{"title":"Buthaina Al-Essa","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"9789921775686","title":"Labyrinth maps ","description":"\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003eLabyrinth maps\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e Author's name: Buthaina Al-Essa \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv data-testid=\"description\" class=\"BookPageMetadataSection__description\" style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent\" tabindex=\"-1\" data-mce-tabindex=\"-1\" style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large\" data-testid=\"contentContainer\" tabindex=\"-1\" data-mce-tabindex=\"-1\" style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph\" style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\n\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\" class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph__widthConstrained\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003cspan class=\"Formatted\"\u003eWe sell everything, but we have no money to buy ourselves.\u003cbr\u003e What if a person is worth more dead than alive?\u003cbr\u003e Strait of Hormuz. Persian Gulf, or Arabian Gulf. Burgan Well. Zamzam Well. Fertile Crescent. Occupied Palestine. Sinai Delta. Red Sea. Bab el-Mandeb Strait\u003cbr\u003e From strait to strait... we search for meaning\u003cbr\u003e If there is nothing to say\u003cbr\u003e Say what cannot be said\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bait El Kutub","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41972204798106,"sku":"9789921775686","price":75.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/9335\/7466\/files\/1_ea84d772-4237-4de1-87fb-6ac4069e919c_webp.jpg?v=1728137757"},{"product_id":"9786140108783","title":"I grew up and forgot to forget","description":"\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e \u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eI grew up and forgot to forget\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eAuthor's name: Buthaina Al-Essa\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n \u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBothaina says: They always told me: You grow up and forget. When I fell and split my eyebrow, when my math teacher made me stand facing the wall because I forgot that 7 x 6 = 42, when my bike broke and they wouldn’t buy me another one so I wouldn’t break it. When the bottle of my soul broke, when my parents died, when I didn’t die, when the world was too big and I was alone, when my brother slaughtered my doll because Barbie was haram and he deleted the Spacetoon channel because Pokemon was haram. When he took the picture of my mom and dad out of the frame and buried it in the broken drawer so it wouldn’t ward off the angels… When the cracks in the walls filled with demons, when I was forced to enter a girls’ college, to preserve my chastity. When he proposed to his friend, to preserve my chastity. When I tore up the covers of my books to protect them from being burned. When I wrote my first poem under a box of Kleenex, trembling with fear when he pulled my headscarf on my first poetic morning... When he finally slapped me, they all told me: You'll grow up and forget. The problem is that I grew up and didn't forget. I grew up and forgot to forget.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e","brand":"Bait El Kutub - عصير الكتب","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42047884329114,"sku":"9786140108783","price":40.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/9335\/7466\/files\/book-fanar_b3db1713-ed2f-4976-acf3-6303342d4873.jpg?v=1694364415"},{"product_id":"9789921775044","title":"Sinbad the Blind, Atlas of the Sea and War","description":"\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e \u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003eSinbad the Blind, Atlas of the Sea and War\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e Author's name: Buthaina Al-Essa\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e The novel revolves around a single incident that constitutes a radical and final transformation in the destinies of characters who were characterized by care, dreaming, and interaction, and then turn into monsters that do not resemble their beginnings at all.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n \u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003eThis is a novel about love, friendship, and betrayal, about political commitment and war, about the collapse of slogans and the contradictions of a world that has lost its purity forever, where those broad headlines lead to lives that are absurd in their ordinariness. It is a novel about those who thought they were different, obsessed with commitment and dogma, until a single incident turns the scene upside down. \u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/9335\/7466\/files\/HHHHHSS_480x480.jpg?v=1669793855\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bait El Kutub","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42848863649946,"sku":"9789921775044","price":68.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/9335\/7466\/files\/book-fanar_25055348-00dc-437d-81fa-3ab6ff89f796.jpg?v=1694368038"},{"product_id":"9789921808131","title":"Honor of Trying Our Little Battles Against Censorship ","description":"\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003eHonor to try\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003cspan style=\"color: #00aaff;\"\u003eOur Little Battles Against Censorship\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e Author's name: Buthaina Al-Essa \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"BookPageMetadataSection__description\" data-testid=\"description\" style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv tabindex=\"-1\" class=\"TruncatedContent\" data-mce-tabindex=\"-1\" style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv tabindex=\"-1\" data-testid=\"contentContainer\" class=\"TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large\" data-mce-tabindex=\"-1\" style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph\" style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\n\n \u003ch3 class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph__widthConstrained\" style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e I recently turned forty, and I have, in spite of myself, become one of those who look back more than they look forward. With this frequent looking back, I have begun to notice the emptiness staining our social memory and political archives; the truncated narratives and flat stories, and the manifestations of lazy binary thinking, where crude alignments trample every day on the old face of the old woman of truth, and where a regression to a climate of absolute certainties daily blocks the path for those who dare to know. It is a world created by censorship, which we often dare to reject on legal or political grounds, yet we have not approached closely enough to understand its social and moral impact, nor have we spoken sufficiently about the distortions afflicting its nurturing society. Otherwise, how come most of us have come to peer at the world through the eye of the censor and resort to its logic? In a society where censorship transcends its physical existence as an administrative apparatus, forming a dominant and oppressive culture in every detail, it is difficult for one to adopt a position based on clear and named data, to test one's convictions or discover them. In the words of Henry Steel Commajor: \"Censorship creates a society that cannot be mature.\" And this is what we have become... a society of eternal minors; creatures stuck in the \"limbo\" of civil childhood, their right to transform into fully-fledged citizens confiscated, and they are condemned to live outside the laws of cultural influence and impact, and thus outside of history.\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bait El Kutub","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44092308291738,"sku":"9789921808131","price":57.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/9335\/7466\/files\/1_3a28dd06-03e1-4ba0-b4b9-f25bd6751e53.jpg?v=1699547247"},{"product_id":"9789921808513","title":"Khawla's house ","description":"\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 128, 0);\"\u003eKhawla's house\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e Author's name: Buthaina Al-Essa \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"BookPageMetadataSection__description\" data-testid=\"description\" style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv tabindex=\"-1\" class=\"TruncatedContent\" data-mce-tabindex=\"-1\" style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv tabindex=\"-1\" data-testid=\"contentContainer\" class=\"TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large\" data-mce-tabindex=\"-1\" style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph\" style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\n\n \u003ch3 class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph__widthConstrained\" style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e It was the first time her firstborn had looked so fragile, so small, so close to tears. Wasn't he telling the truth this time? The fact that she'd loved him \"in her own perverted spy way\" and not the way he needed? But what good were those endless lists of treasonous facts? The fact that he was the first guinea pig in her empty motherhood laboratory, that her wound became invisible compared to his, that her “human condition” collapsed under the conditions of her motherhood, that she “knew what she was capable of and what she wasn’t,” that she couldn’t destroy everything she had worked so hard to build: every white hair on her head, every wrinkle under her eyes, every extreme idea, every deviant metaphor, every ruin in her heart, for his sake. The fact that love is conditional, conditional, that they had lied about it, that the world was unfair, that misunderstandings were inevitable and seemingly eternal. She didn’t know where her role as a mother ended and her condition as a woman began. What could she do with the brutal conflict between the two, that she wanted to take him back under her wing like a wet chick, and that she had never forgiven him for being “the son of his freakish place in his freakish time”?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bait El Kutub","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45238865395866,"sku":"9789921808513","price":42.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/9335\/7466\/files\/44248-250x375_webp_webp.jpg?v=1727361910"},{"product_id":"9786140119987","title":"Ha ","description":"\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\n\n\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 128, 0);\"\u003eHa\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e Buthaina Al-Essa\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003eI don't know where this idea came from, but it did. The idea that there is meaning behind things; life, death, and everything in between. The wisdom, the meaning, the insight hidden in the details... I like to think that there is. We all like that. We all prefer to believe that there is wisdom behind anything; it would make us feel less alone on this earth. You live your life and it seems to you that you are searching for meaning, for the essence enigmatic at the heart of a rose with a thousand petals. That you open the petals, one by one, into the heart of the rose. You live believing that there is a rose, that the rose has a heart, that meaning is in the heart, that meaning already exists, its existence precedes your existence, and all you have to do is search for it. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"summary entry-summary\" style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"woocommerce-product-details__short-description\" style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"عصير الكتب","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45412495294618,"sku":"9786140119987","price":35.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/9335\/7466\/files\/471957.jpg?v=1735118069"},{"product_id":"9786140126664","title":"Truth and Writing ","description":"\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\n\n\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 128, 0);\"\u003eTruth and Writing\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e Buthaina Al-Essa\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e The book \"Truth and Writing\" revolves around descriptive writing in short stories and novels and examines four axes: \"Strategies,\" \"Tools,\" \"Themes,\" and \"The Story.\" The book is part of a series\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e Writing about writing by Kuwaiti writer Buthaina Al-Essa.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003eIn the introduction to her book, the writer Al-Essa asserts that truth is the compass of writing. It is the place we head to, line after line. And because truth is the essence and goal of artistic work, description, and descriptive writing, have this central importance in the novel. It is not merely a tool through which we attempt to activate our ability to weave different worlds, as much as it is the tool that monitors the meaning intended by the writer. It is not a solid mass, as much as it is a mist or dust, something that disappears in the entire work, line after line. Talking about descriptive writing cannot occur in isolation from the novelistic truth. If truth is the goal, then description is the means. It is a means that takes on the rule of the goal. This book is an attempt to trace the path of a single thread in the novelistic architecture: the descriptive thread. We may think of it as simple and secondary, compared to the other components of the novel, such as plot and characters. Elements that may seem more essential and tempting to the interested writer, but the reality is that the descriptive thread is intertwined with all elements of the novel. It permeates the characters, the event, and the place, and it is difficult to achieve anything in the novel without it. It is often the dividing line between the novel and the story, between good literature and bad writing. Talking about descriptive writing, surprisingly! is talking about writing the novel in its entirety. It is seeing the whole through the part, and understanding the ocean from a drop of water. 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Writing dialogue represents a real challenge for the novelist; it is linked to a set of extremely precise technical choices, which the writer finds himself forced to weigh up through trial and error, in what resembles laboratory, experimental work, requiring dozens of attempts at writing and erasing before arriving at the desired formula. \"Literary writing is nothing but carpentry,\" as García Márquez says, and therefore requires high craftsmanship and a keen awareness of the nature of the technical decisions the novelist must make to produce his work in the desired form. One of the most important questions that confronts the novelist within his text is the question of dialogue. 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Each title summarizes the story's content and whets the reader's appetite to collaborate with the text's producer in constructing meaning. It seems that the narrative employment of the writer Al-Essa here was not devoid of grandmothers' stories. Rather, we find that this employment gave the folk tale and grandmothers' tales a special character of the ancient Arab narrative heritage, which enriched the written text with magic and attraction. It teased the reader's imagination and took him back to worlds he had missed, so that he could find what he was looking for in the text, such that the story is the beginning and the end. By passing through its gate, the story's potential is realized, and by exiting from one of the outlets, the story is completed, which makes the texts of the collection continue their deep excavation towards the most delicious, enjoyable and seductive worlds of storytelling. 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Laila secretly wished that her grandmother could hear her, see her, embrace her and kiss her and… Laila secretly wished that her grandmother was a wolf!” The book includes six short and very short story collections under the following main titles: 1- Letters Stripped from the Body of the Story, 2- We Still Strike Proverbs, 3- Internal Bleeding, 4- The Forest Again, 5- The Swing in Heaven, 6- The Time of Milk.\u003c\/h3\u003e","brand":"عصير الكتب","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45496402804890,"sku":"9786140114128","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/9335\/7466\/files\/10691701.jpg?v=1738143082"},{"product_id":"9786140103702","title":"Aisha descends to the underworld","description":"\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e \u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 128, 0);\"\u003eAisha descends to the underworld\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eAuthor's name: Buthaina Al-Essa\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n \u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003eIn \"Aisha Descends to the Underworld,\" Buthaina Al-Essa's philosophical work highlights the interconnectedness between life and death, the worldly and the afterlife, offering a different perspective on time. It's the story of a mother who lost her son and wanted to keep his memory alive after his tragic death. There's nothing more painful than losing a loved one, and nothing more horrific than the gradual fading of his memory, especially when death comes by drowning right in front of her eyes. After her child's tragic death, the mother refuses to accept the idea of ​​life after him, so she decides to descend into the underworld through writing. On her way to the underworld, she must pass through seven gates, and now she's crossing the seventh gate, on the final threshold of departure. She sees nothingness glittering, radiating, and absorbing her soul. However, there is a condition for entering this world: she must shed her raw wound—her son and his memory. Can a mother exist outside of this wound? \"O Aisha (the laws of the netherworld were carefully and completely formulated, so do not discuss the rituals of the netherworld, O Aisha), your child is your pain, your pain is you. The wound now has your face, your name, and your panting breath. The one looking at you does not know where your wound begins and where your scream ends. You cling to the ropes of your tears as if they were your salvation. You are clothed in your eternal sorrow and you hurt the world with your pain. The universe cannot be your victim, O Aisha. Remove your wound, kiss it between the eyes and release it, free it, the precious ghost of it, and allow it to depart. All the relationships you left behind in the six previous gates were to prepare you for this. None of them compare to this in weight and density. Salvation will not be written for you except by transcending yourself. Be filled with love, O Aisha, and set its spirit free. What are you now? 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