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"text": "“Yeah, I know, I-I was starting to like her too, even though she said I dress \"daggy,\" whatever that means.”",
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"ref": "2025 January 11, Pilar Mitchell, “The moment I knew: I’d never felt a palm so sweaty. I was smitten”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
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