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- ↑ Tara McPherson, Reconstructing Dixie: Race, Gender, and Nostalgia in the Imagined South, Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2003, p. 159
- 1 2 Tanner Transky, Robert Harling: The Man Who Loves Women, Entertainment Weekly, April 13, 2012
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- 1 2 Lisa Rosen, Robert Harling, Darren Star breathe life into 'GCB', The Los Angeles Times, January 8, 2012
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