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See also: [[Acting for Two]], [[Inexplicably Identical Individuals]]. Not to be confused with [[Strong Family Resemblance]], where an animated character looks like one of their parents. Or with [[You All Look Familiar]], which is more of an [[Enforced]] trope.
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▲== Anime & Manga ==
* In ''[[Vampire Knight]]'' Yuuki is nearly identical to her mother Juuri {{spoiler|to the point that Rido wants to use her as a replacement for Juuri, his sister who he was in psychotic love with}} and Kaname looks almost exactly like Haruka, their father. But then again, {{spoiler|This is actually more a case of Haruka being an [[Identical Grandson]], because Kaname is really The Ancestor and Haruka his great-grandson}}. This is somewhat justified in the fact that [[Brother-Sister Incest|their parents were siblings as well]], and given that [[Squick|their family tree doesn't fork for many generations]], genetic traits would be passed down far more obviously.
* In ''[[Bleach]]'', Rukia is nearly identical to her older sister Hisana Kuchiki, to the extent where they have extremely similar hair-styles. This stands out because Hisana abandoned Rukia as an infant and then died before the pair could ever be reunited. The uncany resemblance is lampshaded in the manga itself when it's revealed Byakuya's original lie for adopting Rukia was her resemblance to his dead wife.
* In ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'', there's an example that gets into the flat out weird category (and isn't played for laughs). Xanxus, who {{spoiler|isn't actually supposed to be blood related to the Ninth}} is almost a clone of the Second Vongola Boss. [[Lampshaded]] by other characters [https://web.archive.org/web/20090129190701/http://www.onemanga.com/Katekyo_Hitman_Reborn/226/08/ here]. As they say, his temperament, abilities, and even ''looks'' are the same. Makes you wonder {{spoiler|if he really isn't the Ninth's love child}}...
** And then there's Tsuna, who (thankfully) [[The Ugly
** {{spoiler|Uni}}, her mother and her [[Identical Grandson|grandmother]]. To the point of approaching [[Generation Xerox]].
* Mizuho from ''[[Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru]]'' looks exactly like ''his'' mother, in spite of being her ''son''.
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* In ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Striker S]]'', Subaru and Ginga both greatly resemble their deceased mother, Quint. All the more notable because they were adopted. {{spoiler|It is later revealed that they were produced through cloning based on Quint's genetic information}}.
* The [[No Name Given|Tomokane siblings]] in ''[[GA Geijutsuka Art Design Class]]'' do not only look alike-- [[media:TheTomokanes.jpg|Nodamiki one said the older Tomokane as a "bleached Tomokane-kun" in episode 12]]—but both were voiced by [[Miyuki Sawashiro]], hence upgrading from [[Strong Family Resemblance]] to this. Even so, they are also [[Sibling Yin-Yang|quite different]]...
* In ''[[
* All of the Nurse Joys and Officer Jennys resemble each other in ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]''. The only way you can distinguish them is by the symbol on their hats.
* The two Nitori siblings from ''[[Wandering Son]]'' look almost exactly like each other, especially when Shuuichi grew his hair into a [[Bob Haircut]] like his sister. At several points once Shu grows his hair out, you can mistake him for his sister (or the other way around). Shu's body has started to look different from his sister's due to puberty though, he's taller than her and more square.
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* Due to having [[Only Six Faces]], [[Dragon Ball|Goku's]] sons Gohan and Goten look exactly the same as he did at their respective ages. This is even [[Lampshaded]] in the first episode of [[Dragonball Z]]. When the characters first meet Gohan, Bulma comments that he looks just like Goku.
* In ''[[Baccano!]]'', both Elmer and Aging note that Luchino, while not quite the clone of Huey that [[Strong Family Resemblance|Chane, Liza, and Charon are]], still has a noticeable resemblance to him. This would not seem so ridiculous were Luchino not ''three hundred years removed'' from the man in question (an absurdity lampshaded by Luchino himself), proving once and for all that Huey has the most stubborn genes in the world.
* In ''[[Stitch!]]'', Lilo's daughter looks exactly like her as a little girl, including the exact same clothes.
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* [[Playing with a Trope|Inverted]]: ''Spider-Man'' and his clone Ben Reilly pretended to be cousins with an uncanny resemblance. Peter's wife Mary Jane came up with the explanation for their resemblance, specifically referring to ''The Patty Duke Show.''
* Played with in ''[[The Sandman]]'': Robert Gadling covers up his immortality by exploiting this. Since he doesn't age, he can [[My Grandson, Myself|pretend to be his own grandson or nephew]] and leave his property to himself.
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* ''[[Zippy the Pinhead]]'', his wife Zerbina, kids, [[Evil Twin]] Lippy, and other members of his extended family are all microcephalics who wear muu-muus.
* Denise the Menace and [[Dennis the Menace UK|Dennis the Menace]] in the Britsh [[Anthology Comic]] [[The Beano]]
* There was a ''[[Superman]]''-related mini-series in the 90s called ''The Kents'', which examined the lives of the ancestors of the Kent family. One story showed how one of Jonathan Kent's ancestors, Abraham Kent, was a pioneer who was largely responsible for turning the state of Kansas into the breadbasket it is today. A fine story, but the artist bizarrely chose to make Abraham Kent be a dead ringer for Superman, even though Superman has no blood relation to the Kent family (or any human being) whatsoever. Being, you know, an ''alien'' and all.
* [[Mickey Mouse Comic Universe|Goofy]] has a huge extended family. Just about every single family member, male ''and'' female, looks almost exactly like him, only with one or two minor visual details to set them apart.
== Film ==
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* ''[[Strange Brew]]'' briefly does this half-way through the movie. Dave Thomas didn't just play Doug, but his father (with [[Mel Blanc]] dubbing over his voice), and [[Rick Moranis]] didn't just play Bob, but his ''mother'' (with a woman dubbing over his voice)!
* A variation appears in ''[[The Mouse That Roared]]''. In the opening sequence, we're introduced to the Grand Duchess, Prime Minister, and Tully Bascombe, all played by Peter Sellers. The narration explains that these disparate residents of the Duchy of Grand Fenwick look like each other because they are all descendants of the country's founder, who was ''literally'' the father of his country (the statue we see of him is clearly a likeness of Sellers).
* ''The Prisoner of Zenda''.{{context}}
* In the sex comedy ''Live Nude Shakespeare,'' the same actress plays two identical sisters, one a sophisticated socialite, the other a backwoods bumpkin.
* After playing Dante Hicks in ''[[Clerks]]'', Brian O'Halloran also played characters with the surname Hicks in ''[[Mallrats]]'' and ''[[Dogma]]''. It's not explicitly stated that they're related, though, so the [[Continuity Nod]] might just be a way to [[Hand Wave]] the uncanny resemblance.
** [[Word of God]] says they're cousins.
* In most of [[Tyler Perry]]'s movies, Perry dresses in drag to play Madea, Madea's brother (not in drag but with a lot of makeup and a wig) and another character (no makeup), who is usually related to Madea.
* Rupert Everett as Carnaby Fritton and his sister Camilla, in the recent [[
* Tia and Tamera Mowry as Sydney Donovan and Sydney's grandmother de-aged to seventeen in the Disney Channel movie [[17 Again]].
* Jim Dale as Eli, Wild Billy,
* [[Adam Sandler]] plays both Jack and his twin sister Jill in ''[[Jack And Jill]]''.
== Literature ==
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* In ''The Secret History'', narrator Richard Papen is in love with Camilla, one half of a fraternal pair of twins. She and her twin, Charles, look virtually identical ... and when Richard finds out they're [[Brother-Sister Incest|a little too close]], he's titillated by the thought. Eew.
* The post-finale ''[[Star Trek Deep Space Nine Relaunch]]'' novels reveal that Gul Macet, played by Marc Alaimo in ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'', is a cousin of Alaimo's ''[[Deep Space Nine]]'' character Gul Dukat.
* ''[[Discworld]]'':
** In ''[[
** In ''[[
*** Possibly justified, as their mannerisms and attitudes are so clearly parallel that there's a good chance they really are identical twins.
* In ''[[Nightside|Sharper Than A Serpent's Tooth]]'', John Taylor resembles his older male relatives, so much so that {{spoiler|John's late father, resurrected to meet his grown son for the first time, points out John's resemblence to ''his'' father}}.
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* Emmanuel from ''[[Malevil]]'' describes his Uncle Samuel, noting that in doing so he also describes himself.
* In the ''Ghosts of [[Fear Street]]'' book ''Horror Hotel Part 1,'' the protagonist discovers that he looks almost identical to a distant relative who's been dead for years. This is bad news, because it turns out that relative was a murderer and his victim's ghost [[Psychic-Assisted Suicide|is out for revenge]].
* An Uncanny Semi-Family
* In ''[[Jeeves and Wooster (novel)|Jeeves and Wooster]]'', Honoria Glossop's cousin Heloise Pringle not only looks exactly like her but has the same exact personality, to the point where Bertie is severely creeped out.
* In [[Gene Stratton Porter]]'s ''[[Freckles]]'', he and his uncle resemble each other strongly.
{{quote|''The likeness settled any doubt. It was Freckles over again, only older and well dressed.''}}
* In ''[[The Woman in White]]'', Laura and Anne, who resemble each other strongly, {{spoiler|turn out to be half-sisters}}.
== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[The Patty Duke Show]]'': Patty Duke has an identical cousin. Supposedly, their fathers were twin brothers.
** Frequently spoofed. ''[[Full House]]'' occasionally subverted this by having one of the Olsen twins play Michelle and the other play a cousin from Greece.
** Similarly, during the mid-1980s, ''[[Kids Incorporated]]'' had Renee Sands play her [[The Danza|character of the same name]] as well as British cousin Samantha on a couple of episodes.
* Larry "Grand-Ma-Ma" Johnson, in commercials and in ''[[Family Matters]]''.
** Also in ''Family Matters'', Jaleel White playing Steve Urkel, and his cousin Myrtle.
* On ''[[
* Ally Larter on ''[[Heroes]]'' played Nikki Sanders, a hero with super strength and multiple personalities. After {{spoiler|Nikki was killed in season two}}, Larter went on to play {{spoiler|Tracy Strauss, who had the ability to freeze objects and who was apparently Nikki's twin sister. There was supposedly a third "twin", Barbara, but she has not been seen and it is unsure whether she has powers.}}
* ''[[Blackadder]]'': Each of the four series featured a member of the Blackadder family in a different historical era, all played by Rowan Atkinson. Baldrick, Melchett and George were given the same treatment. Specifically, Edmund Blackadder's Scottish cousin MacAdder appeared in the episode "Duel and Duality".
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** Since they are sisters and probably twins, the resemblance is not so uncanny.
* In ''[[The Persuaders]]'' episode "A Death in the Family", Roger Moore plays three members of his usual characters family including a woman. This is Lampshaded at the end when his co-star Tony Curtis' aunt arrives played by...Tony Curtis.
* The short-lived 1960s sitcome ''[[The Second Hundred Years]]'' featured Monte Markham as both a modern day urbanite and his crotchety old grandfather, an Alaskan gold miner who had been trapped in the ice for 67 years, and recently thawed.
* ''[[All My Children]]'''s Lily and Ava, identical ''half''-sisters.
* In ''[['Allo
* In ''[[Blake's 7
* In ''[[Twin Peaks]]'' Laura Palmer and her dark-haired cousin Madeline (a nod to ''Vertigo'') are both played by Sheryl Lee.
* On an episode of ''[[Sesame Street]]'', in a flashback, Gordon's father recalls how when he was young he was a singer who greatly resembled his grandson, Miles, despite the fact that Miles is ADOPTED.
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* On ''[[Kyle XY]]'', Kyle is identical to his father Adam and Jessi is identical to her mother Sara, and well-cast adult actors were given to justify this. Both characters could have ''easily'' been clones, given the circumstances of their gestations, but each was later given the other biological parent.
* The Mayor from ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' exploits this trope the same way as Robert Gadling above. Oddly it seems that he's pretty much always been Mayor and no one ever caught on.
** Well, demon sacrifices aside he
* In ''[[Quantum Leap]]'', Scott Bakula plays
** In the pilot episode, another actor played his father at a younger age, while a different young actor played Sam, with Scott Bakula's voice dubbed in whenever he spoke.
** Bakula also played his father in one scene in the episode "Promised Land" when Sam Leaped into someone else in his hometown.
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* The villain in "Reign of Terror", an episode of ''[[The Time Tunnel]]'' set in the [[French Revolution]], is played by Whit Bissel, a series regular as General Kirk, the military head of the Time Tunnel project. Kirk is confused as his family is from Scotland, but eventually discovers there was a previously unknown French branch.
* ''[[A Different World]]'': Jasmine Guy playing Whitley Gilbert and Whitley's cousin Lisa.
* In the ''[[Dad's
* In ''[[The Brady Bunch]]'' episode "Sergeant Emma", Alice goes out of town for a week and has her identical cousin Emma come to fill in for her. Emma is a retired Womens Army Corp sergeant who proceeds to run the Brady household like an Army barracks. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
** The episode "You're Never Too Old" has Robert Reed and Florence Henderson as Mike and Carol's respective grandparents.
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'''Abed:''' "No that's [[Halle Berry]]." }}
* On ''[[The X-Files]]'', the younger CGB Spender is played by the same actor who plays his son, Jeffery Spender. CDB Spender is also {{spoiler|Mulder's biological father}}, and oddly, the two could plausibly pass for father and son.
* Crash
* Lisa Kudrow played Phoebe Buffay in ''[[Friends]]'' and her twin sister Ursula in ''[[Mad About You]]''.
* In the Japanese tokusatsu series ''[[Sazer X]]'', a flashback scene depicts the main character's grandfather as a young man. In flashback, the younger version of grandpa is played by the same actor who plays the main character.
* In ''[[Murder, She Wrote]]'', Jessica has a British cousin named Emma who looks just like her, also played by Angela Lansbury. In the episode "Runs in the Family", [[Lower Deck Episode| only Emma is featured, with Jessica not appearing at all]], and Emma proves to be a rather good sleuth herself.
== Newspaper Comics ==
* In the comic strip ''[[Blondie]]'', Dagwood and his son Alexander look very much alike, as do Blondie and daughter Cookie.
* In ''[[Peanuts]]'' Linus and his little brother Rerun look almost exactly the same. The only way they can be told apart is height, hair (Rerun's is a bit flatter) or outfit (Linus wears red and black stripes while Rerun wears overalls).
== Puppet Shows ==
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* Similarly Emily "Ma" Bear in ''[[The Muppet Show]]'', ''[[A Muppet Family Christmas]]'' and (as Mrs Fozziewig) ''[[A Muppet Christmas Carol]]'' is identical to her son Fozzie except for [[Tertiary Sexual Characteristics|a dress]], [[Furry Female Mane|grey hair]] and glasses.
▲== Theater ==
* [[Older Than Steam]]: Viola passing for her [[Half-Identical Twins|twin ''brother'' Sebastian]] in [[Shakespeare]]'s ''[[Twelfth Night]]''.
* There have been productions of ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (theatre)|Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street]]'' in which the same person who plays Johanna also plays her mother Lucy in the flashbacks.
* In the
* In Book-It Repertory Theatre's play of ''[[Sense and Sensibility (novel)|Sense and Sensibility]]'', (non-twin) brothers Edward and Robert Ferrars were played by the same actor.
* In the play ''I Hate [[Shakespeare]]!'', the skit based on ''[[Hamlet]]'' contains these lines (along with a suggestion that the characters in question be played by the same actor):
{{quote|'''Hamlet:''' Ophelia! You're not dead!
'''Laertes:''' It is I, Laertes, son of Polonius and brother of Ophelia, so I can see where you would make that mistake. }}
== Video Games ==
* In the video game ''[[Day of the Tentacle]]'', you travel into the future and meet people who look suspiciously like Nurse Edna, Doctor Fred and Weird Ed, but they call themselves "Nurse Zedna," "Doctor Zed" and "Weird Zed." They're the descendants of the original ''[[Maniac Mansion]]'' characters.
* In what is part this trope and part [[Strong Family Resemblance]], in ''[[Back to the Future: The
* In ''[[Suikoden V]]'', Dragon Cavalry commander Rahal and his [[Cloudcuckoolander]] sister Rania look virtually identical, to the point that they'd fall under [[Half-Identical Twins]] if not for Rania being a year older. Not immediately obvious for most of the game, due to Rahal wearing battle armor and Rania being in civilian dress, but when the plot calls for Rahal to [[Wholesome Crossdresser|dress as a woman]] the ''only'' visible difference from his sister is that she wears glasses and he doesn't. Apparently they have a history of exploiting this for pranks.
== Web Comics ==
* In ''[[Endstone]]'', Jon comments on [http://endstone.net/2009/11/19/issue-2-webpage-28/ how uncanny it is, the way his daughter resembles his mother.]
* In the sprite comic ''194X'', [[Mega Man (video game)|Kalinka]] and [[Big Name Fan|Ran]] strongly resemble their WWII-era ancestors. It's hard to decide whether the fact that Ran is a ''robot'' makes this better or worse.
== Web Original ==
* Subverted in ''[[Le Visiteur Du Futur]]'': Raph tries to prevent the ancestor of the Visitor from meeting the mother of his future child. {{spoiler|After revealing that he is the Visitor posing as his ancestor, he tells Raph: "You thought my ancestor had the same face as me? That's completely dumb."}}
== Western Animation ==
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* An [[Alternate Timeline]] of ''[[Ben 10]]'' had the main character fully grown in a now futurized Earth having a son named Kenny, who looks like a carbon copy of his 10 year old self. In addition, Ben's [[Evil Counterpart]] also has a son named Devlin Levin who looks like his younger self before the mutations with no mention as to whom he conceived him from.
* On ''[[All Dogs Go to Heaven]]: The Series'', we're introduced to [[Big Good|Annabelle's]] evil cousin [[Big Bad|Belladonna]], who may as well be Annabelle's [[Evil Twin]]—they look exactly alike, with the only real difference being the color of their fur (and the fact that Belladonna has bat wings, due to being a devil).
* ''[[Back to The Future (cartoon)|Back to the Future: The Animated Series]]'' took this to ridiculous levels by having a Tannen in every timeline they go to, no matter what country. Taken [[Up to Eleven]] when they even encounter a T-rex Tannen in a timeline where the dinosaurs weren't wiped out.
* In ''[[South Park]]'', most of Cartman's relatives look a lot like him. The one slim person in his extended family is [http://southpark.wikia.com/wiki/Alexandra_Cartman a young girl who resembles Liane].
* Chum Chum's cousin [[Sdrawkcab Name|Muhc Muhc]] in ''[[Fanboy and Chum Chum]]''.
* In ''[[Scooby Doo]] and the Loch Ness Monster'', Daphne's Scottish cousin Shannon looks just like her, only with short hair and a tartan skirt, and is voiced by the same actress doing a Scottish accent.
== Other Media ==
* A common [[Fanfic]] trope in crossovers is to have a two different characters in [[Intercontinuity Crossover|different continuities]] played by the same actors
** There is also one used in fan fiction with MacGyver (of ''[[MacGyver]]'') and Colonel Jack O'Neill (of ''[[Stargate SG-1]]''), both played by Richard Dean Anderson, being cousins.▼
*** Suggesting, of course, that both are descended from [https://web.archive.org/web/20121028210802/http://rdanderson.com/legend/legend.htm dime novelist Ernest Pratt].▼
* In [[Big Finish]]'s ''[[Doctor Who]]'' audio dramas, India Fisher plays Eighth and Sixth Doctor companion Charley Pollard. Fisher also voiced Charley's sister Cissy in the ''Gallifrey'' spin-off series.▼
* In the Bouguereau painting "Charity", it is not possible to tell which baby is Yeshua and which one is Yochanan, since he painted them to look identical, even though they are cousins and 6 months apart. In most other paintings of them, he not only makes the age difference apparent, but has them wear different colored clothing and have different colored hair.▼
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120713163027/http://drx.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451bdba69e2011571e98655970b-450wi Henry Fonda and daughter Jane.]
▲* A common [[Fanfic]] trope in crossovers is to have a two different characters in [[Intercontinuity Crossover|different continuities]] played by the same actors 'turn out' to be related to each other. There is one where [[James Bond]] (Connery version) is the illegitimate son of [[Indiana Jones|Henry Jones Jr]] and thus the grandson of Henry Jones Snr... who was played by Sean Connery.
* English [[Chess]] players James M. and Chantelle Foster look very similar to each other and to both parents.
▲** There is also one used in fan fiction with MacGyver (of ''[[MacGyver]]'') and Colonel Jack O'Neill (of Stargate SG-1), both played by Richard Dean Anderson, being cousins.
* [http://www.filmtett.ro/uploads/Szemelyisegek/lugosi-bela-jr-6.jpg Bela Lugosi Jr]. It's easy to see the family resemblance in [[Bela Lugosi| the son of the Hollywood legend.]]
▲*** Suggesting, of course, that both are descended from [http://rdanderson.com/legend/legend.htm dime novelist Ernest Pratt].
* Although they were only
** And George's grandson Prince Michael of Kent, who's still around today, has the same uncanny resemblance to the Tsar, to the extent that he's very popular among royalists in Russia. It helps that he grew the Russian-style beard to hide a scar.
▲* In [[Big Finish]]'s ''[[Doctor Who]]'' audio dramas, India Fisher plays Eighth and Sixth Doctor companion Charley Pollard. Fisher also voiced Charley's sister Cissy in the ''Gallifrey'' spin-off series.
* Outside of their trademark costumes, Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Zeppo Marx bore an incredible resemblance to each other. They would even occasionally play each other's parts in their stage shows with no one the wiser.▼
* Actors Alan Hale (Senior) and Alan Hale (Junior). One played Little John in ''[[The Adventures of Robin Hood (film)|The Adventures of Robin Hood]]'', the other is famed as the Skipper on ''[[Gilligan's Island]]''. Without looking at the date of their films there is no way to tell them apart.
* Back in [[The Nineties]], a [[Running Gag|running joke]] was that the public appearances of [[Michael Jackson]] were actually his sister LaToya Jackson.
▲* Outside of their trademark costumes, [[Marx Brothers|Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Zeppo Marx]] bore an incredible resemblance to each other. They would even occasionally play each other's parts in their stage shows with no one the wiser.
▲* In the Bouguereau painting Charity, it is not possible to tell which baby is Yeshua and which one is Yochanan, since he painted them to look identical, even though they are cousins and 6 months apart. In most other paintings of them, he not only makes the age difference apparent, but has them wear different colored clothing and have different colored hair.
* An old story goes that when a Roman emperor was touring their conquered area in Jerusalem his guards noticed a local man who bore a striking resemblance to the emperor. As a joke they brought them together. The emperor thought this was funny and asked the man "Has your mother ever been to Rome?" The man replied "No, but my father has." The story ends there, sparing us a likely gruesome ending.
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