2009, the Ras Al Khaimah Free Trade Zone, northern United Arab Emirates. Inside a workshop sitting on the edge of the Arabian desert, a team of engineers is bolting hardened steel plates onto the chassis of what appears to be an ordinary commercial pickup truck, a Ford F-550 Super Duty four-wheel drive, the same platform American contractors used to haul lumber and tow trailers on suburban highways, except this one is being wrapped in certified ballistic armor, fitted with spring-loaded gun ports, and reinforced to carry 10 armed
soldiers through some of the most hostile operating environments on the planet. It looked like a work truck playing dress-up. It looked like a compromise. The steel was too heavy for the frame. The cabin was too tall for the wheelbase. The whole concept felt like something assembled in a hurry by a company that could not afford to design a proper armored vehicle from scratch.
Military observers who saw early photographs assumed it was a disposable stopgap, something a private security firm might drive for 6 months before the suspension collapsed under the weight of its own armor. They were wrong. That vehicle would go on to be deployed across four continents, adopted by the armed forces and police services of more than a dozen nations, combat-tested against ISIS fighters in the burning cities of northern Iraq, deployed by United Nations peacekeepers on the most volatile border in the Middle East, and
delivered to NATO special operations forces in Eastern Europe. It would operate in ambient temperatures exceeding 50° C, survive roadside bombs rated at 8 kg of TNT equivalent, and do all of it while running on parts available at virtually any Ford dealership on Earth. Its name was the IAG Guardian, and it was the armored car engineered from the ground up for conditions that destroyed everything else in the region.
To understand why the Guardian existed, you need to understand the problem that every military force operating in the Persian Gulf has faced for decades. The Gulf does not merely test armored vehicles, it annihilates them. Summer ambient temperatures routinely reach 50° C in open air. Inside the hull of an armored vehicle parked under direct sunlight, internal temperatures can climb beyond 70°.
At that threshold, electronic components begin to fail. Rubber gaskets and seals harden and crack. Lithium batteries degrade. Crew inside the vehicle, without active cooling, become heat casualties within hours. That is before the vehicle is moved a single meter. Then there is the dust. Military vehicle columns in the Arabian desert generate airborne particulate concentrations of up to 10 g per cubic meter, vastly exceeding the design tolerances of standard civilian engines.
Single-stage air filters can become fully saturated within hours of driving, allowing abrasive particles into the cylinders. The result is accelerated engine wear so severe that it can reduce service life by more than 90%. United States Army studies conducted during the 1991 Gulf War found that fitting a two-stage inertial pre-cleaner to helicopter turbine engines extended their operational life from roughly 80 hours to 800 hours, a tenfold improvement from a single filtration upgrade. Add coastal humidity carrying
roughly 3.6% chloride concentration that eats through untreated steel within months. Add sandstorms driven by shamal winds exceeding 95 km/h that penetrate hatch seals and turret ring bearings. Add soft sand that swallows standard truck tires inflated to normal highway pressure. The Gulf is not merely a theater of operations.
It is an engineering stress test that never stops running. The man who decided to build a vehicle specifically for this environment was Dr. Anton Stefov, a Bulgarian-Canadian mechanical engineer who had founded International Armored Group in Canada in 1996 with just two employees. Stefov’s background was in cash and transit vehicles, the armored trucks that carry banknotes between banks.
He understood ballistic protection. He understood cost engineering. And critically, he understood that the future of the armored vehicle market was not in Europe or North America, it was in the Middle East, in Africa, and in the security-volatile regions where extreme temperatures, abrasive dust, and tight budgets made Western military vehicles either impractical or entirely unaffordable.
In 2005, Stoff off opened a UAE branch in the Ras Al Khaimah free trade zone. By 2009, he had expanded beyond civilian armoring and into military tactical vehicles. The Guardian was the centerpiece of that expansion. The vehicle itself was a masterpiece of practical engineering. Built on a Ford F-550 Super Duty 4×4 chassis, it was powered by a 6.
7 L Power Stroke V8 turbo diesel producing between 300 and 400 horsepower paired to a Ford 6-speed automatic transmission with full-time four-wheel drive. Standard ballistic protection met CEN B6 and STANAG 4569 level two defeating 7.62 mm NATO ball ammunition at combat ranges. Optional lightweight armor packages raise protection to CEN B7 stopping 7.
62 mm armor-piercing rounds fired from 30 m. Top speed reached 120 km/h on paved roads. Operational range stretched to 800 km on a single tank. The vehicle carried a crew of two plus up to 10 troops in the armored cabin seated on blast attenuating seats with four-point harnesses. But the specifications that truly set the Guardian apart were the ones designed specifically for the desert.
A two-stage cyclone pre-cleaner on the engine intake kept fine Gulf dust from reaching the cylinders. A high-capacity HVAC system maintained survivable cabin temperatures in sustained 50° heat. A central tire inflation system with beadlock tactical wheels allowed crews to drop tire pressure from 5 bar to 2.5 bar in approximately 3 minutes transforming the vehicle’s flotation on soft sand without stopping.
Run-flat inserts ensured the Guardian could keep moving even after tire damage. And every steel panel was laser cut in the controlled indoor conditions of the Ras Al Khaimah facility then coated to resist the chloride pitting that destroys unprotected armor in coastal Gulf environments within a single year. In 2017, IAG unveiled the Guardian Extreme MRAP variant at DSEI London featuring a V-hull monocoque floor rated to withstand 6 to 8 kg of TNT under any wheel or directly beneath the hull center. The Extreme could also be
configured in a 6 by 6 layout extending troop capacity to 12. It was no longer a modified pickup. It was a purpose-built mine resistant platform wearing a pickup truck’s mechanical heart. Now, before we get into where this vehicle actually fought and who trusted their lives to it, if you are enjoying this deep dive into modern military engineering, hit subscribe.
It takes a second, costs nothing, and helps the channel grow. The first real combat test of the IAG Guardian came not in the deserts of the Gulf, but in the shattered cities of northern Iraq. In 2014, the Islamic State swept across northwestern Iraq overrunning Mosul and threatening the semi- autonomous Kurdistan region. The Kurdish Peshmerga, the armed forces of the Kurdistan Regional Government, needed armored vehicles immediately.
They needed vehicles that could absorb small arms fire and improvised explosive device fragments. They could operate in extreme heat on degraded roads and that could be maintained without access to sophisticated western military supply chains. The Guardian met every requirement. IAG delivered multiple batches of Guardian 4 by 4 armored personnel carriers to the Peshmerga beginning in late 2014.
According to reports published by Army Recognition in March of 2015, IAG representatives confirmed that the Guardian had been combat validated by Kurdish armed forces fighting ISIS in Iraq and that additional vehicles would be delivered in the following weeks. The Peshmerga deployed Guardians in front-line operations across the Nineveh and Kirkuk governorates where they faced sustained small arms fire, vehicle-borne explosive attacks, and the constant threat of roadside bombs buried on approach routes. The vehicle held. The
Ford powertrain proved reliable in conditions that had crippled more complex Western platforms. Standardized parts meant that damaged components could be replaced using supplies sourced from commercial networks rather than military logistics pipelines. For a force fighting a desperate defensive war without the luxury of a proper maintenance infrastructure, that logistical simplicity was not a convenience. It was a lifeline.
The second major deployment was Lebanon. In 2018, the Royal Malaysian Army deployed IAG Guardian Extreme 4×4 vehicles with its Malbatt 850 contingent serving under UNIFIL, the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon. The Malaysian peacekeepers used the Guardians for daily patrols along the Blue Line, the demarcation line between Israel and Lebanon, one of the most sensitive and volatile borders in the world.
The Guardian replaced the aging Condor armored personnel carrier that Malaysia had previously fielded, providing a significant upgrade in ballistic protection, crew comfort, and operational endurance in the heat of the southern Lebanese summer. Malaysia subsequently ordered four additional Guardian Extreme vehicles for its Royal Police General Operations Force.
In January 2024, at a reported cost of approximately $565,000 US per vehicle. The third theater was the Sahel. In early 2021, Germany provided 15 IAG Guardian Extreme vehicles to the Nigerian Army as part of a security assistance package aimed at strengthening Niger’s capacity to fight jihadist insurgencies in the tri-border region, where Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso converge.
The Sahel presented a different desert from the Gulf, with fine laterite dust, sparse infrastructure, and vast distances between resupply points. The Guardian’s 800-km range and Ford-based serviceability made it a practical choice for a military operating in one of the most logistically deprived regions on Earth.
Beyond these primary deployments, the Guardian spread across an unlikely range of customers. Bulgaria’s Ministry of Defense ordered 45 Guardian Stream MRAPs in November 2021 for its joint special operations command, with the first four delivered in December of that year, and 22 more handed over by February 2022. Vietnam received its first batch for police use in September 2016.
Kosovo’s police service operates approximately 19 Guardians. Lithuania’s public security service took delivery for its tactical units. Chile’s Gendarmerie received two Guardian 4x4s in 2022 for high-risk prisoner transport in the volatile La Araucanía region, making the IAG Guardian one of the very few armored personnel carriers in the world to serve simultaneously in Middle Eastern combat, European special operations, Southeast Asian peacekeeping, West African counterterrorism, and South American law enforcement. That is not a product
catalog. That is a global footprint earned one deployment at time. The Guardian did not exist in a vacuum. It competed against some of the most established armored vehicle platforms in the world, and on paper, several of them appeared superior. The Oshkosh MATV, the standard mine-resistant vehicle of the United States military, weighed nearly 15 metric tons, featured fully independent suspension, and carried a price tag exceeding $470,000 per unit.
It was a purpose-built battlefield platform designed to survive the most powerful roadside bombs encountered in Afghanistan. But, it was also complex, expensive to maintain outside the American military ecosystem, and physically oversized for the police, border patrol, and peacekeeping missions where the Guardian found its market.
The Paramount Marauder, built in South Africa, offered a clean-sheet monocoque double-skin hull with exceptional blast protection. It weighed over 15 metric tons, cost approximately $485,000, and lacked the Ford parts commonality that made the Guardian serviceable in countries where military logistics infrastructure simply did not exist.
Closer to home, the NIMR Ajban built by the UAE’s own Edge Group was the Guardian’s most direct local competitor. NIMR published explicit environmental specifications, including a 55° C cooling system rating that IAG had not matched in its public documentation. But, the Ajban was largely tied to UAE armed forces procurement and was not exported as aggressively into the police, peacekeeping, and paramilitary markets that IAG had carved out as its own territory.
The Guardian’s competitive advantage was never raw survivability or maximum blast resistance. It was the combination of worldwide Ford parts availability, Gulf engineered heat and dust tolerance, modular armor that let buyers scale protection to their specific threat, and a price point that came in significantly below European and American alternatives.
For a peacekeeping contingent in Lebanon or a special operations unit in the Balkans, the Guardian offered precisely enough protection at a cost that made acquisition both politically and financially possible. By 2024, IAG had expanded far beyond its original workshop. The Ras Al Khaimah facility had grown to 35,000 sq m of production space, rated for up to 150 armored vehicles per month.
A second European production line operated through the SAMARM joint venture in Bulgaria. And in October 2024, IAG opened its own dedicated 150,000 sq m manufacturing plant in Burgas, Bulgaria. A 10 million euro greenfield investment inaugurated in the presence of Bulgarian President Rumen Radev. The message was unmistakable.
IAG was no longer positioning itself as a Gulf workshop. It was building NATO standard vehicles on NATO soil for NATO customers with a factory designed to serve a continent. 2009, the Ras Al Khaimah free trade zone, a team of engineers bolting armor plates onto a Ford pickup truck in the desert heat, the IAG Guardian was not the most heavily armored vehicle in its class. It was not the fastest.
It did not carry the heaviest weapons. It lacked the documented thermal certifications of its hometown rival. Its combat record, while genuine, rested on operational deployments rather than the kind of dramatic survival incidents that forge legends around armored vehicles. Its published specifications left gaps that more established manufacturers would not tolerate, and yet it worked.
It worked in the shattered streets of northern Iraq, where Peshmerga fighters drove it against ISIS positions and brought their crews home alive. It worked on the blue line in southern Lebanon, where Malaysian peacekeepers patrolled one of the most volatile borders on Earth day after day without interruption.
It worked in the Sahel, where Nigerian soldiers drove it across hundreds of kilometers of barren terrain hunting jihadist cells. It worked in Bulgarian mountain training grounds, in Vietnamese police operations, in Chilean prisoner transports through hostile countryside. It worked because it was designed by people who understood that the real enemy of every armored vehicle in the Gulf is not just bullets and bombs. It is heat. It is dust.
It is salt. It is the environment itself grinding away at steel and rubber and electronics 24 hours a day until lesser machines simply stop. The Guardian was never built to be the best armored car in the world. It was built to be the one still running when everything else in the region had already broken down.
That is not luck. That is desert engineering.
QQ4 Bob Dylan and Keith Richards have been close friends for nearly 40 years. The friendship began on a live television program in November of 1986 in the 11 seconds after Bob Dylan called Keith Richards music derivative on camera. Keith Richard’s response to that assessment, one sentence said without anger, without performance, with the specific directness of a man who has nothing to prove and knows it made Bob Dylan laugh.
Then made Bob Dylan go quiet. then made Bob Dylan say two words that people who know Bob Dylan say he almost never said to anyone. This is the story of those 11 seconds and the 40 years that followed them. The program was a live music interview special broadcast on an American network on the evening of November 3rd, 1986. The format was simple.
Two musicians, a host, an hour of conversation about music and the state of it. The producers had assembled the pairing of Bob Dylan and Keith Richards with the specific calculation of television producers who understand that two people with equally strong and potentially incompatible views about what music is and what it should do will produce better television than two people who agree about everything.
The calculation was correct, though not in the way the producers had anticipated. Bob Dylan was 45 years old in November of 1986. Bob Dylan had released Empire Burlesque the previous year and had been on the road for most of the intervening period as part of the True Confessions tour with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
Bob Dylan was in November of 1986 in one of the most prolific and restless phases of a career that had consisted almost entirely of prolific and restless phases. A career that had moved through folk, rock, country, gospel, and back again, that had been declared finished at least six times by the music press, and at each time continued with the serene indifference of a river to the opinions of people standing on its banks.
Bob Dylan had been redefining what music could be. Since 1962, Bob Dylan had invented and reinvented himself so many times that reinvention had become his defining characteristic, not in the superficial sense of a performer changing costumes, but in the deeper sense of a musician who had never allowed his work to settle into a form that could be anticipated or categorized from the outside.
Bob Dylan understood influence and originality and the relationship between them better than almost anyone alive in 1986. Bob Dylan had spent 24 years thinking carefully and specifically about where music came from and where music was going and what it meant that those two things were always in constant conversation with each other.
Keith Richards was 42 years old in November of 1986. Keith Richards had been playing guitar professionally since 1962. Keith Richards had built a career on a foundation of American blues and rhythm and blues. A foundation that Keith Richards had studied with the systematic devotion of someone who understood that the tradition he was building on was not incidental to the music he was making, but essential to it.
that you could not understand what Keith Richards did without understanding where Keith Richards had come from and what Keith Richards had been listening to since he was a teenager in Dartford with American Import Records and a secondhand guitar and no teacher except the recordings themselves. Keith Richards had never pretended otherwise. Keith Richards had in fact spent considerable energy across his career making the lineage explicit, naming the artists, citing the recordings, insisting on the acknowledgement of influence that the mainstream music
industry had a long history of suppressing or ignoring or crediting to the wrong people. If anything, Keith Richards was more transparent about his sources than most musicians of his generation. Keith Richards had always said openly that the Rolling Stones came directly from the blues, that Muddy Waters and Robert Johnson and the specific tradition of the Mississippi Delta were not background influences, but foundational ones.
The music Keith Richards made was in direct and sustained conversation with that tradition, something Keith Richards considered not a limitation, but a responsibility and a form of respect. The interview had been running for 8 minutes when the host asked Bob Dylan about the current state of rock and roll.
Bob Dylan answered with the density and the indirection that characterized Bob Dylan’s responses to direct questions, turning the question over, approaching it from an unexpected angle, finding his way to what he actually thought through a series of observations that moved like a river rather than a road. Bob Dylan was not a straightforward interview subject.
Bob Dylan had been asked about rock and roll in hundreds of interviews across 24 years and had developed the habit of treating the question as an invitation to think out loud rather than a request for a prepared position. The producer Gerald Sherman said afterward that in the first 8 minutes of the interview, he had been slightly anxious, not because anything was going wrong, but because nothing was going anywhere in particular yet.
The interview had the feeling of two conversations happening simultaneously. Bob Dylan’s internal one and the external one visible to the cameras. And Gerald Sherman was not certain in those first eight minutes that the two conversations would converge into something. Bob Dylan talked about influence. Bob Dylan talked about originality.
Bob Dylan talked about the difference between music that absorbed a tradition and transformed it and music that absorbed a tradition and reproduced it. And then Bob Dylan made his assessment. And then Bob Dylan said with the precision of a man making a musical assessment rather than a personal judgment that the Rolling Stones work, and Bob Dylan was specific, naming Keith Richards as the guitarist whose approach he was discussing was derivative in a way that Bob Dylan found limiting.
Bob Dylan said it without hostility. Bob Dylan said it as a technical observation about the relationship between source material and the work that came from it. Bob Dylan said that Keith Richards played the blues the way the blues had already been played, rather than using the blues as a starting point for something that had not yet been played.
Keith Richards had been listening to this with the specific attention Keith Richards gave to things being said about music by people who knew music. Keith Richards did not interrupt. Keith Richards did not shift in his chair or display any of the visible signals of a person preparing a defensive response. Keith Richards listened to Bob Dylan’s complete observation all the way to its conclusion without interrupting and without displaying any visible signal of preparing a response.
Then Keith Richards said one sentence. The sentence was not a rebuttal. The sentence did not defend Keith Richards music or argue for its originality or challenge Bob Dylan’s characterization of what the blues meant in the context of rock and roll. The sentence was something else entirely, something that required a specific kind of confidence to say.
The confidence of a person who has spent long enough thinking about the same things as the person they are talking to that they can locate the exact point where their thinking diverges and say something useful about that point rather than simply defending their own position. The sentence acknowledged everything Bob Dylan had said, the assessment, the distinction Bob Dylan was drawing, the specific musical concern underlying the observation, and then turned it 90°.
Keith Richards took Bob Dylan’s own framework, the one Bob Dylan had used to analyze Keith Richards relationship to the blues tradition, and applied it back to Bob Dylan’s work with the same precision Bob Dylan had used to apply it to Keith Richards. Spare aimed. The sentence asked Bob Dylan something about Bob Dylan’s own music, about the relationship between Bob Dylan’s sources and Bob Dylan’s output that Bob Dylan had not been asked on television before.
The sentence did not attack. The sentence illuminated. Bob Dylan laughed. The laugh was not the polite laugh of someone responding to a joke. The laugh was the involuntary laugh of someone who has been genuinely surprised. The specific kind of surprise that a person of exceptional intelligence experiences when someone else’s intelligence exceeds their expectations.
Bob Dylan laughed for 4 seconds. Then Bob Dylan stopped laughing. Then Bob Dylan was quiet for 3 seconds in the way that Bob Dylan was quiet when Bob Dylan was thinking rather than performing thought. Then Bob Dylan said, “You’re right.” The producer in the booth, a man named Gerald Sherman, who had been working in television for 14 years, said afterward that in 14 years of live television production, he had never heard Bob Dylan say those two words in a public forum.
Gerald Sherman said he had worked with Bob Dylan on two previous occasions and had observed Bob Dylan in numerous other contexts and that you’re right was not a phrase that Bob Dylan deployed easily or often because Bob Dylan had spent 24 years being right about music in ways that other people eventually caught up with. And the experience of being right ahead of everyone else does not generally produce a man who says you’re right readily when someone else makes a point.
The host of the program, a journalist named Patricia Wells, who had been interviewing musicians for 12 years, said afterward that the 11 seconds between Bob Dylan’s assessment and Bob Dylan saying, “You’re right,” were the most extraordinary 11 seconds of television she had been present for. Patricia Wells said that what she witnessed in those 11 seconds was not a debate or a confrontation or a celebrity exchange of competing opinions.
Patricia Wells said what she witnessed was one musician recognizing another musician as an equal, which was in the specific context of Bob Dylan in 1986, not something that happened in public very often. The interview continued for another 42 minutes after those 11 seconds. The conversation between Bob Dylan and Keith Richards in the remaining 42 minutes was described by everyone who watched it as fundamentally different from the first 8 minutes.
The host, Patricia Wells, who had been conducting music interviews for 12 years and understood the difference between the performance of conversation and actual conversation, said that at approximately the 9-minute mark, something shifted in the studio. That the formal interview, architecture dissolved, and what replaced it was something less structured and more genuine.
Bob Dylan and Keith Richards talked about influence and originality and the blues and what it meant to build on a tradition without being consumed by it. They talked about specific recordings and specific musicians with the specificity of two people who had spent their entire adult lives thinking about these things and rarely found another person who had thought about them with equivalent care.
They talked about where music came from and where music was going and whether those two questions were actually one question or two. Patricia Wells said afterward that she had asked approximately four questions in the remaining 42 minutes because Bob Dylan and Keith Richards did not require questions. They required only a room and a camera and the shared understanding that what they were saying together was worth recording carefully.
She said it was the best interview she had ever conducted and that she had conducted the smallest part of it. After the program, Bob Dylan and Keith Richards were in the corridor outside the studio when the host Patricia Wells passed them. Patricia Wells said she did not stop because she did not want to interrupt.
She observed them for approximately 30 seconds from a distance. She said they were talking with the ease of people who had known each other for years rather than people who had met for the first time 2 hours earlier. She said that something had shifted between them during the broadcast that the broadcast had made permanent rather than temporary.
She continued down the corridor and did not look back. She said in her account of that evening that she had decided in that moment not to interrupt the conversation because some conversations are more valuable than any question a journalist might ask and that the conversation she had observed for 30 seconds in the corridor outside the studio was one of them.
She had been a music journalist for 12 years. She recognized the difference. Bob Dylan and Keith Richards have maintained their friendship across four decades. They have appeared together at various events, most significantly at the concert for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995, where people who were present described them as inseparable for most of the evening, occupying the same corner of the backstage area and talking with the concentrated attention of people who only have a limited amount of time together and intend to use it
well. Bob Dylan has spoken about Keith Richards in interviews with the specific thoughtful care that Bob Dylan reserves for musicians whose work Bob Dylan considers genuinely important rather than merely culturally prominent. Keith Richards has spoken about Bob Dylan in similar terms with the specific respect of someone who recognizes in another person a commitment to music that goes deeper than career.
Neither Bob Dylan nor Keith Richards has made a public statement specifically about how the friendship began or about the November 1986 interview. Bob Dylan has not mentioned the 11 seconds. Keith Richards has not mentioned the sentence. The interview exists in the archive. The 11 seconds are there. The laugh is there. The two words are there.
What is also there for anyone who watches the interview from its beginning and pays attention to the shift that happens at the 9-minute mark is the specific moment when two people who thought they were appearing on a television program discovered they were actually talking to each other. What Keith Richards said in that one sentence has never been officially reported.
The people who were in the studio that evening, Gerald Sherman, Patricia Wells, the floor crew, the two camera operators, the makeup artist who was watching from the side of the set, have described the sentence in consistent terms. They have described its effect. They have described Bob Dylan’s laugh and Bob Dylan’s silence and Bob Dylan’s two words.
They have not repeated the sentence itself in the specific understanding that the sentence was said between two musicians on a television program and that its power resided in the specific context of that exchange and would not survive removal from it intact. What can be said is this. Keith Richards said something to Bob Dylan about Bob Dylan’s music that used Bob Dylan’s own observation about Keith Richards as its starting point and arrived somewhere that Bob Dylan had not anticipated.
Keith Richards turned Bob Dylan’s assessment 90° and showed Bob Dylan something about the music they had both spent their lives making that Bob Dylan recognized immediately as true. And Bob Dylan said, “You’re right.” Two words said by Bob Dylan in public on live television in 1986 to Keith Richards in response to a single sentence Keith Richards had said about music.
Two words that Gerald Sherman, who had worked with Bob Dylan on two previous occasions, said he had never heard Bob Dylan say in a public forum. Two words that Patricia Wells, who had been interviewing musicians for 12 years, said were the most significant two words she had heard in those 12 years. Not because of their content, but because of who said them and what it cost to say them and what it meant that Keith Richards had produced them in 11 seconds from a conversation that began with Bob Dylan calling Keith Richards’s music derivative. And Keith Richards and
Bob Dylan have been close friends for nearly 40 years. The sentence did its work in 11 seconds on the evening of November 3rd, 1986. The work has been ongoing ever since. If this story moved you, subscribe and leave a comment below. Have you ever said something to someone that turned a potential disagreement into an unexpected and lasting connection? Tell us about it in the comments below.
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