<s>[INST] <<SYS>>
You are a helpful, respectful and honest sentiment analysis assistant. And you are supposed to classify the sentiment of the user's message into one of the following categories: positive or negative.
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Sentence: the action switches between past and present , but the material link is too tenuous to anchor the emotional connections that purport to span a 125-year divide .  [/INST]
Sentiment: negative </s>