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ZBA Hearing - April 9, 2025

Philadelphia Zoning Board of Adjustment (ZBA)Apr 9, 20255h 27m

application one all street parking space is required per unit in the rta zoning district

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whereas two spaces are required and none are proposed so why don't you start your presentation

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yeah um in 2021 uh i received the violation um can you see my screen no no why don't you try to

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present your screen i'm sorry i i joined the meeting different way uh the first meet um i had

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I had

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on

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a year ago, I believe.

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I was waiting for

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the chance

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to represent my case and everything was

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fine. But I would send the link

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from the ZBA.

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So I joined the meeting room

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and everything was fine.

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Do me a favor. Why don't you share

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your screen now? Share

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the documents that you have in your computer.

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I am trying to go

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online and unfortunately for some reason I because I joined the meeting not through the

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link that was supposed to send to me by mail but by myself through the regular

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online tool. Ms. Siegel this is Ian Hegarty the director do you see a green button at the bottom

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Yes, yes, yeah, can I, okay.

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That's the button you should use to share your documents.

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Have them open first, and then when you click the button,

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you'll see an option to select an application window.

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Select that window that has your document open.

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I click yes.

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Thank you.

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You're coming up, you're coming up, I think.

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Share, yes.

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I see application window, application window.

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share okay it's different program so it's different for me and i'm first time

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online can you see my screen that's okay you're doing great i want you to start that over though

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and just share that pdf document that you i think it was the third option on your screen there

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okay so i i submitted all the documents so i'm gonna start with violation i guess this is what

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What we need you to do is to stop sharing and then go back and instead of sharing the, because what we see right now is the window of your files.

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We need to see the Adobe program so that we can see the actual files.

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Thank you.

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The actual files.

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Yep.

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Yep.

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So just click stop sharing.

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Stop sharing.

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Click this button.

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it's a little okay stop sharing i apologize no need to apologize it's your first time it's okay

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your screen sharing and there is a little button i'm trying to push and okay

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okay okay pause now it's good no I'm sorry remove remote access webinar share it only

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has okay it only has the option to share uh-huh no no Jesus how about now can you see me now

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Yeah. So the first thing we need you to do is there should be a bar at the top and one of the there's a red button that says stop sharing.

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So that's the first thing you need to do. OK, stop sharing. Oh, yeah, I see now. Yeah, perfect.

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OK. And then you have your documents open. Right. So go to share and then click in the application windows.

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You should see not the file folder, but the documents themselves. I think those showed up before.

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so try that again

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so try that again okay i'm so recording you

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okay

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okay um

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no the program is just i can see the faces i i'm i'm sorry i i i thought i would be able to

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show my documents it's not a lot but um uh the program is just i don't know webinar

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hi do you gallery speaking

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show meeting can i do it by the phone maybe um

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so so miss sheagle yes so i think what we're going to have to do is

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second time it's second time we are continuing okay so we're going to wind up continuing this

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and i think what you need to do is to be in touch with the office here and other people who can help

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you share your documents okay i mean so what i'm saying what i'm saying is let not know the next

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time you've practiced you know what you're doing i don't have time to practice because i have a

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sketch, I have settlement with the attorney already after the

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first appeal was continuous.

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If you can email them to me, I could share them for the board.

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I did email zoning board, all the documents in the PDF.

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Are you are you open to emailing them to me right now? I don't

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have access to the file at the moment. But if you email them

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to me, I will be able to share.

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um if it's continual when the another appeal gonna be

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because the agreement i signed with attorney uh he only gave me 180 days uh that i have to produce

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all the documents which i did i thought i would be able to share it but my appeal was from 2021

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beginning so

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you know how many years

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I'm waiting for that

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do you understand my frustration

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and it's only

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simple issue I was

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I was issued the violation

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so my husband

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ex-husband now

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you move the garage door

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and they put the wall and this is what

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I'm dealing with

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but Mr. Siegel we're

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trying our best and I think he

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he offered it i understand your frustration but if you think you can if you can't send him your

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documents right now then we're gonna have to continue it okay uh could you give me a little

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time or can you review another um um this is the last case this is our last case

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and i bypass you once to go to somebody else um uh do i have to hire the person

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i don't i don't i don't i don't i'm not telling you to hire anybody you don't have to hire somebody

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that can give you some instructions on how to do it i would tell you that if you call the office

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here there will be somebody who can talk to you who can give you an idea of how to do it okay i

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already called today three times okay and talked to someone and they told me everything going to

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be fine and i would be able to do it that's why but but listen to me i understand your frustration

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i assume when you called you said you had your documents they thought you could do it

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so how would i email do do i have email address so i can uh grab all these documents and uh email

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him as attachment would you like my email address yes it's matthew.webster at phila.gov i put it in

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the chat i can spell it for you if you need chat room chat room okay let's just chat room

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chat okay i see chat can i copy like that mess you can i copy it now

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john report i'm sorry i'm just when i'm nervous i have like a panic attack whatever

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We don't want you to panic.

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I know, but William Webster, Webster, that one.

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Okay, I give up.

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I see a lot of names, but Webster.

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So I think what we need to do.

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I only see Jasmine Webster, and that's it.

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Can you open the chat?

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Yeah, I opened the chat.

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on my right on my right i see a bunch of the names and um mute okay chad jasmine webster

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okay chat jasmine webster you don't have to you don't have to i see you don't have to

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chat to me i've sent you my email in the chat so you're gonna you should he's saying to you

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if you could email your documents to him he's going to put them on the screen for you but you

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have to you have to email the documents email um how would they um i was just gonna copy his email

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but I couldn't see his email

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from the chat room

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so you know

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I'm sorry I probably have

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different program it's just simple computer

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windows so you know

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okay

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I give up because

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I don't see his I only see

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his name so listen

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I think what you need to do

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is to practice a little bit and figure out

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how to do this so the next time you'll be

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prepared to do it and that way you won't say you're going to give up or anything like that

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i don't so i mean you you know how to get it through to the office here we will make sure

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that somebody at least gives you some instructions okay i try to get to the office but unfortunately

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do my uh physical condition i cannot no i don't want you to go to the office i want you to call

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them on the phone okay okay all right so now listen we're going to have to continue this

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to September, September 17th at 2 p.m.

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September?

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So in June 2nd, I have to pay already fines.

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So that's what the lawyer said.

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I mean, I think if you got to pay the fine,

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I think you tell them that you got this hearing

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coming up in September.

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That's what you tell them, okay?

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And do you think the agreement I signed with the lawyer?

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Whatever, you may want to talk to a lawyer.

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you may want to talk to a lawyer who's done this before

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he can at least tell you how to get into the

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computer. No, the lawyer

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from the city, from the ZBA

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I was

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he called me and he gave me 180

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dates to

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settle it, you know, unless

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if I will not

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I'm sorry, I stumble because I'm

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nervous. I usually speak better.

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So I'm going to be penalized

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It will be September

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17th at 2 o'clock

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we're going to bring the case back

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And I would say even if you get a chance, notice the councilman's in favor of what you want to do.

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If you call the councilman's office, you know, he has people in his office who maybe have give you some instructions on how to do the computer.

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Okay.

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No, I know how to do computer.

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She didn't send me the link that I requested.

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Okay.

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All right.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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We're going to continue to September 17th at two o'clock.

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Thank you very much.

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Bye.

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Is there anyone in the audience whose case has not been called?

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I see no more hints at this time, too.

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Thanks, everybody.

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We're getting done at a reasonable time.

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I felt sorry for the last woman, but I think we tried to do the best we could.

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Okay?

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Thank you all.

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Good night.

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See you, Michael.

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Take care.

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Thanks.

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Bye-bye.

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