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"ref": "2007, Cat Rambo, Jeff VanderMeer, The Strange Case of the Lovecraft Café: The Surgeon′s Tale and Other Stories, page 89:",
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"ref": "2010, Charlie Cochrane, Lessons in Seduction, page 100:",
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