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My name is Vince Dedrick.

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I was

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born in Hawaii.

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I've read I've been raised out here all my

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life in California Los Angeles,

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and

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I'm Kurt.

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I currently reside in

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Brentwood.

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I got into stunt work

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at an early age.

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It's a teenager actually

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my farm and second generation.

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My father

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was in pretty much still is a stuntman

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even though he's 71.

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He still gets out there occasionally,

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but I followed in his footsteps.

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He was a

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stuntman for many years.

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I got into business in the late 50s

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and doubled

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for people like Steve McQueen Lee Majors

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lot of other actors and played parts and self-esteem

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acting what have

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So I got into it at a ripe age

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of 18 right after high school.

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I got into the Screen Actors Guild

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there was an opening for

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the background performer.

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And

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at that point I was interested in it that

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I saw my dad on,

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you know, I went down to the sets as

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a kid

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saw him

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do his fights in his High Falls and

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I just thought every dad did that.

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I mean I loved it.

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It was great going down in the studio and

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going to the back lots and seeing all this

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magical stuff on the western streets.

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And what have you

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in fact, I remember I was

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talking to somebody.

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About this the other day.

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He did this big fight on

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over the Warner Brothers

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and at the very end, they all clapped all

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the crew and cast clapped Barbara Stanwyck came over

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and gave him a big hug, and I

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thought this was terrific and

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that's when I kind of got the bug, but

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I actually

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started hitting the ground so to speak or doing

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stunts

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when I was

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in my late teens.

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I got in like I said into the extras

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extra business

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when I turned 18 and did some extra work

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and

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stood in for Lee Majors on Six Million Dollar

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Man.

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And

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started doing stunt work

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towards the latter part of that series

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and then

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moved on from there to other shows Hardy Boys

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Sheriff Lobo

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Battlestar Galactica

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and

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fell in love with it.

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And

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I trained through

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my dad's friends

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his

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his

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friends and

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his

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friends Sons we all train together and

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I got my feet wet that way

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and

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just grew up and fell in love with it.

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And by the time I was 23, I was

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a

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professional stunt person

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stop.

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Man and

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been added

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since

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for quite a few years.

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It's amazing how we've come full circle when I

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was

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about 11 or 12.

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My dad brought me down to Paramount.

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He was working on

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Star Trek

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the original one with William Shatner

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and

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I the day off from school that day and

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I remember coming around the corner and

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we were on stage and coming around the corner.

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There was Shatner working out on his tricep spending

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over his chair

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and

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he saw me out of the corners.

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I gave you a Lincoln

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came on over and shook my hand.

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I said,

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that's it.

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That's terrific and

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it was nice meeting him and

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Here I am.

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It's amazing.

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My dad actually worked on about eight or nine

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episodes back then

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and

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I

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worked on a show called MacGyver

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and I got to know a lot quite a

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few of the people on MacGyver that are on

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this series

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and when they

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were looking for a change

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they gave me a call

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and here I am full circle working on

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Star Trek

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many years later.

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I don't really remember.

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I just remember calling him and saying

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you're not gonna believe this I'm doing Star Trek

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pilot,

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and I'm sure he probably said something.

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Oh that's terrific or

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you know, something positive.

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I know that

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but

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he was real happy for me.

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And it's I just it's just phenomenal to be

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on

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to be able to be a part of that

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and be on the set with Shatner

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and all the

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you know, the original crew the original show and

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then here I am again, it's just

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it's just bizarre.

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Yes.

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Yeah,

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whew

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I haven't

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ever spent the night in the hospital,

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but I've been there numerous times.

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I

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got hurt pretty

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seriously on Titanic where I

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on the movie Titanic where I broke some ribs

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and

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separated some for my

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diaphragm

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been knocked out a few times

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some

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three concussions

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some

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separations tore my rotator cuff

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a couple of

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ligament

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damage here and there

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but pretty much I've been

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I've been

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Pretty fortunate

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I like my father who

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literally has

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from what we

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we added up over almost 400,000 dollars in Damage

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Done to his face alone

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over the years and head he's

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he's been

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into full Cardiac Arrest once when he did a

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high fall, he hit the bottom hit the concrete

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and he's had some

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numerous injuries.

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That guy has been

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beat up pretty bad over his career.

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Not that not not getting hurt like that.

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No,

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no kids

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growing up with once again being a kid growing

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up with that.

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I was tough to

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get a phone call when he was on location.

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He

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never you know, don't worry guys.

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He's in the hospital.

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He'll be okay.

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We got a lot of those phone calls growing

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up

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but

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you know today stuntmen and the today's sponsor so

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more there's so

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there's so much more involved as far as safety

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and

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but the

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with the

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cables and

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the pads and the

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airbags what have you that's out there the safety

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equipment that's out.

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There

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were

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eliminating lot of those, you know

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racks that we used to have back in the

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old days.

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It's more of a science.