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Detour (Detour, #1)

by Jeff Rake

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― Abraham Lincoln

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“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
― Robert Bloch

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― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

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― Lemony Snicket

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― Gustave Flaubert

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