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I've never been alone.

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I was born with someone else.

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I have a twin sister called Lucie.

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She's amazing.

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She's probably the person in the world
who makes me laugh the most.

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If I'm telling you this, it's because 
being a twin has consequences.

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Being a twin means creating
your identity with a partner.

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It means always being
relative to someone else

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and so always compare yourself.

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This led me to question
our education system.

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I am a pure product 
of the national education.

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Made in Henry IV High School,


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packaged in a prestigious
university -I mean this one-

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I've followed "the road,"
sometimes more of a highway,

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without questioning myself too much.

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Highways are convenient
you can just put yourself on autopilot.

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So, our education system
is perfect for people like me,

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for certain types of talents

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such as people with structure

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who can see life as three structures
and three substructures

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and who easily adapt.

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For all the rest, 
people like my sister,

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who don't really want to adapt,
those who break the mold,

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for them, school
is often seen as a battle,

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a battle to be won by getting a diploma,

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that little piece of paper that will allow
us to begin our life at long last.

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For all these people, it's only
once they get out of the system

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that they realize they're good
at something, they have talents.

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Now, I can tell you that my sister
is doing well and she's successful,

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but I've told myself all along those years
that there was a problem,

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a problem with waste of talents.

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Why is it that my sisters' talent
took so long to come out?

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Why did it take her 20 years to excel?

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And why was only my talent
recognized in school?

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Really, a talent isn't limited
to being a piano virtuoso.

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We have such a restrictive idea of talent
that we think we don't even have any.

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In the real meaning of the word,

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a talent is something we do
naturally and without effort.

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It could be being
an incredibly good listener.

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It could be being a super-good organizer,

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or being able to convince anyone
in less than two minutes.

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We all have talents.

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But the thing is we are not aware of them

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firstly because we exercise
them without effort,

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and secondly because usually,
they weren't valued at school

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and most probably,
we aren't using them at work.

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So, why is it important 
to know our talent?

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Okay, let's do a quick show of hands.

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Who has ever told
himself, "I'm useless"?

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Be honest.

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Okay now, who has ever told himself,

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"I'm hardly in a position
to do what I do"?

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Okay.

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And "I'll never make it"?

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Now, all three?

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Okay, those in that case please
come and see me after,

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we've psychological treatment unit.

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Seriously, we're all telling ourselves 
these things all the time.

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I do it almost every day.

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That's precisely why it's so important

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to ask yourself what your good at,
what your talents are.

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At what point in life 
do we realize our full potential?

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Me, I got lucky

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because I was lead to ask myself
some of these questions quite early on.

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In fact, on arriving 
at this fine establishment

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two things happened.

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The first is that I lost my talent.

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I had intensely 
studied literature before.

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So I went from metaphysical questions

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to financial management

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and it was quite a shock for me.

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Therefore, I wasn't so good
at school anymore.

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That lead me to the second thing

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which is asking
this abyssal question, "Why?"

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"Why was I studying what I was studying?"

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I was told about profit maximization
but I found hard to believe

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that it was the only end goal
of all my classes.

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So, during this first year,
I often thought about leaving,

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running away.

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Then I said to myself
I'd actually worked hard to get this far

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and that I should scratch
below the surface.

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So, I went yes, but on a journey
of discovery about my university.

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That's how I discovered the unlikely
combination of two words:

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social entrepreneurship.

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And I became fascinated by these
two words for the eight following years.

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I realized that going on a journey

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sometimes means making an effort
to stay where you are.

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But back then, I hadn't
fully taken that lesson on board.

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"Going on a journey" only meant for me,
going far away, going somewhere else.

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So, that's what I did.

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I traveled the world for nine months.


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It was amazing.

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Then I came back home to France,

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And there, I was lost.

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At the time, I wanted to leave again,

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I wanted to go live abroad,
to be again somewhere else,

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to run away again.

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But actually, 
my real journey began here.

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Well, not quite here in Cergy
but nearby in Paris.

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It began with a meeting,

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the meeting of three incredible people


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who were reinventing the world
around a bottle of a bad red wine.

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They invited me
to join them on their journey,

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an entrepreneurial adventure
that allowed me to take action

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regarding the issue I was 
passionate about, the waste of talent.

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So three years ago, 
with the help of many others,

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these associates and I
set up "Ticket for Change."

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Ticket for Change starts with the idea
that everyone has talents.

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I hope I've now convinced you
about that.

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Now, the real question is
"What do we do with these talents?"

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How could we enable each person

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to use their talents to have
a positive impact on society?

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How could we connect each problem
in the world and one of these talents

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in order to solve it?

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Because there are thousands
of people in France who want to act

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but they don't know where to start.

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We even did a nationwide study
with the help of a consultant,

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and we found out that for every 100 French,

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74 say they want to take action
to solve a social issue,

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but are not doing it.

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Now, that's a waste of talent.

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So, how can we go about
helping all these talents

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to act and get involved?

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Well, we are developing programs

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to train and educate people
about entrepreneurship:

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a social start-up incubator, 
a free online course open to all,

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workshops, talks ...

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In three years we reached
more than 53,000 people.

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We brought forward 
more than 400 projects,

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and provide a long term support
to 89 social start-ups,

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some of whom are present here.

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Rather, we supported 89 talents.

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We help them develop their projects
from a legal and financial point of view.

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We introduce them
to the right mentors and experts.

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We support them
in all those things but,

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what's really unique

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is that we help them
activate their talents.

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And that's when they really
become entrepreneurial.

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Because being
"an entrepreneur" is temporary.

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It's a job title, an occupation.

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But being "entrepreneurial"
is an enduring attitude.

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In fact, it means being capable
in any situation,

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be it in your private life 
or your professional life,

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of approaching each problem 
by asking yourself,

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"Is there not a solution to resolve this?"

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This comes at the right time,

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since we'll have more than a few
problems to resolve over the coming years.

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There are local and global problems
that are urgent and important,

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and you know them already,

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but I've got three bits of good news.

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The first one is that some people 
are already leading the way,

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they are taking action 
and showing us that it's possible.

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I told you about 89 of them,

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but there are thousands more in France
and millions around the world.

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The second is that each one of us
has solutions to offer.

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Each one of us has 
one or more talents

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that allows him to approach
each problem of the world

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from their own unique perspective.

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And finally, the third one
is that our talents today

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can have a potentially massive impact.

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Thanks to modern technology,

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thanks to these powerful computers
that we carry around in our pockets,

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we can do extraordinary things 
from our living rooms.

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We are potential super heroes.

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So yes, go on a journey!

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Go on a journey, but do it
in an entrepreneurial way.

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Go far away if you have to,

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but leave asking yourself 
why you're leaving,

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and best of all, go into self-discovery,

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go to discover your talents.

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Try this exercise: tomorrow or this week,

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really try to spot situations again
in your private or professional life,

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where you enjoy being yourself,
you feel whole and unique.

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Spot those moments where you feel
you're realizing your potential,

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where you're good.

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Make note of it and keep it
somewhere in your mind

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or better yet say it, work it out.

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So, it's super scary, I know,

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so, let me show you.

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I'll do it.

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Me, my talent

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it is my ability
to transmit my energy,

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to transmit what I have inside.

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So, there it is.

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Now, it's your turn.

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So, on your talents ... get set ... go!

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Thank you.

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(Applause)