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"text": "Howard, stop talking! I asked a simple question. You gave me one of your more-than-I-will-ever- want-to-know answers. You are compulsing again.",
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"ref": "2013, Vira Burmenko -, My Key to Immortality: Tuning Your Mind into the Life of Universal Love",
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