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- ↑ "Notebook Directory". Note Access. Retrieved 2008-04-06.
- ↑ "Cascade Head, In the Dead of Winter" (PDF). Oregon Coast Today . Retrieved 2008-01-11.
- ↑ "There is Fire in Water". University of Oregon . Retrieved 2008-04-06.
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