{"id":96,"date":"2019-03-15T01:27:21","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T01:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usc2019.nextgenradio.org\/?p=96"},"modified":"2021-10-01T10:33:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T17:33:17","slug":"brazilian-food-bridges-one-womans-memories-of-home-and-her-new-life-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usc2019.nextgenradio.org\/brazilian-food-bridges-one-womans-memories-of-home-and-her-new-life-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian food bridges one woman\u2019s memories of home and her new life in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section bb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; specialty=&#8221;off&#8221; next_background_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.6&#8243; custom_margin=&#8221;0px||0px|&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;0px||0px|&#8221;][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=&#8221;3_4&#8243;][et_pb_image _builder_version=&#8221;3.6&#8243; src=&#8221;https:\/\/usc2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2019\/03\/Jessica_s_story.jpg&#8221; \/][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_4&#8243;][et_pb_audio _builder_version=&#8221;3.6&#8243; audio=&#8221;https:\/\/usc2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2019\/03\/JESSIE_Natalia.mp3&#8243; title=&#8221;Natalia Pereira talks about how she adjusted to American culture, missed her small hometown in Brazil, and how her close relationship with food helped her find a home here.&#8221; \/][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section bb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; prev_background_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.6&#8243; custom_margin=&#8221;0px|||&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;0px|||&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;3.6&#8243; custom_margin=&#8221;0px|||&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;3.6&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>On a recent Tuesday morning, Natalia Pereira peeled red peppers in her restaurant\u2019s kitchen as she spoke to her kitchen staff in Spanish. She saut\u00e9ed mussels over the stove with rosemary, garlic, olive oil and white wine.<\/p>\n<p>In the sitting area, customers looked over the menu inside the homey eatery with throw pillows on the seats, pictures framed on the wall and cookbooks on shelves near the kitchen. Many of them come for the chicken pot pie.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the same chicken pot pie Pereira grew up eating, a dish her adoptive mother would bake from the week\u2019s leftovers on Sundays. It\u2019s a meal that Pereira connects to home and her mother and that she serves at her Brazilian restaurant <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.woodspoonla.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wood Spoon<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 50%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-96 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-medium'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" src=\"https:\/\/usc2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2019\/03\/mainimage-600x337.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-101\" srcset=\"https:\/\/usc2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2019\/03\/mainimage-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/usc2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2019\/03\/mainimage-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/usc2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2019\/03\/mainimage-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/usc2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2019\/03\/mainimage-1080x606.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-101'>\n\t\t\t\tNatalia Pereira, chef and owner of Wood Spoon, is part of a small Brazilian immigrant community in the U.S. (Photo credit: Jessica Flores)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/usc2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2019\/03\/chickenpotpie-600x450.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-97\" srcset=\"https:\/\/usc2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2019\/03\/chickenpotpie-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/usc2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2019\/03\/chickenpotpie-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/usc2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2019\/03\/chickenpotpie-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/usc2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2019\/03\/chickenpotpie-510x382.jpg 510w, https:\/\/usc2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2019\/03\/chickenpotpie-1080x810.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/usc2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2019\/03\/chickenpotpie-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-97'>\n\t\t\t\tThe Brazilian chicken pot pie on the menu is inspired by the dish that her mother would make Pereira\u2019s mother would cook chicken pot pie from the week\u2019s leftovers on Sundays. (Photo credit: Jessica Flores)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThere&#8217;s a little bit of her everywhere you know. She lives within [these] walls and into what people eat,\u201d she said while sitting in the homey eatery.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_104\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-104\" class=\"size-large wp-image-104\" src=\"https:\/\/usc2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2019\/03\/woodspoonrestaurant-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/usc2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2019\/03\/woodspoonrestaurant-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/usc2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2019\/03\/woodspoonrestaurant-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/usc2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2019\/03\/woodspoonrestaurant-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/usc2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2019\/03\/woodspoonrestaurant-1080x606.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-104\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pereira opened her Brazilian restaurant in 2006 in Downtown Los Angeles. (Photo credit: Jessica Flores)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pereira is part of the small Brazilian immigrant community in the U.S., which represents 1 percent of the 42.4 million immigrants living in the country. The Brazilian immigrant population increased in the 1980s and tripled in the 1990s, according to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.migrationpolicy.org\/article\/brazilian-immigrants-united-states\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Migration Policy Institute<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pereira came to the U.S. two decades ago as a stranger and didn\u2019t know how to speak English. She was surprised by the vast amount of food, the lack of music blasting in public, not seeing children playing in the streets, and the ocean\u2019s less-than-clear-blue appearance. As a black Brazilian immigrant, she struggled finding her community until she opened her restaurant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Pereira arrived in America, she recalls feeling deaf because although she spoke three languages, she didn\u2019t speak English back then. People tried talking to her and she couldn\u2019t understand so she would go to farmer\u2019s markets to hear people interact, and eventually she began listening to the news to practice basic phrases like \u201cgood morning\u201d and \u201cgood night.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She had come for dental work but she stayed for the family of friends, staff and customers she began to build slowly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Through the farmers market she met a family that invited her to cook for them. Through that experience she met and cooked for another family that ended up offered her $60,000 to open her restaurant without her asking. Eventually, Pereira paid the family back, she said.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 50%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-96 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-medium'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" src=\"https:\/\/usc2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2019\/03\/foodcloseup-600x337.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/usc2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2019\/03\/foodcloseup-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/usc2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2019\/03\/foodcloseup-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/usc2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2019\/03\/foodcloseup-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/usc2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2019\/03\/foodcloseup-1080x606.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-100'>\n\t\t\t\tPereira is feeling a red pepper. \u201cFood has been basically like my best friend. I think cooking for someone is very intimate,\u201d she said. (Photo credit: Jessica Flores)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" src=\"https:\/\/usc2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2019\/03\/cookingmussels-600x337.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-98\" srcset=\"https:\/\/usc2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2019\/03\/cookingmussels-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/usc2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2019\/03\/cookingmussels-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/usc2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2019\/03\/cookingmussels-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/usc2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2019\/03\/cookingmussels-1080x606.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/usc2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2019\/03\/cookingmussels-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-98'>\n\t\t\t\tPereira cooking mussels with rosemary, garlic, olive oil and white wine. (Photo credit: Jessica Flores)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI&#8217;m thankful for the opportunity. Every time that door opens it\u2019s like, \u2018Wow, somebody chose to come here,\u2019\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That was in 2006. Creating a restaurant that felt like home was important to her. She was an orphan as a child, without a stable home, she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI was born of an affair between an uncle and a niece, very common in South America. I was sort of like the forbidden child,\u201d Pereira said. \u201cI always thought I want to find a place where I can actually stay.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For awhile she did. She fell in love with the way her mother Francisca \u2014 the woman who she said raised her \u2014 cooked and how she would create meals out of nothing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cEverything that I make at Wood Spoon started from her,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pereira makes yucca fries, Brazilian meats, potato croquettes, fried plantains and black beans and white rice with the option to drizzle farofa, a corn flour mixture, and a Brazilian vinaigrette salsa over it. Her favorite meal is white rice and black beans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When she arrived, the food in America confounded Pereira. She had never tried a sandwich before, she thought the portions were mountainous and she didn\u2019t see a connection between the chef and consumer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHere you can have a half of a chicken which I never heard to be possible,\u201d Pereira said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Brazil, her family would share every meal and participate in the process of acquiring it and making it. Pereira\u2019s mother would go outside to select a chicken, kill it and cook it for her.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_99\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-99\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-99\" src=\"https:\/\/usc2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2019\/03\/denimjacket-600x337.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/usc2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2019\/03\/denimjacket-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/usc2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2019\/03\/denimjacket-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/usc2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2019\/03\/denimjacket-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/usc2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2019\/03\/denimjacket-1080x606.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/usc2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2019\/03\/denimjacket-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-99\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pereira loved watching her adoptive mother cook in the kitchen. \u201cFood has been forever a good companion. I love food. I have a lot of respect for it,\u201d she said. (Photo credit: Jessica Flores)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_103\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-103\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-103\" src=\"https:\/\/usc2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2019\/03\/staffkitchen-600x337.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/usc2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2019\/03\/staffkitchen-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/usc2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2019\/03\/staffkitchen-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/usc2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2019\/03\/staffkitchen-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/usc2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2019\/03\/staffkitchen-1080x606.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-103\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Most of Pereira\u2019s kitchen staff are Spanish speakers, who she considers family. (Photo credit: Jessica Flores)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another thing she noticed when she came here is America\u2019s racial divide. Pereira said she experienced more challenges with money than race in Brazil. But in the U.S. as a black Brazilian immigrant, she felt like she was in a middle space that didn\u2019t have a classification. Many people don\u2019t use the term \u201cAfro-Brazilian\u201d in her country either, she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThere&#8217;s only two nationality [that] belongs to this country. One is black and one is white. But then it&#8217;s like I&#8217;m really not from here so do you have a place for me?\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pereira speaks Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and now, English. She says, many Spanish speaking people are often surprised when they hear a black woman speaking Spanish.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI go out [and] I&#8217;m like, \u2018<em>hola, buenos dias,<\/em> come inside\u2019 and they&#8217;re like <em>\u2018mira la morenita, es Mexicana<\/em>,\u2019 and I was like \u2018no, it&#8217;s not only Mexico [that] speak Spanish.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The majority of Pereira\u2019s kitchen staff are Latino. Rosibel Soriano has been working at Wood Spoon for eight years and said the crew is like a family. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI appreciate her because she\u2019s a good boss and she treats us well,\u201d Soriano said in Spanish.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pedro Flores has been working at Wood Spoon for nine years. He said the food, specifically the black beans, reminds him of the food from his home country El Salvador.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pereira considers all of her staff family and said she couldn\u2019t do it without them. Her customers have also played a role in creating a place that feels like home. When she opened her restaurant, her customers, who she considers her friends, helped build the tables. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now when they visit for a meal, many walk back to the kitchen to give her a hug or sometimes a gift.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI think that&#8217;s one of the things that brought me to have this incredible space where people come in and they can have a little bit of a feeling that I had when I was back home with my family,\u201d Pereira said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pereira sees food as a universal language that bridges people together. She also wants people to feel like they\u2019re eating in someone\u2019s home, which is why you\u2019ll often see her walking from table to table greeting everyone in her restaurant.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI feel that it&#8217;s almost like I have a home now,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_102\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-102\" class=\"wp-image-102 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/usc2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2019\/03\/portrait-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/usc2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2019\/03\/portrait-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/usc2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2019\/03\/portrait-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/usc2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2019\/03\/portrait-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/usc2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2019\/03\/portrait-1080x606.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-102\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pereira had an idea in mind when creating her restaurant. \u201cMy only goal was to find a place that I felt like home,\u201d she said. (Photo credit: Jessica Flores)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"et_pb_row et_pb_row_0 et_pb_row_empty\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div> On a recent Tuesday morning, Natalia Pereira peeled red peppers in her restaurant\u2019s kitchen as she spoke to her kitchen staff in Spanish. She saut\u00e9ed mussels over the stove with rosemary, garlic, olive oil and white wine. 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