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"ref": "2008, Dave Zeltserman, Small Crimes, page 41",
"text": "[H]ow was I supposed to know Dan Marino would shit the bed and lose that game by nineteen points?",
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"ref": "2013, Stephen King, Under the Dome, page 266",
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