I had a great little surprise last week. I was on our Tumblr (which is VERY active BTW, you should check it out) and I found a few pics of Andy Lee I hadn’t seen before.

The hung Irish stud has been missing from the wanking world for a long time now, and I know I’m not the only one who misses his grinning handsome face and that big meaty uncut cock.

These pics seem to be amateur style, just him and his brother hanging out on a building site (maybe that’s what he’s doing for a living these days?) and getting their big uncut cocks out for all to see.

I tried to track down a little more information for the fans, but at the moment I know nothing more than what we can see in these three pics.

They certainly seem like new photos of the guy, so hopefully this means there might be some more wanking action with him and his brother soon. It might just be some mates hanging out and getting their dicks out for some pics (we all know Andy isn’t shy about getting that amazing cock out!) but I hope there might be some new porn videos coming up for one site or another.

Enjoy the pics, and remember to check out the other videos of Andy Lee wanking his big cock with his mates and shooting off some of those massive cum wads!

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Submitted by Greg in Paris

I’m in my mid 30’s now, I started wanking with mates ten years ago and I love it. It started for me when I went backpacking with a good friend in 2005. We traveled throughout Europe and then eventually went on to Asia.

I knew I would have a lot of great experiences and it was the most memorable two years of my life. One of the things I didn’t expect was that I would be enjoying so much masturbation with my friend during that time.

It started very early on when we got to Italy and found ourselves sharing a hotel room (we were a bit naive and chose more expensive accommodation over hostels at the start, being the inexperienced travelers we were) and the very first night he got his cock out. We didn’t have any porn to enjoy but I think that’s what made it even more intense. We talked about experiences and fantasies while we stroked our dicks and shot a load together.

It just continued on from there really, everywhere we went we would enjoy masturbation sessions at the end of a hard day, sometimes in the morning too. It really became a great part of our experience together.

After the trip was over I went through a bout of depression and restlessness and although I was still wanking occasionally with my friend I wanted more. I started going out to the gay clubs and seeing if I could find another guy to stroke with. I only found one guy, a bisexual man who wanted to do more but was okay with wanking together and got me into mutual masturbation. I’d never wanked my mate while we were on the trip so the experience was completely new to me and it really opened my eyes.

It didn’t work out in the end because guys at gay clubs are generally after a lot more than just a wank, obviously.

Eventually I got a couple of other mates into shared wanks and I had some experiences with guys in mensrooms too.

It’s been ten years of wanking fun with friends and strangers and it’s one of the best things I took away from my travels. I now live and work in France with my wife, she knows about my history and finds it interesting, and a little comical. She doesn’t have any concerns about me wanking with guys either, she’s just concerned that one day I might be arrested for stroking off a dude in a mensroom.

I only found this blog yesterday but I wanted to share my experience with everyone. This place should be far busier than it is and I hope my submission might encourage other men to share their experiences too. It’s great reading all the submissions by other guys and seeing their views on male sexuality and masturbation.

Thanks! G

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Submitted by Harry in Colorado

Never thought about jerking off with a buddy before I found this site. Been watching some great MMF videos over the last few months and wanted to have a threesome to start things off and maybe see what it would be like for me and my buddy to both fuck a girl at the same time, but last night I went for it with a mate and we got our cocks out watching porn.

It was easy. I thought it might be weird or something but I just told him I found something horny and put it on, then I got my cock out and he got his out. That was all it took and we were both sat there watching porn and checking out our cocks while we stroked.

I read some of the other things by guys saying it was hard to do it or awkward or they need to set something up but for me and my buddy it was was as getting some porn on and me getting my boner out. We had a good half hour jerk off comparing dicks and watching some videos before I grabbed the tissues and shot my wad. He pumped his cum out on his abs right after.

It wasn’t strange at all, like we’ve always been jerking off together. It was a lot of fun, I hope we get to do it more in the future!

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This is something seriously fucking hot that I know you’re all gonna want to see.

A new gallery has arrived on the English Lads site with fit jock Hugo Jones getting his hard uncut cock out for some wanking, with his best mate!

Noah Wilton (also straight) arrived on the site earlier this month getting his cock out and wanking himself off, and his best buddy made a cameo in that one too.

Apparently Hugo Jones (the more muscular buddy with the ink) was the first one to sign up to show off his cock and he got his best mate Noah to come and get his dick out too. Now both the guys have appeared together in Hugo’s solo session.

These are real straight wank mates, clearly not at all shy about getting their dicks out in front of each other, showing them off, getting hard, checking out each others meat and stroking their boners together.

Although we don’t know a whole lot about them yet (other than they’re mates, they’re both straight and they get rock hard showing off their uncut dicks) I think it’s safe to say that these two guys are genuine wank mates with a history of enjoying porn and shooting their cum loads together.

I can’t wait to see this video arrive and watch them both stroking their cum from their cocks together, I think these two guys are going to be exploring some new things and shooting off plenty of juice together after this!

Check out the gallery on the site, they haven’t added a lot for promotional pics of the action but the full gallery shows both these guys checking out their hard dicks, wanking themselves off in front of each other and finishing with fit lad Hugo pumping his cum out. Noah’s gallery has him wanking his uncut cock and his buddy coming in to check out his dick and see him stroking it.

Remember guys, when you sign up to check out their action you’re helping me out to keep this site going as well as getting access to their horny wanking videos.

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I’ve been back on the Next Door World site this week, checking out some of the classic action and when I watched this straight guy circle jerk I knew you guys would appreciate it too.

It’s one of those sites that strayed from their original plan a little. They used to do a lot of group wanks and mutual masturbation/sucking scenes but they became a lot more hardcore in recent years. I don’t know why a site does that, they clearly became the success they were because they had plenty of straight guys jerking and sucking each other for the first time on video. Instead they became exactly like every other site out there.

Still, even with that complaint there’s a lot of great action back in the archives, scenes like this one with five horny straight guys watching porn and getting their dicks out together for a big messy wank off.

Denny, Fox, Tommy, Trent and Phoenix are the guys pleasuring their meat together, checking out all the cocks around them and enjoying the porn, stroking themselves off to a big jizz splashing finish as one after the other they fire their semen from their helmets into a glass on the table

There’s a lot to love about this video, from all the cocks being stroked to the sound of all those wet hands sliding up and down on their meat. One of the best things happens at the end though, after all the guys pump their cum into a single glass and make such a hot and wet mess Fox grabs the glass and pours their fresh jizz into his mouth!

Remember guys, there’s more great wanking content over there and you get access to all their other sites when you sign up too, and you’re helping to keep BuddyBate going in the process.

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Submitted by ThickOne in London

Two years ago I started wanking with my brother-in-law and it’s been a lot of fun. There’s nothing gay about it we just meet up about once a month and watch porn, drink beer and rub our cocks.

I know he’s always been a bit curious about things and his sister (my wife) says she thought he was gay a few years ago when he started hanging around with a guy from the gym who was obviously gay. He assures me he’s into pussy though and the porn we watch is always straight.

I wouldn’t care if he was gay or bi though, we have a lot of fun wanking our cocks and cumming together and it wouldn’t change anything.

I never used to be into wanking with guys. I did wank with a friend when I was younger but it was never a turn on or anything like that. It’s definitely a turn on now though (so maybe I am actually bi?)

Our wanks are pretty simple. We just have a few beers and put some porn on, get our cocks out and rub our dicks for a while. We usually watch each other cum and we usually shoot at the same time too. It’s just a lot of fun to share that with a mate.

I found this site and thought I would share my experience. Some of the others here are good too. Thanks.

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Okay guys this is something I had to get on the blog when I saw it. I’ve just been checking out all the action on the Straight Naked Thugs site and I thought you guys would appreciate this one too, so you can expect to see more from this one in the future as long as they keep on delivering hot wanking videos with straight boys like these.

This one is from a little while back, with new boy Aaron being welcomed to the cock stroking fun by horny lad Cain.

From what I understand these are all straight boys who need a little money and they agree to come in and wank out their loads on video, sometimes solo, sometimes with a buddy. For this one it’s going a little further than that as the boys watch each other jerking on their dicks and Aaron gets splashed with a hot load of jizz!

Yep, after spending some time stroking their cocks together the new boy gets another boys cum load pumped out over his chest! It doesn’t seem to bother him too much, he’s soon wanking out his own hot load on the floor while his new friend watches him

Check out the video on the site and remember that when you sign up there you’re not just getting loads of great wanking action you’re helping to keep BuddyBate going too.

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I can’t believe I never shared this video on the BuddyBate blog before! I was sure I had, but while checking out the posts starring Andy Lee on the blog this afternoon I found this one was missing.

It’s a fucking horny straight guy group wank, a jerk off competition with Andy, Hayden Harris, Jay Hall and Leon Oliver, a group of straight guys with cum in their dicks and a need to spew those hot loads out.

Of course Andy pretty much steals the show in this one, the other guys are impressed with the size of his meat, Jay especially. It’s great to see all those open stares and glances as they watch each other, checking out those uncut cocks as they show off for the fans and get into their stroking.

I love how Jay seems to get off on seeing that big dick being stroked and played with, his own cock is rock solid and literally bulging with veins as he watches those dicks all around him being pleasured

And of course the cummy mess these guys splash out all over the table one after the other is totally hot to see too. I love seeing some straight guys comparing their loads and appreciating the sight of another cock splashing out the juice like that. Andy beats them all in that regard too of course, being the cum cannon he is.

If you haven’t seen the interview we had with Andy in 2015 then it’s worth a read.

Check out some pics from the video and click through for the full thing, remember you you’re helping to keep BuddyBate going when you join one of the sites we promote here too.

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So for some reason I didn’t get some shots from this video up on the blog until now, and I’m not sure why considering we all love watching these straight mates wanking their cocks and shooting their loads together.

Yeah, you know who they are by now, surely. It’s Andy Lee and his best mate Bailey Morgan, a couple of gym buddies who regularly get their cocks out together, watching porn and rubbing out their loads. They’re so fucking good to watch and I know a lot of the readers here are massive fans of their videos together – there’s a few to check out so you might want to click through and take a look at all the fun they’ve had.

This one is not just about wanking out those loads together like they normally do, the guys are trying some anal play in this one too and getting some toys in their tight straight dude butts.

Even though a lot of guys think it’s a little “gay” to be doing that, some of us know about the prostate, and we know that a little anal action can be great for increasing the pleasure. There’s not a whole lot of it in this video, but the guys definitely had fun exploring that together before really getting down to stroking their hard cocks and watching each other spewing their cum loads out.

And of course, Bailey seems to love seeing his mate gushing out his massive cum loads, it seems to do the trick for him in this one too, watching Andy firing off his massive load and then quickly joining in with his own juice firing from his wet veiny dick

Remember guys, when you sign up there you’re not just getting plenty of amazing wanking action between guys (and more too) you’re helping to keep the BuddyBate site going.

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Jimmie Slater has a house guest, Brandon Rivers is visiting and staying in the spare room, a room where Jimmie keeps his Fleshlight, for some reason lol

The description for this video is a little bit stupid it has to be said, as if Brandon needs to be shown how to use a fucking masturbator! But, it’s how we get down to the fun of the guys getting their hard cocks out and wanking each other off so I guess that story serves its purpose!

Anyone who has shared a Fleshlight with a friend will know how good it is. It’s definitely a great way to get a buddy into getting his cock out, and once you’re enjoying some mutual wanking it’s not hard to get to some DP action with both your cocks frotting together as you cram your dicks into it.

That’s what these guys lead up to, and it’s fucking hot to watch. It obviously does something for them, after a whole lot of stroking with that toy the two are pulling their dicks out and wanking themselves off to a creamy splashing finish

Click through to see these guys enjoying their 2 cocks in a Fleshlight and spunking out their loads together, and remember that if you sign up there you’re helping to keep BuddyBate going too!

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Last month we had a seriously hot gallery arrive on the EnglishLads site, with 3 straight guys wanking and sucking in the sun. Well, the video is now live on the site and I know for a fact you guys are gonna be stroking out more than one load watching these three sharing their dicks with each other!

We have Joel Jenkins getting his cock sucked by a dude for the first time, and he seems to be enjoying it a whole lot too! Andrew Hayden is the lad wanking and sucking Joel and Aaron Janes in this one, but all three get a feel of all those dicks and swap their stroking skills as they play with their stiffies.

It’s a fucking horny scene, just three straight guys enjoying their dicks together out in the sun and finally shooting out their cum over themselves one by one.

You know, that hard dick doesn’t lie, these lads loved stroking each other and I have no doubt Aaron and Joel enjoyed all the cock sucking they got too

Check out the video of these 3 straight guys wanking their dicks on the site and remember that when you sign up there you’re not just getting plenty of great wanking action you’re helping to support BuddyBate too!

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I fucking love this video. Why? Because it shows to straight mates wanking their hard uncut cocks together and seemingly shameless about it!

This is Hugo Jones (the more buff one) and his mate Noah Milton.

This was supposed to be Hugo’s debut wank off, a way to introduce the guy and his uncut cock to the fans, but it seems these two mates come as something of a package deal

Hugo was hanging out in the room while Noah delivered his solo wank off, it seems as though he was just sat there out of shot watching his best mate wanking his dick for the cameras. So naturally the same kind of happened with Hugo too, when it was his turn to show off his cock and stroke one out his best mate popped in and showed off his stiff dick too!

The guys seem to be pretty into it, joking around and stroking their meat, obviously checking out each others inches…

It’s a great scene, and although the guys don’t cum together and Hugo is left to rub his load from his cock it’s presumed his best mate was there to see him splashing it out, and I expect we’ll be seeing these two mates wanking their dicks together in the future too.

Check out the video on the site!

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It’s no secret that the English Lads site is the best for mutual wanking between straight guys. They have plenty of dudes on there getting their cocks out with each other for the first time and grabbing those boners, wanking each other off, frotting their cocks together, sucking dick and more too… I love the videos of the guys getting to grips with another guys cock for the first time and seeing how their own dick responds to it all.

Ricky Hampton has been exploring a lot since he arrived there, he’s one of those straight lads who just doesn’t give a fuck and really seems to get off on playing with other guys dicks. He’s been getting up to a lot of things over the last few months and now he’s been given the chance to show new straight guy Casey Lee how much fun it can be to stroke another stiff one.

The lads are getting hard right from the start as they grope those cock bulges, and soon both those uncut dicks are out and the guys are wasting no time grabbing their new mates dick and wanking him off.

I love all the sword fighting and the slapping around as the straight guys frot their cocks together and feel the hard and hot length of another guys meat against their own. The lads are oozing precum as they slide their foreskins over their helmets and stroke each other toward a hot messy finish.

Casey clearly loves the experience, when Ricky wanks him off and makes him cum he spews out a massive mess of hot semen from his dick, spewing his white load all over himself!

That soon has Ricky joining in and wanking his own mess from his dick, and we know already this lad can really pump the custard!

It’s only a gallery at the moment, but we know the video is coming up and I can’t wait to see these guys stroking those dicks and frotting their shafts together. This is going to be a great scene to watch plenty of times in the future.

Check out the limited pics they’ve added and click through to get into the gallery. Remember that when you sign up there you’re not just getting a hell of a lot of wank material you’re helping to keep BuddyBate going too

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Submitted by Craig in Cambridge

Thanks for putting up my experience a few weeks ago. Thought you guys might want an update.

After writing it and reading some of the other posts from readers I really started thinking about what it would be like to wank another cock.

I’ve been wanking with some of my mates for a few years. Nothing mental like some of the other readers just occasional wanks watching porn when the opportunity is there.

When the chance is there and we’re a bit pissed our cocks are out and the lads get busy. It’s been a while since I did it last but I started thinking about wanking with one of the lads again after writing and I got something sorted.

My mate Darren has always been up for anything. He’s the one I had a couple of threesomes with a few years back so we’ve seen each other cumming already.

Yesterday he came over and the missus was out at her friends for the night so we put some porn on and got our cocks out for a wank. I just asked him to wank me off. He said no, but I was pretty sure he would if I offered so I told him we could wank each other and it wouldn’t go any further.

He thought about it for a couple of minutes (called me gay, said he was gonna put it on facebook and all that) and slowly we kind of dared each other to go further and further until we were both grabbing each others dick. lol

We both went soft but after a couple of minutes our cocks were up and at it again and a few minutes later we were both hard and wanking each other.

I never heard about mutual wanking before reading the posts here and I didn’t think it was anything I would be into but it was fucking horny. It’s like wanking yourself but better if that makes any sense? My missus is shit at wanking me off but Darren knew just how much lube to use and just where to rub me. I did the same for him and he seemed to get off on it.

The feeling of another guys cock is interesting too. The way his dick throbbed in my hand and the feel of every bump and vein was weird.

I didn’t last very long, only about 5 minutes. I said I was ready and he wanked me off faster until my cum was spurting out all over his hand. He started cumming at the same time and I felt his dick get thicker and start twitching as his spunk squirted.

That was the gross part. The wanking was great but his cum all over my hand was too much. We both ran to the bathroom to wash our jizz off straight away. Even though that part of it was gross it was all pretty fucking funny and wanking his cock and having his hand on mine was great.

So you have convinced me. Even though the whole cum thing isn’t for me I would wank him off again. It does feel good having another guys cock in my hand and feeling another guys hand on mine.

Not sure we’ll do it again I don’t know how he felt about it but if the chance comes up I won’t say no.

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So I finally got the video feature properly set up on the BuddyBate blog and I thought I would ask you guys what you prefer to see in the porn posts on here. Do you want to stick to photos of the scenes, have video trailers to watch, or see both in a post like this one?

To give an example this is the new video with straight mates Hugo Jones and Noah Milton getting their uncut cocks out together and showing off their hard meat, wanking themselves side-by-side before Hugo is left to stroke his cum out.

Check out the video, and let me know in the poll what you guys would prefer to see in these posts too, it would really help me to know what it is you guys prefer to see here.

Thanks guys!

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I know a lot of you guys are gonna love watching this handsome hung and uncut straight guy enjoying his 8 inch cock on video for the first time! His name is Sean Watkins and it’s the first time he’s done anything like this, but I don’t think it’s gonna be the last time we see him.

I’m already looking forward to seeing him being wanked off by one of the other guys, I have a feeling we’re gonna get to see that in the next couple of weeks!

He’s a fit guy, goes to the gym and competes in physique contests too. If there’s a contest for having the hardest cock then he might win that. When his dick gets stiff it really becomes one of those solid veiny cocks that won’t go down until it’s splashed a load out.

He really delivers a good load in his debut wank off too, stroking his shaft, sliding his foreskin back and forth, pumping ropes of hot cum out up his abs and chest.

I wonder if he’s going to be back and who will be the lucky guy rubbing his cock for him in his first duo?

Check out the trailer and some pics, click through for more and remember that if you sign up there you’re helping out BuddyBate as well as getting plenty of wank videos with guys like this dude!

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I got some great news this morning! I heard from my mate at BlokeToys and discovered that Andy Lee has been in touch to announce that he’s back in business! Eager BuddyBate followers will know that this handsome and buff hunk gave us an EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW a few years ago, talking about his work in porn and his wanking with his friends, and I know he had a lot of fans here, so discovering that he’s back and possibly doing some more work is excellent news.

The last time we saw him was in January 2015, getting his thick and long uncut cock out with his gym buddy Liam Lawrence and sharing a wank watching porn for the Blake Mason site, it was a nice friendly wank between two horny mates and it finished with some great cum loads being splashed out – with Andy pumping his big hot load out all over the floor while his mate watched.

So, right now he’s only on Instagram as far as I can see, which means no adult content is being posted. Who knows though, we might be seeing him kicking off his career again and showing off that amazing dick some more in the future and we’re definitely ready to follow his career again…

If you haven’t checked out his wanking session with Liam Lawrence I would definitely recommend it. Check out the trailer and some pics of the fun they had stroking their dicks and shooting their cum loads.

You can follow our fave hung and uncut straight buddy on Instagram @andyleexox

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I fucking love videos like this one, and even though I knew this duo was coming I got a nice surprise this morning when I downloaded it and shot a big mess to the fun these guys have.

Neither of these horny guys has wanked with anyone else on the site before this, it’s their first time stroking their dick with a dude (as far as we know) and swapping their cocks in some mutual stroking too.

Inked guy Danny McCaw is teaming up with fellow new dude Dan Fellows for this mutual stroking session, and they’ve definitely had a whole lot of fun comparing cocks and rubbing each other off.

The lads are making use of the momentary sun we get here and throwing a ball around in nothing but their bulging underwear, then it’s time to reapply the sun block and give each other a hand. With shorts off and cocks out the lads lube each other up, wet foreskins glistening in the sun and swollen helmets dripping juice as they play.

It has to be said that this new video doesn’t match the photos from the previous massage session the guys shared, but it’s actually hornier than that anyway. Seeing these guys enjoying each others meat is so fucking horny and fun, they’re clearly enjoying themselves and loving the feel of another guys dick in their fist.

The guys finish off wanking themselves, splashing big loads of hot cum out on themselves and watching each other pumping the cream.

I really don’t think this is gonna be the last time we enjoy these two, I wouldn’t mind seeing them stroking together again after this, they clearly had a whole lot of fun rubbing each other.

Watch the trailer and click through for the full video of these guys wanking each other off for the first time, and remember that when you sign up there you’re not just getting loads of great mutual wank action you’re helping to keep BuddyBate running too

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I think this is the first time Trent B has been on video stroking his big black dick and shooting his cum out of his meat for the guys, but I don’t think this is gonna be the last time we see him. He’s a fucking hot guy and his first scene is likely to have plenty of you guys wanking one out with him.

The theme for this one is simple and easy, you’re the guy turning up at his place to find him in just his robe, and feeling horny he’s not embarrassed to put on a show for you as he gets his big dick out and lays back to show you how he loves to play with his cock and get that hot white cream pumping from his meat.

He puts on a great show, working his heavy and thick shaft, stroking his big black dick until his balls are pulling up and his semen is gushing out of his cock head…

Check out the full video on the site and remember that when you sign up to any of their sites after going from here we get a little cut of the membership, helping to keep this blog going!

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The English Lads site is going in an interesting direction lately. They seem to be giving us wank fans what we want and bringing the mates of their models in for some wanks with their friends. I think that’s what we can expect from new guy Brendan Howard too.

This fit lad is best friends with one of their other new models, Casey Lee, and apparently they share everything together. They’re very close, and according to the site they have no problem getting their cocks out together and competing with some wanking and cumming. That’s the impression they give on the site at least, saying Brendan and Casey have fucked girls together.

I guess this comes from their working out, they probably see each other naked all the time in the gym showers, probably with semi’s regularly. I know what it’s like when you have close mates like that where nudity is a common thing, it usually means wanking together isn’t that big of a deal for a dude.

I think we’re probably gonna be seeing Brendan back to wank one out with his best mate Casey in a few weeks, that’s going to be one to watch! Check out this straight guy wanking in his first shoot, showing off his floppy uncut cock and then getting hard showing off, he really gets a big thick stiffy to play with and wanks out a nice load of cum by the end of the shoot.

It’s only a gallery for the time being, but there’s gonna be a video soon.

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