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CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20100630
FILED AS OF DATE:		20100601
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	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			NORDIC AMERICAN TANKER SHIPPING LTD
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001000177
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	WATER TRANSPORTATION [4400]
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		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

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		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-13944
		FILM NUMBER:		10869558

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		LOM BUILDING
		STREET 2:		27 REID STREET
		CITY:			HAMILTON HM 11
		STATE:			D0
		ZIP:			00000
		BUSINESS PHONE:		(441) 292-7202

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		STREET 1:		LOM BUILDING
		STREET 2:		27 REID STREET
		CITY:			HAMILTON HM 11
		STATE:			D0
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is a Notice of Annual General Meeting of Shareholders of Nordic American Tanker
Shipping Limited (the "Company") and related materials.&#160;&#160;The Annual
General Meeting will be held at the Company's offices located at the LOM
Building, 27 Reid Street, Hamilton, Bermuda on June 29, 2010, at 10:00 a.m.
Bermuda time.</font></div>
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Company's 2009 Annual Report is available on the Company's website at <font style="DISPLAY: inline; TEXT-DECORATION: underline">www.nat.bm</font>.&#160;&#160;Any
shareholder may receive a hard copy of the Company's 2009 Annual Report, free of
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OR NOT YOU PLAN TO ATTEND THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, PLEASE COMPLETE, DATE,
SIGN AND RETURN THE ENCLOSED PROXY IN THE ENCLOSED ENVELOPE, WHICH DOES NOT
REQUIRE POSTAGE IF MAILED IN THE UNITED STATES.&#160;&#160;THE VOTE OF EVERY
SHAREHOLDER IS IMPORTANT AND YOUR COOPERATION IN RETURNING YOUR EXECUTED PROXY
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Hansson</font></div>
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HEREBY given that the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders of Nordic American
Tanker Shipping Limited (the "Company") will be held on June 29, 2010 at 10:00
a.m. Bermuda time at the Company's offices located at the LOM Building, 27 Reid
Street, Hamilton, Bermuda, for the following purposes, of which items 1 through
3 are more completely set forth in the accompanying Proxy
Statement:</font></div>
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a total of seven Directors to serve until the next annual general meeting of
shareholders;</font></div>
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appoint Deloitte AS as the Company's independent auditors until the close of the
next annual general meeting;</font></div>
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approve the reduction of the Company's share premium account by approximately
$136.4 million, which is the amount of paid in share capital&#160;that exceeds
the aggregate par value of the outstanding common shares, par value $0.01 per
share, of the Company;</font></div>
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before the shareholders the Company's audited financial statements for the year
ended December 31, 2009; and</font></div>
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transact other such business as may properly come before the Meeting or any
adjournment thereof.</font></div>
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of Directors has fixed the close of business on May 26, 2010 as the record date
for the determination of the shareholders entitled to receive notice and to vote
at the Annual General Meeting or any adjournment or postponement
thereof.</font></div>
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OR NOT YOU PLAN TO ATTEND THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, PLEASE COMPLETE, DATE,
SIGN AND RETURN THE ENCLOSED PROXY IN THE ENCLOSED ENVELOPE, WHICH DOES NOT
REQUIRE POSTAGE IF MAILED IN THE UNITED STATES.&#160;&#160;THE VOTE OF EVERY
SHAREHOLDER IS IMPORTANT AND YOUR COOPERATION IN RETURNING YOUR EXECUTED PROXY
PROMPTLY WILL BE APPRECIATED.&#160;&#160;ANY SIGNED PROXY RETURNED AND NOT
COMPLETED WILL BE VOTED BY MANAGEMENT IN FAVOR OF ALL PROPOSALS PRESENTED IN THE
PROXY STATEMENT.</font></div>
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2010</font></div>
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CONCERNING SOLICITATION AND VOTING</font></div>
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enclosed proxy is solicited on behalf of the Board of Directors (the "Board" or
the "Directors") of Nordic American Tanker Shipping Limited, a Bermuda company
(the "Company"), for use at the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders to be
held at the Company's offices located at the LOM Building, 27 Reid Street,
Hamilton, Bermuda, at 10:00 a.m. Bermuda time, or at any adjournment or
postponement thereof (the "Meeting"), for the purposes set forth herein and in
the accompanying Notice of Annual General Meeting of
Shareholders.&#160;&#160;This Proxy Statement and the accompanying form of proxy
are expected to be mailed to shareholders of the Company entitled to vote at the
Meeting on or about May 28, 2010.</font></div>
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26, 2010<font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">&#160;</font>(the
"Record Date"), the Company had outstanding 46,898,782 common shares, par value
$0.01 per share ("Common Shares").&#160;&#160;Each shareholder of record at the
close of business on the Record Date is entitled to one vote for each Common
Share then held.&#160;&#160;One or more shareholders representing at least one
third of the total voting rights of the Company present in person or by proxy at
the Meeting shall be a quorum for the purposes of the Meeting.&#160;&#160;The
Common Shares represented by any proxy in the enclosed form will be voted in
accordance with the instructions given on the proxy if the proxy is properly
executed and is received by the Company prior to the close of voting at the
Meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof.&#160;&#160;Any proxies
returned without instructions will be voted FOR the proposals set forth on the
Notice of Annual General Meeting of Shareholders.</font></div>
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Common Shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange ("NYSE") under the
symbol "NAT."</font></div>
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shareholder giving a proxy may revoke it at any time before it is
exercised.&#160;&#160;A proxy may be revoked by filing with the Secretary of the
Company at the Company's registered office, LOM Building, 27 Reid Street,
Hamilton, Bermuda, a written notice of revocation by a duly executed proxy
bearing a later date, or by attending the Meeting and voting in
person.</font></div>
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Company currently has seven Directors.&#160;&#160;As provided in the Company's
bye-laws, each Director shall hold office until his successor is elected or
appointed or until his earlier resignation or removal.&#160;&#160;Torbj&#248;rn
Glads&#248; and Andrew W. March, two of the current Directors of the Company, have
indicated that they will be retiring from the Board effective at the
Meeting.&#160;&#160;Accordingly, the Board has nominated the seven persons
listed below for election as Directors of the Company.</font></div>
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the proxy is marked to indicate that such authorization is expressly withheld,
the persons named in the enclosed proxy intend to vote the shares authorized
thereby FOR the election of the following seven nominees.&#160;&#160;It is
expected that each of these nominees will be able to serve, but if before the
election it develops that any of the nominees are unavailable, the persons named
in the accompanying proxy will vote for the election of such substitute nominee
or nominees as the current Board of Directors may recommend.</font></div>
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concerning the nominees for Directors of the Company is set forth
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Hansson</font> earned his M.B.A. at the Norwegian School of Economics and
Business Administration and Harvard Business School. In 1974 he was employed by
the Norwegian Shipowners' Association. In the period from 1975 to 1980, he was
Chief Economist and Research Manager of INTERTANKO, an industry association
whose members control about 70% of the world's independently owned tanker fleet,
excluding state owned and oil company fleets. During the 1980s, he was Chief
Financial Officer of Kosmos/Anders Jahre, at the time one of the largest
Norwegian-based shipping and industry groups. In 1989, Mr. Hansson founded
Ugland Nordic Shipping AS, or UNS, which became one of the world's largest
owners of specialized shuttle tankers. He served as Chairman in the first phase
and as Chief Executive Officer from 1993 to 2001 when UNS, under his management,
was sold to Teekay Shipping Corporation, or Teekay, for an enterprise value of
$780.0 million. He continued to work with Teekay, most recently as Vice Chairman
of Teekay Norway AS, until he started working full-time for the Company on
September 1, 2004. Mr. Hansson is the founder and has been Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer of the Company since its establishment in 1995. He also is a
member of various governing bodies of companies within shipping, insurance,
banking, manufacturing, national/international shipping agencies including
classification societies and protection and indemnity associations.</font></div>
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</font>has been a Director of the Company since September 1995. Sir David served
as the Premier of Bermuda from August 1977 to January 1982. Sir David has served
as Chairman of The Bank of N.T. Butterfield and Son Limited from 1986 to 1997,
Chairman of Colonial Insurance Co. Ltd. since 1986 and as Chief Executive
Officer of Edmund Gibbons Ltd. since 1954. Sir David Gibbons is a member of our
Audit Committee.</font></div><br>
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Ugland</font> has been a Director of the Company since February 1997. Mr. Ugland
has also served as director and Chairman of Ugland International Holding plc, a
shipping/transport company listed on the London Stock Exchange, Andreas Ugland
&amp; Sons AS, Grimstad, Norway, H&#248;egh Ugland Autoliners AS, Oslo and Buld
Associates Inc., Bermuda. Mr. Ugland has spent his entire career in shipping in
the Ugland family owned shipping group.</font></div>
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Hopkins</font> has been a Director of the Company since June 2005. Until March
2008, Mr. Hopkins was also a Vice President and a director of Corridor Resources
Inc., a Canadian publicly traded exploration and production company. From 1989
through 1993 he served with Lasmo as Project Manager during the start-up of the
Cohasset/Panuke oilfield offshore Nova Scotia, the first offshore oil production
in Canada. Earlier, Mr. Hopkins served as a consultant on frontier engineering
and petroleum economic evaluations in the international oil industry. Mr.
Hopkins was seconded to Chevron UK in 1978 to assist with the gas export system
for the Ninian Field. From 1973, he was employed with Ranger Oil (UK) Limited,
being involved in the drilling and production testing of oil wells in the North
Sea. Through the end of 1972, he worked with Shell Canada as part of its
offshore Exploration Group.</font></div>
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</font>has been a Director of the Company since July 2007. Mr. Vietor is the
Paul Whiton Cherrington Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard
Graduate School of Business Administration where he teaches courses on the
regulation of business and the international political economy.&#160;&#160;He
was appointed Professor in 1984.&#160;&#160;Before coming to Harvard Business
School in 1978, Professor Vietor held faculty appointments at Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and the University of Missouri.&#160;&#160;He received a
B.A. in economics from Union College in 1967, an M.A. in history from Hofstra
University in 1971, and a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in
1975.</font></div>
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nominee for Director.&#160;&#160;Mr. Kelly has worked for Time Inc., the world's
largest magazine publisher, since 1978.&#160;&#160;He served as foreign editor
during the fall of the Soviet Union and the first Gulf War, and was named deputy
managing editor in 1996.&#160;&#160;In 2001, Mr. Kelly became the magazine's
managing editor, and during his tenure the magazine won a record four National
Magazine awards.&#160;&#160;In 2004, Time Magazine<font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-STYLE: italic">&#160;</font>received its first EMMA
for its contribution to the ABC News series "Iraq: Where Things
Stand".&#160;&#160;In late 2006, Mr. Kelly became the managing editor of all of
Time Inc., helping supervise the work of more than 2,000 journalists working at
125 titles, including Fortune, Money, Sports Illustrated and People. Since 2009,
Mr. Kelly has worked as a consultant at Bloomberg LP and taught at Princeton and
Columbia Universities.</font></div>
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</font>is a nominee for Director.&#160;&#160;Mr. Langangen has been the
Executive Vice President, Business Development and Legal, of the Manager since
November 2004. Mr. Langangen previously served as the Chief Financial Officer
from 1979 to 1983, and as Chairman of the Board from 1987 to 1992, of Statoil,
an oil and gas company that is controlled by the Norwegian government and that
is the largest company in Scandinavia. He also served as Chief Executive Officer
of UNI Storebrand from 1985 to 1992, and was appointed by the Norwegian Prime
Minister to serve as Chairman of the Board of the Norwegian Governmental Value
Commission, a position he held from 1998 until 2001. Mr. Langangen is a partner
of Langangen &amp; Helset, a Norwegian law firm and previously was a partner of
the law firm Langangen &amp; Enges&#230;th from 1996 to 2000 and of the law firm
Thune &amp; Co. from 1994 to 1996. Mr. Langangen received a Masters of Economics
from The Norwegian School of Business Administration and his law degree from the
University of Oslo.</font></div>
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Vote</font>.&#160;&#160;Approval of Proposal One will require the affirmative
vote of a majority of the votes cast by shareholders entitled to vote in the
election.</font></div>
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Committee.</font>&#160;&#160;In accordance with the rules of the NYSE, the
Company's Board of Directors has established an Audit Committee, consisting of
two independent Directors.&#160;&#160;The members of the Audit Committee are Mr.
Glads&#248; and Sir David Gibbons. The Board of Directors intends to appoint Mr.
Ugland to fill the vacancy on the Audit Committee by Mr. Glads&#248;'s
retirement.</font></div>
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Hansson serves as the Company's President and Chief Executive
Officer.&#160;&#160;Turid M. S&#248;rensen is the Company's Chief Financial Officer.
Rolf Amundsen is the Company's Chief Investor Relations Officer.</font></div>
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS UNANIMOUSLY RECOMMENDS A VOTE IN FAVOR OF THE PROPOSED
DIRECTORS.&#160;&#160;UNLESS REVOKED AS PROVIDED ABOVE, PROXIES RECEIVED BY
MANAGEMENT WILL BE VOTED IN FAVOR OF ALL SUCH PROPOSED DIRECTORS UNLESS A
CONTRARY VOTE IS SPECIFIED.</font></div>
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TWO</font></div>
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AUDITORS</font></div>
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is submitting for approval at the Meeting the appointment of Deloitte AS as the
Company's independent auditors for the ensuing year until the close of the next
annual general meeting.&#160;&#160;The Board will also lay before the Meeting
the Company's audited financial statements for the year ended December 31,
2009.&#160;&#160;These financial statements are included in the Company's 2009
Annual Report which is available on the Company's website at <font style="DISPLAY: inline; TEXT-DECORATION: underline">www.nat.bm</font>.&#160;&#160;Any
shareholder may receive a hard copy of the Company's 2009 Annual Report, free of
charge upon request.</font></div>
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AS has advised the Company that the firm does not have any direct or indirect
financial interest in the Company, nor has such firm had any such interest in
connection with the Company during the past three fiscal years other than in its
capacity as the Company's independent auditors.</font></div>
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services rendered by the independent auditors are subject to review by the Audit
Committee.</font></div>
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is submitting for approval at the Meeting the reduction of the Company's paid up
share capital by approximately $136.4 million, which is the amount of paid up
share capital&#160;that exceeds the aggregate par value of the outstanding
common shares, par value $0.01 per share, of the Company, which we refer to as
share premium.&#160;&#160;&#160;The reason for the reduction is primarily to
increase the ability of the Company to declare and distribute dividends to the
Company's shareholders should the saleable value of the assets of the Company
decline to certain levels.&#160;&#160;The reduction in share premium will not
result in a distribution to shareholders at this time but rather the surplus
resulting from such reduction will be credited to the Company's contributed
surplus account.</font></div>
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the Company's aggregate share capital represented by the Company's outstanding
common shares is $468,988 based on the aggregate par value of the Company's
46,898,782 common shares having a par value of $0.01 each.&#160;&#160;The share
premium of the Company is currently approximately $136.4 million based on the
excess of the price paid by shareholders for the Company's common shares over
their aggregate par value.</font></div>
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dividend policy is to declare quarterly dividends to shareholders, substantially
equal to our net operating cash flow during the previous quarter after reserves
as the Board of Directors may from time to time determine are required, taking
into account contingent liabilities, the terms of our credit facility, our other
cash needs and the requirements of Bermuda law. However, if we declare a
dividend in respect of a quarter in which an equity issuance has taken place, we
calculate the dividend per share as our net operating cash flow for the quarter
(after taking into account the factors described above) divided by the weighted
average number of shares over that quarter. Net operating cash flow represents
net income plus depreciation and non-cash administrative charges. The dividend
paid is the calculated dividend per share multiplied by the number of shares
outstanding at the end of the quarter.</font></div>
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for believing that (1) we are, or would after the payment be, unable to pay our
liabilities as they become due or (2) the realizable value of our assets would
thereby be less than the sum of our liabilities, our issued share capital (the
total par value of all outstanding shares) and share premium accounts (the
aggregate amount paid for our shares in excess of the aggregate par value of
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inception, we have issued shares at various times in excess of such shares' par
value.&#160;&#160;This excess constitutes our share premium.&#160;&#160;Share
premium is not available for payment of dividends under Bermuda
law.&#160;&#160;If the saleable value of our assets were to decline to a certain
level, we may not satisfy the second test outlined above, even if we were
solvent and had available net operating cash flow to distribute.</font></div>
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reduction in share premium will give our Board of Directors greater flexibility
to declare dividends to our shareholders.&#160;&#160;Specifically, the reduction
in share capital will enable the Board of Directors to declare a dividend, when
the Company is solvent, and would not be rendered insolvent upon payment of the
dividend, and has available cash to distribute, so long as the realizable value
of the Company's assets exceeds its liabilities plus $468,988.</font></div>
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Company is required, in order to effectuate such reduction to cause a notice to
be published in an appointed newspaper stating the amount of the share capital
as last previously determined by the Company, the amount to which the share
capital is to be reduced, and the date as from which the reduction is to have
effect. The notice is required to be published not more than thirty days and not
less than fifteen days prior to the date on which the reduction is to have
effect and is intended to be published on or about July 12, 2010. The Company
may only effect such reduction if there are reasonable grounds for believing
that the Company is, or after the reduction would be, able to pay its
liabilities as they become due, in relation to which an affidavit shall be
required to be sworn by not less than two directors of the Company on or about
the date on which the reduction is to take effect.</font></div>
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days after the date such reduction of the paid up share capital is effective the
Company, as required by Bermuda law, will file a memorandum, with a copy of the
notice and the affidavit referred to above, in the office of the Bermuda
Registrar of Companies ("Registrar") notifying the Registrar of compliance with
the Companies Act.</font></div>
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vote of the majority of the votes cast by shareholders entitled to vote
thereon.</font></div>
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OF DIRECTORS UNANIMOUSLY RECOMMENDS A VOTE FOR APPROVAL OF THE REDUCTION OF
SHARE PREMIUM.&#160;&#160;UNLESS REVOKED AS PROVIDED ABOVE, PROXIES RECEIVED BY
MANAGEMENT WILL BE VOTED IN FAVOR OF SUCH APPROVAL UNLESS A CONTRARY VOTE IS
SPECIFIED.</font></div>
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of preparing and soliciting proxies will be borne by the
Company.&#160;&#160;Solicitation will be made primarily by mail, but
shareholders may be solicited by telephone, e-mail, or personal
contact.&#160;&#160;The Board of Directors has retained Okapi Partners LLC as
proxy solicitor in connection with the Meeting.&#160;&#160;If you have any
questions or need assistance in voting your proxy, please contact Okapi Partners
at the toll-free number or email address listed below.</font></div>
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Partners LLC</font></div>
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Avenue, 30<font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 70%; VERTICAL-ALIGN: text-top">th</font>
Floor</font></div>
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approved.</font></div>
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