Dreamers, Doers, Disruptors: These Entrepreneurs Exemplify Fort Worth’s Pioneering Spirit

In the world of entrepreneurship, visionaries don’t just imagine the future, they build it — dream by dream.

The entrepreneur is a creator, a visionary who transforms ideas into things and obstacles into steppingstones. Their path is one of resilience, risk, and reward.

Fort Worth Inc.’s 2024 Entrepreneur of Excellence showcases these trailblazers who dared to take the leap. Thirty-three remarkable individuals, representing fields as diverse as construction, health care, consumer goods, real estate, and more, each bring their unique contributions to the city’s business landscape.

Some have launched promising startups, while others lead established enterprises, all driven by a commitment to innovation and growth.

In its eighth year, this Entrepreneur of Excellence edition honors their achievements. Independent judges from across the region reviewed applications confidentially, considering growth, ethical standards, perseverance, and community impact. Each winner and finalist was carefully selected based on these criteria, keeping financial data strictly private.

The winners were celebrated at a gala at the Fort Worth Club on Nov. 21, their identities revealed in a night dedicated to the spirit of entrepreneurship.

Sponsored by Whitley Penn, TCU Neeley School of Business - Executive MBA, Texas Capital, and Justin Boot Co., this recognition highlights the people who fuel the economy with their derring-do and drive.

COMMERCIAL CONSTRUCTION

WINNER: John Avila 

Byrne Construction

John Avila, leader of the largest minority-owned commercial construction company in the state, is making a reappearance as a finalist in this category.

He has made it count.

Avila is a decorated Vietnam veteran who has a degree in architectural engineering from University of Texas and is a graduate of the U.S. Army War College.

At age 32, he was appointed vice president of operations for Linbeck Construction. He also served as executive vice president for Manhattan Construction Company.

In 1995, he acquired Thos. S. Byrne. At the time, the oldest active, continuous operating contractor, founded in 1923, was a shell of its former self.

Under Avila’s leadership, Byrne has regained its status as world-class corporation — brick by brick, steel beam by steel beam.

Avila “leveraged his earned client network, reenergized Byrne’s past client network and aggressively sought new clients in returning the company to prominence,” his EOE application states. “His leadership skills in his former companies inspired loyalty in his former subordinates, and many flocked to join the new and emerging Byrne.”

He won over existing employees, forming “a dedicated cohesive team of construction professionals.”

Byrne has demonstrated sustained steady growth over the past 30 years. In 1995, Byrne’s annual sales were $27 million ($55.8 million in today’s money). In 2022, annual sales were $211 million.

Jonathan Gaspard

Restoration Roofing

Restoration Roofing has operated on an ethos since Day 1.

“I see Restoration Roofing as a family affair,” Jonathan Gaspard says. “And in the same way a family shares in the successes of its members, the team at Restoration Roofing shares and contributes to the success.”

Gaspard, a return finalist, started his company with $50. They’re today doing business in the tens of millions. And revenue was back up last year after a dip in 2022.

However, he remains steadfast in his goal of $100 million in annual sales by 2028. The year 2024 has been bright, he says, with roughly $50 million in contracts in progress or in backlog through the end of the year.

The company will get there, he says, by offering unique and cutting-edge solutions to clients, from carbon neutral roofing products to preventative maintenance, allowing “our clients’ investments to last much longer, providing a measurable ROI and delivering our promise to be a partner, not just a transaction.”

The vision is to be a premier contractor in the private and public sector and an innovator among our peers in the industry,” he says.

CONSUMER & DURABLE GOODS

WINNER: Stephen Gilchrist

Gilchrist Automotive

Gilchrist Automotive almost wasn’t.

Stephen Gilchrist’s father, Charlie, who became a car dealer in the 1980s, weighed an option to sell the seven-store dealership in 2015. Charlie huddled with his son, who was running SouthWest VW and Mitsubishi in Weatherford, to discuss.

“I told him that that wasn’t my choice,” Stephen Gilchrist says. “He had built this.”

Charlie Gilchrist declined the offer to sell. 

“From that point I began to work on a plan to take what my dad had successfully built and position it to be a viable dealer group that could withstand the coming industry consolidation and be a successful growing concern for 100 years or more,” says Gilchrist, a TCU graduate.

The plan called for growing and diversifying the company’s dealerships. Gilchrist Automotive was formed in 2017. Under that umbrella, the company has grown to 20 locations, from Weatherford to Lawton, Oklahoma, to Cleburne, Denison, Ennis, Gatesville, Pilot Point, Stephenville, and Terrell.

Revenue growth has increased 211% over the past three years. Its standing among the Top 150 New Vehicle Dealers in the nation has also improved dramatically, from 132 in 2020 to 92 in 2023.

Stephen Gilchrist, who has an MBA from LSU, also founded Gilchrist Insurance Group.

Chris and Cheryl Favors

Favors Business Solutions

Despite what conventional wisdom might say, it’s the layoff that is often the mother of all invention. And so it was with Chris Favors, laid off from an executive position in the frac sand industry in 2020.

Favors Business Solutions was founded in 2021 because of demand for Favors’ expertise. What started as consultancy and sales services for sand companies and oil and gas operators quickly morphed into launching a full-service, mine-to-wellhead suite of services for the oil and gas industry.

Favors Business Solutions has seen “explosive growth” since its formation. From 2021 to 2022, revenue grew by 4,758%, and income before taxes grew by 1,199%. From 2022 to 2023, revenue grew by 37%, and income before taxes grew by 41%.

“The company has been able to gain an impressive market share with zero outside investment and operates the business with a low, stable headcount of three employees and the assistance of two outside contractors,” the Favors say.

Favors’ vision is providing excellent service to customers with zero frack downtime because of sand while “saving customers money on total spend for sand delivered to their well sites.”

Natividad Ramirez

Rios Interiors

Natividad Ramirez’s story is one of Texas. He came from his native Mexico to the land of opportunity for a new life and a dream, just like Sam Houston himself and all the others.

After moving to Dallas at 22, Ramirez found work at Martinek Design Studios, an interior design firm. After working there for eight years and studying the industry, he felt confident that he had found his passion.

In 1998, he rented a tiny 269 square feet of space at the Dallas Farmers Market. Year after year, he rented more and more space until circumstances forced him to examine is operation. He discovered through his database that 33% of his customers were from Tarrant County.

So, it was to the fertile grounds of the Fort Worth Stockyards that he moved into an almost 14,000-square-foot showroom. Rios survived its first year in 2008, the year of the Great Recession, and has been trending up ever since.

In 2020, Rios completed a big commercial project, furnishing the Hotel Drover, and, combined with the skyrocketing interest in home décor during the shutdown, Rios experienced its “most vital financial years to date.”

With the increased growth came the purchase of multiple warehouses to export and import the company’s goods.

Ramirez is the very definition of the American Dream.

HEALTH CARE & LIFE SCIENCES

WINNER: Sara and Steven Camp

Steven Camp MD Plastic Surgery

Sara and Steven Camp were finalists in 2022 and are winners in 2024 because of the continued growth Steven Camp MD Plastic Surgery has experienced since opening in 2016.

The practice had eclipsed its 2023 gross revenue by the first four months of 2024 even as the fundamentals of the economy have shifted unfavorably. That is due in part because of its new 10,000-square-foot building with two operating rooms accredited by American Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgery Facilities.

“The last two years in our own building with our own two operating rooms has been very special,” says Camp, who runs the practice with her husband. “After the pandemic, literally everyone in America wanted plastic surgery. We couldn’t keep up with the demand. Then the economy shifted, and money got tighter for people. What was once something that everyone wanted became something that they just couldn’t do.”

Patients were no longer “busting the doors down.”

The practice reverted to what they were doing during pandemic shutdown: pulled together as a team and went back to basics of what it did when it opened the doors eight years ago.

“We have hired a smart staff that cares about our patients, care about their work, and is here for the right reasons — taking care of people,” Camp says. “It easily fell into place.”

Trevor Theriot

ManaMed

Trevor Theriot’s story begins on a football field at UCLA where he earned a scholarship after walking on the team as a nonscholarship player. He played for Karl Dorrell and Rick Neuheisel.

He found a career in medical device sales through a former teammate. Beginning as a distributor, Theriot eventually became a manufacturer of Plasma Flow, an FDA-approved device that helps prevent blood clots.

ManaMed has sold more than $130 million worth of products since opening in 2015. In 2023, ManaMed reached 22% year-over-year growth with a revenue figure close to $22 million.

“We managed to surpass industry growth even though we lost a major customer in 2022,” Theriot says.

In 2024, the company expects to exceed its 2022 figure in sales.

In 2021, the North Texas-based medical device company was recognized as one of the fastest growing in the country, finding a place on the Inc. 5000 with 485% revenue growth over the previous three years.

David Woolsey and Ramon Cazares

Integrated Ultrasound

David Woolsey and Ramon Cazares opened Integrated Ultrasound Consultants in 2012. Woolsey had been an ownership stakeholder in D2 Imaging, and Cazares was an employee there.

For a consecutive year, they are finalists for the Entrepreneur of Excellence.

The company says it has consistently demonstrated sales growth every year since 2012. Except for 2018, the company has maintained profitability every year and has not required any external investment, despite interest from several private equity firms seeking to purchase or invest.

Its annual revenue growth has varied between 5% and 165%.

In Q4 2021, the company introduced temporary staffing solutions for X-ray and CT, which swiftly contributed to 38% of net income.

After the dip in 2018, the company experienced a 35% revenue surge in 2019, 5% in 2021, 53% in 2022, and a roughly 49% increase in 2023.

Integrated Ultrasound has grown to offer radiology services to several major hospital systems in DFW, including an enterprise agreement with Texas Health Resources, encompassing 23 facilities, along with the majority of the Medical City locations, USPI Surgical Hospitals and Surgical Centers, and various free standing emergency departments and doctor’s offices.

HOSPITALITY

WINNER: Trevor Armstrong and Larry Auth

Game On Sports Complex

Just because you didn’t make it from the peewees to the pros doesn’t mean you have to give up on organized sports once becoming an adult. And, if you follow the path of Trevor Armstrong and Larry Auth, you can still make it your livelihood.

Armstrong and Auth, who first met in 2007, had been playing in an adult indoor soccer league for years when they closed on the purchase of their league’s facility, Game On Arena Sports, in 2012. The pair would subsequently purchase the adjacent land, doubling the facility’s capacity, and expand operations into flag football, basketball, volleyball, pickleball, golf, baseball, softball, and outdoor beach volleyball.

“Over the past 12 years, we have grown from managing three revenue streams to over 50,” Armstrong and Auth said in their EOE application.

Their success and industry expertise has led to a growing reputation within the industry, which resulted in the creation of LT Sports Consulting. According to their application, this new venture “enables Larry and Trevor to share their expertise and help guide cities and developers to navigate the challenging and rewarding mission of growing sports participation, health, and wellness nationwide.”

Justin Howe

HTeaO

Justin Howe knew a hot ticket when he saw one. A private pilot and venture capitalist who had his hands in construction, real estate, and aircraft management, Howe was struck by the amount of iced tea his family was moving at their Amarillo burger joint.

Partnering with his parents, Howe opened a prototype tea store in 2012. Its success would lead to franchising in 2018, when Howe secured 29 franchise agreements within one month. Keeping his foot on the gas, HTeaO opened store No. 118 earlier this year, an impressive ascension thanks largely to Howe’s preparation before scaling — three years earlier, he became a franchisee for another company to learn about the challenges firsthand.

In its first few years of business, HTeaO’s revenue growth has seen a steep climb, which includes a 207% revenue increase in 2020 and a 270% increase in 2023 that equaled $79.8 million in system-wide sales.

“Howe's growth mindset is evident in every facet of HTeaO's business approach,” his EOE application states. “Through an innovative drive-thru model and a focus on customer satisfaction, Howe has established a scalable franchise system that appeals to a wide range of consumers and potential franchisees.”

Rex Benson

Ol’ South Pancake House

Though he’s been at the helm of Ol’ South Pancake House for the past 16 years, one could argue Rex Benson has had one foot in the hospitality industry since the day he was born.

Rex’s father, David Benson, and aunt Bette Brozgoldin opened Ol’ South right next door to its current spot off University Drive in 1962. Over the next few decades, the 24-hour diner would become one of Fort Worth’s most iconic breakfast joints.

While the restaurant experienced growth and the addition of new locations in the ’80s and ’90s, those locations would eventually shutter.

Rex took over Ol’ South in 2008 and “understanding change was necessary … he embarked on a comprehensive transformational journey.” According to his EOE application, Rex would revamp the menu, embrace digital point-of-sale systems, harness the power of social media, and implement cutting-edge digital inventory management solutions. The result was a steep rise in annual sales from below $3 million to $5.7 million.

The business would expand again in 2021 with a new Burleson location. And, coming full circle, a new concept, Rex’s Bar and Grill, is set to open this fall where the original Ol’ South once stood on University Drive.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

WINNER: Ralph Manning and Edward Crawford

Coltala Holdings

One would be hard-pressed to find resumes as diverse and impressive as Ralph Manning’s and Edward Crawford’s.

Graduates of Harvard Business School and the MIT Sloan School of Management, respectively, Manning and Crawford have over 35 years of combined business experience, as well as impressive prior and current vocations in military service and equestrianism — Crawford is a former U.S. Navy intelligence officer who earned a Bronze Star while serving in Afghanistan, and Crawford is the president and owner of an equestrian facility in Johnson County.

In 2017, the two founded and are now co-CEOs of Coltala Holdings, a purpose-driven holding company that practices conscious capitalism. “We hold mission and margin in equal regard,” Manning says regarding the company’s purpose. “Meaning they are mutually inclusive, not exclusive. This ethos was born through extensive service in the nonprofit sector.”

According to their EOE application, Coltala’s annual revenues and earnings have grown from zero in 2017 to over $22.2 million for calendar year-end 2023.

“Our goal is to have a meaningful impact not just on the bottom line,” Crawford says, “but on the lives of all: employees, boards of directors, investors, lenders, customers, vendors and other stakeholders.”

Benson Varghese and Anna Summersett

Varghese Summersett

Benson Varghese’s first foray into running a business came while attending boarding school in India, where he assisted his grandparents with their rubber plantation.

“He became responsible for the entire business,” his EOE application says. “From hiring seasonal employees to managing finances to ensuring that the trees were tapped properly and pressed into usable materials.”

Having previously lived in Dallas, Varghese would return at 18 to seek U.S. citizenship and earn his law degree from Texas Tech. He would meet his future wife, Anna Summersett when both served as prosecutors with the Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office. With little chances for upward mobility, the pair borrowed $9,000 from Varghese’s uncle and launched their own firm, Varghese Summersett, in 2014.

According to their EOE application, “Within three years, the firm moved into a gorgeous 8,500-square-foot space … and was recognized as the 782nd fastest-growing business in the U.S. by Inc.”

Today, the husband-and-wife firm has three locations; 50 top-tier legal professionals, including 18 attorneys of the highest caliber, many of whom are board certified; and is currently on pace to do over $9 million in revenue in 2024, which represents a 158% increase over the past three years.

Bradley Bruce

mFORCE Capital

Amid a successful three-decade-plus career at Merrill Lynch, Bradley Bruce realized his clients needed and were requesting more service than the giant investment management company could offer.

“I believed we could deliver on those needs in an independent and fiduciary-driven environment,” Bruce says. “The challenge was to be able to communicate our vision and find our voice with an unknown brand in a crowded market.”

In 2021, Bruce kicked off mFORCE Capital, an independent wealth management firm that, according to Bruce’s EOE application, “tries to be a resource for not only financial activities but within other parts of their lives. We are there through building and exiting of companies, building of families, and even through the dismantling of families. At the end, we are there to help transition the wealth to the next generation.”

What started with three employees and under $1 million in revenue in 2021 has quickly expanded to 11 current employees and $3.8 million in revenue in 2023.

mFORCE, which stands for Multi Family Office Relationship and Client Experience, has now expanded its initial goal of being the dominant provider in its backyard to being the dominant provider in its region.

REAL ESTATE

WINNER: Jessica Miller Essl and Susan Miller

M2G Ventures

M2G Ventures is a certified women-owned commercial real estate private equity and advisory development company based in Fort Worth, with offices in Austin and Dallas. It invests in distinctive mixed-use and industrial development projects.

M2G Ventures transacted or redeveloped more than 2.6 million square feet over the past two years, representing more than $226 million in capitalized value. It has executed almost 50 leases in the past 18 months, representing approximately 1 million square feet in the highly competitive DFW market. Moreover, M2G has over $1.5 billion in assets under management, investment capacity, and under development.

Over the past year, M2G raised its first fund designed to provide M2G and its investors the ability to execute its strategy on a larger, more efficient scale with a more “nimble and opportunistic approach.”

“The fund offers investors the ability to exclusively participate in M2G’s investment strategy and deal flow, while providing investors discretion and flexibility on which projects they further participate in,” Essl and Miller say. “As we look toward the future, while others may see challenges, we see opportunity.”

The company’s capstone is its 501(c)(3) certified Mental Health Initiative, which works to change the way mental illness is identified and treated. In 2023, the company’s nonprofit achieved its million-dollar fundraising goal and is committed to raising another $600,000 in 2024.

Sarah LanCarte

LanCarte Commercial

Sarah LanCarte jumped into the real estate scene years ago and made a splash.

She began her career as an associate at NAI Huff Partners before eventually joining Transwestern as a principal. She demonstrated a deep understanding of market trends, client needs, and the intricacies of real estate transactions “that I believe set me apart in the industry.”

Her next stop was Fort Capital, which brought her in to establish its commercial division.

“I was approached by big shops,” she says, “but I wanted to do things differently and not just be another person working under a big brand, which led to founding LanCarte Commercial.”

LanCarte Commercial was founded in 2019 with her clear vision to create a brokerage firm that not only excelled in real estate transactions but also prioritized client relationships and community impact.

The firm quickly became a trusted name. The firm, which employs 40, offers a range of services, including tenant representation, landlord representation, investment sales, and property management. In only six years, LanCarte has achieved more than 30 million square feet sold or leased, and it currently is managing 2.9 million square feet.

Matt Lewis and Jeff Anderson

League Real Estate

“Real estate,” Matt Lewis says, “has been in my blood since youth. His grandmother sold houses, his father owned a commercial property management company in West Texas, and his uncle was a broker.

So, it should have been no surprise that he and Jeff Anderson founded what has become the largest independently owned brokerage in Fort Worth.

In the firm’s nine years, League has never failed to outperform its previous year by double-digit growth in both revenue and net operating income.

“We grew our business solely on relationships and caring more about our people’s success than our own,” Lewis says. “It’s amazing the pure reaction you receive when you truly show up for someone. Relationship by relationship, we moved from one agent to over 100.”

Lewis was one who wasn’t sure his fledgling firm would survive the pandemic crisis.

“We lost 70% of our deal flow in a week,” he says. “Our leadership team met and made the decision that the only thing we could control was our attitude and our drive. So, we just kept showing up. Three months later, we were in the hottest real estate market we will probably ever see.”

RESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCTION

WINNER: Ginger Curtis

Urbanology Designs

Ginger Curtis, a returning finalist, started Urbanology Designs with old-fashioned desire. What we call “want-to.”

With no formal training but what she calls a “surplus of raw talent” and zealous entrepreneurial streak, she went to work on birthing Urbanology Designs.

The firm, whose niche is luxury interior design, has demonstrated steady financial performance, she says, over the past three years with 40% growth in 2023.

As we noted last year, in 2017, she purchased an abandoned fire station in North Richland Hills and renovated it into a multipurpose office space, the Urban Fire House. Now home to her firm, the space also created an opportunity to start two new businesses: Urban Design Works LLC oversees the leasing of executive offices to local entrepreneurs in the portion of the building that served as the firefighters’ living quarters.

In 2022, Curtis expanded the Urbanology name to start Urbanology Properties, which provides luxury short-term rentals across the nation. The first investment property in the portfolio launched in Weatherford named the Urbanology Cottage.

In 2023, Curtis, a breast cancer survivor, launched her own lighting line which is now sold on numerous platforms.

Robert Johns and Jennifer Johns

The Kitchen Source

Armed with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and an MBA, Robert Johns envisioned a career in corporate America. It didn’t take long for him to realize that that wasn’t his calling.

Having been raised in a family that owned a kitchen remodeling business, Johns decided to follow suit in the retail space. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree after all. So, he opened a kitchen remodeling store in 1981.

For 35 years, The Kitchen Store has been installing what he describes as a “piece of art in the home that becomes integral to daily life.”

Today, The Kitchen Source has three locations with two more planned to open over the next three years.

Johns’ daughter, Jennifer Johns, is the vice president of operations.

Jennifer, naturally, spent a lot of time in the showroom growing up. She didn’t realize at the time that her father was building one of the leading kitchen and bath design and remodel companies in Fort Worth and Dallas.

She, too, explored the corporate world for 10 years before heeding the call to join her father in the business he established two generations ago.

Winter and Ashley Moore

WinterGreen Synthetic Grass

Husband-and-wife duo Winter and Ashly Moore, who met while both worked in the service industry, each were born with the entrepreneurial itch.

Winter found it while working for a local pest control company: artificial grass. It “sparked a deep fascination.”

“He instantly knew that this was the opportunity they had been searching for,” Ashley says.

Four months [S1] after their marriage, WinterGreen was conceived.

While Winter immersed himself in the study of turf and eventually door-to-door sales, he also took a job as a waiter to help any early shortages in the family budget. Meanwhile, Ashley continued her job at a local painting company and took on a job as a hostess at the same restaurant.

Winter sold his first job in December 2014, “setting off a snowball effect of rapid growth.”

What began with Winter handling sales and completing jobs on his own has now expanded into an enterprise with nearly 50 employees.

“WinterGreen has experienced quick but steady growth over the past decade, and we continue to build this momentum year after year,” Ashley says. “The first six years of our business, we doubled our sales each year, and since then we have maintained substantial sales growth.”

UP-AND-COMING

WINNER: Katy Abraham

Construction Cost Management

Keith Kothmann opened Cost Construction Management in 1979 to provide estimating and cost management services to architecture and engineering companies.

But after much reflection and a gentle push from her father, Katy Abraham purchased the company in 2012 to ensure the family’s legacy. She has been called a seasoned business leader highly skilled in negotiation, operations management, and business development.

And she wasted no time making her mark in the male-dominated industry.

Since the leadership change, CCM has experienced more than 500% in revenue growth and obtained the necessary certifications that opened a multitude of opportunities to work on federal contracts.

She also created programs to recruit top talent. CCM has gone from two employees to a team that fluctuates between 10-15 employees and has the capacity to take on some of the largest, most important federal projects.

The firm’s sales increased 20% in 2023 over 2022. Moreover, CCM wrote 30% more proposals in 2023 than in 2022, and won 85% of them.

Prior to taking over Construction Cost Management, she held leadership roles, including district manager for Royal Canin and territory manager at Stallion Oilfield services.

Chelsie Synatschk

Fort Worth Focused Real Estate

Chelsie Synatschk’s path to real estate began from a desire for the inherent flexibility in the career that would allow her to raise young children. It was practical.

The career became a passion.

Over the past three years, Fort Worth Focused Real Estate has grown from a husband-and-wife team to a boutique brokerage comprised of 15 dedicated agents.

“Balancing motherhood and entrepreneurship have been challenging,” says the TCU graduate, “but it’s also been incredibly rewarding.”

She created a mantra that became a guiding principle: “Work hard and be nice to people.”

“We have experienced strong sales and profit growth, allowing us to invest in our team, technology, and community initiatives,” she says. “This financial stability is crucial in maintaining a supportive work environment for our agents, which, in turn, translates into exceptional service for our clients. Our unwavering commitment to excellence in all aspects of our business has positioned Fort Worth Focused Real Estate as an up-and-coming force in the Fort Worth real estate market.”

Christie K. Redmon Moore

Mansfield Funeral Home & Cremations

Christie Redmon Moore, a graduate of Hampton University, returns as a finalist. She has built her business one a credo.

“Ever since we opened our doors in Mansfield, we have approached life — and death — differently. While some just see the end of a loved one’s life as a time for grief and mourning, we prefer to think of it as a time for reflection, appreciation and even celebration. This is evident in everything we do from the way we conduct our services to the amenities we offer. We are a close-knit community dedicated to honoring, sharing and preserving the amazing and inspirational stories that are life.”

Moore says she knew at 9 years old that she wanted to be a mortician. Her parents insisted she go to college first before pursuing her credentials. She did all that.

Several underwriters, Moore says, tried to discourage her, saying the industry was not for a young Black woman. She remained undeterred, eventually acquiring a funeral home that was generating minimal income, no profits, and was thought to have been a lost cause.

That same funeral home 7 1/2 years later is nationally recognized.

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