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"ref": "2018, Catherine Steadman, Something in the Water: The Gripping Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick!, Simon and Schuster, page 150",
"text": "What the actual fuck, Erin? What the actual, stupid, fuck are you doing? Lying low is not a thing.",
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"ref": "2020, Clint Dyer, Death of England: Delroy, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 15",
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