He has a particularly deep belly laugh when his tummy is kissed or tickled.

Dabbing around his mouth with a muslin caused lots of laughter c6 months

laughing together with older brother while jumping on the sofa

recently we went to the swimming pool and after we took a shower, he was standing under the shower, laughing with pure happiness. it was so sweet.

When her dad came home from work and I stood her up to see him and she looked at him and laughed a lot.

He laughs so much, I don’t really know but he has a wonderful laugh and has been in hysterics on the bus causing much attention from other commuters!

He had hiccups after laughing

When being chased by her brothers when crawling, and she is caught and captured!

Being carried up the stairs with other parent following and pretending to be a scary monster

laughing while playing peekaboo, she was so excited that she laughed long before she could see me

Singing twinkle twinkle little star but blowing on her face, simultaneously, we both laughed so much we were crying!

He chuckles when upside down and under chin is tickled

Laughing hysterically at me pretend sneezing. very cute.

when running away when asked to come to you

He generally goes into hysterics when either daddy or mummy pretend to sneeze.

When he laughs at his older sister often when mummy is carrying him up the stairs for bedtime and his sister is walking upstairs in front.

when adults are laughing

a orange giraffe, shaking him and he had a bell inside him would make her really giggle.

Laughing at socks being thrown at him

Climbing up onto a toy chest, when I came into the room he grinned and giggled.

Laughing spontaneously as he understood something funny on tv aged about 15 months

Listening to his sister chant his name over and over again! (It still makes him chuckle with glee!)

laughing at his brother being crazy

Laughing at me jumping around with her toy rabbit

trying to crawl (when he was just getting the hang of it) and falling onto his face on the sofa.

being tickled

Playing peek-a-boo at around the age of 7 months.

at diaper change when opening the diaper to see what happened, we usually accompany this with cheers when he is sitting on my legs and i or his father sings his favorite day time song in the mornings waking up

when he laughs at something small, I laugh at him, he laughs at me and we end up howling with laughter at each other.

When he’s a bit over excited just before bed!

His Nanny jumping up and down in front of him and making him giggle

carrying him out of bed while still asleep; he wakes up, bit confused, and sees mother. smiles.

Repeated playing of “peep-bo” leading to increasing gurgly laughter

His spontaneously laughing at me hiding his spoon around his high chair

She hates having her face washed. one day in the bath, she took the flanel off my husband and washed his face and burst into peels of giggles.

When I was pointing at the animals on a pop up toy (horse, cow, sheep and pig) saying “neigh, moo, baa, oink!” and apparently that was the funniest thing ever.

Laughing hysterically at teddy reading a book and turning pages.

The first thing that consistently made him laugh: saying ‘big socks’. Had him in hysterics at five months!

laughing at us!

when a two year old was throwing a ball up and down and laughing

He would laugh at anything and everything

Being bumped up and down on a see-saw by his brother

The first time I (her mum) saw her laugh, when her older sister was dancing for her.

She is blowing raspberries at me, and I am jumping back in shock/suprise.. She thought that was hilarious!

Laughing so hard while playing hide and seek he fell off the sofa

Playing ‘peek-a-boo’.

The first time she laughed hysterically was when a friend pretended she had smelly feet. My little girl kept putting her feet to everyone’s noses, laughing so much, this went on for about 20mins.

first time she enjoyed being on the swings

When she first had hysterical laughing apparently for no reason

That would have to be his very first laugh as described above – it was on the morning of my 30th birthday – best present!

when her sister and her we poking each other on our bed they both though it was very funny , it was the first time they had had that type of interaction without me or my partner being involved

Crunching crisps!

Him descending into hysterics at a rainmaker being suddenly produced from a hiding place and then hidden again, over and over again.

Her first hysterics-We were watching a movie and I yelled at our dog to stop barking. Me saying his name made her laugh so I kept saying it and she went into hysterics.

At night he is usually breastfed to sleep. Some nights he randomly starts laughing while feeding although the room is dark and quiet. I wish I knew what was making him laugh!

Being tickled

Laughing at our dog. One night she laughed every few seconds for more than 5 minutes as the dog came by. She still laughs at her, but not as much. Definitely seems to be dogs face looking at hers that gets the laugh if anything.

at 5.5 months he was giggling and eating pureed carrots and laughed so much he sprayed carrots all over

My husband blowing on my baby’s stomach and rubbing his head on her feet. Causes deep chuckles.

we were walking on the street and her father was carrying her in a carrier. I saw a cat that made a noise and I made a noise to imitate it and she laughed and I realized it was the same noise I make when I’m pretending to eat her hands or her belly which always makes her laugh. I kept making the noise and she kept laughing. I think it was the first time that she laughed without me tickling her.

At tickles or “boo” games Spontiously laughing at newsreaders at around 5 months

Playing with his great grandmother

she was blowing raspberries and making new laugh and in turn making herself laugh

When we discOvered that hanging him upside down get a huge laugh

Giggling when being tickled or chased

Playing peek-a-boo while she was in her high chair.

My husband tickling our babies feet on his beard

He likes to be ‘stalked’; he instantly starts laughing and begins to crawl (or now, walk) toward you.

She goes hysterical when she sees me back from work (melts my heart)

Jogging with Flora in the Baby Bjorn sling, moving her legs up and down as if she was running, caused great giggles from all of us. Aged 6 months. We remarked we had never seen her laugh like that.

Lying on a bed, turned over to smile at his brother. Brother smiled back, baby started laughing, all three of us were in fits of laughter in no time.

when my son dances in front of her

When the baby first noticed our dog.

Her brother was jumping and dancing around, and she answered every new jump with bursts of laughter, couldn’t stop, so he kept jumping and she laughed until in tears.

I was singing and dancing a silly song, and Drew couldn’t stop laughing.

Spontaneous (unprompted) laughter in concert with her brother; not sure if she is laughing AT anything, but she wants to be a part of the action.

Making his own body move esp. by kicking off the floor in his jumperoo. Caused lots of giggles and excitement every time.

He and big sister often get into mutual hysterics for no apparent reason, and she’s learned to start it up by laughing “at” him.

She smiles and laughs whenever she sees my husband. She really laughs when he smiles and talks to her.

Dancing to drum music on my hip

She was about eight months old, and sitting on the bed with her dad. He was tickling her, and she would laugh so hard she would fall over. Then, after a few rounds of this, she started to laugh and fall over before his fingers reached her neck– the anticipation was enough.

Baby laughing when her older sister plays peekaboo with her

My husband was holding him and I was making faces at him. He was cracking up.

Blowing bubbles on his tummy after the bath.

I took a video example of daddy making faces and sounds it was pretty memorable.

playing peekaboo

When she was watching her older sister just going about her business. She wasn’t doing anything to make the baby laugh and I found that note worthy.

swinging her from upright to upside down

a big belly laugh from the back seat when sitting next to a friend’s 8 year old – over and over

When he was playing with his brotger and they were both laughing at each other with no obvious reason then that they were both laughing

her laughing at her brothers and sister

he chuckles and his whole body moves

when she couldn’t stop laughing when me and clemmy her sister were peeking out from behind a door at her – her laughter was quite uncontrollable and she has quite a throaty chuckle. we were all laughing, lovely moment

Playing with a bird puppet, silly noises

He laughs when he is inhis door bouncer, even when noone is watching.

She laughs heartily when bein chased around the house, especially if she tries to hide.

His sister pretending to be on the phone and saying-‘sorry wrong number,oopsy!’ Jago finds this hysterical everytime!

Giggling when being chased as she crawls

When she is thrown in the air by daddy and caught or tickled.

At about 7 months, he had hysterics when his Grandad hit himself over the head with a length of foam. His grandparents remember this and try to recreate it!

Her first gighle

Full blown giggling when facing Daddy including throwing her head back when Daddy made funny faces at 6 months old

That first laugh because it was so hysterical. He went red in the face and just seemed to have uncontrollable giggles.

Having a soft ball drop on his head had him in hysterics very early as well as any time his sister played with him (tickling or making funny noises)

Doing silly dancing with Mum & Dad when first learning to dance to music

Laughing at playing pulling a watch out of her dads mouth

He wakes up laughing every morning, clasping his hands and giggling with glee.

Laughing while his older brother is tickling him.

i was choking on a carrot and she thought it was hilarious and couldn’t stop laughing for about ten minutes!

Being chased

me snorring

ON my bad, waiting for the bath to run and I was blowing raspberries on his feet,then putting a surprised/shocked look on my face and asking ‘Who did that?’ and then laughing and he joined in too

Ongoing laughter lasting a long time – 20 mins?) while playing Peepo

Waking up in the morning to find her holding up her head and laughing at me or daddy.

I do hula hooping and once practicing on the green in front of my baby, and showing her various tricks, I suddenly lost control momentarily and my hoop started slipping down and struggled to keep it up, I laughed at my clumsiness and my baby laughed at me while the hoop was falling and i was laughing. That really surprised us, as before she would mostly laugh at things being done to her, rather than laugh with us or at things we do not specifically intended to entertain her. She was about 6 months then.

laughing when we were laughing watching a tv comedy programme (around 12 months)

She screams out too and covers her face

Him in his high chair and me wobbling a piece of cougette in front of his face. He was hysterical and kept wanting me to do it again.

The first time he laughed

She went through a phase og laughing and coughing at the same time, we called it cloughing

He laughs at strange faces, beards, glasses etv

She laughs hysterically at herself in the mirror or at her teddy.

When my cousin came over with her two children and he just kept laughing at everything the 2 year old was doing, her hopping, her jumping, just running past.

When his mother fake laughs in a silly way to cause hysterical laughter

He was about 4 months old and I (father) was pulling him up from a sitting position. He was keeping his head level with his body. However, on one occasion he let his head drop back and then burst out laughing. It was as though he realised that this was not expected behaviour. He then kept doing it, and laughing each time.

Really so manyits hard to say. I was recommended to do this survey by 3 seperate people as my baby is known for smiling and laughing. I have many great pictures of her laughing. I posted one on Facebook at 3 weeks old and was inundated with comments saying it had cheered everyone up – including from friends of friends whom i don’t even know.

At 6 months, her aunt (a professional childminder) was able to make her laugh very hard with a simple game of peek-a-boo.

I can’t think of one example that is more memorable than the others, except maybe the first time, but that was just because it was the first laugh.

She has a fantastic laugh and just goes with it. It’s developed over time but the video still makes me laugh. She has always pulled faces too (unintentionally) and I love to laugh myself so she seemed to pick that up pretty quickly.

The most recent time

When he was watching his brother dance, and he was lying on the floor watching, laughing, and waving his feet trying to join in. He stopped every time Charlie stopped so it was obvious he wanted to do what his brother was doing

Absolute hysterical delight while watching a toy car being wheeled back and forth.

Laughing at her mother whilst standing in her lap after feeding.

Laughing because his brother was laughing

Tickling her

when lifted over our heads – flying baby. Always makes her laugh

When their twin starts laughing at the first baby and then they just laugh at each other

Laughing at his brother who was just being himself but our baby found him so funny

Whenever she sees her Granny in glasses.

When kissing her neck or tickling her.

Always laughs at his dad to get his attention

Outside in his high chair having his tea.

As above at the moment.

Blowing raspberries on her tummy

Doing silly head movements whilst eating to copy us

giggling whilst sliding down legs

During peekaboo

Tickling her tummy

we were playing peek a boo with him and making funny noises. He laughed hysterically which made us laugh too, which in turn made him laugh more.

Blowing air on his stomach.

At 6.5 mos, she laughed uncontrollably–super cackles–when I made a pile of blocks and then knocked them down, and laughed again each time I piled them up and knocked them down. She laughed hysterically at the same thing later that night when her dad came home.

Chasing her 9 year old cousin like she’s an airplane

If you lie her down on her back and get on all fours above her, she would laugh a whole lot. If you brought a phone to record laughter, she would stop.

Tickling my baby and her laughing so hard she couldnt stop, even after I stopped tickling.

I droped a Glas, it shattered and she startend laughing

kissing his toes

he laughs hardest during games of peek-a-boo where we cover/uncover his entire body

I was “roaring” like a lion to scare away a random cat in the yard and he thought it was hilarious.i was trying to be scary.

He always laughs when he sees himsewlf in the mirror.

When we kiss his belly.

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At 21 weeks they have just started giggling at the dog giving them kisses on the nose

Wife had baby sitting on her chest and lifted her head and said “no no no no no” in high pitched voice. Baby laughed at her doing this hysterically for 15 minutes

her laughing at funny sounds dad made We

my husband rubbing his beard on our baby’s face

I pulled on a retractable measuring tape that clicks when you pull it open and then retracts fast with the push of a button. She went crazy laughing over and over for as long as I played with the tape.

At just over a year, my daughter made what I think of as her 1st joke. My husband was eating potato chips. She turned to him and did this exaggerated chewing gesture (an imitation of the demonstrative chewing gesture my husband would do for her to encourage her to eat her dinner) and then burst out laughing. 

When her mother put a towel over her head, waited, and then pulled it off multiple times. (Each time resulting in a huge belly laugh) 3.5 months of age

Playing peek-a-boo with her and she laughed so hard she fell over.

Once she starts she keeps going quite a long time

Playing a classical song with children’s lyrics “Hayden’s Great Surprise” and the BOOM of the surprise.

First swing and second – he giggled continuously

The first time when I tickled his stomach.

Playing peek a boo.

Anytime we say “I’m…gonna…get…you!” and tickle his ribs he goes into hysterical laughing fits, even screaming he laughs so hard.

hide and seek with soft toys

Laughing uncontrollably when he blew a kiss to someone and accidentally made a fart sound instead of a blowing sound

her belly laugh

Watching Dastardly and Mutley on television with her brother and knowing it was funny and just copying him but not really knowing why she was laughing.

The second one when she saw her elder sister dance. She just burst out laughing which annoyed the dancer very much : )

When making a certain sound is the burst out laughing

She is always laughing. Laughing at us, her brother, the dog, etc. She goes into hysterics when we spin with her or dance

Him in hysterics when his mother was being silly

Squeling when being changed

At about 10 months old, my daughter was finishing up dinner in her high chair. Her grandma and grandpa (my mom and dad) were visiting and had given her a wet washcloth to wipe up her face and hands. She started flinging it over the edge and her grandma would slap it back on to the high chair tray and she would laugh and laugh hysterically. This went on for several minutes. We all couldn’t stop laughing ourselves because it was such a silly thing to find so funny.

When he was about 5 months old, I kept telling him he was “mischievious” and he kept a laughing! I think it was all the sounds in the word when you say it.

When her Dad sneaks up around a corner and jumps out at her or when she lightly slaps his face he jumps back and overreacts which she finds to be very funny.

When she thinks something specific is funny that would not be funny to adults like how the cap on a bottle goes on.

being tickled / running around with the dogs

Sticking my tongue out the first time which started a smile that developed into laughter for the first time.

Me blowing raspberries on his belly in the nursery and him laughing

We have a video of my husband tickling our daughter around 10 months – she is laughing uncontrollably!

i was tickling her and she scrunched her shoulders up and turned away from me laughing

When ever older brother does something silly knocking stacking toys over and then falling over. Gave himself hiccups.

Playing peepo hiding herself in a box and popping out saying, “Ba!” She laughs as I jump and then repeats laughing as she pops up each time.

When I returned home from work my mother informed me that she had been very serious all day and did not smile or laugh at all. I greeted her and started to touch her belly and make silly faces and sounds; she soon was in laughter.

I pulled a retractable measuring tape that clicks and then zips back with the push of a button. She laughed over and over.

When she was about 2 months old, I noticed her putting her bib over her face. She would lay there with the bib on her face and kick. When I would take the bib off of her face, she would laugh, then replace the bib on her face. She was initiating a game of peekaboo by herself.

One when he is laughing at some noises I made

When he was only about 4 months old he went crazy watching his father do a silly dance.

viendo a la mama

“Benchpressing” her above my head. By the third or forth lift she is in hysterics.

Daddy acting silly causing hysterics. Was reciting a children’s poem and that was hysterical to her.

When I (his mom)digs my face into his belly and and then kiss his face.

Tickling him

when my husband made her laugh hysterically by tickling her on her neck with his nose or mouth

Probably the memory mentioned above. It was the first time he closed his eyes, opened his mouth and chuckled. His whole little body shook with laughter. It was amazing!

When tickling or kissing his neck and tummy.

lots of memorable. cant choose. really!

when recognize person, i guess

@ 8 months old, he was in his high chair & his 5 yr. old sister was saying “uh- oh ” ( repeatedly )

At first I was shocked because it sounded so unusual.

When father look at her & said loudly & funny “Oh, you are so beautiful, co cute !”

when i raised him up

being tickled

His first laugh!!

when I tickle them or play with my mouth to their neck

Dad was singing her a good night song and she began to laugh very loudly.

everyone laughed when she did

I was holding her in my lap facing me, and I would put my head back, then slowly bring it forward to face her…I would make some sort of noise at the same time and she would laugh hysterically.

he kick and laugh out loud

When she giggles

When we make jokes with face expressions; Watching films on DVD or on You tube; Singing.

Her laugh was heart warming. Somthing il never forget. It was a genuine laugh in her sleep. 

She tripping over while laughing…dont remember what i was doing

when he was playing with his sister

In the supermarket when she had wind!

It was when I found out that with my movements and noises was enough to make him laugh, he was about 2 or 3 months old. I could be like that for minutes and he didn’t stop laughing.

las caras que le hace su hermano y su mama

Simulating an air plain with his bottle

when people dance or smile big at him.

laughing on que

She would pull blankets over her head, then take them off and laugh

playing with his brother

her dad played with her pretending his fingers are someones feet walking towards the baby and grabbing her hand

My husband started to sneeze because of an allergy fit and the sound of his repeated sneezing caused the baby to laugh so hysterically and unexpectedly it was just hilarious. However, this only happened one or twice, now she just smiles whenever she or someone else is sneezing.

when we hold in my arms and jump several times with him

He laughs really hard when he’s tired (before he gets cranky)

the first time she watched mickey mouse, she laugh really hard!

when he laughs with his big voice

beutiful one that i want to record it

He has laughed many times and most of them are memorable.

When we make funny faces

Son laughs when Dad crawled on all fours for his discarded toys

Dropping a cup of water into her bath and it splashing

The first time she and her dad shared a laugh – she was on my shoulder and he did something to make her laugh, which made him laugh more and they were both in hysterics. Gorgeous!

His arms swing and Loud laugh

his dad kept dropping something about four times but not delibartly and everytime my son laughed.

We were breaking down large cardboard boxes, which he found histerical.

laughing when seeing us first thing in morning after waking

When his older brother had a jiggle bell necklace and was throwing the bell so it would ring. My younger son could not stop laughing. He loved it.

When his big brother jumps around pretending to be a monkey

he laughed when one of my cousins started playing I am gonna get you

She just starts laughing for absolutely no reason, suddenly she is laughing.

when he giggles so much that he shows the entire upper and lower gums

My 8 yr old nephew repeatedly falling over to make him laugh

I startled her and she jumped and screamed, then laughed and laughed.

While he was sleeping

He started sucking on my chin, which made me laugh. My laughing made him laugh, which made me laugh harder. I loved the connection of that laughter feedback loop.

When my dog run and jump.

When mom jumo into the bed he laugh for serveral time

When he first recognised the cues for ’round and round the garden’ and began to laugh as soon as I touched his hand.

When my older son was moving his face close to hers, then away, then close, then away and making funny noises. This cause her first ‘hysterics’ at about 5 months.

peek-a-boo

when she was sleeping she start to laugh

See above

When I realised he was ticklish

Her laying on a blanket being pulled by her puppy laughing hysterically.

When we physically tickle or kiss him all over

We realized that he was laughing for a reason. We have a small dog and everytime the baby sees him he laughs and smiles.

Mathias was crawling off the end of the bed and his father was catching him. He thought it was hilarious.

The above.

His father playing catch with him

She can be crying up a storm, but if we give her a zerbert on her stomach she immediately goes from crying to laughing in mid cry. It’s pretty funny.

I was pushing rubber ducks into the bath with my nose, she thought this was hilarious!

At 5 months, I was flicking out wet washing to hand on a clothes airer and she found it hilarious. I even demonstrated to my husband when he got home from work and we filmed it.

Wonga advert. She laughed at the old ladies

Lifting him up and down, which caused about 20 minutes of laughter.

Watching brothers and sisters pull faces and make silly sounds

Playing ‘rough and tumble’ with daddy tickling him

Laughing constantly all the way home in the car to raspberry blowing and kisses

Uncle causing hysterics by repeatedly saying ‘baps’

Her laughing at my sister when she came to visit- just for saying hello.

He suddenly started to laugh when he was being tickled. Previously I would tickle him and he didn’t laugh at all, then suddenly at about 6 months he really laughed when tickled (and still does)

having fits of giggles when mum was cleaning the floor under her high chair while she was sitting in it. She seemed to find it funny that mum was below her.

Him deliberately pinging water out of a straw at his Uncle Derek who was over-reacting to the drops of water hitting him. He could not stop laughing, real deep belly laughs.

big sister being what i thought was too rough but she was giggling like mad

He laughed for a long time at mummy crossing and recrossing her feet. Then after about 10 minutes it stopped being funny.

Laughing at mum making noises by blowing through a cardboard tube at him

When his sister does funny things. Or when all of the family is laughing, he’ll join in.

Above re teddy, also at about 8.5months, watching tommy cooper doing his hat routing – which really made him laugh.

When playing peekaboo with his brother or daddy he laughs the hardest

Nappy changing with daddy

en she made my nephew cry by climbing on him at 6 months she was 9 months old at the time. About the same time my aunts pet Maltese tried to scare her by growling. She laughed and pulled his ear.

Above, the first time, she doesn’t fully laugh yet as she’s too little

Baby’s dad pulling faces and blowing raspberries on cheeks whole lifting baby.

Kirsten laughing more when I laugh at her laughing.

The first time he really giggled hysterically when tickled

a child wearing a red blouse

That 1st time i will never forget

him laying on the bed and us telling him hes cute/adorable/handsome and him flailing his arms and legs and giggling

At six months, uncle read Terry Pratchett’s Where’s My Cow? with animal noises.

giggling in his cot when “talking” to the caterpillar on his bumper

when I squish his chunky thigh fat

Her 5 year old cousin making a toy duck dance had her and her 1 year old cousin in stitches. They were all setting each other off.

From the beginning, she got most of her laughs from her brother. Dad is also a major source.

First time

My little boy blowing raspberries on her tummy

The above.

He saw a person walking on the tele which he was sneakily watching over dad’s shoulder

Picking her up from nursery one day; she took one look as I walked through the door and burst out laughing. Then she ran away.

playing with our puppy

when tearing up newspaper

the feeling the vibrator of one toy

blowing raspberries on her tummy and getting such a “non girly” laugh

She was sat on the floor watching her eldest sister clown around she laughed so much she fell backwards

Visiting an urban farm when she was 5 months, we showed the baby an aviary full of small birds (budgies, etc). They were flapping around and chirruping, and she burst into delighted giggles. That was the first time she laughed at something (a mental connection, I suppose) rather than as a result of a physical stimulation.

Tickling sessions!

see drawings or things meueven does not stop laughing

Watching a music video

Growling at baby and she wouldn’t stop laughing and trying to growl back, around 5 months.

cuando esta jugando

very loud with enigmatic smile

The above

Tickling her

When he laughed for no apparent reason, just staring at his mum from his bouncer and laughing non-stop for a minute or so, aged 5 months.

The first time he laughed will stick with me forever.

Her auntie saying the same word in a silly voice over and over.

she saw dora on tv and started laughing

playing with a bobby pin, i would pretend to swallow it n then spit it out…sending him into hysterics

Laughing when he does something he know he shouldnt, eg biting or pinching his siblings

i think when she genuinely found a situation funny. I.e. we weren’t trying to make her laugh or tickle her. She just laughed at something slightly absurd.

hysterics when chasing her around on the floor and she was trying to get away – bum shuffling.

Baby laughing so hard at bubbles being blown. She was hysterical.

The first time his Dad nibbled on his thighs made him laugh so hard.

When he discovered that sucking on his mother’s kneecap made her laugh.

so far – I shook a marraka near her and she laughed each time it was shaken – this was around 15 weeks old.

that first time he laughed

when a friend played her with an stuffed animal and let it drop for fun on her belly, she laughed much.

she just had her first smile the other day. I was looking at and talking to her. She was making gurgling and cooing noises and I was making them back, then she let out her first real laugh.

My baby’s 4-year-old cousin jumping off the sofa and landing on the floor in front of my baby had her in hysterics. (video attached)

Both were looking at me (mom) different dates but the same reason

Laughing at silly faces made her hysterical with laughter.

The first time he lost control laughing, his Daddy held an Elmo doll up to him and repeated ‘no’ in a silly voice.

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