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The ALL-NEW Groove Belt Max Leather is FINALLY here! (A REVIEW)
Oct 31, 2024
They finally did it! Groove Life made a stretchy-ish dress leather belt. Finally you don't have to lose out on your Groove Belt whenever you need to dress up. Adam put the belt to the test, and is letting you know what he liked, what he didn't like, and who it is for! - Get 15% off at Groove Life by using discount code "Gear43" (Paid Link): https://www.groovelife.com/products/presale-groove-leather-belt-max?aff=5 - Read the full article here: https://gear43.com/groove-belt-max-leather-review
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hey everyone Adam here with gear 43
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review and today we are going to be
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looking at the groove life leather Max
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Belt let's get into it so groov life has
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been making minimalist belts for a
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little while now and they've been doing
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a amazing job they kindly gave me the OG
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belt to review before I got the leather
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Max to review as they gifted this to me
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as well this thing is amazing it's a
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great belt there is a lot of great
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features and we are going to get into
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that right now so the groov life leather
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Max is the all new belt from groov life
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that covers one area in which other
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belts from groov life fall a little bit
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short and that's giving a premium look
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here the OG is a fantastic belt that's
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one of my favorite everydays one of the
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drawbacks was that the material for the
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actual belt was kind of a cheap looking
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it definitely isn't cheap it's just a
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cheap looking material and it left
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something to be desired I never found
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myself wearing it on nice occasions and
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I always found myself wanting my groove
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life belt back anytime I had to go to a
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standard holes in the belt pin through
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kind of buckle situation I definitely
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miss my groove life belts and so I
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wasn't able to have a dress belt like
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that until now and I'm so excited that
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they did this so just like their other
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belts this one utilizes the
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magnetized belt buckle this is the
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greatest belt buckle in my opinion just
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push the two ends together lift up comes
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apart get it close to each other snaps
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together and has a solid lock up there's
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no way that thing's coming out of there
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it is great we also have a new fine tune
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size on the back here so you can
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fine-tune the actual size of your belt
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this little arm goes over indexes on
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these little ears and that locks it in
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so it can't come past and you just have
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a shorter belt so that is something that
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is fantastic with this belt things we
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love about the groove life Max leather
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belt is it's
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[Laughter]
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leather they finally did it everyone and
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I am so excited they graciously sent me
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this to test out before it even hit the
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shelves and it was all on pre-order so
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that was really nice of GrooVe life to
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do that they use a full grain leather
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which has a little bit of stretch and
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when you get your groove life belt in
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your box they have a little kind of
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explanation on how that works and
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everything like that really cool and uh
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it does have a little bit of stretch to
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it it's not easy to see on camera but it
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is there it makes wearing this belt so
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so so nice and what's also cool is you
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can get this belt in black and brown
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which obviously mine is in the black
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color which looks very nice the Buckle
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here matches if you have the groove life
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Trace wallet the second thing we do love
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about it is the extreme ease of which
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you can adjust this belt if you just
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hold this down like we talked about
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earlier it has this very easy to use
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system I was worried about these little
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plastic ears that are kind of embedded
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but they haven't given me any trouble
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and I haven't had it slip or roll past
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it or anything I've set it to the
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desired length and it stayed there I
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haven't had to have any issues the
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really nice thing about the way they
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Design This Buckle is that other buckles
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the tail would go on the front of the
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belt when you're wearing it but as the
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groove life team has obviously mastered
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the art of belt making they put it
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behind so you don't have any unsightly
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tag hanging out on this side of the belt
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and it just looks super super super
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clean and of course we have this great
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belt buckle that we've all come to know
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and love I can't get over this belt
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buckle guys I mean this
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thing if there was ever a Improvement to
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this I don't know what it would be
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because they pretty much got it perfect
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right out of the gate the OG obviously
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has the same type of buckle system and
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it is so great proven to be a tough as
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nails and super reliable system to use
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so let's talk about some things that we
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don't like about the groove life Max
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leather belt as much as I love this belt
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buckle we got to bring it up the magnets
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here guys these things they're a little
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bit weak it's kind of hard to
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tell but it doesn't have the
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greatest magnetism so let me get here so
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here we have my OG Groove life belt
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listen to this listen to this
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look at that you you just had to get it
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close and and it wants to
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latch right so we have the the OG which
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is the the great this is probably half
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as good I will say I have found myself
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wanting the extra magnetism that you get
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from the OG belt just because that is
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the one thing that these belts are known
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for you just kind of get it close locks
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up and it may seem like it's just fine
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now but when you're wearing it it does
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leave a little bit to be desired so
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let's talk about the belt buckle in a
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little bit more detail there's one thing
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about this specific belt buckle that we
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don't really love here and that is how
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the belt itself attaches to the belt
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buckle now I don't know if you can see
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extremely well but this is a straight
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cut on the Belt here and you can kind of
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see these little perforations that's
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made from
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this this kind of Cam system with these
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teeth you slide this into the belt in
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into the belt buckle and then you put
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this over like so when you put it in it
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can go in and it does not want to be
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misaligned there's two little arms in
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there that make you put it in and it's
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square but as you wear this belt it
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wants to pull to one side and I really
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wish they would have maybe done
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something a little different with this
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maybe instead of doing this kind of
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teeth on the leather system maybe they
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could have just adopted something kind
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of like their ears here here and just
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had an indentation on the inside of the
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belt that this slid in this folded over
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in the same kind of manner but had a
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little trough to ride in or something
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like that they they could have done
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something and I have noticed that this
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has been slipping out and I usually
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about every week reposition it and
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tighten it back down like so that is
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kind of the big drawback and we we time
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will tell I can't wait I'm going to do a
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six-month review on this we're going to
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see how it's held up after the 6 months
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we will see about that
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so let's talk about who should buy the
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groove life Max leather belt well if you
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like the OG belt you will like this belt
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I know we pointed out kind of some flaws
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and some things that could be better
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maybe but for a dress belt you really
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can't get much better than this the
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clean design the tail that tucks behind
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the Buckle and it doesn't hang out out
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here leaves this just like in awe of any
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other belt in my opinion to be so clean
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and look so nice the premium leather is
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so so great This truly is a belt for
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somebody who if you dress for business
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every day this is the belt I would
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probably get super convenient super easy
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super comfortable and will last a long
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long time and it will fit right in with
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your dress wear and even if you're
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wearing this just cuz you like leather
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belts over maybe nylon or any other
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material this will hold up in a work
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environment for sure we are still to see
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about the uh the way the belt kind of
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attaches to the Buckle here but like I
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said we'll get back to you on how that's
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going to hold up over the next 6 months
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or so this has been gear 4 3's review of
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The Groove life Max leather belt be sure
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