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Newark Mayor and Rising Dem. Star Cory Booker Wrote in College He Had ‘Hated Gays’

Jan. 10, 2013 6:28pm Jason Howerton

FILE – In this Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012 file photograph, Newark Mayor Cory A. Booker. Credit: AP

NEWARK, N.J. (TheBlaze/AP) — Newark Mayor Cory Booker, an outspoken advocate for gay rights, penned a column in college about overcoming the “disgust and latent hostility” he once felt toward gay people.

In a piece titled “Pointing the finger at gays,” Booker, then a student at Stanford University, wrote that he had “hated gays” though he was able to feign acceptance of homosexuals until a meeting with a gay peer counselor opened his eyes to the struggle for acceptance shared by gays and his black grandparents. Booker

“While hate is a four-letter word I never would have admitted to, the sentiment clandestinely pervaded my every interaction with homosexuals,” Booker wrote in the April, 8, 1992 edition of the Stanford Daily.

Booker, now a prominent Democrat considering a run for U.S. Senate in 2014, was a columnist for paper, which reprinted the piece Wednesday as part of a recurring series of archived opinion pieces.

“I still remember how my brow would often unconsciously furrow when I was with gays as thoughts would flash in my mind, `What sinners I am amongst’ or “How unnatural these people are.’” Booker wrote.

Booker says his views on homosexuals changed after he met a gay counselor at The Bridge, Stanford’s peer counseling group, during his freshman year.

Booker said he wanted to “argue and debate” with the counselor, Daniel Bao, during their first conversation about homosexuality. Instead, Bao “quickly disarmed me with his personal testimony.”

Bao, Booker wrote, told him about years of “denial and the pain of always feeling different.” Bao recounted stories of violence against gays, some of whom “religiously prayed to God to help them become straight.”

The conversation reminded Booker of his family.

“It was chilling to find that so much of the testimony he shared with me was almost identical to stories my grandparents told me about growing up Black,” Booker wrote.

The experience clearly had a deep effect on Booker, now a vocal supporter of gay rights who correlates the fight for civil rights to gay rights in speeches and public comments. Under his leadership last year, the Democratic Party’s platform committee for the first time included support for same-sex marriage.

He was a featured speaker at the Human Rights Campaign’s 2012 National Dinner, where he was introduced as a “tireless advocate for LGBT equality” and gave an impassioned speech.

“We are the ones who must say in the spirit of our ancestors, I am black and I am here. I am Polish and I am here. I am Irish and I am here. I am Jewish and I am here. I am gay. I am transgendered. I am queer and I am here. Get used to it,” Booker said.

Booker’s office did not respond to a request for comment. In response to a Tweet Thursday, Booker said he was “writing about my teenage struggle for integrity.”

He also Tweeted a link to video of a 2012 press conference where he was asked about a potential referendum on same-sex marriage in New Jersey, using the hashtag (hash)EqualityForAll. The state legislature passed a same-sex marriage bill. Gov. Chris Christie vetoed it, saying voters should decide the issue. It did not appear on the 2012 ballot.

“We should not be putting civil rights to a popular vote,” he said at the time.

Booker has said he believes that same-sex marriage will become law in New Jersey.

“And when that bill is signed,” he said during his Human Rights Campaign speech, “I may have a very good seat for it.”

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mikenleeds
Posted on January 11, 2013 at 8:45am
i don t hate anyone but all homosexual are clearly mentally ill … and needs to be treated

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Obama_In_PeePee_Is_Becks_Art
Posted on January 11, 2013 at 12:18am
“Newark Mayor and Rising Dem. Star Cory Booker Wrote in College He Had ‘Hated Gays’”

This is the first step to Righteousness. Bravo.
On to the next step …

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- Obama_In_PeePee_Is_Becks_Art
  Posted on January 11, 2013 at 12:22am
  Oh, that next step is …
  
  13 “If a man lies with a male as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them.” -Leviticus 20, Holy Bible
  
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wdvander
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 8:44pm
you know when stuff you say in college matters? when you are in college. Thats it. Don’t care what he thought then, or now for that matter. He is in New Jersey and will never have any ability to do damage outside that orbit. Even the people of New Jersey are not dumb enough to vote that guy to Congress or the Senate. Wait, they voted Christie to governor when he said he was a Republican. They are dumb enough to vote this guy into the House or Senate. Corey Booker should be castigated to the bowels of Hell due to his anti-gay rhetoric.

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spirited
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 8:43pm
If transgender is considered a ‘mental disorder’, where does homosexuality fall?

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Locked
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 8:16pm
“In a piece titled “Pointing the finger at gays,” Booker, then a student at Stanford University, wrote that he had “hated gays” though he was able to feign acceptance of homosexuals until a meeting with a gay peer counselor opened his eyes to the struggle for acceptance shared by gays and his black grandparents. Booker”

… misleading title, much?

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- Eastinfection
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 8:22pm
  i agree, LOCKED..
  
  “used to hate gays” would have been more apt.
  
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- Locked
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 8:34pm
  As the saying goes, the most celebrated are the rehabilitated.
  
  … or re-indoctrinated, as the case may be.
  
  Eh. Booker is a liberal, but I do respect the man as a person. He’s literally run into a burning building to save the lives of innocents; he might be mislead in his social policies, but I think he’s a good enough man.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 8:38pm
  Locked
  
  “Newark Mayor and Rising Dem. Star Cory Booker Wrote in College He Had ‘Hated Gays’”
  
  I thought that the “had” in the tittle meant past tense. Especially since his views are clear now.
  
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- Locked
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 8:58pm
  @The-Monk
  
  “I thought that the “had” in the tittle meant past tense.”
  
  Judging by Eastinfection’s response, no, it wasn’t made obvious at all. The title no-so-subtly hints that Booker isn’t the liberal wet dream he’s being made out to be.
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 9:19pm
  Wow- Monk and Locked,
  I didn’t even see the word “had” when i first read it.
  Still doesn’t read well to me but your point is taken, Monk.
  I should have noticed it.
  
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breakobamanow
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 8:09pm
“Bao, Booker wrote, told him about years of “denial and the pain of always feeling different.” Bao recounted stories of violence against gays, some of whom “religiously prayed to God to help them become straight.”
First of all you have to believe in God and his word and recognize that the act of sodomy is a sin against God’s word, if you really want his help in dealing with the situation.

John 9:31
Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.

You must repent of your sins, and receive Jesus Christ as your LORD and Savior by faith. If you are truly saved and receive his spirit which is the word of God (meaning you have to read it and believe it), pray earnestly from the heart for his help, he will do the rest, you only need to obey. You become a new creature or a new man (you will know when he cleanses you of your sins). If you reject his guidance he will chasten you and punish you until you realize he is trying to lead you in a path of righteousness, which isn’t your own, but his. If you are able to continue in doing the same things that you did before without it convicting your soul (makes you feel really guilty) then you were never saved.
Matthew 11:29-30
Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

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tango2006
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 8:01pm
Rising Dem star ????????????

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welovetheUSA
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 7:59pm
We all did…….most of us still do….the brain washing about gays ..not working.

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Canada_Goose
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 7:42pm
My guess is that if Mr. Booker had not met that gay councillor he would have become a Republican.

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- Eastinfection
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 7:45pm
  Considering he was already hyper-sensitive about being black, i’m guessing your guess is a bad one.
  
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- turkey13
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 7:47pm
  Who couldn’t get sick having to shake hands with Q_uers & L_izzies. When you see one at a party make sure your Zipper is up and your hands in your pockets. I was watching two country cousins untill I heard they were being sponsered by Ellen Degenerate.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 7:48pm
  That councilor was you?
  
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- Canada_Goose
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 7:57pm
  Thanks turkey you’ve just proved my point.
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 8:13pm
  Well CANADA…
  
  If one poster’s response proves your point, than you must be the proof that all Canadian’s arguments rely on pointing out the fallibility of the worst opposing argument in order to succeed. See how that works?
  
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- Canada_Goose
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 10:50pm
  My mistake I guess Rupublicans actually believe that the gay lifestyle should be accepted as a normal lifestyle with respect to family. Thanks East for setting me straight.
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on January 11, 2013 at 7:12am
  That’s my whole point, CANADA..
  
  “Republicans” don’t believe things.
  Individuals do. Qualify your statements with “many, “most” . or “some” if you want to generalize.
  If you just say “Republicans”, it includes everyone of them, which will always make your assertion inaccurrate.
  
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Eastinfection
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 7:35pm
Queer Eye for the Jersey Guy.

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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 7:35pm
The gay agenda, to steal the struggle of the black people and try to make it theirs. Trying o make themselves a recognized minority, when what they really are, are sexual deviants.

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R.A. Bullseye
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 7:33pm
Another non article. Who cares about Booker’s newly found acceptance of gays? Really who cares? Every thing today is ego motivated we have folks like Oprah to thank for that. Ego,Ego,Ego.

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Live_Free_orDie
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 7:31pm
I think he’s gay…and I don’t think I feel that way because of my Negrophobia

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thibx
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 7:17pm
apostle paul said it’s a shame to even think what these people do. they are warped. thare is no way you could be one and know that it is not wrong.

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VoteRightDammit
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 7:16pm
“Hate” is probably a word he would not use again.

Pity is more like it.

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 7:43pm
  Funny how our usual name throwing trolls are not here calling Cory a typical bigot.
  
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denkat56
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 7:13pm
Just another open minded, tolerant, compassionate liberal democrat.

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- civilwarcometh
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 7:21pm
  You said that right. They hate anything they consider White American even the Constitution. http://weaselzippers.us/2013/01/10/crazed-liberal-radio-host-calls-for-mass-killing-of-birthers/
  
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T-2
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 6:57pm
It’s okay he has “evolved”.

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soybomb315_II
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 6:47pm
speaking of hating someone…..

Did anyone listen to the last hour of the glenn beck radio show today? Why is glenn beck wasting so much time trying to smear alex jones?

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- civilwarcometh
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 7:02pm
  Who else is there to pick on. obama?
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 7:47pm
  It’s because so many other News Sources are associating Beck with Jones.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 7:52pm
  Because Alex Jones is a complete nut. Besides, its just too damned easy.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 8:02pm
  Alex Jones might be right somewhat more than a stopped clock or your average progressive but you gotta wonder if he is doing more damage than good.
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 8:31pm
  Oh, so poor beckypoo is upset that his empire is threatened?
  
  so when someone comes along that you disagree with and think is doing harm to your cause – the answer is to use leftist smear tactics?
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 10:35pm
  Oh, so poor beckypoo is upset that his empire is threatened?
  
  so when someone comes along that you disagree with and think is doing harm to your cause – the answer is to use leftist smear tactics?
  ***
  No, I have been wary (or leery) of quoting infowars for a long time (going back 2 years or so). People would link it when Foxnews had lively debate & flame wars on the comment section. It predates Beck.
  
  I am not totally opposed to questioning something like 911 was an inside job, but really how are they going to plant all the charges in a building without being noticed?
  
  Passion is good, but you can’t be off the chain all the time. Although Piers did need someone to put him in check.
  
  Let’s put it this way. I would quote pjmedia before “Before it is News” which I would quote before infowars. But that is just me.
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 10:58pm
  @walkabout
  no i was referring to glenn beck’s leftist smear tactics that he has been using on his radio. the attacks have been way too harsh, especially considering the actual things that alex jones said are completely correct. Glenn’s response to all this could have just as easily originated from MSNBC….pathetic
  
  http://www.glennbeck.com/2013/01/08/crazy-person-alex-jones-rants-and-raves-on-cnn/
  
  http://www.glennbeck.com/2013/01/10/is-alex-jones-a-better-crier-than-glenn/?utm_source=Daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2013-01-10_191741&utm_content=55424066&utm_term=_191741_191758
  
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- riseandshine
  Posted on January 11, 2013 at 5:32am
  @Walkabout….Elevator shafts.
  In the elevator shafts you would have full access to core columns,girders, and floor trusses.
  
  Here is ‘Elevator World’ magazine describing the elevator modernization taking place in both towers in the months prior to 9/11:http://911research.wtc7.net/cache/wtc/arch/wtc_elevator_renovation.pdf
  http://911blogger.com/node/19889
  
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- riseandshine
  Posted on January 11, 2013 at 6:16am
  @Walkabout….If you take the time to watch this video (2 hrs)…I think you’ll see that Popular Mechanics and the like doesn’t debunk anything. http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=ae911truth-+blueprint+for+truth&view=detail&mid=E867378A5819DD1E6476E867378A5819DD1E6476&first=0&qpvt=ae911truth-+blueprint+for+truth
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on January 11, 2013 at 10:13am
  riseandshine
  
  I have had structural science courses. have I ran the #s myself? No.
  
  I do remember the professor teaching the class remarking that he had been in a working group of consultants designing containment building for nuclear reactors. They considered everything that could go wrong from earth quakes to fired. For man made disaster they considered a 747 being flown into a reactor building. That was the largest plane built at the time. This was well before 911 (decades).
  
  I also understand progressive collapse from flooding. This has happened to many ships including the Titanic.
  
  The only difference here is we are dealing with an impact & jet fuel. Jet fuel is hot enough to soften steel. That is all it would take. Have you seen a person stand on a coke can & the coke can support their entire weight. Collapse can be initiated by gentle tapping the side of the can with a pencil.
  
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- riseandshine
  Posted on January 11, 2013 at 11:32am
  lol
  
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AzThunder
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 6:47pm
I’m sure cory Leaned-Forward for obama

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- TIMEBOMB
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 6:59pm
  He did repeatedly,even then he knew I would become a magnificent ruler some day because he kept getting on his knees as well whenever we met.
  
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woodyee
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 6:47pm
“…opened his eyes to the struggle for acceptance shared by gays and his black grandparents.”

Anyone buying into that fallacious attempt to equate sexual deviancy with the slave issue is twisted or a victim of the public pseudo-educational system.

Or just a plain ol’ idiot.

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Diane TX
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 6:46pm
I don’t hate gay people, like Cory once did. I truly don’t believe in my heart, that homosexuality is “normal”, and I don’t believe that homosexuals are “born that way”.

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- rick20033
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 6:54pm
  Ditto.
  
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- woodyee
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 6:59pm
  There’s nothing to consider or apologize for. In the grand scheme of Life, homosexuality is contrary to, not only Biblical law, but to Darwinism. It is, as described in many places, an abomination.
  
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- Exrepublisheep
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 7:08pm
  I don’t think it’s a choice. There are gays in countries that would be legally murdered if people found out they were gay. Sexual urges are so powerful men hire ugly, diseased, hookers, risking sickness, prosecution and divorce just for a quicky. Anyone who ever broke Gods’ stated will for marriage by cheating should understand.
  
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- VoteRightDammit
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 7:18pm
  Diane —– you mean you have never seen a homosexual baby?
  
  Huh!
  
  Gee – I thought ALL babies were sexually conscious beings!
  
  (just in case: sarc off)
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 8:11pm
  Exrepublisheep
  Sexual urges are so powerful men hire ugly, diseased, hookers, risking sickness, prosecution and divorce just for a quicky. Anyone who ever broke Gods’ stated will for marriage by cheating should understand.
  
  Because 2/3rds of men (1/3rd of women) have at some point in their lives cheated on their partners, it means we must accept gays doing what they do from age 15 to age 70 or whenever?
  
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TIMEBOMB
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 6:42pm
This is shocking Cory and it isn’t what you said when we had our torrid affair,as I recall you were as gay as me. “I still remember how my brow would often unconsciously furrow when I was with gays as thoughts would flash in my mind, `What sinners I am amongst’ or “How unnatural these people are.’” Booker wrote. Oh your brow was furrowed alright as I spanked your bottom raw,back then you sure enjoyed it and we had a great time. Just come out of the closet and get it off your chest,you’ll feel much better. Praise be to me BHO.

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- FISH_BONE
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 7:00pm
  Nothing like a good ole Jersey hot dog to make a good day better eh, Mr. Pres?
  
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- TIMEBOMB
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 7:05pm
  That’s right sometimes I pitched he caught and he pitched I caught.
  
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- FISH_BONE
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 7:43pm
  We all know you throw (pitch) like a girl, now we know you catch like one too!
  
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woodyee
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 6:40pm
I’m offering $1000.00 to anyone who provides information leading to the arrest and conviction of Cory Booker for sexual harassment.

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- The-Monk
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 8:36pm
  Oooooh Woodyee,
  
  That really cracked me up. Thanks!
  
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go2gym
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 6:37pm
Hey, no problem, he’s a liberal.

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Mr.Fitnah
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 6:36pm
I was always pretty sure he was gay. My bad.

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