I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie. ✨ F. Scott Fit…

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I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie. ✨ F. Scott Fitzgerald (2002). F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby', p.29, Cambridge University Press
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