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| | :''For the human the [[Auton]] was based on, see [[Rory Williams]]'' |
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| {{Infobox Individual | | {{Infobox Individual |
| | individual name = Rory Williams
| | |image = [[Image:Autory.png|250px]] |
| | image = [[File:Rory.png|250px]] | | |individual name = Rory Williams (Auton) |
| | alias = | | |race = [[Auton]] |
| | race = [[Human]] | | |home planet = [[Earth]] |
| | home planet = [[Earth]] | | |home era = 102 AD |
| | home era = [[21st century]] | | |appearances = [[DW]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens]]'' |
| | appearances = [[Rory Williams - List of Appearances|Full list of appearances]] | | |actor = [[Arthur Darvill]] |
| | actor = [[Arthur Darvill]] | |
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| '''Rory Williams''' was a "sort of" boyfriend and eventually fiancé of [[Amy Pond]] who became a brief companion of the [[Eleventh Doctor]] but later died and was removed from time after being absorbed by the [[Time Field]].
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| ==Biography==
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| ===Early Life===
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| Rory was a childhood friend of [[Amy Pond|Amelia Pond]]. He was privy to her tales of the [[Eleventh Doctor|"raggedy Doctor"]], and an unwilling participant in the dress-up games she based around her stories.
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| === Meeting [[Eleventh Doctor|the Doctor]] ===
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| [[File:Rory and Amelia.png|thumb|left|Rory realizes he's talking to "[[Eleventh Doctor|the Raggedy Doctor]]". ([[DW]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'')]]
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| ==== First Meeting ====
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| Later in life, Rory became a [[nurse]] at [[Royal Leadworth Hospital]], and entered into a romantic relationship with Amelia (now calling herself "Amy"). In his position as a nurse, Rory encountered strange goings-on at the Hospital's coma ward, hearing the patients chanting "Doctor", and witnessing what looked like some of them walking out in town. Rory later encountered the Doctor himself, and was quite surprised to find out he was real, and not a figment of Amy's imagination. Rory witnessed the Doctor defeat [[Prisoner Zero]] and warn the [[Atraxi]] away from [[Earth]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'') Following the incident, Rory began to read up on scientific theories, such that he could deduce the reason why the TARDIS was "bigger on the inside" (much to the Doctor's annoyance). ([[DW]]: ''[[The Vampires of Venice]]'') He later got engaged to Amy. ([[DW]]: ''[[Flesh and Stone]]'')
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| ==== Joining the Doctor ====
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| [[File:RoryAmyTARDIS.png|thumb|right|Rory accepts [[Amy Pond|Amy]]'s proposal. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Vampires of Venice]]'')]]
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| After having his stag party crashed by [[Eleventh Doctor|the Doctor]], Rory and [[Amy Pond|Amy]] were taken on a "romantic break" to Venice. While on their break they encountered the [[Saturnynian]]s, a race of alien fish who had [[Perception filter|taken human form]] in order to repopulate their species after having escaped through the [[crack |Time Field]] to escape the 'silence'. While at first he was hesitant and outright scornful of how the Doctor lived, he soon came to change his views, something remarked upon irritatedly by the Doctor at first. While they were in Venice, Rory agreed to continue travelling with the Doctor after Amy asked him to do so. The Doctor whole heartedly agreed and the three entered the TARDIS.([[DW]]: ''[[The Vampires of Venice]]'')
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| === Travels ===
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| After spending some time aboard [[the TARDIS]] traveling with the Doctor and Amy, Rory fell victim to the same [[Psychic Pollen]] that ensnared his companions in two shared dreams, [[File:RoryWelcomes.png|thumb|left|Rory welcomes [[Eleventh Doctor|the Doctor]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Amy's Choice]]'')]]one in which the powerless TARDIS was on a collision course with a bizarre cold sun and one in which the Doctor was visiting Rory and Amy, married and settled in [[Leadworth|Upper Leadworth]] while expecting their first child. In both, he was the subject of some verbal abuse by the [[Dream Lord]], a manifestation of the Doctor's darker nature, who referred to him as a "bumbling country doctor" and mocked him as a lesser rival to the Doctor for Amy's devotion. The Dream Lord demanded that Rory, the Doctor, and Amy—particularly the latter—choose which scenario was real, suggesting they should allow themselves to succumb to the "deadly danger" in the scenario they believed to be a dream.
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| While Rory favored the Leadworth dream, expressing satisfaction with his job as a doctor and his marriage to a pregnant Amy, the Doctor believed the TARDIS dream to be reality and Amy was unsure. Although Rory's sense of unreality mounted after a number of elderly men and women in his care, secretly [[Ecnodeen]] inhabiting human bodies, murdered a[[File:RoryDoctor.png|thumb|right|Rory tries to convince the Doctor and Amy that "The TARDIS World" is the dream. ([[DW]]: ''[[Amy's Choice]]'')]] class of schoolchildren and began pursuing the Doctor and his former companions through the town of Leadworth, he remained convinced that the cold star in the TARDIS dream could not exist—as well as unnerved by the prospect of abandoning five years of his life he believed he had spent in Leadworth with Amy, becoming a doctor and preparing for fatherhood.
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| Rory and Amy were pursued to the upper floor of their house in the Leadworth dream by the marauding Ecnodeen. Amy's consciousness lingered in the TARDIS dream due to the Dream Lord's machinations, forcing Rory to haul her bodily up the stairs. After she awoke, Rory took a pair of scissors and snipped off a ponytail he had grown in the Leadworth dream, much to his dream wife's dismay. Shortly after the Doctor arrived through a window, claiming he was now unsure about the TARDIS dream being reality, an Ecnodeen in the body of [[Poggit|Mrs Poggit]] followed suit. When Rory advanced on "Mrs Poggit", the Ecnodeen breathed a deadly vapour onto him that caused his body to disintegrate. His last words to Amy in the Leadworth dream were, "Look after our baby."[[File:RoryDies.png|thumb|left|Rory dies in the dream, in front of [[Amy Pond|Amy]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Amy's Choice]]'')]]
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| Fortunately for all three of the time-travelers, Amy did not heed Rory's advice. Now convinced the Leadworth dream was either a hallucination or a reality she did not want to live in, she "killed" herself and the Doctor by smashing their van into the front of the home she shared with Rory. All three awoke in the freezing TARDIS, where the Dream Lord apparently conceded defeat and restored power to the time machine before vanishing. The Doctor was not taken in by his darker shade's show of magnanimity, though, and decided to blow up the TARDIS after concluding that both scenarios were dreams.
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| Back in reality, inside the TARDIS, Rory asked how the Leadworth dream ended, having apparently lost his memory of dream's final moments. Amy told him how she ended it and admitted she drove the van into the house not knowing for sure whether it ''was'' in fact a dream. Overwhelmed by the implication that Amy realized she couldn't live without him, Rory kissed her passionately. When the Doctor asked where he wanted to travel next, Rory demurred, saying it was "Amy's choice". ([[DW]]: ''[[Amy's Choice]]'')
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| [[File:Rory and Ambrose.png|thumb|right|Rory is mistaken to be a policeman. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Hungry Earth]]'')]]
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| Rory was disappointed when the TARDIS took the time-travelers to [[Cwmtaff]], [[Wales]], in the year [[2020]] instead of [[Rio de Janeiro]]. When it became clear the Doctor intended to have an adventure in the tiny mining town, Rory collected Amy's engagement ring, fretting she might lose it. He placed it in a red ring box and put it on the TARDIS console. By the time he emerged from the time machine, Amy and the Doctor had left, and he was summarily accosted by [[Ambrose Northover]] and her son [[Elliot Northover|Elliot]], who believed him to be a plainclothes detective sent to investigate the disappearance of bodies from the Cwmtaff graveyard. Rory was unnerved by the disappearances, which appeared to occur despite the ground above the graves being undisturbed.
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| When Rory rejoined the Doctor, the Time Lord was preoccupied with the appearance of an [[energy barrier]] around the village and the impending arrival of a group of unknown attackers from below the ground. Rory was incensed to find Amy missing, and shouted in frustration at the Doctor when he admitted he had been unable to save her from being pulled underground. Rory eventually calmed down and cooperated with the Doctor to trap a [[Silurian]] warrior named [[Alaya]], the apparent leader of the group that kidnapped Amy, in a Meals on Wheels van. When the Doctor left Alaya in the custody of Rory, Ambrose, and Ambrose's father [[Tony Mack]], he warned them nobody could die in this encounter without sparking a bloody war between the Silurian civilization and humankind. Alaya goaded her captors, though, announcing she knew which of the three humans would kill her and ignite the war. Rory was unnerved but defiant, and he led the other two out of the basement in which the Silurian was held. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Hungry Earth]]'')
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| ===Death===
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| [[File:SoPretty.png|thumb|left|Just before dying, Rory tells [[Amy Pond|Amy]] she's beautiful. ([[DW]]: ''[[Cold Blood]]'')]]
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| Rory eventually made it down into the Silurians' lair, where all the other victims had been taken. Up in the church, Ambrose killed the captured Silurian [[Alaya]] in anger, as it had poisoned her father with her venom. He went down with Ambrose and [[Tony Mack|Tony]]. Upon seeing this, Alaya's sister [[Restac]] got angry and began a tirade, attacking all humans that got in her way. Rory, Amy and the Doctor made it to the TARDIS after the Silurian scientists filled the caves with poison gas to make the Silurians hibernate. They noticed a crack in the wall, the same as the one on Amy's bedroom wall. Then Restac crawled through into the room and shot at the Doctor. Rory pushed him out of the way of the beam and was hit fatally instead of him. The mysterious [[Time Field]] crack then absorbed and erased him, removing his entire life from existence and making Amy forget about him, having been a major part of her personal timeline. ([[DW]]: ''[[Cold Blood]]'')
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| ===Post Death===
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| After his death and erasure, the Doctor felt guilty and took Amy to several places she wished. When with [[Vincent van Gogh]] and Amy, the Doctor calls them Rory and Amy, to which Amy asks "Who?". However, while she consciously held no memory of Rory, van Gogh sensed that she was grieving over a loss. ([[DW]]: ''[[Vincent and the Doctor]]'')
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| While in the TARDIS, Amy found Rory's ring in the Doctor's jacket pocket. ([[DW]]: [[The Lodger (TV Story)|The Lodger]])
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| The [[Nestene Consciousness|Nestenes]] created an [[Auton]] [[Rory Williams (Auton)|duplicate]] of Rory to trap the Doctor, and after the trap was complete the Nestenes tried to control him. He fought back, but despite that he killed Amy Pond. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'')
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| ==Personality==
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| Rory appears somewhat timid in his first encounter with the Doctor. He is easily intimidated by [[Dr Ramsden]] and is unsettled by the ensuing events caused by the Doctor and Prisoner Zero. Despite this, he does have the presence of mind to record evidence in order to prove that his patients are appearing outside the hospital. He also assists Amy in attempting to clear the hospital of patients before Prisoner Zero can exploit them ([[DW]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]''). During the events in Venice, Rory was unnerved that the Doctor actually wanted to get back into the [[Saturnynian]] stronghold. However, he was capable of bravery, as shown when he challenged [[Francesco]] in order to protect Amy ([[DW]]: ''[[The Vampires of Venice]]''), and later when he took a lethal Silurian energy beam meant for the Doctor ([[DW]]: ''[[Cold Blood]]''). It is also notable that when he saw Francesco had attacked a girl, his immediate reaction was to check the girl was alright. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Vampires of Venice]]'')
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| ===Mickey comparison===
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| Rory is comparable in some ways with the [[Tenth Doctor]]'s companion, [[Mickey Smith]]. Rory, like Mickey, is the boyfriend of the main companion, and is present at the companion's initial meeting with [[the Doctor]], getting left behind when the companion ([[Amy Pond]] or [[Rose Tyler]] respectively) leaves with [[The Doctor]] to go travelling. Through their similar personalities and initial antagonism towards The Doctor, they're both often used for comic relief.
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| The number of appearances as companion seem to be identical, as both Mickey and Rory, after the episode in which they joined The Doctor, had two on-screen adventures (the second one being a two-part story in both instances) before leaving the TARDIS in way that they can seemingly never return (in Rory's case, dying and being erased from time and Mickey being left in a sealed-off parallel dimension), only to rejoin the Doctor for the series finale (as Rory is, currently, heavily rumoured to do). Also, both companions have had an [[Auton]] copy of them.
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| ==Key Life Events==
| | '''Rory Williams''' was an [[Auton]] based duplicate of the real [[Rory Williams]] who was killed in [[21st century]] [[Earth]] at the hands of the [[Silurian]], [[Restac]]. |
| *Meets [[Amy Pond]] and befriends her, eventually becoming her "sort of" boyfriend.
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| *Meets [[Eleventh Doctor|the Doctor]] and helps him stop [[Prisoner Zero]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'')
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| *Proposes to Amy, which she accepts.
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| *On the night of his bachelor party he meets the Doctor again and steps aboard the TARDIS. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Vampires of Venice]]'')
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| *Goes on a date with Amy in Venice, 1580 and helps the Doctor stop the [[Saturnynian|Saturnynian's]] plan to flood Venice. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Vampires of Venice]]'')
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| *Agrees to travel with Amy and the Doctor. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Vampires of Venice]]'')
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| *Encounters the [[Dream Lord]] and gets trapped in a dream with the Doctor and Amy. ([[DW]]: ''[[Amy's Choice]]'')
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| *Dies in the dream. ([[DW]]: ''[[Amy's Choice]]'')
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| *Encounters the [[Silurian]]s and helps the Doctor with his plan to rescue Amy, [[Mo Northover]], and [[Elliot Northover]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Hungry Earth]]'')
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| *Gets shot by [[Restac]] and dies, after saving the Doctor's life. ([[DW]]: ''[[Cold Blood]]'')
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| *Is consumed by a [[Time Field]] and is erased from existence which causes numerous events to never had existed. ([[DW]]: ''[[Cold Blood]]'')
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| :''Due to being erased from history by a [[Time Field]], none of the above events involving Rory happened.''
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| ==Behind the scenes==
| | Following that incident, an [[The Alliance|Alliance]] of races ranging from the [[Daleks]] to the [[Cybermen]], [[Judoon]], [[Sontarans]] and [[Nestene Consciousness]] along with a myriad of other races came to the conclusion that the [[Time Field]] forming was the end of the [[universe]] itself. They later pooled their resources in stopping it as they uncovered that the [[Eleventh Doctor|Doctor]] was going to be responsible for this event. To that end, they created an elaborate plan involving the [[Pandorica]] in [[Stonehenge]] that would serve as his prison. To complete the plan, the Nestene Consciousness was responsible for the deployment of Autons in the region where they were dressed up as Roman soldiers camped out near the area. This was based on the psychic residue left behind at [[Amy Pond]]'s home which the Alliance managed to acquire as they believed it to be the perfect trap to ensare [[The Doctor]] and save the universe. The analysis of her home time period allowed for the creation of a duplicate version of Rory Williams in the process. |
| *In a deleted scene from ''[[The Hungry Earth]]'', the Doctor admits to Amy that he likes Rory, a lot.
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| *It should be noted that in every episode with Rory (except [[DW]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'') he is seen wearing a winter vest for most of the episode.
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| *Rory's death is very similar in nature to Jenny's ([[DW]]: ''[[The Doctor's Daughter]]''). In both cases they died taking a shot intended for the Doctor, and in both cases the shooter was a violent member of a race that the Doctor had helped bring peace to. ([[Cobb]] and Restac respectively.)
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| *Spoilerists reveal that Rory is returning in ([[DW]]:''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]] / [[The Big Bang]]'') as a Roman Soldier, as currently withheld pictures for the finale dipict him in Roman armor. ''(He did indeed appear in The Pandorica Opens, but was revealed to be an Auton)''
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| ===Nametag Controversy===
| | This duplicate was placed with the other Auton Roman soldiers where they were all led to believe that they were actual members of the Roman Empire. The Auton Rory Williams was led to believe that he had died and had somehow ended up in an earlier time period where he awaited the Doctor to rescue him. However, part of him believed that his early life was all a dream. When news came at the Roman encampment of strange visitors, Auton Rory decided to volunteer to help the Doctor fight armies of alien invaders that had come to claim the Pandorica when Professor [[River Song]] sought the Romans aid. Take a contingent of volunteer soldiers, they journeyed to beneath Stonehenge where Auton Rory saved the life of Amy Pond when she was being attacked by a [[Cyberman (Pete's World)|Cyberman]] by destroying it with a sword plunged through its chest. Later, he explained his situation to the Doctor with neither knowing how Rory came to this time period. The Doctor managed to convince Auton Rory to meet Amy and confess his love since she had forgotten him due to his removal from the time line. |
| [[image:Rory's ID.jpg|thumb|right|Rory's troublesome ID badge]]
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| The question of Rory's "home" time period is one that baffled fans in the aftermath of the broadcast of [[The Eleventh Hour|''The Eleventh Hour'']]. This was largely fueled by an image of Rory's [[Royal Leadworth Hospital]] identification badge, that was given an extreme closeup in the episode. This closeup plainly shows the badge to have been issued on [[30th November]] [[1990]], which would seem implausible given the presence of various bits of technology in the episode, such as laptop computers and the named 2008 [[Blackberry]] phone. The existence of Facebook, Bebo, and Twitter were also mentioned, the phone had Facebook. So perplexing was this badge ID that [[Steven Moffat]] was specifically asked about it in [[New York]] by an [[American]] fan on [[13th April]] [[2010]]. His response was recorded and released in the podcast, ''Meet the Filmmaker'': | |
| {{quote|I have never actually looked at Rory's name tag to be completely honest with you . . . it's not a signficant plot thing.|Steven Moffat at the SoHo Apple Store}}
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| Though it seemed a genuine, spontaneous answer, Moffat had earlier enthusiastically extolled the virtues of lying to the public and press about the content of ''Doctor Who'', in a question-and-answer session following the New York theatrical screening of ''The Eleventh Hour''. In any event, judging by the technology in existence at the time of the Atraxi incident, it seems unlikely that the 1990 date on the name tag could be genuine. But adding fuel to the fire, 1990s cars were seen, but so were cars said to be of a 2005+ period. ''[[Flesh and Stone]]'' later had the Doctor remark that June 25th/26th 2010 was "Amy's time", meaning that the 1990 date was an error.
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| However, in the same latter episode, the clock in Amy's bedroom jumped from 11:59am June 25th to 12pm June 26th, one entire day missed in one second - and it was night time outside. In the episode ''[[Amy's Choice]]'', Leadworth was refered to as "the village that time forgot," these things all together causing many fan theories that something has gone wrong with Leadworth involving time itself.
| | As he did so, she cried and began to remember him but at that point the Aliance struck where they captured the Doctor. The Nestene Consciousness had activated its signal that turned the Roman soldiers back to their Auton selves with the Auton version of Rory attempting to fight the program. He urged for Amy to run whilst attempting to assert his own personality over the programming. As he called out his name, Amy remembered and said that he was her boyfriend. Just as she hugged him, the Auton programming activated and the duplicate Rory's hand opened up into a blaster which shot Amy Pond seemingly killing her. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens]]'') |
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