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From This is True for 25 July 2004
Suggestions for further reading:
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
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The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
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The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger
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Atlas Shrugged
by Ayn Rand
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