Baliwag Polytechnic College

Dalubhasaan Kong Mahal

2nd Semester
A.Y. 2020-2021

Module in
Life and Works
of Rizal

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 Baliwag Polytechnic College
Dalubhasaan Kong Mahal
1st Semester
A.Y. 2020 – 2021

STUDY GUIDES
Your success to finish this module lies in your hand. This module is prepared for you to
learn new concepts and invaluable skills diligently, intelligently, and independently. As a future
young professional, doing these will greatly help and prepare you to become a responsible
student. Set your goals and invest for your future. This is your first step towards your priceless
investment for a brighter tomorrow. Do not waste your time, effort and energy. Always stay
motivated and inspired to make your dreams come true. The following guides and house rules
will help you further to be on track and to say at the end of the module.

1. Schedule and manage your time wisely for you to accomplish the given tasks in this
module.
2. If there are things that you do not understand, go over and focus on the lesson. If this will
not work, seek the help of your family members or leave me a message so I can give
assistance.
3. Before you start doing anything else, read and understand the learning tasks carefully.
Always aim for the best and do not settle with low grades.
4. Think before you write. In answering all the assessment activities, write legibly and
follow the instructions as needed.
5. Do not hesitate to keep an open communication with me through any available platforms.
I am more than willing to help you to accomplish your goals.
6. Once you are done in the module, you can proceed doing other tasks in the succeeding
units that are scheduled for the finals.
7. You are expected to answer all the printed-based activities, assignments and reflection
guides for you to pass in this course.
8. Remember you are the student hence, you are expected to accomplish and study the
module on your own. You can seek help and support from your family members and
friends but the actual activities must be done by you.

GRADING SYSTEM
Prelim, Midterm, Pre-Final Grade
Self-paced activities, Quizzes -60%
Examination -40%

Tentative Final Grade

Self-paced activities, Quizzes, Portfolio -60%

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 Examination -40%

Final Grade Midterm 50% + TFG 50%

STUDY SCHEDULE

Dates Module /Topics

Week 1-4 Module 1 Life, Works and Writings of Rizal

Lesson 1 -Hero is Born

Lesson 2 -Childhood Days in Calamba
Lesson 3 -School Days in Binan
Lesson 4 -Triumphs in the Ateneo

Weeks 5-8 Module 2 Life, Works and Writings of Rizal

Lesson 5 -At the University of Santo Thomas

Lesson 6 -In Sunny Spain
Lesson 7 -Paris to Berlin (1885-87)
Lesson 8 -Back to Calamba, (1887-88)

Week 9-12 Module 3 Life, Works and Writings of Rizal

Lesson 9 -Hongkong, Macao, and Japan, 1888

Lesson 10 -Rizal in America, 1888
Lesson 11 -In Gay Paris, 1889-90
Lesson 12 -Rizal in Brussels, 1890

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 DATES Module/ Topics

Lesson 13 -In Madrid, 1890-91

Week 13-15 Lesson 14 -El Filibusterismo
Lesson 15 -In Hongkong, 1891-92
Lesson 16 -The Trial of Rizal/
Martyrdom at Bagumbayan

Course Description:

LWR (Life and Works of Rizal) is an informative and nationalism course designed to
make students understand the life, works and writings of our National hero. The
course involves studies about the whole life, works and writings of Rizal during his
time. The course emphasizes the understanding of life and works of Rizal here in the
Philippines and in other countries. We know that the life, works and writings of Jose
Rizal should be treasured foremost by the Filipinos, since he is “The Greatest Man of
the Malay Race”. He was an inspiration to all of us, he should not be forgotten.

The Learning Module in LWR (Life and Works of Rizal) was created due to the
pandemic COVID 19 that prohibits both teachers and students from physically
attending to school.
The lessons are divided into four terms namely: Preliminary, Midterm, Pre-finals and
Finals. Each lesson aims to tackle the historical perspective, family, infancy and
childhood of Rizal. It also deals with Rizal’s studies and experiences his trips to
foreign lands and the trial and death of our national hero.

Welcome to our LWR: Life and Works of Rizal Adventure!

Take the comforts of your seatbelts we will not allow the pandemic COVID 19 to stop us from
learning the life of Rizal.

Are you ready for a great adventure? Let us begin our journey with enthusiasm.

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 Module - Life, Works and Writings of Rizal

What Will You Learn From This Module?

Do you like to know the life, works and writings of our national hero? What do you
think are the skills you need to use to study the life, works and writings of Jose Rizal?
How would you know if you are learning from the life of Rizal? If you thought about
these questions before, then this module is for you!
Many people didn’t know yet the life, works and writings of Rizal in a deeply sense.
To know more the life, works and writings of Rizal, you should know how to study it
in a deeply sense and reading is a must.
In this module, you will learn how to value or appreciate the life, works and writings
of Jose Rizal. You will study how the life of Jose Rizal became most popular in all
Filipinos and in other countries. You will love our country as our national hero did.

This module is composed of sixteen lessons:

Lesson 1 Hero is Born
Lesson 2 Childhood Days in Calamba
Lesson 3 School Days in Binan
Lesson 4 Triumphs in the Ateneo
Lesson 5 At the University of Santo Thomas
Lesson 6 In Sunny Spain
Lesson 7 -Paris to Berlin (1885-87)/Noli Me Tangere
Lesson 8 -Back to Calamba, (1887-88)
Lesson 9 -Hongkong, Macao, and Japan, 1888
Lesson 10 -Rizal in America, 1888
Lesson 11 -In Gay Paris, 1889-90
Lesson 12 -Rizal in Brussels, 1890
Lesson 13 -In Madrid, 1890-91
Lesson 14 -El Filibusterismo
Lesson 15 -In Hongkong, 1891-92
Lesson 16 -The Trial of Rizal/ Martyrdom at Bagumbayan

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After studying this module, you should be able to:
 give your reflection about the lessons by:
 storytelling insights
 quizzes
 inference or conclusion about the story
 online book reviewing
 open-ended questions on the topic with answer
 drawing itinerary of Rizal’s travel to Asia
 critiquing
 inferencing
 create their own storytelling
 preparing a mini-skit on the topic/novel
 reflection
 online critiquing and;
 recording video monologue about the topic

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 Objectives:

Lesson 1: Objective: Describe lesson 1 of Riza’s life, “Hero Is Born” by constructing a

reflection or insight about the story.

Lesson 2: Objective: Describe lesson 2 of Rizal’s life, “Childhood Days In Calamba” by

constructing a reflection about the story.

Lesson 3: Objective: Identify the important things about lesson 3 of Rizal’s life, “School Days
In Binan” by answering the online quiz below.

Lesson 4: Objective: Describe lesson 4 of Rizal’s Life, “Triumphs In Ateneo, 1872-77” by

reading the story.

Lesson 5: Objective: Describe the life of Rizal “In the University of Santo Tomas, 1877-82.

Lesson 6: Objective: Explain the life of Rizal in Spain, 1882-85.

Lesson 7: Objective: Create an online book review about “Paris to Berlin (1885-87)/Noli Me
Tangere” by understanding and reading the story.

Lesson 8: Objective: Identify the important things about lesson 8 of Rizal’s life “Back to
Calamba” by answering the online quiz below.

Lesson 9: Objective: Draw the itinerary or route of Rizal’s travel to Asia “Hongkong, Macao,
and Japan 1888.

Lesson 10: Objective: Critique the life of Rizal in America, 1888.

Lesson 11: Objective: Describe lesson 11 of Rizal’s life “In Gay Paris, 1889-90” by
constructing an inference or reflection about the story.

Lesson 12: Objective: Create the story of Rizal’s life in Brussels, 1890.

Lesson 13: Objective: Create an online book review about “In Madrid, 1890-91” by
understanding and reading the story.

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Lesson 14: Objective: Prepare a mini-skit on El Filibusterismo/The Fuse.

Lesson 15: Objective: Describe lesson 15 of Rizal’s life “In Hongkong, 1891-92” by
constructing a reflection about the story.

Lesson 16: Objective: Prepare a recorded video monologue about the topic “The Trial of Rizal/
Martyrdom at Bagumbayan”

Lesson 1

Hero Is Born
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“I was born in Calamba on the 19 of June 1861 between and twelve o’clock at the night, a few
days before the full of the moon.”
-Jose Rizal

Objective: Describe the lesson 1 of Rizal life “Hero Is Born” by constructing a reflection or
insight about the story.

Let’s Read!

Dr. José Rizal, the greatest hero

of the Philippines, was a “many-
splendored” genius. He was richly
dowered by God with superb
intellectual, moral, and physical
qualities. Truly he ranked with the
world geniuses. He was an
anthropologist, botanist,
businessman, cartographer, dramatist,
economist, educator, engineer, essayist,
entomologist, ethnologist, farmer,
folklorist, geographer, grammarian, historian, horticulturist, humorist, etc. More than all of
these, he was a patriot, hero and martyr.

The Name Rizal - the original name of the Rizal family was “Mercado.” It was a surname
adopted in 1731 by Domingo Lam-co, the parental Chinese ancestor. In English, it means
“Market.” The term Rizal came from the Spanish word, racial which means “Green field” or
“New pasture.”

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 Let’s See What You Have Learned

After reading the story of “Hero Is Born”, Write your reflection or insights about the story, make
sure it is aligned with the given story of Rizal.

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Lesson 2
Childhood Days In Calamba
“Ah, tender childhood, lovely town, Rich fount of my felicities.”
-Jose Rizal

Objective: Describe lesson 2 of Rizal’s life “Childhood Days In Calamba” by constructing a

reflection about the story.

Let’s Read!

Jose Rizal, just like Filipino boys, had many

beautiful memories of childhood. His was a
happy home, filled with parental affection,
impregnated with family joys, and sanctified by
prayers. In the midst of such peaceful, refined,
God-loving family, he spent the early years of
his childhood.
Calamba, “Cradle of a Genius”

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Rizal loved Calamba with all his heart and soul. In 1876, when he was 15 years old and was a
student in Ateneo, he remembered his beloved town. Accordingly, he wrote a poem Un
Recuerdo A Mi Pueblo ( In Memory of My Town)
Pilgrimage to Antipolo
On June 6, 1868, Jose and his father left for Calamba to go on a pilgrimage to Antipolo, in order
to fulfill his mother’s vow which was made when Rizal was born. He was thrilled, as a typical
boy should, by his first lake voyage.
First Education from Mother
Jose’s first teacher was his mother. At the age of 3, Jose learned the alphabet and prayers from
her. Seeing Rizal had a talent for poetry, she encouraged him to write poems. She gave her all
her love and all that she learned in college. As Jose grew older, his parents employed private
tutors to give him lessons at home. The first was Maestro Celestino and the second, Maestro
Lucas Padua. Later, an old man named Leon Monroy, a former classmate of Rizal’s father,
became the boy’s tutor.
The Story of the Moth
Of the story told by Dona Teodora to Jose, it was
that of the young moth that made the profoundest
impression on him. The tragic fate of the young moth,
which died a martyr to its illusions, left a deep impress on
Rizal’s mind.
Rizal’s Three Uncles
Uncle Gregorio was a lover of books. He instilled into the
mind of his nephew a great love for books. He taught him
to work hard, to think for himself, and to observe life keenly.
Artistic Talents
Jose had a soul of a genuine artist. He drew sketches and pictures on his books of his
sisters, for which reason he was scolded by his mother. He carved figures of animals and persons
out of wood. He loved to ride on a spirited pony (which his father bought for him) or take long
walks in the meadows for him) or take long walks in the meadows and lakeshore with his big
black dog named Usman.
Prodigy of the Pen
Little Jose was skilled in brush, chisel, pen-knife, and pen. He was born poet. His mother
encouraged him to write poetry. At an early age when children usually begin to learn ABC, he
was already writing poems.
The first known poem that he wrote was a Tagalog poem entitled Sa Aking Mga
Kababata (To My Fellow Children).
Before he was eight years old, he wrote a Tagalog drama. This drama was staged in
Calamba in connection with the town fiesta.

Influences on Hero’s Boyhood

In the lives of all men there are influences which cause some to be great and others not. In the
case of Rizal, he had all favorable influences, which no other child in our country enjoyed.
1. Hereditary Influence - According to biological science, there are inherent traits or
qualities which a person inherits from his ancestors and parents.

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2. Environmental Influence - According to psychologist, environment, as well as heredity
includes affects the nature of a person.
3. Aid of the Divine Providence - Greater than heredity and environment in the fate of man
is the aid of Divine Providence.

THINK ABOUT IT Let’s See What You Have Learned

After reading the story of “Childhood Days In Calamba”, Write

your reflection or insights about the story, make sure it is aligned
with the story given.

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Reference:
https://prezi.com/kxfgp7z4xffe/chapter-2-childhood-days-in-calamba/

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 Lesson 3
School Days In Biñan
“This is the town where my father first saw the light of day, and where he sent me to
continue
studying the rudiments of Latin, which I had started to learn.”
-Jose Rizal

Objective: Identify the important things about lesson 3 of Rizal life “School Days In Binan”
by answering the online quiz bellow.

Let’s Read!
Rizal at three learned his ABC’s on the knees of
his mother. They were often seen kneeling in
prayer every morning and evening before retiring
to bed. To teach him writing, reading and Latin,
Rizal’s father engaged the services of an old
friend, Leon Monroy. Unfortunately, the man
who lodged with them for five months soon died.
In 1869, Don Francisco decided to send
Jose to Biñan, to continue
his studies. Accompanied by his brother,
Paciano, they reached Biñan after one-and-a-half hours ride
aboard a carromata.
The following morning (Monday) Paciano took his brother to the house of Maestro
Justiniano
Aquino Cruz, a nipa house about thirty meters from the house of Jose’s aunt.
Paciano, a former pupil of the maestro, introduced his brother and left. After Jose
was given his seat in the class, the teacher asked him: “Do you know Spanish?” “A little,
Sir,” replied
Jose. “Do you know Latin?” “A little, sir,” Because of these answers,” he replied, “the
teacher’s son who was called Pedro, the naughtiest boy in the class, afterwards made fun of
me.”

Activities in Biñan

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 Rizal’s daily activities were systematic and methodical. His manner of life was
simple. He said: “I heard the four o’clock mass, if there was once; or I studied my lessons at
the same hour and heard mass afterwards.
“If there was a particularly appetizing dish, Leandro and I were told to take it to the
house of my aunt’s sons (a thing which I never did at home, and would never have done). I
returned without saying a word, ate with them, and then applied myself to studies.”
“I went back to school at two, and was out at five. I played for a while with some
good cousins before going home. There I studied my lessons, doodled a little, afterward
taking my supper of one or two plates of boiled rice and an ayungin. We said our prayers and
then, if there was a moon, my friends would call me out to play in the street in the company
of others. Thanks to God, I never felt sick when away from my parents.”

Remember:
The hero’s first teacher

• Doña Teodora(Jose’s Mother)

-On her lap, Jose learned prayers and the alphabet at the age of three.
-“My Mother” wrote Rizal in his student memoirs,
“taught me how to read and to say haltingly the humble prayers which I raised fervently to
God” Private Tutors of Rizal

• Maestro Celestino was Jose’s first private tutor.

• Maestro Lucas Padua was the second private tutor.
• Maestro Leon Monroy became the hero’s tutor in Spanish and Latin. He was a
classmate of Don Francisco(Father of Jose).
First Day in School

• Maestro Justiniano Aquino Cruz – formal teacher

Rizal described Maestro Justiniano as “tall, thin, long-necked, sharp-nosed, with a body
slightly bent forward.”
The school was in Maestro Justiniano’s house which was a small nipa hut about 30
meters from the home of Jose’s aunt.
First School Brawl

• Jose’s learned the art of wrestling from his athletic Tio Manuel.
• Pedro (the teacher’s son) – Jose challenged Pedro to a fight (wrestling).
• Andres Salandanan – challenged Jose arm wrestling. Painting Lessons in Biñan

• Old Juancho – freely gave Jose painting lessons.

• Jose Rizal and his classmate Jose Guevarra became apprentices of old Juancho
Best Student in School

• Jose surpassed his classmates in Spanish, Latin and other subjects

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 • His older classmates were jealous and squealed to the teacher whenever he had
fights
• Jose usually received five or six blows while laid out on a bench End of Biñan
Schooling

• December 17, 1870 – Jose left Biñan

• Talim – the steamer that Jose rode
• Arturo Camps – a Frenchman and a friend of Don Francisco, he took care of Jose
during the trip

ANSWER THE FOLLOWING

Let’s See What You Have Learned

Read the following answers below and choose the appropriate questions about Rizal’s School
Days in Binan.

1. He was always bullied and students would lie to the teacher about him to get him punished
and received 6 lashes a day

1. How did Rizal become the best student in school?

2. When did Rizal leave Binan? What did he take to go back home?
3. What was Rizal's main problem in school despite being smart?
4. What did the sadistic Spanish Lt. do to Rizal's mother?

2. -his mother, Teodora

-taught ABC's, write, poetry, and prayers

1. Who was Rizal's teacher in Binan?

2. Who was Rizal's first teacher? What did he/she teach?
3. Who were Rizal's tutors?

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 4. What gave Rizal the edge during his brawl?

3. Teodora Alonso tried to poison Jose Alberto's wife Teodora Formosa and was arrested

1. What happened to Rizal's mother in Santa Cruz?

2. How did Rizal bcome the best student in school?
3. What happened to Rizal's mother at this time?
4. What was Rizal's main problem in school despite being smart?

4. -Surpassed all of them in Spanish, Latin, and other subjects and made many students jealous
of him
1. How long was Rizal's mother imprisoned?
2. What was Rizal's main problem in school despite being smart?
3. How did Rizal become the best student in school?
4. Where was Rizal's school located?
5. Made her walk from Calamba to Santa Cruz (50km)

1. When did Rizal leave Binan? What did he take to go back home?
2. What were the Four R's that every illustrado student must learn?
3. What did Jose Alberto do to his wife after knowing that she had an affair?
4. What did the sadistic Spanish Lt. do to Rizal's mother?

6. Locked her up in the house in Binan

1. What did Jose Alberto do to his wife after knowing that she had an affair?
2. What are the Four R's that every illustrado student must learn?
3. When did Rizal leave Binan? What did he take to go back home?
4. What did the sadistic Spanish Lt. do to Rizal's mother?

7. -December 17, 1870

-in a steamer Talim

1. When did Rizal leave Binan? What did he take to go back home?
2. What was Rizal's main problem in school despite being smart?
3. What did Jose Alberto do to his wife after knowing that she had an affair?
4. What did the sadistic Spanish Lt. do to Rizal's mother?

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 Match the following Questions to appropriate answer.

1. Who defended Rizal's mother?

2. Who were Rizal's tutors?
3. Who was Rizal's teacher in Binan?
4. To whom was El Filibusterismo dedicated to?
5. Who taught Rizal how to paint?
6. Rizals daily life in Binan
7. What gave Rizal the edge during his brawl?
A. Justiano Aquino Cruz
B. -Defended by the Messrs
-Francisco de Marcaida and Manuel Marzan, famous lawyers in Manila
C. -Wrestling moves from his Tio Manuel
D. -The deaths of the Gom-Bur-Za
E. -A guy named Juancho
F. -Simple
-pray, eat, class, sleep, repeat
G. 1st: Celestino
2nd: Lucas Padua
3rd: Leon Monroy (former classmate of Rizal's father

References:
https://quizlet.com/182704872/test
https://prezi.com/ir41t2rynfyp/chapter-3-
early-education-in-calamba-and-binan/
http://allaboutjoserizal.blogspot.com/2013/
09/school-days-in-binan.html

Lesson 4

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 Triumphs In Ateneo, 1872-77
“Hold high the brow serene, O youth, where now you stand; Let the bright sheen of your
grace
be seen, Fair hope of my fatherland!”
-Jose Rizal

Objective: Describe lesson 4 of Rizal’s Life, “Triumphs In Ateneo, 1872-77” by reading the
story.

Let’s Read!
The Jesuits were considered the best
educators of Spain, and perhaps of Europe,
and so, when they were permitted to return
to the Philippines, although their power to
administer parishes was restricted except
in the remote regions of Mindanao, the
privilege of founding colleges, they had to
apply to the City of Manila for subsidies.
That is why the college which began to function in the year 1865, was called the Ateneo
Municipal.
To enter the Ateneo, a candidate was subjected to an entrance examination on
Christian doctrine, reading, writing, grammar, and elementary arithmetic. Jose did not take
his entrance examinations Jose did not remain in Manila but returned first to his town to
celebrate the fiesta of its patron saint; it was then that his father changed his mind and
decided to send him to the Ateneo instead.
Paciano who accompanied Jose, found him a house in Walled City, but Intramuros
looked gloomy to Jose, and he later found lodging outside, in the house of a spinster situated
on Calle Carballo, district of Santa Cruz. As if chance would furnish him data for his future
campaigns, he became acquainted in that house with various mestizos, begotten by friars.

In the first two terms the classes were divided into groups of interns and externs: the
first constituted the Roman Empire and the second, the Carthaginian Empire. In each empire
there were five dignitaries: Emperor, Tribune, Decurion, Centurion, and Standard-Bearer.
These dignitaries were won by means of individual competitions in which it was necessary to
catch one’s adversary in error three times.
The first professor Jose had was Fr. Jose Bech, whom
he describes as a man of high stature; lean body, bent
forward; quick gait; ascetic physiognomy, severe and
inspired; small, sunken eyes; sharp Grecian nose; thin lips

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 forming an arch with its sides directed toward the chin." He was somewhat of a lunatic and
of an uneven humor; sometimes he was hard and little tolerant and at other times he was
gay and playful as a child.
From the first days Jose learned to systematize his work; he fixed a program of
what he had to do in the twentyfour hours of the day and did not in the least deviate from
it.
The second year, Jose had the same professor as in the previous year; but instead of
lodging outside the City, he resided at No. 6 Calle Magallanes. At the end of the term he
obtained a medal, and upon returning to his town, he again visited his mother in jail alone.
This was three months before her release.
The family, who saw in Jose great aptitude for study, decided to place him as intern
or boarding student in the college the following year. In the corner of the dormitory facing
the sea and the pier Jose passed his two years of internship.
In the fourth year of his course he had Fr. Francisco Sanchez as professor. Jose
describes him as a model of rectitude, a solicitude, and love for the student, and his studied
mathematics, rhetoric, and Greek, and he must have progressed much, for at the end of the
year he-obtained five medals, which pleased him immensely because with them I could
repay my father somewhat for his sacrifices.
In the fifth year Jose had other professors: Frs. Vilaclara and Mineves. He studied
philosophy, physics, chemistry, and natural history, but his devotion to poetry was such that
his professor in philosophy advised him once to leave it, which made him cry.

THINK ABOUT IT

Let’s See What You Have Learned

After reading the story of “Triumps In Ateneo, 1872-77”, Write your reflection or insights
about the story, make sure it is aligned with the given story of Rizal.

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 Reference:
http://allaboutjoserizal.blogspot.com/2013/09/triumphs-inthe-ateneo-hold-high.html

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