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"ref": "2015, Christopher Berry Gray, Being A Primer:",
"text": "Whether material or spiritual, this is not the environment we know; even the most encased of physical beings, and the most unexperienced modes of being spiritual, are present to each other in expectation of experience if in no other way.",
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"ref": "2016, Arthur Lubow, Diane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographer, page 25:",
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"ref": "2019, Victor C. de Munck, Romantic Love in America, page 152:",
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