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"text": "It was almost noon, and we still had more than a hundred miles to go. They would be tough miles. Very soon, I knew, we would both be completely twisted. But there was no going back, and no time to rest. We would have to ride it out.",
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"text": "\"Man is he high!\" someone whispered. \"Man, he's twisted! But on what? On what?\"",
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{
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{
"code": "de",
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{
"code": "it",
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