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"ref": "2009, Simon Jean, Do Nice Guys Ever Finish, page 14",
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"ref": "2013, Carrolyn Pichet, Growing up in the Nation’s Capital, page 101",
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"ref": "2014, Ebony Price, Shattered Pieces To A Broken Heart",
"text": "So anyway, William Esham and I would be in school, but we were not in the same clasroom, but we rode the same bus home, so when it was time to get on the cheese bus (in those days we were not assigned seats, but nowadays, you are), I would get on the bus but I would never talk to anybody because I didn't know anybody at that time.",
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"ref": "1959, International Dairy Federation, XVth International Dairy Congress - Volume 4, page 2296",
"text": "The driver of each cheese bus (which, when loaded, weighs 10,500 kg) is a really skilled truck driver who has received sales training. The bus visits the customers in accordance with a fixed programme and the buyers take the cheeses they require direct from the bus.",
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