Jackie found a parent who suited her better than her own mother, the socialite Janet Lee Bouvier Auchincloss, while Bunny gained a daughter very different from Eliza. Jackie Onassis, 19 years her junior, died in 1994; Paul Mellon died five years later after a lingering illness. Rachel Lowe Lambert Lloyd Mellons mother gave her the pet name, Bunny, which stuck with her throughout her life, Huffman said. The indictment quotes a note from Mellon: "I was sitting alone in a grim mood, furious that the press attacked Senator Edwards on the price of a haircut. Her social climbing didnt always follow an easy path. Little did she suspect that the money would later allegedly be used to fund Edwards increasingly tawdry exploits with his mistress, the Daily Beast said. Mellon's lawyer Alex Forger elaborates further on his client's attitude: "She was not enamored of his wife and didn't want his wife to know that he was getting money. Rendered a . You cant let it get to you, because you shouldnt take it personally.), Bunny, 19 years older than Jackie, could take on the role of teacher and exemplar at one moment and then shift to become the cozy, sympathetic friend to whom Jackie poured out her heart. A 350 year old house, the main property consists of seven bedrooms and five full baths with270 degrees of water views, the listing states. [7][36] Her funeral was held at Trinity Episcopal Church in Upperville, which the Mellons had gifted to the community in 1960. [10][17], As most of her assets were invested in trusts, it was difficult to estimate Mellon's wealth, but her family and husband's fortune and fixed assets suggest she was exceptionally wealthy. His view of his grandmother's relationship with Edwards? She was 103. Stressing that her sympathies have always been with Edwards rather than his wife, who died last year from cancer, she confides, "You know that John had a hard time with Elizabeth." This page was last edited on 20 November 2022, at 15:10. It is a way to help our friend without government restrictions.'?" Jackie wore hers so often that the press dubbed them Jackie bracelets. But was a paint box filled with rubies, sapphires, and emeralds instead of pigments another Bunny gift? Bunny went on to sketch her friend as one who had a mischievous side& twinkle in her eye . She designed the guest house specifically for my two older half-sisters.. the fact that you are splashed in the Daily News, she wrote to accompany a piece about RFKs funeral that she mailed to Bunny. Jackie, on the other hand, was an outright celebrity, and she quickly gained a new kind of celebrityor notorietywhen she married Aristotle Onassis. But Mellon struck up new life-affirming friendships with much younger, artistic men. Once the war ended, as Paul Mellon wrote in his autobiography, Reflections in a Silver Spoon, both men found it difficult to resume married life. In March her longtime investment adviser Ken Starr received a seven-and-a-half-year jail sentence for running a Ponzi scheme and stealing $33 million from clients, including $5.75 million from Mellon and $3 million from her son Stacey Lloyd III. She specifically designed it for our family dynamic, Lloyd, who grew up spending time at the home told House Beautiful. Every time he'd go on a debate against Hillary, he'd call and we'd talkI was so surprised when this thing came up." B. Stepping up to the polls with Paul, Bunny said, she found she didnt have anything to write with. Their particular combination of money (Bunnys) and fame (Jackies) made them formidable. They could move, manipulate, and cutwith finality. She is famously camera-shy and keeps a residence in the Jumeirah Essex House on Central Park South and an estate in Upperville Virginia, where she reportedly became fond of then-first-time presidential candidate John Edwards in 2006. She kept her gift private from the world and so have you. [34] Following his indictment, the judge forbade Edwards to speak with any potential witnesses. In her patrician voice she adds, "I'll have to put my trust in you and God. ", Her solace was her gardens, and she took enormous pleasure in designing gardens for herself and friends. She didnt think it trivialized Averyand if it did, that didnt matter, as it was hers. Tiffany & Co.s Pierce McGuire recalled that Mrs. Mellon described how she and Schlumberger had collaborated on the design for his famous paillonn enamel bangle and that she had given Jackie the first one. At the age of 95, however, Bunnys secret support for John Edwardss mistress and child would bring her a certain notorietyand a visit from the FBI that she would quite enjoy. Bunnys eye for space and proportion and what could be made of them was matched by Jackies discernment about people and events and how best to employ and frame them. ", The events of the past five yearsthe death of her daughter, Ken Starr's betrayal, the indictment of Edwardsmight leave less hardy souls reaching for Prozac. Old stone walls surround the sun-dappled rolling fields, which feature two enormous greenhouses and a football-field-size cutting garden with branches of fruit trees entwined in a not-seen-in-nature pattern. Style included a great deal more than the cut of clothing or a period of interior decoration. The Rose Garden would go on to become a place where President John F. Kennedy and presidents after him hosted significant events. Thats the antithesis of what her style would be, he said. Even though her closets contained racks of magnificent Givenchy and Balenciaga couture, she wanted to be buried wearing the simple college graduation gown that she had worn to receive an honorary degree from the Rhode Island School of Design. They often painted together on Cape Cod: in the Garden Library at the bottom of stairs to Bunnys study hangs a summery watercolor of a pale blue hydrangea in a pot. Lambert attended Miss Fine's School (Princeton, New Jersey) and the Foxcroft School (Middleburg, Virginia). She was not looking for an ambassadorial appointment, Huffman said. "It's been like falling down the rabbit hole with Alice in Wonderland," says Huffman, who rues introducing the heiress to the senator. 1533before 1588) A Young Daughter of the Picts, ca. She created another White House garden that was named in honor of Kennedy after her death. 11:00 PM WARRENTON, Va. Rachel "Bunny" Mellon left a small island to the Massachusetts Audubon Society, a library to an unspecified charity, jewelry to a [10][24] The painting measured 10 by 15 feet. I never wore it again. The Kennedys were aghast at her unwillingness to cultivate her myth as JFKs widow and even more upset that she would marry a Greek shipping magnate, Bunny told me. With Jackie in the White House, Bunny was again happily engaged with the glamour of politics, something shed once enjoyed while sitting on Calvin Coolidges lap as a child. Crocker would not reveal who the buyers were, only that they hadseveral other Cape properties and are extremely private. [17][10], Mellon designed landscapes for many of the Mellons' properties, including the French-inspired gardens of their estate, Oak Spring Farms. She had not given an extended interview in more than a quarter century. . For most of her 103 years, Rachel Bunny Lambert Mellon kept secret the intimate details of her life. Bunny made her debut in October 1929 and three years later married the socially connected Stacy Lloyd Jr. Los Angeles Review of Books 6671 Sunset Blvd., Ste 1521 Los Angeles, CA 90028, GENERAL INQUIRIES [emailprotected]MEMBERSHIP INQUIRIES [emailprotected]EDITORIAL INQUIRIES [emailprotected]PRESS INQUIRIES [emailprotected]ADVERTISING INQUIRIES [emailprotected]PURCHASE INQUIRIES [emailprotected], IN MY CLOSET is a black gabardine raincoat with a mink collar that flips up like Garbos in. This exposure whetted her appetite for political influence, an appetite she would eventually seek to satisfy in her relationship with Senator John Edwards. Each also found in the other a sister more compatible, loyal, and loving than her own. Bunny Mellon breaks her silence on John Edwards, insists they were great friends. "I don't know what I've done that has made people so interested in me, more than anyone else." The Mellons gave Jackie a birthday party in 1966, three years after the assassination, at their home in Oyster Harbors. Rendered a paraplegic and unable to speak, Eliza was transported to her mother's farm for round-the-clock care, surviving for eight years. At the time, what kept most of us from seeing the dowdiness was the luster of glamour conveyed by Jackies trim, big-shouldered, athletic figure and then, in rapid hindsight, the burnished armor of tragedy. (The Kennedy biographer Sally Bedell Smith quotes Jackie as saying to Ted Kennedys wife, Joan, All Kennedy men are like that . The two women took art lessons from Oliver Smith, the scenic designer for American Ballet Theatre who was most famous for his magical Broadway productions: West Side Story, Brigadoon, and in 1960, Camelot, the basis of Jackies enduring reimagining of her husbands brief presidency. In turn, after 1979, when Jackie bought Red Gate Farm on over three hundred acres on Marthas Vineyard, Bunny cleaned up and edited the straggling old farm-scape without overmanaging it and guided Jackie to the well-known architect Hugh Newell Jacobsen, who designed a plain, cedar-shingled Cape Cod house. In this impressive portrait of Bunny Mellon, Mac Griswold, who knew the landscape architect and designer personally, makes the argument that Mellon aspired to create an American pastoral for the 20th century, rooted in the promise of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. "I had a serious operation a little while ago, and ever since then I've been very, very weak," Mellon says. "It was just terrible because I trusted him, and we're in sort of a hole because of that, and it hasn't been returned," admits Mellon, who is in danger of losing another $6 million in investments made by Starr that are now underwater. Edwards aide Andrew Young, who wrote about Mellon and Edwards relationship in his tell-all book The Politician, said Mellon became so distraught when the media attacked Edwards over a $400 haircut that she sent him a letter offering to help. She designed and planted a number of significant gardens, including the White House Rose Garden, and assembled one of the largest collections of rare horticultural books. She found both in Aristotle Onassis. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Thanks for contacting us. She was involved in the business of nature and beauty, design and implementation, Forger said. Just plain bad." Mellon comes across as a woman with her faculties fully intact. But so great a talent could not remain forever hidden and neither will yours. She and Paul Mellon supported many philanthropic endeavors, but were also known to indulge. As an adult, her fluency with pencil and ink led her to illustrate her letters, underlining the emotions they expressed. As her lawyer Alex Forger puts it, "She's well off, but her assets are not liquid. Her interests in gardening were first cultivated while watching Olmsted Brothers gardeners tend her family's New Jersey home. A well-groomed young woman is trailing her, but Mellon seems miraculously able for a 99-year-old. After his death in 1975, it was probably no accident that Jackie turned to Bunnys lawyer, Alexander Forger, to secure $200 million, far more than Onassis had They reportedly had homes in Antigua, Paris, New York, Washington, Nantucket and Cape Cod, and a mile-long runway for their private jet. He warned her that she should shun celebrity and stick to becoming a myth. [17] In France, Mellon created a landscape design for the home of Hubert de Givenchy and assisted with a restoration of the potager du Roi in Versailles. (French, ca. All Rights Reserved. Lloyd, her grandson, says, "I don't think there's ever going to be a moment for her to sit back and reflect. A Cape Cod estate formerlyowned by socialite Rachel Bunny Lambert Mellon has been sold for $19 million. While Mellon is leaving bequests to her family, the bulk of her estate will go to a foundation, financing a library and school for arborists. Her father did not believe that a young woman of her generation was worth sending to college; she would spend eternity proving him wrong. While .css-gegin5{-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-thickness:0.0625rem;text-decoration-color:inherit;text-underline-offset:0.25rem;color:#9a0500;-webkit-transition:all 0.3s ease-in-out;transition:all 0.3s ease-in-out;}.css-gegin5:hover{color:#595959;text-decoration-color:border-link-body-hover;}Bunny was coming to grips with the changes in her marriage, she met the woman who would become her best friend, Jackie Kennedy, wife of the dashing junior senator from Massachusetts. John F. Kennedy and Bunny Mellon together on Cape Cod. One small but bracing example that Bunny related to me was about the renowned poet Robert Lowell, who ran into the two women one afternoon Bunny didnt say whereand asked, Could I have dinner with you girls? clearly imagining that of course they would want to do so, as almost anyone else might have. West, chief usher at the White House during the Kennedy administration, watched Jackie at play with her children on the South Lawn and observed that she was so happy, so abandoned, so like a little girl who had never grown up. Billy Baldwin, albeit a shameless gusher about clients he loved, accurately described the same quality in Bunny when he wrote that one of the incredibly rare qualities of this incredibly rare woman is her ability to empathize with anothers enthusiasmsat least with enthusiasms like his own. Until she neared 100 she practiced pilates daily, which she learned from the master Joseph Pilates in the 1950s. Even as a child, Bunny had depicted her surroundings in sketches and paintings. In particular, feds were interested in the $700,000 in funds Mellon allegedly made out to Edwards' campaign in the form of blank checks annotated "furniture," the Daily Beast said. Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. . In Jackies case, it was her main article of faith that a womans job was to raise the children, and if she made a mess of it, the rest of what she did amounted to nothing. His affairs were an open secret. Yet when Sam Kasten of Nantucket Looms, a company that wove custom fabrics for her, wrote her that his visit to the Garden Library at Oak Spring was a life-changing event, she called him in tears. Bunny Mellon, peerless stylemaker, noted art collector, and philanthropist, lived a life of privilege mixed with sadness, as presented in Meryl Gordons biography, Rachel Bunny Mellon was born 110 years ago on August 9th in New York, NY. Eventually I will get rid of it, if only because the thought of someone else carting it to a secondhand shop after my own death is too depressing. "I thought the church was charming and sent her a little note," he recalls. 20 (Yellow Expanse), completed in 1955 was considered one of the largest Rothko works in private hands. One of the works, No. that are necessary and important for his campaign please send the bills to me It is a way to help our friend without government restrictions.. For Bunnys 69th, Jackie gave her an illustrated edition of Emily Dickinsons poems. The two women managed to make light of the issues in their own difficult marriages: Pauls relationship with Dorcas Hardin, and JFKs omnivorous promiscuity. She laughs, saying, "Oh, you're bad. 2023 Cohen Media Publications LLC. Bunnys presents were more extravagant than Jackies and often featured a surprise. She had been an admirer from afar, buying an ad in her local newspaper three years earlier trumpeting Edwards's candidacy. Tales straight out of A Thousand and One Nights, some true, some apocryphal, gathered around the pair and their friendship. "Bunny gave him validation, after all those ass-kissing socialites who mistreated him. "He and I were great friends. Bunny said that Jackie was always telling me what to dolike a nanny& I didnt always listenShe would sayall your ducks are swansyou should not believe some people!, In 1995, George Trescher, New Yorks top event planner, sent a note to Bunny along with a clipping from his interview with W magazine. She planted a variety of pear and apple trees around the perimeter of the garden, as well as honey locust and sassafras trees, which she and her landscaping team carefully pruned over decades.. Mellon eventually gave Edwards more than $6 million, Young said. Be kind. He gave her a life of infinite luxuryThe Washington Post once pronounced Bunny the "Most Envied Hostess in the Country Today"but at a cost. .css-1du65oy{color:#323232;display:block;font-family:NewParis,Georgia,Times,serif;font-weight:normal;margin-bottom:0.3125rem;margin-top:0;-webkit-text-decoration:none;text-decoration:none;-webkit-font-smoothing:auto;}@media (any-hover: hover){.css-1du65oy:hover{color:link-hover;}}@media(max-width: 48rem){.css-1du65oy{font-size:1.0625rem;line-height:1.2;}}@media(min-width: 40.625rem){.css-1du65oy{font-size:1.0625rem;line-height:1.2;}}@media(min-width: 64rem){.css-1du65oy{font-size:1.3125rem;line-height:1.2;}}Jackie Kennedy and Queen Elizabeth's Relationship, Julianne Moore's Kennedy-Inspired Met Gala Gown, See a Vintage Photo of Jackie and the Queen, Lee Radziwill's Doomed Dreams of Movie Stardom, JFK & Jackie Kennedy's Wedding Day, in Photos, Meet Jackie Kennedy's Unexpected Honeymoon Guest, Inside The Home Where Jackie O First Rode Horses, Jackie Kennedy's Role in Barbra Streisand's Memoir, Jackie Kennedy's Visit to the Nixon White House. Indeed. Like Bunny Mellons daughter, I spent much of my life estranged from my mother. Copyright 2009-2018, DNAinfo. In 2010, it was reported that Mellon had lost $5.75 million to investment adviser and convicted Ponzi scheme operator Kenneth I. On November 25, 1932, Lambert married Stacy Barcroft Lloyd Jr. of Ardmore, Pennsylvania, at Trinity Church, Princeton. This could have made for a grim existence. Shortly thereafter, in May 2000, her daughter Eliza was hit by a truck while crossing a Manhattan street, causing a severe brain injury and full-body paralysis. Jackie took it all inthe relaxed style, the magnificent art, and the stale candies in the antique jarsas she told Bunny in a phone call the next day. "It's hard being 100 and blind. Mellon's family and her longtime personal attorney said she died of natural causes at her beloved 4,000-acre Oak Spring Farms in Virginia's horse country, where she Together, the couple collected and donated more than a thousand works of art, mostly eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European paintings, to the National Gallery of Art and established the Yale Center for British Art. Even now she is making improvements. Until recently the philanthropist, whose net worth exceeds $400 million, was primarily known as a passionate gardener and discreet woman with a discerning eye. Copyright 2009-2018, New York Public Radio. Mellon was not accused of breaking any laws. The daughter was married to former U.S. Sen. John Warner. John Edwards turned away from Bunny Mellon's memorial by her family | Daily Mail Online. Only Bunny could have thought of the perfect finale: as dinner finished, Jackies beloved White House chef, Ren Verdon, who had been secretly flown up to cook the birthday feast, appeared like a rabbit pulled out of a hat. Like her billionaire philanthropist husband, Paul Mellon, and A donation from Mellon in 1977 helped make the home the headquarters for Project Hope, the worldwide medical outreach organization. After JFKs death and the subsequent assassination of Robert Kennedy, Jackie needed protection beyond what the Secret Service could provide for her and her young children, and she also needed a well-financed husband to support her in style. [4][14], On March 17, 2014, Mellon died at her Upperville, Virginia, home of natural causes. She had political and social power but not financial power. Although Jackies friendship with Bunny ran deeper than access to Mellon money, once Jackie was no longer in the White House, she became aware of the ease that assets like Bunnys offeredsuch as the peace and privacy of the Mellons house on Antigua, where they retreated in the first traumatic days of January 1964. Both women shared a profound belief in the absolute ability of style to carry real meaning. In 1932, she married Stacy Barcroft Lloyd Jr., a businessman and horse breeder. Ironically, Bunnys own interiors and her landscapes, public as well as private, were purposefully designed not to draw attention to themselves. Rachel Lowe Lambert, nicknamed Bunny by her mother, was the eldest child of Gerard Barnes Lambert, president of the Gillette Safety Razor Company and a founder of WarnerLambert, and his wife, Rachel Parkhill Lowe. . Susan Zakin was born in New York City, where she attended the Brearley School and Columbia Universitys Graduate School of Journalism. Mellon lived a closely guarded life dominated by the arts, fashion, horses, rare books and extraordinary gardens. 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc. All Rights Reserved, Lisa Marie Presley was never the same after sons suicide in new home, James Cordens abandoned mansion heads a step closer to demolition, Hugh Jackman puts his dream minimalist Hamptons home up for rent, Barbara Walters daughter sold her Fla. getaway after dementia diagnosis. The Fall of Feminism: Jessa Crispins Why I Am Not A Feminist. [2][3] Her paternal grandfather, chemist Jordan Lambert, was the inventor of Listerine, which was later marketed by her father. ", Her birthday plans are uncertain but are likely to mimic last year's modest festivitiesa lunch at the farm for family members plus Caroline Kennedy, Huffman, and Forger. For a woman who spurns publicity, this has been a rough year. In it she wrote: Bunnyon your birthday. She is not afraid to face the future. Courtesy Oak Spring Garden Library. [17] Mellon amassed a large collection of horticultural books and was regarded as an authority on American horticulture. "If you are 100 years old, you get to like who you like," says gardening writer Mac Griswold, Mellon's friend for a half century. . She reportedly told friends the senator reminded her of John F. Kennedy, whose wife Jackie O. was a close friend, the Daily Beast reported. "That's why I want to do this story now," I reply. Lloyd reiterates that John Edwards remains in his grandmother's good graces. She soon began to support him with an increasing number of campaign contributions. But there was more to the story: her gardens were an escape. A key issue: did Edwards solicit the money to salvage his presidential campaign, or was this an attempt to prevent is cancer-stricken wife, Elizabeth, from learning of the romance? Letitia Baldrige, Jackie's White House social secretary, recalls, "They were very close. Griswold has mined Bunny Mellons personal archives for journal entries, poems, and photographs. WARRENTON, Va. Rachel "Bunny" Mellon left a small island to the Massachusetts Audubon Society, a library to an unspecified charity, jewelry to a former first daughter, and $20 million in cash along with artwork and real estate to Stacy B. Lloyd III, her son by her first marriage. Additionally, she added a guest house (referred to as the childrens barn), herb garden, vegetable garden and main formal garden. Bunnys daughter eliza, bunny mellon, and jackie kennedy sit at breakfast at kings leap, antigua. When in 1968 Eliza married Viscount Henry Dermot Ponsonby Moore, better known as the photographer Derry Moore, Bunny would draft Jackies children, Caroline and John, then 11 and eight, as flower girl and page boy (in knee breeches, British court style for little boys). She turned to her husband, a lifelong Republican, who said he certainly wasnt going to lend her his pen! All rights reserved. The estate formerly belonged to Mellons grandsonThomas Lloyd, who made the decision to sell the home. Her wardrobe was created by Spanish designer Cristbal Balenciaga until he retired, at which time French designer Hubert de Givenchy took over fashioning everything she wore, according to a 2010 Vanity Fair article. Bunny was a society figure with an almost pathological dislike for publicity, a trait she shared with her husband. She has always cared greatly beyond herself., Her grandson, Lloyd, said, I think she was trying to help (Edwards) for the right reasons, believed in him, and I think frankly he just took advantage of a lot of opportunities that she gave him.. At the time of her death, she had two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Bunny Mellon was passionate about gardening, horses and art, all of which could be enjoyed at the Mellon family property, Oak Spring Farms, a 4000-acre estate, in Upperville, Virginia. she told a friend after the visit from the feds, Daily Beast reported. The aide used the money to pay expenses for Rielle Hunter and his own family, as they lived together during much of Hunter's pregnancy to maintain the charade. [10][17] A longtime friendship with the Kennedy family was initiated by a 1958 visit to Oak Spring Farms by Jacqueline Kennedy, whom Mellon later advised on fine arts and antiques during the Kennedy White House restoration. "I have to tell you, my dear, I hate publicity," said Rachel "Bunny" Mellon. "I'm going along on very weak wheels." Paul Mellon once told The Washington Post, "The thing I envy about Bunny is that from the age of 5 or 6, her whole life has been occupied by horticulture, by one consuming thing." [18][10][19], In 1961, President John F. Kennedy asked Mellon to redesign the White House Rose Garden. Gordon, a veteran journalist, is the author ofMrs. women hell-bent on making their daughters marriageable. The life she's led was all about that kind of thing. Her rarefied style sometimes reached a point where the real people in her life, such as her children, seemed to become doll-like figures for her to mold and shape. What extravagance, breathed Jackie, or so the story goes. When she was around 5 years old, her father let her have a little garden at home, planting the seed for her lifelong love of horticulture, he said. Thats the story. With only a high school education, she frequently had to play catch-up in the sophisticated circles in which she moved, often cultivating powerful men to achieve her goals. [8] He served in the Office of Strategic Services during World War II. "Jackie Kennedy Onassis and I were the best of friends," Mellon recalls, her voice wistful in memory. Bunny considered white to be the most significant color. Ever since she married Paul Mellon in 1948, she has been consumed by turning his Virginia farm into a magnificent showcase. She had been raised in a family that believed a woman should not advertise herself, and yet its clear that she wanted some sort of recognition for the importance of her work, especially for the Rose Garden. [31] During this period Mellon wrote a note to Young stating: "from now on, all haircuts, etc. They were friends with the Kennedys and entertained Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles. ", The centenarian's friends view her tolerant attitude to John Edwards's affair as an outgrowth of her own marital experiences. The True Story of Jackie & Bunny's Friendship, Randall Hagadorn / Courtesy of Gerard B. Lambert III, Mark Shaw Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis Personal Papers John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images, Jackie Kennedy and Queen Elizabeth's Relationship, Your Privacy Choices: Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads. . MANHATTAN Listerine heiress and philanthropist Rachel 'Bunny' Mellon has preferred to shun the media spotlight since long before her financial largesse became She believed deeply in what he was saying.. [28] Shortly thereafter, in May 2000, her daughter Eliza was hit by a truck while crossing a Manhattan street, causing a severe brain injury and full-body paralysis. She was born into a well-to-do Princeton family. in 2005. These properties were sold in the years preceding her death. I know youll hate . They would talk about flowers for hours, mesmerized by one another's company. As society bandleader Peter Duchin says, "Bunny is a person with wonderful taste. 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