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READ in Anthem by Ayn Rand
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MRS CROFT in Persuasion by Jane Austen
DRINKING in The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
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THE CHURCH in The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
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TOUCH in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
DE BRACY in Ivanhoe by Walter Scott
MARRIAGE in Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
QUIET in The Odyssey by Homer
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