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A Book Has To Be Easy To Open And You Don't Have To Be A Bodybuilder To Lift It. I Like Books I Can Read In Bed. Those Big Tombstones Would Kill Me.

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A Book Has To Be Easy To Open And You Don't Have To Be A Bodybuilder To Lift It. I Like Books I Can Read In Bed. Those Big Tombstones Would Kill Me.

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