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- ↑ "Community Info". Arbor Park School District 145. Retrieved 2019-04-15.
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- ↑ "The 2006 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Fiction". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
- ↑ Martin, Lee. "Interrogating Memory". Lee Martin Author. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
