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"ref": "1977, ISLA - Volume 15, page 231",
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"ref": "2008, Robert McCammon, Boys' Life, page 65",
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"ref": "2009, Barry Reed, The Innocent Pirate, page 267",
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"ref": "2010, Laura Lacey Satterly, Survival 2033, page 65",
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"ref": "2012, Tracie Crawford, I Changed My Mind, page 76",
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