screamed, her composure finally cracking. “You’re taking it out of context!”
“There is no context!” Aunt Eleanor shouted from across the room. “There is no universe where abandoning your dying daughter for concert tickets is acceptable!”
My father turned on me, his face flushed with humiliation and rage. “Myra, stop this. You’re embarrassing the entire family.”
I stepped forward, my voice shaking but clear. “I’m not embarrassing the family, Dad. I’m exposing it.”
“We love you!” my mother sobbed, tears of self-pity rather than genuine remorse streaming down her face.
“No,” I said with quiet finality. “You love my usefulness. You love that I solve your problems without complaint. You love that I fund your lifestyle so you can pretend to be wealthier than you actually are. But you don’t love me.”
I turned to Vanessa, who couldn’t meet my eyes.
“And you? You responded to my medical emergency with a laughing emoji. I was dying, and you thought it was funny.”
The shame on her face was absolute.
“I’m done,” I announced to the room. “The bank of Myra is permanently closed. I am not your retirement plan, I am not your ATM, and I am certainly not your burden.”
I looked around at the assembled family members, most of whom were staring at my parents with expressions ranging from shock to disgust.
“I apologize for disrupting the party, but you deserved to know who you were really drinking with tonight.”
The Fallout That Followed
My parents left within ten minutes, unable to face the judgment of relatives who now understood exactly what kind of people they really were. They didn’t say goodbye to me or their grandchildren.
My phone buzzed for days afterward. Cousins apologizing for believing the lies. Aunts I barely knew sending flowers and cards. The narrative had flipped overnight – my parents went from victims of an ungrateful daughter to exposed abusers who had systematically exploited their own child.
Three months later, Eleanor called with an update that felt like justice finally arriving.
“They’re selling the house,” she said without preamble.
“They can’t afford the payments?” I asked, looking around my modest but peaceful apartment.
“Not without their personal ATM,” she replied dryly. “Your uncle Frank is letting them stay in his guest cottage while they both find actual employment.”
“And Vanessa?”
“Lost her biggest client last week. Turns out people don’t want to work with someone who laughs at family medical emergencies. Word travels fast in small industries.”
Six months after the birthday party, my phone rang with Vanessa’s number.
“Myra?” Her voice was small, broken, completely different from the confident woman who’d dismissed my bleeding out as a minor inconvenience.
“I’m listening,” I said neutrally.
“I’m sorry,” she sobbed into the phone. “I’m really, truly sorry. I knew about the money, I knew how they treated you, but I just… I didn’t let myself think about it. I was selfish and horrible and I can never take it back.”
“You were,” I agreed.
“I’m working now,” she added quietly. “Waitressing at a chain restaurant. It’s hard, and I’m not good at it yet, but I’m trying to learn what it means to actually earn things instead of just taking them.”
“Good,” I said.
“Can I… is there any way to fix this? To fix us?”
I looked at my twins playing contentedly on the living room rug, at the peace I’d built in the absence of toxicity, at the life I’d created without their influence.
“You can try,” I said finally. “From a distance. Show me change over time. Don’t just promise it.”
Then I hung up.
I don’t know if I’ll ever fully trust them again. Some relationships, once shattered by betrayal this profound, can never be fully repaired. Trust is like bone – it can heal stronger than before, but the break lines are always visible.
For thirty-four years, I believed love was transactional. I thought if I paid enough, gave enough, sacrificed enough, I would finally be valued as more than just useful.
I was wrong about everything except this: love isn’t what you buy. It’s who shows up when you have nothing left to give.
The family I have now – Grandpa Thomas, Aunt Eleanor, Marcus, my children, the chosen family I’ve built through work and genuine friendship – loves me unconditionally. That’s a wealth my parents will never understand.
If you’re carrying burdens that aren’t yours, if you’re funding your own abuse, if you’re paying for affection that should be freely given – set it down. Walk away. You are not a burden. You are not a nuisance.
You are the prize they were too blind to see.
Sometimes the most powerful thing you can do is stop making excuses for people who treat you poorly just because they’re family. Blood doesn’t entitle anyone to exploit, diminish, or abandon you – and cutting off toxic people often reveals just how much of your life you’ve been wasting on their dysfunction.
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