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| | Deceitful Hags |
 | | To them, Gale was preferable to the other Southern Gulf Islands because, having so far eluded the bureaucratic eye, it was one of the only places in BC where people could afford the luxury of a roof over their heads without having to prostitute themselves, or their skills, to make their mortgage payments. |
 | | People are becoming illiterate through lack of reading, and this will teach them to know better." And she had continued interviewing and compiling, and driving Florrie mad with her snickers and snorts of manic laughter in the back room of the post office. |
 | | The near-naked, writhing females provided little interest to the people at the back of the room, or in the Nook, who couldn't see what all the grunting and shuffling on the stage floor was all about. |
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