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"ref": "2011, Quinn Loftis, Leslie McKee, Prince of Wolves",
"text": "\"Well, I just happened to mention you were a little depressed about the whole Trent thing and needed some girl support, yadda yadda, and my mom totally swallowed it whole. She's all about the hoes before bros,\" Jen said with a shrug.",
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"ref": "2017, Lele Pons, Melissa de la Cruz, Surviving High School, page 238",
"text": "No! I would never date him after this! Hoes before bros, right?",
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"text": "At the moment, so many of the terms and phrases we use around female friendship are either twee or ultimately a bit meaningless: sisterhood, sisters before misters, tribe, girl squad, hoes before bros, hovaries before brovaries, life force, power posse, BFF.",
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"text": "I think there is something perverse about this request but if I say no Osama will tell the boys tomorrow I'm a dog, that I'm always putting hoes before bros, and it's not worth copping that for Nada, who doesn't even seem to like me.",
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