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# Data for the character list page
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stylesheets:
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- bkg_moon_iridium
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characters:
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- name: Hiromi
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fullname: Hiromi Aoki Lerner
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img: hiromi_render_portrait.png
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born: 2001
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first_episode: 1
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desc: >
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Hiromi Lerner was a medical student and a concert
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pianist when she first learned about the International
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Space Foundation's project to put a colony on the Moon.
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She's had a life-long interest in space (stemming partly
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from her father, who owns a small aerospace business in
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Torrance, California), but her main motivation is to
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humanize the project and establish a comfortable home
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on the Moon. She idolizes her husband Rob Lerner, but
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also recognizes that he often has his head in the clouds,
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and is not always the most stable man. She does a lot to
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keep him grounded.
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She's a traditionalist when it comes to home, decor,
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and fashion, and has an active artistic interest in
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integrating Japanese traditionalist aesthetics with
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her technological lifestyle. She also sometimes sees
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herself in terms of American western pioneers, who she
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feels a lot of connection with as a pioneer on a new
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frontier.
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relations:
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husband: Rob Lerner
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daughter: Georgiana Lerner
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father: David Aoki
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mother: Ryoko Takamura
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- name: Rob
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fullname: John Robert Lerner
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img: rob_render_portrait.png
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born: 1993
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first_episode: 2
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desc: >
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Rob Lerner is a dreamer who has always been fascinated
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with the idea of living on another world. He grew up
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reading (and watching) science fiction, and chose
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mechanical engineering as a major in college. He's originally
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from Texas, although he's lived in many parts of the US
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Southwest during his life.
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He tends to be focused on big picture ideas, although he
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can also become bogged down in technical details and tends
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to see problems through his engineering lens, which sometimes
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leads him to struggle with more organic problems. His personality
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is somewhat mercurial, prone to manic obsessions and depression
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when things don't work out as he hopes.
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He has a great enthusiasm for humanity in the abstract, but
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often finds real individual humans hard to get along with. He
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doesn't quite understand what he did to deserve the loyalty
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and affection of Hiromi, but he's determined to keep doing it.
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He founded the International Space Foundation which sponsors
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the colony, and his place there is largely connected to that
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status. He's seen as a kind of spiritual leader to the rest,
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but isn't necessarily formally in charge.
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relations:
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wife: Hiromi Lerner
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daughter: Georgiana Lerner
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- name: Anya
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fullname: Anna Anatolyeva Titova / Anna Titova-Farmer (US)
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img: anya_render_portrait.png
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born: 2005
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first_episode: 3
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desc: >
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Anya Titova (also known as Anya Farmer or Anya Titova-Farmer,
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but she uses her well-known maiden name professionally) is
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the youngest child and only daughter of the billionaire co-owner of
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a major space company (RK Cosmos), Anatoly Titov (his brother
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Konstantin is also a major shareholder, as well being largely
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in charge of research and development), and granddaughter of
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Igor Titov who founded the company.
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Unlike her older brothers, Sergei and Gregor, she was not
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pressured to work as a cosmonaut, although she has had
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extensive pilot training as a kind of family expectation.
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She's lived a very privileged life, and was very much a rich
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party girl in her youth. She liked fast cars and flashy
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technology, but has increasingly wanted to make an identity
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for herself. In her early twenties, she established her own
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satellite company, and has used the profits to press her
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new interest in space development.
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She met Josh Farmer at a conference on space agriculture
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sponsored by Rob Lerner's ISF, and there was immediate
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chemistry her and Josh, which led to them getting married
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and having a child not long after. But Anya never really
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slowed down in her career, simply turning her efforts
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more and more directly towards the ISF project.
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Her family regards her interest in this project amusingly
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"domestic", and tease her about it, but this will not stop
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her. The more menial aspects of frontier life are a hard
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challenge for her to adapt to, but she's managing.
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She and Rob became co-conspirators on founding the project,
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and she largely brought in the money and the corporate
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connections to make it happen -- partly on the condition that
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she and her family are in on this first colony.
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relations:
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husband: Josh Farmer
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son: Tim Farmer
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father: Anatoly Titov
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brothers:
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- Sergei Titov
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- Gregor Titov
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grandfather: Igor Titov
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- name: Josh
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fullname: Joshua Randall Farmer
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img: josh_render_portrait.png
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born: 2004
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first_episode: 2
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desc: >
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Josh Farmer is amused at his appropriate name, as he
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is indeed from a family of Farmers in the US Midwest. He
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has a lot of Middle-American attitudes and values, but
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he is the one who went to college. In fact, he has a
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doctorate in agricultural science, though he doesn't
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really like to be called "Doctor Farmer".
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His specialty is space agriculture, and he knows just
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about everything that anyone knows about how to grow
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crops in space, and he's got a pretty fair knowledge of
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animal husbandry as well, largely from his youth, growing
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up on a farm.
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He and his wife Anya seem like complete opposites, but
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in fact, they share a lot of basic values, and so their
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relationship is more complementary than oppositional. But
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it's no question that Josh's quiet stoic outlook on life
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makes an intense contrast with Anya's firebrand personality
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and outspokenness.
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Rob Lerner recruited Josh early on in the Lunar Independent
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Biospherics Research Experiment (LIBRE) -- the Earthly
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prototype the ISF colony is based on, early on, and he
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has been instrumental to the planning and operation of the
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project.
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relations:
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wife: Anya Titova
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son: Tim Farmer
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- name: Tim
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fullname: Igor Timothy Farmer
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img: tim_render_portrait.png
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born: 2026
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first_episode: 2
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desc: >
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Tim does not like his first name, Igor, which Anya gave
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him in honor of his great-grandfather, and prefers to
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stick with Tim. His mother still calls him "Igor", though.
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He did not exactly choose to be a Lunar colonist, though
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his chosen form of rebellion (promoting Mars colonization)
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betrays a bit of his pride in his family and situation. It's
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also true that he was old enough to have stayed with one
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of his uncles' families had he really not wanted to go.
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He is very much aware of the social deprivation of being
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"literally the only teenager on the entire planet", and
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he spends a lot of his time online, interacting with his
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friends in VR communities on the "Great Global Grid" which
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he jokes is now th "Great Galactic Grid". He has a large
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following online, including a lot of teenage girls, who
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he has a not-entirely-ethical attitude towards, much to
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his mother's frustration, and a somewhat unhealthy connection
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to a piece of anime-inspired "virtual girlfriend" software,
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known as "Momo Aiai".
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He spends a lot of time hanging out with Georgiana, who is
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a little like a sister, given how close their living
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arrangements are, but they're too far apart in age to have
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really common interests.
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relations:
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father: Josh Farmer
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mother: Anya Titova
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- name: Georgiana
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fullname: Georgiana Lerner
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img: georgiana_render_portrait.png
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born: 2033
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first_episode: 1
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desc:
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Georgiana is a very quiet, introspective girl, who likes to
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play with her bunny doll and secretly misses Earth, though
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she's also excited about the prospect of living on the Moon,
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and doesn't want to disappoint her parents.
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She's still at a young enough age for magical thinking, and
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sometimes invents her own "mythology" to explain how her
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world works, ranging from insightful to woefully incorrect,
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as with most children her age.
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She's eager to learn new skills and adapts pretty quickly to
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life in the colony.
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relations:
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mother: Hiromi Lerner
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father: Rob Lerner
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