Buzz Buys (Dec.): Quirky non-sports, some rookies, Shotzi, some vintage, a few favorites, new comics & even Roger Dorn

Here's this month's roundup of items that have recently caught my eye as a buyer ...

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TWO OF BLACKHEARTS
The Card: Shotzi Blackheart 2025 Panini Instant MLW Autographs Water parallel (/10)
The Price: $39.99 each via Panini
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: This former WWE star is taking over a prominent spot in indy wrestling with appearances downright everywhere these days but with only a handful of card appearances to show for it (at least for now). Panini's newer foray into cardboard for Major League Wrestling has so far spawned a trio of base cards with parallels and some with autographed versions. I've been lucky enough to be plugged in and online to land ink for a couple of those drop days and in this case landed a pair of these autos where only eight others exist. Generally speaking, I'm not that big of a fan of the elemental parallels used in Instant these days, but they are an upgrade over the previous year's parallels that merely colored in one of the stripes in a design similar to this instead of the border as it is here. Either way, this one I'm a fan of as she's arguably my top collecting target these days as WWE stuff has gotten too pricey to comfortably dabble/rip boxes and have fun with the typical returns. In this case, the only angst is battling bots -- cards like these vanish in seconds and end up on eBay with prices three (or more) times higher. At least when I plunk down the money for these I know what I'm getting. (For those curious, the auto stickers here are older when she was signing in higher volumes for WWE releases -- her auto is back to an every-letter sig now.)
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KEEPING UP WITH THE ALIENS
The Card: Kim Cardassian (aka Kim Kardashian) 2023 Topps Garbage Pail Kids Intergoolactic Mayhem Moonrock Gray parallel (/199)
The Price: Under $8
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: This Star Trek parody is a classic name and it was an easy grab for a potential slab. Why? I collect some slabbed GPKs that have ties to music or other elements of pop culture with plays on celebs -- and this checks a couple of those boxes. Will it get slabbed? Perhaps ... I didn't direct-sub it via COMC since prices went up but this one does look like a candidate.
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TWO FOR TUA
The Cards: Tua Tagovaoiloa 2024 Panini Prizm Draft Picks Silver Prizm & Red Ice Prizm parallels
The Price: Less than $2.50 total
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: This guy's NFL up and downs don't ultimately apply here for this collector as his time with the Alabama Crimson Tide means he'll always be a legend in this uniform. Since these are in drafts picks sets but not in his rookie year, they are pretty cheap and if they're clean enough they are also perhaps grading candidates (but with plenty of cards in line in front of them). Why? I'm a collector.
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DID IT ALL FOR THE GUM
The Card: Spencer Strider 2024 Topps Spotlight By Andy Friedman Gum Back parallel 
The Price: Under $2
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: This line of watercolor art sets just ain't been my thing for a few years running now -- I have not opened or even contemplated opening a pack -- but this design touch on the card back is genius as that's how many a card from packs back in the day may have looked with their broken gum stuck to them (and still might when opening old packs today). I picked off this rendition of Strider's 2022 Topps Rookie Card as an example of these cards for my stash since I have dabbled with his stuff.
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A NICE SURPRISE
The Card: Nick Swisher 2025 Leaf Bronx Legacy Yankee Doodles Autographs Purple (/8)
The Price: Around $40 shipped
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: This card popping up among some saved searches was a nice find for this player collector -- these are his first certified autos in almost a decade and first post-career, too. There will likely be plenty more to come thanks to some of the cards in this one having sticker autos -- and there are others in a subsequent Leaf release -- but I opted to start my pick-offs here with an inscribed on-card auto that's encased, too. I don't think his ink will be in super-heavy demand from these sets, but there might be surprises at times for some names once a lot of these lower-volume cards dry up. I figured I'd pick off a better one early with a color that isn't too jarring for a New York card. There will be more to come on this front at some point but I won't be chasing them all ... just perhaps one from each of the various insert sets.
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A PAIR OF CHROMES
The Cards: Bo Bichette 2025 Topps Heritage Chrome & Chrome Refractor
The Price: $2.25 apiece
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: There's an outside chance these might be the last Bichette Heritage cards in a Blue Jays uniform ... but that wasn't on my mind when I picked them up earlier in the year and before their World Series run. The photo isn't anything too spectacular but it does evoke 1976 photography a bit as you never know what kind of images could pop up there. The move to Chrome it all in Heritage is, I think, a good one to spice up the boxes and add some chase ... but I doubt I'll be opening much High Number this year with it being hobby-only. I'll wait things out for prices to eventually drop -- I still think they will without the other formats. Nixing the cheaper box options, in my opinion, simply limits the number of people collecting/opening packs if you ask me. 
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AN AFFORDABLE REESE RC
The Card: Angel Reese 2024 Panini Prizm WNBA -- Rookie Card
The Price: $1.35
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: This one was too cheap to pass up -- for the heck of it -- as a Prizm RC if you ask me. Sure, there's plenty made and plenty of parallels that others would grab first and she has a ton of cards thanks to the NIL years ... so I'm really not sweating any of them. I do have one oddball card of hers I might track down at some point but otherwise perhaps only a cheap auto might draw me here ... just can't collect everything. 
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A PREMIUM PAIRING
The Cards: Nick Swisher & Rich Harden 2006 Ultimate Collection Ultimate Tandem Materials Patches (/35) and Signature Patches (/5)
The Price: About $65 total (mostly for the ink)
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: We're coming up on 20 years since these arrived and I'll still grab some cards for some years of Swisher with little hesitation -- the cards with Oakland patches always get a look. Both of these are on the rarer side of things -- and I might even own multiples of both -- but the ink was an easy must-have with only five made.
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DYNAMIC AR
The Book: Shinsuke Nakamura on WWE No. 2 (1:15 Robbi Rodriguez variant)
The Price: $9.99
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: I recently grabbed a trio of variant covers from various Boom! Studios WWE comics at one spot where I dabble often and I picked this one as that cover image is as dynamic as it gets. If this one was razor-sharp, it would be a grading candidate but it a few too many issues (a few too many spine spots for my taste to start) to do so this time. This is a nice piece for a Japanese star with a lot of stuff to collect, but it stands out for him and also as one of the more-creative WWE comic covers, too.
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TRIVIAL INK
The Card: Carlos A. Cortes 2015 Leaf Metal Draft Perfect Game Blue Prismatic Autographs (/25)
The Price: $5.25
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: This ambidextrous outfielder and second baseman made his MLB debut earlier this year with the Sac Vegas A's and it was a long road to get there as a 2018 draft pick with a fun bit of trivia. He's a "switch-thrower" who can play the field with either throwing arm depending on his position. Here's just one of the stories about him from this year. I picked off this low-volume auto on the cheap rather than worry about some pricier new cards instead.
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EARLY INK, NEW INK
The Items: Nick Swisher autographed Oakland A's 8-by-10 photo (PSA/DNA certified) & 2025 autographed Strauss promotional appearance postcard-sized photo 
The Price: About $35 total
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: This pair of signed photos arrived in my hands for a couple different reasons this year and at different times (so that's why my photos are a bit wonky in tandem) but they show some quirks that I like for the player I have most-heavily collected historically speaking. That full, every-letter auto on the PSA photo? That's how some of his early autos are sometimes found -- but definitely not all as that wasn't even the facsimile sig on his 2002 RCs -- and that's also how he would occasionally sign items for charity items to be sold, too. I have plenty of his autos but only a literal handful of signed items that look like that. It was an easy grab for less than $20 because of the alternative-style sig. The Strauss photo is from a promotional appearance he did at the All-Star Game festivities this year as a retiree who is in and around the game and various MLB-related efforts (such as MLB Home Run Derby X). That style of autograph is what is found on autos for most of his career on cardboard -- and until his Leaf ink this year it was perhaps the only new inked pseudo card-related item I'd seen in years.
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TWO FROM WANDAVISION
The Cards: Kathryn Hahn & Debra Jo Rupp 2022 Marvel Studios' WandaVision - One Lifetime or Another 1950s/1960s/1970s Film Cel insert cards 
The Price: About $2 total
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: These inserts were interesting enough at pocket-change levels and show a couple of veteran actors who might be known from elsewhere before appearing in this series. Two examples? Hahn in Step Brothers and Rupp in That '70s Show. They are manufactured relics so the film pieces are always the same (a reason why heat might be cheaper than one would expect) but I still like them as something different when it comes to cardboard.
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IS IS TOO SOON FOR ROGER DORN SUPERFRACTOR NIGHT?
The Card: Corbin Bernsen (as Roger Dorn in Major League) 2024 Leaf National Convention Press Pass Autographs Super Prismatic Gold Proof (1/1) & 2024 Leaf National Convention Metal Super Prismatic Gold Proof (1/1)
The Price: About $12.50 total
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: This pair of proofs were too cheap for me to give the "olé" treatment considering they use what's basically the "Superfractor" stock that drives so many with deep pockets quite wild. The photo is the same but the sets are different (leading to confusion sometimes with these proofs) and that is probably why the seller of the proofs didn't even try to discern the set names. (Heck, I might not even be 100-percent correct, myself.) But they were the perfect additions. Bernsen has a lot of cards in the multi-sport and non-sport realms and a lot of them now have logo-free Indians uni pics. I can't collect them all but I think these two were good for me ... I might track down some ink to go with them at some point. 
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SPIDEY ON THE SLOPES?
The Book: The Amazing Spider-Man (2022) No. 40 Ski Chalet variant (Collect Forever Uncirculated)
The Price: $10
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: This soft-slabbed comic is one that's not graded but the encasing allows for it to be handled easily without fearing damage like it might be if it were bagged and boarded. Drops could obviously still cause damage but this would be stronger and that's why I like occasionally picking off some of these as long as they are cheap and a variant of some sort. I'm not sure I'd go there for a standard book unless I really, really like something about the cover art.
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A THROWBACK
The Card: Joe Namath 2007 Topps TX Exclusive (/1,099)
The Price: Under $1
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: This was an easy grab with it being a big name, a low price, a numbered card and a ticket-based design that I don't hate. Is it perfect? No, but there are a lot of sets out that use a ticket approach with the design that just aren't that interesting to me ... and I still have a lot of those. This set rode the style pretty hard and added in memorabilia cards using actual tickets and that stood out to me then and really still does now as it's not been done that often vs. other things. 
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LIFE AFTER BASEBALL
The Cards: Caleb Balgaard (aka WWE's Kale Dixon) 2016 Leaf Perfect Game National Showcase Green (/10), Yellow (/25) & Black (/50) autographs 
The Price: About $12 total for the five autos 
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: This prep baseball standout and multiport star didn't have any NCAA games on the stat sheet until 2021 well after this prep All-Star cardboard arrived early on. These came before a journey that included a redshirt season at Indiana, playing junior college ball for two teams and then a season for South Alabama. Why's he here? These days, he's known as Kale Dixon in NXT where he debuted in late-2022 and in 2024 he had a match on the main roster where Bron Breakker did his thing. He's regularly had matches the last three years and has had some TV time this year, too. Despite him still being lower on the radar, I picked off all of these cards when I found out they existed ... just for the heck of it. A lot of the newer-generation NXT names do have past organized sports experience at high levels but not that many have actual card appearances, let alone certified autos.
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MY NEW HARLEY
The Item: Harley Cameron autographed 8-by-10 photo (signed/certed via High Spots)
The Price: $30
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: This signed photo is my second for this up-and-coming force of nature over in the AEW ranks where she's wrestling, a promo (talking) machine, a singer, a ventriloquist and, well, a one-woman wrath-making walking highlight every week. I still have one other type of autographed image to track down that ties to the one quirky thing she brings to the table -- yes, I did say ventriloquist. Just watch this. And the mockery has been happening for months ... and those two moments are the tip of the iceberg. Her story to get into wrestling is an unusual one with twists and turns but she's one to keep an eye on. She doesn't have a boatload of cardboard (RCs in 2024) so I have picked off some ink and some cards ... and you'll see more of her here in 2026.
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STAR WARS MEETS FAMILY GUY
The Card: Family Guy 2007 Family Guy Blue Harvest Deluxe DVD Insert Cards
The Price: Pocket change
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: This simple card shows several of the characters in their Star Wars gear from a small card set (pack) that arrived with the franchise's spoof when it hit DVD. I have owned the set for years -- I likely bought it the day it arrived -- but I grabbed this single with an eye on grading over on COMC as it looks perfect. Why? Just for an oddball slab ... as long as it was in top form. Since grading prices went up there, I opted to play it safe and have this one delivered and inspect it before grading ... it is clean enough and I might at some point. Just for fun. 
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THE MOST-UNIQUE PARALLEL?
The Card: Bo Bichette 2024 Topps Heritage White Border parallel 
The Price: Under $3
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: I'm always mentally working on a run of his Heritage cards -- or at least the ones I like -- with an eye on grading them all and this colorless take on the colorful 1975 Topps set has gotten me to grab a few players' cards. Why? It's just so jarringly different and this one looked clean. I've done quite a few for him and some minis but am slowly but surely lining stuff up to slab. How much will happen in 2026? I don't know ... I may get on it or see more people slabbing his cards if he ends up playing for a new team next season. 
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A PREMIUM APPEARANCE
The Card: Saraya 2024 Black Diamond AEW Exquisite Collection Orange (/50)
The Price: $10.25
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: This premium insert comes from a related premium brand in the company's portfolio with there being one factor that has dampened my interest here often -- these really, really nice cards often arrive with brutally worn corners despite being on some of the thickest stock used in cardboard today. Why? It's perhaps a combination of the stock strength, a riding of dark ink colors and heavy foil stamping ... but I have still picked off a handful of names when they looked closer to condition I'd like to see. This one appears perfect on the front but a back edge has a bit of a gash in it. (Nothing too extreme but too much to consider it for slabbing, which I would if it was minty fresh.)
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READY FOR GRADING?
The Card: Muhammad Ali 2021 Topps Muhammad Ali The People's Champ Collection (announced /1,469 copies made)
The Price: $4.25
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: This is another simple card I picked off for grading as I think it would check in well with a spot in the upper end of the scale -- ultimately only its centering is just a smidge off. I liked its non-traditional more scene-setting/documentary-style photo of the boxing icon using a new take on the 1967 Topps MLB design. It definitely would grade well but this, too, was one where I figured I'd get it in-hand to look at before slabbing. 
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A SET ... AND ONE
The Cards: 2024 Topps Stars of MLB Network promo set & an extra Lauren Shehadi card (for grading)
The Price: $12 total
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: This small set is one I picked up as a sealed pack and I added on the second Shehadi card at the same time as that card is a target for grading for me -- and one of these two is in graders' hands now. I picked up these after my first break (see the whole set here) because my first Shehadi had some damage as it's the top card on the pack every time ... so it will take the licking if a pack gets hit or dropped. A lot of the names in this small set already have cards -- she does, too -- but I'm aiming to slab one of each for her. I think she's the glue for MLB Central and a key name for Hot Stove over on MLB Network throughout the year -- she keeps the others in line or from being too tunnel-visioned when they all talk 'ball.
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A DARCY DEBUT?
The Card: Darcy Lewis (aka Kat Dennings) 2011 Upper Deck Marvel Thor: The Movie 
The Price: Under $3
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: You'll find her newest cards in 2025 Topps Allen & Ginter -- regular cards, minis, ink and more -- but she has a ton of card appearances through the years from her time in Marvel roles. Does she have any before that? I'm not sure but this might be the first card appearance of them all, which includes autos, ink and more there, too. This one was on my grading radar as well since it's early ... but one corner has some spotting as the stock here is simple and a little soft. 
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IS THAT YOU, KUMAR?
The Card: Stanford (aka Kal Penn) 2006 Topps Superman Returns 
The Price: Pocket change 
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: Like other cards this month, this is another card appearance for somebody who you might know from elsewhere and it might be a first card ... and it, too, is one I pondered grading. You may know him from the Harold & Kumar franchise and there's a chance he might have cameos somewhere in some Inkworks-era card sets, too, as he had some TV and movie spots before this and afterward where those properties did have cards. Like the Dennings, this one also has a lightly tweaked bottom left corner where, while it's not bad, it might deter me from slabbing it. Just for fun.
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TWO FROM THE SEQUEL
The Cards: Alison Pill & Elisha Cuthbert 2017 UD Goon: Last of the Enforcers cards
The Price: About $3 total 
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: This duo comes from a small promo set for sequel to what is, to me, a classic and irreverent R-rated hockey comedy, Goon. (That's the trailer ... with plenty of language.) This sequel arrived several years later and I picked off the entire set a couple years after that, just for fun since the cards were dirt cheap and despite, ironically, my never watching the sequel. I'm not sure where my original set is -- it's packed away somewhere -- but I picked off these for a potential slab at prices a smidge higher in more recent years but never graded. Why? The centering and diamond cutting can make these rough at times ... so I waited to get them in-hand before I considered grading. The Doug Glatt and Ross Rhea cards also would make for good slabs but prices on those are now higher. I prefer to dabble on the cheap. 
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A VINTAGE ICON
The Card: Brigitte Bardot 1962 Dutch Gum Serie N
The Price: $2.25
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: This film icon of the past has many a card appearance in international sets just like this -- so many that you can find stuff quite affordably in good condition -- and this one was an easy pick-up for the price. Simple as that. It's also an immensely clean card for its age.
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A HOBBY ICON
The Card: Jefferson Burdick 2010 TRISTAR Obak
The Price: $1.75
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: This collecting icon developed the American Card Catalog in the 1950s, attempting to classify the various types of sets from the past with codes while checklisting them all as he collected, too. The original set that this one is modeled after is the T212 tobacco release and this set includes a number of baseball-related notables. Burdick's cards here are the only in-pack cards he has, though there may have been other oddball homages to him through the years. This was an easy grab for the price and, yes, this one will end up graded for me to revisit this story once again sometime in 2026.
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OMG, IT'S KEIRA KNIGHTLEY (AGAIN)
The Card: Sabé (aka Keira Knightley) 2022 Topps 206 Star Wars Wave 4 Blue Starfield parallel 
The Price: $2
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: Keeping with my theme for this month ... this also was a card picked off as a potential slab. Why? This little card of a big name who was in a little role in one of the past Star Wars movies is a vareity of card where I don't mind graded copies ... minis. I've graded a few cards here and this one was a candidate but, as I've said before, an increase in costs led me to revisit some cards at a later time and in-person rather than via COMC scans. 
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A TELEVISION MOMENT
The Card: Madonna ("Turning Out To Vote") 1992 Wild Card Decision '92
The Price: Too much given its condition issues
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: The "Rock The Vote" campaign tied to MTV in the early 1990s was a push to get young people to vote more and one of the celebs involved was Madonna. This card revisited this short clip riffing off her song "Vogue."  The Decision sets are full of highlights and many looks at many dull politicians/subjects but this first set from back in the day was one that did have a few pop culture nods and this one was among them. I picked it off for a few bucks, but, like the others this month, I opted to have it delivered instead of slabbed directly off COMC. I dodged a bullet in this case as this one had a badly warped corner that isn't obvious in a scan -- or even this photo. This is otherwise very clean with all that blue ink, and these cards are heavily glossed -- so cards being stuck together with ink loss is often a reality from fresh packs these days.
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SO LONG, SIDEWINDER
The Card: Michael Madsen 2011 Panini Americana Platinum Proof (/10)
The Price: $6
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: I grabbed this rarer card earlier this year after hearing of his death at age 67. Madsen was in a number of smaller roles in recent years and some bigger ones, too, among modern day classics such as Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill: Vol. 2, The Hateful Eight, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, The Doors, Thelma & Louise and Donnie Brasco. He had a number of certified autograph cards, too, and I've picked off a couple of them -- at least one is probably in the archives and a past Buzz Buys item. This one being this rare this cheap got me to bite with ease.
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CRIMSON TIDE PROOFS
The Card: Jalen Milroe 2024 Leaf Trinity Steel Red Lava Autographs pre-production proof (1/1) & Justice Haynes 2025 Pro Set Metal Platinum Autographs Super Prismatic Gold pre-production proof (1/1)
The Price: Less than $12 total
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: This pair of former Alabama Crimson Tide standouts hit my collection in 1/1 style on the cheap in part because there are a lot of colors available for everybody in a lot of the parallel-heavy Leaf sets -- and these proofs reflect that, too, but with only one copy of each color/texture released. The Haynes card was an interesting one as his name is nowhere to be found -- the backs are blanks here -- so it was a mystery listing and that probably kept some Michigan buyers off its radar.
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SIMPLE RETRO
The Card: Vladimir Guerrero Jr. 2021 Topps #TBT 1961 Topps Bazooka Panels (announced /4,710)
The Price: Under $1
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: This is one of only a couple cards I picked off from this online-released retro set but it's so cleanly done this one just yelled at me for pocket change. I made this pick-up long before the Blue Jays' World Series run and I like it (and this set) so much I might even slab it. It's that clean and the portrait is a winner here, too. Had this been a rookie-year card, it would have been slabbed already. 
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