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- ↑ Thompson, Kirsten Moana (April 2014). "The Construction of a Myth: Bloody Mary, Aggie Grey and the Optics of Tourism". Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies. 2 (1): 5–19. doi:10.1386/nzps.2.1.5_1.
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