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Hazzan Isaac Azose was born in Seattle, Washington July 1930. His parents, Jack and
Louise (Kadoun) Azose, met for the first time in Seattle in 1928 and were married in June,
1929. Jack Azose, Alav Ashalom, passed away in March, 1987. Louise is doing well in her
own little home on Seward Park Avenue in Seattle. She celebrated her 95th birthday in
August, 1999. She is also the sister of Rabbi Solomon Maimon, rabbi emeritus of Sephardic
Bikur Holim synagogue.
Louise (Kadoun) Azose, met for the first time in Seattle in 1928 and were married in June,
1929. Jack Azose, Alav Ashalom, passed away in March, 1987. Louise is doing well in her
own little home on Seward Park Avenue in Seattle. She celebrated her 95th birthday in
August, 1999. She is also the sister of Rabbi Solomon Maimon, rabbi emeritus of Sephardic
Bikur Holim synagogue.
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Having been born to parents who were born in Turkey, Hazzan Azose, spent his early years
attending Sephardic Bikur Holim drinking in every little word and nuance of the 'tefilah' from
such hazzanim as Nissim Azose (the same one who was at the Sephardic Hebrew Center in
Los Angeles for many years), his uncle Bension Maimon, Leo (Lia) Azose, the Reverend
Moshe Bezalel Scharhon and Reverend Samuel Benaroya. From time to time after his Bar
Mitzvah in 1943, Hazzan Azose would be invited to lead services on a Shabbat afternoon
which also called for the reading of the Sefer Torah, and in this way, gained a measure of
experience in leading services. Hazzan Azose married the former Lily Shemia in March,
1962 and together they raised four children; Aimee, Jack, Solomon and Yossi.
In 1962, the same year they were married, the Sephardic Bikur Holim purchased the two
lots on which the synagogue currently stands. (The Ezra Bessaroth had already built their
own All-Purpose Social Hall in the Seward Park area, which, as the name implies, served
both as a synagogue as well as a hall in which to hold social events). At that time, about half
the membership of the Sephardic Bikur Holim was living in the Seward Park area and the
other half was still in the old Central Area. An old ramshackle house stood on the property
on which the synagogue was to be built. Several of the young members decided to turn that
old house into a 'branch'. They gutted the interior, put in paneling, lighting, built a 'tevah' and
'aron kodesh', brought two sifreh torah' and some folding chairs from the old synagogue, and
they were in business.
Hazzan Azose became the primary hazzan, not only leading Shabbat services, but also
leading services on the High Holy days, as well as Pesah, Shavuot and Sukkot. Of course, he
could not do all this by himself, particularly reading sefer torah. This was parceled out
among many young men, including himself. Those three or four years retain a special place
in Hazzan Azose's heart.
In 1965, he was the first vice-president of the Sephardic Bikur Holim, ready to step into the
position of president, when his future changed. On the second day of Sukkot, in June, 1965,
as he was having lunch at his parents' home after synagogue services, he heard a knock at
the door. It happened to be Bob Franco, of blessed memory. He greeted the family and
asked if he could see Hazzan Azose on the outside porch. He indicated that he would like
Hazzan Azose to try out at the Ezra Bessaroth for Rosh Ashanah and Yom Kippur. Hazzan
Azose was flabbergasted. He tried to beg off, pleading that he wasn't experienced enough,
that he had had no training (which was true). However, Bob was very persuasive and
convinced him to give it a try.
One month before Rosh Ashana, Isaac was asked to meet with a select group of people in
the tiny school office below the social hall at Congregation Ezra Bessaroth. Reverend Behar
and a few others were already gathered in the office. He was asked by Reverend Behar to
sing the Nishmat of Rosh Ashanah. He sang it for him, exactly as he had sung it and heard it
sung for many years at the Bikur Holim. When he finished, Reverend Behar said, "our
people won't go for it". "Sing the Kedushah of the Shahrit", the Reverend asked. Isaac did as
he was asked. Again came the same answer "our people won't go for it". "Reverend", Isaac
said, "I can't promise anything, but if you will record those two pieces for me, Ill try to learn
them". As it turned out, with a family and working full time for Boeing, Isaac had no time to
learn the two selections, which were difficult enough in their own right.
Although everyone at the Ezra Bessaroth was very nice to him and indicated how much they
enjoyed his services, Isaac was not too sure how well accepted he had been. He called Bob
Franco after Rosh Ashana and told him that he would not be coming back for Yom Kippur.
Bob would hear nothing of it. "First of all, you promised me", he said, "and second, you did
a great job on Rosh Ashana; the people loved you". Isaac wasn't any too sure of that, but he
gave in and performed the Yom Kippur services.
Afterwards, he heard nothing whatsoever from anyone at the Ezra Bessaroth until the first
week of March, 1966. Bob Franco called and told him that he had been hired as hazzan and
they wanted him to start immediately. That was the beginning of a long, warm, and caring
relationship between Hazzan Azose and Congregation Ezra Bessaroth.
The first few years at the Ezra Bessaroth were difficult when it came to reading perasha.
What with raising a family and working full time at Boeing, it was difficult to put in the many
hours that were required for the learning of each perasha week after week. There are many
weeks when the perashiyot are 'mehubarot' (joined together), i.e two perashiyot on the same
Shabbat. That was the most difficult time of all. Many were the times when he would
meekly walk to synagogue on Shabbat morning and Reverend Behar was already there. He
would ask, 'Reverend, I was only able to learn until 'shishi' (the sixth of seven portions).
Would you be able to do 'shevii' for me?' And he would very graciously say yes.
Hazzan Azose believes Rev. Behar knew all the perashiyot by heart. He also believes he has
carried on the tradition as passed down to him by Reverend Behar, but is sorry that he didn't
spend more time recording various minhagim (customs) that are specific to the Rhodes
tradition. It was a sad day when Reverend Behar passed away in August, 1977. In Decmber
of 1998, Hazzan Azose gave notice to the Ezra Bessaroth of his intention to retire at the end
of 1999.
Although feeling physically fit for someone his age, being hazzan precluded any long
vacations because he had to find people within the synagogue to read perasha in his absence.
There was no one in the synagogue capable of reading an entire perasha unless they were
given several weeks notice, and, even then, it would have been too much of a burden for
them. Arranging for a weeks' vacation meant assigning the various 'aliyot' of the perasha of
the week he would be gone, to several people. It was a luxury when he was able to take
more than one week at a time.
One of the requirements of Hazzan Azose' contract was that he teach the Bar Mitzvah boys
of all members. In order to give each boy the maximum opportunity to do his best, Hazzan
Azose would start with each boy a year before his Bar Mitzvah. In this way, if the boy was
capable of doing the entire perasha, it was a 'feather in the boys' cap' and it made the family
very proud. During the first several years of his tenure, there were no more than four or five
boys per year becoming Bar Mitzvah. In recent years, however, the average has been ten
boys coming to his home each week to study for an hour each. This kept Hazzan Azose
very busy.
When he was still working for Boeing, this did not leave much of a family life. However, his
retirement from Boeing in July, 1995, allowed him more time for other things. One of those
'other things' was a project that has been a lifelong dream for him. There is no Sephardic
prayer book that incorporates the 'nusach' (order of prayer) of the Seattle Sephardic
community, Turkish or Rhodesli. As mentioned earlier, in growing up, he made mental notes
of those portions of the service where words or phrases were inserted or deleted from that
which was written in the prayer book. As he would lead a service, those words or phrases
were inserted or left out automatically.
The Ezra Bessaroth has been using the De Sola Pool Daily/Sabbath Prayer Book (as well as
the other Holiday prayer books) for approximately fifty years. They went for the De Sola
Pool (as did the Bikur Holim a few years later) because it was the only Sephardic prayer
book in America with an English translation. Most of the old-timers in the synagogue were
still using the old prayer books they had brought with them from Rhodes. Even those who
did switch to the De Sola Pool siddur knew those words and phrases that were inserted or
deleted by heart. However, in recent years, many of the young men growing up in the
synagogue have been treating the De Sola Pool as if it is their 'nusach', which it is not.
In order to preserve the unique flavor of the Seattle Sephardic community 'nusach', Hazzan
Azose, who has always been a computer 'buff', bought a Hebrew Word Processing program
from the Davka Corporation in Chicago called 'Davka Lite'. It came on a small floppy disk
and took up very little room on the hard disk. However, he learned very quickly that, at the
rate he was putting in one letter and one vowel, it would take several years before he would
be able to finish the siddur.
There was no Hebrew scanning software available that would have allowed him to scan in a
siddur and modify it to his needs. A few months later, Davka came out with an Ashkenazic
siddur on disk. Hazzan Azose thought, "this is my big break! The Ashkenazic siddur must be
at least fifty to sixty percent compatible with most Sephardic siddurim". He was very excited
and couldn't wait until the disk arrived. When it did arrive, he dropped everything he was
doing, cancelled the Bar Mitzvah lessons for that day, and spent the next several hours on
the siddur, working until three or four in the morning. It gave him a great sense of
accomplishment. Of course, those original programs were very rudimentary with limited
capabilities.
Some time later, Davka came out with Dagesh, version 1.0 on CD with a lot more
capabilities and much later, with version 2.0 and 2.1. Last October, he finished a first proof
copy of the siddur, and placed copies in the hands of several knowledgeable people from
both synagogues as well as a few outside Seattle to help proof-read it before publication.
Addendum: This work, which began in March, 1994, culminated in the publication of
Siddur Zehut Yosef, the Seattle Sephardic Community Daily and Sabbath Siddur in March
2002 and is now in use in both Seattle Sephardic synagogues. Currently Hazzan Isaac
Azose is working on a Makhzor for Pesach, Shavuot and Sukkot, which he hopes will be
ready for Sukkot, 2005.
Hazzan Azose could not have accomplished whatever he has accomplished without the help
and support of his beloved wife, Leah (Lily) A'H. Over the years, she has invited hundreds
of people to their home for a Shabbat meal or a holiday meal. One of the traditions in the
Ezra Bessaroth community was to have a Sukkah Trail on the first two days of Sukkot,
where a few families who had built sukkot, volunteered to host the members who attended
synagogue services in their sukkah. Leah's sukkah always drew the biggest crowd, because
Leah would always go all out for these events. She would spend weeks beforehand baking
bulemas, borekas, boyos and making yaprakes and fritada.
On the day they came to her home, she would put on the table as well, kezo blanko,
kashkaval, azetunas, pishkado salado, pickled eggplant and drinks to no end. Although they
could only accommodate 50-60 standing in their sukkah, there were always another 50 or 60
gathered inside the house. During the last two years, it had became too much for Leah to go
through all the baking and preparation that was required. It was with a sense of regret that
Leah gave up the annual Sukkah trail tradition. For Sukkot of 1998, however, Isaac asked
his wife if she couldn't invite, once again, the members of the synagogue to their Sukkah,
since he would be retiring at the end of the year. Leah acceded to his wishes, and spent
weeks again beforehand preparing all the wonderful Sephardic delicacies that everyone had
come to expect. That year, it seemed, the turnout was greater than ever before. Leah was
very tired but it was well worth it.
Over the years, many individuals have asked Hazzan Azose to record various and sundry
parts of the liturgy for them and he has accommodated them whenever he could. Many have
asked him to professionally record a cassette of portions of the service. The stock answer
was 'I hope to, whenever I can get some free time'. However, the 'free time' never seemed
to come. This year, one of the members of Ezra Bessaroth, Steven Baral, took the bull by
the horns and told Hazzan Azose that he would just have to set aside some time to record
some of the liturgy of Ezra Bessaroth. Thinking it over, the hazzan believed it would be a
wonderful legacy for the synagogue, and possibly for any other synagogue carrying on the
tradition from Rhodes.
Mr. Baral, underwriting the project, set aside a block of time in a studio for Hazzan Azose to
do his recording this past July. There was so much recorded that it turned out to be a two
CD set, "The Liturgy of Ezra Bessaroth". It is by no means comprehensive of the entire
liturgy but gives a fairly good representation of the Shabbat, Holiday and High High Holiday
liturgy. Since the Ezra Bessaroth has carried on the tradition of using the booklet published
by Rabbi Reuven Eliyahu Yisrael, the last Chief Rabbi of Rhodes, which is all in Ladino, you
will find a good portion of the CD's done in both Hebrew and Ladino. Not all of the
selections are done in their entirety. In many cases, only the first and last stanzas of a
particular selection have been recorded in order to give a flavor of the pizmon or tune.
Hazzan Azose has given our congregation a gift that can never be repaid. He has endlessly
and selflessly labored to preserve every tune and every nuance of our beloved Rhodesi
traditions and melodies. He and Leah (A'H) have served this kehila with enthusiasm,
devotion and love and for this, and so much more we are eternally grateful. Hazak U Baruch
Hazzan Azose!
Addendum: Hazzan Azose married the former Lily Shemia in 1962. Lily, of blessed
memory, passed away in 2001. Hazzan Azose married Elisa Chrem, of Lima, Peru and
Cleveland, Ohio in 2003.
attending Sephardic Bikur Holim drinking in every little word and nuance of the 'tefilah' from
such hazzanim as Nissim Azose (the same one who was at the Sephardic Hebrew Center in
Los Angeles for many years), his uncle Bension Maimon, Leo (Lia) Azose, the Reverend
Moshe Bezalel Scharhon and Reverend Samuel Benaroya. From time to time after his Bar
Mitzvah in 1943, Hazzan Azose would be invited to lead services on a Shabbat afternoon
which also called for the reading of the Sefer Torah, and in this way, gained a measure of
experience in leading services. Hazzan Azose married the former Lily Shemia in March,
1962 and together they raised four children; Aimee, Jack, Solomon and Yossi.
In 1962, the same year they were married, the Sephardic Bikur Holim purchased the two
lots on which the synagogue currently stands. (The Ezra Bessaroth had already built their
own All-Purpose Social Hall in the Seward Park area, which, as the name implies, served
both as a synagogue as well as a hall in which to hold social events). At that time, about half
the membership of the Sephardic Bikur Holim was living in the Seward Park area and the
other half was still in the old Central Area. An old ramshackle house stood on the property
on which the synagogue was to be built. Several of the young members decided to turn that
old house into a 'branch'. They gutted the interior, put in paneling, lighting, built a 'tevah' and
'aron kodesh', brought two sifreh torah' and some folding chairs from the old synagogue, and
they were in business.
Hazzan Azose became the primary hazzan, not only leading Shabbat services, but also
leading services on the High Holy days, as well as Pesah, Shavuot and Sukkot. Of course, he
could not do all this by himself, particularly reading sefer torah. This was parceled out
among many young men, including himself. Those three or four years retain a special place
in Hazzan Azose's heart.
In 1965, he was the first vice-president of the Sephardic Bikur Holim, ready to step into the
position of president, when his future changed. On the second day of Sukkot, in June, 1965,
as he was having lunch at his parents' home after synagogue services, he heard a knock at
the door. It happened to be Bob Franco, of blessed memory. He greeted the family and
asked if he could see Hazzan Azose on the outside porch. He indicated that he would like
Hazzan Azose to try out at the Ezra Bessaroth for Rosh Ashanah and Yom Kippur. Hazzan
Azose was flabbergasted. He tried to beg off, pleading that he wasn't experienced enough,
that he had had no training (which was true). However, Bob was very persuasive and
convinced him to give it a try.
One month before Rosh Ashana, Isaac was asked to meet with a select group of people in
the tiny school office below the social hall at Congregation Ezra Bessaroth. Reverend Behar
and a few others were already gathered in the office. He was asked by Reverend Behar to
sing the Nishmat of Rosh Ashanah. He sang it for him, exactly as he had sung it and heard it
sung for many years at the Bikur Holim. When he finished, Reverend Behar said, "our
people won't go for it". "Sing the Kedushah of the Shahrit", the Reverend asked. Isaac did as
he was asked. Again came the same answer "our people won't go for it". "Reverend", Isaac
said, "I can't promise anything, but if you will record those two pieces for me, Ill try to learn
them". As it turned out, with a family and working full time for Boeing, Isaac had no time to
learn the two selections, which were difficult enough in their own right.
Although everyone at the Ezra Bessaroth was very nice to him and indicated how much they
enjoyed his services, Isaac was not too sure how well accepted he had been. He called Bob
Franco after Rosh Ashana and told him that he would not be coming back for Yom Kippur.
Bob would hear nothing of it. "First of all, you promised me", he said, "and second, you did
a great job on Rosh Ashana; the people loved you". Isaac wasn't any too sure of that, but he
gave in and performed the Yom Kippur services.
Afterwards, he heard nothing whatsoever from anyone at the Ezra Bessaroth until the first
week of March, 1966. Bob Franco called and told him that he had been hired as hazzan and
they wanted him to start immediately. That was the beginning of a long, warm, and caring
relationship between Hazzan Azose and Congregation Ezra Bessaroth.
The first few years at the Ezra Bessaroth were difficult when it came to reading perasha.
What with raising a family and working full time at Boeing, it was difficult to put in the many
hours that were required for the learning of each perasha week after week. There are many
weeks when the perashiyot are 'mehubarot' (joined together), i.e two perashiyot on the same
Shabbat. That was the most difficult time of all. Many were the times when he would
meekly walk to synagogue on Shabbat morning and Reverend Behar was already there. He
would ask, 'Reverend, I was only able to learn until 'shishi' (the sixth of seven portions).
Would you be able to do 'shevii' for me?' And he would very graciously say yes.
Hazzan Azose believes Rev. Behar knew all the perashiyot by heart. He also believes he has
carried on the tradition as passed down to him by Reverend Behar, but is sorry that he didn't
spend more time recording various minhagim (customs) that are specific to the Rhodes
tradition. It was a sad day when Reverend Behar passed away in August, 1977. In Decmber
of 1998, Hazzan Azose gave notice to the Ezra Bessaroth of his intention to retire at the end
of 1999.
Although feeling physically fit for someone his age, being hazzan precluded any long
vacations because he had to find people within the synagogue to read perasha in his absence.
There was no one in the synagogue capable of reading an entire perasha unless they were
given several weeks notice, and, even then, it would have been too much of a burden for
them. Arranging for a weeks' vacation meant assigning the various 'aliyot' of the perasha of
the week he would be gone, to several people. It was a luxury when he was able to take
more than one week at a time.
One of the requirements of Hazzan Azose' contract was that he teach the Bar Mitzvah boys
of all members. In order to give each boy the maximum opportunity to do his best, Hazzan
Azose would start with each boy a year before his Bar Mitzvah. In this way, if the boy was
capable of doing the entire perasha, it was a 'feather in the boys' cap' and it made the family
very proud. During the first several years of his tenure, there were no more than four or five
boys per year becoming Bar Mitzvah. In recent years, however, the average has been ten
boys coming to his home each week to study for an hour each. This kept Hazzan Azose
very busy.
When he was still working for Boeing, this did not leave much of a family life. However, his
retirement from Boeing in July, 1995, allowed him more time for other things. One of those
'other things' was a project that has been a lifelong dream for him. There is no Sephardic
prayer book that incorporates the 'nusach' (order of prayer) of the Seattle Sephardic
community, Turkish or Rhodesli. As mentioned earlier, in growing up, he made mental notes
of those portions of the service where words or phrases were inserted or deleted from that
which was written in the prayer book. As he would lead a service, those words or phrases
were inserted or left out automatically.
The Ezra Bessaroth has been using the De Sola Pool Daily/Sabbath Prayer Book (as well as
the other Holiday prayer books) for approximately fifty years. They went for the De Sola
Pool (as did the Bikur Holim a few years later) because it was the only Sephardic prayer
book in America with an English translation. Most of the old-timers in the synagogue were
still using the old prayer books they had brought with them from Rhodes. Even those who
did switch to the De Sola Pool siddur knew those words and phrases that were inserted or
deleted by heart. However, in recent years, many of the young men growing up in the
synagogue have been treating the De Sola Pool as if it is their 'nusach', which it is not.
In order to preserve the unique flavor of the Seattle Sephardic community 'nusach', Hazzan
Azose, who has always been a computer 'buff', bought a Hebrew Word Processing program
from the Davka Corporation in Chicago called 'Davka Lite'. It came on a small floppy disk
and took up very little room on the hard disk. However, he learned very quickly that, at the
rate he was putting in one letter and one vowel, it would take several years before he would
be able to finish the siddur.
There was no Hebrew scanning software available that would have allowed him to scan in a
siddur and modify it to his needs. A few months later, Davka came out with an Ashkenazic
siddur on disk. Hazzan Azose thought, "this is my big break! The Ashkenazic siddur must be
at least fifty to sixty percent compatible with most Sephardic siddurim". He was very excited
and couldn't wait until the disk arrived. When it did arrive, he dropped everything he was
doing, cancelled the Bar Mitzvah lessons for that day, and spent the next several hours on
the siddur, working until three or four in the morning. It gave him a great sense of
accomplishment. Of course, those original programs were very rudimentary with limited
capabilities.
Some time later, Davka came out with Dagesh, version 1.0 on CD with a lot more
capabilities and much later, with version 2.0 and 2.1. Last October, he finished a first proof
copy of the siddur, and placed copies in the hands of several knowledgeable people from
both synagogues as well as a few outside Seattle to help proof-read it before publication.
Addendum: This work, which began in March, 1994, culminated in the publication of
Siddur Zehut Yosef, the Seattle Sephardic Community Daily and Sabbath Siddur in March
2002 and is now in use in both Seattle Sephardic synagogues. Currently Hazzan Isaac
Azose is working on a Makhzor for Pesach, Shavuot and Sukkot, which he hopes will be
ready for Sukkot, 2005.
Hazzan Azose could not have accomplished whatever he has accomplished without the help
and support of his beloved wife, Leah (Lily) A'H. Over the years, she has invited hundreds
of people to their home for a Shabbat meal or a holiday meal. One of the traditions in the
Ezra Bessaroth community was to have a Sukkah Trail on the first two days of Sukkot,
where a few families who had built sukkot, volunteered to host the members who attended
synagogue services in their sukkah. Leah's sukkah always drew the biggest crowd, because
Leah would always go all out for these events. She would spend weeks beforehand baking
bulemas, borekas, boyos and making yaprakes and fritada.
On the day they came to her home, she would put on the table as well, kezo blanko,
kashkaval, azetunas, pishkado salado, pickled eggplant and drinks to no end. Although they
could only accommodate 50-60 standing in their sukkah, there were always another 50 or 60
gathered inside the house. During the last two years, it had became too much for Leah to go
through all the baking and preparation that was required. It was with a sense of regret that
Leah gave up the annual Sukkah trail tradition. For Sukkot of 1998, however, Isaac asked
his wife if she couldn't invite, once again, the members of the synagogue to their Sukkah,
since he would be retiring at the end of the year. Leah acceded to his wishes, and spent
weeks again beforehand preparing all the wonderful Sephardic delicacies that everyone had
come to expect. That year, it seemed, the turnout was greater than ever before. Leah was
very tired but it was well worth it.
Over the years, many individuals have asked Hazzan Azose to record various and sundry
parts of the liturgy for them and he has accommodated them whenever he could. Many have
asked him to professionally record a cassette of portions of the service. The stock answer
was 'I hope to, whenever I can get some free time'. However, the 'free time' never seemed
to come. This year, one of the members of Ezra Bessaroth, Steven Baral, took the bull by
the horns and told Hazzan Azose that he would just have to set aside some time to record
some of the liturgy of Ezra Bessaroth. Thinking it over, the hazzan believed it would be a
wonderful legacy for the synagogue, and possibly for any other synagogue carrying on the
tradition from Rhodes.
Mr. Baral, underwriting the project, set aside a block of time in a studio for Hazzan Azose to
do his recording this past July. There was so much recorded that it turned out to be a two
CD set, "The Liturgy of Ezra Bessaroth". It is by no means comprehensive of the entire
liturgy but gives a fairly good representation of the Shabbat, Holiday and High High Holiday
liturgy. Since the Ezra Bessaroth has carried on the tradition of using the booklet published
by Rabbi Reuven Eliyahu Yisrael, the last Chief Rabbi of Rhodes, which is all in Ladino, you
will find a good portion of the CD's done in both Hebrew and Ladino. Not all of the
selections are done in their entirety. In many cases, only the first and last stanzas of a
particular selection have been recorded in order to give a flavor of the pizmon or tune.
Hazzan Azose has given our congregation a gift that can never be repaid. He has endlessly
and selflessly labored to preserve every tune and every nuance of our beloved Rhodesi
traditions and melodies. He and Leah (A'H) have served this kehila with enthusiasm,
devotion and love and for this, and so much more we are eternally grateful. Hazak U Baruch
Hazzan Azose!
Addendum: Hazzan Azose married the former Lily Shemia in 1962. Lily, of blessed
memory, passed away in 2001. Hazzan Azose married Elisa Chrem, of Lima, Peru and
Cleveland, Ohio in 2003.
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