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== [[Literature]] ==
* In the original version of ''[[Podkayne of Mars]]'' by [[Robert Heinlein]], teenage heroine Podkayne says "Do listen please, because this is important. I love--" before she is killed by a bomb blast. However, Heinlein's publisher hated such a downbeat ending to a novel aimed at teens and insisted Heinlein revise the ending to allow Podkayne to live. The most recent editions have included both endings.
* This is how {{spoiler|Fred Weasley}}
{{quote|"You're joking, {{spoiler|Perce}}! You actually are joking... I don't think I've heard you joke since you were--"}}
** Could be a mild case of [[His Name Is--]] as well, as some readers would have really liked to have heard the rest of that sentence.
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