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FROM: "Becky Spratford" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/11/02, 2:17 PM

I had a patron come in today with the following request. He is looking for
a novel published sometime between 1971-1980, not by A.C. Doyle, that was
about a fictional club of Sherlockians. One member makes up a mystery and
the others must solve it using only clues and methods described in the
original stories, which are known as the cannon. There are thousands of web
sites about actual Sherlockian clubs that do this, but he insisted that this
is a novel about a fictional club. I would greatly appreciate any help
people can give me on this subject.
Thanks

Becky Spratford
Readers Advisor
Berwyn Public Library
Berwyn, IL
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FROM: "Laurie Petri" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/11/02, 2:29 PM

Hi Becky--I've seen this novel but don't have any resources at home to find
out the name.
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Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 2:12 PM
Subject: Sherlockian Novel


> I had a patron come in today with the following request. He is looking
for
> a novel published sometime between 1971-1980, not by A.C. Doyle, that was
> about a fictional club of Sherlockians. One member makes up a mystery and
> the others must solve it using only clues and methods described in the
> original stories, which are known as the cannon. There are thousands of
web
> sites about actual Sherlockian clubs that do this, but he insisted that
this
> is a novel about a fictional club. I would greatly appreciate any help
> people can give me on this subject.
> Thanks
>
> Becky Spratford
> Readers Advisor
> Berwyn Public Library
> Berwyn, IL
> [removed]@hotmail.com
>
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FROM: Melissa Landis-McFeeley <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 2/11/02, 10:33 PM

Becky,

This sounds a lot like the black widowers club tales
by Isaac Asimov. The time is right, as they began to
be published in the mid-to-late seventies.

There are several books in the series, all comprised
of short stories, and they have titles like:

Tales of the Black Widowers
More Tales of the Black Widowers
Casebook of the Black Widowers
Banquets of the Black Widowers

They're very good logic puzzles that take place in a
restaurant with a room reserved for the club.

Hope this helps,

Melissa
Kankakee Public Library


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FROM: "Becky Spratford" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/12/02, 1:41 PM

Thanks Melissa, but I spoke with the patron and he said it was definitely
not an author as famous as Asimov. He said for me to think less famous and
no short stories and no series. He is thinking of a single book. Any other
suggestions would be greatly appreciate.

Becky Spratford
Berwyn Public Library

>Subject: Sherlockian novel
>From: "Melissa Landis-McFeeley" <[removed]@yahoo.com>
>Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 20:28:03 -0800 (PST)

>Becky,

>This sounds a lot like the black widowers club tales
>by Isaac Asimov. The time is right, as they began to
>be published in the mid-to-late seventies.

>There are several books in the series, all comprised
>of short stories, and they have titles like:

>Tales of the Black Widowers
>More Tales of the Black Widowers
>Casebook of the Black Widowers
>Banquets of the Black Widowers

>They're very good logic puzzles that take place in a
>restaurant with a room reserved for the club.

>Hope this helps,

>Melissa
>Kankakee Public Library


>>Subject: Sherlockian Novel
>From: "Becky Spratford" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
>Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 14:12:17 -0600

I had a patron come in today with the following request. He is looking for
a novel published sometime between 1971-1980, not by A.C. Doyle, that was
about a fictional club of Sherlockians. One member makes up a mystery and
the others must solve it using only clues and methods described in the
original stories, which are known as the cannon. There are thousands of web
sites about actual Sherlockian clubs that do this, but he insisted that this
is a novel about a fictional club. I would greatly appreciate any help
people can give me on this subject.
Thanks

Becky Spratford
Readers Advisor
Berwyn Public Library
Berwyn, IL
[removed]@hotmail.com


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FROM: "Kay Mahoney" <[removed]@tolland.org>
REC'D: 2/12/02, 2:02 PM

There were some books published in the 1970s edited by Nicholas Meyer. One
was The West End Horror. Kay Mahoney

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[[removed]@maillist.webrary.org]On Behalf Of Becky Spratford
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 2:36 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Re:Sherlockian Novel


Thanks Melissa, but I spoke with the patron and he said it was definitely
not an author as famous as Asimov. He said for me to think less famous and
no short stories and no series. He is thinking of a single book. Any other
suggestions would be greatly appreciate.

Becky Spratford
Berwyn Public Library

>Subject: Sherlockian novel
>From: "Melissa Landis-McFeeley" <[removed]@yahoo.com>
>Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 20:28:03 -0800 (PST)

>Becky,

>This sounds a lot like the black widowers club tales
>by Isaac Asimov. The time is right, as they began to
>be published in the mid-to-late seventies.

>There are several books in the series, all comprised
>of short stories, and they have titles like:

>Tales of the Black Widowers
>More Tales of the Black Widowers
>Casebook of the Black Widowers
>Banquets of the Black Widowers

>They're very good logic puzzles that take place in a
>restaurant with a room reserved for the club.

>Hope this helps,

>Melissa
>Kankakee Public Library


>>Subject: Sherlockian Novel
>From: "Becky Spratford" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
>Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 14:12:17 -0600

I had a patron come in today with the following request. He is looking for
a novel published sometime between 1971-1980, not by A.C. Doyle, that was
about a fictional club of Sherlockians. One member makes up a mystery and
the others must solve it using only clues and methods described in the
original stories, which are known as the cannon. There are thousands of web
sites about actual Sherlockian clubs that do this, but he insisted that this
is a novel about a fictional club. I would greatly appreciate any help
people can give me on this subject.
Thanks

Becky Spratford
Readers Advisor
Berwyn Public Library
Berwyn, IL
[removed]@hotmail.com


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FROM: Thelma Stone <[removed]@fortworthlibrary.org>
REC'D: 2/12/02, 3:06 PM

If the book was a reprint, it may have been Anthony Boucher's The Case of
the Baker Street Irregulars. It originally came out in 1940. The only
other title from that period that comes to mind is Julian Symons' A Three
Pipe Problem, but that had an actor who played Holmes on TV.

FROM: "Janet Arcand" <[removed]@gwgate.lib.iastate.edu>
REC'D: 2/12/02, 3:49 PM

I wonder if this is "The Copper Beeches", by Arthur H. Lewis, published in 1971.

Janet Arcand
Ames, Iowa

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Subject: Sherlockian Novel
From: "Becky Spratford" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 14:12:17 -0600

I had a patron come in today with the following request. He is looking for
a novel published sometime between 1971-1980, not by A.C. Doyle, that was
about a fictional club of Sherlockians. One member makes up a mystery and
the others must solve it using only clues and methods described in the
original stories, which are known as the cannon. There are thousands of web
sites about actual Sherlockian clubs that do this, but he insisted that this
is a novel about a fictional club. I would greatly appreciate any help
people can give me on this subject.
Thanks

Becky Spratford
Readers Advisor
Berwyn Public Library
Berwyn, IL
[removed]@hotmail.com

FROM: "Dillie, Thomas" <[removed]@mailserv.gcpl.lib.oh.us>
REC'D: 2/12/02, 7:43 PM

Becky,
After poking around in a few of the many, many Sherlock Holmes
related websites, I would suggest that your patron might be thinking of
Copper Beeches by Arthur H. Lewis, Trident Press, 1972. The two, admittedly
very brief, plot summaries I found are "A novel about "Baker Street
Irregulars" (Holmes societies) doing their own set piece adventure in
Philadelphia. Very good." from http://www.mysterylist.com/holmes.htm.

And "A cadre of Holmes fans get their chance to borrow the great detective's
techniques in A.H. Lewis' Philadelphia-based (and pretty good) Copper
Beeches (1971), as well as a couple of other lesser works." from
http://www.januarymagazine.com/crfiction/sherl.html

Without seeing the book, it's hard to know if the premise matches what the
patron remembers. However, this is the only likely sounding title I found.
Worldcat lists over 300 libraries holding the book, so it shouldn't be hard
to come up with a copy on ILL.

Tom Dillie
Head Librarian
Cedarville Community Library
Greene County Public Library
76 N. Main St.
Cedarville, OH 45314

"'Under consideration' means we've lost the file. 'Under active
consideration' means we're trying to find it."

-----Original Message-----
From: Becky Spratford [[removed]@hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 2:36 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Re:Sherlockian Novel


Thanks Melissa, but I spoke with the patron and he said it was definitely
not an author as famous as Asimov. He said for me to think less famous and
no short stories and no series. He is thinking of a single book. Any other

suggestions would be greatly appreciate.

Becky Spratford
Berwyn Public Library

>Subject: Sherlockian novel
>From: "Melissa Landis-McFeeley" <[removed]@yahoo.com>
>Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 20:28:03 -0800 (PST)

>Becky,

>This sounds a lot like the black widowers club tales
>by Isaac Asimov. The time is right, as they began to
>be published in the mid-to-late seventies.

>There are several books in the series, all comprised
>of short stories, and they have titles like:

>Tales of the Black Widowers
>More Tales of the Black Widowers
>Casebook of the Black Widowers
>Banquets of the Black Widowers

>They're very good logic puzzles that take place in a
>restaurant with a room reserved for the club.

>Hope this helps,

>Melissa
>Kankakee Public Library


>>Subject: Sherlockian Novel
>From: "Becky Spratford" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
>Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 14:12:17 -0600

I had a patron come in today with the following request. He is looking for
a novel published sometime between 1971-1980, not by A.C. Doyle, that was
about a fictional club of Sherlockians. One member makes up a mystery and
the others must solve it using only clues and methods described in the
original stories, which are known as the cannon. There are thousands of web
sites about actual Sherlockian clubs that do this, but he insisted that this
is a novel about a fictional club. I would greatly appreciate any help
people can give me on this subject.
Thanks

Becky Spratford
Readers Advisor
Berwyn Public Library
Berwyn, IL
[removed]@hotmail.com


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FROM: "Kathy Loucks" <[removed]@cml.lib.oh.us>
REC'D: 2/13/02, 9:01 AM

I hesitate to suggest this because the plot doesn't exactly match your patron's description, but The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars by Anthony Boucher involves members of the group solving a murder when they are asked to consult on a Sherlock Holmes movie.

Kathleen Loucks
Columbus Metropolitan Library
Columbus, OH

FROM: "Kathy Loucks" <[removed]@cml.lib.oh.us>
REC'D: 2/13/02, 9:01 AM

It's definitely not the Meyer books, as these are pastiches in which Holmes himself is the detective.

Kathleen Loucks
Columbus Metropolitan Library
Columbus, OH

>>> [removed]@tolland.org 02/12/02 02:46PM >>>
There were some books published in the 1970s edited by Nicholas Meyer. One
was The West End Horror. Kay Mahoney

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From: [removed]@maillist.webrary.org
[[removed]@maillist.webrary.org]On Behalf Of Becky Spratford
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 2:36 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Re:Sherlockian Novel


Thanks Melissa, but I spoke with the patron and he said it was definitely
not an author as famous as Asimov. He said for me to think less famous and
no short stories and no series. He is thinking of a single book. Any other
suggestions would be greatly appreciate.

Becky Spratford
Berwyn Public Library

>Subject: Sherlockian novel
>From: "Melissa Landis-McFeeley" <[removed]@yahoo.com>
>Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 20:28:03 -0800 (PST)

>Becky,

>This sounds a lot like the black widowers club tales
>by Isaac Asimov. The time is right, as they began to
>be published in the mid-to-late seventies.

>There are several books in the series, all comprised
>of short stories, and they have titles like:

>Tales of the Black Widowers
>More Tales of the Black Widowers
>Casebook of the Black Widowers
>Banquets of the Black Widowers

>They're very good logic puzzles that take place in a
>restaurant with a room reserved for the club.

>Hope this helps,

>Melissa
>Kankakee Public Library


>>Subject: Sherlockian Novel
>From: "Becky Spratford" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
>Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 14:12:17 -0600

I had a patron come in today with the following request. He is looking for
a novel published sometime between 1971-1980, not by A.C. Doyle, that was
about a fictional club of Sherlockians. One member makes up a mystery and
the others must solve it using only clues and methods described in the
original stories, which are known as the cannon. There are thousands of web
sites about actual Sherlockian clubs that do this, but he insisted that this
is a novel about a fictional club. I would greatly appreciate any help
people can give me on this subject.
Thanks

Becky Spratford
Readers Advisor
Berwyn Public Library
Berwyn, IL
[removed]@hotmail.com


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FROM: "Becky Spratford" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/13/02, 10:49 AM

Tom,

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From: "Dillie, Thomas" <[removed]@mailserv.gcpl.lib.oh.us>
To: 'Fiction_L' <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>, [removed]@hotmail.com'"
<[removed]@hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: Sherlockian Novel
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 20:43:06 -0500

Becky,
After poking around in a few of the many, many Sherlock Holmes
related websites, I would suggest that your patron might be thinking of
Copper Beeches by Arthur H. Lewis, Trident Press, 1972. The two, admittedly
very brief, plot summaries I found are "A novel about "Baker Street
Irregulars" (Holmes societies) doing their own set piece adventure in
Philadelphia. Very good." from http://www.mysterylist.com/holmes.htm.

And "A cadre of Holmes fans get their chance to borrow the great detective's
techniques in A.H. Lewis' Philadelphia-based (and pretty good) Copper
Beeches (1971), as well as a couple of other lesser works." from
http://www.januarymagazine.com/crfiction/sherl.html

Without seeing the book, it's hard to know if the premise matches what the
patron remembers. However, this is the only likely sounding title I found.
Worldcat lists over 300 libraries holding the book, so it shouldn't be hard
to come up with a copy on ILL.

Tom Dillie
Head Librarian
Cedarville Community Library
Greene County Public Library
76 N. Main St.
Cedarville, OH 45314

"'Under consideration' means we've lost the file. 'Under active
consideration' means we're trying to find it."

-----Original Message-----
From: Becky Spratford [[removed]@hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 2:36 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Re:Sherlockian Novel


Thanks Melissa, but I spoke with the patron and he said it was definitely
not an author as famous as Asimov. He said for me to think less famous and
no short stories and no series. He is thinking of a single book. Any other

suggestions would be greatly appreciate.

Becky Spratford
Berwyn Public Library

>Subject: Sherlockian novel
>From: "Melissa Landis-McFeeley" <[removed]@yahoo.com>
>Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 20:28:03 -0800 (PST)

>Becky,

>This sounds a lot like the black widowers club tales
>by Isaac Asimov. The time is right, as they began to
>be published in the mid-to-late seventies.

>There are several books in the series, all comprised
>of short stories, and they have titles like:

>Tales of the Black Widowers
>More Tales of the Black Widowers
>Casebook of the Black Widowers
>Banquets of the Black Widowers

>They're very good logic puzzles that take place in a
>restaurant with a room reserved for the club.

>Hope this helps,

>Melissa
>Kankakee Public Library


>>Subject: Sherlockian Novel
>From: "Becky Spratford" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
>Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 14:12:17 -0600

I had a patron come in today with the following request. He is looking for
a novel published sometime between 1971-1980, not by A.C. Doyle, that was
about a fictional club of Sherlockians. One member makes up a mystery and
the others must solve it using only clues and methods described in the
original stories, which are known as the cannon. There are thousands of web
sites about actual Sherlockian clubs that do this, but he insisted that this
is a novel about a fictional club. I would greatly appreciate any help
people can give me on this subject.
Thanks

Becky Spratford
Readers Advisor
Berwyn Public Library
Berwyn, IL
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FROM: "Becky Spratford" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/13/02, 10:49 AM

Tom,

----Original Message Follows----
From: "Dillie, Thomas" <[removed]@mailserv.gcpl.lib.oh.us>
To: 'Fiction_L' <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>, [removed]@hotmail.com'"
<[removed]@hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: Sherlockian Novel
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 20:43:06 -0500

Becky,
After poking around in a few of the many, many Sherlock Holmes
related websites, I would suggest that your patron might be thinking of
Copper Beeches by Arthur H. Lewis, Trident Press, 1972. The two, admittedly
very brief, plot summaries I found are "A novel about "Baker Street
Irregulars" (Holmes societies) doing their own set piece adventure in
Philadelphia. Very good." from http://www.mysterylist.com/holmes.htm.

And "A cadre of Holmes fans get their chance to borrow the great detective's
techniques in A.H. Lewis' Philadelphia-based (and pretty good) Copper
Beeches (1971), as well as a couple of other lesser works." from
http://www.januarymagazine.com/crfiction/sherl.html

Without seeing the book, it's hard to know if the premise matches what the
patron remembers. However, this is the only likely sounding title I found.
Worldcat lists over 300 libraries holding the book, so it shouldn't be hard
to come up with a copy on ILL.

Tom Dillie
Head Librarian
Cedarville Community Library
Greene County Public Library
76 N. Main St.
Cedarville, OH 45314

"'Under consideration' means we've lost the file. 'Under active
consideration' means we're trying to find it."

-----Original Message-----
From: Becky Spratford [[removed]@hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 2:36 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Re:Sherlockian Novel


Thanks Melissa, but I spoke with the patron and he said it was definitely
not an author as famous as Asimov. He said for me to think less famous and
no short stories and no series. He is thinking of a single book. Any other

suggestions would be greatly appreciate.

Becky Spratford
Berwyn Public Library

>Subject: Sherlockian novel
>From: "Melissa Landis-McFeeley" <[removed]@yahoo.com>
>Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 20:28:03 -0800 (PST)

>Becky,

>This sounds a lot like the black widowers club tales
>by Isaac Asimov. The time is right, as they began to
>be published in the mid-to-late seventies.

>There are several books in the series, all comprised
>of short stories, and they have titles like:

>Tales of the Black Widowers
>More Tales of the Black Widowers
>Casebook of the Black Widowers
>Banquets of the Black Widowers

>They're very good logic puzzles that take place in a
>restaurant with a room reserved for the club.

>Hope this helps,

>Melissa
>Kankakee Public Library


>>Subject: Sherlockian Novel
>From: "Becky Spratford" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
>Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 14:12:17 -0600

I had a patron come in today with the following request. He is looking for
a novel published sometime between 1971-1980, not by A.C. Doyle, that was
about a fictional club of Sherlockians. One member makes up a mystery and
the others must solve it using only clues and methods described in the
original stories, which are known as the cannon. There are thousands of web
sites about actual Sherlockian clubs that do this, but he insisted that this
is a novel about a fictional club. I would greatly appreciate any help
people can give me on this subject.
Thanks

Becky Spratford
Readers Advisor
Berwyn Public Library
Berwyn, IL
[removed]@hotmail.com


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FROM: "Becky Spratford" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/13/02, 11:00 AM

Tom,
Thank you for your help. Not only was Copper Beeches the correct book, but
we own a copy here.

Becky Spratford
Berwyn Public Library


----Original Message Follows----
From: "Dillie, Thomas" <[removed]@mailserv.gcpl.lib.oh.us>
To: 'Fiction_L' <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>, [removed]@hotmail.com'"
<[removed]@hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: Sherlockian Novel
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 20:43:06 -0500

Becky,
After poking around in a few of the many, many Sherlock Holmes
related websites, I would suggest that your patron might be thinking of
Copper Beeches by Arthur H. Lewis, Trident Press, 1972. The two, admittedly
very brief, plot summaries I found are "A novel about "Baker Street
Irregulars" (Holmes societies) doing their own set piece adventure in
Philadelphia. Very good." from http://www.mysterylist.com/holmes.htm.

And "A cadre of Holmes fans get their chance to borrow the great detective's
techniques in A.H. Lewis' Philadelphia-based (and pretty good) Copper
Beeches (1971), as well as a couple of other lesser works." from
http://www.januarymagazine.com/crfiction/sherl.html

Without seeing the book, it's hard to know if the premise matches what the
patron remembers. However, this is the only likely sounding title I found.
Worldcat lists over 300 libraries holding the book, so it shouldn't be hard
to come up with a copy on ILL.

Tom Dillie
Head Librarian
Cedarville Community Library
Greene County Public Library
76 N. Main St.
Cedarville, OH 45314

"'Under consideration' means we've lost the file. 'Under active
consideration' means we're trying to find it."

-----Original Message-----
From: Becky Spratford [[removed]@hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 2:36 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Re:Sherlockian Novel


Thanks Melissa, but I spoke with the patron and he said it was definitely
not an author as famous as Asimov. He said for me to think less famous and
no short stories and no series. He is thinking of a single book. Any other

suggestions would be greatly appreciate.

Becky Spratford
Berwyn Public Library

>Subject: Sherlockian novel
>From: "Melissa Landis-McFeeley" <[removed]@yahoo.com>
>Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 20:28:03 -0800 (PST)

>Becky,

>This sounds a lot like the black widowers club tales
>by Isaac Asimov. The time is right, as they began to
>be published in the mid-to-late seventies.

>There are several books in the series, all comprised
>of short stories, and they have titles like:

>Tales of the Black Widowers
>More Tales of the Black Widowers
>Casebook of the Black Widowers
>Banquets of the Black Widowers

>They're very good logic puzzles that take place in a
>restaurant with a room reserved for the club.

>Hope this helps,

>Melissa
>Kankakee Public Library


>>Subject: Sherlockian Novel
>From: "Becky Spratford" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
>Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 14:12:17 -0600

I had a patron come in today with the following request. He is looking for
a novel published sometime between 1971-1980, not by A.C. Doyle, that was
about a fictional club of Sherlockians. One member makes up a mystery and
the others must solve it using only clues and methods described in the
original stories, which are known as the cannon. There are thousands of web
sites about actual Sherlockian clubs that do this, but he insisted that this
is a novel about a fictional club. I would greatly appreciate any help
people can give me on this subject.
Thanks

Becky Spratford
Readers Advisor
Berwyn Public Library
Berwyn, IL
[removed]@hotmail.com


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