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Grand pianos in the surf, singing frogs, hyphenated psych, outtakes, live collaging, twangy drone, old folk, and ephemeral pop.

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Favoriting September 19, 2023: the stones of tomorrow.

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Artist Track Album Label Year Comments Approx. start time
Little Howlin' Wolf  Sunny Come Early   Favoriting Singles, Volume 1  True Vine  1985/2005  peace to James Pobiega  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
The Folkes Brothers & Count Ossie Afro Combo  I Met A Man   Favoriting Carolina 7-inch  Blue Beat  1960    0:04:46 (Pop-up)
The Skylarks  Nomalungelo   Favoriting Nomalungelo  Gallotone  1958    0:06:44 (Pop-up)
Lambchop  National Talk Like A Pirate Day   Favoriting Live at XX Merge  Merge  2009  https://lambchop.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-xx-merge  0:09:21 (Pop-up)
Devandra Banhart  Nun   Favoriting Flying Wig  Mexican Summer  2023  https://devendrabanhart.bandcamp.com/album/flying-wig  0:13:59 (Pop-up)
Arnold Dreyblatt  Container   Favoriting Resolve  Drag City  2023  https://arnolddreyblatt.bandcamp.com/album/resolve  0:17:34 (Pop-up)
Seb Taylor, Allen Ginsberg  Over Denver Again   Favoriting Allen Ginsberg's Fall of America II  (no label)  2023  https://allenginsberg.bandcamp.com/album/allen-ginsbergs-the-fall-of-america-volume-ii  0:23:06 (Pop-up)
Tom Mudd  12-String Lament   Favoriting Guitar Cultures  Fancyyyyy  2023  https://fancyyyyy.bandcamp.com/album/guitar-cultures  0:24:15 (Pop-up)
NRQ  Lament   Favoriting あの丘のむこうがわへ 7-inch  Sweet Dreams Press  2023    0:27:12 (Pop-up)
Bo Harwood & John Cassavetes  No One Around To Hear It   Favoriting Searchlight Moonbeam  Efficient Space  1976/2023  https://efficientspace.bandcamp.com/album/searchlight-moonbeam  0:31:47 (Pop-up)
Ayumi Suzuki & Rob Noyes  An Arm & A Leg   Favoriting Classic Fevers & Chills  AKTI  2023  https://ayamisuzukirobnoyes.bandcamp.com/album/classic-fevers-and-chills  0:35:31 (Pop-up)
Anagrams  Birds on Clifton   Favoriting Blue Voices  Balmat  2023  https://anagramsband.bandcamp.com/album/blue-voices  0:40:10 (Pop-up)
The Folk Implosion  Raise the Bells   Favoriting Music For KIDS  Domino  1995/2023  https://thefolkimplosion.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-kids  0:44:21 (Pop-up)
Daniel Bachman  Summer's Fingers Sweetly Linger (Everywhere On Every Side)   Favoriting When the Roses Come Again  Three Lobed  2023  https://threelobed.bandcamp.com/album/when-the-roses-come-again  0:45:55 (Pop-up)
The Tennessee Mountaineers  At the River   Favoriting Bristol Sessions, Vol. 1  Bear Family  1927/2011    0:50:02 (Pop-up)
 
Ambient Tweets  Zalando   Favoriting   (no label)  2023  via Soundcloud  1:01:19 (Pop-up)
YNO  渠区(KYOK)   Favoriting   (no label)  2023  via Soundcloud  1:02:30 (Pop-up)
Mukqs  Uexkull   Favoriting Stonewasher  Hausu Mountain  2023  https://hausumountain.bandcamp.com/album/stonewasher  1:04:10 (Pop-up)
Kate Carr  Usually Concealed In Dense Foliage   Favoriting A Field Guide To Phantasmic Birds  room40  2023  https://room40.bandcamp.com/album/a-field-guide-to-phantasmic-birds  1:09:22 (Pop-up)
Jana Winderen  The Art of Listening: Under Water   Favoriting The Blue Beyond  Touch  2023  https://janawinderen.bandcamp.com/album/the-blue-beyond  1:14:36 (Pop-up)
Arthur Russell  In the Light of a Miracle   Favoriting Picture of Bunny Rabbit  Audika  1985/2023  https://arthurrussell.bandcamp.com/album/picture-of-bunny-rabbit  1:28:26 (Pop-up)
Nihiloxica  Kudistro   Favoriting Source of Denial  Crammed Discs  2023  https://nihiloxica.bandcamp.com/album/source-of-denial  1:34:28 (Pop-up)
Siri Ya  0-N0   Favoriting   (no label)  2023  via Soundcloud  1:38:16 (Pop-up)
Bicco Beat  DADAKKO (Uncontrollable Child)   Favoriting   (no label)  2023  via Soundcloud  1:43:28 (Pop-up)
Jason Nazary  Goodnight Moss   Favoriting Spring Collection  We Jazz  2021  https://wejazzrecords.bandcamp.com/album/spring-collection  1:45:20 (Pop-up)
 
Taper's Choice  Pelt   Favoriting History of Taper's Choice (Volume 1)  (no label)  2023  https://taperschoice.bandcamp.com/album/history-of-tapers-choice-vol-1-tapers-choice  1:57:10 (Pop-up)
Kawabata Makoto's Inui  Sui   Favoriting Inui.3  (no label)  2005/2023  https://kawabata-makoto.bandcamp.com/album/inui-3-remastered  2:00:42 (Pop-up)
Meme Vivaldi  Church Music IV   Favoriting Church Music  Elemental 95  2016  https://elemental95.bandcamp.com/album/church-music  2:11:55 (Pop-up)
CC Sorenson  Quantic Vision   Favoriting Phantom Rooms  Mappa  2022  https://mappa.bandcamp.com/album/phantom-rooms  2:23:17 (Pop-up)
Ariel Kalma  Grenouilles   Favoriting Osmose, vol. 4  (no label)  2002/2023  https://ariel-kalma.bandcamp.com/album/osmose-vol-4  2:25:32 (Pop-up)
Cassandra Miller  Traveller Song   Favoriting Traveller Song / Thanksong  Black Truffle  2023  https://blacktruffle.bandcamp.com/album/traveller-song-thanksong  2:29:16 (Pop-up)
La Niña De Los Peines  Alegrías   Favoriting The Secret Museum of Mankind, Vol. 1: Ethnic Music Classics 1925-48  Yazoo  1927/1995    2:46:51 (Pop-up)
Alvino Rey And His Orchestra  My Buddy   Favoriting Music 'Til Dawn 78  Bluebird  1942    2:49:26 (Pop-up)
Yumiko Ohno  Escalator Step   Favoriting Constellations of Music  Warner Music Japan  2015    2:52:01 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

  🎸 9:02pm
tom tom the pipers son:

hello jesse, people...
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Destroit:

Hiya DJ JJ and all the good ones.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

+ FROW +
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:03pm
dj jj.:

good evening, radio friends!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:03pm
Barney Grubbs:

rip little howlin wolf
  9:05pm
Carmichael:

Heya Jesse. He should tell the band to quit talkin’ …
Avatar 9:06pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Song: "Sunny Come Early" by "Little Howlin' Wolf"
...& this is Ritual music...
Avatar 9:09pm
TDK60:

Jesse, Frowas.
  🎸 9:09pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Song: "Nomalungelo" by "The Skylarks"
is there a name for this 'style' of music?
  9:10pm
rw:

Oh, it's The FROW SHOW! I was wondering why the music was so good.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:10pm
chresti:

Howzee frowzees!
  9:10pm
rw:

Evening!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:11pm
BLCKDGRD:

Don't often get to listen live! And that Lampchop Merge set, lordy, thanks!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:11pm
dj jj.:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:09
not accusing you of this, but i've been told that when people ask what "style" a piece of music/art is on social media, it means they're trying to replicate it with AI prompts.
  🎸 9:11pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:09
oh, it's miriam makeba, dummy
  9:12pm
Carmichael:

I thought this was Car Stevens …
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:12pm
dj jj.:

...probably a more specific name, but late '50s black south african pop?
  🎸 9:13pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ dj jj. @9:11
oh no, not at all, just couldn't place it musically or geographically
  9:13pm
Fragonard:

National Lamb Chop Pirate Day?
  9:14pm
Fragonard:

It does resemble The Cat
  🎸 9:14pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:13
sounded familiar but...
  9:15pm
Fragonard:

Hey, I resemble that comma
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:16pm
chresti:

↳ dj jj. @9:11
should we talk a little gibberish to AI?
  9:17pm
rw:

tom tom, I'm no expert but it might be this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaiva
  9:17pm
Carmichael:

Car Stevens D’OH
  9:18pm
Fragonard:

Cat Car
Avatar 🎸 9:19pm
cookiejarvis:

that was the run-out groove
  9:19pm
rw:

chresti, I talk gibberish to everyone else, so, why not!?
  9:20pm
Corry342:

Checking in for a few minutes of Frow
  9:21pm
ReadingDoonesbury:

Been a while. Glad to be listening.
  🎸 9:22pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ rw @9:17
yes thanks, could be it, but text doesn't mention makeba, which you figured it would,

knew i was asking a dumb question, kind of why i put style in quotes
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:22pm
chresti:

↳ rw @9:19
ha-it's good to throw 'em off once in a while!
  9:23pm
Fragonard:

Or throw em down
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zzz:

↳ Song: "Container" by "Arnold Dreyblatt"
SO GOOD
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:26pm
dj jj.:

↳ Fragonard @9:18
@corry342 @readingdoonesbury so nice to have both you heads here!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:27pm
Mxter Baba:

greetings, Jesse and Frownians!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:28pm
Mxter Baba:

↳ Song: "12-String Lament" by "Tom Mudd"
this is pretty, like a warped music box
  🎸 9:28pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Song: "12-String Lament" by "Tom Mudd"
beautiful guitar and not mimic-ing malian guitar like others
  9:30pm
ReadingDoonesbury:

So this isn't Frisell.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:31pm
dj jj.:

↳ ReadingDoonesbury @9:30
nope, the new residential quartet. nrqmusic.bandcamp.com...
Avatar 9:33pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Song: "Lament" by "NRQ"
Should Tour with NRBQ
...like the Hu & TheWho should
...once again my promotional insights are unacknowledged...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:34pm
disco_nap_:

↳ Song: "No One Around To Hear It" by "Bo Harwood & John C...
haunting <3
Avatar 9:36pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ disco_nap_ @9:34
- @ this distance your Tar looks like the 🐇Hare on the ☽Moon. :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:36pm
chresti:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @9:36
I see it!
  🎸 9:38pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Song: "No One Around To Hear It" by "Bo Harwood & John C...
cassavetes on guitar?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:38pm
disco_nap_:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @9:36
I love it, thank you! I'd never heard of the hare on the moon before but I just looked it up...fascinating!
Avatar 9:39pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ disco_nap_ @9:38
- will be especially good for Harvest ☽Moon.
  9:47pm
Quinn02:

↳ Song: "Raise the Bells" by "The Folk Implosion"
haven't heard this in awhile. sounds great
Avatar 🎸 9:47pm
cookiejarvis:

this reminds me of the worn-out cassette soundtrack to an elementary school filmstrip about the stars.
  🎸 9:48pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @9:39
rev rab: do you remember this illustrated book, masquerade, by kit williams, from the early 80's that contained clues to find a jeweled rabbit that i think, iirc, was hidden somewhere in england, the look of it had a kind of occult feel.
Avatar 9:55pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:48
Not familiar ! Checking out...
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disco_nap_:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @9:39
I love the moon ☽◯☾
Avatar 9:57pm
TDK60:

Fine first set.
  10:00pm
Corry342:

Signing off. Have a great show tonight
  10:00pm
Chris Andersen:

Enjoy your posts on twitter x. And weirdo porter Wagoner or jay Loudermilk? Cheers from Hamilton Canada
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:01pm
Richy4619:

↳ Song: "Raise the Bells" by "The Folk Implosion"
☆゚*。゚* ♬*。゚*
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Listener Bryan (the Professor):

hey jesse. missed most of the first set but buckling in for the next while. nice to listen live for a change. hey, frowskateers.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:03pm
Bill K:

Thanks for activating my burrowed frow!
  🎸 10:05pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @9:55
you may have found this...
www.bbc.com...
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:05pm
Barney Grubbs:

I was teaching some organic chemistry today & tried to describe rotating a cyclohexane ring like a ship’s wheel, then remembered it might be talk-like-a-pirate day, but none of the ~19-20-year-olds in the room had heard of it. (just as well, as it saved me from risking censure with the “Arrr I don’t know but it be driving me nuts” joke)
Avatar 10:09pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @10:05
Thx !
  🎸 10:09pm
tom tom the pipers son:

re national talk like a pirate day...captain pugwash...
www.youtube.com...
  🎸 10:10pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @10:09
thought it might be of interest...
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joe mulligan:

↳ Song: "Uexkull" by "Mukqs"
reminds me bit of an old label called Phthalocyanine.
Avatar 10:11pm
northguineahills:

↳ Song: "Uexkull" by "Mukqs"
yes, muksqs!
Avatar 10:12pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Really splendid Sequencing tonight DJJJ.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:17pm
Yes:

greetings
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:18pm
Yes:

↳ Song: "The Art of Listening: Under Water" by "Jana Winde...
aww yeah
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:18pm
Listener Bryan (the Professor):

↳ Song: "The Art of Listening: Under Water" by "Jana Winde...
This is lovely. Has me thinking abt the scene in 32 Sounds where Annea Lockwood talks about recording her rivers.
Avatar 10:21pm
northguineahills:

↳ Listener Bryan (the Professor) @10:18
also a great piece...
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Listener Jonny in MA............. d-_-b:

Yo yo yo! Loving the vibe tonight Jesse.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:26pm
Listener Bryan (the Professor):

↳ northguineahills @10:21
I hadn't really spent time with Lockwood's work before I saw it so was really grateful the film had so much of her in it.
Avatar 10:29pm
northguineahills:

↳ Listener Bryan (the Professor) @10:26
the wire in august did a loverly article on her....(lockwood)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:29pm
JohnEBGood:

Frow is Wow. Frow is lo. Tampa Bay Rays have Brandon Lowe and Jason Lowe. Well, I love the show Jesse. Peace ; )
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:29pm
Yes:

<3
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Listener Bryan (the Professor):

↳ northguineahills @10:29
oh thanks i'll look it up for sure.
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Listener Bryan (the Professor):

↳ Song: "In the Light of a Miracle" by "Arthur Russell"
-------perfect landing, jesse--------
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chresti:

↳ Song: "In the Light of a Miracle" by "Arthur Russell"
love this!
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Bill K:

↳ Song: "In the Light of a Miracle" by "Arthur Russell"
Beautiful
Avatar 🎸 10:36pm
cookiejarvis:

this has been a balm and a pleasure. Would that I could stay on until midnight. Cheers, DJ JJ.
Avatar 10:37pm
northguineahills:

↳ Song: "In the Light of a Miracle" by "Arthur Russell"
had to wait for the arthur russel to complete so I could leave my seat for a sec,,(so beautiful)
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:38pm
Listener Bryan (the Professor):

↳ Song: "Kudistro" by "Nihiloxica"
thought this was giving Nyege Nyege vibes, and yep!
  🎸 10:42pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ northguineahills @10:37
have you heard fuzzbuster#9,#10, off bunny rabbit? thought they were interesting, no fmu play as far as i know...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:42pm
Yes:

far out set, jj
Avatar 10:43pm
northguineahills:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @10:42
nope, I haven't. I'll look for that...
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northguineahills:

↳ Listener Bryan (the Professor) @10:38
two weekends ago i went on a nyege nyege listening binge...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:44pm
Bobby:

↳ Song: "0-N0" by "Siri Ya"
we like it!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:44pm
Listener Bryan (the Professor):

↳ tom tom the pipers son @10:42
Trouble played #10 the other day for sure, right at the end of her show.
  🎸 10:45pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Listener Bryan (the Professor) @10:44
ah, thx...
  10:46pm
Yes:

😎😎
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Listener Bryan (the Professor):

↳ northguineahills @10:43
i follow their instagram and it's like peeping into another universe and yes, easy to rabbit hole. I wish I could attend their festival.
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northguineahills:

↳ Listener Bryan (the Professor) @10:46
I was reading about the fest last month (old article). I was able to geolocate where it was last held...this was happening when a wfmu listener was visiting uganda. unfortunately, he was unable to find anything live while there...
  10:57pm
chresti:

The Jesse siren!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:58pm
Bill K:

Good, I have my jammiez on.
  🎸 11:00pm
tom tom the pipers son:

echoplexin' all over the place...
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Deano de los Muertos:

↳ Song: "Pelt" by "Taper's Choice"
🤘
  11:02pm
Katharsis:

How now frow? Days go by and I forget there is the radio….I forget there is the rest…(nod to Rickie Lee Jones)
  🎸 11:06pm
tom tom the pipers son:

this has settled into something...
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northguineahills:

↳ Song: "Sui" by "Kawabata Makoto's Inui"
somehow this missed this kawabata release the first time around...
  11:09pm
Katharsis:

indeed. I am all for settling in in this moment
  🎸 11:11pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ northguineahills @11:08
iirc, does this share something w/ tulum shimmering?
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northguineahills:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @11:11
i'm not aware of a connection..
  11:16pm
Katharsis:

which was the piece that sounded like a filmstrip soundtrack? I totally remember the jewel encrusted bunny treasure hunt. I was fascinated and inspired.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 11:18pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Hello, Jesse and Frowvine University. Enjoying the set!
  🎸 11:18pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ northguineahills @11:13
i'm probably drawing wrong connection, although they're pieces are longer, thought they had a similar sound as the kawabata piece, which i liked
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 11:28pm
Listener Bryan (the Professor):

yes! i'm going to let these little frogs get me ready for bed.
  🎸 11:32pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Song: "Traveller Song" by "Cassandra Miller"
like this anti- singing
  🎸 11:34pm
tom tom the pipers son:

if that's the right word for it
Avatar 11:38pm
northguineahills:

↳ Ken From Hyde Park @11:18
when i grow up, i'm going to frowvine university!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 11:38pm
Listener Bryan (the Professor):

↳ Song: "Traveller Song" by "Cassandra Miller"
stunning. reminds me of something from a nick cave film score.
  11:38pm
Katharsis:

Meredith Monkish. Expressive voice. Lovely
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:42pm
disco_nap_:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @10:05
Catching up on the chat now...this story is fascinating, too!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 11:44pm
Listener Bryan (the Professor):

↳ Listener Bryan (the Professor) @11:38
yes it was reminding me of Mourning Song by Raun Raun Theatre from this www.nickcave.com...
  🎸 11:44pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ disco_nap_ @11:42
yeah, your avatar and rev rab preoccupation with astrology jogged my memory
Avatar 11:46pm
northguineahills:

↳ Katharsis @11:38
nice comparison!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 11:46pm
Listener Bryan (the Professor):

↳ Song: "Traveller Song" by "Cassandra Miller"
wow the description of this on bandcamp is something else
  🎸 11:47pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Song: "Traveller Song" by "Cassandra Miller"
this is unexpectedly long and meandering and grateful for it
  🎸 11:49pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Listener Bryan (the Professor) @11:46
oh, just released...
Avatar 11:50pm
northguineahills:

↳ Listener Bryan (the Professor) @11:46
for those who haven't visited, yet, here's the alan lomax archive: archive.culturalequity.org
  11:51pm
chresti:

Nice set! And show!Thanks djjj
Avatar 11:52pm
northguineahills:

awesome fun, djjj and frowsketeers! see y'allsers next time...
  🎸 11:53pm
tom tom the pipers son:

thanks, jesse lots of great stuff
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 11:53pm
Bill K:

↳ Song: "My Buddy" by "Alvino Rey And His Orchestra"
Thank you!!!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 11:54pm
Listener Bryan (the Professor):

fantastic way to close. Goodnight, Jesse and crew. Nice to be along for the ride tonight.
Avatar 11:54pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

~ Thank You Always DJJJ ~
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