XI FAMOUS HEARTS victories at the home of ASANTE KOTOKO

It’s that time of the season, when the Glorious Acccra Hearts of Oak rekindles her eternal rivalry with Kumasi Asante Kotoko, and leading up to the game on Saturday, HeartsEleven.wordpress.com, will take you through Heart of Oak’s finest league victories at the Kumasi fortress of Kumasi.

1. KOTOKO  3 – 4 HEARTS (24th August, 1958):
   This game was the beginning of the age-old rivalry between the two Ghanaian heavyweights. Hearts of Oak were the dominant force in pre-Independent Ghana, having won the Guggisberg Shield six times in 12 years.  In confirmation of the Rainbow Club’s pre-Independence supremacy, and on this first ever meeting in the league against Kotoko at the Kumasi Jackson Park, the Phobians played the home side off the pitch. In an exciting opening 45-minutes, Hearts scored three quality goals through Ofei Dodoo, C.K Gyamfi and Nii Dowuona. But after recess, Kotoko pegged back the scores before Ofei Dodoo

   

   Ofei Dodoo was the first player to score in the Hearts-Kotoko rivalry.
   He scored a brace in the first meeting.

   doubled his tally to put Hearts in the lead again. However, the game was abandoned in the 70th minute when Kotoko’s Dogo Moro refused to leave the pitch after he was red-carded by the center Referee. In the temporary kerfuffle, Hearts goalkeeper Addoquaye Laryea was injured and rushed to the hospital, and 100 fans were arrested after the confusion escalated into a riot.
   But although the game did not end, the Hearts win was never in doubt.

2. KOTOKO 3 – 4 in Kumasi (1983):
   A-quarter-of-a-century after taking a commanding 3-0 first half lead in Kumasi , and allowing their opponents to peg the scores, before going on to take the lead again, Hearts repeated the wondrous chicanery against Kotoko at the Kumasi Sports Stadium. The Rainbow Club, powered by Sam Yeboah’s brace and Botwe’s goal, took a sensational 3-0 lead before the break against the home side. However, Opoku Nti – now CEO of Kotoko – scored three quick goals on resumption to level the scores. But in another dramatic twist, defender Hesse Odamtten headed the winner late on to quell the threatened Kotoko rebellion. Odamtten’s header could still rate as the best headed goal scored in Hearts history. It was not so much for the technique or power as the bravery, daring and temerity to dive in, knowing he would be injured after connecting to the ball. Injured, he was after the goal, but Hesse Odamtten never cared as Hearts carried all the three points.

KOTOKO 1 – 2 in Kumasi (3^rd March, 1978):
It’s highly unusual for 10 men to win against 11 men in a football game, but it is extremely unfathomable for 9 men to win against 11 men away from home in a Derby match. But that is exactly what Glorious Hearts did in 1978 at the home of Kumasi Asante Kotoko, during the pomp of the “Fearsome Fivesome”. Midfield maestro, Robert Hammond, was in his elements to set up Bismark Odoi for the first goal in the first half. Kotoko equalized 10 minutes after the break but Hearts protested against the contentious equalizer only for Referee Bah Alhassan of Sunyani to send off skipper Robert Hammond and Seth Ampadu in the 55^th minute. For 35 minutes, the nine men played as if they were 20. Thrice, Yahya Kahn had to be alert to avert Hearts from taking the lead again, but at the death, he would wilt and so would the Porcupine fans. If the Phobians felt hard done by the Kotoko goal and the refereeing, it was all forgotten when Douglas Tagoe conjured a thunderous strike at the death to gift 9-man Hearts all the three points, the bragging rights, and most importantly, instant justice that put Kumasi to silent sorrowful sleep.

4 KOTOKO 1 – 2 HEARTS (8th February, 2009): The Daily Graphic (Monday, 9th February, 2009 edition) called it a “21-gold carat performance” from Accra Hearts of Oak. They were not wrong. Hearts outclassed, outfoxed, outmaneuvered, outrun and outplayed Kumasi Asante Kotoko in their backyard during this fixture. Hassan Mohammed scored first and Obed Ansah doubled the lead in the second half before Stephen Oduro pulled a goal back. But it could have been more had Hearts not taken her foot off the gas, and the young Samuel Afum

Samuel Afum in a league action for Hearts. He missed a lot of chances in his first game against Kotoko, but he scored back-to-back when he found his feet against the old enemy in the 2009/10 season.

not laced his scoring boots with clemency shots.

The 2-1 win in Kumasi was Hearts’ first victory over Kotoko at the Kumasi Sports Stadium since Edmund Copson’s

Edmund Copson, second from right, scored for 10-man Hearts to beat Kotoko in Kumasi in 1999.

lone goal put the Garden City to early sleeplessness in 1999. But the decade-long reprieve is flattering for the Porcupines who managed only two wins in that space of time. In fact, the Phobians actually pipped Kotoko 0-1 in the latter’s 2006/7 premier league home fixture that had been shifted to Cape Coast as a result of reconstruction work at the Kumasi Sports Stadium in preparation for the CAN 2008.

5. KOTOKO 1 – 2 HEARTS (1990)

   A league decider that established Accra Hearts of Oak’s reputation for the big occasion. The Rainbow Club was a point ahead of Asante Kotoko and needed a draw to secure the league title, but Hearts did not do “draws” when it mattered most.

   The rhetoric before the much-anticipated match was:  “

   

   Boy wonder Papa Shamo Quaye leather outdoes Kotoko prodigy Joe Debrah.

   Shamo Quaye versus Joe Debrah: Who is Who?”
   The home team paraded a crack rearguard, which they called “barrier”, made up of the likes of Black Stars defenders Emmanuel Ampeah, Kwasi Appiah (former Black Stars captain and coach), Frimpong Manso, but Hearts entered the game as barrier-breakers.

   Shamo Quaye gave Hearts the lead shortly after the break with a sweet volley, not only to power Hearts to victory but to confirm his triumph over his rival, Joe Debrah on the day. However, Starlets defender Baba Musah rose highest to head home the equalizer from a corner kick. But before the jubilant home supporters could regain their calm and resume their seats, Anthony “the cannonball” Tieku had restored Hearts’ lead, tapping home the rebound, after Kotoko goalkeeper Mohammed Odom failed to give a firm grab of Mohammed Polo’s shot, which had come about after the magnificently marvelous Mohammed had waltzed past five players straight from the restart. Remarkably, that was the day Kotoko fans serendipitously celebrated a Hearts goal. The legion of Porcupine fans were still basking in the ephemeral glory of their equalizer and did not see the Anthony Tieku winning strike. They only realized Hearts had scored the winner at full-time, when the score-board read 1-2 for the Rainbow Club.

[The above legend was a replica of the 1985 decider in Kumasi. There again, the Phobians needed a draw to clinch their second straight league title. Inspired by ex-Kotoko legend Opoku Afriyie, the Rainbow boys ran away with a famous 0-1 victory courtesy Joe Amoateng.]

6. KOTOKO 0 – 1 HEARTS (1970)

From the esoteric world, news had filtered through prior to the game that for Hearts to win the game, a player would have to “self-immolate”. Stand forward, George “Ga Mantse” Alhassan

George “Ga Mantse” Alhassan got his leg broken by Oliver Acquah but Hearts won the game without their famous striker. [right – Pele]

, who sacrificed his body for the Phobia victory. All these might have been coincidental, but the truth of the matter was that Hearts did, indeed win by a lone goal, and George Alhassan got his league broken by defender Oliver Acquah in the third minute of the game. This was also the season city-rivals Accra Great Olympics pipped Hearts to the league by a single point, and Kotoko, defending league champions, finished a disappointing 11^th.

Hearts were not so forgiving when the two met at the Kumasi Sports Stadium. The Daily Graphic reporter on the match day, E.A Boateng, reported the game thus: “Kumasi Asante Kotoko yesterday crumbled before thousands of their followers to Accra Hearts of Oak in their outstanding league match at the Kumasi Sports Stadium

And the 1-0 defeat which they suffered will go down in the record books as the bitterest ever tasted at the hands of Hearts, for they were outclassed in all the departments of the game. It was a first minute goal scored by Africa Cup star Robert Foley who brilliantly gave a scissors kick to a well taken corner kick by left winger Kofi Bruce.

Throughout the game, Hearts played a masterpiece of soccer and excelled both in strategy and skills.

Their defense pivot on veteran Addo Odamtey rendered Kotoko’s attack ineffective.

Master dribbler Osei Kofi was well marked and it was Africa Cup star Malik who showed brilliance in Kotoko’s attack but the resultant corner kick was wasted

Kotoko pressed hard but the vital equalizer never came.”

Need we add more to this picturesque description of the Hearts win?

KOTOKO 0 – 1 HEARTS (Sunday, May 12, 1991): Hearts of Oak were on the verge of a mental collapse after they were lugubriously knocked-out of Africa by Petro Atletico of Angola. The Phobians’ bright season had hit its first real test when they beat the Angolans 4-2 in Accra, only to lose 3-1 in Angola. To make matters worse, a few players were accused of pilfering at their Luanda hotel. The league had also faced a lot of postponements during the first round, and when this fixture arrived, the Porcupine fans rubbed it in for Hearts by showing up with bed sheets at the Stadium, a clear mimicking of the “Hearts-Angola-Bedsheet-gate.” Now, the game was supposed to be a party for the red half of Kumasi, but Hearts rose to the occasion once again. The equally brilliant and enterprising Ezekiel Alamu scored the only goal of the game, seven minutes into the second half, to once again silence the planned Phobia humiliation. Kotoko fans had come poised to deride their rivals, but the Phobians ended up riding shoulder high back to the Capital. He who laughs last…

8. KOTOKO 1 – 2 HEARTS (1^st December, 1996): This was the first game of the 1996/97 season. Hearts took the long trip to Kumasi to face Kumasi Asante Kotoko on the opening day, and it was here that the Phobians laid the gauntlet for the season.

Long time servant and captain, Nii Noi Dowuona put Hearts in the lead in the first half, but after the break, Kotoko equalized through a penalty. Hearts got a penalty of their own, which was spurned by Godwin Ablordey (latter day Kotoko legend), but Theophilus Amusu was on hand to score the winner for the visitors. It is the most important single win for Hearts in the late 20^th century against Kotoko. That victory turned the tide for Hearts, and gave the players the belief that they could achieve the ultimate. And they did go ahead to win the league at the end of the season. Coincidentally, and more befittingly, Nii-Noi Dowuona, once-upon-a-time-Hearts-green-horn, was the one who popped  up to convert a late penalty against city-rivals Great Olympics to hand Hearts her first league title since 1990. Unknown to anybody then, the Phobians were sowing the seeds for an unprecedented period of dominance in Ghanaian football, a phenomenal era that saw their eventual annexation of the CAF Champions League in 2000, the fourth year of Hearts’ six-year stranglehold on the local league.
9. KOTOKO 1 – 2 HEARTS (17^th October, 1976): The Phobians had gone three years without the league title, although they had a very talented squad.

Promotion from within had seen youngster Ofei Ansah break into the squad, and a rising Mohammed Polo cementing his name in Ghanaian football history. Hearts were held to a 1-1 drawn game by league contenders Kotoko in Accra, but they needed to win the return league in order to set day-light between themselves and their closest challengers, Kotoko in the season. At the Kumasi Sports Stadium, Malik Jabir got the opener for the home side in the first half, but Peter “goal-thief” Lamptey and Robert Hammond scored to turn defeat to victory for Hearts of Oak. The Phobians won their remaining two games to clinch the league title, and also start another period of dominance which would see them win three titles in four seasons, but unfortunately, the late 1970s revival could not lead to a continental success.

10. KOTOKO 1 – 2 HEARTS (13^th June, 1993): There was something special about Hearts in the early 1990s when they went to play Kumasi Asante Kotoko at the Kumasi Sports Stadium. What exactly it was, we still cannot pin-point, but the Phobians always rose to the occasion at the cauldron of the Porcupines. This game was the last of four consecutive away victories at the home of Kotoko, from 1989-93 – all of them ending by one goal victory margins; 1-2, 0-1, 0-1, 1-2.

On this occasion, Bernard Aryee and Massawudu scored two beautiful goals in a space of 23 minutes of the first half to hand Hearts a healthy lead before the break. Strangely, Kotoko goalkeeper Sampson Appiah was replaced by Anthony Osei Kojo after conceding the two goals, and the Porcupines pulled a goal back mid-way into the second half through Joseph Okyere, but Hearts held on to continue their four-game winning streak at the home of Kotoko in the league.

11. KOTOKO 2 – 5 HEARTS (2^nd November, 1958): This was the second ever game between Hearts and Kotoko. Although details of the scorers and history-makers have been lost to time, the 5 Hearts of Oak goals still remain the highest scored by one-side in the 100 league games played between the two sides. The Kumasi Jackson Park played host to what was popularly becoming the Game-of-the-Nation post Independence. After Dogo Moro’s refusal to leave the pitch when he was red-carded had plunged the game into anarchy leading to a call-off, with Hearts leading 4-3 at the home of Kotoko, the League Management Committee ordered for a replay on the 2^nd November, 1958. Hearts continued where they had left off, pummeling their opponents to a 5-2 humiliation in the replay to set her on course for her second league triumph in two years – and first title win in Independent Ghana. The Hearts victory also set Phobia minds wondering what could have been, had the first meeting not ended at 4-3. Maybe, Hearts could have scored more in the last 20 minutes, but it did not matter at all, as the 5-2 win in the replay was enough justice.

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The happier Stephen Appiah Days.

Happy 34th Birthday, Stephen Appiah

Stephen Leroy “Tornado” Appiah turns 34 today (born 24th December, 1980), but we will take you back to the day he etched his name in Ghana football history as a 15-year-old against Asante Kotoko… Appiah played only two seasons with Hearts (1995-1997), but he left a lot of sweet memories.

One sunny afternoon, in their Accra Sports Stadium bastion, a youngster by name Stephen Appiah etched his name in the folklore of Hearts-Kotoko rivalry with a scintillating performance in an exhilarating 3-3 thriller at the Nation’s Wembley in 1996.

Hearts, coming to the tail-end of a sixth straight league drought of the 19th century, welcomed league leaders Kumasi Asante Kotoko to the reverse fixture of Ghana’s biggest game at the Accra Sports Stadium on 17th April, 1996.

A precocious star, making headways in Ghanaian football announced his arrival on the world stage with a stirring performance.

It was not so much the results that mattered to Hearts of Oak as the league-decider effect and the prodigy who was at the heart of the drama- the 15-year-old Stephen “Tornado” Appiah.

The 1995/96 season was a two-horse race between Ashanti Region rivals Asante Kotoko and Obuasi Goldfields.

Hearts had watched in horror and jealousy as Goldfields stumbled to city rivals Accra Great Olympics to hand Kotoko the momentum.

Fortunately, the Phobians had the opportunity to have a crucial say as to where the title should go, with this epic fixture against Kotoko in Accra.

The 3-3 draw was a satisfactory result for the Phobians as the Kotoko stumble handed Goldfields the chance to move within two points of Kotoko with two games to end the season. Tema Ghapoha completed the Phobians’ mission of thwarting KOTOKO’s title bid by holding the Porcupine Warriors to a goalless draw in Tema whilst Goldfields won at home to edge out their challengers to retain the 1995/96 league season on goal difference, the third and final triumph of their brief dominance of Ghana football.

So much for the background, let us return to that famous encounter on 17th April, 1996.

Stephen Appiah,  in his second and final season for the Rainbow Club, started the scoring for Hearts, but the joy was ephemeral as Kotoko equalised and sailed into a 2-1 lead to keep their title charge alive.

Anthony ‘cannonball’ Tieku levelled for Hearts but the visitors stole the lead again.

Hearts, heading for a second defeat in successive games after losing 2-1 to Afienya, were carried on the lofty shoulders of the young maestro, Appiah.

Stephen Appiah held the game by the scruff of the neck by dancing his way into the Kotoko vital area, and he was mowed down as he shaped to shoot. But before the Referee could point to the spot, the youngster miraculously poked the ball home to draw Hearts on level pegging with the last kick of the game.

By his remarkable feat on the day, Stephen ‘Tornado’ Appiah became the youngest player to ever score a brace in the Hearts-Kotoko rivalry.

The promise that Appiah showed on that day was not belied by any later flaws. On the contrary, he blossomed into a world class player, gracing the most famous pitches in European football with Bologna, Parma, Juventus, and Fenerbahce.

Appiah went ahead to captain the Black Stars to two very successful World Cups.

@HeartsEleven salutes the legend of this great son of the Oak tree.

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SHAMO QUAYE – Legends Don’t Die, They Live Forever

SHAMO QUAYE: Legends Don’t Die; They Live Forever.

Benjamin Shamo Quaye, one of the greatest football entertainers to don the tri-colours of the Glorious Hearts of Oak, bid an untimely goodbye to the physical world, at the tender age of 26 on the 30^th November, 1997.

Shamo lived for just a quarter of a century and a year, but his close-to-a decade love story with Accra Hearts of Oak will forever live in Ghana football.

The mercurial midfielder played for Soccer Angels, Division 3 side 3kp3 Stars, before he joined Hearts in 1986 in the Musical Youth era. He had stints with Africa Sports, played in Saudi Arabia, and was a player of Umea FC of Sweden, when the unfortunate happened after he complained of severe headaches after a training kick-about in Tema.

During a very torrid time for the club in the late 1980s, rose this special rose from the concrete; out of the turmoil, Shamo became the halcyon we could all rely on. In his first season, Shamo Quaye won the Discovery of The Season in 1987. The small success was overcome by a patron-v-directors-schism that rocked the boat of the club in 1988. But when calm returned in 1989/90, Shamo Quaye’s thirteen goals in the league pushed Hearts to its first league title in five years.

Most will remember him for his prowess, bravery, valour, football wizardry and trickery, but a very few still recollect his genuine human qualities off the field that made him the amazing man he became.

On a road trip to Takoradi just two weeks ago, Hearts masseur Ali Adjetey alias Ozi-Oza was sent into a 30-minutes  reticence when, after he had mentioned that the late Shamo Quaye would have been a great coach, his partner in the physio team quickly riposted that ‘not all great players are good coaches’.

He looked for answers, but could not find any. He wanted to speak, but he could not muster a word. Almost half-an-hour later, and more composed, he innocently asked his colleague: “Did you ever see Shamo play?”

The answer was an honest: “No, but I heard he was a great player”. Ozi-Oza said again and as if his colleague had committed a sacrilege, “Yes, that is why you said what you said.”

All these had started when I chanced on a Hearts booklet titled: “Prospectus for the sale of 20,000,000 ordinary shares of no par value to Accra Hearts of oak Sporting Club Ltd.”

On the 25^th (xxv) page of the booklet’s introduction, a picture of Shamo Quaye was spread, with the small caption, “Legendary Hearts player – Shamo Quaye”.

He was the last in a line with a teammate’s hand hanging on his left shoulder. But he looked different. He looked reflective as if he was gauging into the future or ferreting for a thing from the past. It was before a game, his hands loosely by his side, and countless faces in the background.

Those were the people Shamo came to entertain, and they were awaiting the master entertainer with an assured hope that they would take something unforgettable from the repertoire of the Hearts No.10.

Yet, he did not appear battle ready, but such was his demeanor – calm in person, composed on the ball, and explosive in the box; but also, he could always put on a show when he wanted to or the occasion demanded. He was the mystery man.

Ozi-Oza had tried in vain to get the right words to describe the man. I asked him why he said Shamo was such a good man. Ozi’s answer was simple: “He cared so much for every single one of us who worked for the club, and he made them raise my salary and I will never forget that.”

“How could a player wield so much power and yet be so humble,” I asked again. “….Because, he was Shamo Quaye. He cared so much for the rest of us and that made him who he was. The fame never got to him. He worked the most and prayed the most as well before games, and God answered most of his prayers,” Ozi-Oza answered.

The always smiling, joke-cracking Hearts Masseur was getting very emotional talking about a man who had been gone for 17 years.

He said that Shamo always pointed to his colleagues where to move and stand on the field of play. He thought a minute ahead of all the players on the pitch, and he could do whatever he wanted to do with the ball. And it was the reason he said Shamo could have been a great coach.

When I asked Ozi what his funniest moment with Shamo Quaye was, to ease off the rising maudlin, he replied: “One day, I asked Shamo Quaye: Why don’t you have an English name? Shamo laughed and smiled. ‘Aaah, Ozi, don’t you know that Benjamin is my English name?’”

Most of us had forgotten what his English name was because we had rechristened him, “LEATHER” and shouted, “WONDER” whenever he stupefied our eyes.

He came in at the tender age of 15 in late 1986, but he rose like a giant to stake his claim in the pantheon of greatness of Accra Hearts of Oak by the time he left in 1995.

“Since I saw Shamo play, I never saw him lose form. He could wander in the game, as if he was not there, but once he sprang to life, he either scored a goal or made WONDERS,” one staunch Phobian, Maxwell Koranteng recalled.

And another also said, “Well, the best players score goals, but Shamo Quaye scored hard to comprehend goals.”

For those of you, who were lucky enough to see the WONDER goals and there were a lot of them, Shamo’s memory will linger forever. Yes, that season-double against Olympics in 1990, home and away. Remember? Shamo Quaye had the ball in the middle of the pitch, goalkeeper Karl Sekyere had committed the cardinal error of vacating his 6-yard line, a drop of the shoulder and a split-second peep at the opposing goal. The “leather” drove home a magical chip from the center circle, wide eyes and gasps followed the strike. Sekyere flinched a muscle to retreat to his line, but there was no stopping the salient strike. It was the equalizer, and it denied city-rivals Olympics the bragging rights. Then, again, he repeated it. If they ever thought that he was lucky on the first attempt in the first league, they were proved wrong. Lightning does not strike twice, they say. But Shamo scored a picturesque replica of his long range lob again against Karl Sekyere and Olympics. Incidentally, it was the equalizer again.

And were you at the Kaladan in 1990? If the dreaded Kaladan Park had ever clapped for an opposing team goal, then it was for Shamo Quaye on this occasion. The magical Hearts No.10 drove a low, carpet strike, from about 35-meters, on a pitch that had gained notoriety for its undulating nature, to gift Hearts a lone goal victory over RTU.  And were you part of the few who decided to leave the stadium with the score goalless in a league fixture with Dwarfs in Accra? The time was up, and it was the year of drawn games going to penalties. The two teams had just submitted their list for the spot kicks. Guess, who was not in the mood for penalties? Shamo Quaye, lining-up with Mohammed Polo, conjured a simple yet exquisite one-two, to send the stadium into absolute delirium.

Still fresh in the memory is that goal against Asante Kotoko in the 1990 League Decider. It was the opening goal. It was not an ordinary goal; it was a goal that could make a ghoul an angel. Shamo Quaye, sandwiched between two center backs – and remember, he was not the tallest of players – met a looping cross midair, without the ball touching the turf, and unleashed a fierce volley into Mohammed Odoom’s net. Are you bemused? No need for yes. So was goalkeeper Mohammed Odum, who concluded in local dialect that, “Shamo is a wizard!” He celebrated like he was in the stands by taking off his no.10 shirt. Shirtless Shamo Scorcher! It was for those who were lucky to be there.

The “wonder” man reserved one of those wonder goals for the Wonder Club in the mid-1990s. Richard Kingston was just mapping his name on the local terrain, and he was a thorn-in-the-flesh of the Phobians in a league encounter at the Accra Sports Stadium. The Accra rivalry had just been reduced to a Kingston versus Hearts battle. Yet, and timely too, Shamo Quaye had just returned from a trip abroad to etch his name once again in the capital’s longest running rivalry. Kingston’s heroics on any other day might have won the plaudits and the points for Olympics, but Shamo skillfully outshone the young keeper and Olympics, again.

The wonder boys were defending a goal lead, Kingston was saving everything in his way, then came the Shamo moment. A looping ball into the area was majestically trapped between-toe-and-shin, and still with his foot hanged in the air, he flicked it sideways into the net with Kingston stranded. He did not wait for the ball to hit the back of the net as he wheeled away towards the Score-Board end of the stadium to celebrate with the vociferous fans.

Shamo Quaye had the sense of the dramatic and had delayed his entry onto the pitch to add to the suspense. In the end, he left the pitch with as much applause as he had entered it.

The son of a fisherman and a Ga Fetish Priestess, born in Tema New Town, rose to become the symbol of the indomitable spirit of Accra Hearts of Oak in less than a decade. And what a dynamic symbol he became. The Shamo Leather is fondly remembered by all Phobians on the 17th anniversary of his demise.

The WONDER man lives on, not just on the field, but in the heart of the many Hearts fans he thrilled and uplifted in the short time he spent on earth.

Wherever you are, Benjamin Shamo Papa “leather” Quaye, your name will be remembered forever and ever. Sleep well, sleep well, sleep well.

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