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	1 Introduction
	2 The distance
	3 The system parameters
	4 The absolute magnitude at minimum
	5 The disk luminosity from IUE and optical data
	6 The mass accretion rate
	7 The pre-1966-outburst mass accretion rate
	8 The theoretical ignition mass and the accreted mass
	9 Comparison with the nova models of Yaron et al. (2005)
	10 The photometric and spectroscopic history of the outbursts
	11 The discrepancy between the mass of the thick shell and the ignition mass
	12 The nebula revisited
	13 The mass balance and the SNIa connection
	14 Neither a supersoft X-ray source, nor assisted suicide
	15 The XMM observations
	16 The recurrence time and the next, long-awaited outburst
	17 Summary and conclusions
	References

	List of tables
	List of figures