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"ref": "1978, Hubert Selby, Requiem for a Dream, page 127",
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"ref": "1985, Stephen Longstreet, Our Father's House, page 233",
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"ref": "2006, Suzanne Finstad, Warren Beatty: A Private Man, page 221",
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