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The scrape and snap of Keds on loose alley pebbles seems to catapult their voices high into the moist March air blue above the wires.
The scrape and snap of Keds on loose alley pebbles seems to catapult their voices high into the moist March air blue above the wires.
Approximate author period: c. 1970 AD · modern
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- John Updike
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- Approximate author period: c. 1970 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1932 to 2009; Wikidata Q105756, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105756 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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