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conversations.value: What could be a title for a book about Shallotte, North, Carolina with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Action & Adventure?
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conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'Once Upon a River'
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conversations.value: What is the first two paragraphs for this book?
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conversations.value: Once Upon a River
  There was an unusual number of people packed into the Swan, he thought, given the time of day and the season. They looked up at him with the curiosity of those for whom something is already under way and further interest can confidently be expected. He paid them no attention and made straight for the bar, where a woman took one look at him and said, "Follow me."
  She led him through a short paneled passageway to an old oak door. She opened it and stepped aside to let him enter first.
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conversations.value: Delete the last sentence.
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conversations.value: Once Upon a River
  There was an unusual number of people packed into the Swan, he thought, given the time of day and the season. They looked up at him with the curiosity of those for whom something is already under way and further interest can confidently be expected. He paid them no attention and made straight for the bar, where a woman took one look at him and said, "Follow me."
  She led him through a short paneled passageway to an old oak door.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: What is four more paragraphs?
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conversations.value: Vaughan arrived at the place where the crowd thickened and had to shove his way through. When he reached the heart of it, he found Helena on her knees on the ground, her skirt stained with the mud of so many tramping feet. She was weeping wildly. Over her stood a tall, dark-haired woman with a long, brittle nose and wide, pale lips who had contrived to be standing between Helena and the child, while Helena made frantic attempts in the slippery mud to reach around her wide skirts and lay her hands on the little girl.
  Murmurs arose from the crowd. They were reluctant, indistinct, confused, but they confirmed that, yes, it was as she said. Satisfied, the woman nodded to herself.
  Vaughan crouched to put an arm protectively around his wife while she stared in mute, wide-eyed shock, gesturing for him to take hold of the girl.
  Seeing him, a light of satisfaction, as at some scheme brought successfully to fruition, animated the tall woman's face and was instantly suppressed; then, with a violent swiftness that took everyone by surprise, she gripped the child and raised her up. "Look, Alice!" she pronounced, "it's Daddy."
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conversations.value: Reverse the sentences.
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conversations.value: ". "Look, Alice!" she pronounced, "it's Daddy.
  Seeing him, a light of satisfaction, as at some scheme brought successfully to fruition, animated the tall woman's face and was instantly suppressed; then, with a violent swiftness that took everyone by surprise, she gripped the child and raised her up.
  Vaughan crouched to put an arm protectively around his wife while she stared in mute, wide-eyed shock, gesturing for him to take hold of the girl. Satisfied, the woman nodded to herself. They were reluctant, indistinct, confused, but they confirmed that, yes, it was as she said.
  Murmurs arose from the crowd. Over her stood a tall, dark-haired woman with a long, brittle nose and wide, pale lips who had contrived to be standing between Helena and the child, while Helena made frantic attempts in the slippery mud to reach around her wide skirts and lay her hands on the little girl. She was weeping wildly. When he reached the heart of it, he found Helena on her knees on the ground, her skirt stained with the mud of so many tramping feet.Vaughan arrived at the place where the crowd thickened and had to shove his way through
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conversations.value: What is the last five paragraphs?
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conversations.value: Thank you also to Mary and John Acton, Jo Anson, Mike Anson, Margot Arendse, Jane Bailey, Gaia Banks, Alison Barrow, Toppen Bech, Emily Bestler, Kari Bolin, Valerie Borchardt, Will Bourne Taylor, Maggie Budden; Erin, Fergus, Paula, and Ross Catley; Mark Cocker, Emma Darwin, Jane Darwin, Philip del Nevo, Margaret Denman, Assly Elvins, Lucy Fawcett, Anna Franklin, Vivien Green, Douglas Gurr, Claudia Hammer-Hewstone, Christine Harland-Lang, Ursula Harrison, Peter Hawkins, Philip Hull, Jenny Jacobs, Maggie Ju, Mary and Robert Julier, Håkon Langballe, Eunice Martin, Gary McGibbon, Mary Muir, Sally Read, Mandy Setterfield, Jeffrey and Pauline Setterfield, Jo Smith, Bernadete Soares de Andrade, Caroline Stüwe Lemarechal, Rachel Phipps of the Woodstock Bookshop, Chris Steele, Greg Thomas, Marianne Velmans, Anna Withers.
  On a dark midwinter's night in an ancient inn on the Thames, the regulars are entertaining one another by telling stories. The night is interrupted when the door bursts open on an injured stranger carrying the drowned corpse of a little child.
  Hours later the dead girl opens her eyes and lives again. In the face of this event, the witnesses attempt to explain the impossible in a great outburst of storytelling. Was it a miracle? Is it magic? Or could there be a scientific explanation for the girl who died and lived again?
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  Jacket illustration © Two Cranes on the Edge of a Pond (W/C on paper), Indian School, (17TH Century) / Musee Guimet, Paris, France / Bridgeman images; © Swans, 2007 (Oil on Canvas), Wright, Liz (B.1950) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images