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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001214659-22-007133
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	PX14A6G
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FILED AS OF DATE:		20220517
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20220517
EFFECTIVENESS DATE:		20220517

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	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			KROGER CO
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000056873
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	RETAIL-GROCERY STORES [5411]
		IRS NUMBER:				310345740
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			OH
		FISCAL YEAR END:			0129

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		FORM TYPE:		PX14A6G
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-00303
		FILM NUMBER:		22934721

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		1014 VINE ST
		CITY:			CINCINNATI
		STATE:			OH
		ZIP:			45201
		BUSINESS PHONE:		5137624000

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		1014 VINE ST
		CITY:			CINCINNATI
		STATE:			OH
		ZIP:			45201

FILED BY:		

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			AS YOU SOW
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001086462
		IRS NUMBER:				000000000
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			CA

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		FORM TYPE:		PX14A6G

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		2150 KITTREDGE ST.
		STREET 2:		SUITE 450
		CITY:			BERKELEY
		STATE:			CA
		ZIP:			94704
		BUSINESS PHONE:		510-735-8155

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		2150 KITTREDGE ST.
		STREET 2:		SUITE 450
		CITY:			BERKELEY
		STATE:			CA
		ZIP:			94704
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<P STYLE="font: 11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">Name of the Registrant: The Kroger Co. (KR)<BR>
Name of persons relying on exemption:&nbsp;As You Sow<BR>
Address of persons relying on exemption: Main Post Office, P.O. Box 751, Berkeley, CA 94704</P>

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<P STYLE="font: bold 16pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">The Kroger Co. (KR)<BR>
Vote Yes: Item #5&ndash; Report on Reducing Use of Plastic Packaging</P>

<P STYLE="font: bold 12pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>Annual Meeting: June 23, 2022</B></P>

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<P STYLE="font: bold 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">CONTACT: Conrad MacKerron | mack@asyousow.org</P>

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<P STYLE="font: bold 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin-left: 90pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center">Kelly McBee | kmcbee@asyousow.org</P>

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<P STYLE="font: bold 13pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; background-color: #B8CCE4">THE RESOLUTION</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">Shareholders request that the Kroger Board issue a report, at reasonable
expense and excluding proprietary information, describing how the Company will reduce its plastics use in alignment with the 1/3 reduction
findings of the Pew Charitable Trusts Report, <I>Breaking the Plastic Wave</I>, or other authoritative sources, to reduce its contribution
to ocean plastics pollution.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: bold 13pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; background-color: #B8CCE4">SUMMARY</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">The growing plastic pollution crisis poses increasing risks to our
company<SUP>1</SUP> and imposes costs on the environment, climate, and human health that are in total at least ten times higher than
the market price of plastics.<SUP>2</SUP> The scientific community has warned that pl<FONT STYLE="font-size: 11pt">astic pollution may
be nearing a tipping point of global-scale impacts that cannot be reversed</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt">.</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-size: 11pt"><SUP>3</SUP></FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">At the heart of the plastic pollution problem are single-use plastics,
which make up the largest component of the nearly 11 million metric tons of plastics that flow into the oceans annually. Plastic pollution
fatally impacts more than 800 marine species, causing up to $2.5 trillion in damage annually to marine ecosystems.<SUP>4</SUP> Toxins
adhere to plastics consumed by marine species, which potentially transfer to human diets. Between 400,000 and 1 million people in developing
countries die annually from diseases and illnesses caused by plastic pollution and uncollected waste dumped or burned near homes, according
to international relief agency Tearfund.<SUP>5</SUP> Corporations could face an annual financial risk of approximately $100 billion should
governments require them to cover the waste management costs of the packaging they produce, a policy that is increasingly being enacted
around the globe.<SUP>6</SUP></P>



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<P STYLE="font: 9pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><SUP>1</SUP> https://scitechdaily.com/earths-safe-planetary-boundary-for-pollutants-including-plastics-exceeded</P>

<P STYLE="font: 9pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><SUP>2</SUP> https://wwf.panda.org/wwf_news/?3507866/These-costs-for-plastic-produced-in-2040-will-rise-to-US71-trillion-unless-urgent-action-is-taken</P>

<P STYLE="font: 9pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><SUP>3</SUP> https://scitechdaily.com/global-plastic-pollution-may-be-nearing-an-irreversible-tipping-point</P>

<P STYLE="font: 9pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><SUP>4</SUP> https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025326X19302061</P>

<P STYLE="font: 9pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><SUP>5</SUP> https://res.cloudinary.com/tearfund/image/fetch/https://learn.tearfund.org/-/media/learn/resources/reports/2019-tearfund-consortium-no-time-to-waste-en.pdf</P>

<P STYLE="font: 9pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><SUP>6</SUP> https://www.pewtrusts.org/-/media/assets/2020/07/breakingtheplasticwave_report.pdf</P>


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<P STYLE="font: 11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">Pew Charitable Trusts released a groundbreaking study, <I>Breaking
the Plastic Wave</I>, (the Pew Report) concluding that if all current industry and government commitments were met, ocean plastic pollution
would be reduced by only 7%. Without immediate and sustained new commitments throughout the plastics value chain, annual flows of plastics
into oceans could nearly triple by 2040.<SUP>7</SUP></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">The Pew Report finds that improved recycling is insufficient to stem
the plastic tide &ndash; it must be coupled with reductions in overall use, materials redesign, and substitution. It concludes that at
least one-third of plastic use can be reduced, and that reduction is the most attractive solution from environmental, economic, and social
perspectives. Already, the European Union has banned 10 single-use plastic products commonly found in ocean cleanups and enacted a $1/kg
tax on non-recycled plastic packaging waste.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">More than 250 companies have committed to take a variety of actions
to reduce plastic pollution through the Ellen MacArthur Foundation New Plastics Economy Global Commitment (Global Commitment.) Some brand
signatory companies appear to have reached &ldquo;peak plastic&rdquo; and set absolute virgin plastic reduction goals projected to result
in a 19% reduction in total plastic use by 2025. The Kroger Co. (Kroger) is notably absent from this historic corporate coordination and
has no absolute virgin plastic reduction goal.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">Global Commitment signatory Unilever has taken the most significant
corporate action to date, agreeing to cut virgin plastic packaging by 50% by 2025, including absolute elimination of 100,000 tons of plastic
packaging. At least seventeen other publicly traded consumer goods companies have virgin plastic reduction goals, including Procter &amp;
Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive, Nestl&eacute;, and Target.<SUP>8</SUP></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">Kroger has received a score of &ldquo;D&rdquo; in two consecutive reports
by <I>As You Sow</I> on plastic packaging solutions, demonstrating the company lags its peers.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">Our company could avoid regulatory, environmental, and competitive
risks, and keep up with peers by undertaking additional actions to reduce plastic pollution from <I>O<FONT STYLE="font-size: 11pt">ur
Brands</FONT></I><FONT STYLE="font-size: 11pt"> products, including, for example, decoupling business growth from its consumption of
virgin plastics.</FONT></P>

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VOTE</P>

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<TD STYLE="width: 0.25in"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 0.25in"><B>1.</B></TD><TD><B>Kroger has failed to address the concerns of nearly 50% of its investors by not providing shareholders with sufficient information
on whether and how it will reduce <I>Our Brands </I>plastic pollution, exposing the company to financial, regulatory, and reputational
risk. </B></TD></TR></TABLE>


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<P STYLE="font: 9pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><SUP>7</SUP> https://www.unep.org/interactives/beat-plastic-pollution/</P>

<P STYLE="font: 9pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><SUP>8</SUP> https://www.asyousow.org/report-page/plastic-pollution-scorecard-2021/</P>

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Global Commitment and the Pew Report.</B><BR>
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<TD STYLE="width: 0"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 0.25in"><B>1.</B></TD><TD><B>Kroger has failed to address the concerns of nearly 50% of its investors by not providing shareholders with sufficient information
on whether and how it will reduce <I>Our Brands</I> plastic pollution, exposing the company to financial, regulatory, and reputational
risk. </B></TD></TR></TABLE>

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Last year, nearly 50% of investors, representing shares worth $10.2 billion, supported a proposal filed by <I>As You Sow</I> asking Kroger
to assess and disclose how much of its packaging escapes to the environment, disclose the Company&rsquo;s strategies or goals to reduce
use of plastic packaging, and evaluate opportunities for dramatically reducing the&nbsp;amount&nbsp;of plastic used in <I>Our Brands</I>
packaging.<SUP>9</SUP>&nbsp;</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-indent: 0in">Despite this strong vote, Kroger has not taken basic
corporate accountability actions such as disclosing the amount of plastic it uses, nor made recent commitments to cut plastic use as competing
retailers like Target and Walmart have done.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-indent: 0in">Consumers and governments across the globe are increasingly
holding producers accountable for plastic pollution and its numerous effects on human and environmental health. In March 2022, global
leaders from 193 United Nation Member States adopted a process for negotiating a global treaty to end plastic pollution that could mandate
plastic production bans or reductions and is intended to be legally binding.<SUP>10</SUP> Adoption of the agreement to negotiate a plastics
treaty was supported <FONT STYLE="background-color: white">by a vast array of businesses and investors united in recognizing plastic pollution
as a severe threat to business&rsquo; social license to operate.<SUP>11</SUP></FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">More than 40 countries and jurisdictions around the world have enacted
extended producer responsibility (EPR) laws for packaging whereby producers have financial responsibility for managing packaging at its
end of life. Twelve national and regional global Plastics Pacts have formed in the last few years to uphold and accelerate corporate
responsibility and support the development of a circular economy for plastics. Corporations face an annual financial risk of approximately
$10<FONT STYLE="font-size: 11pt">0 billion if additional global governments adopt this policy as expected.<SUP>12</SUP></FONT></P>

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Global Commitment and the Pew Report.</B><BR>
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<P STYLE="font: 9pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><SUP>9</SUP> https://www.asyousow.org/press-releases/2021/6/29/kroger-shareholders-support-proposal-cuts-single-use-plastic</P>

<P STYLE="font: 9pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><SUP>10</SUP> https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/03/plastic-pollution-treaty-un-environmental-assembly/627066/</P>

<P STYLE="font: 9pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><SUP>11</SUP> https://www.plasticpollutiontreaty.org/</P>

<P STYLE="font: 9pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><SUP>12</SUP> https://www.asyousow.org/report-page/plastic-pollution-scorecard-2021/</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-indent: 0in">Kroger is notably absent from participating in the
largest pre-competitive corporate movement t<FONT STYLE="background-color: white">o address plastic pollution &ndash; the Ellen MacArthur
Foundation New Plastics Economy Global Commitment (Global Commitment.) Hundreds of participating companies have adopted goals in a variety
of specially-targeted categories to drastically stem plastic flows to the ocean by 2025, including significant efforts to transition to
package-free and refillable formats and reductions in overall single-use plastic packaging. Kroger has not adopted recent goals in either
of these categories.</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="background-color: white">The watershed Pew Report states
that all corporate commitments to date are insufficient to tackle ocean plastic pollution and that all corporations must reduce their
virgin plastic use by 1/3. Kroger previously set and achieved a weight-based plastic reduction goal. However, the goal was not calculated
as a percentage of overall plastic use, thereby masking the company&rsquo;s possibly greater use of plastic today than when the goal was
set. Kroger must embrace &ldquo;peak plastic&rdquo; as other companies have done &ndash; wherein a company&rsquo;s growth and a company&rsquo;s
use of plastic are decoupled </FONT>&ndash; and commit to permanently reducing the amount of plastic packaging used by the Company.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">Kroger was one of the lowest scoring companies in <I>As You Sow&rsquo;s
</I>2021 Corporate Plastic Pollution Scorecard (Plastic Scorecard), receiving a &ldquo;D&rdquo; grade. The Plastic Scorecard rated 50
of the largest fast-moving consumer goods companies across 44 metrics evaluating action to prevent plastic packaging pollution. Kroger
earned particularly low scores by failing to set either an overall plastic reduction goal or a reusable packaging goal, the former of
which Walmart has done.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">Walmart recently announced that in the next three years the company
will reduce its total virgin plastic use by 15%. Partly in accordance with this goal, Walmart was ranked as the top scoring retailer &ndash;
and one of the top five companies &ndash; in <I>As You Sow&rsquo;s</I> Plastic Scorecard. Kroger is severely behind its peers in taking
necessary plastic pollution prevention measures such as setting a commitment to comprehensively reduce its overall plastic packaging use.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: bold 13pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; background-color: #B8CCE4">RESPONSE TO KROGER
BOARD OF DIRECTORS&rsquo; STATEMENT IN OPPOSITION</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">In the company&rsquo;s opposition statement, Kroger cites antiquated
plastic packaging reduction measures as sufficient corporate action, including one-time packaging material substitutions and improvements,
and drop-off recycling.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">Specifically, the company states that it plans to report its plastic
packaging baseline in 2023. While this is an improvement in transparency it is one that most of the company&rsquo;s peers have been doing
for years, and one that &ndash; unless coupled with a commitment to reimagine, redesign, re-evaluate, or reduce plastic packaging &ndash;
will have zero impact on reducing the reputational, regulatory, and financial risks associated with the company&rsquo;s use of plastic.
The company must commit not just to publishing this data, but commit to leveraging this data for new action by the Company to reduce plastic
packaging pollution. The Company states that it is working on undefined sustainable packaging goals for 2030, while competitors have already
committed to plastic reduction goals to be delivered by 2025 &ndash; five years earlier than Kroger&rsquo;s unstated policies.</P>

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    <TD STYLE="white-space: nowrap; width: 90%"><P STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(0,129,61)"><B>2022
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                                                <P STYLE="font: bold 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0pt; color: #00813B"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: #00813D"><B></B></FONT><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal">The Kroger Co.| Report on Reducing Use of Plastic Packaging</FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="font: 11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">The Company notes that more of its products are labeled with recycling
instructions, yet the majority of Americans lack equitable access to curbside recycling. With national recycling rates at abysmal lows,
most Kroger products are as likely to end up as plastic pollution as without recycling instructions. Further, the Company cites in-store
recycling drop-off for hard-to-recycle items such as bread bags as a laudable stop-gap, but these collection amounts are nominal and the
ultimate destination of these materials is often untracked and unreported.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">As seen in commitments by peers and as shown by the Plastic Scorecard,
Kroger's actions to prevent plastic pollution are severely underperforming. Most critically, the company has no goal for overall plastic
reduction, nor a goal to rapidly accelerate package-free and reusable packaging alternatives as outlined in the Global Commitment and
the Pew Report.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: bold 13pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; background-color: #B8CCE4">CONCLUSION</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><B>Vote &ldquo;Yes&rdquo; on this Shareholder Proposal to publish a
report on opportunities to reduce plastic packaging and mitigate plastic packaging pollution.</B> Kroger has failed to address the concerns
of nearly 50% of its shareholders who voted for greater reporting and action from our Company last year. By failing to meaningfully evaluate
the effectiveness of its own practices, and the range of opportunities available to feasibly mitigate its contributions to ocean plastic
pollution, Kroger has fallen behind peers like Walmart and is increasingly being identified by consumers and shareholders as a significant
contributor to plastic pollution. Accordingly, our Company is vulnerable to reputational damage and the increasing costs of regulation
designed to protect oceans and people harmed by plastic pollution. We urge a &ldquo;<B>Yes</B>&rdquo; vote on this resolution.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><B><I>--</I></B></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><I>Conrad MacKerron, As You Sow, mack@asyousow.org</I><BR>
<I>Kelly McBee, As You Sow, kmcbee@asyousow.org</I></P>

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