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"ref": "2006, Sunny, Mona Lisa Awakening, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Books, page 202",
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"ref": "2006, Paul H. Boge, The Cities of Fortune, Kitchener, Ont.: Castle Quay Books, page 107",
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"ref": "2007, anonymous author, Play Poker Like a Pigeon and Take the Money Home, New York, N.Y.: Lyle Stuart, Kensington Publishing Corp., page 157",
"text": "I was twenty-three years old when I made my first significant poker win, a thousand bucks in a pot-limit game where I started with fifty dollars, and since I’d never had more than a hundred to call my own before, just looking at the stack of Benjamin Franklins on my bed gave me a euphoric dizzy feeling.",
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"ref": "[2012], David Wambaugh, The Last Call, [Bloomington, Ind.]: AuthorHouse, page 114",
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"ref": "2014, Patrick J. Stroh, Business Strategy: Plan, Execute, Win!, Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley, page 151",
"text": "Throw a stack of Benjamin Franklins on the table (counterfeit bills are fine) and ask: “If you had unlimited resources to spend on fixing our businesses problems, what would you fix?”",
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"ref": "2014, Haywood Smith, Queen Bee Goes Home Again, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, page 189",
"text": "The envelope was half filled with gold coins, most marked “uncirculated” in clear, hinged plastic rolls, and at least a dozen in flat little presentation boxes marked “proof.” Plus a nice, fat stack of Benjamin Franklins still in their original bank wrapper.",
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"ref": "2017, Carolyn Mulford, Show Me the Sinister Snowman, Warrensburg, Mo.: Cave Hollow Press, page 220",
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