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"ref": "1987 June 14, Karen Stabiner, “Putting her Heart through the Hoop”, in New York Times, retrieved 2010-07-29",
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"ref": "1992, Kaye Gibbons, “My Mother, Literature, and a Life Split Neatly into Two Halves”, in Janet Sternburg, editor, The Writer on Her Work, volume 2, page 56",
"text": "I never saw him, but Jackie Langley told me Kerouac was a strange bird, stayed drunk, talked crazy, brooded.",
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"ref": "2003, Donald E. Westlake, Put a Lid on It, page 57",
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"ref": "2004, Tony K. Stewart, Fabulous Females and Peerless Pīrs: Tales of mad adventure in old Bengal, Oxford, page 67",
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"roman": "guàirén",
"sense": "an unusual person",
"word": "怪人"
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"sense": "an unusual person",
"word": "怪人"
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