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"ref": "2000, Andy Duncan, Beluthahatchie and Other Stories, page 146",
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"ref": "2003, Eric Ware, The Hollywood Colored, page 121",
"text": "The Deacon collected himself and the bartender walked a jar of coon dick over to Rastus.",
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"ref": "2006, Cherry Muhanji, Her: A Novel, page 78",
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"ref": "2010, Alan Duff, Dreamboat Dad",
"text": "Guess most the men got drunk on Saturday nights, coon dick they drank, they gambled on Florida Flip, craps, Sissy in the Barn, cooncan; whooped and hollered and sometimes argued and fought with fists, a knife sometimes, gun incidents became lore, like some of the characters did.",
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"ref": "2023, Zora Neale Hurston, She Rock",
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"ref": "2015, Elizabeth Massie, Sineater",
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"ref": "2018, Robert Gordon, Memphis Rent Party: The Blues, Rock & Soul in Music's Hometown",
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"ref": "2018, William A. James Sr., Hard Times and Survival",
"text": "Ya must gotta a lucky 'Coon's Dick' in ya pocket, man. Or, ya got's-ta be cheatin', or somethin', damn!”",
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"ref": "2018, Midnite Love, Finessed By Becky Fooled By Tyrone, page 43",
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"ref": "2003, Eric Ware, The Hollywood Colored, page 121",
"text": "The Deacon collected himself and the bartender walked a jar of coon dick over to Rastus.",
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},
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"text": "Guess most the men got drunk on Saturday nights, coon dick they drank, they gambled on Florida Flip, craps, Sissy in the Barn, cooncan; whooped and hollered and sometimes argued and fought with fists, a knife sometimes, gun incidents became lore, like some of the characters did.",
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},
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"ref": "2018, Robert Gordon, Memphis Rent Party: The Blues, Rock & Soul in Music's Hometown",
"text": "They were leading a discussion about coon dicks, the penises of raccoons made into necklaces and worn for good luck.",
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},
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"ref": "2018, William A. James Sr., Hard Times and Survival",
"text": "Ya must gotta a lucky 'Coon's Dick' in ya pocket, man. Or, ya got's-ta be cheatin', or somethin', damn!”",
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