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“He looked like the kind of man people would call a ‘drink of water’. But he didn’t feel like that inside; inside he felt like he was a whole bundle of fun. Or at least I would be, if I could only work out a way of getting the fun out of me.”

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Book:The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle
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