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In a sense, we live in a world of problems.

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There's a looming chasm that potentially threatens the future of millions of Americans.

This is from Reconfigurement by E. Alan Fleischauer.
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Night fell as death rode into the Great Library of Summershall.

Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson.
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Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez.
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Currently reading 'plot twist' by Bethany Turner. the first line is-
"Mind if I sit here?"
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“Hans knew that lesser people would have doubted the choice to stay in a world that was not their own, but Hans was not a lesser man” Realms of Power and Fury by Kevin McLaughlin.
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The train whistle’s scream pierced through the silent night's cold air.
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"When I was a young researcher, just starting out, something happened that
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"It takes no effort for a man to be natural. "

From Cottonfields To Kingdom by Joseph Jones
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The Unwinding Of The Miracle by Julie Yip-Williams

When I was two months old, my parents, on orders from my paternal grandmother, took me to a herbalist in Da Nang and offered the old man gold bars to give me a concoction that would make me go to sleep forever.
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"In a letter of my father's written on the 16th of July 1964 he said:
The germ of my attempt to write legends of my own to fit my private languages was the tragic tale of the hapless Kullervo in the Finnish Kalevala."

Beren and Lúthien by J.R.R. Tolkien and Christopher Tolkien
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THERE’S A LOOMING CHASM that potentially threatens the future of
millions of Americans
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"Something wants to eat you," called Almost Brilliant from her perch in a nearby tree, "and I shall not be sorry if it does."

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