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Ancestors of Kathleen Elizabeth Bowen

Generation No. 2

      2. Lucien Walker Bowen, Jr., born 30 Jun 1919 in Brandy Station, Culpeper County, Virginia; died 22 Jul 1989 in Glen Burnie, Anne Arundel County, Maryland. He was the son of 4. Lucian Walker Bowen, Sr. and 5. Mollye Elizabeth Payne. He married 3. Jane Marie Drury 10 May 1958 in Washington, D.C..

      3. Jane Marie Drury, born 12 Nov 1932 in Washington, D.C.; died 28 Jan 2001 in Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Maryland. She was the daughter of 6. John Samuel Drury, Jr. and 7. Ella Elizabeth Donegan.

Notes for Lucien Walker Bowen, Jr.:
He was born on a Monday night at his home in Brandy Station, Culpeper County, Virginia.
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Broderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 1 A-L, Ed. 6, Social Security Death Index: U.S., Date of Import: Oct 4, 1998, Internal Ref. #1.111.6.26562.181; Individual: Bowen, Lucien; Social Security #: 578-12-7248; Issued in: Washington, DC; Birth date: Jun 30, 1919; Death date: Jul 22, 1989; ZIP Code of last known residence: 21114; Primary location associated with this ZIP Code: Crofton, Maryland.
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Certified copy of his birth certificate: File # 28866, County of Culpeper, Magisterial District of Stevensburg, Registration District # 233A, registered # 12. Born 8:00 P.M. 1st birth for Mother, Mollie., Father's occupation listed as "Brakeman." Mollie is listed as "Housekeeping." Physician's signature appears to be "M. L. Donelly." Certificate filed July 3, 1919 by "R. G. Allace."
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Dad at age 10 when he lived in Clarendon:
The Washington Post, Arlington County Bureau, April 1, 1930:

"The County Health Department yesterday gave out the following list of five-point health children:James Monroe School...Grade 4...Lucien Bowen..."
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Member, American Legion Post #139, Arlington, Virginia
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From packet of papers, including Application for Federal Employment:
Address as of 02-02-1966:
1810 North Wayne Street
Arlington, Virginia
Ph. 524-8743

Previous Employment:
Nov 1965 - date of application:
Al's Motors, 3910 Wilson Blvd.
Arlington, VA
Automotive Mechanic

Aug 1963 - Nov 1965:
Self-Employed
Mechanical Jobber

May 1955 - July 1963:
Jack Blank Pontiac, Inc, 1437
Irving Street, NW,
Washington, D.C.
Foreman, New Car Service

Apr 1946 - May 1955:
Brooks Auto Service
North Hudson Street
Arlington, VA
Automotive Mechanic

Sep 1944 - Apr 1946:
R F & P Railroad
Potomac Yards
Alexandria, Virginia
Yard Brakeman

Nov 1940 - Sep 1944:
United States Army
PFC, E-2
Honorable Discharge
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Per his Honorable Discharge papers:

Bowen, Jr. Lucien W.. Army serial number: 33 000 035, Pfc. Born in Culpepper (sic) Virginia. Inducted 28 November 1940 at Washington, D. C. When inducted he was 21-5/12 years of age and by occupation a R.R. Brakeman. He had Blue eyes, Brown hair, Ruddy complexion, and was Five feet Ten inches in height.
Completed Six years, Four months Twenty-Eight days service for longevity pay. Prior service: Hqs Btry 248th CA 10 June 1937 to 20 Jan 1940. Noncommissioned Officer: Never; Military qualifications: Carbine Marksman - 24 Jan 1944; Army Specialty: Supply Clerk.
Physical condition when discharged: Fair.
Married or Single: Single.
Remarks: CDD 1st Ind. Hq. England G.H., Atl. Cy., N. J. 13 Sep 1944, and Sec. II, AR 615-360, and P. 5, SO #257, Hq. E.G.H., Atl. Cy., N.J. 13 Sep 1944. No time lost under AW 107. MOP $200.00 WD Pamphlet 21-4 issued.
Front: This is to certify that Lucien W. Bowen, Jr. 33 000 035; Private First Class, 135th AF Base Unit (F) MAAF, Millville, N. J. Army of the United States is hereby Honorable Discharged from the military service of the United States of America. This certificate is awarded as a testament of Honest and Faithful Service to his country. Given at England General Hospital, Atlantic City, New Jersey. 14 September 1944. By order of Colonel Chappell.
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Death Notice: Evening Capital, 1989: "BOWEN - Lucien W., Jr., on Saturday, July 22, 1989. Beloved husband of Jane M. Bowen; father of Kathleen Elizabeth and Marlene Elizabeth Bowen; grandfather of Jennie Elizabeth and Lauren Marlene Bowen. Relatives and friends may call at Beall-Evans Funeral Home, P. A., Rt. 450 and Race Track Road, Bowie, Maryland, on Tuesday, 2 - 4 P.M. grave side service at Maryland Veterans Cemetery, Crownsville, Maryland, on Wednesday, July 26, 10 A.M."
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Veterans' Online Gravesite Locator:
BOWEN, LUCIEN W JR
PFC US ARMY
WORLD WAR II
DATE OF BIRTH: 06/30/1919
DATE OF DEATH: 07/22/1989
BURIED AT: SECTION 3B1 ROW 9 SITE 7
CROWNSVILLE VETERANS CEMETERY
1122 SUNRISE BEACH ROAD CROWNSVILLE, MD 21032
(410) 987-6320
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At http://xroads.virginia.edu/~Hyper/VAGuide/tour03.html, July 18, 2000:
"BRANDY STATION, 18.4 m., is a small trading center by a railway station.
CULPEPER, 24.9 m. (423 alt., 2,379 POP.), seat of Culpeper County, is the trade center of a well-to-do farming area. Rows of brick and frame buildings line a long Main Street, backing on tree-shaded residential areas.
A hill overlooking the western side of the town was the muster place in 1775 for the Culpeper Minute Men, volunteers from Culpeper, Orange, and Fauquier Counties. With a coiled rattlesnake and the legends, 'Don't tread on me' and 'Liberty or Death' on their flag, fringed deerskin trousers and hunting shirts, bucktails flying from their hats and scalping knives and tomahawks at their belts, they had a warlike appearance as they marched to Williamsburg to answer Governor Patrick Henry's call for volunteers in 1777. John Marshall, statesman and Chief justice of the U.S.Supreme Court, was a youthful lieutenant in the Fauquier company of his father, Captain Thomas Marshall.
Confederates camped not far away in the winter of 1862-63, and officers stayed at the old Virginia Hotel. That polished army boots bound for social events might escape the quagmire, a boardwalk was built across Main Street. Wounded from the battles of Cedar Mountain, from Kelly's Ford, and from Brandy Station were brought to churches, homes, and vacant buildings here. Later, Union officers made headquarters at the Virginia Hotel, and soldiers were billeted in public buildings; General Grant and his staff stayed at the hotel during April 1864.

The COURTHOUSE, built about 1870, is a brick structure painted a vivid red, with ornate white portico and cupola. Culpeper County was created in 1748 from the great territory of Orange. Culpeper is at the southern junction with US 29 (see Tour 4b).
Left from Culpeper on State 3, an asphalt road, to Germanna Bridge over the Rapidan, 14.4 m.; L. 0.7 m. on a dirt road to the site of GERMANNA, where a crumbling stone chimney and half -buried foundations are reminders of Virginia's first industrial village. Here lived the miners brought from the German Palatinate by Governor Alexander Spotswood in 1714. When the governor's efforts to have iron deposits developed as a public enterprise failed, he lent a willing ear to the private schemes of adventurers, one of whom was the Swiss Baron Von Graffenreid. But by the time the Germans arrived in the spring of 1714, Von Graffenreid had returned to Switzerland, and the governor was beset by difficulties. Fearful of the hostile council's learning of his 'risque of Censure ... for transporting Forreigners into these parts,' he proposed having them settled at this point as a barrier against Indian attacks. The council ordered a road cleared and two cannon dragged through 'the wild woods,'and set up on a 'stockade of stakes stuck in the ground ... and of a substance to bear out a musket shot.' That summer the thrifty Germans had 'nine houses, built all in a row, and before every house, about twenty feet distant from it, . . . small sheds built for their hogs and hens, so that the hogsties and houses make a street.' In 1720 this fron tier village became the seat of the newly-created Spotsylvania County. By 1722, when the governor retired, he had, through shrewd grants to subordinates to be held in trust for his own use, accumulated more than 85,000 acres of 'excellent Land among ye Little Mountains.' Here he lived in style suited to his lordly tastes. When the Germans moved farther north, slaves worked the iron enterprises, supervised by a 'master.' Here was his 'enchanted castle,' described by William Byrd II, with its terraced gardens, marbIe fountain, spacious drawing rooms 'elegantly set off with pier glasses' and where 'a brace of tame deer ran familiarly through the house.'
In 1732 the little county seat was abandoned for the growing town of Fredericksburg. Discouraged by a Parliament fearful that Colonial manufactures would interfere with British exports, the industrial activities dwindled after Spotswood's death in 11740."
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More About Lucien Walker Bowen, Jr.:
Burial: 25 Jul 1989, Maryland Veterans Cemetery, Crownsville, Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Area 3, Sect. B-1, Row 9, Grave 7.
Cause of Death: Stroke
Census: 1920, Federal census for Virginia. Enumerated 12 Jan 1920. he is in the househild of his grandfather Henry F. Payne, age 6/12.
Education: Abt. 1937, He graduated from Washington & Lee High School.
Medical Information: Smoker, fond of beer.
Military service: Bet. 1937 - 1944, U.S. Army, served from 10 Jun 1937 - 20 Jan 1940 then 28 Nov 1940 -14 Sep 1944, Serial # 33000035, WWII, tested Jeeps and Motorcycles.
Retirement: Federal Gov't/GSA, Washington, D.C.
Social Security Number: Social Security #: 578-12-7248, Issued Washington, D.C., Last residence: 21114 (Crofton, MD), death benefit payment to same location.

Notes for Jane Marie Drury:
My mother's newspaper birth announcement:
The Washington Post, November 15, 1932, page 18:
"Births Reported...
John S. & Ella E. Drury, girl..."
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Funeral at Holy Family Catholic Church, Davidsonville, Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Father Barr said Mass.
Jane Marie Drury was born at Georgetown University Hospital, the "old" one, in northwest Washington, D.C., on a Saturday. Her parents then lived on Warren street in southwest D. C. She attended St. Stephen's grade school which was affiliated with the Catholic church there. She doesn't recall the exact year that her parents moved to northwest D. C.

While I was growing up, we lived in the Glover Park section of northwest D. C. until 1970, in a classic brick townhome on 39th street that she inherited from her parents. It was few blocks from the parish church, Holy Trinity, in Georgetown. The neighborhood was entirely residential and had a good mix of young families and retirees. Many of the homes were rented by families attached to the nearby embassies, so we were exposed to many peoples from all walks of life. For the most part, all was quiet, but in the late 1960s, we were very aware of the politics of the time. Both mother and father, as well as Marlene and I, were greatly affected by the riots in D. C. in 1968. We moved to the Maryland suburbs in 1970 (first, a year in Bowie, then a permanent move to Crofton), but I think both my parents came to regret that move, especially mother. We did live about a year or so in Arlington, Virginia in 1965 because my mother inherited her aunt's (Jane Cecile Donegan Smith, known as "Jennie") home on North Wayne Street.
(Residences: Glover Park, NW Washington, D. C.; Bowie, Prince Georges County, Maryland in 1970-72; Crofton, Anne Arundel County, Maryland in 1972-89; Millersville, Anne Arundel County, Maryland 1989-92; Ridge Manor, Hernando County, Florida in June 1992 until her death in January 2001. Mother and Wayne moved to Florida in 1992 mainly due to mother's health problems. The cold weather became more of a burden to her due to her arthritis and they felt the warmer climate would help her. It was better for her, but she was often homesick for Maryland and D. C. and also Marlene's little family remained in Anne Arundel County. I (Kathleen) had followed mom and Wayne down to Florida because I could help her and my daughters were older.

Mother would often say she was an "unexpected" addition to her family back in 1932 because her mother had been advised that she would not be able to have more children and then along came mom. Note that mother is sixteen years younger than her brother, "Johnny," and she is eighteen years younger than her sister, "Betty." Tragically, Betty died within a few days of giving birth to her son, "Buddy," so mom sometimes felt that she came along to help her parents in their grief. Mom's father died from a heart attack when she was only fifteen. Mother and Grandma Ella took care of each other. Johnny had then married and had children of his own. Grandmother worked as a telephone supervisor in the War Department, at the Pentagon in Arlington. She took the bus to and from work.

At age eighteen, mother learned to drive and aunt Mary bought a car for them to use. Mom tells a funny story that she flirted with the young man who gave her the driving test and she agreed to go on a date with him before they proceeded with her test. She said she would have failed that test if she hadn't of agreed to go our for pizza. She cancelled the date after she obtained her license! We have to give her credit, though, as despite not being able to have passed the test without the "assistance" of the test administrator, she must have learned to drive well enough because she never had an accident! One of her vehicles was hit once, but it was parked...!

As a teen and young adult, mother worked a couple of places. Her first job was as a cashier at the Calvert movie theatre, then owned by the Warner Brothers Company (it is some irony that her daughter, Marlene, works for what is now AOL-Time-Warner in their music division, WEA). Mom also worked for Eastman-Kodak and for the telephone company. Mother, influenced by the maternal Irish side of the family, became involved in local and national politics. She was a telephone operator at Georgetown University hospital when then-Senator John Kennedy and his wife, Jackie, had a baby boy named Patrick who died shortly after his birth at the hospital. Mother, already volunteering time to Democratic party efforts, met some Democratic officials who were acting as liaisons between the hospital and Senator Kennedy's staff. Later, these ties led to her working - unofficially - with First Lady Jackie Kennedy's social office. Mom also did some political work with the husband of President Kennedy's secretary, Mr. Lincoln, in northern Virginia. Later, when president Johnson celebrated his election to office, mother received tickets for her and I to be seated in the "VIP" section at the inaugural parade in 1965. I sat between mom and Ava Gabor! Mother told me who was on her left, but I cannot recall the name. Mother also attended inaugural balls in honor of Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. Interestingly, father didn't care a bit for politics and to some degree he resented the time mom spent on these endeavors. He didn't want mother to work at all once I came along, but she did work part-time off and on once I passed toddlerhood. She was a bit ahead of her time and wanted to have her own money and adult interaction. She firmly believed in education, but she herself struggled to get through high school.

Mom really enjoyed fine dining, travel, and shopping. She often took my sister and I on long weekend trips to New York (where we often visited Irish cousins whose names I cannot recall and now I wish I had written all that down - mom couldn't even recall most of them before she passed away), Philadelphia, New Orleans, both coasts of Florida (also visiting "relations"), and many towns in Virginia and Pennsylvania. She didn't make it out of the U. S. until she and I visited Ireland for two-and-a-half weeks in May 1990. It was a trip of a lifetime and it is one that she wished that she had been able to have taken with her mother and aunts. All of them had expressed an interest in seeing the family homeland, especially County Cork. Mother did remember that her maternal grandparents - the Hurleys and the Donegans - both stated their ancestors were from Co. Cork. In Ireland, we decided we wouldn't follow a set itinerary. Instead, we went through a tour operator in New York City (Lismore) that offered a voucher program. We had arranged our own airfare, using credits that Marlene had acquired through her work and could be transferred to another family member. The vouchers permitted us to stay mainly in two types of accommodations: Bed & Breakfasts (generally private homes), which then included breakfast and dinner, or in high-grade (but not the 5-star) hotels with "just" breakfast. Due to mother's arthritis, she was leery of the privates homes and stairs, so we mainly stayed in the hotels. That turned out well, too, as we could then have a variety of dinner meals and not be obligated to return to a B & B to sit for the evening meal. We simply called ahead to the hotels on our list that met our requirements and it worked out very well. We did have the option of staying at top-grade hotels, but they required a supplementary payment per night per person (which were really amazingly modest at that time). So, we did take advantage of that option in Dublin, staying three nights at the Shelbourne on St. Stephen's Green, just down from the infamous Grafton street. It was lovely.

We did the reverse of the normal tour of Ireland: instead of starting in Dublin and ending at Shannon, we came in at Shannon and left from Dublin. In fact, it was a good thing I only had to drive about a 1/4 mile to the Shannon airport hotel when we came in - we were exhausted from the air travel. That first night we stayed at the Shannon Airport Hotel. After a long nap to overcome jet lag, we had a lovely dinner and then went to the hotel bar to have their famous creation, Irish coffee. I will never forget mom's face as our plane flew over Ireland and as she took in the scenery. We both had tears in our eyes. Our air travel involved flying to New York from BWI on a Dash 7, then a Pan Am flight to London's Heathrow and a final connection to Shannon on Aer Lingus (wonderful airline).

We drove around Ireland in a red 4-door Corolla, but that wasn't the vehicle that we had ordered. Through the tour company, we had arranged for a small Nissan called a Micra. Upon arrival at the car rental desk at Shannon airport, we were waited upon by a very handsome young man named Michael. He saw the luggage (and mom and I are both a bit "zaftig") and he offered to upgrade our car to the 4-door Corolla. Michael explained the Corolla had to go to Dublin - our final destination - to have some body repairs made. He said if we didn't mind the damaged vehicle, we could have it at no additional cost. We agreed. We were asked about - and teased about - the damage the length and breadth of Ireland! We really didn't care because it was a conversation-starter and once we saw the Micra (appropriately-named), we knew we would not have been at all comfortable in it. We explored Limerick, Ennis, Galway, Kerry, Kinsale (we stayed there longest because it was our base for Co. Cork), Wexford, Waterford, Avoca (where the PBS TV show "Ballykissangel" is now filmed - awesome beauty), and Dublin. We drove both highways and byways and we met a lot of wonderful people. We have to laugh - everyone, once they heard the American accent - asked if we were from New York or Boston. Of course, we were from neither - so we would explain that we lived in Maryland, smack between D. C. and Baltimore, near Annapolis....) We saw some ugly Americans - those that would loudly brag of all they had in the states and those who were very demanding of services in a country that is a bit more laid-back than ours. We ate Chinese food in Cork, Italian food in Dublin and lots of local fare all along the way. The pubs are great. We had our own little pub tour going and, except for the one night Mother and I both got a really good buzz at the Shenachie in Kinsale (we were just a short walk form the hotel, Acton's, so didn't have to drive) and I sang a Mexican version of Molly Malone. Mostly, we kept to an occasional Guinness or Irish whiskey, and ate mostly pub fare and sodas. Kinsale is a gourmet's delight and it is a popular holiday destination among the Irish themselves. We ate at several fine restaurants there and had the likes of Dover sole and all kinds of freshly-caught and prepared salmon. A dollop of fresh cream is put on everything!

In Dublin, we shopped until we dropped, buying Irish lace, Dresden figurines, Belleek, and many books at Eason's. We had most of it mailed home or we would never have gotten the luggage on the plane! We were even able to bring home Irish salmon in vacuum packs. While staying at the Shelbourne, we had an Irish coffee every evening in the Horseshoe Bar and we had afternoon high tea every day in the Lady Aisling room. I will go back one day and would love to be able to take my children and grandchildren. On our last night in Ireland, we went to see Dancing at Lughnasa, the drama written by Brian Friel (who wrote Philadelphia Story). It was at the famous Abbey Theatre. We bought second-row seats for �12 apiece, which was about $18.50 at that time! They play was wonderful and I announced to mother that that it was definitely going to Broadway and it would do well. She thought it may have been 'too Irish due to all of the slang (the Playbill contained slang definitions, though). I felt the themes were universal and so many Americans have Irish ancestry that they would easily connect to the story. I turned out to be correct - It went to Broadway and, in fact, won the Tony award for best drama in 1992.

Mom and Wayne also took a few cruises to the Caribbean, the Mexican coast, and to Key West - most before moving to Florida. They often took week-long driving trips, too. Mom loved it that Wayne would travel because dad never cared for travel much. In fact, dad hated Florida, hated hotels, well, let's just say he was a homebody. In 1994, Marlene was on maternity leave after having Martin II. Marlene's mother-in-law, Dorothy, was posted in Germany because she worked for the State Department. Marlene, Martin, baby Martin, and Mom visited Dorothy in Germany and they used that as a base to travel all over Europe. Mom went to France, Belgium, and England as well as all over Germany. She had a wonderful time. After moving to Florida, mom and Wayne took many weekend trips and Marlene and her family also came down a couple of times and they all travelled to Miami, South Beach, and Key West.

in December 2000, mom was visiting my sister, Marlene E. Collins, at her home in Edgewater, Anne Arundel County, Maryland. She had been hospitalized with pneumonia in October and had recovered fairly well, but she was also concerned with her health in general and she was definitely declining healthwise. She desperately wished to see Maryland and visit with Marlene. Mother also felt the healthcare in Maryland was of a higher quality than she was receiving in Florida. She was to return home to Ridge Manor after the Holidays. Apparently, mother acquired an antibiotic-resistant staph infection at Anne Arundel Medical Center while hospitalized for pneumonia in early January. She was released on January 7, but during the early morning of January 9, 2001, she started feeling very poorly, then rapidly developed a high fever and hallucinations, so poor Marlene called for an ambulance (mom protested, though, since the hospital had just released her and she was afraid they would turn her away!). She was rushed back to the same hospital and she was then admitted to the ICU. A blood culture revealed the staph infection (known as Methcillin-Resistant Staphylococcus or "MRSA"). She had a "mild" heart attack those first couple of days, then developed an additional infection in her gallbladder. She fought very hard for those three weeks, but simply could not overcome the affects of the infection. She had also suffered the past few years with rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, and emphysema.
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More About Jane Marie Drury:
Baptism: 1932, St. Anne's Catholic Church, Washington, D.C.
Burial: Unknown, Maryland Veterans Cemetery, Crownsville, Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Area 3, Sect. B-1, Row 9, Grave 7. Part of her cremains placed in grave with her first husband, Lucien Walker Bowen, Jr.
Cause of Death: Sepsis due to staph infection
Cremation: 31 Jan 2001, Alexandria, Fairfax County, Virginia
Medical Information: Mom, a life-long heavy smoke who had just quit in October 2000, also had emphysema and diabetes.
Occupation: In teens and early 20s, Mother worked for Warner Theatre, then for A T & T as an operator. Later, she worked as an operator at Georgetown University Hospital, the Federal Center in Baltmore, and the University of Maryland, College Park campus.
Religion: Roman Catholic
Social Security Number: JANE BOWEN, b. 12 Nov 1932, d. 28 Jan 2001; Location of last residence: 33523 (Dade City, Pasco County, FL), Last benefit: 21114 (Crofton, Anne Arundel County, MD), SSN: 579-42-0820; Issued: District of Columbia.

Marriage Notes for Lucien Bowen and Jane Drury:
Married at Washington, D. C. Courthouse.
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More About Lucien Bowen and Jane Drury:
Death of one spouse: 22 Jul 1989
Marriage: 10 May 1958, Washington, D.C.

Children of Lucien Bowen and Jane Drury are:

	1	i.		Kathleen Elizabeth Bowen, born Private; married (1) Richard Thomas Burns Private; married (2) Roderick Charles Simons Private.
		ii.		Marlene Elizabeth Bowen, born Private; married Martin Jeffrey Collins Private; born Private.

More About Martin Collins and Marlene Bowen:
Private-Begin: Private

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