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"ref": "1952, Maxwell Griffith, Port of call, Lippincott, page 23",
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"ref": "1956, Ian Fleming, Diamonds are forever, Cape, page 145",
"text": "We gotta hide up some-place and let them lose us. Tell you what. There's a passion pit just where this comes out onto 95. Drive-in movie.",
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"ref": "1959, “Theatre arts, Volume 43, Issue 6”, in Theatre Arts, Inc., page 39",
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"ref": "1971, Seymour Martin Lipset, Gerald M. Schaflander, Passion and politics: student activism in America, Little, Brown, page 277",
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"ref": "1979, Stephen King, Night Shift, Signet, page 199",
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"ref": "2004, Donald Olson, Frommer's Vancouver & Victoria 2005, John Wiley and Sons, page 181",
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},
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},
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},
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