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What's on page 117?

Trending 9 January 2017
Grab your nearest book, and open it to page 117. What's the second sentence you see? What does it mean about your 2017? After journalist and editor Ben Cubby started sharing lines from his nearest book, and his followers joined in.

"We wished to discover who such fierce killers might be".

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"People began to hoard food and plan escape routes in case the enemy stormed the city."

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2017 will be great

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we are all doomed

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"Their limbs were broken and they were left to die" That's not... great

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"This isn't a good habit" Well that sounds just peachy 😒

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"Well, maybe I'm not that petty." Interesting.

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"Unfortunately I was not given any heavy machine guns."

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"I never realised my life was easy until now." LOL!

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"It's hard for a person to earn an honest buck." 😒

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this is a plot to reveal what we are all reading right now, and i for one ain't falling for it.

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