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"ref": "1976, Ted Curtis Williams, The reservation, page 150",
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"ref": "1987, Susan Trott, Sightings, page 154",
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"ref": "1992, Jeff Stutchbury, Veronica Stutchbury, Spirit of the Zambezi, page 68",
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"ref": "2012, Nell Wise Wechter, Taffy of Torpedo Junction, page 37",
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"ref": "1987, Susan Trott, Sightings, page 154",
"text": "The snow was falling in thick ploppy moist flakes",
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"ref": "1992, Jeff Stutchbury, Veronica Stutchbury, Spirit of the Zambezi, page 68",
"text": "One day the small cottonwool clouds begin to form and soon they become ominous black clouds from which the first big, ploppy drops fall.",
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},
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"ref": "2012, Nell Wise Wechter, Taffy of Torpedo Junction, page 37",
"text": "Maybe you can grab it that way. But be careful. The waves are real ploppy today.",
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