And the commercials would have sickened a goat raised on barbed wire a…

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And the commercials would have sickened a goat raised on barbed wire and broken beer bottles. ✨ Raymond Chandler (2002). The Long Goodbye: A Novel, p.93, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
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