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"ref": "1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:",
"text": "There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs;[…].",
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