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| | NPR : The Real Lemony Snicket |
 | | Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire were intelligent children, and they were charming, and resourceful, and had pleasant facial features, but they were extremely unlucky, and most everything that happened to them was rife with misfortune, misery, and despair. |
 | | Violet had a real knack for inventing and building strange devices, so her brain was often filled with images of pulleys, levers, and gears, and she never wanted to be distracted by something as trivial as her hair. |
 | | Violet, with some embarrassment, felt the stone in her left hand and was glad she had not thrown it at Mr. |
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