unearths some literary gems.
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"How do you do?" she said brusquely, then immediately walked away, making it clear that she didn't care in the least how either of us did.
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[Here's some handy data for "currency conversion" between dollars and songs.]
Though the "song" Herbert Dunn had paid for this hotel was far from the full-blown aria he would have paid for a better-kept property in the same area, it had amounted to considerably more than a quick little jingle.
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Pookey Dunn wasn't what I had pictured, but then it's hard to know what a Pookey is going to look like.
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Who ever heard of a haunted condominium?