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Paul Rambali, NME, 18 November 1978
WE'S home, Huck!" The large, bulky frame squashed into the seat next to me delivers his quote from Mark Twain's fables of a more naive age with that strange mixture of affection and apology that in these post-Watergate times many Americans seem to hold for their birthplace.
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