The Big Boss Lady
Part II sent by Warren J. Vehec and uploaded on data 11/February/2003 02:46:38
She continued to brush me down from the backside, while she was there, she took to opportunity to feel my ass. Her huge body was press up close to me, giving me the same chance. Her huge breast rubbed along the side of my arms. Then, she switched to my front, also taking the opportunity to rub her long finger along my shaft. I couldn't help getting excited as she perpetuated brushing me down. Ruby made a comment about me being too small for her that she might have to toss me back into the water. I told her that I might be small, but I just might be too much for her to handle. The Spanish woman chuckled and patted my ass before letting me go.
"I see you finally caught up with me. Did you get lost?" demanded the giant secretary with her foot tapping the carpet. I responded, "I got knocked down by Ruby." Without a word, she grabbed me by the ear and pulled me inside the storage room. "Let's get to work," she said hungrily. I didn't know what she meant by that comment.
The storage room was little bit better than a closet. There was one rows of file cabinets on each side of the doorway. There is a table at the end of the aisle. The light lit up the room brightly as she pulled me to the table. Almost without any effort on her part she lifted me on to the high table. Even with me sitting on the table, she was still a head taller than I. I felt helpless.By my hair, her enormous hand yanked it back and as her large lips covered mine. Melissa kissed me passionately as her other free hand roamed over my smaller body. I couldn't resists her, specially when she is twice my height and three times stronger than I am. She forcefully pressed my small body against her larger form. The brunette's massive hooters were crushing my chest painfully.
I tried to push her away, but only succeeding burying my hands between her breast. Melissa thought I was massaging her breast. She released me as she began to unbutton her blouse.I tried to persuade her to hold off. "But, Melissa, we'll both get fired if Ms. Sager ever catch us at this," I pleaded her. "Screw her. I want you now, Little man. I'm so horny right now. I don't think you'll object to me having a good time with you?" she sneered as her braless boobs came into view. They were full and firm, and didn't sagged at all. Her teats were at least an inch long, from my point of view.
The secretary shoved my face into her right tits and said, "Suck my titties, you dirty little man!" Given no other choice, i did as she bided me to do. I kissed and sucked the huge nipple, while I fondled her left breast.Her breathing became heavier and hoarse. She moaned with pleasure as Melissa squashed my face against her fleshy mountain. With one hand, she released my dick from the confinement of my pants. She stroked and fondled my turgid shaft, even though her fingers were longer than my miniaturized peter. I was aching to fuck her, no matter how big she is.Her body heat rose steadily, soon, she was burning like a bitch in heat. My hand moved down to her flat stomach and lower. She moaned, "That's it, lover. Unbutton my pants." I tried to unsnapped her pants, but it took almost all of my strength to pried it apart.
Suddenly, without a warning, the door was kicked in, with a loud crack. It remained hanging on one of the hinges as my towering boss stormed in the file room. The look on her face told me that she wasn't please to find my hands in her secretary's pants or with my face buried between Melissa's breast."I'd thought I'd find you here, you miserable little runt," raged Ms. Suzan Sager. I started to say something, but the brunette interjected, "He made me do it. He threatened to expose me if I didn't do as he told me to do." She cowered away from her boss and me. "Shut up, slut," The honey brown hair giantess snarled and she snapped her attention to me. If looks could kill, I'd be incinerated on the spot. She stared at me for a long time. I thought she would hit me, but none came.
Ms. Sager growled at her secretary, "Melissa, I want you in my office in 10 minutes." Without wasting a moment, the brunette ran from the file room. "You, in my office, now!" her huge finger was leveled at me. Before I could move, her hand jerked me off the high table. I landed face down on the carpeting floor with a bone jarring impact.
The giant woman stormed out of the room without another word as I looked up. I knew I wouldn't be able to keep up with her giant long strides. Not wanting to keep her waiting, I ran after her. She was nowhere in sight as I went to her office. I stared straight ahead to avoid the questioning stares from around me. Ms. Sager's door was open when I arrived. I slowly walked in and looked around for my boss. She was at her display case, pulling out a long black riding crop. She wouldn't dare be planing to use that on me, I thought to myself, but in my present condition how was I to stop her if she choose to use it. "About time you got here, you little prick," she said with-out looking at me. With a wave of her hand, she motion for me to go to her desk. I closed the doors as I went to her desk. "Take off your clothes," she ordered me, acidly. "In front of you? I don't think so," I responded. I regretted ever for saying it. Before I could move, the leather crop struck me on my left shoulder. The blow drove me to my knees as the pain lance through my shoulder. "You don't think unless I tell you so. Now take off your clothes or else," she threatened me. In less than a moment, my clothes where on the floor.
I stood stark naked in front of her. Ms. Sager snorted at my exposed genital as she examine my body. She used her long crop to spin me around while inspecting me. "You been here less than a month and you cost me a long time standing customer. Not only that, in the same day you tried to make out with my secretary in a closet. It seems I have to show you some manners," said the giantess.
I started to say something, but my head snapped to the side after she struck me with her long stick. "Don't speak unless I tell you so," said Ms. Sager. "I'm going to change into something more appropriate for the task I have in mind for you," she said, "When I get back I want to see you on your knees." She strode to another part of the room which was completely sealed off after she closed the doors. With some careful efforts, I lowered myself to my knees while my head continue to spin from her last strike. I tried to think where I went wrong. All I could think about was Melissa's massive hooters. How they felt, smelled, and shaped. I know I should be pissed off at her for lying to Ms. Sager. After all she was the one who seduced me in the first place. I didn't look up when a dark figure silently enter the office. I almost didn't hear the door clicking shut. I gasped as I looked up to see Ms. Sager's secretary walking towards me. The giant brunette had changed clothes. She wore a 2 piece black swimsuit. Her brassier was studded with sliver spikes that any contact would pierce the skin. Her bottom part was plain swimsuit with bow ties on both side of her swinging hips. She walked in a pair of black leather high heel shoes. She smiled down at me as she came closer to me. "Aww... Did she hurt you again? " she cooed. Melissa's long finger traced the newly welt on my face.
With all of my strength, I savagely shoved her hand away, "Don't touch me, bitch." The hand came back, in a fist, with an astonishing speed, punched me in the face. Her punch lifted me off the floor and on to my back. Blackness settled over my eyes, like a blanket. I felt a pair of giant female hands dragged me in a short distance. I opened my eyes to see a knee being lowered on to my chest. The giant secretary made herself comfortable as she sat down on her hunches. Her leather high heel shoe felt cold against my naked cock and balls. Her huge knee was painfully compressing the air from my lungs. I tried to shove the leg aside, but it was planted firmly. No matter what I did, I was trapped underneath the weight of her shapely leg. I glared up at her immense form. Her breast dominated most of the view as she smiled down at me. "What's the matter? Can't get comfy," she taunted me while I squirmed. "Maybe, I can help," she said. Before I could ask, she immediately stood up straight on her knees. The weight of her knee intensified which the pain became excruciating painful. I felt a couple of my ribs cracked as I screamed. Melissa laughed at my agony. I felt that if she stay on her knees my chest would eventu-ally cave in. I struggled to shift her immense weight, but that brought even more pain to my chest. "What's the matter with you? Everything I tried to make you happy, you bitch about it," the giant brunette said.
She looked down at me between her massive mammeries. Slowly a smile began to form on her beautiful face as if she had an idea. Her eyes twinkled with delightfulness as she licked her lips in a sultry fashion. With one huge hand, she grabbed both of my hands, and firmly placed them above my head. I sucked a lungful of air when she released me from her painful pressure. Before I could relax, she dropped her gigantic tits on to my ribs. Her studded bra piercing my already swollen chest caused me to scream once more. With just one of her boobs, it very easily covered my entire upper body. She began to grind me with her superior weight and her massiveness. The spikes felt like it was tearing my skin in to shreds.
The giant secretary moaned, "Ooooh, this feels soo good!" and proceeded to move even faster and wider circles. Tears streamed out of my eyes as I bit my lips to keep from crying out. As much as I tried to squirm but her mammoth body kept me immobile. It literally constricted my breathing, as I was taking in small amount of air at a time. Her body heat continued to rise steadily as she rubbed her tits across my chest. The pain was even more agonizing than ever. "Aww...You're crying," I heard her say. My tears were streaming out rapidly. Then she dragged her heavy breast down lower to my stomach with the metal stud leaving a trail of red welts in it's wake.
I felt her wet rough tongue lapping up my tears off the side of my face. Her hot breath steamed over my face as she moaned with pleasure over each lick. With her free hand, she grabbed my hair and pulled it back as she rammed her large tongue down the back of my mouth. I couldn't help gagging for several moments as I was forced to breathe through my nose instead of my mouth. For several long minutes, I was to endure her torturous torments. Suddenly her tongue slid out of my mouth and her mountainous hooters were lifted. I opened my eyes to find the giant Melissa still squatting on her knees, towering above me. She was rubbing her crotch with her right hand as she smiled down at me and commented, "That felt good, Little man."
Without getting up, she undid the strings that held her shorts up on her hips. The garments fell to the floor in a heap. "Now, let's see if you can get me off," she purred with ecstasy. With a single hand, she pulled my legs between her tree trunk size thighs until my head was under her crotch. Her dark pubic hair loomed high above my head as I stared up at it. Terror was beginning to over take me as she lowered her-self towards me. My hands were still pin above my head, render-ing it useless. I shook my head from side to side, screaming and begging for her not to do this to me. Her huge hand pinned my head down so that I could no longer shake my head as she settled her muff down on my face. She released my head as she gyrated her hips in a slow seductive manner. All I could was breathe and smell her crotch. "C'mon, give me some tongue action, " Melissa growled huskily. I shook my head negatively the best I could. "Oh? You don't want to? Seems that you didn't learn anything from the last time," Her voice had an edge of steel that I didn't like. I didn't get much of a view since her crotch and ass were on my face, but I could feel her other hand stroking my right thigh as it went towards my half hard shaft.
Suddenly, intensive pain shot racked through my body as the giant hand squeezed my dick. Melissa smiled as she listened to my muffled scream. The pain stopped when she asked me once more, "Are you going to do as I ask?" What was left of my strength, I nodded my head weakly. I slowly stuck out my tongue as she continued her shifting her hips across my face. The giantess purred as she released both of my hands to massage both of her enormous tits. "Now I don't taste all that bad, do I?" she cooed. I was fighting the urge to put my tongue back in my mouth after tasting the bitterness of her vagina.
Both of her huge hands grabbed my head and tried to shoved it deeper into her cavernous cunt. Her giant oscillating hip gyrated at a faster rate. I was close to the point of passing out until Melissa rolled off of me, pulling me with her. I laid on top of her gasping for oxygen, until I heard her say, "Fuck me, you little runt." I looked down at my half hard shaft, trying to will it to rock hard, but I was to exhausted to do so. I had a feeling that I would get a beating if I don't fuck the secretary soon. This time, I willed an exotic image of a woman at my height that any man would want to have for the night. Slowly, my genial started to become erected. I crawled forward slowly, as I stretched my legs and back.
Suddenly, something large and big swatted on my back. The blow sent me sprawling forward, face first into the giantess's tits. A voice, I know all to well, said, "You should know better than that, Melissa. You'll screw up the incantation if you let him touch you that way."I rolled over to see my boss, Ms. Suzan Sager, towering above me. She changed her clothes to something that looked more dominating. She wore a pair of jet black high heel boots, which showed off her massively powerful thighs. I could see her pubic hair protruding from the sides of her panties. The cups of her black lacy corset was being threatened to be overrun by her giant hooters. Over her broad shoulders, she wore a black cape, which hung all the way down to the floor.The word, incantation, ran through my mind. "What could she be talking about?" I thought to myself. "I couldn't help myself, Ms. Sager. I haven't been fucked in a long time," said her secretary. I started to get up off of Melissa, but the honey brown hair giantess kicked me back down on to my back. "I think we're going to have to debase Tony a little bit more," snickered my boss.The giant woman threw her cape back and withdrew what looked like a strap on dildo. The thing looked pitifully small in her hand as she snapped the straps around her waist. If she was going to use that thing on me, I didn't want any part of it. I tried to get up, but Melissa's shapely long legs imprisoned me. No matter how hard I tried to get out, I was no match against her superior strength.
I banged with my fist on her legs as the giant Suzan stooped down and grabbed me by my shoulders with both of her hands and hauled me to my feet. The giantess laughed at my efforts to escape her hands as she stood up to her full height and then readjusted herself so that the rubber dong was face level with mine. She pulled me up close to her strap on dildo. The rubber dick was longer than mine by a good 5 inches and thicker, too.I shook my head every time my giant boss tried to insert the shaft into my mouth. I had to brace my hands against her wide hips. "Kiss my dick, dammit!" she growled at me and I still re-fused to do so. Her huge hand nearly took off my head when she slapped me. My nose was bleeding again and the pain stung the left side of my face. "Now, kiss it, dammit!" she ordered me again. I puckered my lips to kiss the distasteful thing. I heard Melissa laughing behind me. "Now, lick the side of the shaft to show what a good little slut you are," said Suzan. I turned my head to lick the entire length of the entity. The taste was bitter as I licked the shaft. She guided my head with one hand, around the rubber dildo, to make sure that I've licked every inch.
The giant lady purred, "That's very good, little slut. Now," her two giant hands grabbed the back of my head, "suck it." All resistant was futile, as she arched her hips towards me, her powerful hands pulled my head directly into her strap-on rubber dildo. The thing forced its way into my mouth as I tried to accommodate it's size. I half gag and half chocked on the thing, but I wasn't given any choice.The giantesses laughed at me as I struggled with it. Suzan continued to stroke the rubber dong in and out of my mouth while tears were streaming out of my eyes. Each time she pumped the projectile, she drove it deeper and deeper into the back of my mouth. My throat expanded until she drove the whole thing all the way in.
"So, how does it feel to be the weaker sex for a change?" my boss asked me. I couldn't say anything because the dong was still impaled into my mouth. She slowly backed the shaft out of my mouth, forcing me to endure it for a while longer. It came out with a silent pop. I wiped my eyes dry as I looked up to see Ms. Sager grinning at me evilly. I didn't like that look she gave me.Her rubber shaft was pointing at my stomach when she dropped down on her knees. "Guess what we're going to do next," she said with her eyes laughing at me. "Oh no, she not going to fuck me with that thing," I thought to myself.With her superior strength, she easily turned me around by my waist while I screamed and try to pull myself from her power-ful grasp. Suzan smacked the hard rubber dong on my ass pain-fully as she laughed gleefully.Pulling with all my might, the giantess effortlessly lifts me off the floor. I screamed as she penetrated my ass with the dildo. "That's it, cry, little man, cry," she said. Cry, I did as she rammed the rod into me deeper each time. I could feel my rectum being forcefully spread wider each time she drives it into me. The thing burned my asshole as it entered and exited me while she held me aloft a few inches in the air where my toes could barely touch the ground.
It felt like eternity, before she drove it to the hilt. It felt like a log was inside of me. I was still screaming my head off and trying to push the dildo out of my ass. Ms. Sager continued to laugh and tease me, "I can see why men enjoy rapping women. I never felt so much power from fear, especially from a tiny little man like you, Tony." The giantess swatted my ass to inflict more pain upon me.
I watched the giant Melissa ,through my tear-streaked eyes, smiling to herself as she fingered herself in the crotch. The brunette rolled on to her hands and knees, with cat-like grace, she crawled towards me. She lowered her face down mine and licentiously drove her big tongue in to the back of my mouth. Her large hand caressed the right side of my face while her other hand, with her fingers lightly played with my left nipple.I tried to scream when the giantess roughly pulled the long dildo out of my ass, but Melissa mouth covered mine. I fell to my knees when Suzan released me. The brunette still held on to me. "C'mon, Melissa. If you want the spell to work, now is the time to do it when he feels he has been degraded so low," I heard Ms. Suzan Sager say. The secretary released my mouth with a loud smack. My body crashed to the floor as both of the giant-esses quickly drew a circle around me with chalk and started to light candles that were surrounding me.Then I heard something heavy dropped to the floor, near my feet, but outside of the chalk drawn circle. I turned my head towards the object. It was a statue of a woman that somehow was radiating fear into me. Don't know why, but I was definitely scare of that thing.
The lights were turned off and I watched Melissa put her clothes back on, in the candlelight, knelt down on her knees near my head and somehow I felt and knew the other giantess was behind me. Strange words erupted from the Suzan Sager's mouth, I couldn't tell if they were Greek or Latin. Her voice rose and pitched with feverish frenzy. suddenly her dialogue switched to English as I listened to her, "Hear me my goddesses! I bring thee an offering of a gift. I beseech thee to come forth. Let thine present beknown among us. Honor us with thine present.""Hello, my ever so bright daughter. What do you have to offer me this time?" a voice that somehow was emulating through the angry stone, but it sounded so cheerful. It wasn't right. All my life, that when I went to church, there was never a present or a voice that was heard when I was around.
Ms. Sager replied, "I bring thine an offering of this woman to be one of your followers. From her she brings you this worth-less man as her gift to the most holy thine.""Suzan, drop the thee's and thine's. Those days are long gone by and you're giving me a heartache thinking about my other daughters who died when Rome decided to invade the jungle. And for once say my name.""I'm sorry my goddess, but you know if anyone says your name in your present, the other gods will hear it and take actions against you and us. Just like what happen with Amazon.""Very well. Let's take a look at our new follower." There was a brief pause. Somehow I could feel the goddess floating over Melissa and then it moved back to the cold statue. "You have done well,even though she still has the lust for this carcass, but she will change, Suzan. I will take her offering even though there is nothing to take from the man-ape. I will have to take his strength.""No need to take his strength. I already extracted fluid from him. I was going to ask you a favor that you transfer his strength to Melissa. She gonna need it in the near future." I heard something popped and set on the floor next to me."Because you have done so well, I will grant you your wish."
Before I knew what happened, I felt something powerful seized control of my mind and body. I closed my eyes and screamed as my body convulsed uncontrollably as I felt something being wrenched away from me. I felt the statue's anger and power as it tore something from me.After what felt like eternity, the pain subsided, but I don't think it will ever go away. Melissa moaned with such an intensity, that I had to look at her. Slowly, I opened my eyes just a crack and then opened them all the way. I wished that I hadn't. Despite the pain I was feeling, I stood up on my feet and looked up to the colossal form of the secretary. She was even bigger than before.
I stare in astonishment as the brunette grew more and more muscular in each passing seconds. The black studded bra she wore, burst from her oversize chest. Her shoulder broaden as she spread her arms out like an eagle as her biceps exploded with power on her arms. Her abdomen shrank and formed into a hard packed washboard. She rose up higher upon her knees as I watched her thighs swelled into mighty pythons."It's an incredible sight, isn't it," I heard a voice behind me. I turned around and nearly staggered back from the view. Suzan also towered like a colossal giantess. I turned around to look at the other woman and then back to my boss. They were both at the same height, it seems that I had been shrunk again. "Well, it seems that my Goddess has gotten greedy again. You should be lucky. The last man she had, she didn't stop shrinking him until he was 2 inches tall and we lost him in my pussy," giggled the giantess. She reached down and grabbed me by my waist with one giant hand. Her fingers were thick as a telephone pole as I tried in vain to pry them apart.I was brought up close to her billboard size face. "We're gonna have some fun," her loud voice rumbled. I was already frighten, I couldn't get any more scared than I was. Suzan hastily dropped me to the ground as she leaned back. I looked up to see that she was removing the rubber dildo which was twice the height as I was.
Next, she removed the panties she was wearing and motioned me to come closer to her huge vagina. Her crotch looked like a set of forbidden doors to dangerous sexual passion as I came closer to her.With two large fingers, she peeled back the labia, to reveal a large wet gaping hole with a nipple hanging down from the ceiling. With her free hand, I was shoved towards her cavernous cunt. I dropped down onto my knees and crawled the rest of the way to her. My giant boss roared with laughter.I sucked her large clit while I inserted one arm into the hole. The hole quickly closed around my arm before I could pull it back. No matter how hard I tried to, I couldn't pull my arm out. I started to panic.I stopped sucking her clit and changed position. I planted both of my knees into the floor and tried to pull. No avail. I kept on trying. I looked up at the honey hair giantess.She had her hand covering her mouth. Suddenly, she burst out laughing and my arm came free. I fell back from the force of my arm coming free.Before I could get up, her gigantic hand scooped my legs and hauled me upright. "At this rate you're never gonna make me cum," she said. With one leg on her knee and the other on it's feet. She centered me underneath her crotch and inserted my head and chest into her cunt. My scream turned into a gargling sound as she pumped me in and out. My arms were pinned to the sides, were useless.
After what felt like eternity, her body started to shuddered and her vagina muscles expanded and contracted. With the help of her juice, I slid out of her dark hole and fell 10 feet to the ground. I crumbled into a heap, covered with white sticky ooze.I was ready to fall asleep after what I was put through, until a giant hand snatch me from the floor and my sleep. Panicking, I held on to the fingers.My eyes opened to find Melissa's large face looking down on me. "Yummy," was all she said. The giant face zoomed down on me with her mouth opened wide enough to swallow me whole. I screamed as it came closer upon me. Her tongue came out of her mouth and started to lick the cum off of my body.The giantess licked me thoroughly as if she were a kid who would take great joy in licking all of the batter off the spoon. In mere minutes, she had me licked clean, although I reeked of her breath. She dropped me back onto the floor, like some forgotten toy.I crashed onto the floor with every part of my body in pain. I rolled over to see Melissa's new body. The change was astounding. She still had her large firm breast, but for some reason it look bigger, even though I'm smaller than I was before. The rest of her body had a lot of mass muscles on it. Her stomach was a flat washboard with her abdominal finely detailed. Her arms and legs was nothing but a mass of powerful coils wrapped around it with blue veins crisscrossing all over it.
She was trying to put on her high heel shoes, but her feet was too big. And she tried to put on her swimsuit. The secretary's bottom part splayed when she pulled them up. The top part, no matter how she tried, couldn't reach all the way around her broad back. I couldn't take my eyes off of her new body, it was incredibly exciting to look at it and at the same time it was also dangerous."Ms. Sager, do you have anything that I could put on that will fit me, until I could get some new clothes?" asked Melissa. Suzan only pointed at her walk-in closet. The giant secretary disappear into it.
"Upon your hands and knees, Boy Toy!" Ms. Sager voice cracked like a whip. It hurt too much to do as she said, so I just laid there. "If you don't do as I say, I'm gonna step on you!" she threaten and still I didn't move.Her high heel boot was suddenly on top of me, but there was no pressure. Her foot was so large that it easily covered my whole body. "I warned you what would happen if you didn't obey," she said.
Her immense foot had gotten incredibly heavy. My breathing became more and more difficult. The pain came next as I screamed in agony. For the next few moments, she kept up the pressure until she was satisfied that she had punished me. Her foot was suddenly gone and again she commanded,"Get on your hands and knees, Dog!"
With each movement was a stab of pain, I slowly rolled over and got onto my hands and knees. "Good boy! You deserve a treat. Lick my boots clean, Boy Toy," the giant honey hair lady ordered me. I looked up to find her foot several yards away from me. I made my way over to the black shiny boot. I started at the point of her toe and worked my way back to the high heel."Melissa, do you still want this miserable little wimp?" yelled my giantess boss. "No, not really. Why? Do you want him?" asked the other woman. "Yes, I think he would make a nice little paper weight for me and among other things," Ms. Sager responded.
"So, what are you going to do with your fabulous new body?" continued the boss. "I think I'm going to get even with those artist who tried to stuff me into a suit that was too small for me," said the secretary. "That's fine, but hurt them too much. I need them for a new project," said she.A hand reached down and grabbed me by my waist. I was hoisted high into the air, until I was level with Suzan Sager's face. "Hear that? You're my property from now on. Anything I say or do, you will not disobey me at all or you'll suffer the consequences. You got that?" she shook me in the palm of her hand. I dare not to say anything, least she decides to drop me as my punishment.
There was a knock at the door. "Who is it?" asked Suzan. The door opened and a familiar face walked in. Ruby asked in a stumbling English, "I wanted to ask you,..." She stopped in the middle of a sentence when she saw me in Ms. Sager's hand. Her eyes glinted with pure sexual joy. I shuddered with the thought if she ever got her hands on me.
My tormentress did not even miss the look from Ruby's eyes. She took it in stride. "I see. Well, for twenty dollars, you can have him for the night and in the morning you can drop him off with my secretary," she offered. Without a moment to think, Ruby bobbed her head in agreement. The giant boss continued, "And if you want one of your own, we'll talk about it tomorrow. For this you can pay me later."
Suzan walked towards Ruby and deposited me between Ruby's deep cleavage. "NOOOOO! Don't leave me with her!" I screamed as I tried to scrambled out of her soft downy boobs. A hand came down on top of me and pushed me in even deeper into her cleavage. The last thing I remember was Ms. Sager saying, "Tony, remember who's the boss now."
The End.
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