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I stared at the US Customs Declaration Form 6059B, and contemplated my next move.
Can I Be Frank? by Rob Wyatt.
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He appeared at our house on a Sunday in November 189...

Le Grand Meaulnes, Alain-Fournier
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
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The night before he went to London, Richard Mayhew was not enjoying himself.

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
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The spacecraft hovered weightlessly over Atlanta as the information continued to stream up from the surface.
Heaven and Earth~ Arturo Riojas.
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Christopher Columbus, an Italian navigator serving Spain, kept a detailed journal of his voyage to America.
Eyewitnesses and Others: Readings in American History, Volume 1
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Peyton Ramsden, fourth Earl of Dursley, was doing what he did best—technically superior,
emotionally removed sex with his mistress of two years.

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The Earl’s Forbidden Ward
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"There are things that upset us."

Neil Gaiman, Trigger Warning.
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"Philosophically, I'm a liberal." - BOOM! A Revolting Situation by Thomas Richard Harry.
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Brother Francis Gerard of Utah might never have discovered the blessed documents, had it not been for the pilgrim with girded loins who appeared during the young novice's Lenten fast in the desert.

A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter Miller

No one remembers her beginnings

Rubyfruit Jungle, Rita Mae Brown
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
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It was Felling night and the usual crowd had gathered at the Waystone Inn.
The Name of the Wind Patrick Rothfuss
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John and Marjorie Love had married at twenty-three and twenty-four, respectively, and they
– or at least Marjorie – had carefully planned their family requirements down to the last
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Randy Love...at your service by Shay Carter
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In the still, cold darkness, the building seemed to brood.

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I needed to force money from Father Joseph, and it made me nervous.

An Obedient Father, Akhil Sharma
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The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
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" The Son of Bitch"

Gates to Tangier by Mois Benarroch
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