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What I Got Wrong About Changing the World | Malala Yousafzai | TED
What I Got Wrong About Changing the World | Malala Yousafzai | TED
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When I was a child,
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I thought changing the world was simple.
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I would tell the people in charge all of my problems,
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and they would fix them.
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I know how naive this sounds now,
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but at nine or 10 years old it made sense to me.
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I lived in a remote mountainous region of Pakistan.
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The prime minister was more than 100 miles away from me
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in the capital city.
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He couldn't see the trash polluting our rivers
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or our broken school bus
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or hospitals with outdated equipment.
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I was sure that our leaders could solve all of these problems
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if only I could get their attention.
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At age 11,
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I faced the biggest, most devastating problem of my life.
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The Taliban took control of my town
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and decreed that girls could no longer go to school.
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I knew what life would be like for me without an education.
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Marriage in my teens,
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two or three children by the time I was just 20.
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It meant I would have no choice,
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no control of my future.
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If I was ever going to get people's attention,
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this was the moment.
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I decided to become an activist.
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I gave interviews at protests,
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I spoke on television,
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I wrote a blog for the BBC
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and I appeared in a “New York Times” documentary.
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I did everything I could to reach to our leaders and ask for their help.
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Simply for the crime of speaking out,
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the Taliban tried to kill me,
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shooting me in the face at point-blank range.
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I was 15 years old.
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But with the help of many doctors
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and even more prayers, I survived.
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Millions of people heard my story.
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Presidents and prime ministers all over the world wanted to meet me.
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I was finally in the rooms where decisions were made,
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and I could bring attention to girls like me
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who did not have the opportunity to be in school.
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And that's when I realized
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that changing the world wasn't as simple
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as pointing out the problems.
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You had to argue for every policy change
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and budget increase,
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and you might have to get the support of as many people as possible.
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And you might have to advocate for months or even years
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to take one step forward.
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Eventually, I came to believe
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that change was slow but steady,
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incremental, but thankfully inevitable.
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My foundation had been hope and optimism.
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Faith that people would do the right thing.
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Trust that when leaders said they cared about making our lives better,
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they meant it.
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Even if it took longer than I wished.
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But then in a single day,
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my belief in progress shattered.
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It was August 2021.
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I was in the hospital, recovering from one last surgery
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to repair the facial paralysis I suffered after the attack.
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I picked up my phone and saw:
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The Taliban had taken control of Afghanistan.
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I was stunned.
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Shattered.
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Terrified.
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Angry.
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How could I continue to have faith that things would improve?
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How could anyone believe that leaders were committed to girls' education
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when they handed over an entire country to the men who pointed a gun at my head
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and pulled the trigger?
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From the recovery room,
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I called Afghan women I knew,
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activists who were working around the country.
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They were frightened, too.
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On TV, experts and politicians were saying that the Taliban had changed.
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That this new version of the Taliban
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wouldn't ban girls from school or oppress women.
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The Afghans I spoke with didn't believe it.
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And they were right.
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Today in Afghanistan,
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girls are not allowed to attend school past sixth grade.
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It is a crime.
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Women, who five years ago were doctors, politicians,
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engineers and artists,
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are not allowed to go to university or pursue a career.
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A woman speaking in public is a crime.
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But do you know what is not considered a crime?
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This year, in 2026,
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the Taliban decreed that it is legal
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for men to beat their wives and daughters.
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The Taliban have imposed a system of segregation and domination,
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a gender apartheid on millions of women and girls.
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For years,
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I thought the purpose of my life was to serve girls.
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After Afghanistan,
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the optimism I had as an 11-year-old activist was gone.
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But I couldn't walk away.
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Because I knew exactly what Afghan girls were going through.
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When I saw pictures of little girls
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standing outside the locked gates of their schools,
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I could not stop thinking about them.
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I know many of us feel overwhelmed and lost today,
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like the obstacles are too big
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and there's little we can do to fix the problem.
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But there's a lot I have learned over the past few years,
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and I want to share with you
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how to keep fighting for change
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when you have lost hope.
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First,
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you have to start with something.
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While I couldn't undo the catastrophe that had just happened in Afghanistan,
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I knew I had to get out of my hospital bed
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and find a way to help.
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I started by supporting underground schools
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because the Afghan girls are not giving up on learning,
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even if it means risking their lives.
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Across the country today,
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they are listening to lessons on the radio,
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discreetly passing cassette tapes and books to each other
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and trying to keep studying in secret.
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It is far from the education that they deserve,
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but it's a start.
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The second thing I learned
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is the importance of working with others.
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And that has led me to some unexpected places,
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like movie theaters and football fields.
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I have produced two films about Afghanistan --
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"Bread and Roses"
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and “Champions of the Golden Valley” --
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stories of Afghan men and women
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who are resisting the Taliban's oppression.
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And I have joined the campaign of [the] Afghan women’s national football team
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to push FIFA to allow them to compete in exile.
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The Taliban are erasing ...
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(Applause)
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The Taliban are erasing women from public life.
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But I am here to do the opposite of what the Taliban want.
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That is why I am taking every opportunity to show Afghan women speaking,
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singing, kicking a ball and standing up for their rights.
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(Applause)
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Because the artists and athletes that I work with help connect the world
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to the women and girls who are living through this crisis
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and to the belief that every life carries equal worth.
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My final lesson:
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stay ambitious.
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I know it might sound foolish to be setting high goals
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when you are losing a battle.
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But the bigger the fight, the bolder you have to be.
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What is happening in Afghanistan is a wake-up call for all of us.
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Because the Taliban's cruelty against women and girls
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did not begin in 2021.
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They tried to silence me a decade earlier in Pakistan,
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and before I was even born,
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they were stopping girls from school in parts of Afghanistan.
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Yet we have no international laws against gender apartheid,
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no way to hold the perpetrators and their sympathizers accountable.
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That is why Afghan women are campaigning to add these abuses to
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the UN’s Crimes Against Humanity treaty.
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And I have joined this movement
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to ensure that we change things for women and girls everywhere.
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(Applause)
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It is a big goal.
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I know it may take many years
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to see the Taliban brought to justice,
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but I will keep fighting
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so that these crimes are not committed against another generation of girls
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anywhere in the world.
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(Applause)
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When I think about the 11-year-old girl
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I once was,
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I want her to be proud of who I am today.
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I want her to know
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that although changing the world is not as simple as she thought,
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I will not give up.
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Here is the truth:
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I don't have all the answers on how to change the world,
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and I don't believe anyone else does either.
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If I have learned anything, it is that progress is never guaranteed.
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There isn't one speech or one story,
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one moment or one person
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that can bend the arc of history on their own.
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But if we start with something,
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work together and stay ambitious,
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hope stops being a thing we wait to feel
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and becomes something we create.
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Thank you.
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(Cheers and applause)
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Thank you so much. Thank you.
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(Applause)
