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“The whole experience is disappointing,” Lionel Vayne agreed. “What you want at a funeral is drama. Wailing into hankies and tearing at clothes. Weeping mourners throwing themselves on to the coffins. I’d give the whole thing three out of ten.”

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Book:Mallory Vayle and the Curse of Maggoty Skull

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