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"text": "[…]in bed by 6:45 each evening and were even forbidden to eat certain foods, such as bananas, until they were twelve. This had the predictable result of inducing a certain amount of bananaphobia as the twelfth birthday approached.",
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"ref": "1987 March 31, Tom Wright, “Wright Angles”, in Lassen County Times, volume 9, number 24, Susanville, Calif., page 4",
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"ref": "1994 February 23, Lisa Palmarin, “A Bad Case of Arachnophobia”, in Nanaimo Daily Free Press, volume 119, number 272, page 13",
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"ref": "2001 November 21, Ezra Dyer, “Ezra”, in The Improper Bostonian, volume X, number 23, page 14",
"text": "Bananaphobia, air-typing and other lunchtime revelations[…]I knew that she at least harbored a strange hatred of bananas, a neurosis that I’d recently discovered when she was driven from my office, shivering in disgust, by a banana sitting on my desk.",
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"ref": "2003 August 20, Elaine Magee, “Banana pudding recipe peels away fat, calories”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, volume 125, number 232, page L4",
"text": "Bananas win the award for “fruit you are least likely to see Elaine eating.” I can’t tell you why — it might be a texture thing. But after hearing a couple of people talk about various banana pudding recipes they had seen lately (including a Food Network chef preparing one similar to this recipe, except using Chessman shortbread cookies), I decided to dive right in, bananaphobia and all!",
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"ref": "2007 February 25, Brenda McHugh, “Five favorite foods — Are they healthy or harmful?”, in The Palm Beach Post, volume 72, number 10, page 4",
"text": "Boone had one client who was trained to eat a “low carb” diet. “I had to convince her that eating a banana was not a bad thing,” Boone said. For those with banana-phobias, or the rest of us who simply need an update, here is the latest information on five of our favorite foods.",
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"ref": "2008, “Bananaphobia: The yellow fruit has no ap-peel”, in People",
"text": "As Jones’s “bananaphobia” ripened, she’s taken measures to accommodate it. At grocery stores she detours around the banana displays.",
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"ref": "2008 September 12, Brock Parker, “Bananaphobia brings her fame”, in The York Dispatch, volume 133, edition 180, York, Pa., pages A1 and A9",
"text": "She may fear bananas, but Allison Jones is not yellow about sharing her phobia with the world. Jones, 36, of Hanover, who suffers from bananaphobia, was featured in a People magazine article Sept. 8 about different types of phobias.[…]But Jones said she’s never sought help for her bananaphobia.",
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"ref": "2009, Geoffrey Carpentier, Antarctica, First Journey: The Traveller’s Resource Guide, Hidden Brook Press, page 333",
"text": "[…]the early 1700’s, it was noted that nearly every ship that disappeared at sea was carrying a cargo of bananas. Of course the fact that they were sailing from tropical climes might have biased the outcome! Bananaphobia rules !",
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"ref": "2010, Kenn Nesbitt, “Banana Dan”, in The Tighty Whitey Spider and More Wacky Animal Poems I Totally Made Up, Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, page 51",
"text": "He just sits up in his treetop where he’ll whimper and he’ll pout, as he has bananaphobia; bananas freak him out.",
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"ref": "2011, Richard Paul Evans, “The Morning After”, in Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25, Simon Pulse/Mercury Ink, page 22",
"text": "The hosts, Frankie and Danger Boy, were talking about people who suffered from bananaphobia—the intense fear of bananas.",
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"ref": "2012, Nuts, page 22",
"text": "Jim suffers from bananaphobia, an irrational fear of the bendy, yellow fruit!",
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"ref": "2013, Patrick Hamilton Walsh, The Backpacker Who Sold His Supercar, page 23",
"text": "During my time, I have worked with everyone from Olympic athletes to a guy that suffered from Bananaphobia (a fear of bananas)!",
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"ref": "2018 June 25, Alice-Azania Jarvis, “‘Spider courage’ is great in theory...”, in Evening Standard, page 17",
"text": "HAVING confessed my arachnophobia in these pages, I’ve received what could be a life-changing offer. Would I, read an email, like to attend a “spider courage” workshop and have my fears hypnotised away? Just one session and I’d be cured forever. On forums, enthusiasts rave about hypnotherapy’s effects on everything from anxiety to a fear of heights to bananaphobia.",
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"ref": "2021, Beth Garrod, Sister Switch, Simon & Schuster",
"text": "‘And for the record, yes, of course my bananaphobia is real. Why would I lie?’ Erin shuddered. My sister really did have no weaknesses except a weird, crippling fear of bananas. We weren’t allowed them in the house and she avoided them in the supermarket too.",
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"ref": "2008 September 12, Brock Parker, “Bananaphobia brings her fame”, in The York Dispatch, volume 133, edition 180, York, Pa., pages A1 and A9",
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"ref": "2013, Patrick Hamilton Walsh, The Backpacker Who Sold His Supercar, page 23",
"text": "During my time, I have worked with everyone from Olympic athletes to a guy that suffered from Bananaphobia (a fear of bananas)!",
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"ref": "2018 June 25, Alice-Azania Jarvis, “‘Spider courage’ is great in theory...”, in Evening Standard, page 17",
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