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"ref": "1997, David J. Pelzer, The lost boy: a foster child's search for the love of a family",
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"ref": "1989, Lois Lowry, Number the stars",
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"ref": "2001, Linda Bremner, love in the mail",
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"text": "THE MEGHA HAD BEEN on the water for some three hours when Piya heard the engine skip a beat.",
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"ref": "2008, Alan Howard Levy, Floyd Patterson: a boxer and a gentleman",
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