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  "textContent": "\n\nRobert Plunket – or Bob, in company – always suspected that he was going to get rediscovered, but he’s a little surprised, at 80, that he’s alive to see it. “I thought it would be after I was dead,” he tells me from his home in Florida; “it’d make a better story if I was dead. But as it is, I’m still alive. So, you’re stuck with me.”\n\nWe’re talking about _Love Junkie_ , the second of his two novels, which was originally published inhellip;\n\nread more raquo;\n\n\n\n",
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