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"ref": "1997, Mademoiselle: The Magazine for the Smart Young Woman",
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"ref": "2008, Pamela Clare, Unlawful Contact, page 147",
"text": "A couple minutes of lip-lock, and she'd been trying to get into his pants.",
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"ref": "1993, Barry Reynolds, John Berryman, Pike on the Fly, page 129",
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"ref": "2008, Jordan Cooke, Loose Lips #2",
"text": "And I'm hardly a lesbian assistant! I mean, I am an assistant, and I do like Ellen DeGeneres's talk show, and sometimes I watch The L Word, but that doesn't mean I want to lip-lock the ladies.",
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"ref": "2009, Leonard Sweet, So Beautiful: Divine Design for Life and the Church",
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"ref": "2010, Wes E. Samuels, Amy's Dreams, page 52",
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"ref": "2007, Field and Stream - Volume 112, page 70",
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"ref": "2008, Jack Burns, Rob Kimm, Pro Tacticsᵀᴹ: Muskie, page 52",
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},
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"ref": "1993, Barry Reynolds, John Berryman, Pike on the Fly, page 129",
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"ref": "2008, Jordan Cooke, Loose Lips #2",
"text": "And I'm hardly a lesbian assistant! I mean, I am an assistant, and I do like Ellen DeGeneres's talk show, and sometimes I watch The L Word, but that doesn't mean I want to lip-lock the ladies.",
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{
"ref": "2009, Leonard Sweet, So Beautiful: Divine Design for Life and the Church",
"text": "In Psalm 85, it says that \"justice and peace/ mercy and truth\" have kissed. In Jesus they lip-locked forever.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2010, Wes E. Samuels, Amy's Dreams, page 52",
"text": "Michelle and Evan begin to lip-lock, and Amy tries not to watch.",
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"ref": "1992, Michigan Out-of-doors - Volume 46, page 40",
"text": "Never try to lip-lock a brawling bigmouth after dark.",
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},
{
"ref": "2007, Field and Stream - Volume 112, page 70",
"text": "If any professional angler can tell you the best way to lip-lock a lunker, it's Jimmy Houston.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2008, Jack Burns, Rob Kimm, Pro Tacticsᵀᴹ: Muskie, page 52",
"text": "To lip-lock a fish, curl your index and middle finger, then gently slide those two fingers under the gill cover and forward toward the fish's nose, applying slight outward pressure with your fingertips until your fingers stop just under the fish's jaw.",
"type": "quotation"
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