Lily Aldrin Never Do That Again
| Lily Aldrin | ||
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| Portrayed past: Alyson Hannigan | ||
| First appearance: Pilot | ||
| Last appearance: Terminal Forever - Part Two | ||
| Likewise Known As: Lilypad, Justice Aldrin, Cherry-red, Lil, Chewbacca, The Belly, The Slap Bet Commissioner, Lori, The Kraken, Cerise Head, Ms. Aldrin, Lily Stinson, Mrs. Awesome, Number One Gunna | ||
| Dwelling house town: Park Gradient, Brooklyn, New York, | ||
| Born: March 22, 1978 | ||
| Occupation: Fine art consultant (Flavor 8 - present) | ||
| Residence: Lily's First Apartment | ||
| Romances: Scooter (ex-swain, admirer) | ||
| Gallery of Lily Aldrin images (595) | ||
Lily Aldrin (born March 22, 1978) is i of v main characters of How I Met Your Female parent, portrayed past Alyson Hannigan. She is the married woman of Marshall Eriksen and the best friend of Robin Scherbatsky, as well as ane of Ted Mosby'due south closest friends, having known him and Marshall since higher. She currently works as an art consultant to The Captain, having formerly been a kindergarten instructor. She is also an amateur painter. She is nigh incapable of keeping secrets, with a few exceptions. In Challenge Accepted , Lily is found to be pregnant, and in The Magician'south Code - Part I she gives birth to a boy named Marvin. During Barney and Robin'due south wedding ceremony weekend it is revealed that Lily became pregnant again. In Feb 2014 she gives birth to their daughter Daisy Eriksen, where it is also shown that Lily and Marshall spend the twelvemonth in Rome. In the finale "Last Forever", in a flashforward to 2016, Lily announces that she is meaning with their third kid.
Character Background
Childhood
Lily was born on March 22, 1978 in New York City and grew up in Park Slope, Brooklyn. In her early life, her begetter took care of her about of the time. Lily's mother is an farthermost feminist, who worked 2 jobs and refused to buy her an like shooting fish in a barrel bake oven. Later on entering schoolhouse, her dad became a stay-at-home dad who was distracted past his newfound dream of creating the next great American board game, therefore constantly neglecting Lily. Later on a while, she even gave him the You're expressionless to me look. Young Lily also took ballet and gymnastics ( Slapsgiving 2: Revenge of the Slap ). Information technology'south also known that Lily endemic a dog named Bean.
Teenage Years
In high school, Lily had a goth-similar appearance. In the 9th form, she accidentally passed gas loudly while in class. She blamed Michael Sasser, the boy seated next to her who was but getting close to becoming ane of the absurd kids afterwards joining the baseball team. After she blamed him, Michael gained the nickname, "Gasser", and was teased so much that he switched schools. Lily would after consider this to be one of her biggest regrets ( Happily Ever Later on ). She became a teenage bad-ass, who terrorised her neighborhood, would drinkable under-historic period, and bullied Scooter into starting a relationship ( Twelve Horny Women ). She was eventually in a committed relationship with Scooter. She technically may have lost her virginity to him, but equally Robin puts it "he didn't dive in, but he got in the shallow stop". Since the two of them had different plans afterwards high schoolhouse, she broke up with Scooter at their senior prom.
College
Lily attended Wesleyan University, where she majored in art. During a freshman floor party, she fabricated out with a guy named Colin. She got and then drunk that she completely forgot who she hooked up with and referred to Colin equally "too much natural language guy". Afterward seeing Marshall Eriksen at orientation, she bankrupt her stereo and went to see if she could find him to fix it. She would later continue to run into Ted Mosby. After Marshall helped her ready her stereo in her dorm room, the two of them started dating. When Lily kickoff turned on the stereo, Good Feeling by The Fierce Femmes was playing.
Lily at Wesleyan
The two of them went on to fall in dearest and lose their virginity to each other, and Good Feeling became 'their vocal'. She and Marshall also spent their first Valentine's Day together watching the movie, Predator, which became their Valentine'southward Day tradition.
Lily also developed a loathing hatred for Ted's on-again, off-once more girlfriend, Karen. She and Marshall hated Karen considering she was constantly cheating on Ted and when she acted sophisticated, she came off every bit obnoxious. Only the biggest reason she hated Karen was because she walked in on her painting a nude portrait of Marshall and Karen lingered and stared at Marshall'southward penis. One-time during her college career, Lily did a study abroad plan in Paris for a semester.
General Background
Lily in 2020
She is married to Marshall Eriksen and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Lily also has dreams of being an artist. She as well has a huge debt problem because of her impulsive buying practices. She is able to hide this from Marshall until they utilise for a mortgage. She cannot go along a undercover, and is a very caring person and volition much of the time do thankless acts for the good of her friends. She is also known to accept to pee often, every bit shown during the episode Duel Citizenship . She met Marshall and Ted in college and almost immediately started dating Marshall. They were together for about nine years and engaged for nigh a year when Lily broke upwards with Marshall to move to San Francisco to concentrate on her fine art. She was at that place for a summer and came back to NYC but Marshall was too hurt that they stayed separated for another couple months subsequently. They eventually patched things up and got married. They moved into an apartment in Dowisetrepla which they practice not know at get-go stands for Down Wind of the Sewage Handling Constitute. They want children, simply for a while are scared and then they did not try. Later Lily and Marshall make a bet that one time they take seen the doppelganger of every member of their gang they volition beginning trying for a child. By the summer of 2010 they have seen all merely Barney's doppelganger when Lily sees what she thinks his doppelganger (it was not). The balance of the gang knew this meant she was ready for a child and allow her believe it. She doesn't like the discussion "moist", and is lactose intolerant. She has a very bad aim.
Personality
Despite her small, cute-like appearance, Lily is far from innocent. She is known to be an extremely sexual person. Throughout the serial, Lily and Marshall have been shown announcing to the rest of the gang how proud the two are of their sexual history, which unremarkably ends with them giving each other high-fives. Lily too been shown to be curious near other people's romantic/sex lives, specifically Ted's and Barney's. With Barney, Lily has asked Robin about his sex activity preferences, specifically if he liked to employ toys in the bed.
With Ted, Lily has taken information technology upon herself to make him pause upwards with women that she didn't approve of since their time in college together, especially if they didn't pass her "Forepart Porch Test", where she would imagine what the group would look like as elderly people sitting on the front porch of their shared beach business firm. This mental attitude makes Lily an outright hypocrite due to Robin having originally not passed the test, which would have meant Lily sabotaging Ted and Robin's relationship and causing more problem than was worth. Lily defends these obviously immoral actions past stating it's for Ted'south ain practiced, showing that Lily has problems recognizing boundaries and does not realize how awful some of her choices tin exist for anyone else.
She could also be labeled equally extremely manipulative in that over the course of the series, if she does non corroborate of something, she will leave of her style to change information technology, even if it's zippo to do with her, as she has demonstrated by locking Robin and Barney in the room together in Definitions , where she forced them to have "the talk" whereupon if they didn't, they weren't allowed to come out of the room. Lily's manipulative nature tin can come up across as also being remarkably hypocritical as she tries to make anybody around her into exactly what she wants them to be without regard equally to howshe could change to better accommodate the needs of others. She ignores anyone else's feelings in most matters that business organisation others and follows the logic that but because she wants them to, the people effectually her will forgive her. A notable instance of this is in the episode Milk when she abandons Ted by the side of the road after he fixed her tire, stating that "he was her best friend and just had to forgive her." Her 'Aldrin Justice' system has frequently proven to be a controlling and aggressive act in itself, for example when she attempted to blackmail Hammond Druthers into beingness a nicer dominate by stealing his baseball, and when he threatened to fire three people an hr until she returned his ball, she completely disregarded that this would pb to Ted being fired and insisted that her methods were warranted.
Her hypocritical selfishness can as well exist noted in other ways such as in the episode Murtaugh when she was appalled by Marshall'southward over-excessive teaching of her kindergarten basketball team, saying he was existence too harsh. Then, as a response, she resorts to treating Marshall harshly to get him to be nicer, acting exactly like she penalized Marshall for acting to become him to do what she wanted. Another example of her hypocrisy is shown in the episode Last Cigarette E'er where she criticized Marshall'due south smoking habits, making him give upward his pack of cigarettes only to beginning smoking them herself right in front of him. Another example would be in the episode The Exploding Meatball Sub when she pretends to be supportive of Marshal'southward obviously casuistic decisions then tricks Ted into driving her to the airport so she tin take a flying to Spain, a holiday Align had ruined after taking an unpaid chore which Lily claimed to be giving her full support on.
Existence a kindergarten teacher, Lily has a warped sense of justice. She has a tendency to punish people that she doesn't approve in a similar fashion to how she would punish the children in her class even though they're fully grown adults. Lily is even willing to perform "punishments" that break the law, she stole a pair of pants because the shop'due south sales clerk was rude to Robin.
1 of Lily's most notable traits that the unabridged gang has noticed is that she loves gossip and is almost incapable of keeping a hugger-mugger. She has shown to reveal secrets within minutes after promising to proceed them hole-and-corner every bit shown when she told Ted Robin's opinion of him later on their first date. The longest hole-and-corner that she ever kept was her shopping addiction, which was eventually revealed to the rest of the gang in Flavour three. Lily has the tendency to turn to shopping whenever she is upset whether the trouble has to do with her relationships or even receiving a loftier credit bill of fare neb. Ted also has noticed that when she is upset or feeling guilty she will peel the labels off h2o bottles. She also has the bad habit of chewing also loudly as shown in Spoiler Alarm .
Lily likewise has the capacity of acting incredibly selfish on several occasions without idea of the opinions or feelings of others. The biggest example of these is when she left Marshall to move to San Francisco, jeopardizing their appointment, wedding and causing Marshall to fall into a financial and emotional pit, all of these consequences caused purely because Lily wanted to see if she could get in every bit an creative person. Another notable example is in the episode Unpause when she calls out Marshall'due south acceptance of a judgeship over going with her to Italian republic equally being more selfish than anything she has ever done, completely disregarding anything she has washed in the past including her pause-up with him. Her self-centered idea of how everyone should act co-ordinate to her and the lengths she is prepared to become to reach those ends can be easily translated as beingness selfish and ignorant of the thoughts or desires of others and how they may desire to live their own lives, instead invading their lives then as to better suit her all the same stating it is all in their best interests when it's really in her own.
Despite of all the selfish and manipulative behaviour,Lily is a really very emotional person and loves the grouping no matter what. She is the string that has kept the whole group intact. Her emotional behaviour, innovative and cute little punishments, beloved for the group as a mother makes her a very nice character and a friend who everyone should have in their life.
Career
From the beginning of the series, Lily had been a kindergarten teacher. After coming back from San Francisco, she tried finding a job she was passionate nearly (life jitney, a marine biologist, slam poet, beekeeper) while being a waitress at a Hawaiian restaurant named "Large Wave Luau". She later quits her job equally a waitress and Ted offers her a task as an part banana in his architecture firm. However, when Lily takes Ted'south boss's signed baseball for existence mean and refused to requite it dorsum, Ted fired her. He offered Lily her task dorsum when he became the projection managing director, but Lily realizes that her real passion is being a kindergarten instructor.
In 2013, Lily confides in Ted, and later Marshall, that she regrets not following a career in art and now it'southward too late for that. However, she soon gets an offer from The Captain to exist his art consultant, which she gladly accepts. A few months later, The Captain tells her that he is moving to Rome for a twelvemonth and would like her to accompany him as his art consultant. She is reluctant at first and says no to him twice, but later on accepts his offering after Marshall convinces her. This offer was in jeopardy at some episodes in season 9 due to conflicts with her husband'south approximate offer ship. This has been solved during Daisy when Marshall tells her she is giving him his dream by being pregnant again.
Relationships
Romantic Interests
Marshall Eriksen
Lily and Marshall
Marshall and Lily have been a couple since their freshmen year of college. They lost their virginity to each other in college (they originally were going to wait until New Year'south Day) while Ted was on the top bunk of the bed. After being together nine years they were engaged. Lily bankrupt off their engagement to become to an art fellowship in San Francisco. Barney and so went to her and told her about how terrible Marshall was and told her to come back for him. When she returned and asked Marshall for his forgiveness in season two, he rejected her at beginning. There was a brief period of time where they couldn't be effectually each other. When Lily interrupted Marshall's engagement, they got back together. They then continued their appointment, and pledged to sleep separately for the remainder of their engagement. They couldn't even do that, because of how much they loved each other. Marshall and Lily afterward got married. 4 years later, they decided to try to accept a baby, but realized it required too much responsibility and postponed information technology. In the season six finale, they find out that Lily is pregnant, and their son Marvin is born in The Wizard's Code Function - One.
- Main article: Lily and Marshall.
Scooter
Lily and Scooter
Scooter (also known every bit Bill) and Lily were a couple in high school. She broke up with him during their senior prom, and broke his centre.
Scooter is apparently still in honey with Lily even though she is married to Marshall, and has him on "the claw" going so far as to work in the bottle at her work. Scooter was also present at their hymeneals trying to win Lily back, but was escorted out by Brad.
Friendships
Ted Mosby
Lily and Ted
Ted and Lily have been friends since their freshmen year of college. Ted outset heard of Lily when Marshall told him how they met, and she met Ted in person when he was on the telephone with Karen, begging her to take him back. The three of them became closer when Ted invited Lily into his roommate photo with Marshall.
- Main article: Lily and Ted.
Robin Scherbatsky
Lily and Robin
Lily and Robin are best friends. Their relationship as best friends started when Robin just met Lily and wanted to have Thai food in the flashback confession in Arrivederci, Fiero . They spilled the food in the car and Lily worried that Marshall would exist mad at them. They decided to lie and say that a boozer man broke the window and puked inside the machine. Since then, they've been best friends.
- Master article: Lily and Robin.
Barney Stinson
Lily and Barney
In Flavor 2, when Lily couldn't stand to stay in her new apartment anymore, she begged Barney to let her stay at his apartment, which would be the very first time Barney's apartment is shown in the show. Barney starts using Lily, pretending to exist his wife, to scare off his one-night-stands - and they starting time getting closer. They now have a kind of brother-sister human relationship. Barney confesses to Lily most his interest in Robin and other data, like Lily knows that Barney wanted to go a violinist when he was young. Lily is notwithstanding generally not good at keeping Barney'southward secrets.
- Main article: Lily and Barney.
Family unit
- Spouse: Marshall Eriksen
- Female parent: Janice Aldrin
- Male parent: Mickey Aldrin
- Children: Marvin Westward. Eriksen, Daisy Eriksen, unnamed tertiary child
- Grandfather(s): Morris Aldrin (paternal)
- Grandmother(south): Lois (maternal), Rita Aldrin (paternal)
- Aunt(s): Florence, who helped put together Lily'south bachelorette party
- Cousin(due south): Margaret, who was about to exist confirmed every bit a nun when she attended Lily's bachelorette party, some of Lily's younger cousins also attended
Notes and Trivia
- Lily is a female name of English origin and literally means "lily". This blossom is a symbol of innocence; purity and beauty.
- Lily was not seen in flavour iv episodes Mosbius Designs (except for a brief moment in the beginning), The Three Days Rule , Correct Place, Right Time and Equally Fast As She Can (until the tag scene) due to Alyson Hannigan'south pregnancy. This makes her the but ane of the five main characters who has not been in all of the episodes.
- This was passed off in the series equally Barney telling her a dirty joke, and Lily deciding she needed a break from it all.
- In Barney's blog (The Slap Stops Here!), Barney states that Lily's full name is Lilith. However, he as well says her final name is Eriksen (née Aldrin). Betwixt the fact that Lily'south last name is Aldrin and the fact that Barney has been known to improvise his friends' full names when he doesn't know them ( How Lily Stole Christmas ), it'due south unclear if Lily actually is short for Lilith. The name Lillith is derived from the Akkadianlilitu and means "of the dark". This was literally the name of a demon in ancient Assyrian myths (the consummate contrary of a flower of purity and dazzler).
- Lily's résumé says that she speaks Italian fluently.[2] However, in The Rehearsal Dinner , she is shown speaking Italian poorly past saying "I am goodbye to a job in Italian. Many sad." in Italian after challenge it was getting ameliorate.
- She claims to speak Conductor in Subway Wars but whenever the usher makes an proclamation, the railroad train seems to do the opposite.
- In Dowisetrepla , it is shown that whenever Lily feels guilty, she peels the label of bottles, similar to how Ted peels off the characterization of beer bottles whenever he is nervous.
- Lily has bisexual tendencies. She repeatedly hints at wanting to have a lesbian feel, and tells Robin that she had a great ass and admits to having romantic dreams nearly her. It stated that whenever she drink martinis she wants to make out with Robin and she has dreams about her when she's pregnant. ( The Rebound Girl )
- In Spoiler Alert information technology was revealed that Lily chews very loudly, even when she is eating cotton processed.
- While Alyson Hannigan was starring in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, her character stated that she one time wrote Doogie Howser, Yard.D. fan fiction. Doogie Howser was portrayed past Neil Patrick Harris, Alyson'southward now costar.
- When the character Lily was significant on the show, the actress who plays Lily (Alyson Hannigan) was meaning in real life.
- In both of Alyson Hannigan'south most well known television roles, her characters have been named after plants. Willow (afterward the tree) on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and obviously Lily (the flower) on How I Met Your Mother.
- Eleven years old was portrayed by Piper Mackenzie Harris in Slapsgiving 2: Revenge of the Slap .
- Lily is loosely based on Rebecca Alson-Milkman, married woman of series writer Craig Thomas who Marshall is based on. Rebecca agreed to have the character based on her if Hannigan played the role.
- Information technology is implied that while living in San Francisco Lily derived sexual pleasance from the vibrations caused past an earthquake, sighing contentedly at the retention. Technically this makes the metropolis her only sexual partner other than Marshall and Scooter.
- She is the only member of the gang who has no siblings.
- Her surname, "Aldrin," is of Swedish origin.
References
- ↑ Slapsgiving 2: Revenge of the Slap
- ↑ Her résumé is seen for a cursory moment in The Possimpible .
External links
- Lily Aldrin at the English language Wikipedia
- Lily Aldrin at the Internet Movie Database
| The Gang |
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| Ted Mosby • Marshall Eriksen • Lily Aldrin • Barney Stinson • Robin Scherbatsky |
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| Friends & Family | Marshall Eriksen • Ted Mosby • Robin Scherbatsky • Barney Stinson • Scooter • Mickey Aldrin • Janice Aldrin • Rita Aldrin • Morris Aldrin • Grandma Lois • Marvin W. Eriksen • Daisy Eriksen • Unnamed Eriksen Kid | |||
| Places | MacLaren's Pub • Lily's Kindergarten • Wesleyan Academy • Marshall and Lily'south apartment • Marshall and Lily's house • The Apartment • Lily's first flat • Lily's second apartment | |||
| Phrases | Where's the poop? • You sonuvabitch • Thank you, Linus | |||
| Others | Yous're dead to me expect • Marshpillow • Long term bets • Intervention banner • Lily's bisexuality • Aldrin Justice (penalty) • Lily's frequent urination • The Kennedy Bundle | |||
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| Friends & Family | Lily Aldrin • Ted Mosby • Robin Scherbatsky • Barney Stinson • Marvin Eriksen Sr. • Judy Eriksen • Marvin Eriksen Jr. • Marcus Eriksen • Ashley Eriksen • Martin Eriksen • Marvin Due west. Eriksen • Daisy Eriksen • Unnamed Eriksen Child | |||
| Places | MacLaren's Pub • The Apartment • Wesleyan University • Goliath National Banking concern • Marshall and Lily'south apartment • Marshall and Lily'southward business firm • AltruCell Corporation • Gazzola's • Honeywell & Cootes • Nicholson, Hewitt, and West | |||
| Phrases | Lawyered • I'll Allow It | |||
| Others | Ducky Tie (object) • The Eight Slaps • Ted'due south best friend • Minnesota Vikings • You Just Got Slapped • Mabel • Tantrum • Marshall versus the Machines • Best Night Ever • Marshall Medley • Intervention banner • Marshgammon • Marshall's puns • The Fish Listing • The Swords • Long term bets• Five Words • Big Fudge • I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) • Singing habit • Revertigo | |||
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| Friends & Family | Tracy McConnell• Robin Scherbatsky • Marshall Eriksen • Lily Aldrin • Barney Stinson • Alfred Mosby • Virginia Mosby • Heather Mosby • Stacy • Ted's kids | |||
| Places | MacLaren's Pub • The Apartment • Wesleyan University • Gazzola's • Ted'due south house • Goliath National Bank • New GNB Headquarters • Columbia Academy • Ted's Compages Form • Ted'due south Second apartment • Puzzles | |||
| Phrases | Ridonkulous • Ted Mosby: Architect (phrase) • Right? Correct? | |||
| Others | Yellow Umbrella • The Threeway Belt • Blue French Horn • Ted'due south best friend • Sensory Deprivator 5000 • Naked Lady Noise • Tuxedo Night • Tantrum • TurTurkeyKey • Intervention banner • Dr. Ten • Ruddy Cowboy Boots • The Swords • Five Words • Mock Salutes • Classic Shmosby • The Mosby Boys • Fun facts • Zitch dog • Crossword • Calligraphy • Property of Ted Mosby | |||
| Future Ted | Future Ted's euphemisms (Eating a Sandwich) • Future Ted's lies • Future Ted'south uncertainties • Futurity Ted's exaggerations | |||
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| Friends & Family | Barney Stinson • Ted Mosby • Lily Aldrin • Marshall Eriksen • • Robin Scherbatsky Sr. • Katie Scherbatsky • Genevieve Scherbatsky • Alan Thicke | |||
| Places | MacLaren's Pub • The Flat • Robin'southward flat • Hoser Hut • Metro News 1 • Come On, Get Up New York! • Globe Wide News • Canada • The Gun Range | |||
| Phrases | Merely...umm • Nobody asked yous Patrice | |||
| Others | Blue French Horn • Robin Sparkles • Let's Get to the Mall • Sandcastles in the Sand (song) • Space Teens • The Beaver Vocal • P.Due south. I Honey You (song) • Intervention imprint • Truth Phonation • Sir Scratchewan • Mock Salutes • The Locket (object) | |||
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| Friends & Family | • Robin Scherbatsky • Ted Mosby • Marshall Eriksen • Lily Aldrin • Leslie • Loretta Stinson • James Stinson • Eli Stinson • Sadie Stinson • Tom • Sam Gibbs • Jerome Whittaker • Cheryl Whittaker • J.J. Whittaker • Carly Whittaker • Ellie Stinson | |||
| Places | MacLaren'southward Pub • Barney's apartment • Goliath National Bank • AltruCell Corporation • Brawny Leopard • Laser Tag • Stinson house • Puzzles • Full Rip Fitness | |||
| Phrases | Awesome • Suit Upward • Legendary • Have you lot met • True Story • Await for it • Challenge Accustomed • What Upwardly • Patent Pending • That's The Dream • Just... O.K.? • Stinson Out • Please • Daddy'south home | |||
| Others | Barney's Blog • 83 • Ted's best friend • P.L.Eastward.A.S.E. • Barney'south magic • Barney's Hymeneals • High Fives • The Bro Code • The Playbook (book) • The Threeway Belt • Ducky Tie (object) • The 8 Slaps • Zip Suits Me Like a Adjust • Tuxedo Night • Barney's Become Psyched Mix • Party Schoolhouse Bingo • Platinum Rule • Lemon Law • Hot/Crazy Scale • The Mermaid Theory (theory) • Freeway Theory • The Chain of Screaming (theory) • The Ewok Line • Intervention imprint • The International Date Line • Five Words • Fake History Lesson • Fake listening • Barney's guys • Dibs • Backwards perspective | |||
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| Students | Ted Mosby • Lily Aldrin • Marshall Eriksen • Maggie Wilks • Steve Henry • Pete Durkenson • Matt Blitz • Daryl LaCoutre • Karen | |||
| Faculty | Professor Vinick | |||
| Places | Wesleyan University | |||
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