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"text": "The waitress brought the coffee about this time, saving me by the bell, as it were."
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"ref": "1954, General Practitioner, volume 10, page 46",
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"ref": "1983, Jim Smoke, Every Single Day, page 207",
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"ref": "2011 Oct. 13, nekobun, \"Nekobun's Cblog: There Would've Been Brawl: Let's Keep It Clean,\" destructoid.com (retrieved 22 Jan 2014)",
"text": "Today's entry got to me just in the nick of time. Saving me by the bell is Reilly Campbell."
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"ref": "2011 December 1, Gary J. Borgstede, “The Lord Delivers”, in The Make It Happen Moment, retrieved 2014-01-22",
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},
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