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Thu. Jun. 14th, 2026 | 11:11 am EST -251.328 👁

Written by Dr. Blane Schilling, Neurologist |

Former chronic pain sufferer exposes $47 billion headaches conspiracy - and the 30-minute breakthrough that ended 9 years of headaches (without pills, surgery, and botox shots)

I am about to piss off every sinus surgeon, botox injection clinic, and pharmaceutical company in America

Because what I am about to reveal can cost the people behind it billions in lost revenue.

But I don't care.

I knew I had to expose the truth.

Even if it destroys my reputation.

Even if they come after me.

Because what you're about to discover could save you from an unnecessary surgery that costs up to $25,000 and has a recurrence rate as high as 50%.

The truth I'm sharing might end my career. But if it saves even one person from the nightmare I've witnessed, it's worth it.

My name is Dr. Blane Schilling.

I'm a neurologist with 23 years of experience.

I've worked with everyone from the biggest entrepreneurs to 55-year-old mothers.

And I'm about to expose the dirty secret that keeps millions of Americans trapped in pain - while the medical industry laughs all the way to the bank.

But first, let me tell you about the night that changed everything...

THE NIGHT EVERYTHING CHANGED…

It was 2:47 AM on a Tuesday.

I woke up to my wife Sarah sobbing in the bathroom.

Not crying. Sobbing.

The kind of raw, primal sound that makes your stomach drop.

She was on the floor, curled in the fetal position, her whole body shaking.

Both hands pressed against the stomach.

"I feel my stomach on fire," she whispered. "I can't live like this anymore."

The amount of pills she popped trying to fix her headaches caused her a stomach ulcer.

And I just stood there.

Useless.

It was a nightmare.

A neurologist who couldn't even help his own wife.

I'd tried everything I knew. Hot and cold showers. Sinus surgery. Eating clean.

Chugging water like it was a job.

I tell her to give up even coffee.

Nothing worked for more than a few hours.

The "medications" weren't any better:

Advil, Motrin, and Excedrin did nothing but cause her ulcer.

Sinus surgery? That didn't help either. It wasn't sinusitis.

That night, something inside me snapped.

I wasn't going to watch the woman I love turn into a prescription drug statistic.

I wasn't going to let another surgeon use her as a Mercedes payment.

So I did what any desperate husband would do...

I went to war with everything I thought I knew about headaches.

THE MIND BLOWING DISCOVERY

For the next 3 months, I lived like a machine.

I devoured every study. Called researches in Switzerland. Flew to conferences in Japan. Spent $8,000 of our savings on medical journals and insider reports.

And what I found made me want to punch a hole through my computer screen.

The entire drug industry for headaches is built on a lie.

A $47 billion dollar lie that keeps you sick, desperate, and reaching for your wallet.

Here's what they don't want you to know:

80% of daily headaches has NOTHING to do with your HEAD, eyes and nose.

It's not about "popping another Advil". It's not about "dehydration." It's not about "just live with it."

That's why none of the solutions I tried ever worked.

The REAL cause is something so simple, so obvious, that I kicked for missing it all these years.

Your head has absolutely nothing to do with it.

It’s about your neck.

Let me explain…

THE REAL ROOT CAUSE OF HEADACHE

Picture your head like a 10-pound bowling ball.

And your neck like a crane holding it up.

When your head sits stacked straight over your shoulders, that crane barely has to work.

The muscles at the base of your skull stay loose. The nerve that runs up through them — the one wired straight into your temples, your forehead, behind your eyes — sits there happy and untouched.

But here's what happens every time your head drifts forward — toward a screen, a phone, a steering wheel...

That 10-pound ball turns into 20... 30... 40 pounds of dead weight hanging off the back of your neck.

And the little muscles at the base of your skull?

They clamp down like a fist and never let go.

Hour after hour. Day after day. Year after year.

That knotted fist crushes the nerve running through it — pinched like a garden hose under a truck tire.

And that nerve carries the signal straight up into your skull.

THAT is your "headache."

It was never in your head.

It started in your neck.

And the medical world has known this for decades.

Physical therapists even have a name for it — cervicogenic and tension-type headache.

Headaches that don't start in the head at all, but in the neck holding it up.

They've known it since 1987 when Swedish researches proves that 80% of headaches patients had a "significant slouched posture"

But here's the kicker...

There's no money in fixing it.

Why?

Because the solution is too simple. Too cheap. And it would put half the spine surgeons in Beverly Hills out of business.

You can't patent good posture.

You can't bill insurance for it.

And someone who fixes their own neck stops buying pills for the rest of their life.

That's the problem. For them.

So they keep you on the hamster wheel:

Pills to mask the pain → Injections when pills stop working → Surgery when you're desperate enough → More pills for post-surgery pain → Repeat until they cause you a stomach ulcer.

It's genius, really.

If you're a sociopathic medical executive who sees human suffering as a revenue stream.

THE 90-MINUTE MIRACLE HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT

Remember my wife on that bathroom floor?

One month after my discovery, the headaches she'd fought every single day for nine years... were gone.

No pills. No shots. No doctors on speed dial.

No acid blocker on the nightstand to clean up what the painkillers had done to her stomach.

Truly life-changing.

And it came down to 90 minutes a day — not worn in one long stretch, but in a few short sessions — doing something so stupidly simple I'm embarrassed it took me nine years to see it.

To stop the headache, you have to fix the posture that's pinching the nerve.

And to actually fix your posture — for good, not just while you're thinking about it — you have to get TWO things right at the same time.

Miss either one and you're wasting your time.

HOLD. Something has to hold your head in the correct position — really hold it, rigidly, for the entire session.

Not "remind" you. Not gently suggest.

HOLD. Because your own neck muscles are exhausted and tapped out — they give up after about 30 minutes of desk work, which is exactly why "just sit up straight" never survives past lunch.

WORK. But your muscles still have to do the job themselves the rest of the day. Because a muscle only gets stronger by working.

Anything that does the work FOR it — all day, every day — makes it weaker.

That's the dirty little secret behind every $20 elastic brace on Amazon: wear it all day and your muscles go to sleep, so the moment you take it off, you slouch worse than before you started.

Miss the HOLD → you're slumped again in half an hour. Nothing changes.

Miss the WORK → your muscles go soft, and you end up worse than you started.

That's why pain pills fail. (They HOLD nothing.)

That's why all-day braces fail. (They kill the WORK.)

You need both. In short cycles.

In the right order — the brace holds the line for 30 minutes so the strain comes off the nerve, then comes OFF for a few hours so your muscles carry the weight themselves and get stronger.

Hold, then work. Hold, then work.

A Twin-Rail Retrainer.

And that's exactly what I figured out how to build.

THIS BREAKTHROUGH IS PISSING OF AN ENTIRE INDUSTRY

After Sarah's miracle recovery, word spread fast.

My neighbor Dan - a construction worker, 57 years old, tough as nails - knocked on my door at 11 PM.

"Whatever you did for Sarah... I need it. NOW"

This man hadn't slept through the night in 2 years. Headaches had him popping Advil like Tic Tacs just to swing a hammer.

90 minutes on my prototype device.

He cried.

Not from pain. From relief.

"It's like someone just turned off a vice for the first time in years," he said.

Within 36 hours, I had a line of desperate people outside my garage

Teachers who couldn't stand in front of their class. Housewives who cannot even cook... Moms who couldn't pick up their own kids...

Every. Single. One. Got. Better.

Not "managed their pain" better. Not "learned to live with it" better.

ACTUALLY BETTER.

That's when the threats started.

WHEN YOU MESS WITH $47 BILLION, THEY COME FOR YOU

First, it was a "friendly" warnings

A department head I'd known for years pulled me aside at a conference:

"Blane, what you're doing is dangerous. People need REAL medical treatment. You should stop before we lose our jobs..."

Then came the cease and desist letters.

Three law firms. All representing "concerned medical professionals" who claimed I was "practicing medicine without proper authorization."

The final straw?

My biggest equipment supplier - a company I'd bought from for 17 years - suddenly couldn't fulfill my orders.

"Sorry Blane, corporate decision. Nothing personal."

They wanted me gone because I'd created something that could make their entire business model obsolete.

A device that:

Fixed the ROOT CAUSE of headaches (not just symptoms)

Worked in 90 minutes a day (not weeks of appointments)

Cost less than ONE botox injection (not thousands in procedures)

Let people fix themselves at home (not in some $3 million clinic)

But here's what those medics didn't count on..

I'd already partnered with a team of biomedical engineers who believed in the mission.

And we'd turned my garage prototype into something even better.

INTRODUCING THE DEVICE THAT ACTUALLY FIXES HEADACHE

It's called the Uprightd Posture Retrainer.

And it's THE single device on earth that delivers all two requirements for lasting headache relief:

Job #1 — HOLD → Twin-Rail Support.

Instead of elastic, Uprightd has two rigid bars. One runs down each side of your spine.

Bars don't stretch. They don't "give a little" at minute 10.

They don't quit by lunch.

The position they hold you in at minute 1 is the same position at minute 30.

On day 1 and on day 100.

So when it's on, you are actually IN the right position.

Not "kind of." Actually.

Ears over shoulders.

Ball on top of the spine.

Weight off the nerve.

Job #2 — WORK → The 30-Minute Cycle.

You do NOT wear Uprightd all day.

You're not supposed to.

That's the point.

All two. Synchronized. Automatic.

You literally strap it on and let 19 months of obsessive research – backed by 23 years of hands-on surgical experience – do the work.

No appointments. No copays. No nonsense.

Just your neck finally getting what it's being screaming for:

SUPPORT. STRENGTH. RELIEF.

HERE'S EXACTLY HOW IT DESTROYS HEADACHES IN 90 MINUTES

When you strap on the Uprightd Posture Retrainer, here's what actually happens:

The Session — your first 30 minutes.

Two rigid bars run down either side of your spine and draw your shoulders back and your head up — stacking that 10-pound bowling ball back on top of your shoulders where it's supposed to sit, instead of hanging out in front, dragging on your neck.

The instant your head comes back over your shoulders, the load lifts off that fist of muscle at the base of your skull.

The fist starts to unclench. The nerve it was crushing finally gets its space back.

For a lot of people, that's the first time in years the pressure behind their eyes and temples eases off — without swallowing a single thing.

And here's the part that matters most: those bars don't stretch.

Not at minute 2. Not at minute 30.

The position they put you in at the start is the exact position they hold at the end.

(This is where every elastic brace falls apart — it stretches the second you put it on, so you spend 30 minutes "training" the same slouch that got you here.)

The Hours Off — where it becomes permanent

After 30 minutes, you take it off.

This is the step everyone else gets wrong — and the entire reason it works.

For the next few hours, your muscles hold your head up on their own. They just felt the correct position; now they practice holding it under their own power.

That's not a break from the treatment — that IS the treatment.

A muscle only gets stronger when it does the work itself. This is the "WORK" half earning its keep.

An all-day brace never lets this happen. That's why Uprightd is built to come off.

The First Few Weeks — why the pill bottle leaves your desk

Do this a few short cycles a day — roughly 90 minutes total — and the muscles that hold your head up stop being weak, overstretched, and permanently knotted.

Standing up straight stops being something you have to force yourself to do.

It becomes where your body naturally rests.

The fist at the base of your skull stops clamping.

The nerve stops getting pinched all day long. And the headache it kept firing off... stops needing a pill to shut it up.

Not numbed. Not masked.

Not "managed."

Fixed — at the one thing that was actually causing it.

Your neck.

THE RESULTS THAT HAVE DOCTORS SCRAMBLING

In the last 18 months, over 21,500 people have used Uprightd.

The results?

91% report "significant or complete" pain relief within 7 days

87% reduced or eliminated their pain medication

74% avoided recommended surgery

But my favorite statistic?

Almost ZERO people have asked for a refund because "it didn't work."

Check out what real users are saying:

"Two neurologists, an MRI, and a $600 mouth guard later — and the thing that finally moved the needle just holds my head where it's supposed to be. I'm not saying it's magic. I'm saying I spent three years and a fortune drugging something that started in my neck, and not one of them ever looked at it. I'm still a little mad about that." — Rachel T., Columbus, OH

"I do my 30 minutes with morning emails and again after lunch. Third week in, I caught myself NOT reaching for the ibuprofen at 3pm and NOT rubbing the base of my skull. Both were tells I didn't know I had until they stopped." — Marcus D., Austin, TX

"I kept Advil in three places — desk, purse, car — and I'd started scaring myself with how many I went through. My stomach was already letting me know. I won't tell you I never take one now. But I've bought one bottle since March and it's still half full. For someone who was genuinely worried about what those pills were doing to me, that's everything." — Jenny K., Tampa, FL

THE PRICE THAT'S CAUSING MEDICAL INDUSTRY PANIC

Let me show you what fixing headache REALLY costs in America:

The Pill That "Worked":

A bottle of Advil: about $12.

My wife went through 2 a month.

Sometimes 3.

Cheap. That's the whole trap — cheap enough to never stop.

About $300 a year. Nine years ≈ $2,400 on bottles alone.

But the bottle was just the down payment.

Because the pills paid her back with interest: first gastritis. Then a stomach ulcer.

Then rebound headaches — the more she took, the more she got, until she was popping ibuprofen like candy just to stay level.

I paid money to get her worse.

The Damage-Control Route

(The pill for the pill):

Then came the second pill.

An acid blocker — omeprazole — every single morning. Its only job: keep the pill she took for her head from burning through her stomach.

A daily pill to survive a daily pill.

Endoscopy to see the damage: about $900 after insurance. GI specialist co-pays. Weeks of bland food so her stomach could heal.

She was now paying to clean up an injury she'd bought at $12 a bottle. And the headache?

Still there. Every morning.

The "Safe" Swap That Fixes Nothing:

Doctor's orders: "No more ibuprofen. Switch to Tylenol."

Tylenol is cheap. Gentle on the stomach.

And it did absolutely nothing for her head.

So now she was allowed exactly one option — the one that left her in pain. Paying, every day, to still hurt.

The pattern:

See it? Every "fix" quietly created the next problem.

The pill fixed her head and wrecked her stomach.

The acid pill managed her stomach but not her head.

The "safe" pill was safe because it did nothing at all.

Round and round — except each lap cost her a little more of her stomach and left the same headache waiting.

That's not treatment. That's a subscription, and the auto-renewal was her own gut.

The medical industry LOVES this.

Because a pill that wears off is a customer who buys another. A stomach it wrecks is a second prescription. A "safe" swap that fails sends her right back to the one that's hurting her.

It's a goldmine built on people too desperate to stop.

But here's what really pisses them off...

The Uprightd Posture Retrainer should cost $700 — that's what the rigid, professionally-built posture braces go for. Hell, that's what my prototype cost to build.

But I didn't make this to get rich.

I made it because I watched my wife swallow two pills at breakfast — one for her head, one to protect her from the first — and neither one had ever fixed a thing.

So here's the deal:

The regular price is $139.

Less than she spent in a single year on the bottles that gave her the ulcer.

But that's not what you'll pay today.

THE 43% OFF "IN YOUR FACE" TO THE MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENT

Remember those cease and desist letters I mentioned?

The threats? The blacklisting?

Well, I just got word that a major medical device company is trying to patent-block our technology.

They can't copy it (we have iron-clad patents).

They can't buy us out (I told them to go away).

So now they're trying to bury us in legal fees.

My response?

I'm putting 10,000 units on sale on this Summer Sale - 43% OFF.

That's right.

Just $79.

Less than ONE doctor visit.

Less than your monthly pill refill.

Less than that ergonomic chair gathering dust in your office.

For the ONLY device that actually fixes the root cause of headaches.

Why would I do this?

Because every person who gets better is a “wake-up call” to the cor*upt system that kept them sick.

Because I want 10,000 people posting their success stories before these medical vultures can silence us.

BUT HERE'S THE CATCH (AND IT'S A BIG ONE)

This 43% discount dies in 72 hours.

Not because I'm playing games.

But because my lawyers are expensive, and I need capital to fight these patent trolls.

After 72 hours, we go back to $139.

Still a steal. But not $79.

Also - and this is important - we only have 3,847 units left at this price.

Our factory in Michigan can only produce 500 per week.

When Amazon put us on their homepage last month, we sold out in 19 hours…

…So we are no longer selling on Amazon, you won’t find our original product there, there are only gimmicks being sold, the only place we sell it is through our official Uprightd Website.

If you're reading this, units are still available.

But I can't promise they'll last the day.

And here's the thing...

Every minute you wait is another minute you're:

Feeding the pill companies

Enriching the surgeons

Living in unnecessary pain

While the solution is sitting right here for less than a night out.

MY PERSONAL 60-DAY "PAIN FREE" GUARANTEE

Look, I get it.

You've been burned before.

Spent money on "miracle cures" that turned out to be expensive paperweights.

So here's my promise:

Try the Uprightd for 60 days.

Use it every single day.

Feel your neck decompress... Feel your headaches easing... Feel your pain disappear...

And if you don't wake up one morning thinking "Holy crap, I forgot I even HAD a headache"...

I'll refund every penny.

No forms to fill out. No "store credit" nonsense. No questions asked.

Just email contact us through the "Contact Us" button on our website and say "It didn't work."

We'll send a prepaid label, and your refund hits within 48 hours.

Why am I so confident?

Because in 18 months and 21,500 users, our refund rate is 0.3%.

That's THREE people per thousand.

And two of those were because the size was wrong.

THE CHOICE THAT WILL DEFINE YOUR NEXT DECADE

Right now, you're at a crossroads.

Path #1: Keep Doing What You're Doing

Keep swallowing the pill that helps your head and eats your stomach. Keep swallowing the second pill that guards your stomach from the first.

Keep choking down the "safe" one that does nothing at all. Keep counting how many you've had today, and hating that you already know the number.

Keep waking up with the same headache you had nine years ago — now with a scope appointment and a hole in your gut to go with it.

Keep being a subscription the drug companies never have to sell twice.

Path #2: Try Something That Actually Works

Spend less than one bad year of Advil. Go after the actual cause — the pinched nerve in your neck — instead of drugging the alarm it sets off.

Reach for the bottle less and less, until one day you notice you haven't opened it in a week.

Wake up tomorrow without deciding, before your feet hit the floor, which pill you're willing to pay for today.

Stop renting relief. Own the fix.

The choice seems pretty obvious to me.

HERE'S EXACTLY WHAT TO DO NEXT

Click the big yellow button below that says "Check Availability Now"

Choose your package (Pro tip: Get two. One for home, one for the office. Or gift one to someone suffering. You will save more)

Fill out your shipping info (We ship same day if you order before 3 PM EST or next day otherwise)

Wait 3-5 days for your head's salvation to arrive

Use it for 30 minutes the moment it arrives

Text us your "This actually worked for me!" moment (seriously, via "contact us" button on our website)

But whatever you do, don't close this page thinking "I'll order later."

Later doesn't exist when you're in pain.

Later is another sleepless night.

Later is missing another family event.

Later is the discount expiring and units selling out.

Your head has waited long enough.

Click below and let's end this nightmare.

With love,

Dr. Blane Schilling Creator, Uprightd Posture Retrainer Champion #1 of the At-Home Headaches Solutions

P.S. - I just got a text from my wife. She's at yoga class. YOGA. The woman who couldn't bend down to tie her shoes is doing downward dog. That could be you in a few weeks. But only if you act now.

P.P.S. - The Uprightd is FDA-registered, clinically tested, and doctor-recommended. (Yes, we did it the right way.)

P.P.P.S. - Seriously, we're down to 3,847 units. When I refresh our inventory system and see it below 1,000, I'm pulling this page. Don't say I didn't warn you.

A little-known at-home device is making headlines for easing 91% of daily tension headaches — with just 30 minutes a day, and not a single pill.

After 19 months of research and more than 21,500 people tracked, a neurologist finally built a drug-free solution that targets the real cause of daily headaches — the pinched nerve in your neck — packed into one simple at-home device.

Here are the life-changing results everyday headache sufferers — the kind who live on screens and painkillers — have experienced:

Individual results may vary*

Danielle Foster — Raleigh, North Carolina

"Every posture strap I'd tried was just elastic — stretched out and useless within ten minutes. The Uprightd's rigid rails actually held my head back where it belonged. After a week of 30-minute sessions with my morning coffee, I hit noon without that band tightening around my right temple for the first time in years. I'd already booked a round of nerve-block shots — I canceled them. And I can wear it while I clear my inbox. It's the only thing that's touched these headaches."

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Individual results may vary*

Wayne Palmer — Toledo, Ohio

"I was skeptical — years of ibuprofen, a chiropractor, and a $500 night guard did nothing. Two weeks in, the every-morning headache stopped and that pressure behind my eyes finally lifted. I drive a rig ten hours a day, head down, neck cooked by lunch. This is the first thing that's made my head feel normal. Back to full days without a bottle of Advil in the cab."

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Individual results may vary*

Carol Nguyen — Spokane, Washington

"My son ordered this after catching me press my thumbs into the base of my skull every night at dinner. I'd tried a stiff brace before that dug into my shoulders and made everything worse — this one actually adjusts to fit. Doing my 30 minutes with coffee, by week three I was sleeping through the night and not reaching for the Excedrin. My headaches aren't completely gone — but they've dropped from every single day to maybe one a week. I feel like myself again."

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Harry Keegan My wife doesn't use Facebook, but she swears this thing changed her life. I can vouch for it, she's living better than she has in years with the Uprightd

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Laura Fuchs Absolutely loving my Uprightd! 😱

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Anna Madison I was skeptical at first… but honestly, this device is worth every penny. It works. Two of my coworkers ordered it after trying mine!

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Laura Lehmann I had to buy one for my sister too, she wouldn't stop "borrowing" mine 🥰

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Hanna Lang Omg SAME! I saw it was back in stock and ordered immediately. Didn't want to miss out again.

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Emma Boyd I can't even believe to tell you the difference I feel in my day to day.

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Emma Emerson Hey Emma, this is what you need instead of that stuff you take.

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Isabella Mayson Just got mine today. I'm using it today for the first time. Fingers crossed!

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Zora Vance was scared it'd make my muscles weak like everyone says. but you only wear it 30 min a day. mine feel stronger not weaker

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Maeve Callahan came for the posture, stayed for the headaches?? didnt even expect that part. mine used to start every morning in my temple. way less now

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Sloane Hendrickson my sister ordered the $25 lookalike off amazon and it literally bent when i pressed it lol. these rails are actually solid. big difference

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Odessa Warren best part is you DONT wear it all day. 30 min with my coffee then off. worried id have to sit in it 8 hrs

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Deandre Washington wear mine under a hoodie at my desk and nobody can tell. thought itd be bulky and obvious but its honestly fine

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Cyrus Sterling MRI, sinus surgery, botox, a $500 mouthguard… and the thing that helped was a $79 back brace?? im still a little mad honestly lol

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Thaddeus Boone mine was always right temple down into the neck. pressing the base of my skull would light it up. thats gone way down now, wild

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Wrenley Briggs 57yr old guy here, skeptical as they come. desk job wrecked my neck. been using it 6 weeks, mornings arent a coin flip anymore

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