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      "text": "“...this is very nice, cozy. You got a nice cozy place, Lublin.\" \"Cramped,\" Rosa said. \"I work from a different theory. For everything, there's a bad way of describing, also a good way. You pick the good way, you go along better.\" \"I don't like to give myself lies,\" Rosa said. \"Life is short, we all got to lie.”",
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