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Abraham Lincoln's chart carries an Environment authority, a Projector with no defined inner center to consult at all. Maia Mechanics reads his biography-sourced time as Low reliability.
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Andrew Johnson's birth time carries no verified source. Maia Mechanics reads the resulting chart as Medium reliability.
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Bill Clinton's birth time comes from his mother's handwritten note to an astrologer. Maia Mechanics reads it as High reliability, and his cross shares gates with Joe Biden and James Garfield.
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Calvin Coolidge's own Astro-Databank listing flags his time as accuracy in question, yet Maia Mechanics reads the resulting chart as High reliability.
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Chester Arthur shares his Incarnation Cross with Rutherford Hayes, and his birth time reads High reliability in Maia Mechanics, a firmer chart than most of the memory-sourced presidents in this batch.
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Connie Francis was a 4/6 Reflector on the Right Angle Cross of Rulership, birth certificate in hand. Nine open centers, no definition, no fixed anything, and a life in which almost everyone except her got to decide what she was.
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David Lynch was a 4/6 Sacral Generator on the Right Angle Cross of Laws, born one day after Dolly Parton and carrying the same design down to the Sun and Earth lines. Two defined centers, one channel, and a working life that ran on a pulse nothing could put on a schedule.
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Diahann Carroll was a 5/1 Emotional Generator with the entire top of her chart open: no fixed identity, no fixed voice, no fixed mind. A design built to be projected onto, in a career that made her the first at everything.
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Diane Keaton was a 6/2 Splenic Projector on the Left Angle Cross of Individualism, birth certificate in hand. The same cross and the same profile as Robert Duvall, and a conscious Sun in the Gate of the Fighter, on the line whose fierceness gets mistaken for something else.
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Astro-Databank lists two disputed times for Donald Trump, sixty-three minutes apart. Run both through the same day, and they produce the same chart in full.
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Her birth certificate is the gold standard, Rodden AA, and her stated time sits thirty-seven minutes from a boundary that flips her type, authority and definition at once. Maia Mechanics rates the minute Medium. What happens when the best data in this series meets the worst day.
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Edward Snowden is a 2/4 Generator with Sacral authority, carrying the same incarnation cross as Jean-Paul Sartre elsewhere in this series. He's only 43. His Saturn Return already happened; his Uranus Opposition hasn't, which makes this the first case in the series still being written.
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FDR's birth certificate gives an exact time, but the year on it, 1882, is one year before the United States adopted standard time at all. What that does to the chart, and what it doesn't.
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George H. W. Bush's own family record gives a range, born at home 'between 10:00 and 11:00 a.m.,' not a single minute. Maia Mechanics reads the chart at the stated midpoint as Low reliability.
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A New Haven Hospital birth record gives an exact minute. Nothing in the chart was ever close to needing it.
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A family Bible record from 1732, and a software ceiling that has nothing to do with the data. What holds across the day anyway, and why this chart had to be checked by hand.
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A birth certificate names him Leslie King, not Ford, and his chart changes more times in twenty-four hours than any president checked so far. His certificate time still sits hours clear of the nearest one.
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Harry Truman is one of the rarest authorities in the whole system, Self-Projected. His memory-sourced birth time still reads High reliability in Maia Mechanics.
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Herbert Hoover's time is a rectification from an approximate figure, not a direct memory or a document. Maia Mechanics still reads the resulting chart as High reliability.
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James Garfield's Incarnation Cross gates match Joe Biden's, gate for gate. Computed directly in Maia Mechanics, his birth time reliability reads Low.
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Polk's own quoted words: a birth date from a family Bible and a time from his mother's memory, 'as near as she could tell, about 12 o'clock.' The year alone puts this chart outside what Maia Mechanics can compute.
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James Madison's time comes from biographical material and a named researcher's rectification, not a primary record. Too early for Maia Mechanics to check, this one runs on the in-house engine alone.
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James Monroe's recorded time sits just sixty-two minutes from a real Definition boundary, an unverified source that happens to land close to an edge.
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Sartre was a 2/4 Emotional Manifesting Generator carrying 43-23, the channel the site calls genius to freak. The philosopher of radical freedom was born on a fixed cross made entirely of G Center gates, and every one of them is about love.
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Not a quoted record, a photograph of one, held at his own presidential library. What a chart looks like when the documentation problem this series exists for simply isn't present.
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His stated 8:30am time comes from memory, published decades later. What actually narrows this chart is a newspaper column with no clock time in it at all, printed in Scranton on the morning he was born.
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John Adams's chart runs Splenic authority for nearly the entire day, then turns into one of the rarest authorities in the system just before midnight. His own recorded time sits nowhere near it.
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John F. Kennedy's birth time is a family memory, and Maia Mechanics reads it as High reliability, a firm chart underneath one of the most written-about lives in the series.
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John Quincy Adams's chart carries a caution rating in Astro-Databank's own listing. Two boundaries sit inside the day, and his recorded time clears the nearest one by over two hours.
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Lena Horne ran on the rarest configuration in the bodygraph: a Projector with two centers defined, one channel, and no inner authority at all. A 6/2 built to wait for recognition, in an industry that spent thirty years withholding it.
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Lyndon Johnson's time descends from a family account of daybreak, later converted into a specific minute. Maia Mechanics reads the resulting chart as Medium reliability.
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Millard Fillmore's recorded time sits just four minutes clear of a real Profile boundary, the tightest margin found anywhere in this series so far.
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His birth record carries three readings of the same figure, thirty-three minutes apart, because nobody can tell if a longitude correction was already applied. None of it touches his chart, and the reason why is the actual lesson.
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Ten circulating birth times spread across eleven hours, and the type, authority, definition, and incarnation cross never change once. Only the profile forks, and the strongest evidence in the file points somewhere different than the number most people repeat.
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Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Tyler, Benjamin Harrison, Eisenhower, and Reagan all carry Astro-Databank's DD rating: dirty data, two or more conflicting accounts with no way to pick between them.
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Jefferson, Van Buren, Pierce, Buchanan, and Cleveland: five presidents whose Astro-Databank record carries a date and nothing else, Rodden rating X. What that leaves you able to say.
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Type, authority, and definition hold at every one of the 1,440 minutes of Richard Nixon's birth day. Only the profile turns, and his certificate time sits hours clear of it.
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Robert Redford was a 2/4 Sacral Manifesting Generator on the Right Angle Cross of Contagion, birth certificate in hand. A design Sun whose own keynote is building the network that gives original work somewhere to land, and a man who spent forty years doing exactly that.
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Roberta Flack was a 3/5 Manifestor with Emotional authority, built to turn raw feeling into a voice the world couldn't argue with. Her Uranus Opposition alone holds her divorce, both Record of the Year Grammys, and all three of her number-one singles.
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Rod Stewart's published time wasn't remembered, it was reconstructed: an autobiography that says 'evening,' a daughter's secondhand quote about pub closing time, and a presumed licensing hour. The reconstruction lands four minutes from an authority boundary.
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The time behind this chart was recalled by Hayes's uncle after Hayes had already become president. Computed directly in Maia Mechanics, the reliability sits in the middle.
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Ted Kennedy was a 3/5 Manifesting Generator with Emotional authority, carrying the Right Angle Cross of the Sleeping Phoenix, a life theme of burning down and rising again. His four major cycles map onto the three collapses and comebacks that built his career.
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Theodore Roosevelt's time comes from a biographer's account and, separately, a family letter. Maia Mechanics reads the resulting chart as High reliability.
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Grant's father remembered one time; a biography reports another, an hour apart. Computed directly in Maia Mechanics, his chart sits in a fragile spot either way.
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Warren Harding's Incarnation Cross gates are the same family as William McKinley's and Franklin Roosevelt's, in a different arrangement. Maia Mechanics reads his own birth time as Low reliability.
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William Howard Taft's birth time is a plain family recollection, and Maia Mechanics reads its reliability as Medium, neither a safe margin nor a fragile edge.
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McKinley's mother gave his birth time during his 1896 presidential campaign, fifty-three years after the fact. Maia Mechanics reads the chart as High reliability regardless.
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Every circulating Woodrow Wilson chart, Astro-Databank's included, runs on December 29, 1856. His own biographers give December 28. The correction changes his Definition, Profile, and Incarnation Cross.
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Zachary Taylor's recorded time carries no known source, and it still sits nearly four hours clear of the nearest real boundary in the day.
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Dionne Warwick ran on Ego-Manifested authority and Single Definition, a fixed-fate design carried only by the 4/1 profile: clever, willful persuasion on the surface, an emotional being who grows through friction underneath.
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Gladys Knight ran on Emotional authority and Split Definition, with the tribal bargain of 40-37, work exchanged for belonging, wired into both a defined channel and her own fixed Incarnation Cross. A look at the mechanics behind the Empress of Soul.
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No Astro-Databank record, no candidate time, not even a disputed one, a first for this series. What holds across all twenty-four hours of January 17, 1986 anyway, and exactly where a Generator's design comes apart between one hour and the next.
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Jane Fonda ran on Sacral authority and Split Definition, two disconnected pieces of chart that read like her own reflective mind and her total-immersion reinventions operating on separate tracks, carrying the Right Angle Cross of the Vessel of Love.
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Al Gore runs on Ego-Manifested authority, one of the rarest configurations in the system, with a single definition funneled through one Throat. A look at the natal mechanics, then the four returns, Saturn, Uranus, Chiron, second Saturn, that mark out where the mechanics actually landed in his life.
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Aretha Franklin ran on Sacral authority and Single Definition, a self-contained gut instinct with nothing outside itself to complete it, carrying the Right Angle Cross of Service. A look at the mechanics behind the Queen of Soul.
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Eric Dane was a 5/1 Sacral Generator on the Left Angle Cross of Defiance, birth certificate in hand. What an AA record buys you, and what he did with a year he chose to spend in public.
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Jesse Jackson was a 6/3 Splenic Manifestor on the Left Angle Cross of Endeavor, self-reported and corroborated by his own account. The only Manifestor in this series, on the one cross built for a life of sustained, transpersonal effort.
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Marlon Brando's chart carries the Channel of Mutation, the bodygraph's own pulse of genuine change, running straight into the Channel of Emoting. Acting history calls the divide 'Before Brando' and 'After Brando' for a reason.
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Quincy Jones ran on Split Definition, two separate pieces of chart with nothing natively joining them, which is close to a mechanical description of a career spent bridging jazz, pop, and classical into one body of work.
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Robert Duvall was a 6/2 Sacral Generator on the Left Angle Cross of Individualism, birth certificate in hand. Four marriages, no children, no funeral by his own request, and sixty years of never once playing a committee man.
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Tim Curry was a 3/5 Sacral Generator on the Right Angle Cross of Laws, the same four gates as Dolly Parton's own cross. His birth time was a guess rounded to noon, and it barely mattered.
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Valentino Garavani was a 2/4 Emotional Generator on the Right Angle Cross of Explanation, birth certificate in hand. The busiest chart in this series, for a man who spent 65 years translating a private idea of beauty into a public language.
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A reading told me I loved windy places. I don't, and chasing down why sent me into my own rectification. What the correction actually moved: Motivation, Variable, Design Moon and a life trajectory, all at once, while Type and Authority never moved at all.
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Freud carried the same three open centers as Carl Jung. A look at his actual chart: the Sphinx cross, a mood-gated voice, and the custodial channel that turned every disciple who outgrew him into an ex-disciple.
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Ted Turner was a 3/5 Manifesting Generator with a Heart center fully activated and never once defined. A look at the father he lost at 24, the sister before that, and the enclosures he kept building around an open center that never stopped needing to prove itself.
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The fourth chart in the birth-time series, and the first with an AA rating. What documented data settles, what it does not, and why his type turns on 67 minutes.
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Astro-Databank rates her birth time DD. Five competing times span twenty hours, and every one gives a Manifesting Generator with the same three channels.
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Sixth in the birth-time series. Three times circulate for Ra Uru Hu, all within fifteen minutes. The surface chart holds at all three, but one Variable arrow does not.
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Dolly Parton was a 4/6 Sacral Generator on the Incarnation Cross of Laws. A look at the sacral yes behind Wagoner, Dollywood, and the Imagination Library, and the four returns that marked out the shape of her life.
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Elon Musk's Human Design chart: a 3/5 Manifesting Generator on the Charisma channel, and what the 2018 Model 3 tent factory shows about that design under real pressure.
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Oprah Winfrey's Human Design chart: a 2/4 Emotional Generator, and what OWN network's three-year, $330 million stretch of losses before its turnaround shows about a resolved emotional decision.
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Princess Diana's Human Design chart: a 1/3 Emotional Projector carrying the Channel of Community, and what her landmine advocacy shows about a tribal bargain broken in public.
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Taylor Swift's Human Design chart: a Splenic Projector, and what the six-year arc from the 2019 masters sale to reclaiming her recordings in 2025 shows about instinct met with patience.
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A teaching look at how channels create consistent, hidden, or overlapping definition, using the public charts of John Kennedy, Donald Trump, and Arnold Schwarzenegger as examples.
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Reading Steve Jobs's Human Design environment variable against the actual places he lived and worked, from a suburban creek to the mansion he called an abomination.
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A look at Carl Jung's Human Design chart: an open Head and Ajna, an undefined Ego, and how that openness may have shaped the very field he built.
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A Human Design case study on early astrologer Alan Leo: how a 22-channel receptor field and a hanging gate reveal the mind's mental conditioning.
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Every profile line carries its own genetic role for taking people in and giving to them, gates 59 and 27. A walk through public charts, from Trump to Oprah to Leonardo DiCaprio, to show the mechanic in action.
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A Human Design read on Einstein's chart, following the personal compass from Venus through Jupiter to Saturn, and how one gate's discipline shapes an entire life's expression.
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Tony Robbins is a 6/2 Emotional Manifesting Generator on the Left Angle Cross of Migration. A look at the defense circuitry behind the Basket Brigade, the wave that took fifty years to trust, and what four life cycles reveal about a single-definition design built for crisis.
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A professional study group reads Tori Amos' chart: single definition, a 59-6 Channel of Intimacy as her authority, and a 5/1 profile built to dispense hard-won truth from the piano bench.
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His birth time comes from a biography and he disputed the date itself. What holds regardless: the Cross of Masks, the Prodigal, and the 43-23 channeling channel.
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A professional study-group walkthrough of Will Smith's Human Design chart: single definition through the Channel of Mating, an undefined Heart and G Center, and how that combination maps onto the story he has told publicly about his own life.
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How to Make Correct Decisions Using Your Human Design Sacral Authority In part two of our Authority article series, “How to Make Correct Decisions Using…
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In this installment of our Authority article series, “How to Make Correct Decisions Using Your Human Design,” we go into the realms of Splenic…
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What is your DreamRave Design? Image via JovianArchive.com Mine’s a Reflector Most likely, you are…
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My latest keynoting of Ra Uru Hu . Photo via Ra’s official site: JovianArchive.com Will…
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Bernie Sanders' Human Design chart shows one of the rarest configurations: an Ego-Projected Projector with a single channel, 25-51. Here's how it works.
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An apparent underdog in the battle for the past U.S. presidency in which Donald Trump emerged the victor, Bernie Sanders was a competitor in the major…
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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's Human Design compatibility: what their connection chart shows about attraction, conditioning, and why the bond strained.
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After nearly ten years in the spotlight, "super-couple" Brad and Angelina Jolie-Pitt, American actors, were married yet only three years later, divorce…
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A Human Design chart analysis of Hillary Clinton's Type, Strategy, and Authority, and what her defined channels suggest about where frustration shows up when she moves before being asked.
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Has Barack Obama Cracked His Career Success Code? As you read this blog post, you'll get an overview of some key elements of our 44th President of the…
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Donald Trump's Human Design chart: what his public birth data shows, a 1/3 Emotional Generator on the Right Angle Cross of Eden, explained gate by gate.
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Human Design System Analysis: Donald Trump This morning we arose to the Heretical expression of the Left Angle Cross of Defiance in the transits; and Donald…
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