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"ref": "2003, Lynda Lee-Potter, \"Sex-crazed fans . . .,\" Daily Mail (UK), 27 Dec. (retrieved 20 Jan. 2010)",
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"ref": "2015 March 31, Margalit Fox, “Gary Dahl, Inventor of the Pet Rock, Dies at 78”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
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