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    vain
 
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    (Paul: Who is Hugo?) (Alex: Give me more.  I need his full name.)
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    the balcony
 
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    Yalta
 
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    | This feature of Jupiter is about 12,400 by 7,500 miles | 
    (Colin: What is the Great Spot?) (Alex: The Great...) (Colin: ...Red Spot.)
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    Stephen King
 
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    | An 18-minute brawl was caught on film during this 1968 meeting in Chicago | 
    [Paul smiles as Alex reads the clue.] (Alex: Why were you smiling so broadly on that one?) (Paul: Chicago, Alex, it's my birth city.) (Alex: I know, but you're too young to remember it.) (Paul: It's true.)
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