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"Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith..."

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"A screaming comes across the sky..."

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Garp's mother, Jenny Fields, was arrested in Boston in 1942 for wounding a man in a movie theater..."

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I can see by my watch, without taking my hand from the left grip of the cycle, that it is eight-thirty in the morning..."

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"Christmas Eve, 1955, Benny Profane, wearing black levis, suede jacket, sneakers and big cowboy hat, happened to pass through Norfolk, Virginia..."

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"In May 1944 I received my call-up papers and went reluctantly away to war, training at first in the Lake District, then shipping over to..."

There was a Master come unto the earth, born in the holy land of Indiana, raised in the mystical hills east of Fort Wayne..."

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