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- ↑ "Rosemary Olberding Kelly Conrad". April 13, 2011.
- ↑ The Lunch Bunch. Cincinnati Magazine. June 1998.
- ↑ "'The Twilight Zone' had roots in Cincinnati". May 27, 2014.
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