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“Wish There Were More Like Him”: People’s Support For Luigi Grows After His First Public Statement
Luigi Mangione first shot to the spotlight in December of last year, but the public is gathering together again to discuss the circumstances of his arrest after he spoke out for the first time yesterday, on February 14.
His words were posted by a new website that was launched by his legal defense team.
“I am overwhelmed by — and grateful for — everyone who has written me to share their stories and express their support,” Mangione wrote in his statement.
Highlights
- Luigi Mangione spoke out publicly for first time since his arrest.
- A website launched by his legal team, raising more than $400,000 for Mangione's defense.
- Fans vocalized support and blamed UnitedHealthcare for denying care.
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Luigi Mangione has come out with his first public statement since his arrest
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“Powerfully, this support has transcended political, racial, and even class divisions, as mail has flooded MDC from across the country, and around the globe. While it is impossible for me to reply to most letters, please know that I read every one that I receive.
“Thank you again to everyone who took the time to write. I look forward to hearing more in the future.”
According to Rolling Stone, a message from his attorneys was also provided on the homepage of the website — which has been confirmed to be real.
Much of the public has been an avid supporter of the 26-year-old
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“Due to the extraordinary volume of inquiries and outpouring of support, this site was created and is maintained by Luigi Mangione’s New York legal defense team to provide answers to frequently asked questions, accurate information about his cases, and dispel misinformation,” it read.
“The intent is to share factual information regarding the unprecedented, multiple prosecutions against him.”
As reported by the outlet, the contribution section has additional links to a Give Send Go crowdfunding website where Mangione’s supporters are able to help pay for his legal expenses. As of Friday night, donations have surpassed a whopping $400,000.
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“Luigi is aware of the fund and very much appreciates the outpouring of support,” said Karen Friedman Agnifilo, his lead defense attorney, in a statement earlier this week. “My client plans on utilizing it to fight all three of the unprecedented cases against him.”
The 26-year-old has received many letters, photos, and books from his supporters and his legal team said that while “he is very appreciative,” he is requesting that people refrain from sending any more books for the time being and to send no more than five photos at a time.
Every picture needs to be screened and reviewed by law enforcement and at any given time, Mangione can only have five books, a photo album, and 25 pictures.
A website was launched to raise funds to help pay for Mangione’s legal expenses
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Following his statement and the release of his website, his supporters did what they did best: make their voices heard.
“Free Luigi!” demanded one of his fans. “United kills people every single day and they are not held accountable.”
Another stated, “When a business person with no experience in healthcare makes the decision to deny lifesaving care to a patient in order to save that insurance company money and guarantee themselves their multimillionaire dollar bonus, that’s murder for hire.
“The person who did this (it wasn’t Luigi) is a hero. Period.”
A third said, “Humanity doesn’t deserve Luigi, but we have him, and we should support him and do our best to defend him.”
“Took one out to avenge a few thousand,” someone said. “Seems legit.”
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“This is the first thing in my adult life that gave me any real hope hor [sic] humanity. I wish there were more like him,” wrote a Facebook user.
Mangione is the lead suspect regarding the shooting and murder of Brian Thompson, the former CEO of UnitedHealthcare, which took place in New York City on December 4, 2024.
Five days later, the former Ivy League student was found and arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania. In front of the New York Supreme Court, he pleaded not guilty for his eleven state and four federal charges, which include first-degree murder, terrorism, criminal possession of a weapon, and stalking.
Image credits: UnitedHealth Group
Mangione’s next court date will be on February 21, in Manhattan. It was initially scheduled for the morning before being shifted to the afternoon.
Mangione has been indicted with multiple charges following the murder of Brian Thompson
Poll Question
What impact do you think Luigi Mangione's first public statement will have on his legal case?
It will garner more public support
It will harm his case
No significant impact
It will sway the jury
Unsure
What do you think ?
DoubleDoubleTiredAndTuckered 1 month ago
“Some will rob you with a six-gun, and some with a fountain pen.” -Woody Guthrie
Scott Rackley 1 month ago
The judge will have to issue a directed verdict, because there's no way he's convicted by a jury.
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ww4k6p74sm 1 month ago
Only the defendant can waive his right to a jury trial the judge can’t just enter a verdict unless the defendant wants a bench trial not a jury trial
Forrest Hobbs 1 month ago (edited)
Murder is wrong. Two wrongs have never yet made a right. Is that so hard to understand? Doesn't matter how much you sympathise, murder is wrong and that's that.
Yo Fako 1 month ago
Weren't United's actions just as murderous? But somehow it was okay for them to illegally deny care to people, in violation of law and their own contracts, knowing people would die?
Load More Replies... Forrest Hobbs 1 month ago (edited)
The health insurance firm's actions were and are wrong. That's why I said two wrongs don't make a right. Killing people is wrong. You don't repair the harm of killing people by killing another person.
RS 1 month ago
At some point in time, a population needs to stop the powers that destroy their lives and our world. At some point in time, when gov are bought and ignore the plebs, it does become unavoidable.
Forrest Hobbs 1 month ago
There's only one country in the world with a health care system as expensive and as ineffective as the USA's, and that's the USA. Cuba has a far better health care system - maybe they don't have all the latest and greatest advances available to those able to pay, but at least almost everyone can get almost all the health care that they mostly need without risk of going bankrupt.
Ron Man 1 month ago
If you're happy some guy shot an unarmed guy in the back of the head, for any reason, you no longer get to think of yourself as a reasonable, empathetic human being. You're no better than the person getting shot. Yes, I'm expecting this to be downvoted.
Amelia Jade 1 month ago
Where was the CEOs empathy when he denied lifesaving care to many, many people--all the while KNOWING they would die without it?
Load More Replies... Ron Man 1 month ago
The CEO's lack of empathy isn't the issue here. Cold blooded murder is cold blooded murder no matter who the victim was. If you think he deserved to die, who else deserves it? What about you? What if your neighbor thinks you deserve to die? Is it okay then for them to shoot you in the back of the head when you're checking your mail? Because by your logic, it totally is.
Chuck Freiman 1 month ago
Who the f**k cares. It's got nothing to do with nothing. The only bad guy here is Murderin' Mangione.
Tamra 1 month ago (edited)
I'm fairly certain the family members of all the many people who were victims of United Healthcare's egregious claim denials care a lot. I'd be willing to bet they'd claim there's definitely more than one bad guy. United Healthcare, and many others, make it a matter of policy to routinely deny necessary, often life saving, healthcare so they can maximize profits. That practice results in sickness, suffering, and death. The only difference between them and Luigi? Luigi didn't get rich from it.
Tamra 1 month ago (edited)
Julia: it's pretty arrogant of you to assume only you have the facts, while everyone else is apparently too ignorant to search out the truth. I don't care how much experience you've had with insurance, that doesn't alter the fact that UHC has the highest rate of claim denial. Thompson was responsible for starting up the AI denial program, which automatically denied claims from sick, elderly people, with a staggering 90% error rate. UHC is currently facing several lawsuits for egregious practices, so I'm not sure why you're calling it "tabloid dribble". And if you're going to annoy the pi$$ out of everyone by spamming the same message, get the vocabulary right: it's "drivel" not "dribble".
Gozer LeGozerian 1 month ago
No one is going to pat you on the shoulder and give you a medal for having a tantrum over a rich man's death
Simon Chen 1 month ago
You are right. It does not make it right if the person murdered was a bad person, it is still murder. But i get it, he is so handsome 🙄
V 1 month ago
I am not happy he was murdered, but neither am I sad he died. I think it would have been much more poetic if his health insurance denied him life saving treatment.
Gozer LeGozerian 1 month ago
If you're defending removal of one person because of the slow killing of thousands of people because of the greed of a few, you no longer get to think of yourself as reasonable.
Hoi-Polloi 1 month ago
I'm defending the rule of law, and how we need to get all kinds of judges and lawyers involved before someone gets shot. If a random citizen gets to decide whom to execute, that'll get ugly fast. You happen to like *this* self-appointed executioner's choice of victim; you might not like the next. That's why this kind of behavior has to be stopped, even if the victim in question was a jerk.
Forrest Hobbs 1 month ago (edited)
My god! Someone argues that it's wrong for an individual to appoint themselves judge, jury, and executioner and decide that they have the right to kill whomever they like, and they get downvoted? Think! Do you really want to live in a world like that, where anyone might just decide that they don't like *you* and think that it's fine to just send you off to meet your maker as if you were no better than a disgusting health insurance executive? Can you imagine just how scary and nasty that world would be? The law is far from perfect, but the bits about muder being wrong predate anyone actually writing any laws down because some things are obvious.
Miki 1 month ago (edited)
@Chuck are you aware you prefer a guy who, by his actions, killed MANY ppl over a guy who with his own hands killed this one guy that let me remid you - killed many ppl. Please. Explain me how your morals works (not a sarcasm. It's honest request). Maybe you will try to say that for you all live is equal. Sorry, that would be hypocritical. You just called us "depraved groupie of a murdering scumbag". All lives are not equal. Sometimes, someone must take one for a team. Maybe you will say that it doesn't matter what killed guy did and killing is killing. Ok, so what about executors of legal death sentences? They are clearly evil by your own definition.
Gozer LeGozerian 1 month ago
Chuck would have a tantrum over the killing of Hitler, I guarantee it
Gozer LeGozerian 1 month ago
Nice copy paste. Do you actually have an independent thought between your ears?
Chris the Bobcat 1 month ago
The amount of public support for Luigi Mangione and the complete lack of empathy for the United Healthcare CEO who was killed should serve as a message and a warning to the elites of capitalist society. It should serve as one, but it won't, and I doubt this vigilante killing will be the last.
Scott Rackley 1 month ago
One person killed one person. One person killed thousands, and got rich off of it. My coin flip is going to be a little biased.
Nikole 1 month ago
We really are at war, especially since Jan. 20th, and we need to fight. He fought. Good.
Chuck Freiman 1 month ago
Nikole, shooting an unarmed man in the back is murder, pure and simple. Only the most depraved among us worships at the altar of this murdering m**********r.
Load More Replies... Gozer LeGozerian 1 month ago
So is denying healthcare and letting people suffer. Had UH been a person, they would've been thrown in prison a long time ago.
Amelia Jade 1 month ago
A beef? Seriously? He took out a villain. He took out evil. If you don't think that CEO was the portrait of evil then you're not paying attention. That man was literally the head of an operation that makes a point to deny life saving care, KNOWING that by doing so people will die. And yet they just smile and rake in their billions because, to them, you and I are subhumans. But sure, it was just a minor beef.
Ron Man 1 month ago
He didn't like the way the CEO was operating the business. That was the beef. You may be romanticizing this, which is really not something you want to do. He's a cold blooded murderer, not a hero. A hero would've gotten the CEO to change the policies of the company to help the customers, not murder the CEO.
Tabitha 1 month ago (edited)
Profiting from what could constitute a genocide or purge of the non-wealthy by attrition, using accident and disease as both the means and a cover for it. Mangione taking out Thompson was like someone taking out Stalin or Hitler. Murder? Yes. Justifiable? Oh hell yes.
Tamra 1 month ago
So, Chuck, no words of condemnation for the CEO who was responsible for the deaths and suffering of others? Mangione did it once, with a gun. Thompson did it over and over, with a pen. I'm not saying vigilante justice will fix this problem, but I can understand the average person's desperation and anger. People can only be pushed so far before they push back.
Michelle Randazzo 1 month ago
And you know all this how? Blame the Underwriters. You ignorant braindead f**k up of a pos Get your facts straight instead of maturating to a Pic.
TotallyNOTAFox 1 month ago (edited)
Well you know a society is absolutely f****d if all means no matter how extreme are deemed legit if it just hits "the right people". France, the Third Reich, USSR, Cambodia etc. started that way too before it went absolutely downhill there for a few years.
Gozer LeGozerian 1 month ago
No, Eric. They will not stop giving him publicity just because you and the other bootlickers are having whine-a-thons about a rich man dying
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Adrian Ward 1 month ago
So much for trying to argue he is innocent with him admitting it. It will raise money but his only hope is a jurry that has already to acquit because they approve of the killing.
ww4k6p74sm 1 month ago (edited)
As somebody who was trained to commit violence (I was in the US Marine Corps) after the things I’ve seen and been through I would say violence is never the answer, but I do completely understand why he did it
ww4k6p74sm 1 month ago
As somebody who was trained to commit violence (US Marine Corps) after the things I’ve seen and been through I would say violence is never the answer, but I do understand why
Hoi-Polloi 1 month ago
End of the day, I can't support vigilante killing where one guy gets to be judge, jury and executioner. All the pro-Luigi kids are cheering, because Luigi's choice of victim *happens* to be someone they dislike. If every random citizen gets to decide whom to murder, a *lot* of the victims are going to be people you didn't want killed. There's a reason we have a whole legal process before executing anyone.
Chuck Freiman 1 month ago
Luigi is a murdering scumbag who deserves to spend the rest of his life behind bars
Gozer LeGozerian 1 month ago
You are really having a gigantic tantrum here, aren't you. You're a grown a*s adult. Grow up.
Load More Replies... jmdirks 1 month ago
This creature is a cold blooded murderer and deserves the death penalty! And only the lunitic liberal left would be stupid enough to support this thing that does not deserve to be called a human being. If you are deranged enough to support this vile vermin then you are probably a potental murderer or have already committed this hanious act.
Michelle Randazzo 1 month ago
Absolutely! I wish I could murder at will!! Most people would kill if they could walk away from it!!! Lol! WTFBIS WRONG WITH PEOPLE!!
Tamra 1 month ago
Your stats are very, very different from what I'm finding. UHC is well known for their very high denial rate. You said: "No one, not even medical directors go to work thinking how to celebrate denying medically necessary services". Maybe not, but CEOs do. Their first, most important directive is to make as much profit as possible. That *always* comes at the cost of people's well-being.
Gozer LeGozerian 1 month ago
If they knew, do you actually think they would give the name? Come on... Lmao
DoubleDoubleTiredAndTuckered 1 month ago
“Some will rob you with a six-gun, and some with a fountain pen.” -Woody Guthrie
Scott Rackley 1 month ago
The judge will have to issue a directed verdict, because there's no way he's convicted by a jury.
Load More Replies... ww4k6p74sm 1 month ago
Only the defendant can waive his right to a jury trial the judge can’t just enter a verdict unless the defendant wants a bench trial not a jury trial
Forrest Hobbs 1 month ago (edited)
Murder is wrong. Two wrongs have never yet made a right. Is that so hard to understand? Doesn't matter how much you sympathise, murder is wrong and that's that.
Yo Fako 1 month ago
Weren't United's actions just as murderous? But somehow it was okay for them to illegally deny care to people, in violation of law and their own contracts, knowing people would die?
Load More Replies... Forrest Hobbs 1 month ago (edited)
The health insurance firm's actions were and are wrong. That's why I said two wrongs don't make a right. Killing people is wrong. You don't repair the harm of killing people by killing another person.
RS 1 month ago
At some point in time, a population needs to stop the powers that destroy their lives and our world. At some point in time, when gov are bought and ignore the plebs, it does become unavoidable.
Forrest Hobbs 1 month ago
There's only one country in the world with a health care system as expensive and as ineffective as the USA's, and that's the USA. Cuba has a far better health care system - maybe they don't have all the latest and greatest advances available to those able to pay, but at least almost everyone can get almost all the health care that they mostly need without risk of going bankrupt.
Ron Man 1 month ago
If you're happy some guy shot an unarmed guy in the back of the head, for any reason, you no longer get to think of yourself as a reasonable, empathetic human being. You're no better than the person getting shot. Yes, I'm expecting this to be downvoted.
Amelia Jade 1 month ago
Where was the CEOs empathy when he denied lifesaving care to many, many people--all the while KNOWING they would die without it?
Load More Replies... Ron Man 1 month ago
The CEO's lack of empathy isn't the issue here. Cold blooded murder is cold blooded murder no matter who the victim was. If you think he deserved to die, who else deserves it? What about you? What if your neighbor thinks you deserve to die? Is it okay then for them to shoot you in the back of the head when you're checking your mail? Because by your logic, it totally is.
Chuck Freiman 1 month ago
Who the f**k cares. It's got nothing to do with nothing. The only bad guy here is Murderin' Mangione.
Tamra 1 month ago (edited)
I'm fairly certain the family members of all the many people who were victims of United Healthcare's egregious claim denials care a lot. I'd be willing to bet they'd claim there's definitely more than one bad guy. United Healthcare, and many others, make it a matter of policy to routinely deny necessary, often life saving, healthcare so they can maximize profits. That practice results in sickness, suffering, and death. The only difference between them and Luigi? Luigi didn't get rich from it.
Tamra 1 month ago (edited)
Julia: it's pretty arrogant of you to assume only you have the facts, while everyone else is apparently too ignorant to search out the truth. I don't care how much experience you've had with insurance, that doesn't alter the fact that UHC has the highest rate of claim denial. Thompson was responsible for starting up the AI denial program, which automatically denied claims from sick, elderly people, with a staggering 90% error rate. UHC is currently facing several lawsuits for egregious practices, so I'm not sure why you're calling it "tabloid dribble". And if you're going to annoy the pi$$ out of everyone by spamming the same message, get the vocabulary right: it's "drivel" not "dribble".
Gozer LeGozerian 1 month ago
No one is going to pat you on the shoulder and give you a medal for having a tantrum over a rich man's death
Simon Chen 1 month ago
You are right. It does not make it right if the person murdered was a bad person, it is still murder. But i get it, he is so handsome 🙄
V 1 month ago
I am not happy he was murdered, but neither am I sad he died. I think it would have been much more poetic if his health insurance denied him life saving treatment.
Gozer LeGozerian 1 month ago
If you're defending removal of one person because of the slow killing of thousands of people because of the greed of a few, you no longer get to think of yourself as reasonable.
Hoi-Polloi 1 month ago
I'm defending the rule of law, and how we need to get all kinds of judges and lawyers involved before someone gets shot. If a random citizen gets to decide whom to execute, that'll get ugly fast. You happen to like *this* self-appointed executioner's choice of victim; you might not like the next. That's why this kind of behavior has to be stopped, even if the victim in question was a jerk.
Forrest Hobbs 1 month ago (edited)
My god! Someone argues that it's wrong for an individual to appoint themselves judge, jury, and executioner and decide that they have the right to kill whomever they like, and they get downvoted? Think! Do you really want to live in a world like that, where anyone might just decide that they don't like *you* and think that it's fine to just send you off to meet your maker as if you were no better than a disgusting health insurance executive? Can you imagine just how scary and nasty that world would be? The law is far from perfect, but the bits about muder being wrong predate anyone actually writing any laws down because some things are obvious.
Miki 1 month ago (edited)
@Chuck are you aware you prefer a guy who, by his actions, killed MANY ppl over a guy who with his own hands killed this one guy that let me remid you - killed many ppl. Please. Explain me how your morals works (not a sarcasm. It's honest request). Maybe you will try to say that for you all live is equal. Sorry, that would be hypocritical. You just called us "depraved groupie of a murdering scumbag". All lives are not equal. Sometimes, someone must take one for a team. Maybe you will say that it doesn't matter what killed guy did and killing is killing. Ok, so what about executors of legal death sentences? They are clearly evil by your own definition.
Gozer LeGozerian 1 month ago
Chuck would have a tantrum over the killing of Hitler, I guarantee it
Gozer LeGozerian 1 month ago
Nice copy paste. Do you actually have an independent thought between your ears?
Chris the Bobcat 1 month ago
The amount of public support for Luigi Mangione and the complete lack of empathy for the United Healthcare CEO who was killed should serve as a message and a warning to the elites of capitalist society. It should serve as one, but it won't, and I doubt this vigilante killing will be the last.
Scott Rackley 1 month ago
One person killed one person. One person killed thousands, and got rich off of it. My coin flip is going to be a little biased.
Nikole 1 month ago
We really are at war, especially since Jan. 20th, and we need to fight. He fought. Good.
Chuck Freiman 1 month ago
Nikole, shooting an unarmed man in the back is murder, pure and simple. Only the most depraved among us worships at the altar of this murdering m**********r.
Load More Replies... Gozer LeGozerian 1 month ago
So is denying healthcare and letting people suffer. Had UH been a person, they would've been thrown in prison a long time ago.
Amelia Jade 1 month ago
A beef? Seriously? He took out a villain. He took out evil. If you don't think that CEO was the portrait of evil then you're not paying attention. That man was literally the head of an operation that makes a point to deny life saving care, KNOWING that by doing so people will die. And yet they just smile and rake in their billions because, to them, you and I are subhumans. But sure, it was just a minor beef.
Ron Man 1 month ago
He didn't like the way the CEO was operating the business. That was the beef. You may be romanticizing this, which is really not something you want to do. He's a cold blooded murderer, not a hero. A hero would've gotten the CEO to change the policies of the company to help the customers, not murder the CEO.
Tabitha 1 month ago (edited)
Profiting from what could constitute a genocide or purge of the non-wealthy by attrition, using accident and disease as both the means and a cover for it. Mangione taking out Thompson was like someone taking out Stalin or Hitler. Murder? Yes. Justifiable? Oh hell yes.
Tamra 1 month ago
So, Chuck, no words of condemnation for the CEO who was responsible for the deaths and suffering of others? Mangione did it once, with a gun. Thompson did it over and over, with a pen. I'm not saying vigilante justice will fix this problem, but I can understand the average person's desperation and anger. People can only be pushed so far before they push back.
Michelle Randazzo 1 month ago
And you know all this how? Blame the Underwriters. You ignorant braindead f**k up of a pos Get your facts straight instead of maturating to a Pic.
TotallyNOTAFox 1 month ago (edited)
Well you know a society is absolutely f****d if all means no matter how extreme are deemed legit if it just hits "the right people". France, the Third Reich, USSR, Cambodia etc. started that way too before it went absolutely downhill there for a few years.
Gozer LeGozerian 1 month ago
No, Eric. They will not stop giving him publicity just because you and the other bootlickers are having whine-a-thons about a rich man dying
Load More Replies... Adrian Ward 1 month ago
So much for trying to argue he is innocent with him admitting it. It will raise money but his only hope is a jurry that has already to acquit because they approve of the killing.
ww4k6p74sm 1 month ago (edited)
As somebody who was trained to commit violence (I was in the US Marine Corps) after the things I’ve seen and been through I would say violence is never the answer, but I do completely understand why he did it
ww4k6p74sm 1 month ago
As somebody who was trained to commit violence (US Marine Corps) after the things I’ve seen and been through I would say violence is never the answer, but I do understand why
Hoi-Polloi 1 month ago
End of the day, I can't support vigilante killing where one guy gets to be judge, jury and executioner. All the pro-Luigi kids are cheering, because Luigi's choice of victim *happens* to be someone they dislike. If every random citizen gets to decide whom to murder, a *lot* of the victims are going to be people you didn't want killed. There's a reason we have a whole legal process before executing anyone.
Chuck Freiman 1 month ago
Luigi is a murdering scumbag who deserves to spend the rest of his life behind bars
Gozer LeGozerian 1 month ago
You are really having a gigantic tantrum here, aren't you. You're a grown a*s adult. Grow up.
Load More Replies... jmdirks 1 month ago
This creature is a cold blooded murderer and deserves the death penalty! And only the lunitic liberal left would be stupid enough to support this thing that does not deserve to be called a human being. If you are deranged enough to support this vile vermin then you are probably a potental murderer or have already committed this hanious act.
Michelle Randazzo 1 month ago
Absolutely! I wish I could murder at will!! Most people would kill if they could walk away from it!!! Lol! WTFBIS WRONG WITH PEOPLE!!
Tamra 1 month ago
Your stats are very, very different from what I'm finding. UHC is well known for their very high denial rate. You said: "No one, not even medical directors go to work thinking how to celebrate denying medically necessary services". Maybe not, but CEOs do. Their first, most important directive is to make as much profit as possible. That *always* comes at the cost of people's well-being.
Gozer LeGozerian 1 month ago
If they knew, do you actually think they would give the name? Come on... Lmao
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