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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query>
    <allcategories>
      <c size="1" pages="0" files="0" subcats="1" xml:space="preserve">1603 events</c>
      <c size="3" pages="3" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Abnormal psychology</c>
      <c size="2" pages="2" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Abused children</c>
      <c size="6" pages="6" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Alabama</c>
      <c size="3" pages="3" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Alaska</c>
      <c size="0" pages="0" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">American poetry</c>
      <c size="0" pages="0" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">American writers</c>
      <c size="0" pages="0" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">American writers by genre</c>
      <c size="20" pages="20" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Ancestry research</c>
      <c size="1" pages="1" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Annotations</c>
    </allcategories>
  </query>
  <query-continue>
    <allcategories acfrom="Arizona" />
  </query-continue>
</api>