Carolina Quotes[T]hat commodity Ben Franklin trapped in a precursor to the Coca-Cola bottle.
Robert Ruark Carolinian
Source
p. 174
- work
- "Nothing Works and Nobody Cares" (1965)
- year
- 1965
- locator
- p. 174
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