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Speaker 1: During this period, over one hundred and ten men who

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Speaker 1: For others, it is precisely the possibility of what we

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Speaker 1: and who could blame them? Considering how many of these

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Speaker 1: the damningly self reflective satire of Gulliver's Travels, travels which

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Speaker 1: listening to Unexplained, and I'm Richard McLain Smith. Gwen gazes

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