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Straight

by Dick Francis

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Sep 06, 2026 01:11PM

“Somebody" said Jacques, "your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour--and in the oddest places!--for the lack of it.”
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