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Biography work

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What is biographical work?

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Biographical work is the basis for a person

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to remember their own past,

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to remember what they have experienced,

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to remember what they have learned

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and, based on these past experiences

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and the skills

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that have been acquired there in the course of life,

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to plan for the future.

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For us, biographical work is

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a very important building block

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for recognizing a person's resources,

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to perceive breaks in a life

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and also to clearly identify resources,

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in order to plan new paths along these resources

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plan new paths

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or plan for the future.

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This is therefore an important foundation

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for planning the future.

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What are the goals of biographical work with people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities?

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The main focus of biographical work

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with people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities

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is the individual or shared

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multi-perspective view

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of one's own life experience,

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of one's own experiences.

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And especially people

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who cannot express themselves verbally

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or who cannot report 

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on their lives so far,

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need support in reviewing

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of their own lives

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and in identifying their own resources

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and their own abilities,

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which have been acquired over the course of their lives.

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What challenges arise when implementing biographical work with people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities?

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There are different levels of challenges.

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On the one hand, there is the challenge of

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a person

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who has great difficulty remembering,

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great difficulty expressing himself verbally,

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his memories,

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trying together with him

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to stir up these memories, to bring them out

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by looking at old photos,

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by looking at

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old objects from the past,

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in order to then reawaken the feelings from back then

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or bring them out

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and work on them.

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The other is the multi-perspective perspective,

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which means including the social environment,

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people

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who can talk about the past,

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to include their perspectives,

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incorporating their stories

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into a person's biographical narrative.

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And the third major difficulty is

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people who have lived in institutions

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and who are very strongly influenced

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by institutional life,

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which is very monotonous for outsiders,

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there based on files, reports

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bring out central aspects of life

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and then also

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confront a person with these aspects

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and bring out in people again

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that they like to remember,

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that they can bring out the central things in their lives

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can be brought back to life,

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feelings can resurface,

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and perhaps also experience ruptures,

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that this multi-perspectivity

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is brought together with the most diverse levels

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and turned into a living instrument,

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the biographical work of experience,

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of transporting oneself back

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into one's own past,

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in order to develop strengths for the future.

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What is the relationship between biographical work and personal future planning?

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Biographical work can be an essential building block

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for personal future planning.

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When planning for the future,

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always begins with a review,

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a review of one's life so far,

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what you have done in life,

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what you have achieved,

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what you take with you from your life so far.

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And from there, it is an important building block,

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an important foundation

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for personal future planning,

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to become aware of

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what you have experienced in your life,

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where your strengths lie,

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where your resources are.

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and where you have learned something,

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what you would not like to take with you into the future.

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How can biographical work and personal future planning be implemented methodically?

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Personal future planning is

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similar to biographical work,

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always recommended to be carried out by an external moderator,

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by an external expert.

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We have had very good experiences with this,

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having trained moderators

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who are familiar with the methods

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of personal future planning,

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can apply them

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and who are also familiar with the methods

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biography work,

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who can therefore build a bridge

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can benefit from the in-depth introduction

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to biographical work and with the foundation

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what has been experienced in biographical work,

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has been worked out

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with this foundation, then

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to embark on personal future planning,

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in order to then look ahead in future planning

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to look ahead,

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to look to the future

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and to think along the lines of an idea

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of how to implement this idea,

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this will for the future,

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can implement the North Star of future planning.

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How can the aspect of voluntariness be taken into account?

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The will of the individual,

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including that of people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities,

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must always be at the forefront of biographical work,

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similar to personal future planning.

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And it is difficult there,

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where the will is not immediately apparent

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or where we feel

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that we cannot adequately explain to people

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what biographical work is

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or personal future planning

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and that we cannot

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prepare them sufficiently for what

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is supposed to happen there.

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This makes it all the more important

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to reach people in simple language,

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to explain things to people in small,

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simple steps,

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to make it clear

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what biographical work is.

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And again and again,

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once you have started this process,

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pay attention to even the smallest signals,

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whether people feel comfortable,

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whether it is appropriate for them,

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what is happening there,

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what we ask them,

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whether it is appropriate,

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what the entire setting looks like

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and to change the setting accordingly

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or to change the questions

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if we notice

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that it is not well received or that it is not wanted.

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This means

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you don't just have to be very

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clear at the beginning in taking them along

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and explaining things in simple language,

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but you also have to be clear throughout the entire process,

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during the biographical work

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and also in planning for the future

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always be very sensitive

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and be prepared to change course

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if you notice

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that it causes fears and resistance.

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Or even to stop it

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when you realize

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that this is not the right way,

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that these are not the right questions.

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Of course, that's also an option,

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to end that too.

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But the goal would of course be

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to get people on board

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and to design the setting in such a way

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that it is good

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and pleasant for people and that they also realize

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that it has a positive outcome for them too.

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And to take away their fear of the process.

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How can abstract ideas and content be made accessible to people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities?

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Here, information from biographical work

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or from future planning,

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from the page about me,

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from the resource tree can be used

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to respond to individual preferences

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and aversions of a person,

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in order to prepare the person through mirroring,

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what has already been experienced in their past,

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what has gone well,

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to alleviate fears, to encourage,

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to take new steps, to change something,

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to make it clear again at transitions into new, unknown territory

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that this has also been the case in the past

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that this has also 

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happened frequently in the past

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and that this is a positive development

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and that we should continue along this path

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into unknown territory

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together and support each other.

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That means

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relying on what we have learned so far

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and taking away the fear of the new,

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by referring to the familiar,

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to the past.