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"ref": "2011, Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone",
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"ref": "2023 September 5, Franz Lidz, “Undying Dread: A 400-Year-Old Corpse, Locked to Its Grave”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
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