Marvin Nunes was $450 over budget when Vivian elbowed him to keep bidding. That $2,450 cow — bought partly on her teacher’s pension — seeded a herd that today, more than sixty years later, traces every animal back to her and averages 12.8 generations deep.
The papers came back in January 1980, and a pitch-black Elevation son standing at ABS in Colorado stopped being just another young sire with a pretty pedigree. Ocean-View Sexation, bred from the Steps family of Marvin and Vivian Nunes, had posted the rare combination breeders were chasing in that era: significant pluses for fat percentage and strong conformation, at a time when the United States still wasn’t even calculating a protein index and when Elevation sons were flooding the market.
Picture the dairy world he walked into. In 1980, before genomic shortcuts, before proofs moved at today’s speed, before every breeder carried a screen full of rankings in his pocket, a bull’s reputation traveled through proofs, phone calls, barn visits, semen reps, and the kind of coffee-shop talk that could make or break him. Sexation’s proof didn’t whisper. It kicked the door open.
By September 1979, ABS had already seen enough to move him to its Colorado facilities, before his first complete index was even released. Then January came, and with it the words that would follow him for the rest of his life: “Sexation mania.” Dairy farmers across the country wanted the attractive black Elevation son who could put fat and structure into daughters with the kind of balance that made cows last.
And the bull who stirred that national appetite was nearly trapped by geography. Because he was bred in California, Blue Tongue restrictions sharply limited the export of his semen, which meant Europe couldn’t simply use him the way American breeders did. What no one saw coming was that the restriction wouldn’t stop his influence. It would reroute it.
That’s the Ocean-View story in miniature: a barrier becomes a doorway, a cow family outlives fashion, and one careful mating keeps echoing through Holstein pedigrees long after the bull himself is gone.
Act I: The Family Before the Fire
To understand Sexation, you have to go back before the proof, before ABS, before the “mania.” You have to stand in a sale row in Salt Lake City in 1963, where Marvin and Vivian Nunes were studying a nearly four-year-old Burkgov daughter named Ideograph Burkgov Steps.
In that era, a breeder’s eye still carried enormous weight. Classification visits were events, production records were studied like scripture, and a truly deep cow family could pull grown men across state lines just to see the daughters and granddaughters in the flesh. The 1963 National Convention Sale, managed by M.B. Nichols and Whitie Thomson, included seven daughters of Burkgov Inka DeKol — the famous sire tied to the polkadot pattern, born on the farm of the Utah State Industrial School.
Steps had the goods on paper. Her dam, Ideograph Tidy Stars EX-91, had made 25,027 pounds of milk at 3.7% fat and 918 pounds of fat at twelve years old, and the maternal line ran back to Winona 6321 H.H.B., imported by W.K. Sexton of Howell, Michigan, in 1884. The sale catalog leaned hard on that pedigree — “Ross Gordon’s famous family!” — and listed Steps as a VG Burkgov daughter with a 1-11 record of 15,767 pounds of milk, 3.9% fat, and 622 pounds of fat.
Marvin and Vivian had set their limit at $2,000. The bidding reached the line, crept to $2,100, and Marvin stopped. One can imagine the pause — the auctioneer’s chant still rolling, the cow standing there, the future of a whole herd balanced on the stubborn fact of a budget. Vivian nudged him with her elbow and told him to keep going.
They bought her for $2,450. Part of that money came from Vivian’s teacher retirement fund.
If you’ve ever stretched for a heifer you believed in, that detail lands right in the ribs. This wasn’t spare change. This was a schoolteacher’s security turned into cow-family capital, and history would prove it one of the great agricultural investments in the breed.
Marvin never forgot what it bought. The most influential purchase Ocean-View ever made, he said, was Ideograph Burkgov Steps, adding, “To her we owe any success we have achieved in the registered Holstein business.” A 2017 sale-catalog account added that he’d seen the Steps family at Ross Gordon’s farm the day before the sale and remembered them as “the best group of animals from one family I have ever seen.”
That was the dream at Ocean-View. Not a one-hit wonder, not the fashionable sire of the month — a cow family built to stand the pressure of time.
Steps became a 2E-EX-90 Gold Medal Dam — the breed’s old mark for a proven producer of high-performing, high-classifying daughters — with a top record of 28,390 pounds of milk and 980 pounds of fat. Bred to Ida-Falls Stylemaster EX-GM, she produced Ocean-View Mistress Sonia VG-87. Sonia went to Rosafe Citation R. EX-Extra — the same great transmitter behind Glenridge Citation Roxy’s family — and the result was Ocean-View Citation Sheri VG.
Then came the mating that lit the fuse: Sheri to Round Oak Rag Apple Elevation. Four matings, fourteen years, one family climbing toward something — and the calf born from that last cross on September 11, 1973, was Ocean-View Sexation.
By 1981, the family had already earned the cover of the Holstein World Brood Cow Issue. The feature centered on Ocean-View Capsule Sharon EX-90, a sixth-generation Excellent descendant of Steps who made over 40,000 pounds of milk and more than 254,000 pounds lifetime. Think about what that cover meant in 1981 — no genomics, no shortcuts, just a magazine telling the breed that this California family could stamp Excellent daughters six deep. The story was already remarkable. The ink was barely dry on that cover before the family proved it was only getting started.
Looking back, the signs were there. Elevation gave Sexation the sire power of the age, Citation R. lent the old transmitter strength, and Steps supplied the maternal depth Marvin had risked real money to secure. But nobody standing in that barn in 1973 could have guessed this calf would one day put more than 27,000 daughters into production in the United States — or that, decades on, every animal in the family’s barn would trace straight back to him.
Act II: The Bull They Couldn’t Bottle Up
Sexation didn’t enter AI through some polished rollout. He got his chance because Nor-Cal Sires needed a solid, reasonably priced young bull, and Marvin Nunes was willing to lease him. In December 1974, at just fifteen months old, Sexation was launched as a young sire by Nor-Cal, a California AI company that worked with ABS.
He cut a striking figure — solid black where most of the breed ran broken and patchy, the kind of dark, clean-coated bull that, by all accounts, photographed like a statue and made a stud parlor go quiet when he walked through. And the rest of the story fits that quiet entrance: no fireworks, no theatrical beginning, just a good bull from a good cow family, given a shot because the pedigree made sense and the economics worked.
The obstacles were real. He was one more Elevation son in a market already thick with Elevation sons. He was born in California, where Blue Tongue restrictions meant his semen could barely be exported. And as a sire of sons, his milk volume wasn’t strong enough to make him a runaway success in that role.
That last point matters, because legends don’t need to be sanded smooth. Sexation wasn’t perfect. What made him matter was that his daughters worked.
His daughters were cattle a farmer could live with. Read the 1989 Holstein World tribute and you can almost hear a herdsman nodding: he “truly transmitted the profile that corresponds to the expectations that every dairy farmer has for what a solid cow should look like,” and a Holstein International profile celebrated him the same way, as a source of females. In breeder language, that’s about as good as it gets.
Starting in 1980, after that first index revealed the rare fat-percentage strength for an Elevation son alongside real conformation, Sexation became an ABS icon. He died in 1983 at only nine years of age, yet by then his name was secure. More than 27,000 daughters came into production in the United States.
But the great twist — the part that still feels almost too perfect — was Europe.
Because direct semen export was restricted, European AI organizations went hunting for another route. They turned to Sexation sons born outside California or developed through embryos, and what came back is hard to believe even now. Start with Freebrook Sexation Amos, his maternal grandsire Astronaut: 70,100 daughters in the Netherlands. Then Paltzer Sexation Bert, out of an Apache-sired dam: 96,689 daughters — in one country. Dutch CRV statistics later pushed Bert’s cumulative total past 132,255.
Read those numbers again. That’s not influence sneaking through a side door. That’s influence arriving with a crowd behind it.
And the crowd kept growing. Triosex of KI Samen — whose dam was bred to Sexation in Belgium — reached roughly 15,000 daughters across eleven countries. Orlo, imported to Germany as an embryo, became the highest-TPI Sexation son in the world in the 2023 reporting — TPI being the breed’s all-around merit index — with 2,911 daughters in Germany. Back home, Indianhead Cherokee carried the U.S. flag as the highest-TPI domestic son, with 8,694 daughters of his own.
So Blue Tongue restricted him. And then it scattered his blood through sons, embryos, and AI programs on two continents. What was meant to contain him helped make him global.
His female line may be the deeper story. Ked Sexation Jasmine VG became the dam of Ked Mark Justine VG-88-GMD. Justine produced Ked Juror GP-GM, and she was the grandam of Ked Outside Jeeves, who recorded 51,467 daughters and appears through Jeeves in the pedigree of the powerful Frazzled. Sexation also stands behind the Prudence family, which Holstein International connects to the modern sire Ranger-Red. Most readers won’t memorize the path from Jasmine to Justine to Juror to Jeeves to Frazzled — but that’s exactly the point. A good cow family keeps finding the next open lane.
And here’s where the old bull reaches all the way into today. Pull up the April 2026 Top 100 lists — the PTA Type Females, the TPI Bulls — and Pam Nunes will walk you back through them name by name. Trace those modern sires back far enough, she says, and a striking share of them carry Sexation. Most run through Lew-Bro Sexation Cass; a handful — Superstition and Gold Chip among them — come instead through Juror. Follow those two lanes forward and his blood threads behind today’s heavyweights — Doorman, Doc, Lambda, Planet through Cass; Superstition and Gold Chip through Juror — often more than once in a single pedigree. Pam’s honest about the why. “Maybe today there are more bulls that can do that,” she says, “because it’s getting so inbred and crossed over. But I think it’s pretty cool.” She’s not claiming Sexation built those bulls single-handed. She’s just noticing that when you follow the breed’s best back to the foundation, his name keeps surfacing — and that’s a kind of legacy no proof sheet measures.
Some of his daughters became stars in their own right. Mansion-Valley Niagara, a Sexation daughter, sold through the 1983 Designer Fashion Sale for $280,000 to Hilltop-Hanover Farms, later classified EX-95, and completed an age-eleven record of 48,910 pounds of milk — described in the contemporary accounts as the highest record for age in North Carolina history.
And that was still only the beginning of what the covenant could do. Because then there was Zandra.
The Cow Who Turned a Chance Into a Legacy
“Can she walk?”
That was Marvin’s first question when Bill Kent called to say he’d just bought an Excellent cow for $1,600. The cow was Moore-Farms Valiant Smurf EX-90-GMD-DOM. She’d been scheduled to sell carrying a Sexation calf, but shortly before the sale she came back in heat — bred right back to Sexation — and the buyers got nervous. Reluctant to gamble on a cow that might not be settled, they let her go. Bill saw something different. “She’s a good one,” he told Marvin.
He was right. After the 3,000-mile haul to California, Smurf was confirmed pregnant to that sale-day service, and the resulting calf was Moore-Farms Sexy Zandra.
That calf — the one buyers hesitated over before she was even born — became one of the great living arguments for Sexation.
The Zandra family had started far from California, tracing to Quoque 7174 H.H.B., imported from Holland in 1884 by Wm. Koch of New York City, and it stayed in central New York for roughly seventy years before Smurf carried it west. Sexy Zandra classified EX-92-EEEEE-GMD — and produced 263,670 pounds of milk, 10,103 pounds of fat, and 8,476 pounds of protein across 3,337 days.
In a 1996 Holstein World advertisement, Marvin and Daryl Nunes — father and son writing it together, the younger already shaping the breeding argument as much as the marketing — argued that their Sexation two-year-olds were still outperforming more modern herdmates, and that the good young cows in the herd that weren’t Sexations usually had him somewhere in their pedigrees. “Tremendous type plus volumes of production,” they wrote, “equals calf after calf and years of adding to the bottom line.” That sentence could’ve been carved over the Ocean-View barn door.
Sexy Zandra’s greatest daughter was Ocean-View Mandel Zandra EX-95-2E-EEEEE-GMD-DOM, by Lutz-Meadows E. Mandel. E.Y. Morwick called her possibly the best all-round Mandel daughter — no small compliment, given how widely Mandel was used. She produced Ocean-View Zenith EX-GM, the Durham son proven through major AI systems, and at one point seventeen Excellent offspring of Mandel Zandra were confirmed.
Here’s the export theme echoing again. When the Nuneses bred Mandel Zandra back to Sunshine, she had no living daughters — and because embryos couldn’t be exported from California, the natural move was to sell them internationally only. Her son Zenith spread her in the U.S.; her daughters spread her across continents. As the family puts it, the true measure of strong breeding isn’t how cows do in your own barn — it’s how they do in someone else’s. Pam Nunes later called Mandel Zandra the easiest cow they ever had to market, and told the story of a gentleman from Japan proudly showing them his phone — the screen saver was Zandra.
A phone screen saver. From Japan. For a cow bred out of a New York family, hauled to California through a sale-day accident, shaped by Sexation, and carried forward by Ocean-View. You couldn’t script Holstein history much better.
The Same Covenant, Tested Against Time
If Sexation proved a cow family could conquer the world through one bull, the Dixie family proved the same philosophy could outlast something harder: time itself.
In 1975, Marvin bought Fleetridge Mona Dixie EX-92-2E, carrying a Paclamar Bootmaker heifer calf. That unborn calf became Fleetridge Bootmaker Dixie EX-90-2E-GMD. Marvin didn’t just buy a cow that day. He bought the next chapter already inside her. Mona Dixie opened the family’s historic run in 1979 when, as a ten-year-old, she produced 40,010 pounds of milk and 1,413 pounds of fat.
Then a Dixie daughter went east. Brigeen Farms bought Ocean-View Elevation Debbie from Nunes and bred her to Valiant, and the resulting Brigeen Hanover Debra EX-91-2E set a national championship three-year-old record in 1986 with 42,910 pounds of milk and 1,882 pounds of fat. That’s the part that gets overlooked about a great cow family — it doesn’t stay home. The Nuneses sold a Dixie heifer east, a Maine breeder put a different sire on her, and the family answered just the same in someone else’s barn. A good family travels.
Now sit with that for a moment. A three-year-old. More than 42,000 pounds of milk. Nearly 1,900 pounds of fat. And she still carried the type to score Excellent.
That wasn’t a lucky lactation. It was the middle of a chain. In November 1998, Jerland Aero Delicate EX-92-2E became the breed’s first seventh-generation Excellent, 40,000-pound cow. By 2005, the Dixie family had stretched to nine consecutive generations of Excellent, 40,000-pound females — a sequence the source material describes as unprecedented in Holstein history.
Read that line twice, because the breeding math behind it is brutal. One Excellent 40,000-pound cow is special. Four generations is historic. Nine means the family kept answering the question over and over — through different sires, different herds, different managers, different decades, and tightening standards. No skips, no shortcuts. For a modern producer chasing longevity and lifetime efficiency, that’s not a museum piece. That’s the whole argument.
Marvin’s Herd Then — and the Sassys Now
If Sexation was the high point of the old story, the Sassys are the high point of the new one. The same philosophy that bought a teacher’s-pension cow in 1963 is still winning on colored shavings today — and it runs through one remarkable family.
The Sassy family is the clearest proof of the Ocean-View vision, because it blends both foundation lines into one cow: it traces straight to Sexation and Steps, while also carrying Zandra. During their era, Lindy Sheen and Mandel Zandra stood together in the show string, and visitors would ask which was the favorite. The honest answer was always the same — it was nearly impossible to choose. The Sassys carry the best of both.
What makes the family extraordinary is how it grew. Ocean-View Zenith Sassy EX-90 was never flushed. She produced four natural daughters, the old-fashioned way, and each one founded a branch:
- Damion Sassy EX-95-3E — matriarch of a line that’s already produced three All-American descendants, the breed’s annual honor for the top animal in its age class nationwide.
- Dundee Sassy EX-93-3E — a 303,000-plus-pound lifetime producer.
- Sanchez Sassy EX-94-2E — a state and national fat leader, over 248,000 pounds lifetime and more than 11,000 pounds of fat.
- Sterling Silver EX-94-2E — Holstein USA Star of the Breed and a Junior 3-Year-Old milk record holder.
Four sisters from one unflushed dam. Set that against a modern world of dozens of IVF siblings — this family elevated itself the slow way, naturally, and the Nuneses have leaned into it on purpose. Watch how Daryl and Pam mate this family and you see the covenant still working: faced with a herd full of choices, they keep reaching for sires carrying Sexation blood, because the family answers to those genetics. Sexy Shamma was a direct Sexation daughter; Benefit Sassy was sired by a Sexation son. More recently they’ve leaned on Diamondback and Master, both of which carry Sexation and Steps influence — natural complements to a family already proven to respond. It’s not linebreeding for its own sake. It’s protecting what already works.
And the family is still announcing itself. At the 2025 International Junior Holstein Show at World Dairy Expo, the Ocean-View prefix landed in the Top 10 eight times across the heifer division — double the next-closest breeder prefix at the show. The newest star is Ocean-View Sassin Me Back, a WDE Junior Champion, Jr All-American and Reserve All-American. Her pedigree carries fourteen consecutive generations of Excellent and Very Good females averaging 90 points — and Steps appears six times within her extended pedigree. Six crosses to that 1963 cow, in a champion heifer winning today. When she sold in 2024 to a partnership with Doug Brown of Iowa, she wasn’t just a stylish heifer — she was nearly eighty years of breeding decisions standing on four good legs.
The Sassys aren’t alone, either. The Barbie family runs back through Juror, tying yet another Ocean-View line to that same Sexation thread. And that’s the thing about this herd — you can pick almost any branch, the Sassys, the Sheens, the Barbies, the Zandras, and follow it down to the same root.
Act III: The Sale, the Silence, and the Echo
Every great herd eventually reaches the day the trailers line up.
For Ocean-View, that day was May 2, 2012, at the home farm. The herd had grown past 600 registered Holsteins, with more than 330 of the animals in that dispersal herd classified Excellent. Dallas Burton had predicted it would be remembered as one of the few distinguishing sales in Holstein history.
Imagine the sound of that day — the chant rolling for hours, cattle shifting in fresh bedding, old friends leaning on the gates, buyers paging through pedigrees that weren’t really pedigrees but family histories. The sale ran nine hours, and 524 lots averaged $2,742. All the cow families were represented. Steps. Dixie. Zandra. The names that built the herd, led through the ring one after another, and scattered into new barns.
But here’s the part most folks in the seats didn’t know that day. The top seller, an EX-92 Allen daughter of Mandel Zandra known as Allen Zamora, sold for $15,200 — and the buyers were the Nuneses themselves. They had Ronnie do the bidding so no one in the crowd could tell which lots they were quietly after, and by the end of the day they’d bought back ten head to add to the ones they’d already set aside. Think about that — a family dispersing its life’s work, and slipping back into its own sale under cover to make sure the best of it came home with them. That’s not sentiment. That’s a breeder who knew exactly what those cow families were worth.
Because a dispersal isn’t an ending — not when the genetics are real. Daryl and Pam Nunes carried the family commitment forward through Ocean View Genetics, now based in Deerfield, Wisconsin, where the core cow families kept going on a more individual scale. Their approach stayed faithful to the old lesson: keep the cows that make cows. Pam calls them the “factories” — a plain, working word that fits Ocean-View better than any polished slogan. Across the life of the prefix, 498 animals have earned the Excellent classification and 110 carry Gold Medal Dam status. Among the cows standing on the farm today, the highest lifetime producer, Ocean-View Roy Shari EX-94-5E, has milked 370,210 pounds in a lifetime.
And then 2019 arrived, and it brought the cruelest losses and one of the proudest records in the same twelve months.
That year, Ocean-View Sterling Silver EX-94-2E was named Holstein USA Star of the Breed — a National Elite Performer who’d milked past 219,000 pounds lifetime, including a record junior-three-year-old lactation of 58,330 pounds of milk, 2,419 pounds of fat, and 1,640 pounds of protein, the thirteenth generation of Excellent or Very Good dams tracing to Steps. And then, heartbreakingly, she died right after the announcement. The cow reached the summit and laid down at the top of it.
That same year, on November 7, Marvin L. Nunes passed away at 83. He’d been honored with Holstein Association USA’s National Distinguished Breeder Award back in 2007, so he knew what he’d built. By every account he was a man who wanted no fuss for himself — but he deserved to be marked, and the symmetry of that year marks him whether he’d have wanted it or not. The man and the cow he made went out together. There’s grief in that, and there’s also a rare kind of peace in a breeder leaving behind families that still know exactly how to work.
And here’s the thing — as proud as the family is of that thirteenth-generation record, Pam will tell you it isn’t even the cow that says the most about what Ocean-View built. That distinction belongs to Ocean-View Lined in Silver *RC, an EX-91 Awesome-Red daughter out of Ocean-View Silver Lining. Her pedigree reads like the whole story compressed into a single page: fourteen generations of Excellent and Very Good dams, every one of them, averaging 91 points. Her dam, Silver Lining, scored EX-94 EEEEE. Her second dam was Sterling Silver herself. And the tower behind them runs straight down through the Sassys to the twelfth dam — Ideograph Burkgov Steps — then Tidy Stars and, fourteen deep, Twelvelms Hartog Segis EX-92. Look at the top of that pedigree and you’ll find three generations in a row over 50,000 pounds of milk: Lined in Silver at 50,700, her dam at 52,680 and again at 52,100, her second dam topping out at 58,330. Pam doesn’t believe there’s another cow alive who carries all of it at once — that kind of type, that depth, that production, stacked in one female. That’s not a record. That’s a thesis statement.
There’s one thing about that barn that puzzles Pam in the best possible way. The Ocean-View string today is a patchwork of families that, on paper, have no business all peaking at once — Sassy, Sheen, Arabella, Heaven, Zandra, Dixie — eight distinct maternal lines averaging 12.8 generations deep, with a maternal classification score of 90.6 across the herd. “What it keeps telling me,” she’ll say, “is how different the herd is — to have SO many different cow families doing these things. And yet they all trace back to Sexation.” Then she answers her own question. “So maybe it makes sense.” That’s not a coincidence talking. That’s a covenant doing exactly what it was built to do.
Trace Sexation forward today and you don’t have to look far. You find him through Ked Sexation Jasmine to Justine, Juror, Jeeves, and Frazzled. Behind the Prudence family tied to Ranger-Red. You find him through Lew-Bro Sexation Cass and Juror, surfacing again and again in the April 2026 Top 100 lists, behind names like Doorman, Doc, Lambda, Planet, Superstition, and Gold Chip. And you find him in the most literal way imaginable: the entire Ocean-View herd standing in Wisconsin today traces back to him, averaging 12.8 generations deep. When Pam Nunes says her champion heifer carries six crosses to Sexation, she’s not reaching for a marketing line. She’s describing the architecture of her barn.
Here’s what Ocean-View finally proved. It didn’t change the Holstein breed by chasing the newest thing. It changed the breed by showing that deep maternal lines, functional type, production, fertility, and longevity could all be bred together — if a family was respected long enough to express it. Genomics can tell a breeder plenty, and no serious breeder today should pretend otherwise. But Ocean-View answers the older question the indexes still struggle with: will this family keep making the right kind of cow after the fashionable sire has come and gone? Marvin said it plainly — popular sires come and go every six months, but a program built on a solid foundation matters more than ever. The years proved him right.
Ocean-View was never just a place — not Windsor, California, and not Deerfield, Wisconsin. It was a promise kept across generations: buy the cow family, trust the cow family, breed it honestly, and let time decide whether you were right.
It began with a schoolteacher’s elbow and her pension money — the budget standoff, the “Can she walk?” phone call, the ten-year-old Dixie breaking 40,000 pounds, four Sassy sisters from one unflushed dam — and more than sixty years later it was still answering, in a barn 12.8 generations deep where every cow traces to one black bull bought as a calf in 1973. Sexation gave that promise a name the world would remember; Steps, Dixie, Zandra, and the Sassys gave it roots deep enough to outlive them all.
So the next time his blood surfaces in a modern pedigree — in a cow that milks hard, stands square, breeds back, and looks like she was built to stay — look twice. That’s the old Ocean-View lesson walking into the barn again, black and white, quiet, and permanent.
Key Takeaways
- A restriction isn’t always a dead end. Blue Tongue kept Sexation’s semen home, but his sons and embryos rerouted that blood into 70,100 and 96,689 daughters in the Netherlands alone — and through Lew-Bro Sexation Cass and Juror, he still surfaces in today’s April 2026 Top 100 lists behind sires like Doorman, Lambda, and Planet.
- The Ocean-View bet was never on the fashionable sire of the month; it was on the cow family. That’s what turned a $2,450 teacher’s-pension gamble into 498 Excellent animals, 110 Gold Medal Dams, and a Junior Champion at World Dairy Expo.
- Great families can still be built the slow way. Zenith Sassy was never flushed, yet her four natural daughters — including Star of the Breed Sterling Silver — each founded a branch, and the line now crowns in Ocean-View Lined in Silver, fourteen generations of EX/VG dams deep.
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