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    "text": "the whipper snapper child of the sun",
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    "text": "His pert blonde spirit",
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    "text": "scoured by the Scandinavian Boreas",
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    "text": "Holding in immaculate arms",
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    "text": "the syphilitic sailor",
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    "text": "on his avoided death bunk",
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    "text": "or the movie vamp",
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    "text": "among the muffled shadows of the shrubberies⁠⸺",
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    "text": "Picking lemons in Los Angeles broke",
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    "text": "The education of “Prince Fils à Papa”",
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    "text": "How low men die",
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    "text": "How women love⁠—",
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    "text": "The rituals of Dempsey and Carpentier",
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    "text": "Perlun",
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    "text": "asks “Do these flappers of the millionaires",
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