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  • In 1960, I published a novel that had the sentence: “He looked him up and down from his niggerbrown shoes to his spinsterishly tightset lips and then said quietly: “_____off.”

    TalkTalk E. L. Konigsburg 1995

  • In 1960, I published a novel that had the sentence: “He looked him up and down from his niggerbrown shoes to his spinsterishly tightset lips and then said quietly: “_____off.”

    TalkTalk E. L. Konigsburg 1995

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