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"ref": "1993 November, “Naked City”, in Spy, page 26",
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"ref": "2010, Jeania Kimbrough, Van Diemen at 17, page 241",
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"ref": "2019, Adam Dolgins, The Big Book of Rock & Roll Names, page 1994",
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"ref": "2019, Laini Giles, Bathing Beauty",
"text": "That bohunk bastard has the biggest gin blossom I've ever seen.",
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"ref": "2021, Ed Tarkington, The Fortunate Ones",
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"ref": "2014, Suzanne Hayes, Loretta Nyhan, Empire Girls, page 159",
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"ref": "2015, Michael Januska, Border City Blues 2-Book Bundle: Riverside Drive / Maiden Lane",
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"ref": "1961, Charles Beardsley, The Naked Hills: Some Tales of Afghanistan, page 212",
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"ref": "2005, Steven F. Hayward, Greatness",
"text": "Reagan, perhaps because of his father's severe alcoholism, was not much of drinker, preferring a weak gin blossom at the White House when the occasion called for coctails.",
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"ref": "2013, Ace Atkins, Devil's Garden",
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"ref": "2018, Melanie Benjamin, The Girls in the Picture",
"text": "If mother could see me now, I grinned as I sipped a gin blossom from a teacup and watched Mabel shake her pert little derriere to the accompaniment of a ukulele pounding out “When the Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves for Alabam'.”",
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"ref": "1869, Jenny's Geranium, page 64",
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"ref": "1934, Mark Hellinger, The Ten Million",
"text": "In the case of Mrs. Mollie Carroll and Randy Thomas, the flower of romance was a gin blossom.",
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"ref": "2003, Ian Philips, Satyriasis: Literotica 2, page 94",
"text": "Instead, the City of Angels, that ever-metastasizing concrete gin blossom of on-ramps and off-ramps built over prehistoric tar pits, deflowered her.",
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"ref": "2010, Michael Kun, Corrections to my Memoirs",
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"text": "Hastily she poured another gin blossom.",
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"ref": "2005, Steven F. Hayward, Greatness",
"text": "Reagan, perhaps because of his father's severe alcoholism, was not much of drinker, preferring a weak gin blossom at the White House when the occasion called for coctails.",
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"ref": "2013, Ace Atkins, Devil's Garden",
"text": "He pressed a gin blossom in Virginia's hand as she sat in a green chair, crossed her legs, and dialed the house phone.",
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},
{
"ref": "2018, Melanie Benjamin, The Girls in the Picture",
"text": "If mother could see me now, I grinned as I sipped a gin blossom from a teacup and watched Mabel shake her pert little derriere to the accompaniment of a ukulele pounding out “When the Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves for Alabam'.”",
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},
{
"ref": "1934, Mark Hellinger, The Ten Million",
"text": "In the case of Mrs. Mollie Carroll and Randy Thomas, the flower of romance was a gin blossom.",
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},
{
"ref": "2003, Ian Philips, Satyriasis: Literotica 2, page 94",
"text": "Instead, the City of Angels, that ever-metastasizing concrete gin blossom of on-ramps and off-ramps built over prehistoric tar pits, deflowered her.",
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},
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"ref": "2010, Michael Kun, Corrections to my Memoirs",
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