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The helper, which has access to causal side-information, describes the source to the receiver sequentially by sending a sequence of causal descriptions depending on the message conveyed by the encoder and the side-information subsequence it has observed so far. The receiver reconstructs the source causally by producing on each time unit an estimate of the current source symbol based on what it has received so far. Given a reconstruction fidelity measure and a maximal allowed distortion, we derive the rates-distortion region for this setting and express it in terms of an auxiliary random variable. 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