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"16": "Jody",
"17": "Juanita",
"18": "Shanae",
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"ref": "2002, Margaret Brown Klapthor, Allida M. Black, The First Ladies, Government Printing Office, page 95",
"text": "In 1981, their twin daughters, Barbara and Jenna (named after their grandmothers) were born. In 1994, George W. Bush was elected governor of Texas.",
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"ref": "2019 March 5, Elly Griffiths, The Stranger Diaries, Houghton Mifflin, page 284",
"text": "I gave the false name I always use, Jenna Barclay. Password: Jennbar17. I don't know why but this always strikes me as the perfect white, Anglo-Saxon name.",
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