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The authors prove the existence of solutions for the multipoint conjugate boundary value problem \[ y^{(n)} = f(x,y), \quad x \in [0,1]\setminus \{a_1,a_2,\dots,a_k\},\tag{1} \] \[ y^{(j)} (a_i) = 0, \quad 0 \leq j \leq n_i-1,\;1 \leq i \leq k,\tag{2} \] where \ \(0 = a_1 < a_2 < \dots < a_k = 1\) are fixed and \(f(x,y)\) has a singularity at \(y=0\). The approach of the authors is to construct a sequence of perturbations of \(f\) which terms lack the singularity of \(f\) and to apply a fixed point theorem to the respective boundary value problems. It is shown that the obtained sequence of iterates converges to a solution to (1), (2).