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| The setting is Potterberg. |
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| There is betting on a chinchilla to get across the road. |
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| Their food came from "Hamburger Heaven" along with Chinese, Italian and barbeque. |
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| Bets were put down on a kind of red rover game called "Who's Your Man". |
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| The only law was "everyone for himself". |
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| They were 'malodorous', which means they stank, from not washing up. |
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| A strawberry yogurt container was used to hide scars. (also lime sherbet, cottage cheese containers) |
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| Profits could be made on a new pet food product, Canned Rodent. |
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| I95 was like a powerful river flowing down the center of their lives. |
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| A wave of grooming swept over them, causing them to look cleaner and act better. |
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| A character once spent four days in the summer locked in a baggage compartment. |
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| She had a company to run and couldn't afford to fool around with mystical stuff. |
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| Perhaps 'mother nature' is watching out for them? |
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| Crushed rat cages were terrifying to behold. |
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| They'd done the impossible, beaten the odds. |
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| A newspaper article stated that whirling devils appeared to rise out of the graves. |
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| She decided to no longer hide her face, to learn to live with her disgrace. |
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| Campaign slogans were suggested such as "Blunt Gets the Point!" |
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| They must stand up and move together with no one rushing ahead. |
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| A character asked "What's an apparition?" |
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| In the book by this author the town mayor is named Blunt. |
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| In this book the mayor's chief of staff was named Farley. |
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| There is a need for an access road off Interstate 95. |
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| The mayor wants to be a mover and a shaker. |
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| Shredder and Murray wait by the road for food thrown from cars. |
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| Murray can't stand pickles. |
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| The winner could ask for one thing, just one thing he wanted. |
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| In the book by this author, the law here was "everyone for himself". |
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| Janet Taylor Lisle (p. 15 - Highway Cats) |
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| In the book by this author AnCon officers were called in from time to time to pick them up and break up fights. |
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| Janet Taylor Lisle (p. 19 - Highway Cats) |
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| In the book by this author rats were sometimes sold to a company that made a new pet food called canned rodent. |
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| Janet Taylor Lisle (p. 21 - Highway Cats) |
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| In the book by this author there was an abandoned graveyard with crumbling headstones that say Potter. |
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| Janet Taylor Lisle (p. 35 - Highway Cats) |
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| In the book by this author "they had a blue glow, best seen at night". |
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| Janet Taylor Lisle (p. 37 - Highway Cats) |
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| In the book by this author, the workers all abandoned her factory. |
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| Janet Taylor Lisle (p. 53 - Highway Cats) |
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| In the book by this author, the bulldozer was headed for them, when it broke down. |
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| Janet Taylor Lisle (p. 56 - Highway Cats) |
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| In the book by this author, one's favorite was raspberry and the other's was peach yogurt. |
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| Janet Taylor Lisle (p. 65 - Highway Cats) |
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| In the book by this author, the potato sack over her head snagged on a branch. |
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| Janet Taylor Lisle (p. 76 - Highway Cats) |
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| In the book by this author, the headline read "Haunted cemetery halts road crew". |
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| Janet Taylor Lisle (p. 80 - Highway Cats) |
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| In the book by this author, he told her she was still beautiful after she had stopped wearing something over her face. |
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| Janet Taylor Lisle (p. 87 - Highway Cats) |
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| In the book by this author, a character ordered 'all tails out of sight'. |
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| Janet Taylor Lisle (p. 96 - Highway Cats) |
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| In the book by this author, "they were an apparition of horror". |
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| Janet Taylor Lisle (p. 97 - Highway Cats) |
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| In the book by this author, Jim King was the project foreman to build the road. |
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| Janet Taylor Lisle (p. 102 - Highway Cats) |
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| In the book by this author, the historical society was called in. |
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| Janet Taylor Lisle (p. 116 - Highway Cats) |
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| In the book by this author, we learn that AnCon stands for 'animal control'. |
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| Janet Taylor Lisle (p. 42 - Highway Cats) |
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| In the book by this author, the mayor's Chief of Staff wakes him up at 5 AM. |
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| Janet Taylor Lisle (p. 46 - Highway Cats) |
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| In the book by this author, one setting is an old cemetery standing in the path of an access road being constructed to a shopping center. |
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| Janet Taylor Lisle (p. 102 - Highway Cats) |
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| In the book by this author, a character had picked up some foreign words during his travels across the country. |
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| Janet Taylor Lisle (p. 40 - Highway Cats) |
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| In the book by this author, dirt was a badge of honor, ticks and fleas the price of freedom to the characters. |
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| Janet Taylor Lisle (p. 28 - Highway Cats) |
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| In the book by this author, three of the characters left just like they had come - in a cardboard box from the bed of a pickup truck. |
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| Janet Taylor Lisle (p. 6, 115 - Highway Cats) |
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| In the book by this author, without the kits around, their bad manners resumed. |
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| Janet Taylor Lisle (p. 53 - Highway Cats) |
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