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jubilee entertainment for fifty years
"For Wellington will give jubilee entertainment for fifty years of birthday, perhaps, maybe."
— from Molly Brown's Senior Days by Nell Speed

Joe Ellison for fifteen years
Up in Sing Sing when I had nothing else to do,” concluded Larry, “I tell you I thought a lot about that situation—for it certainly is some situation: Joe Ellison for fifteen years in prison with just one big idea in his life, the idea being the one thing he felt he was really doing or ever could do, his very life built on that one idea: that outside, somewhere, was his kid growing up into a fine young person—never guessing it had such a father—and Joe never intending to see it again and not being able to know it if he ever should see it.
— from Children of the Whirlwind by Leroy Scott


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