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"ref": "1896, Mark Twain, chapter 1, in Tom Sawyer, Detective",
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"ref": "1922, Zane Grey, chapter 10, in The Call of the Canyon",
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"ref": "1992 May 8, “For Sex Only (personal advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, page 12",
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