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"ref": "2010, Jessica Sheffield, Elyse Merlo, “Twilight Anti-Fandom and the Rhetoric of Superiorty”, in Melissa A. Click, Jennifer Stevens Aubrey, Elizabeth Behm-Morawitz, editors, Bitten by Twilight: Youth Culture, Media, & the Vampire Franchise, Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., page 212",
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