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  • Crowned with Guilt by S.K. Rose

    Crowned with Guilt by S.K. Rose

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    As a child, I discovered a castle. It became a sanctuary from the nightmare that was my life, but my fairytale truly began when he found me. The boy with green eyes and crooked smile. The boy with stories and an imagination that could take us far, far away. In our castle he was the prince, and I the princess. For the first time in my life I was safe, happy. I was loved...
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    dark  drama  high-school  sad  abuse  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • Endless Possibility by Emma Scott

    Endless Possibility by Emma Scott

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Noah Lake describes his arduous journey across Europe, learning to cope with his blindness, and his life now with the one woman who never gave up on him...
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    angst  coming-of-age  drama  sad  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • Pocketful of Shame: A High School Bully Romance by Chloe Walsh

    Pocketful of Shame: A High School Bully Romance by Chloe Walsh

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "Nothing in Pocketful is as it seems." Chris Capaldi's words of warning haunt my every waking hour. I know I'm in danger, even if I can't identify the threat. Telling Sketch about the night his brother died was a mistake that could prove fatal for all of us. Secrets of this magnitude should stay buried, but it's out now and I can feel the walls closing in on me...
  • Adore Me by Jillian Dodd

    Adore Me by Jillian Dodd

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Join Keatyn on Thanksgiving Break in this Keatyn Chronicles novella. I’ve finally become the kind of girl my little sisters could look up to. Except for the lies. Lying to my friends is killing me. And the longer I’m there—the closer we get—the more I feel like I’m being eaten from the inside out. If I go back to Eastbrooke, I’ll end up nothing but a shell. So I'm not going back...
  • If I Break THE COMPLETE SERIES Bundle by Portia Moore

    If I Break THE COMPLETE SERIES Bundle by Portia Moore

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The complete If I Break Series Bundle. Includes If I Break, Before I Break, Almost Broken and Beautifully Broken. This is not your typical happily ever after... Lauren Brooks wants to do three things: Escape the small town she grew up in, get accepted to her dream school in Chicago, and graduate without drowning in debt. Now she’s working her ass off to do just that...
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    angst  dark  drama  sad  adult  anthologies  contemporary  fiction
  • Reclaim: A Standalone Friends-to-Lovers Romance by Aly Martinez

    Reclaim: A Standalone Friends-to-Lovers Romance by Aly Martinez

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Choices. Everyone makes them. From mundane to unimaginable, one choice can change the trajectory of your entire life. My mother’s choice was to abandon us with our abusive father. My brother’s choice was to go to prison for killing the boy who assaulted his soulmate. Camden Cole’s choice was to fall in love with a shattered girl who had absolutely nothing to offer him but heartbreak...
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    angst  coming-of-age  dark  drama  high-school  sad  abuse  audiobook
  • Catch the Sun by Jennifer Hartmann

    Catch the Sun by Jennifer Hartmann

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    "Kissing you feels like catching the sun…" At seven years old, Ella Sunbury and Max Manning were inseparable—until life scattered them in different directions, forcing Ella to abruptly leave town. A decade later, she returns for their senior year of high school, moving in across the street from her childhood best friend. But she's not the same girl Max once knew...
  • Cleansed with Fire by S.K. Rose

    Cleansed with Fire by S.K. Rose

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I remembered her. I remembered everything. But was it a blessing or a curse? Half of me was still in love with the blue eyed girl wearing my crown around her neck. The other, felt betrayed that she could walk away when I needed her the most. Struck down by her absence, an internal war brewed within my kingdom...
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    dark  drama  high-school  sad  abuse  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • Myles by Lisa Helen Gray, Elisia Goodman

    Myles by Lisa Helen Gray, Elisia Goodman

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I’m Kayla Martin... I was once sweet and innocent, saw the world bright with colour, but now all I see is black and white. He not only ripped my innocence away from me, tortured me and made my life a living hell, but he stole the very soul that made me who I am. I’m a shell of the girl I once knew. But it’s all about to change. I’m ready to face my fear...
    Categorized as:
    angst  bullying  dark  high-school  sad  abuse  alpha-mc  book
  • Styx & Stones by Carmen Jenner

    Styx & Stones by Carmen Jenner

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    We thought we had forever. We were wrong. Alaska Stone is everything I've ever dreamed of. For years, I’ve watched her in the halls, wanted her, but she never knew I existed. Not until she walked into my chemo session. For me, it was love at first sight. For her? It might take a little longer. But hey, it’s not like we’re on a deadline or anything...
  • Falling by E.K. Blair

    Falling by E.K. Blair

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Sometimes it takes someone else to show us what we are truly capable of becoming. Suffering from years of violent abuse, Ryan Campbell has learned how to keep people from getting too close. But when you shut yourself off, people get hurt along the way. Never caring much about others, Ryan creates a world in which he doesn’t have to feel...
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    angst  coming-of-age  dark  drama  sad  abuse  adult  anthologies
  • MAXWELL 3: Love's Conviction by C.J. Bishop

    MAXWELL 3: Love's Conviction by C.J. Bishop

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    MAXWELL, Part 3 A tender romance begins to blossom between Savannah and Maddy as darker issues arise when Cole, Gabe and Dane are clued in to Brock Coulson’s intentions to drag Caleb through a vicious court battle. Clint and Cochise return to lend a “helping” hand and Clint finds himself unexpectedly drawn to a least likely candidate for romance...
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    angst  dark  sad  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  lgbtq
  • Under a Different Sky by Lindsey Iler

    Under a Different Sky by Lindsey Iler

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    My life is a mess. I'm walking around with a black eye. My position on the hockey team is questionable at best, and if that’s not bad enough, I think I'm falling for my dead girlfriend's best friend. Every day, it's a fight to feel alive, and yet, I drink to numb the pain. Everyone is standing back, watching me fall apart. Everyone except Hannah...
  • White Locks by Rose B. Mashal

    White Locks by Rose B. Mashal

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When love knocked on Marie's door, she had a hard time denying her heart what it wanted. Especially after she'd found her black keys. Now Marie finally realizes that home is not where she was born, or where she'd lived all of her life. Home is where her Love is. It's time for her to follow her heart...
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    angst  dark  drama  sad  adult  book  contemporary  family
  • Differently Normal by Tammy Robinson

    Differently Normal by Tammy Robinson

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Every family has its issues. For Maddy, life is all about routine. It has to be, to keep her autistic sister happy and healthy. With just Maddy and her mother as Bee’s full time carers, there’s no time in Maddy’s life for complications like friends, let alone a boyfriend...
  • Ruthless Villain by Faith Summers, Khardine Gray

    Ruthless Villain by Faith Summers, Khardine Gray

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    My Knight. My Rebel. My Forbidden Villain …In the dazzling lights of Vegas, I indulged in a passionate one-night stand with a man who looked like a Greek god in the flesh.We no names, no strings attached, just an unforgettable night of fun.The plan was simple—say goodbye and move on.Little did I know fate had other ideas for me.I never expected to run into Mr...
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    drama  dark  angst  sad  romance  sports  contemporary  organized-crime
  • This is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn by Aidan Chambers

    This is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn by Aidan Chambers

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Subtitled The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn this is the story of Cordelia from the time she is 15 until she is 20. She is pregnant and plans to give this account to her daughter on her 16th birthday so that they can share their youth together...
  • A Rose for Melinda by Lurlene McDaniel

    A Rose for Melinda by Lurlene McDaniel

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Told in letters, journal entries, e-mails, doctors’ reports, and instant messages, the heartbreaking story of an aspiring ballet dancer battling leukemia. From: Melinda Skye To: Readers Subject: Jesse Hi! I can’t believe it. What a surprise from Jesse...
  • Olivia by Lori L. Otto

    Olivia by Lori L. Otto

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When devastating news brings an abrupt end to a romantic rendezvous, Livvy Holland struggles to accept the death of one of her closest mentors. Livvy’s artwork has always been an expression of her emotions, and avoiding the pain she feels from her recent loss makes painting seem impossible. Her inspiration gone, she devotes her attention to the future she’s planning with Jon Scott...
  • Dying Wish by Margaret McHeyzer

    Dying Wish by Margaret McHeyzer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I have three major loves in my life: my family, my best friend Becky, and ballet. Elijah Turner is quickly becoming the fourth.He's been around as long as I can remember. But now he's much more than just the annoying guy at school.My life was working out perfectly...until it got turned upside down...
  • Prosper by Paula Marinaro

    Prosper by Paula Marinaro

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Prosper Worthington is a decorated war hero, a convicted felon, and the ex-cellmate and road companion of his best friend, Jack Winston. Different as two men can be, Prosper is rough, hot-headed, focused, and driven. He’s also had more than enough of Jack’s spur-of-the-moment decisions, faulty reasoning, and Peter Pan-like existence...
  • Where Angels Fall by Delaney Foster

    Where Angels Fall by Delaney Foster

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Makenna Taylor and Reid Landry are high school sweethearts. He was her first. Her only. They had life all planned out, right down to the white picket fence and 2.5 kids. Then Reid joined the Marines, and from that day forward, life as Makenna knew it would never be the same.She thought she was just another girl with a part-time job waiting tables while she worked her way through college...
  • Filthy by H.J. Bellus

    Filthy by H.J. Bellus

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From the USA Today and AMAZON best seller of The Reckless Series, HJ Bellus, comes a sexy romance: FILTHY.It was just a summer fling.He taught me his bad boy ways.And now I'm beyond being saved.At first it was fun, but now it's an addiction my skin craves.All sense of reality disappears and there's no boundaries holding me in.My name is Darby and this is FILTHY...
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    angst  dark  drama  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  new-adult
  • MAXWELL 1: Not Without Guilt by C.J. Bishop

    MAXWELL 1: Not Without Guilt by C.J. Bishop

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    MAXWELL, Part 1 While Abel faces trial for the death of Devlin’s brother – Craig Grant – Max and Horatio struggle with memories of the past, and what they still mean to one another. Holding the key that will free their hearts from the chains that have bound them for two decades, Horatio must hide it away and keep it secret now that “new” hearts are involved...
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    angst  dark  sad  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  lgbtq
  • Just Me by L.A. Fiore

    Just Me by L.A. Fiore

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Lark O'Bannion learned early that life isn't really like a fairy tale. Parents don't always love their children unconditionally, damsels, or even terrified and lonely little girls, are usually left to deal with their distress alone, Prince Charming rarely, if ever, comes riding to the rescue, and happily-ever-afters are a lovely concept but, in reality, are few and far between...
  • Golden Chains by Rose B. Mashal

    Golden Chains by Rose B. Mashal

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    "Royalty is a dirty game." That's what he'd once told her, but she couldn't imagine how dirty it could really get. Blessed now more than ever, Marie's love for Mazen continues to grow, and with it, her worries and doubts, as well...
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    angst  dark  drama  sad  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Pained by Vera Micic, Vera Hollins

    Pained by Vera Micic, Vera Hollins

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Two months have passed since the day I pushed Hayden away. Two months since I found out he loved me and wanted to be with me. I’ve been trying to move on and forget about him, but my heart refuses to listen. Hayden had almost died saving me. Half of me wants to forgive him for everything and give him another chance...
  • Bayward Street by Addison Jane

    Bayward Street by Addison Jane

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The law called me a runaway. A criminal. But after a lifetime in hell, being abused and tortured by my father, I found my real family on the streets. A group of kids like me who society failed to protect. Together we survived day by day. And for me, that was enough. Until Heath showed up. Every wall I put up—he tore down. Every single touch had me searching for another...
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    bullying  drama  high-school  sad  abuse  book  contemporary  crime
  • Virtue and Vice by Ninya Tippett

    Virtue and Vice by Ninya Tippett

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "If I'm going down, I might as well pick my poison. I pick you." *** A Cobalt Bay Billionaires story. *** She couldn’t be sure whether he was her predator or protector... but she was doomed to love him either way. *** It was a summer they will never forget...
    Categorized as:
    dark  drama  sad  adult  age-gap  alpha-mc  book  contemporary
  • STEPDORK by A.E. Murphy

    STEPDORK by A.E. Murphy

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Raven and Travis sitting in a tree, doing things they shouldn’t be. HA… yeah, right. Raven hates her stepbrother with a passion, and she’s certain Travis returns the sentiment because he makes life at home with him hell. He ruined her favorite T-shirt, damn it...
  • Dusty by YellowBella, TeamBella23

    Dusty by YellowBella, TeamBella23

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Now published as InnocentsShe loves him. He loves her crazy. She's a hopeless romantic. He's just hopeless. She's afraid to let go. He won't let her. A story about a silly girl in love with a foolish boy. Here, forever is a lie...
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    dark  high-school  drama  angst  sad  coming-of-age  romance  new-adult
  • The Prelude of Ella and Micha by Jessica Sorensen

    The Prelude of Ella and Micha by Jessica Sorensen

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    When Ella Daniels and Micha Scott are fourteen, they make a pact to leave the small town of Star Grove and create better lives for themselves. The pact was made as best friends, but over the next six years, their friendship begins to intensify. Feelings change. Grow. Veer towards love. But one tragic night changes everything. Hearts get broken. And the future they had planned changes forever...
  • Falling for Hadie by Komal Kant

    Falling for Hadie by Komal Kant

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    “Sometimes there is a single moment that changes your life forever.” Hadie Swinton is giving up on boys. After a disastrous relationship, she is convinced that all males are the same—arrogant, self-assured, and complete jerks. Lincoln Bracks is giving up on his old life. After moving to a new town to escape the problems plaguing him, he is set against ever getting close to anyone again...
  • The Girl in the Hoodie by SarcasticallyWitty

    The Girl in the Hoodie by SarcasticallyWitty

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A girl moved to California two years ago.No one knows what she looks like.All they know is that she wears a hoodie...
  • The Long Way by DomLuka

    The Long Way by DomLuka

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Note: Book cover incorrectly titled.After tragedy strikes at home and he loses a special friend, is betrayed by someone he trusts and his father discovers he's gay, Owen Dovan moves in with the brothers he hasn't seen in two years. Even in a loving environment things aren't always easy...
  • Life of the Party by Christine Anderson

    Life of the Party by Christine Anderson

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Seventeen-year-old Mackenzie Taylor can't wait to be free; free from high school, the shadow of her perfect older sister, and her disapproving parents. The rebellious party girl has a perfect accomplice in best friend Riley, a boy from the wrong side of the tracks who scores them drugs, booze and under-age entry into the only club in town. But then everything changes...
  • My Butterfly by Laura Miller

    My Butterfly by Laura Miller

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    If you got a second chance to be with your first love, would you take it? "This is pure romance at its best." ~Romantic Reading Escapes "One of the most beautiful love stories I have ever read." ~Jelena's Book Blog From the author who brought you the national bestselling novel Butterfly Weeds comes the heartwarming story of small-town firefighter Will Stephens...
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    angst  drama  high-school  sad  book  contemporary  fiction  male-mc
  • Abandoned by J.P. Barnaby

    Abandoned by J.P. Barnaby

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Little Boy Lost, Book Two. Jamie is gone. Brian's secret has been revealed. Brian McAllister's story continues as he tries to cope with the loss of his best friend and soul mate amid the alienation and ridicule of his classmates. When hatred turns to violence, Brian narrows his focus to two goals: surviving and finding Jamie...
  • It Only Hurts at First by Allison Rogers

    It Only Hurts at First by Allison Rogers

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Alice Matthews used to be one of those girls. Pretty, popular, perfect. Now, she's that girl. Armed with oversized sweatshirts to cover the scars on her wrists, Alice has two objectives in high school. First, avoid Scott Henderson at all costs. Second, avoid everyone else.By now, Scott’s unwanted advances shouldn’t come as a surprise...
  • Wake by Abria Mattina

    Wake by Abria Mattina

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Eighteen isn’t too young to run your life into the ground, but it’s not too old to fix it, either. The desire for change drives Willa Kirk from St. John’s, Newfoundland back to her hometown of Smiths Falls, Ontario, away from her mistakes and the place where her sister died...
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    angst  dark  drama  high-school  sad  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • fawn by Nash Summers

    fawn by Nash Summers

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Dear Author,The guy on the left finds everything beautiful. Creepily so. He makes art out of road kill, writes love letters to people he’s never met, and stares incessantly at pretty men without them ever noticing. He spotted the guy on the right walking his dog through fields, and made him his newest object of affection. Only problem was, when he started staring at this guy, he stared back...
  • Ballads of Suburbia by Stephanie Kuehnert

    Ballads of Suburbia by Stephanie Kuehnert

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    An aspiring film writer tells about her troubled teen years in the Chicago suburbs when she and her friends tried to escape the pain of their lives through rock music and drugs...
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    angst  coming-of-age  dark  drama  sad  book  contemporary  family
  • Ugly by Margaret McHeyzer

    Ugly by Margaret McHeyzer

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    *To watch the trailer, click on my author name above. If I were dead, I wouldn't be able to see.If I were dead, I wouldn't be able to feel.If I were dead, he'd never raise his hand to me again.If I were dead, his words wouldn't cut as deep as they do.If I were dead, I'd be beautiful and I wouldn't be so...ugly.I'm not dead...but I wish I was.*This is a dark YA/NA standalone, full-length novel...
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    angst  coming-of-age  dark  drama  high-school  sad  abuse  audiobook
  • Outcasts by B.D. Fresquez

    Outcasts by B.D. Fresquez

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    How can he act so calm and collected after he just stole my first kiss? Riley Summers doesn’t quite fit in the Fairfield High crowd. She listens to Led Zepplin and watches Star Wars—not your usual teenage girl favorites. She has been fine with living in the fringes of her high school scene until Aiden Callaway, Fairfield’s infamous rebel hunk, “kidnaps” her one afternoon...
  • Take Me with You by Melyssa Winchester

    Take Me with You by Melyssa Winchester

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    **This is the third book in the Count On Me series but can be read as a standalone as it pertains to separate characters** Numbers. They’re significant. In my life each one meaning more than the one before it. Seven years. Two thousand, five hundred and fifty five days. That’s how long it’s been since I learned I have Asperger's Syndrome. Five years...
    Categorized as:
    bullying  coming-of-age  dark  drama  sad  abuse  book  contemporary
  • Breathing You In by S. Moose

    Breathing You In by S. Moose

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Tragedy brings them together. Life may tear them apart. Two years after losing my wife and unborn child, I’m at rock bottom. I blanket my life with addictions to ease the pain. Until life takes me on a detour, guiding me for a path I never expected...
    Categorized as:
    angst  drama  sad  adult  betrayal  book  cheating  contemporary
  • Third Time Lucky by Karly Lane

    Third Time Lucky by Karly Lane

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Novella, December's Wish was published in 2013. This is the re-release as a full length novel and re-titled Third Time Lucky After a disastrous marriage, December Doyle is back in her home town of Christmas Creek, trying to pick up the pieces of her life to start again. She's also on a mission to help breathe new life into the town, so the last thing she needs is trouble...
    Categorized as:
    angst  sad  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  romance
  • Where the Mountains Meet the Sea by A.R. Breck

    Where the Mountains Meet the Sea by A.R. Breck

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Where the Mountains Meet the Sea brings you a new standalone romance filled with heart-stopping angst and heartbreak. He's a rock star, she's a ballerina, together they're soul mates, apart they're tragedy. Soul mates. I met mine when I was seven.Roman Hall.I knew the moment my eyes landed on his that my life would change forever...
  • A Chance At Forever by K.B. Andrews

    A Chance At Forever by K.B. Andrews

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Mason knew where his life was going, until it was all taken away from him. Left with bitterness and resentment, he forces himself to live the life he never wanted. Lennox came blowing into town looking for a new start. She had big dreams and would do anything to make them come true. Lennox was just what Mason didn’t know he needed...
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