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"ref": "1822, William Johnson Fox, Witchcraft:",
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"ref": "1988, Judith Graves Miller, Françoise Sagan, page 124:",
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"text": "\"Seventh Heaven\" Kathmandu Temple Kiff (tm); a viripotent cannabis alternative for blissful regressions of vexatious depressions.",
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