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In this task, you are given two sentences in the English language (Sentence 1 and Sentence 2). Your task is to identify the connecting word between the two sentences.

Sentence 1:One of their favorites was John Dixon , who regained his malicious streak after a few years of dormancy . Sentence 2:But John 's newly refound maliciousness started out somewhat innocently and at first was seen as being part of another new character 's maliciousness .
Output:
but