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Bertrand Castelli directing HAIR in Munich, with Dagmar as Assistant Director and Company Photographer, Summer 1968.
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Wed, 27 Oct 1999
San Francisco Claude
I was Claude in the San Francisco show and thought you might like to see
what I'm up to.
http://www.jps.net/bpaine
Bruce Michael Paine (bpaine@jps.net)
Organization: Iguana Music Inc.
Fri, 20 Aug 1999
Dagmar ( in Tucson )
Nice site! Interesting life you have going too.
Gotta run. Weekend debauchery calls, and I must follow.
( Actually, I have to go to the lumber yard.)
Mark "mlw" (waterspecialties@htonline.htonline.com)
Thu, 15 Jul '99
hey daggi
deine fotos gefallen mir ausnahmslos ziemlich gut!
Alwin Beckstein (antiplan@gmx.net)
Sun, 11 Jul '99
This is 1968 dearie..not 1948!
Thank you Dagmar!
Thank you for giving me glimpses into a world I've always wished I could be
a part of.
Of course, on Monday April 29th 1968, I was only two years of
age.
A flower toddler at best. Didn't stop me from falling in love with
Hair though.
Howard Joseph (BadWX@centuryinter.net)
Sun, 04 Jul '99
hello dagmar..!!
i'm very interested in HAIR, after i saw it just a few months ago on the
tv.
now my turntable is repaired, so i can listen to the old record with
hair on, and i'm very in love with IT!
i would love to live in this world..forever.
Alwin Beckstein (antiplan@gmx.net)
Thu, 27 May '99
I stumbled onto your Hair page and loved it. I'm 35 and Hair was introduced
to me
by my parents back in 1969 when they saw the Los Angeles version.
They
bought the soundtrack and I have listened to it many times.
It was my intro
to Broadway and Rock. I love the photos.
Any chance you may publish a book
of your Hair collection?
I bet you would find fans.
Any more photos coming
soon to your page?
Rock On,
Danny (DGSL@aol.com)
Wed, 28 Apr '99
re: HAIR staged by the Warren Wilson College Theatre Department in Asheville, North Carolina.
Have lots more pictures to put up. We sold out completely all 4 nites it ran!
see: http://www.warren-wilson.edu/theatre/hair/
Mark (mark@owl.warren-wilson.edu)
Tue 27 Apr '99
Hi there,
Congrats on your page!
We're currently preparing a 30th anniversary production of HAIR in Buenos Aires, Argentina, opening in June 1999 at the IFT Theater.
We have a page on it : http://www.angelfire.com/ar/aurelioferretti/Aquarius.html
All comments welcome!
Love&Peace
Juan Ferretti (jferretti@netex.com.ar)
Mon 26 Apr '99
Hey Everyone....I'll be in Beirut, Lebanon with HAIR until the 20th of May,
and I may not be able to grab my e-mail until then....so i'll write you all back when I get
home....
Peace,
may love find you before you have to look,
Love
Mike Messer (Mancub212@aol.com)
Sat 24 Apr '99
Dagmar! I just got your email 2 seconds ago and I know who that woman is!!!!
I remember her vividly, from the second night that she saw the show. As soon
as we came out for the preshow to mingle in the audience she said "Hi
Berger......Again!" And we chatted with her briefly.
Do you have Marion's email? I'd love to send her a note,
her letter made all of us so happy we were all almost in tears!!!!!!!
Peace
Mike/Berger (Mancub212@aol.com)
Sat April 24, '99
HAIR: European Tour
When I was 7 my parents went to see the musical Hair in Eindhoven (1971) and were
completely knocked down by it. Not that it changed their lives, but it opened their eyes
to a different kind of living and to people who dare to be different...
My sister and I danced and sang a lot to the music of the LP they bought after that performance.
Together we could step into a completely different
world, by dressing up and pretend we were the hippies we could never really
be (being born too late....)
Many years later we went to see the movie, but it was a bit disappointing in
the sense that it was not like we had imagined it to be while dancing and
singing to the music of the musical...
So when I went to see the (30th anniversary production 1968-1998, European
Tour) show two days ago it felt like coming home. This was everything I
imagined then.... and even more. All the songs, all the moves, it felt like
I had played those a thousand times and was one of the group. But there I
was sitting on the balcony all dressed up for the
theater, like I am these days: wife, mother of two, house'slave', mediocrity
ruling....
So I decided to go once more, although my friends (and husband, who enjoyed
the show very much on tuesday...) said I was being foolish, hung up on a
dream and should act like a normal person.... And there I was sitting in the
second row from the front, dressed in my coolest dress (which Woof and
Berger noticed immediately), barefooted and nothing in my mind than beads,
flowers, freedom and happiness... and it was even more beautiful than the
day before.... it was just perfect!
Well, to make a long story (what could go on and on, I'm afraid) short and
get to the point:
I just want to thank Berger, Claude, Sheila, Woof, Dionne, Jeannie and all
the rest of the group for taking me on the finest 'trip' I've had for years
and tell them their dreams, ideas, and (unfortunatly) fights are still very
real these days...
And thank Michael, Nik, Sarah, Ben, Sabrina and Vannessa and all the rest of
the cast for the wonderful show... I've never experienced anything similar
ever !!!! Thanx a lot, you're all a bunch of (professional) peaches....
...and yes (although my life won't change either), I'll tell my kids: be
free, no guilt, be whatever you want to be, do whatever you want to do, just
as long as you don't hurt anybody..... and remember kids, I'm your
friend....
with love
Marion van Eupen (s.klaassen@tip.nl )
Thu, 22 Apr '99
hi. i would like to know what all the members of the original cast are up to
lately.
(me too!! Dagmar)
also i would like to know how the people listed under "in memoriam"
passed away.
thanks. travis (Trav869962@aol.com)
Fri, 26 Mar '99
Dagmar,
I really want to than you very much for taking time out of your busy
schedule
to write me and my tribe that beautiful letter.
It means a lot
to me and I am sure it will touch them as well.
I apologize for taking
so long to send you this
thank you.
I will be in touch with you again to order some pictures
(about a month).
Have to see how my show budget is doing.
Again Dagmar,
thank you from my heart. HAIR still transcends time!!
PEACE
Leo Lunser (Peacefreak@webtv.net)
Mon, 22 Mar '99
My HAIR list is arranged by name, contact, city or cities where they did the
show
and characters they played (oh and zodiac sign if known).
The original
cast are noted and so are those who have passed away.
When it is complete (as
complete as I can get it) I will see that you receive a copy.
You may have
information on people that I only have a name for. I appreciate your help.
I
have looked at your Broadway HAIR photos so many times during the years.
Now
I am getting to know the artist who took them.
David ( DJames333@aol.com)
Wed, 24 Feb '99
Orpheus Group Casting (Ellyn Long, Maria Nelson) Non-Equity Open call for
National Tour of HAIR. Rehearsal Workshop 6/04-9/11/99 (LA); Performance
9/18/99 (SF) to 10/30/20 (CHI). Seeking Male and Female Rock Singers for
all parts.
Auditions Sat., 3/06/99 10AM-1PM; 2PM-6PM.
Theatre Row Studios, 412 West 42 Street, 5W Theatre.
Sing 16 Bars Rock, Accompanist provided
intrafi (michael@michaelbutler.com)
Tue, 9 Feb '99
Hello There...
I happened upon your site and I want to say Hey.
My name is Mike Messer, I come from NYC and I'm playing Berger
in the new
European Tour 30th Anniversary production of HAIR.
I love your photos.
I'm
really good friends with Jim Rado,
and Tom O'Horgan is like a mentor to me.
I wasn't around when the original HAIR was produced,
but that play has
influenced my life in many major ways.
[[It touched us all... and it doesn't seem to be thirty years ago!! Dagmar]]
It is great to look at your photos.
I'll keep checking back in for more.
Peace.
Love,
Berger (Mancub212@aol.com)
Mon, 08 Feb '99
HÄR!!!
Here's a page you might wanna have a look at.
It's the review in the
local Varberg newspaper, with pictures and everything.
It's in Swedish, but the pictures are in universal language!!
Det här var ju lysande!
You might be wondering about the outlook of the musical.
We've tried to
make it easier for the Swedish audience to understand.
It became a great sucess!!!! Everybody thought that it was one of the
best musicals that we've ever staged!!! We had full houses every
performance and people standing in lines outside the theatre to get
hold of possible tickets from people who got stuck in the snow storm that
we had yesterday.
The guests that we had invited (important people who decide if we can
go on) thought that it was really great!!! That probably means that we
can go on for more years.
The newspaper critics were thrilled and we got good reviews!
I'm very excited!!!!!
Torbjörn, alias Axel Svahn (svahn604@hotmail.com)
4 Feb '99
want a Swede in your HAIR?
I have been in touch with this 23 year old, Torbjörn Svahn,
who lives in a small town called Varberg, in Sweden.
He's studying to become a teacher in mathematics and nature-science...
but, here it comes:
he is just now staging HAIR and it's opening on Feb 5th, tomorrow!!
Torbjörn's credits in
musical theatre start with West Side Story (at age 16),
and he has since played Simon Zealotes in "J.C.S";
Cookie in "Return to the forbidden Planet" by Bob Carlton,
the Conductor for the orchestra in "Fame";
"Cabaret", "Guys and Dolls"...
all under musical director John M. Smith from London.
He then joined forces with two others who had been in "J.C.S" with him
and they staged it together as a sort of "warm-up".
"It was appreciated and we practically sold out" he writes.
Now he's the only one left of the team, and is doing his own HAIR - so to speak!
and would not mind travelling around the globe for a while, to act in other HAIR productions.
mailto:svahn604@hotmail.com
Sun, 31 Jan 1999
This is Darcy Gamet, 27 Year-old daughter of Steven B. Gamet.
Now he's old and beautiful. He used to get drunk and perform HAIR
in our living room. I really feel I know HAIR from him.
And when I'm at the reunion in NYC, I hope to see all of them drunk and performing HAIR again!!!!
26 Jan, 1999
Hi there,
What wonderful images you have captured on film!
I am 30, and have never seen the stage production (though I suffered
through half of the motion picture) - but when I was a child,
I used to listen to my father's soundtrack. I fell in love with the songs,
the spirit and the lyrics of the music. I believe it shaped me
to be the somewhat jaded, anti-authoritarian I am today.
I stumbled upon your website while looking for information on Shelley
Plimpton, and wanted to share with you my envy and my appreciation of your interactions with that production.
Best wishes to you,
Cristina (Cristina.Comer@turner.com)
SEP 26, '98
Hello!
My name is Jeanie Davis. I am a 46 year old
Photojournalism/Printing/Spanish major
at Texas A&M University - Commerce, Texas.
Last semester I took a class on Viet Nam Era Music, Literature and Movies.
I wrote one of my papers on
the musical "Hair", which is where I learned about you.
I have only seen the work you have on the internet, and I like it very much.
I am anxiously awaiting your book, if you find a publisher,
as I would like to know more about the work you do and have done.
I would enjoy anything you have to share!
Please don't think I am some strange person who could possibly stalk you or anything.
I am just a mother/grandmother who has raised her family
and is just now discovering her loves and who the person is
who lives inside her.
So, these are my comments/praises. I hope to hear from you, if you ever have time.
I am just now beginning to collect information to do my honors thesis on the
musical,
but I would like to know more about you and your work.
Jeanie Davis (jdreams@aol.com)
Wed, Aug 26 1998
I just wanted to let you know that I am making a HAIR webpage
and will hopefully be using some of your pictures.
I'll give you total credit as well as a link to your page.
My site is located at: http://come.to/HAIRthemusical
It is under construction right now, but hopefully it'll become much better.
Especially when I get a scanner.
Thanks a lot for letting me use your pics!!!!
~katie~ (kpeterson@ttlc.net)
Mon, 15 Jun '98
HAiR - the universe - everything
Thank you for being so amazing.
My experience with all the original tribe members has been so moving.
I can't think of another show that would still be so inspiring to performers,
directors, musicians and crew (and photographers!) 30 years after they did it.
You all, and Dagmar you specifically, have made HAiR more than just a "cool show"
you've made it part of you, and we can only hope to emulate that love and
commitment!
By the way, my cast loved your shots!
Peace & Love
Scott Russell (SRussell@westlawngraphic.com)
Tue, June 9 '98
I've been unbelievably busy with my production.
I do owe you thanks whether you realize it or not. Since logging on to your site
and discovering Michael Butler's and Sally Eaton's email address, my HAiRy world has
changed dramatically. They have both written me regularly and Sally is just amazing!!!
They have also put me in touch with a number of other original tribe members who have also been great.
Peace
Scott Russell (SRussell@westlawngraphic.com)
May 27, '98
I'm directing a production of HAIR and want to know if you would allow
me to print copies just to show my cast.... Scott Russell
Yes, you may. Please, whenever you show or use my photos,
do give me credit and, just for the record: actual photos can be bought!
;-)
Dagmar (akstudio@flash.net)
Tue, 5 May '98
still pulling them in....30 years later
these are the winners of the helen hayes awards (washington dc's tonys)
DIRECTOR, RESIDENT MUSICAL: Keith Alan Baker, "Hair," Studio Theatre
Secondstage.
RESIDENT MUSICAL: "Hair," Studio Theatre Secondstage.
Thomas, TeKay (nilla@email.unc.edu)
Tue, 5 May '98
Re: HAIR at 30
Thanks! Marvelous!
best, PF
Peter Filichia (PFilichia@aol.com)
Sun, 3 May '98
Last night we celebrated HAIR30 with over 150 members of different
tribes.
It was the most beautiful time we have had in years.
Everybody was singing HAIR songs until 1AM.
Many want to
get together again, probably a BE-IN in August (Griffith Park).
We will post on the HAIR List when we know.
Peace and Love,
Michael Butler (mbutler@intrafi.com)
michael@michaelbutler.com
http://www.michaelbutler.com
"Carpe Diem"
Fri, 01 May '98
Peter Filichia wrote:
>Didn't see the picture. (in the New York Times of Jan. 25th, section 15)
>Alas! So much slips through!
>There should be 36 hours to every day!
How right you are!!
"just for you", here it is:
http://www.flash.net/~akstudio/hair.pix.html
scroll down to "AAAH, the Bed!
Dagmar
Wed, 29 Apr '98
YAY!!!!!!
A very Happy anniversary all you hippies on this day of days for HAIR.
The peace pipe is lit around the world.
Thank you Jim, Gerry, Galt and Michael.
Thank you "talk to ya soon" Amy, Tioga Joe and Tracy Harris.
Thank you Brian, Dauber and Steve's Appreciation Page.
Thank you DAGMAR and Robin Macnamara.
Thank you Tom O'Horgan and John Holleman.
Thank you Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Timothy Leary and Doctor Spock.
Allen Ginsberg and Margaret Mead
George Washington and George Foreman
General Grant and General Mills (for bringing us Sugar Corn Pops)
Huey Newton and Fig Newton
Those who love peace and are willing to sacrifice for it.
Thank you Berger, Claude, Dionne, Hud, Sheila, Jeannie and Woof.
And Crissy. Hope you get the two dollars back.
Thanks most of all to all of you here in our world-wide cyber-tribe.
Thirty years ago last night, four of us conspired to elude the security
check at the Biltmore, and spent the night in a sacred, stoned holy vigil.
We lit candles, sang songs, and contemplated the event to come.
It was Steve Curry, Shelly Plimpton, Steve Gamet and myself.
But it could have been Shannon, Thomas King, Elisa or Revital & Merav Hube in Israel.
Let's elude the authorities again for a moment and glow.
I celebrate this day with all of you who love HAIR and wish we could dance
around a big bonfire on the beach. Then take all our clothes off and run
into the surf for a moonight swim.
WMH / Michael Harris (102125.3251@CompuServe.COM) Seattle
Fri, 13 Mar '98
Hi from Sally Eaton
Hi, Dagmar!
Funny I just happened to stumble on your website --
I was looking for more data on the 30th Birthday gala/bash.
Wow, what a surprise -- a very lovely web page.
Especially the "in Memoriam" section.
HAIR (and really just life in the 60's) was very rough on us all, wasn't it?
Talk about a show that ate actors...
I still look back on those chaotic years with a mixture of nostalgia and regret.
Me, I've very much alive, but living quietly.
Just a happily married, middle-class geek.
I've been into computers since the early 80's, watching the scene evolve.
If you wish, email me sometime: seaton@quicklink.com.
Love, Sally
Sally Eaton
Sat, 24 Jan '98
Dear Dagmar:
It has been a long time, but hopefully you still remember me-
Erick Ragni, Gerome Ragni's son. I have been trying to locate you
over the past year, but I have had no luck.
It was a great surprise to find your web page, and hopefully track down
what little memoribilia I have from my father and I during the Hair period.
He mentioned how diligently you followed and recorded the production,
and I would be very interested in knowing what negatives remain
from both the production itself and of he and I.
I would love to have a more complete record of that time for my new family to share in.
I would love to find some photos of Jim Rado, and possibly my mother Stephanie, and Earl Scott.
I cant tell you how exciting it is to possibly locate an intact archive-
my father was not the best collector of memoribilia.
As for me, I am an architect presently living in Houston Texas.
I studied in Los Angeles, and was brought to texas for a teaching job,
since then I have found a perfect partner and we plan to marry in late October
(please consider yourself invited).
I would love to hear back from you,
I hope you are well,
Erick Ragni & Emily Sing (erick_ragni@yahoo.com)
Wed, 07 Jan '98
Dear Dagmar
Tracy at Stanford told me to get ahold of you, she thought you
could help me.
Back in 1970 (I think), my mother met Ronnie Dyson in New
York.
She was there receiving cancer treatment. They became friends,
and he invited her to a concert they gave in Detroit. I remember going,
she spent her time back stage while we watched the show.We were the only
white people there. Shortly thereafter she died at the age of 33,
but she made me promise to someday tell him what it meant to her.
I never could get anywhere until I got this computer, and now its too late,
but I would like his family to know this if there is any way for me to do it.
Can you help me at all? My mother's name was Sally Koepke.
Thank You,
Amy Helsel (helsel@netonecom.net)
Mon, 22 Dec 1997
hello,
My name is Serena Keller Undercofler and I'm 16 years old.
I have never
actually seen HAIR live, but my dad Hiram Keller was in the original version
on Broadway in the 60's. If you have any information or would like to tell me
anything about my father, please e-mail me.
I am trying to make a scrap book and write stuff down about him because he
died last year of cancer and I want to hold on to anything about him I can.
I greatly appreciate your help.
Serena Keller Undercofler (skoobie420@aol.com)
There's a bit of a break in time here. When I get around to it, I shall try to fill in some spaces...
I do keep all your messages on file!
Mon, 16 Jun '97
The be-in at my theatre, Dunes Summer Theatre in Michiana Shores, Indiana,
was cool uh, I mean groovy...we watched some documentaries
on the hippies, and of course Woodstock.
Your pictures "I Got Life" and another one where the faces and body posture
can be seen, looked great and they were helpful, we studied them, so
now we at least know what we're supposed to look like.
Thank you for your help.
Megan Nelson (megideon@netnitco.net)
Thu, 12 Jun '97
Die Seiten sind super!
Schnecke Alexander -CCA (Alexander.Schnecke@aua.com)
Thu, 12 Jun '97
Dear Dagmar,
I gave your letter to Galt - he was happy to hear from you.
Thanks for the information on HAIR, the photos are beautiful.
He asked you to keep in touch.
Sincerely,
Mary Anne MacDermot (MacDermot@aol.com)
Wed, 11 Jun 1997
LOVE the pics on the STRAY HAIRS page......!!!!!!!!
John Holleman (holleman@primenet.com)
10 Jun '97
My wife Patty and I had a wonderful visit with Melba Moore when she appeared at
Jazz Alley recently, Seattle's premiere jazz venue. Melba is back, is touring,
and is in fine form. She invited me onstage for a quick introduction and we
regaled the audience with tales of HAIR. Afterwards we spent some quality time
with her backstage.
I encourage everyone to catch Melba's act when it comes to your town.
WMH Michael Harris (102125.3251@CompuServe.COM)
Tue, 10 Jun '97
I'll put a link to your pages as soon as I get a chance to work on my home page.
I'll probably "steal" a picture from your site to use as a link there, if you don't mind.
I'm glad that my MIDI files are making people happy....
Steve A Crooks (reznor2@juno.com)
Tue, 10 Jun '97
"When the Moon is in the Seventh house...
and Jupiter aligns with Mars..."
Dagmar, you're good and getting better.
David (api@rtd.com)
Airbourne Precision Imaging (A P I) -- http://www.rtd.com/~api
David Iadevaia, Ph.D
Professor, Dept of Astronomy/Physics
Pima College - East, Tucson, AZ 85741
(diadevaia@east.pima.edu) -- http://east.pima.edu/~diadevaia/astro.html
Tue, 10 Jun '97
Just wanted to drop a note to tell you how impressed we are with your new
pages!
Please say hello to Erroll and Mary when you see them.
Cindy & Steve (Nadacaca@aol.com)
Tue, 10 Jun '97
i was in earl's appartment/museum last month.. it is intense..
jim took me there and i had no idea what to expect...
it is 3 rooms, floor to ceiling, wall to wall, hair memorabilia...
it is so overwhelming yet so comfortable...
Brian Speiser (bspeis24@magic.hofstra.edu)
Mon, 09 Jun '97
Earl Scott has a HAIR Museum & wants me to photograph it & help him via
computer graphics. He'd like to create a mock up & see if anyone would
fund it.
He lives in the basement, in Hoboken, of the building where HAIR was
written & has lived there since the landlord asked them to move from the
3rd floor. YES! He remembers you. He has the poster for Germany you
created as well as a collage of your pix. He said he had wanted to contact you.
He said Jim is working on restaging HAIR on Broadway as well as
re-staging RAINBOW.
John Michael Cox, Jr. (graphics@bellatlantic.net)
Grayscale Graphics & Design
Sun, 08 Jun'97
hello neighbor!
loved looking at your new pages! you have quite a knack for writing!
of course i appreciated the roadrunner/wildlife part!
Susan Cavender (cavender@dakotacom.net)
Sun, 08 Jun '97
Dagmar,
I like so much your site that I cruised it this morning.
In "Stray Hairs" what about backstage and off-stage people,
passed on or still around.
Really nice you are doing this.
Peace and Love,
Michael Butler (mbutler@intrafi.com)
Sat, 7 Jun '97
I love the account of your HAIR experience and all of the interesting
links!
I'm so glad you are doing this!!!
It seems a lot of people are responding to it . . it touches a nerve in all of us!
I loved your picture with Max!
Ruth ( rubro@winternet.com)
Fri, 6 Jun '97
I've seen your sprouting HAIR-pages and already bookmarked them.
You did a fine job! I'm looking forward to seeing how the site progresses.
It's nice to be able to see some pictures I've never encountered before.
I found the one of Gerry and his son particularly touching...
looked like there was a lot of love there!
Debbie Hamper (d.hamper@csu-e.csuohio.edu)
Thu, 5 Jun '97
I finally took the time to look at your pages. How wonderful.
You must be proud.
I am proud to have had lunch with such a "famous" lady, married to a "monster."
Kathy (Ilyin@aol.com)
Wed, 4 Jun '97
Dagmar--
I just went to your under-construction Hair site...yes, it's dusty, but
wow...it's fantastic!
I love that picture of Gerry and Eric...I almost started crying...very
beautiful...
Thanks for sharing your work with the world! Looking forward to seeing more!
Sean C. Courtney (dauber@prairienet.org)
Tue, 03 Jun 97
Hey there Dagmar!
WOW! as in wow what a site! (WOW is also a Rado-Ragni-MacDermot song).
Thank you for putting this up.
I believe 1998 will be the great revival year for our beloved HAIR.
No one had more to do with the LOOK of it than you.
Now, many people around the world will have the opportunity
of seeing HAIR with new eyes, through yours.
PEACE -
WalterMichael Harris (102125.3251@CompuServe.COM)
Tue, 3 Jun '97
Hi Dagmar,
I just read through your fabulous beginnings.
I think you are off to a fantastic start.
I'm anxious for a bit of time to really check it out properly,
I'll be adding a link from the HAIR section in Michael's site.
More later and good for you leaving that no-gooder,
who told you that you couldn't get going with Max,
biting your dust!!!!
Marian (marian@imagescape.com)
Tue, 03 Jun '97
GREAT pictures.....and some real neat information too.
It'll be fun watching your pages grow.
peace,
John Holleman (holleman@primenet.com)(hair_qs@hotmail.com)
Record/Autograph Collector
http://www.primenet.com/~holleman
Tue, 03 Jun '97
Your web page is quite interesting and entertaining!
It must have been very exciting to be involved with Hair. Great show ... great music.
Betty Pantazis (boopan@startext.net)
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