From If the Shroud Fits, by Kelley Roos:turtles

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[New to me: "so what" as a transitive verb.]

"They'd so what me and I'd never hear the end of it."

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Everything about him still sparkled the way it always had, his eyes, his teeth, even his ears.

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"Look, Haila, you were in a show! We saw it. Mac and Erika and Julie and I."

I shook my head. "Not that many seats were sold, Kirk."

"We all sat in the same seat."

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"My motto is: a book in every library!"

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One more book about a doctor by a doctor and I was going to need a doctor. If I could find one who wasn't all tied up writing a book.

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"She finally did get him a Fifty-second Street engagement, but he flopped. And Erika lost interest in him. An artist had come along who could paint tastes and odors."

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A matinee idol without a matinee.

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"Mind over matter and..."

"Mind over tommyrot!"

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Bonus: A lengthy passage is attached. It's turtles all the way down!