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Where in West Cork is Skull? How could Fidel Castro send cigars to Ireland in 1952? How could Pompidou be a former French president in 1959? How was Lady Chatterley's Lover available to an Irish teenager in 1959?

Richard 1. why don't you search for Skull on a google map ?
2. In a box by post.
3. because it is fiction
4. because it was in stores…more1. why don't you search for Skull on a google map ?
2. In a box by post.
3. because it is fiction
4. because it was in stores(less)

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Marguerita I'm with Jane Jermyn. Lingo, slang not in use, and inaccuracies flung around before their time subtracts from the joy of reading for me. Just my two. ...more
Jul 30, 2018 10:08AM · flag

Craig Campbell Maybe Fidel Castro had friends to whom he sent cigars by post in 1952. Perhaps he had friends before he was President.
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