The plastic gemstones stitched across the tight bodice didn’t just scratch – they ground into the thick, scarred skin along my chest like a row of jagged little diamonds. The glitter-coated fairy wings buckled to my back kept smacking against the metal bed rail every time I tried to readjust on the tiny, molded plastic chair.
It was 12:15 AM on a brutal, wind-torn Thursday. I am forty-four years old. My name is Colt. If you passed me on a sidewalk, you’d likely grab your kid’s hand and walk faster. I’m 297 pounds, my skull is razored clean, my beard is a wild, tangled red mess, and dark, heavy ink – skulls, Roman numerals, barbed wire – covers my throat, both sets of knuckles, and the entire right side of my face. I’ve ridden twenty-two years with the welded-tight brotherhood of the Stone Saints MC, a club forged on diesel, blacktop, and a code of absolute, unbreakable loyalty.
But tonight, I was the biggest, meanest, most absurd-looking fairy princess ever to split the seams of a children’s Halloween costume.
I was stuffed into a lavender extra-large tulle skirt, a shimmering gold plastic crown that dug into the sides of my bare scalp, and a pair of translucent glitter wings that drooped pathetically under the sheer width of my shoulders.
My eight-year-old daughter, Rosie, lay beneath the thin, washed-out yellow hospital blanket on the pediatric oncology floor.
Her cheekbones had sharpened during this second relapse, her skin faded to the shade of old parchment. Her thick, dark curls were completely gone, covered by a soft mint-green bandana she had chosen herself. A steady, mechanical drip… drip… drip pulsed from the chemotherapy pump beside her bed, feeding into the tiny, discolored vein on the inside of her right wrist.
On the bedside tray sat three small, carefully folded squares of pink construction paper.
Rosie called them her “Three Wishes.” They were three secret hopes she had written down the night after the doctors told us the aggressive lymphoma had stopped responding to treatment.
Two of the papers had already been unfolded and smoothed flat.
The third was still tucked beneath her blanket.
The First One Was For Me
Rosie had made me promise not to peek.
That was hard for a man who had once taken apart a motorcycle engine in a rainstorm because he couldn’t stand waiting for morning. I could rebuild a carburetor blind. I couldn’t leave three pink papers alone.
The first wish had been opened at 9:06 that night, after she woke up crying and asked if I was still there.
I told her yes.
She pointed at the paper with one bony finger. “You have to do it.”
“What is it?”
“You’ll know.”
I unfolded it.
The writing leaned uphill across the page. Rosie had never learned to keep her letters on a line. There were purple marker smears along the edge and one greasy thumbprint from whatever pudding the hospital had served at dinner.
I wish Daddy would wear the princess dress and wings until breakfast.
I looked at her.
She looked back.
“No.”
“That was your wish.”
“That’s not a wish. That’s a crime.”
Her mouth pulled to one side. It was the beginning of her old grin, the one that usually meant I was about to lose an argument.
So I called Big Mike from the hallway.
Mike was six-foot-five, owned a towing company, and had a voice that made vending machines cough up free snacks. He had driven two hours through the wind to bring Rosie a stuffed purple dragon and a plastic bag from a party store.
He held up the dress.
“Absolutely not,” I said.
Mike shook the bag. “Doctor’s orders.”
“No doctor ordered this.”
“Doctor’s orders from Princess Rosie.”
Rosie started laughing. It turned into a cough. The monitor beside her bed jumped in a bright green zigzag.
That killed the argument.
The dress belonged to a twelve-year-old, maybe. The elastic waist was a joke. The wings came with two narrow straps that cut across my shoulders. Mike had found the crown in a clearance bin beside fake vampire teeth.
Rosie watched me change behind the curtain while the nurse pretended to check the IV bag.
When I stepped out, she stared for three full seconds.
Then she said, “You need lipstick.”
“You’re dying and still trying to make me look worse.”
“I’m not dying tonight.”
The nurse, a small woman named Denise, looked down at her clipboard.
I sat in the chair. The wings hit the bed rail.
Rosie laughed again, softer this time.
That was five hours ago.
Since then, I had taken three pictures for her, one video for her teacher, and one call from a twelve-year-old girl named Mallory who lived in our apartment building. Mallory asked if I was really wearing the dress.
I said, “No.”
Rosie shouted, “He is!”
Mallory laughed so hard she dropped the phone.
I didn’t care. I would’ve worn a wedding veil and roller skates if Rosie had asked.
The second pink square was beside the first. It had been opened at 10:41.
Rosie had nodded toward it while I was trying to reach the water cup without scraping my knee against the tray.
“That one too,” she said.
I unfolded it carefully.
I wish you stop saying you are sorry when I wake up.
Underneath, in smaller letters:
You didn’t do this.
That one didn’t make me laugh.
I folded the paper along its old crease and put it under my palm.
Rosie watched the pump.
“Did you hear me?” she asked.
“I heard you.”
“You say it every time.”
“Say what?”
“Sorry.”
I looked at the floor. There was a dried blue star sticker stuck near my boot. It had probably fallen off a nurse’s shoe or a kid’s IV pole.
“Sorry,” I said.
She gave me the look.
The bad one.
“Right,” I said. “Not saying it.”
She closed her eyes.
The door opened at 12:22.
Denise came in carrying a paper cup of coffee and a fresh blanket. She stopped when she saw me sitting there in lavender tulle.
She had seen it already. Everybody had.
Still, her mouth twitched.
“I need to check Rosie,” she said.
“Take your time.”
“That was the plan.”
She checked the line, the monitor, Rosie’s temperature. Rosie slept through all of it, her hand limp beside the paper squares.
Denise lifted the blanket to check the port dressing.
Something pink slid out from beneath it and landed on the floor.
The Nurse Had To Read It Twice
Denise bent down.
I saw the envelope before she picked it up. It was smaller than the other papers, made from the same pink construction paper, folded and taped shut with three strips of clear tape.
On the front, in black marker, Rosie had written:
FOR DADDY. AFTER THE FAIRY WISH.
There was a little skull beside the words.
She’d drawn it for me.
Denise held it toward me. “This is the third one?”
I nodded.
“You want to open it?”
“No.”
That answer came too fast.
Rosie’s eyes stayed closed.
Denise looked at her, then at me. “She made you wear the dress for five hours, Colt. I think you’ve earned the envelope.”
“I said I wouldn’t open it until she told me.”
“She’s asleep.”
“Then she can tell me when she wakes up.”
I picked up the envelope.
The paper was warm from beneath the blanket. My thumb went to the first strip of tape, but I stopped there.
Rosie stirred.
“Don’t,” she mumbled.
I froze.
Denise leaned over the bed. “Rosie?”
Rosie didn’t open her eyes. “Not yet.”
“Okay,” I said.
Her fingers moved across the blanket, searching. I put the envelope in her hand.
She couldn’t close her fist around it. Her fingers were too weak.
So I curled my hand around hers.
“Tomorrow,” she said.
“Tomorrow.”
She went back under.
Denise took two steps toward the door, then turned around.
“Colt.”
“Yeah?”
“She asked me to promise something.”
My hand stayed over Rosie’s.
“What?”
“She said if you tried to open it before she woke up, I was supposed to slap your hand.”
I looked at Denise.
She lifted her coffee. “I didn’t agree to that part.”
A laugh came out of me, but it landed wrong. Too rough. I pressed my fingers to my mouth.
At 1:03, I texted the club.
She made me wear the dress until breakfast. Nobody says a word.
Three dots appeared from Rooster.
You look beautiful, princess.
Then Big Mike sent a picture of himself standing in a gas station bathroom, wearing the gold crown over his knit cap.
Rosie slept.
At 1:40, I began reading the same page of a motorcycle magazine for the sixth time. At 2:17, the pump alarm chirped because the line had bent near the wheel. At 3:06, a janitor dropped a metal trash can in the hall, and Rosie jerked awake with both hands raised.
I was on my feet before I knew I had moved.
The wing struck the IV pole.
The pole rocked. The pump tipped. I caught it against my stomach, spilling coffee down the front of the dress.
Rosie stared at me.
“You’re okay,” I said.
“I know.”
“Your line’s okay.”
“I know.”
“Sorry.”
She shut her eyes again.
I wiped the coffee with a napkin.
The envelope stayed beneath her hand.
What I Hadn’t Told Her
Rosie was born on a Tuesday in March, during a thunderstorm that knocked out power to half of Mercy County.
Her mother, Evelyn, had been gone for eleven months by then.
Not dead. Gone.
There was a difference, though some days I couldn’t find it.
Evelyn left a note on our kitchen table in 2015. Three lines. No address.
I can’t be the person you need. Please don’t come looking. Take care of Rosie.
I did look.
For six months, I called every number I had. I drove to her sister’s house in Dayton. I went to two bars where she used to sing karaoke. I asked a woman at a laundromat if she’d seen her. The woman told me I had nice eyes, which was a strange thing to say to a man with a skull tattoo beside one of them.
Then I stopped.
Rosie was three. She had asthma, a red raincoat, and a habit of putting coins in the VCR slot.
I couldn’t chase Evelyn and raise Rosie at the same time.
So I stayed.
I worked days at a freight yard and rode nights with the Saints. When Rosie got sick at five, I learned the names of drugs I couldn’t pronounce. When her hair fell out, I shaved my head too. She said we matched.
The cancer went into remission for fourteen months.
Then it came back in her chest.
Then it moved.
The doctors spoke in careful pieces. They said words like “options” and “comfort” and “time frame.” I hated them for using soft words around a hard thing.
Rosie never asked if she was going to die.
She asked if the nurses would let her keep the hospital socks.
She asked if ghosts could get bored.
She asked why my tattoo of the Roman numerals had a crooked V.
I told her the artist was drunk.
“He was not,” she said.
“He was a little drunk.”
“That’s still drunk.”
On Thursday morning, the oncologist had sat on the edge of the bed and told us the treatment wasn’t working. I watched him rub his thumb along the seam of his folder. He had a wedding ring with a square black stone.
Rosie watched him too.
After he left, she asked for paper.
I found three pink sheets in the craft cart.
She wrote alone.
The first wish took seven minutes.
The second took eleven.
The third took longer. She covered it with her arm when I reached for the water.
“That one’s private,” she said.
“All three are private.”
“No, the first one is funny private. The second one is bossy private. The third one is real private.”
I remember saying, “You can tell me anything.”
She had turned her face toward the window.
Outside, an ambulance backed into the emergency entrance, its lights turning the glass red, then white, then red.
“Maybe,” she said.
That was all.
At 4:12 AM, I woke because a chair scraped the floor.
Denise was standing beside Rosie’s bed with the envelope in her hand.
I had fallen asleep sitting up. The crown was still on my head. One wing had folded under my left arm and my beard smelled like cold coffee.
“She gave it to me,” Denise said.
Rosie was awake.
Her lips were dry. “I told her.”
I stood, and the tulle caught on the chair leg. I nearly fell backward.
Rosie smiled.
“Graceful.”
“Open it,” Denise said.
I looked at Rosie.
She nodded once.
I peeled the tape.
The first strip came off clean. The second tore the paper. The third stayed attached to the flap, so I used the edge of my thumbnail and cut myself.
A small red dot rose near the nail.
Inside was one folded piece of lined notebook paper.
I opened it.
The writing was Rosie’s.
But the first line made my head go strange.
Dear Daddy,
I wish you would let me meet my mother before I die.
The Name At The Bottom
I read it again.
The letters didn’t change.
Rosie watched my face. Denise moved closer to the bed but said nothing.
There was more.
I know where she is.
Her name is Evelyn Price. She lives at 18 Weller Street in Fairmont, apartment 3B.
Mr. Halpern from the hospital found her. I asked him because you wouldn’t. He said she has been sending money for four years. You put it in the blue toolbox and never told me.
I stopped there.
The blue toolbox sat in our apartment closet behind the winter coats.
I had found envelopes in it for four years. Every one had been from Evelyn. No return address. No letter. Just money orders made out to Rosie Miller.
At first, I thought it was guilt.
Then I thought it was a trap.
I never cashed them.
I had kept every envelope in the toolbox because throwing them away felt like throwing away proof that Evelyn had once known our address.
Rosie had seen them.
Of course she had.
Children see what adults hide badly.
The note continued.
I don’t want money. I want her to know I am not mad.
I want to ask why she left.
And I want you to wear the wings to my funeral because I think everyone will be too sad and I need one person to look ridiculous.
The last part had been written in purple ink.
Then:
Don’t be mad at Mr. Halpern. I made him promise not to tell you.
And at the bottom, beneath a crooked line:
Love, Rosie.
I lowered the page.
The room had a vent that clicked every thirty seconds. Click. Click. Click.
“How long?” I asked.
Rosie looked at the ceiling.
“How long what?”
“How long have you known?”
She picked at the corner of the blanket. “About the money?”
“About where she is.”
“Since Monday.”
I turned toward the window.
The city outside had gone gray. Snow pushed sideways across the hospital glass.
“Mr. Halpern is the social worker,” Denise said.
“I know who he is.”
I had met Halpern twice. Thin man. Gray sweater. Always carried peppermint gum. He had asked me if Rosie had any family support.
I had told him, “The club.”
He had written something down.
I had thought it was about insurance.
Rosie shifted against the pillow. “Don’t yell.”
“I’m not yelling.”
“You get quiet before you yell.”
I looked at her.
She was right.
My fist closed around the note. The paper crumpled, and I smoothed it flat against my thigh.
“I didn’t know you wanted to meet her.”
“You didn’t ask.”
That went in clean.
Denise stared at the floor.
I wanted to be angry at Evelyn. It was easier. Anger had handles. I could grab it and carry it.
But Rosie was watching me with the exhausted patience of somebody waiting for an adult to stop making a mess.
“Do you want me to call her?” I asked.
“No.”
My mouth opened.
“Not yet,” she said. “I want you to call her.”
That was different.
Room 3B
Halpern answered on the fourth ring.
It was 5:01 AM.
“Colt?”
“Where did you get the address?”
He went quiet.
“Halpern.”
“Rosie asked me to help her find Evelyn. She used the hospital directory, but the address was old. I confirmed it through a patient advocate in Fairmont.”
“You told her?”
“I told her what I could.”
“She says Evelyn’s been sending money.”
“I didn’t know about that.”
I looked at the blue construction paper taped to Rosie’s wall. It had a crooked yellow sun on it.
“Did you talk to Evelyn?”
“Once.”
“What did she say?”
Halpern sighed. “She said she wanted to see Rosie but didn’t think you would allow it.”
“She didn’t think I’d allow it?”
“Colt, she left.”
“I know.”
“She said she was using drugs. She said she was afraid she would hurt the child.”
I gripped the phone until the case creaked.
Rosie watched me.
“Why didn’t you tell me?”
“Because Rosie asked me not to. She was clear. She didn’t want the address in her chart, and she didn’t want me contacting Evelyn until she decided.”
“She’s eight.”
“She has been making decisions about her body for three years.”
That shut me up.
Halpern gave me the phone number.
I wrote it on the back of my hand because I couldn’t find a pen. My handwriting came out crooked against the tattooed skull across my knuckles.
The number had an Ohio area code.
I called at 5:14.
A woman answered on the fifth ring.
“Hello?”
Her voice was hoarse. Older than I expected.
“Is this Evelyn Price?”
Nothing.
“Her name is Evelyn Miller now,” the woman said.
I sat down.
The chair made a plastic popping sound under me.
“My name is Colt.”
“I know.”
Rosie looked away.
“You know who I am?”
“I know who you’re married to.”
“Was married.”
“I know.”
We listened to each other breathe through the phone.
There was a dog barking somewhere behind her. A truck rolled past her building. I could hear a loose window rattling.
“Rosie wants to meet you,” I said.
The woman made a sound like she had swallowed something sharp.
“When?”
“She’s at Mercy Children’s.”
“I know where it is.”
“How?”
“I’ve been there.”
I stood again.
“When?”
“Last month. I sat in the parking lot.”
“You came to the hospital and didn’t go inside?”
“I saw you.”
My hand went to the crown without meaning to.
“Me?”
“You were carrying a pink plastic bucket.”
Rosie had thrown up after an infusion. I had carried the bucket down to the restroom and back.
“You saw her.”
“I saw you.”
“Why didn’t you come in?”
“Because I looked at the window and I couldn’t make my legs move.”
I wanted to call her a coward.
The word sat behind my teeth.
Then Rosie started coughing.
The monitor chirped. Denise moved fast, raising the bed and reaching for the oxygen.
I held the phone to my ear.
“She needs me,” I said.
“I know.”
“Come now.”
“I can’t.”
“You don’t get to decide that.”
“I can’t come in there, Colt.”
“Why?”
The woman on the phone began to cry. Not loudly. She tried to hide it, which made it worse.
“I have leukemia,” she said. “I started treatment in October. I’m neutropenic. They won’t let me near the oncology floor.”
The room went hard around me.
Rosie’s coughing slowed. Denise placed the oxygen tube beneath her nose and took her pulse.
I looked at the note in my hand.
Evelyn continued. “I didn’t leave because I didn’t love her. I left because I was using, and one morning I found her standing in the kitchen while I was passed out beside the stove. She was five. The pot had boiled dry. The smoke alarm was screaming.”
I sat on the floor.
The wings folded around me.
“I got clean in a county program,” she said. “Then I found out you had changed your number.”
“I changed it once.”
“Three times.”
I remembered none of them.
“I sent letters.”
“I never got letters.”
“I know.”
“Why?”
“Your brother returned them.”
My brother Ray had died in 2018. We had not spoken in nine years.
The phone slipped against my cheek.
“What did he say?”
“He said you didn’t want to hear from me.”
The blue toolbox. The money orders. Ray’s handwriting on the envelopes?
I saw it suddenly. The block letters. The cramped little R in “Rosie.”
Not Evelyn.
Ray had taken the letters.
Not the money. Just the letters.
I had spent four years hating the wrong person with a full heart.
“Colt,” Evelyn said.
I looked at Rosie.
Her eyes were open now.
“Put her on,” Evelyn said.
I handed Rosie the phone.
She held it with both hands.
“Hi,” she whispered.
I turned away.
The bathroom door was closed. The crown kept sliding down my bare head.
Rosie spoke for three minutes.
She asked Evelyn if she liked cats. She asked if she had brown eyes. She asked whether she was scared of needles.
Then Rosie said, “Daddy wore the wings.”
Evelyn laughed through the phone.
It was the first time I had heard her laugh in ten years.
Rosie held the phone out.
“She wants to talk to you.”
I took it.
“She has your laugh,” Evelyn said.
“No, she doesn’t.”
“She does.”
“She has mine.”
“Okay.”
I sat on the edge of the bed.
Evelyn said, “Can I see her through the glass?”
Rosie heard her.
“Yes,” she said.
So at 6:02 AM, Evelyn came to the hospital.
She wore a knit hat, a surgical mask, and a long gray coat. She stood beyond the glass doors at the end of the pediatric hall, because the nurses wouldn’t let her cross the line.
Rosie was too weak to walk over.
Denise wheeled the bed closer.
Evelyn lifted one hand.
Rosie lifted hers.
They looked at each other through glass.
Nobody said anything for a while.
Then Rosie pointed at me.
Evelyn looked.
I was still wearing the dress.
The crown had fallen sideways. Coffee had dried in a brown crescent across the bodice. One wing had lost its glitter and hung lower than the other.
Evelyn put her palm against the glass.
Rosie pressed her hand to the other side.
I stood behind my daughter, holding the envelope.
The Part Rosie Kept For Herself
At 7:10, Evelyn left to wait in the hospital lobby.
Rosie slept for an hour.
When she woke, she asked me for the note.
I gave it back.
“You read it,” she said.
“All of it.”
“Even the part about the funeral?”
“Especially that part.”
“You better wear the wings.”
“I’ll wear the wings.”
“And the lipstick.”
“Don’t push it.”
She smiled, but it faded quickly.
“Are you mad at her?”
I looked at the two of us in the dark reflection of the window. My beard. Her bandana. The ridiculous crown between us.
“I’m mad at Ray.”
“He was dead.”
“Still mad.”
Rosie considered this.
“Can you be mad at somebody dead?”
“I’ve managed it.”
That earned me a small laugh.
Then she said, “I don’t want to go yet.”
The sentence was plain.
I put the note on the tray.
“I know.”
“I don’t want everybody to act like I’m already gone.”
“They won’t.”
“They do.”
She looked toward the door. Nurses passed in the hall, shoes squeaking on the waxed floor.
“Mom looked like she was going to break.”
“She was scared.”
“Everybody’s scared. I know.”
Rosie rubbed her thumb over the tape tear in the envelope.
“I wrote another thing on the back.”
I turned it over.
There was a fourth message.
I hadn’t seen it because the paper had folded inward.
P.S. I don’t want a funeral yet. I want pancakes. Real ones. With the burned edges.
I stared at the words.
Rosie said, “The hospital ones taste like wet socks.”
“They do.”
“And bacon. The crispy kind.”
“That’s not a wish. That’s breakfast.”
“Then do it.”
The doctor had said she might not make it through the weekend.
It was Thursday morning.
I called the Saints.
By 7:46, twelve motorcycles were lined up outside Mercy Children’s, engines ticking in the snow. Big Mike brought a griddle. Rooster brought bacon. Denise smuggled in real maple syrup inside a labeled specimen cup.
The hospital cafeteria manager came upstairs furious.
Then she saw Rosie.
Then she took the griddle downstairs because the smoke alarm was more important than our feelings, or something like that.
We made the pancakes in the family room.
The first one burned black.
Rosie ate half.
Evelyn watched from behind the glass doors, holding her mask in one hand. She didn’t touch the food. She kept looking at Rosie as if somebody might take her away if she blinked.
I carried a plate to the door.
“You can have one,” I said.
“I can’t come in.”
“I know.”
“Leave it there.”
“That’s stupid.”
“Yeah.”
I set it on the ledge between us.
Rosie came to the glass in her wheelchair. The oxygen tube looped over her cheeks. She held a pancake on a plastic fork and pressed it toward Evelyn.
Evelyn put her hand to the glass.
Rosie ate it herself.
That was how they shared breakfast.
At 10:18, Rosie asked me to read the second note aloud.
I did.
At 10:24, she asked Evelyn to tell her about the day she was born.
Evelyn told the story through the phone while Rosie listened.
She said the storm knocked the power out. She said Colt had been pacing the hospital hallway in a leather vest, carrying a vending-machine coffee he never drank. She said when Rosie finally arrived, she had one hand closed tight around Evelyn’s finger.
I had forgotten that.
Or maybe I had never known.
Rosie looked at me.
“Did I?”
“You did.”
“Was I loud?”
“You screamed like you were collecting a debt.”
Evelyn laughed again.
Rosie closed her eyes.
The monitor kept its steady rhythm.
At 11:03, her hand slipped from mine.
I reached for it.
She opened her eyes.
“Not yet,” she said.
“I know.”
“Don’t say it.”
I nodded.
She looked at the pink envelope. “Keep that.”
“I will.”
“Not in the toolbox.”
“Where do you want it?”
She glanced at the wings.
“Somewhere stupid.”
I tucked it beneath the crown.
At noon, Denise came in to change the IV bag.
She looked at me, then at the crown.
“Breakfast is over,” she said.
Rosie was asleep.
I left the dress on.
The glitter wings tapped the bed rail when I leaned over to kiss her bandana.
Outside the room, Evelyn waited behind the glass.
She had one hand pressed to her chest.
I took the crown from my head and set it on the floor.
Then I opened the door.
“Come on,” I said.
Evelyn shook her head. “I can’t.”
“You can stand there.”
“I can’t be near her.”
“Then stand six feet away.”
“Colt.”
“She asked for you.”
The nurse at the station looked up. Denise looked at me. Nobody moved.
Evelyn stepped through the door.
She stopped at the red line taped across the floor.
Rosie woke.
Her eyes found Evelyn first.
Then the crown.
“You’re both ugly,” she whispered.
Evelyn laughed and covered her mouth.
I pulled the crown back onto my head.
Rosie reached out.
Evelyn crossed the line.
Denise didn’t stop her.
She bent over the bed, careful not to touch the tubing, and kissed Rosie’s forehead through the mask.
Rosie lifted her hand.
Evelyn held it.
I stood on the other side of the bed in the lavender dress, one wing caught on the IV pole, the crown cutting into my scalp.
Rosie looked from one of us to the other.
“Now,” she said.
“What?”
“Tell me the truth.”
Evelyn closed her eyes.
I looked at the note beneath the crown.
“About what?”
Rosie squeezed both our hands.
“Why did you let me think everybody leaves?”
No one answered.
The pump clicked.
From the hallway came the squeak of a mop bucket rolling past the door.
Rosie waited.
Evelyn removed her mask.
I reached for the phone on the tray, but Rosie shook her head.
“No phone.”
So we stayed there, holding her hands, while she made us tell her everything.
If this stayed with you, pass it to someone who needs a reason to call home.
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