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{{quote|''If you bump into a member of the opposite sex, causing one or both of you to drop whatever you're carrying in a hilarious fashion, then congratulations, you've just fallen in love.''
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A variety of [[Meet Cute]]: A bad first impression wherein a character in a hurry or simply not paying attention runs into another character as their first meeting, often done while [[Late for School]].
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Sometimes the inattentive/hurrying character apologizes for doing so, but the other character shrugs it off with some snarky comment. After all, [[Thanks for the Mammary|it could be worse]]. [[Naked First Impression|Far worse]]. With the latter situations, this usually starts a small animosity but is a nice guarantee to the audience that they'll get together by the end of the show.
If there is no animosity involved, this kind of situation is perfect for a [[Love At First Sight]] scenario.
If both parties are sufficiently inattentive, they wind up piled one on top of the other on the ground in a position easily mistaken for extreme passion. After a beat, the two will wind up in an [[Instant Seiza]] position, facing away from one another and blushing furiously. One party could also be [[Accidental Pervert|mistaken for a pervert]]. This is a favored pickup tactic of [[Dojikko
A sweeter method is for one character to drop a pile of things, and the characters's eyes to meet as the other one gives them a hand picking things up.
Compare [[Funbag Airbag]], [[Living Crashpad]]. This is, of course, a kind of [[Dynamic Entry]]. May be a ruse by a [[Percussive Pickpocket]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]:'' Rei and Shinji first meet in the episode 26 [[Alternate Universe]] by running into each other on the sidewalk on the way to school. Rei immediately becomes embarrassed and covers up her skirt after she assumes Shinji is peeping at her, later bringing it up in front of the rest of their classmates when she sees they are both in the same class.
** ''Neon Genesis Evangelion: Angelic Days'', which takes said Alternate Universe and makes it into a full-fledged manga series, extends this into a clear form of [[Meet Cute]], with Asuka demanding that Rei apologizes to Shinji. Rei not only apologizes, but has a change of heart and forms a close friendship with Shinji, much to the ire of Asuka.
** Turned [[Up to Eleven]] in ''[[Rebuild of Evangelion]]'' in the case of {{spoiler|Mari}}, who actually crashes into Shinji with a freaking ''parachute.'' Not to mention that his face winds up [[Marshmallow Hell|between her breasts.]]
* ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'': Prompted by [[Genre Savvy|a mischievous Sasami]], both Ryoko and Ayeka engineer "crash meetings" with Tenchi ''months'' after they first met him, thinking it's a necessary part of Earth courtship rituals. A somewhat in-character [[Lampshade Hanging]].
* Parodied In ''[[
* Yumi and Sachiko [[Meet Cute|meet]] this way in ''[[Mariasama ga Miteru]]'', at a time that's unclear in the first episode.
* During the "[[Dating Sim]]"/"[[Shojo]]" episode of ''[[
* In episode 2 of ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]'', Momoka [[Invoked Trope|bumps into Fuyuki intentionally]] in order to get an excuse to talk to him.
** A flashback chapter in the manga shows this is, in fact, how Fuyuki and Momoka originally met.
* In ''[[Kanon]]'', this is pretty much the only way Ayu had to say hello to Yuuichi (one such instance is pictured above). {{spoiler|May be a bit of a subversion, as there's plenty of reason to think that Ayu is doing this ''[[Invoked Trope|on purpose]]''.}}
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* In ''[[Love Hina]]'', it is how Naru and Keitaro first meet; instead of facing away from one another and blushing furiously, it ends with Naru's first [[Megaton Punch]].
** It's also how Mutsumi Otohime is introduced. Except Keitaro thinks she's dead, because of her fainting spells.
* ''[[Rosario
* Subverted in ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'' where the club president lands on Haruhi during a visit to her house. The sensible Haruhi shrugs it off as an accident. Her ''father'' however has a [[Overprotective Dad|less than pleasant reaction to it]].
* In ''[[FLCL]]'', Haruko literally crashes into Naota. With a Vespa scooter. Thinking she killed him, she gives him a real [[Kiss of Life]], just to hit him again when he revives with a bass guitar wielded much like a baseball bat. It's that kind of show.
* Happens in the first episode of ''[[Prétear]]'' with Himeno and Hayate. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
** It's also subverted in a later episode. Himeno trips into Hayate again... [[Bishie Sparkle
** One of Himeno's step-sisters also [[Running Gag|has a tendency]] to do this with the older Leafe Knights.
** And Sasame absentmindedly runs into Mikage while wandering around Himeno's home--{{spoiler|and realizes then that she's actually [[Dark Magical Girl|Takako]]}}.
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* Seiji's meeting of Lucy Winnlad in the ''[[Midori Days]]'' [[Manga]].
* In [[Basilisk]], Oboro not only trips on her future fiancé Gennosuke, but she dumps the contents of a tea tray she was bringing for him and the elders. Ouch.
* In ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS
* ''[[Kashimashi]]'' - the entire series starts when a spaceship, who also has a [[Spaceship Girl|humanoid form]] named Jan-Puu, crashes into and kills the main character, setting the entire series into motion and also starting Jan-Puu's crush on the main character because she interprets the crash as her [[Sacred First Kiss|first kiss]].
* [[Eiken]]. It's how Densuke and Chiharu met in the first chapter of the manga, and it got adapted as the first few minutes of the first OVA episode (which, for the most part, ''loosely'' adapted a storyline from the third volume of the manga).
* Christie and Matt ''sorta'' meet this way in ''Dramacon''
* An anime called ''[[Love Love?]]'' used this trope repeatedly. The [[Unlucky Everydude|clumsy main male lead]], one Ooizumi Naoto, met nearly all of the female cast in this manner. (He even got into an [[Thanks for
* In the ''[[Ranma
* Happens in the first episode of ''[[Princess Tutu]]''. [[Dojikko|Ahiru]] runs into the ballet classroom thinking she's late for class (she's actually an hour early), where Mytho happens to be practicing. She flails while yelping out an apology, then turns to run out the
* In ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'', Kenshin Himura meets Kaoru for the first time when she attacks him with a bokken, thinking him to be the legendary Hitokiri Battousai. She turns out to be right, but there's also an impostor running around.
** Kenshin also meets [[Kid Samurai|Yahiko]] this way, though the then [[Street Urchin]] Yahiko was doing it to [[Five-Finger Discount|rob]] him.
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** Much earlier on in the series, Nodoka first meets Kotaro this way, although they don't really interact much until a lot later.
** Collet meets Yue by literally crashing into her while on a broom. Granted, Yue had just been teleported there from the teleport gateway, and she didn't remember it anyways due to a magic misfire erasing her memory, but Collet believed the entire incident was her fault because she was focusing too much on her studies, and fussed over it for a while in the chapter explaining it that way.
* Played around with in ''[[Toradora!]]''. Ryuuji walks straight into Taiga, but doesn't even see her until he looks straight down.
* In ''[[Bleach]]'' [[Teen Genius|Toushiro Hitsugaya]] meets his future lieutenant this way though [[One Head Taller|a small problem]] also makes it a [[Funbag Airbag]] her... generous assets almost snap the poor boy's neck! Then he began to cry and nosebleed at the same time.
* In [[Goshuushou
* ''[[Victorian Romance Emma]]'' leads Emma and William meet when Emma opens a door right when William is about to knock. It leaves quite a mark.
* In ''[[Vision of Escaflowne]]'', Van materialized in the middle of the track Hitomi was running around as fast as she could. No points for guessing what happened next.
* In ''[[Karin]]'', the title character meets the male lead for the first time when he's introduced as a transfer student. She has such a strong reaction to him, though, that she can't be in his presence. The next day she decides to test whether it's actually a reaction to him... and promptly crashes right into him before she's prepared herself for it.
* ''[[Big Windup]]''
** A little later he meets Haruna this way and it's only used to be sort of confrontational, without a hint of romance to it. [[Periphery Demographic|unless you ask the]] [[Yaoi Fangirl|YaoiFangirls]]
* Subverted in ''[[Baka to Test To Shokanju]]'': [[Idiot Hero]] Akihasa meets the 2# of his school [[Ho Yay|Kubo]] this way. They already know each other.
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** When Snow is released from her prison, she again crashes into Ginta in the fall, inciting another kiss. You'd think after fighting a 'war' for a few days would put you above being embarased by a kiss again, not this time.
* Averted in ''[[Super Dreadnought Girl 4946]]'', a foreign girl calling herself Isaac Montana tries to consciously pull this on the protagonist Tobita. He swiftly dodges the assault, resulting in the girl bumping her head on a street light. Confused on why he dodged [[Genre Savvy|she asks if it isn't normal for boys and girls in japan to bump into each other while munching on a slice of bread on their way to school]], showing him the slice of bread she seems to have been munching on before. Tobita's friend later [[Strange Minds Think Alike|chews him out for dodging it]].
* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in ''[[Hunter X Hunter]]'', at the beginning of the Greed Island saga, in Love-Love City.
* In ''[[Ai Kora]]'', not long after Maeda arrives in Tokyo, Sakurako crashes into him on a bicycle.
* ''[[Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple]]'' actually begins with a variation of this trope: while running down the street because he's [[Late for School]], Kenichi accidentally touches Miu from the back, and she promptly knocks him down (a reflex conditioned into her through years of martial arts training). She apologizes, he runs away, she notices that he forgot a "how-to" book on making friendships (in the anime version it was a karate tutoring video), and the rest is history.
* [[Millennium Actress]] - Chiyoko meets the man with the key twice this way. When, as an adult, she bumps into a random stranger on the street, she half-expects it to be him.
* ''[[Eureka Seven]]'' takes it to another level, when Eureka crashes a giant robot into Renton's house. She then holds a funeral for his room, and asks for a flamethrower. It's the start of a beautiful friendship.
** And ''[[Kurogane no Linebarrel]]'' has Emi crash ''her'' giant robot into Kouichi's ''skull'', crushing him into a bloody puddle and killing him instantly. So of course, they have to fall in love.
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* ''[[Smile Precure]]'': Myuiki is very [[Genre Savvy]] about this. In the first scene of the first episode, She is [[Late for School]] and sees a corner thinks about this trope then goes full speed into the corner to encounter no one. Lament about it then turns around for a [[Mentor Mascot]] in the face and she is ecstatic about it.... while [[Mentor Mascot|Candy]] just gives her funny looks.
* A slight variation of this happens to Kaede and Junpei in [[Nyan Koi]]. She was trying to rescue a kitty in a tree at school, then slips. Junpei tries to catch her, but she instead falls onto his chest...feet first. Then wakes him up by slapping him silly.
* Tomoki ''invokes'' this in [[
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== [[Fan
* How Michikyuu Kanae, the absurdly cute [[Yaoi Fangirl]], [[Covert Pervert]] slider is introduced in ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero]]''.
* One of the most common ways for "X and You!" love stories to start out.
* In ''[[On A Cross And Arrow]]'', this is how Fluttershy and her [[Rule 63|gender-swap]] alternate universe counterpart, Butterscotch, [[Meet Cute|meet each other]].
* Rainbow Dash first meets Caramel this way in ''[[Assumptions]]''. Unusual for this trope, he's completely
* In ''[[Touhou Project|Gensokyo Great Sports Day]]'', Patchouli calls upon the combined forces of Eientei, the SDM, and Hakugyokurou to try and intentionally invoke this trope for Sakuya and Youmu through military-esque actions and overcomplicated planning. Needless to say, it doesn't work, and Reisen and Meiling suffer greatly when the
* The protagonist and deuteragonist of ''[[Isekai by Moonlight]]'' meet this way, when they're both ''almost'' [[Late for School|late for their first day in the school that they're transferring to]]. It takes the protagonist a few more weeks to realize that this was a [[Love At First Sight]] situation than it takes the deuteragonist. (Mind you, the protagonist is a random guy who's [[Trapped in Another World]] and the deuteragonist is a not-yet-empowered [[Sailor Moon|Makoto Kino]], so her figuring it out first is to be expected.)
== [[Film]] ==
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* Subverted in ''[[Arthur (film)|Arthur]]'', as the title character thinks he's done this, only to realize that he's crashed into a hedge.
* Played a [[Foe Yay|little]] [[Les Yay|different]] in ''[[D.E.B.S.]]'', with the dropped items being guns.
* Done in ''[[North by Northwest]]'' {{spoiler|turns out it was a deliberate set up.}}
* This is how the producers of the show have Truman meet his [[Relationship Sue|designated love interest]] and future wife in ''[[The Truman Show]]''.
* Happens in ''The Cutting Edge'' (the first one). The male lead bowls the female over as he's rushing to his Olympic hockey game.
* ''The Wrecking Crew''. Happens to Freya Carlson when she first meets Matt Helm.
* Happens between Jack and David in the beginning of the movie ''Newsies'', in an interesting variation where the two in question aren't love interests. At least not ones that [[Ho Yay|the creators will admit to]].
* ''[[Life Is Beautiful]]''; the protagonist meets the woman he marries this way, crashing into her when on his bicycle.
== [[Literature]] ==
* Mara Jade met Luke Skywalker in ''[[The Thrawn Trilogy]]'', but the first time they meet in the flesh in ''[[Hand of Thrawn|Specter of the Past]]'', he's [[Space Is Cold|cold-shirting]] in a Jedi hibernation trance through a stretch of space, she's standing in a hangar bay to catch him, and she speaks the phrase that will snap him out of the trance as she intercepts him, so he wakes up straddling her on all fours. They then converse a bit about his [[We Will Not Use Stage Make-Up in the Future|disguise]] before she says, "So. You want to get off me, or were you just getting comfortable?"
* ''[[The Three Musketeers (novel)|The Three Musketeers]]'': While he had just seen them in their commander's office, D'Artagnan first speaks to Athos and Porthos after running into them. This being seventeenth century France, they immediately challenge him to duels.
* In the ''[[Dragonlance]] Chronicles'' by Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman, Sturm Brightblade and the elven princess Alhana Starbreeze literally ''fall in love this way.'' They have absolutely zero interaction beyond running headlong into each other, and Sturm pulling her into a doorway out of the way of a rampaging, crazed mob. This is enough to get the xenophobic elf princess to give Sturm a precious, empathic amulet-thing, and to pine for him for the rest of the series.
* ''Ginger Pye'': The main character's parents met when he decided to run up the down escalator at the mall and crashed into her as she was going down.
* In ''[[Griffin's
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Happens several times to Darrin and Samantha in the very first episode of ''[[Bewitched]]''.
* [[Lampshade Hanging]] on ''[[Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide]]'': Moze hopes such a scenario will make a kiss with her new boyfriend cause the magical spark she's hoping for. It doesn't.
** Actually, she was hoping for more of a [[Meadow Run]], but it turned into a
* Played textbook straight in the first episode of Season 2 (a.k.a. Volume 2) of ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'', in the scene where Claire is late for her new school and forgets to look both sides before she crosses the street, and thus runs right in front of West's car. From that moment on, West stalks her, they bicker like teenagers, until they end up together as girlfriend and boyfriend in record time... and then, at the end of the aborted shortened season<ref>as a result of the [[Writers Strike]]</ref> {{spoiler|Claire tells West that it's over.}}
* This was actually how Jin and Sun from ''[[Lost]]'' met for the first time, as seen in the season 2 episode ''...And Found''. Various details make the scene a semi-subversion of this trope, though: 1) It was a flashback scene, as the show starts out with the couple already married. 2) It was the climax of both characters' flashback scenes for this episode. 3) The episode implies that they immediately started dating following their crashy first encounter. 4) The distraction that caused Jin to run into Sun in the first place was another woman wearing an orange skirt (a friend had prophesized him that love would "wear orange").
* Although her role as a [[Recurring Character]] faded out after awhile, overeager ensign Sonya Gomez memorably met Picard this way in the ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' episode "Q-Who?", as she turned a corner much too quickly while holding a cup of hot chocolate...
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* Art met Linda in [[Eastern Standard Tribe]] by hitting her with his car.
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== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* This happens three times to Norman and a girl who's perfect for him in ''Drabble'', in the strips for [http://comics.com/drabble/2011-04-07/ April 7th]{{Dead link}}, [http://comics.com/drabble/2011-04-08/ April 8th]{{Dead link}} and [http://comics.com/drabble/2011-04-09/ April 9th]{{Dead link}} of 2011. Unfortunately Norman isn't very bright and fails to take advantage of
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* The inclusion of a
** And thus we find out that the [[Unsound Effect]] of "person getting whacked by a bicycle" is ''zubaaaaaaan''. Yes, with seven 'A's.
* The object of one of the minigames in ''[[Wario Ware]]: Twisted!'' is to help a girl have a
* ''[[Chrono Trigger]]'', simultaneously introducing the female lead and the first [pendant-shaped] [[MacGuffin]].
** Robo gets his own version in one of the endings; the Reptite Ending also reproduces it, with the lead characters as, well, Reptites instead of humans.
* Happens several times in the [[Dating Sim]] ''[[Tokimeki Memorial]]'', with [[Shrinking Violet]] [[Cute Clumsy Girl|Miharu Tatebayashi]], [[Genki Girl]] Yuko Asahina, and the [[Alpha Bitch]] Mira Kagami. Subverted in Miharu's case, as she's actually doing it ''on purpose'', because [[Cannot Spit It Out|she's too shy to tell the protagonist that she likes him]].
** It's similarly common in ''Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side''; the protagonist inevitably meets Kei Hazuki and principal Ikkaku Amanohashi via collision, and can potentially also meet Kazuma Suzuka, Chiharu Aoi, Shiho Arisawa, and Natsumi Fujii this way as well (although those last two are female friends, not love interests).
** In ''Tokimeki Memorial'''s [[Spiritual Successor]] game ''[[Mitsumete Knight]]'', this is how you meet [[Bokukko|Hanna Shawski]] (in combo with [[Late for School]] in her case), and [[Emotionless Girl|Raizze Haimer]].
* A [[Running Gag]] in ''[[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl]]/Platinum'' is your rival doing this every time he appears as he is impatient and runs everywhere. It was carried over to the anime.
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* In ''[[Kirby 64 The Crystal Shards]]'', Kirby meets [[Fairy Companion|Ribbon]] when she crash lands on him from outer space.
* The ending of ''[[Persona 2]]: Innocent Sin'' has Tatsuya running into Maya. This kicks off ''Eternal Punishment'' as Maya is curious about the deja vu kid.
* ''[[Fire Emblem Blazing Sword]]'' has [[Hot-Blooded|Hector]] and [[Shrinking Violet|Florina]] meet this way. She falls on top of him...with a Pegasus. They have potential for an A Support and a paired ending, and the conversation calls back to this.
* The first girl in the dating sim ''[[Crush Crush]]'' is named Cassie. You meet her by getting distracted by a bird and crashing into her with a bike. Also she didn't have insurance.
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* In ''[[Maji de Watashi ni Koi Shinasai!|Maji De Watashi Ni Koi Shinasai]]'' Yamato literally bumps into Mayucchi at the start of the game, and already takes advantage of it by snapping shots of her thighs while she's down.
* In ''[[Katawa Shoujo]]'', Hisao's first meeting with Emi happens when she crashes into him in the hall, resulting in him getting a heart flutter, as any impacts to the chest put him at risk.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In [http://www.tsunamichannel.com/index.php?date=2003-04-22&comic=ExCoKo this strip] of ''Tsunami Channel: Experimental Comic Kotone'', the
* [
* In [[Amya|Amya Chronicles]] Accel tumbles down some stairs and crashed into Faye early in the story, bringing the main characters together for the first time.
* This is how Bob and Jean first meet in ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]],'' in an [http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20060829.html homage to old Reese's Peanut Butter Cup commercials.] Their collision gives rise to [http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20060831.html Molly the Peanut Butter Monster.]
* ''[[Questionable Content]]'' has lampshaded this on [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1543 this page]. The character whose arms she stumbles into has never met her, but has given her his number and photo [http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1430 by proxy], was only just contemplating turning into a [[Stalker with a Crush]], and sarcastically saying how likely it would be for her just to crash into him randomly.
** Also happened to Steve previously in [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=191 this strip], though it's also something of a subversion as the relationship doesn't last long. [[Webcomic Time|Relatively speaking]].
* ''[[Anime News Nina]]'' subverts and lampshades this twice. The first time, Nina crashes into a man, and begins to fantasize about falling in love with him (just like in ''Kimidori Story''), not noticing that he's walking away
* This is how Bleu and BLU Scout meet in ''[[Cuanta Vida]]''. Scout then proceeds to shove Bleu and call him a fag {{spoiler|but later in the story ends up confessing that he's attracted to Bleu}}.
* In ''[[MSF High]]'', an ENTIRE SUBCULTURE is devoted on trying to invoke this. The one we've seen failed, because she was almost up to ''[[Higurashi]]'' levels of [[Yandere]].
* In ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'' [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=920 Matt bumps into a comely guest lecturer] with a pet rabbit and an
* [[Dubious Company]] has a [[Fastball Special|different take]] on applying this trope to [[The Heart|Elly]] and [[The Dark Chick|Mary]].
* In ''[[Ears for Elves]]'', Tanna's opinion of Rolan is forever shaped by how she first met him. Running through the forest, he knocks her down and lands on top of her. He gets up too quickly for her to protest and vanishes off, narrowly averting an [[Instant Seiza]].
* In ''Dangerously Chloe'' an overzealous [[The Grim Reaper|reaper]] chasing not-quite-dead Teddy meets Chloe like this... except not by accident. Also, those big curved horns are not just a decorative feature. But she/he gets [[Distracted by the Sexy|distracted]] anyway.
== [[Web Original]] ==
* '[[Survival of the Fittest]]' has a subversion in v4 between Reiko Ishida and Sarah Xu.
* Occurs in the [[MSF High Forums]], in Cydra's Fanfic, and in the character of Jess, who hasn't gotten a chance to actually DO IT!
* In the first Volume of ''[[RWBY]]'', this seems to be a [[Running Gag]] for Weiss, who keeps running into people and knocking both them and herself to the ground.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* This is how Twilight and Spike (and, by extension, the viewer) are introduced to Rainbow Dash in ''[[My Little Pony:
* In a reference to ''[[FLCL]]'', Asami hits Mako with her moped and then introduces herself to him in of ''[[The Legend of Korra]]'' "[[The Legend of Korra/Recap/
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