cardigan
“Vintage tee, brand new phoneHigh heels on cobblestonesWhen you are young, they assume you know nothing…”
Cardigan is the third and final song in the folklore love triangle (august, betty, cardigan). It is told from Betty's perspective years later as an adult looking back on the events of her adolescence. Written by Taylor Swift and Aaron Dessner, produced by Aaron Dessner. The song was the lead single from folklore and has an accompanying music video filmed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Angela & Uncle Jerry identify it as the richest poem of the trilogy, distinguished by its free verse form, dense symbolic layering, and mature narrative voice. The 3:13 timestamp in the song ('And you'd be standing in my front porch light') aligns with Betty's 3:13 timestamp ('I'm here on your doorstep'). At an Eras Tour performance Taylor introduced cardigan with "this is about you", stated by Taylor on stage with no further identification made. Community readers also note the timeline buried in "downtown bars": too young for bars at seventeen, the verse implies the pair reunited as adults before it ended for good, a hearing offered by @nubigena1040.
Angela & Uncle Jerry identify memory as the central engine of cardigan. Uncle Jerry describes the entire poem as a reminiscence, 'a midnight memory', in which Betty, wrapped in her cardigan, moves back and forth between her adolescent past and her adult present. The lack of punctuation enacts what Angela calls 'the river of memory that just keeps going and going,' with fragmented memories stringing together in an unpunctuated flow. Uncle Jerry emphasizes that this is not static recollection but active processing: 'she's examining life and herself. And she's moving back and forth between her then and her now.' The poem's temporal structure, reminiscences of adolescence from the distant future, years ahead, demonstrates how memory shifts and evolves over time, with the speaker's adult understanding reshaping what she remembers.
Uncle Jerry names the question in the summative discussion: 'What lasts? Is anything eternal? Is it just a ghost? Does it just haunt you in the grocery line? Is it just smoke? What lasts? What is the nature of permanence?' He quotes Ovid as the framing text: 'All things do change, but nothing eternal ever changes.' The poem stages the question through the tattoo kiss (permanent body-mark), the bloodstain (mark that persists), the four-fold ghost imagery (the relationship that refuses to leave), and the indeterminate ending where the speaker insists on a return the poem's evidence undermines. Where Memory holds recollection as a present force, this theme asks the prior philosophical question: which things, if any, are eternal?
Angela & Uncle Jerry spend extensive time on how cardigan functions as the third panel of a split narrative / Rashomon-effect trilogy. Uncle Jerry argues that 'there's no such thing as the story, there are our stories,' and that the three songs together create a collective story that qualifies as folklore. The poem foregrounds its own narrative architecture through Betty's first-person perspective set against the other two poems' perspectives, with the speaker's use of 'I knew' as a deliberate assertion of her version of truth against the other voices. Uncle Jerry identifies dis-narration, non-linear narrative, and the Rashomon effect as structural elements, noting that the poem's relationship to the other two is part of its argument.
Uncle Jerry names the question directly: 'What's the nature of truth? That's a pretty obvious one... where is the truth? Well, the truth is subject to your opinion, your impression, your remembrance. It's subject to the passage of time. It's subject to immediacy. It's subject to distance.' Cardigan stages the theme through the speaker's repeated 'I knew' assertions, Betty insisting on her own truth against the assumption that youth knows nothing, against James's contradictory truth in betty, and against the partial truth in august. The four-fold ghost imagery in verse three, the indeterminate ending, and the four-narrator structure (with Inez's withheld voice) collectively argue that truth is perspectival, temporally conditioned, and inseparable from need.
Angela & Uncle Jerry discuss James's infidelity as a structural element of the poem. Uncle Jerry reads 'A friend to all is a friend to none' as Betty questioning whether James's relationship with her was genuine or superficial, noting the word 'friend' operates across registers from 'a very distant and very close relationship', 'a not particularly spiritual but very physical friendship.' The line 'Chase two girls, lose the one' makes the infidelity explicit and carries the additional weight of 'the one', not just losing one of the girls but potentially losing the soulmate. Uncle Jerry connects this to the cardigan-under-the-bed imagery: 'James and August are twisting up on the seats and meanwhile Betty has been tossed up under the bed.'
“I knew you'd linger like a tattoo kiss”
The tattoo kiss as figure for the indelible mark the relationship has left on Betty, chosen at the time, now impossible to remove. The image combines the intimacy of a kiss with the permanence of ink, capturing the doubled register of a mark received willingly that now cannot be erased. The tattoo kiss sits in the bridge alongside the bloodstain and the four-fold ghost imagery as evidence the relationship has marked the speaker permanently.
“Chasin' shadows in the grocery line”
Shadow as the trace-presence of James in Betty's adult life, visible as outline in the most ordinary places (the grocery line), the figure she keeps almost-seeing in everyday space. The image draws on Peter Pan's escaped shadow as figure for self-reflection that has left the person who cannot grow, and on the everyday-haunting register of the relationship that persists in glimpses. The shadow is what Betty sees because the partner himself is not there.
“Peter losing Wendy, I”
James as Peter Pan, the partner who refuses or cannot grow up. The line is the poem's clearest argument about why the relationship cannot work: Peter stays a boy, Wendy grows up, and Wendy must eventually close the window. The Peter Pan figure carries the doubled charge of the partner's developmental arrest and the speaker's recognition that maturation is something she has done and he has not.
“I knew you'd haunt all of my what-ifs”
The haunting operates as the persistence of an unfinished relationship, James's presence in Betty's adult life is compelled rather than chosen, returning through smoke, shadows, and what-ifs because something between them was never resolved.
“I knew you'd haunt all of my what-ifs”
James as a ghostly presence haunting Betty's adult life, not a literal ghost but the persistent, unwilled return of memory and regret that refuses to leave the speaker's present.
“Drunk under a streetlight, I”
Uncle Jerry identifies this as part of a recurring Taylor Swift pattern of dancing/being in light surrounded by darkness. He connects it to 'dancing by the refrigerator light' (All Too Well), 'opal light,' and 'dancing through lightning strikes,' calling it an intimate, comfortable image, like the cardigan image itself. Angela & Uncle Jerry discuss how 'drunk' operates on multiple levels: drunk in love, drunk on youth, or literally drunk.
The intimate light-in-darkness image reinforces the cardigan's comfort symbolism and the speaker's tender recollection of youth.
“You drew stars around my scars But now I'm bleedin'”
Uncle Jerry identifies two levels of symbolism: stars as symbols of aspirations and scars as symbols of past injuries. Drawing stars around scars means 'you're making it better, you kiss it better.' But then 'now I'm bleedin'' introduces red imagery, 'what color would your blood be? Red.' He connects this to the red imagery that runs through the poem, noting that old wounds open up and 'the fix was insincere.'
The stars/scars/bleeding imagery carries the song's argument about James's insincerity, temporary healing that reopens old wounds, with the red of blood connecting to the broader red imagery pattern.
“Vintage tee, brand new phone”
Angela & Uncle Jerry discuss how 'vintage tee' and 'brand new phone' function as symbols/metaphors, the vintage tee as an image of adolescence and the brand new phone as a symbol of earned adulthood. Uncle Jerry notes the time shift encoded in these images, with the speaker claiming both past and present selves simultaneously.
Establishes the song's central movement between past and present, between the adolescent self and the adult self reflecting on memory.
“High heels on cobblestones”
Uncle Jerry identifies this as an image of precarious passage and a balancing act, high heels on an uneven surface developing symbolic elements relative to adult life, where life is always a balancing act.
Extends the past/present imagery into the register of adulthood as precarious navigation.
“Sequin smile, black lipstick”
Uncle Jerry reads the sequin smile as 'smiling faces, fake smiles' and black lipstick as dramatic and gothic. He contrasts the black lipstick with the red lipstick associated with adult Taylor Swift, treating this as a disnarrative element, what's not said is that red lipstick is today, and the black lipstick is from when she was younger.
Continues the past/present oscillation and introduces the red imagery that will recur throughout the poem.
“Chasin' shadows in the grocery line”
Angela & Uncle Jerry discuss this line through the lens of Peter Pan's shadow symbolism. Uncle Jerry explains that in Peter Pan, the shadow represents self-reflection, Peter lacks it, his shadow escapes him, and it must be stitched to his body. He notes that shadows grow as the sun sets, but Peter himself does not grow. Angela reads the line as Betty living her adult life (going to the grocery store) while still seeing James in her everyday life, 'I'm still picturing you, I'm still seeing you in my everyday life.'
The shadow image operates on multiple levels: the mundane adult reality of grocery shopping haunted by memory, and the Peter Pan framework where James's inability to grow is literalized through shadow symbolism.
“I knew you'd miss me once the thrill expired”
Uncle Jerry discusses this line as evidence of the speaker's adult understanding, 'as an adult, you know, carnal lust is lots of fun. However, long and lasting relationships are built on other things.' He reads the 'thrill expired' as the moment when physical attraction gives way to the need for deeper connection.
The imagery of an expiring thrill captures the song's argument about maturity, the adult speaker understands what the adolescent could not, that physical attraction alone is insufficient.
“Marked me like a bloodstain, I”
Uncle Jerry identifies 'more red, more blood', the bloodstain as continuation of the red/bleeding imagery pattern established in the bridge.
The bloodstain image extends the red imagery cluster, marking the speaker permanently, like the tattoo kiss later, with the evidence of James's impact.
“I knew you'd haunt all of my what-ifs The smell of smoke would hang around this long”
Uncle Jerry identifies a cluster of ghost/haunting imagery in verse three: 'haunt' (what type of creature would haunt? a ghost), 'smell of smoke' (what looks like smoke? a ghost), 'curse you' (what might curse you? a ghost), 'chasing shadows' (like a ghost). He calls this 'typical Taylor', her characteristic use of ghost and death imagery, which hadn't appeared in the first two triangle poems but emerges here.
The ghost imagery cluster frames the memory of James as a haunting, something the speaker cannot dismiss, an unfinished presence that persists against her will. This is identified as a characteristic Taylor Swift pattern.
“Your heartbeat on the High Line Once in twenty lifetimes, I”
Uncle Jerry identifies 'High Line' as both a reference to the public park in Manhattan (Highline Park, a converted elevated train track) and symbolically as a tightrope, 'your heart would beat faster on the tightrope, which is something that happens to adolescents.' He also connects it to the Heartbeat on the High Line public opera series that started in 2016. The multiple layers of the image demonstrate the mature speaker's voice (strolling in Manhattan parks) while also evoking the precariousness of adolescent love.
The High Line image operates on multiple levels to serve the song's central back-and-forth between the mature speaker and the remembered adolescent experience, precarious new love rendered through a real place that carries symbolic weight.
“And you'd be standin' in my front porch light”
Uncle Jerry identifies this as a return to the image of being 'in the light', the same intimate light imagery he tracked through 'drunk under a streetlight' and connected to other Taylor songs. Angela notes the remarkable detail that this line occurs at timestamp 3:13 in cardigan, and the corresponding line in betty ('I'm here on your doorstep') also occurs at 3:13.
The porch light image returns the speaker to the intimate light-in-darkness register, now in the present tense of anticipated reunion, the light as vigil, as hope, as the domestic space where reconciliation might happen.
“Peter losing Wendy, I”
Angela & Uncle Jerry discuss the Peter Pan allusion at length as a technique. Uncle Jerry argues this line convinced him that James will always remain an adolescent, 'he didn't grow up, Wendy did. He's Peter and she's Wendy.' They discuss how Peter's inability to grow up means the relationship cannot work, despite Taylor saying in the Long Pond sessions that she likes to think they got together. Angela & Uncle Jerry also explore the shadow imagery from Peter Pan, how Peter's shadow escapes him because he lacks self-reflection, and how what grows as the sun sets (the shadow) is what Peter himself cannot do (grow). Uncle Jerry connects 'chasing shadows in the grocery line' to this Peter Pan framework.
The Peter Pan allusion is the song's central literary framework for James's character, his refusal or inability to mature, which makes reconciliation structurally impossible despite the speaker's hope. It carries the song's argument about the nature of growing up.
“A friend to all is a friend to none”
Uncle Jerry identifies this as a very famous quote attributed to Aristotle about superficial versus close friendships, and discusses how the speaker uses it to question James, was their friendship close or was he just 'a friend to her, a friend to me,' where 'friend' carries both a distant and a very close (physical) meaning. Angela & Uncle Jerry develop how the allusion works to frame James's behavior as the flippant, frivolous emotional attachment Aristotle warns against.
The Aristotle allusion frames the love triangle's central question about the nature of friendship and commitment, connecting the adolescent drama to a philosophical tradition.
“Hand under my sweatshirt Baby, kiss it better, I”
Uncle Jerry identifies 'baby kiss it better' as a reference to the Rihanna song 'Kiss It Better' (2016). He notes the allusion and discusses the connection, though the development is primarily about identifying the reference rather than analyzing how the allusion technique works within the poem.
The Rihanna allusion connects the adolescent experience to contemporary pop culture, and the 'kiss it better' phrase takes on additional meaning in the context of the stars/scars/bleeding imagery later in the song.
“And when I felt like I was an old cardigan Under someone's bed You put me on and said I was your favorite”
Uncle Jerry identifies how the cardigan symbol shifts from the title's connotations (comfort, nostalgia, quiet authority, feminist integrity) to a cast-off sweater tossed under the bed and then rediscovered. The cardigan metaphor is sustained throughout the song as the refrain, with Betty as the old sweater that James discarded and then reclaimed. Uncle Jerry explicitly connects the bed image to August and James 'twisting up on the sheets' while Betty has been 'tossed up under the bed.' Community readings stack the hearings: the cardigan worn; the lie told, put on as deceived even while being called a favourite; and the record put on, a favourite played and then shelved. The pointed "someone's bed", not "your bed", lets a third party into the image or tracks the relationship's on-and-off stages; in another hearing it was someone else who made her feel like the old cardigan, which is why being put on mattered. The wearing-and-lying pair is also drawn out in the published companion Taylor Swift by the Book.
The cardigan as extended metaphor for Betty herself, cast aside, forgotten, then reclaimed as 'favorite', carries the song's central emotional argument about being valued, discarded, and rediscovered.
Angela & Uncle Jerry identify cardigan as operating across multiple time windows, the speaker reminiscing in the present about events years in the past, with constant movement between 'then and now.' Uncle Jerry notes 'she loves that shift back and forth in this poem between then and now' and identifies the non-linear arrangement as part of the broader trilogy's structure: August is the near future (months), Betty is the immediate future (fall after), and Cardigan is 'remembrances of adolescence, but in the distant future... years ahead.'
The non-chronological structure enacts the nature of memory itself, fragmented, associative, moving between time periods, which Angela & Uncle Jerry identify as one of the trilogy's central thematic concerns.
“Vintage tee, brand new phone”
Uncle Jerry explicitly identifies these images as potentially metaphorical: 'maybe the T is a metaphor for the adolescent me and the new phone is a metaphor for the current me.' He notes the richness of having symbols and metaphors operating right off the bat, making cardigan much richer than the other two triangle songs.
The metaphorical reading of these concrete objects grounds the song's exploration of identity across time, the speaker holding both her past and present selves.
“Peter losing Wendy, I”
Angela & Uncle Jerry identify this as a direct allusion to Peter Pan, with James cast as Peter who never grows up and Betty as Wendy who does. Uncle Jerry argues this line convinced him James will always remain an adolescent, 'he didn't grow up, Wendy did. He's Peter and she's Wendy.' They discuss how Peter's inability to grow up mirrors James's inability to mature past adolescence, and how Wendy growing up and turning out the light in the window signals the end of waiting. Uncle Jerry also connects the shadow imagery in 'chasing shadows in the grocery line' to Peter Pan's escaped shadow, noting that the shadow represents self-reflection that Peter lacks, and that the shadow literally has to be stitched to his body. They note that the shadow grows as the sun sets but Peter himself does not grow.
“When you are young, they assume you know nothing”
Heard behind cardigan's argument with youthful knowing: in Housman's A Shropshire Lad lyric, a wise man tells the speaker at one-and-twenty to give crowns and pounds and guineas but not his heart away, and by two-and-twenty the speaker concedes 'tis true, 'tis true. Where Housman lets age have the last word, cardigan runs the lesson in reverse: the speaker insists she knew everything when she was young, the dismissed certainty of youth vindicated rather than corrected.
“Leavin' like a father Running like water”
Community readers set "leavin' like a father, running like water" beside John Prine's Unwed Fathers, where the men who leave "can't be bothered, they run like water through a mountain stream". The figure is the same: the man who leaves rendered as water that will not be held. Aaron Dessner, who wrote the music he sent Taylor for cardigan, is a stated Prine admirer, giving the echo a plausible line of inheritance.
“I knew I'd curse you for the longest time”
Uncle Jerry identifies 'for the longest time' as an echo of Billy Joel's 1983 song 'The Longest Time.' He quotes from the Joel song, noting its themes of lost innocence and reconnection: 'Once I thought my innocence had gone. Now I know that happiness goes on. That's where you found me. That's when you put your arms around. I haven't been there for the longest time.' He notes that in the Joel song the couple gets back together, which parallels the ambiguous question of whether James and Betty reunite, but leaves this unresolved.
“A friend to all is a friend to none”
Angela & Uncle Jerry identify the lyric as a direct quote attributed to Aristotle on the nature of friendship, the maxim distinguishing genuine philia from indiscriminate sociability. The line is most often associated with Aristotle's discussions of friendship in the Nicomachean Ethics (Books VIII–IX), though it appears as a popular paraphrase rather than a verbatim Aristotelian sentence. Uncle Jerry uses it to frame James's behaviour as exactly the flippant, frivolous emotional attachment Aristotle warns against, and to underwrite Betty's questioning of whether their friendship was close or merely superficial. The line works on the song's central question about the nature of friendship in a love triangle: a partner who is 'a friend to all' (chasing two girls) loses the one.
litotes
“To kiss in cars and downtown bars was all we needed”
Angela cites cardigan's To kiss in cars and downtown bars was all we needed as the same litotes construction Getaway Car leans on, understatement used to make a small list stand in for a whole romance.
the streetlight as witness
“Drunk under a streetlight”
“I ask the traffic lights if it'll be all right / They say, "I don't know"” — Death by a Thousand Cuts
A listener on the cardigan episode heard 'drunk under a streetlight' as a sibling of Death by a Thousand Cuts, where the speaker asks the traffic lights if it will be all right and is told "I don't know". In both songs the speaker's most exposed moment happens under the lights of the street: when nobody inside the relationship can say where things stand, the lights are the only witnesses left to ask.
the one lost and the album opened
“Chase two girls, lose the one”
Surfaced as a seam binding track two to track one: the aphorism's closing words double as the title of the song that opens the album, so "lose the one" tips straight into the 1's subject, the one who got away. The wordplay is heard as deliberate sequencing, the proverb handing its last word back to the opener's title.
scanning public places for the one who left
“Chasin' shadows in the grocery line”
“I thought I saw you at the bus stop, I didn't though” — the 1
The album opens on this habit and shadows it one track later: the 1's speaker thinks she sees him at the bus stop and admits she didn't, and cardigan's "chasin' shadows in the grocery line" is the same scanning of ordinary public places for a face that is not there, the lost figure glimpsed in queues and crowds.
childhood remedies offered as adult repair
“Baby, kiss it better”
“Will it patch your broken wings?” — betty
Offered from the cardigan side of the triangle: "baby, kiss it better" and betty's "will it patch your broken wings?" both reach for nursery remedies, the kiss on the graze and the patched-up wing, as the language of adult repair. On either side of the same triangle, damage is tended in the vocabulary of childhood.
the doorstep and the porch light, same minute
“And you'd be standin' in my front porch light”
“Betty, I'm here on your doorstep” — betty
Community listeners place the trilogy's doorstep moment and its remembered answer at the same point on the clock: betty's "I'm here on your doorstep" lands at three minutes and thirteen seconds into its recording, and cardigan's "you'd be standin' in my front porch light" arrives at the same mark in its own. The plea and the memory of it are mirrored to the second, heard as deliberate placement across the two songs.
cobblestones
“High heels on cobblestones”
“I was walkin' home on broken cobblestones” — betty
Uncle Jerry and Angela follow the cobblestones from cardigan into betty. The street the earlier song walks in high heels returns broken underfoot in the later one, the same ground worn down in the time between the two accounts of the triangle. One further echo joins the street: betty's "stopped at a streetlight" against cardigan's "drunk under a streetlight", possibly the same night remembered differently.
the window vigil, the shipwreck and the crack of light
“the cardigan music video (the window seat, the ocean she is pulled under, the thread of light that guides her back)”
“Starin' out an open window, catchin' my death ... And when I was shipwrecked ... In the cracks of light” — evermore
Community readers set evermore's images beside the cardigan video a year earlier: the open window she stares from, the shipwreck and the waves that toss her, and the crack of light she is drawn back towards all play out visually in the video, where she is pulled under an ocean and follows a glowing thread back to the piano. The recurrence reads as deliberate, the same drowning-and-resurfacing staged once in pictures and once in words.
barefoot New York dancing as remembered romance
“Dancin' in your Levi's / Drunk under a streetlight”
“The one I was dancing with / In New York, no shoes” — Maroon
Community readers gather Maroon's barefoot New York dance into a recurring image of carefree, slightly drunk young romance in the city. cardigan has "dancin' in your Levi's, drunk under a streetlight"; the 1 has the "roaring '20s, tossing pennies in the pool". Read together, they sketch the same kind of extra-memorable night — the one whose loss the later song mourns — with the dance standing for the whole bright, lost beginning.
what they assume you don't know when you're young
“When you are young, they assume you know nothing”
“Stitching, "We were just kids, babe"” — loml
Readers tie loml's "we were just kids, babe" to the folklore songs about being underestimated in youth — cardigan's "when you are young, they assume you know nothing" and betty's "I'm only seventeen, I don't know anythin'" — hearing the same defence of what the young in fact understood.
love rated in lifetimes
“Once in twenty lifetimes”
“This happens once every few lifetimes” — The Alchemy
The rare-event register of love, claimed twice across the catalogue: cardigan's "once in twenty lifetimes" at seventeen, and The Alchemy's "this happens once every few lifetimes" years on. The unit of measurement survives the years between the songs, love still priced in lifetimes.
smoke as a person's lingering scent
“The smell of smoke would hang around this long”
“I still miss the smoke” — The Black Dog
Community readers connect "I still miss the smoke" to cardigan's "the smell of smoke would hang around this long", reading smoke in both as the residue a person leaves behind, a scent that clings to clothes and rooms long after they have gone. What The Black Dog states as present-tense craving, cardigan recalls as the haunting after-trace of someone young and now lost.
post-breakup dissociation in mundane shopping spaces
“Chasing shadows in the grocery line”
“Guess who we ran into at the shops Walking in circles like she was lost” — How Did It End?
A community comment on the episode pairs the woman seen "walking in circles like she was lost" at the shops with cardigan's "chasing shadows in the grocery line": two songs that place post-breakup dissociation in the most mundane of public spaces, the supermarket as the place where the haunted keep circling, looking for someone who is not there.
the porch light kept on for the boy who never grew up
“And you'd be standin' in my front porch light And I knew you'd come back to me”
“And the shelf life of those fantasies has expired” — Peter
The trilogy's largest community reading joins cardigan to Peter: cardigan's speaker stands in the porch light certain he would come back, and Peter answers years later from the other side of that certainty, the boy who promised to grow up and come find her having done neither, the fantasies' shelf life expired and the waiting light finally let go out. Read together, cardigan is the hope and Peter the resigned sequel.
Writer-director known for neurotic romantic comedies and literary, self-referential storytelling. The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) explores the collapse of the boundary between fantasy and reality when a film character steps off the screen.
Scottish novelist and playwright, best known as the creator of Peter Pan, which appeared first as a play (1904) and then as a novel (1911).
Roman poet of the Augustan era, best known for the Metamorphoses, a fifteen-book narrative poem in dactylic hexameter covering Greek and Roman mythology from the creation of the world to the deification of Julius Caesar. The Metamorphoses is the primary classical source for many myths invoked across English-language literary tradition, including Echo and Narcissus (Book III).
American singer-songwriter and pianist known for hits including 'Piano Man,' 'The Longest Time,' and numerous other pop-rock classics.
Barbadian singer, songwriter, and businesswoman known for numerous hit songs including 'Kiss It Better' (2016).
Ancient Greek philosopher whose works span ethics, politics, metaphysics, logic, and rhetoric. The quote 'a friend to all is a friend to none' is attributed to him.
English classical scholar and poet best known for 'A Shropshire Lad,' a collection of poems about youth, mortality, and the English countryside.
American singer-songwriter known for plain-spoken, sharply observed story songs. Unwed Fathers (1984, written with Bobby Braddock) follows a teenage mother abandoned by the child's father, the men who leave running "like water through a mountain stream".
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