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You marry their story. Every wound they never talked about. Every thing they learned to do to survive. Every conclusion their young heart drew about love, safety, and whether they were worth staying for.\u00a0<\/p><div class=\"html-div xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak xexx8yu xyri2b x18d9i69 x1c1uobl\"><div class=\"html-div xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak xexx8yu xyri2b x18d9i69 x1c1uobl\" dir=\"auto\"><div class=\"html-div xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak xexx8yu xyri2b x18d9i69 x1c1uobl\" data-ad-rendering-role=\"story_message\"><div id=\"_r_3nr_\" class=\"x1l90r2v x1iorvi4 x1g0dm76 xpdmqnj\" data-ad-comet-preview=\"message\" data-ad-preview=\"message\"><div class=\"x78zum5 xdt5ytf xz62fqu x16ldp7u\"><div class=\"xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs x126k92a\"><br \/>Most marriages that are struggling are not struggling because two people chose wrong.<\/div><div class=\"xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs x126k92a\">They are struggling because two hurting people brought unhealed wounds into a covenant they did not have the tools to protect.<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div class=\"xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs x126k92a\">Childhood trauma is one of the quietest marriage wreckers there is. It does not show up in the engagement photos. It shows up in the bedroom when you go cold. It shows up at the dinner table when a small comment ignites a fire nobody can explain.<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div class=\"xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs x126k92a\">It shows up in the distance between two people who genuinely love each other and cannot figure out why that love never quite feels like enough.<\/div><div class=\"xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs x126k92a\"><br \/>I have sat with couples for some time now. I have seen what trauma does to a marriage from the inside. And I want to walk you through ten signs that the wounds from your childhood may be quietly working against your marriage right now. Not to shame you. Not to put a label on you. But because you cannot heal what you have not yet been willing to name.<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><h3 class=\"xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs x126k92a\">1.\u2060 \u2060You Shut Down the Moment Things Get Hard<\/h3><div class=\"xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs x126k92a\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1707\" src=\"https:\/\/rachaelmumo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/istockphoto-1302628745-612x612-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"612\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rachaelmumo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/istockphoto-1302628745-612x612-1.jpg 612w, https:\/\/rachaelmumo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/istockphoto-1302628745-612x612-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rachaelmumo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/istockphoto-1302628745-612x612-1-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><br \/>When conflict rises in your home, something in you goes silent. You stop talking. You leave the room. You stay in the body but leave in the spirit.<\/div><div class=\"xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs x126k92a\">Your spouse is right there trying to reach you and it feels to them like they are reaching through a wall of stone.<\/div><div class=\"xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs x126k92a\"><br \/>This is not stubbornness. This is survival that outlived its season. If you grew up in a home where speaking your feelings got you hurt, ignored, dismissed, or punished, your nervous system learned a very reasonable lesson. Stay quiet. Go small. Disappear. That lesson kept you safe once. But it is keeping you lonely now, inside the very marriage God designed to undo that loneliness.<\/div><div class=\"xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs x126k92a\"><br \/>Silence was your shield. In marriage, it has become your cage.<br \/>\u201cA time to be silent and a time to speak.\u201d<br \/>Ecclesiastes 3:7<br \/>There is a season for everything. God is calling you out of the silence that once protected you and into the courage of being fully known.<\/div><\/div><h3>\u00a0<\/h3><h3 class=\"x78zum5 xdt5ytf xz62fqu x16ldp7u\">\u00a02.\u2060 \u2060You Are Always Waiting for Something to Go Wrong<\/h3><div class=\"x78zum5 xdt5ytf xz62fqu x16ldp7u\"><div><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1582\" src=\"https:\/\/rachaelmumo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/istockphoto-1500786127-612x612-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"612\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rachaelmumo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/istockphoto-1500786127-612x612-1.jpg 612w, https:\/\/rachaelmumo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/istockphoto-1500786127-612x612-1-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rachaelmumo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/istockphoto-1500786127-612x612-1-600x412.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div class=\"xu06os2 x1ok221b\">You watch your spouse like a weather forecast. Every shift in their tone, every quiet moment, every slight change in their expression has you searching for what you did wrong or what is about to happen. Even on good days you cannot quite relax inside the relationship. Some part of you is always braced.<\/div><div class=\"xu06os2 x1ok221b\"><br \/>This is called hypervigilance and it is one of trauma\u2019s most exhausting legacies. When you were a child and the people around you were unpredictable or unsafe, scanning the room for danger was how you managed. You became extraordinarily good at reading the atmosphere.<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div class=\"xu06os2 x1ok221b\">The problem is that skill never got an off switch. You are now doing it in a home where you are not in danger, and it is wearing you out and pushing your spouse away.<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div class=\"xu06os2 x1ok221b\">They cannot understand why their love never quite settles you. You cannot explain why it does not.<br \/>\u201cThere is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.\u201d<br \/>1 John 4:18<br \/>The fear is a messenger. It is pointing to a wound that needs tending, not a threat that needs managing.<br \/>\u200e<\/div><h3>3.\u2060 \u2060Good Things Make You Nervous<\/h3><div><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1601\" src=\"https:\/\/rachaelmumo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/88414034.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1575\" height=\"1050\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rachaelmumo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/88414034.jpg 1575w, https:\/\/rachaelmumo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/88414034-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rachaelmumo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/88414034-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rachaelmumo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/88414034-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rachaelmumo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/88414034-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rachaelmumo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/88414034-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1575px) 100vw, 1575px\" \/><\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div>This one catches people off guard. Things are genuinely going well in your marriage and instead of peace you feel a creeping anxiety that something is about to go wrong.<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div>So you pick a fight or pull back or do something that disrupts the good thing that was forming. It looks self destructive from the outside. From the inside it feels almost involuntary.<\/div><div><br \/>When love and pain were tied together in your childhood, when closeness always seemed to eventually lead to hurt or disappointment or loss, your nervous system drew a conclusion. Good things do not last. Happiness is a setup. Better to brace yourself now. So when your marriage begins to feel genuinely good, your body reads it as the calm before the storm and starts trying to beat the storm to the punch.<\/div><div><br \/>God\u2019s love has no punishment on the other side of it. No storm waiting after the good season. He is trying to teach your heart that joy is not a trap.<br \/>\u201cFor I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.\u201d<br \/>Jeremiah 29:11<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><\/div><\/div><h3>4.\u2060 \u2060You Are Terrified Your Spouse Will Leave<\/h3><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1579\" src=\"https:\/\/rachaelmumo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/cheating.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rachaelmumo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/cheating.webp 600w, https:\/\/rachaelmumo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/cheating-300x200.webp 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>A slow reply to a text sends your heart racing. A canceled plan feels like rejection. A short tone in conversation feels like the beginning of the end. The fear of abandonment runs so deep it shapes almost every interaction in your marriage, often in ways you cannot even fully trace.<\/div><div><br \/>This fear did not start with your spouse. It started the day someone who was supposed to stay did not. A parent who left physically or emotionally. A childhood defined by instability or loss. A caregiver whose presence was never something you could count on. Your heart drew a conclusion in that season that people leave. And now your marriage is being asked to bear the weight of that old wound every single day.<\/div><div><br \/>Your spouse is not the one who left. But they are the one in the room. And until that wound gets addressed, they will keep paying for what someone else did.<br \/>\u201cNever will I leave you; never will I forsake you.\u201d<br \/>Hebrews 13:5<br \/>Let that truth become the anchor your nervous system has been searching for all along.<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><\/div><h3>5.\u2060 \u2060You Cannot Trust No Matter What Your Spouse Does<\/h3><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1546\" src=\"https:\/\/rachaelmumo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/download-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><br \/>Your spouse has given you no real reason to distrust them. They are faithful, they are consistent, they show up. And still something in you holds back. Something keeps watching. Keeps waiting for the betrayal you are convinced must be coming eventually.<\/div><div>They try harder and you find a way to doubt harder and neither of you can explain why the wall will not come down.<\/div><div><br \/>Trust is not simply a decision you make. It is a capacity that gets shaped by experience. When the people who were supposed to be trustworthy when you were small were not, your mind built a conclusion that went somewhere deep. People cannot really be trusted. That conclusion did not disappear when you grew up. It came with you. And now it is running in the background of your marriage every day, making it nearly impossible for your spouse to reach you no matter how hard they try.<\/div><div><br \/>Healing this is not about deciding to trust harder. It is about going back to where the conclusion was formed and letting God rewrite what you learned there.<br \/>\u201cTrust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.\u201d<br \/>Proverbs 3:5 and 6<\/div><\/div><\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><h3>6.\u2060 \u2060You Either Parent Your Spouse or Need Them to Parent You<\/h3><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1413\" src=\"https:\/\/rachaelmumo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/young-man-woman-sitting-cafe-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rachaelmumo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/young-man-woman-sitting-cafe-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/rachaelmumo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/young-man-woman-sitting-cafe-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rachaelmumo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/young-man-woman-sitting-cafe-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rachaelmumo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/young-man-woman-sitting-cafe-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rachaelmumo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/young-man-woman-sitting-cafe-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rachaelmumo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/young-man-woman-sitting-cafe-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/rachaelmumo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/young-man-woman-sitting-cafe-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><br \/>Some who grew up in chaotic or neglectful homes became the caretaker. They managed a parent\u2019s emotions, held the household together, took care of siblings, made themselves responsible for everyone else\u2019s wellbeing. They bring that same exhausting caretaking into marriage and quietly begin to resent the weight of it while not knowing how to put it down.<\/div><div><br \/>Others grew up starved for nurturing and look to their spouse to be the loving, safe parent they never had. It is not something they do consciously but the expectation is there. And no spouse can bear that weight. Not because they do not love you but because they were never meant to fill that role.<\/div><div><br \/>Both patterns come from the same root. A childhood where the right things did not happen in the right order, and needs that should have been met were not. Marriage was never designed to fix what childhood broke. It was designed to be a covenant between two adults who are both rooted in something bigger than each other.<\/div><div><br \/>\u201cWhen I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.\u201d<br \/>1 Corinthians 13:11<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><h3>7.\u2060 \u2060Your Anger Comes Out Bigger Than the Situation Calls For<\/h3><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1768\" src=\"https:\/\/rachaelmumo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/istockphoto-1126384634-612x612-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"612\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rachaelmumo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/istockphoto-1126384634-612x612-1.jpg 612w, https:\/\/rachaelmumo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/istockphoto-1126384634-612x612-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rachaelmumo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/istockphoto-1126384634-612x612-1-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><br \/>Something small happens. Your spouse says something a certain way, forgets something, makes a small mistake. And the reaction that comes out of you is enormous. Not a little irritated. Erupting. You can see in their face that the punishment does not match what just happened and some part of you knows it too but you cannot seem to pull it back.<\/div><div><br \/>Trauma stores emotion in the body. Years of anger and fear and grief that was never permitted to be expressed gets held somewhere inside you. When a moment in the present touches an old wound, all of that stored feeling rushes out at once and lands on whoever is nearest. Your spouse receives the full force of something that was never really about them. It was meant for someone else. From a long time ago.<\/div><div><br \/>This is one of the most important things to bring into counseling because left unaddressed it will eventually destroy the sense of safety in your marriage. And without safety, intimacy cannot live.<br \/>\u201cIn your anger do not sin. Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, and do not give the devil a foothold.\u201d<br \/>Ephesians 4:26 and 27<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><h3>8.\u2060 \u2060You Check Out During Intimate Moments<\/h3><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1769\" src=\"https:\/\/rachaelmumo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/couple-fight-stress-living-room-sofa-worry-mistake-angry-with-problem-house-man-woman-depression-conflict-drama-frustrated-lounge-couch-cheating-crisis-fail_590464-201830.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rachaelmumo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/couple-fight-stress-living-room-sofa-worry-mistake-angry-with-problem-house-man-woman-depression-conflict-drama-frustrated-lounge-couch-cheating-crisis-fail_590464-201830.jpg 360w, https:\/\/rachaelmumo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/couple-fight-stress-living-room-sofa-worry-mistake-angry-with-problem-house-man-woman-depression-conflict-drama-frustrated-lounge-couch-cheating-crisis-fail_590464-201830-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><br \/>During deep emotional conversations or during physical closeness, you are present in body but gone somewhere else in your mind. You feel yourself drift. Go somewhere else. Watch from a distance. This is called dissociation and it is one of the mind\u2019s most powerful self protective responses.<\/div><div><br \/>When a child experiences something overwhelming and cannot escape the situation physically, the mind learns to escape it mentally. That departure gets encoded. Later in life, any moment of real vulnerability whether emotional openness or physical intimacy can trigger that same mental exit because the brain reads deep vulnerability as danger and does what it always did. It leaves.<\/div><div><br \/>Your spouse reaches for you in those moments and you are not fully there. And you may not be able to explain why. This breaks intimacy at its deepest level and it requires gentle, patient, professional support to heal. It is not a character flaw. It is a wound dressed in a coping mechanism.<br \/>\u201cHe heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.\u201d<br \/>Psalm 147:3<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><h3>9.\u2060 \u2060You Believe at Your Core That You Are Too Much or Not Enough<\/h3><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1598\" src=\"https:\/\/rachaelmumo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/depressed-girl.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rachaelmumo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/depressed-girl.webp 600w, https:\/\/rachaelmumo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/depressed-girl-300x200.webp 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>No matter how well things are going, you carry a quiet and persistent belief that you are fundamentally flawed. Too emotional. Too needy. Too much to handle. Or not smart enough, not worthy enough, not lovable enough to be truly cherished. You either overperform to earn your place in the relationship or you pull back before your spouse has the chance to discover what you already believe about yourself.<\/div><div><br \/>This is shame. And it is one of childhood trauma\u2019s most lasting and most destructive legacies. Shame is not the same as guilt. Guilt says I did something wrong. Shame says I am something wrong. It gets planted in a child through neglect, abuse, harsh words spoken at the wrong moment, or environments where love was always conditional and approval always had to be earned.<\/div><div><br \/>The Gospel speaks directly into this wound. You were crafted by God with intention and care. You were worth the cross. No amount of trauma gets to overwrite what your Creator says about who you are.<br \/>\u201cFor you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother\u2019s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made.\u201d<br \/>Psalm 139:13 and 14<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><h3>10.\u2060 \u2060Your Marriage Keeps Replaying Your Childhood Home<\/h3><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1544\" src=\"https:\/\/rachaelmumo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/family-conflict-angry-black-father-600nw-1942433083.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rachaelmumo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/family-conflict-angry-black-father-600nw-1942433083.webp 600w, https:\/\/rachaelmumo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/family-conflict-angry-black-father-600nw-1942433083-300x202.webp 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>You promised yourself you would never have a marriage like your parents had. And yet here you are in dynamics that feel uncomfortably familiar. You chose a partner who triggers something in you that your parent triggered. You find yourself in the same role you played as a child. The arguments have a script that feels old. The pain has a texture you recognize from somewhere long before this marriage began.<\/div><div><br \/>This is not coincidence and it is not weakness. Without healing, we are drawn back to what is familiar because familiar feels like home, even when home was painful. Our nervous system seeks out what it knows. And so the unfinished business of childhood shows up in the middle of our marriage and keeps running the same scenes until someone has the courage to say enough and rewrite the script.<\/div><div><br \/>That rewriting is possible. I have sat with couples who were convinced there was no hope and watched God do what only He can do. But it requires honesty, humility, and the willingness to go back to the places that hurt so they can finally, fully heal.<br \/>\u201cTherefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come. The old has gone, the new is here.\u201d<br \/>2 Corinthians 5:17<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><h3>A Word Before You Go<\/h3><div><figure id=\"attachment_1696\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1696\" style=\"width: 697px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1696\" src=\"https:\/\/rachaelmumo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Cnslr.Rachael-Mumo-_1.jpg\" alt=\"Cnslr.Rachael Mumo\" width=\"697\" height=\"798\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rachaelmumo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Cnslr.Rachael-Mumo-_1.jpg 697w, https:\/\/rachaelmumo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Cnslr.Rachael-Mumo-_1-262x300.jpg 262w, https:\/\/rachaelmumo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Cnslr.Rachael-Mumo-_1-600x687.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 697px) 100vw, 697px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1696\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cnslr.Rachael Mumo<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>If you saw yourself anywhere in these ten signs, I want you to hear this clearly and receive it fully.There is no shame in carrying wounds you did not choose. You survived something. And the coping patterns you developed were the best tools you had at the time. The only shame would be in holding on to them now when healing is being offered.<\/div><div><br \/>Find a counselor who understands trauma and is not afraid to bring God into the room. Have the honest conversation with your spouse that you have been avoiding. Bring your wounds to the One who bore wounds for you. Your marriage is not too far gone. You are not too broken. And the work of healing is absolutely worth doing.<\/div><div><br \/>\u201cAnd the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast.\u201d<br \/>1 Peter 5:10<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5474cb0 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5474cb0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p><div><div class=\"xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a\">\u00a0<\/div><\/div><div><div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\"><div dir=\"auto\"><div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\u00a0<\/div><div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s 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