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    Lighter than You Think
    Lighter than You Think
    Lighter than You Think
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    Lighter than You Think

    By Nelson Bond

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    Sandy's eyes needed only jet propulsion to become flying saucers. Wasn't Pat wonderful? she beamed, at everyone.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStart Publishing LLC
    Release dateApr 21, 2016
    ISBN9781682999202
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      Lighter than You Think - Nelson Bond

      Lighter than You Think

      by Nelson Bond

      Start Publishing LLC

      Copyright © 2015 by Start Publishing LLC

      All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever.

      First Start Publishing eBook edition July 2015

      Start Publishing is a registered trademark of Start Publishing LLC

      Manufactured in the United States of America

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      ISBN 13: 978-1-68299-920-2

      Sandy’s eyes needed only jet propulsion to become flying saucers. Wasn’t Pat wonderful? she beamed, at everyone.

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      Some joker in the dear, dead days now virtually beyond recall won two-bit immortality by declaring that, What this country needs is a good five-cent cigar.

      Which is, of course, Victorian malarkey. What this country really needs is a good five-cent nickel. Or perhaps a good cigar-shaped spaceship. There’s a fortune waiting somewhere out in space for the man who can go out there and claim it. A fortune! And if you think I’m just talking through my hat, lend an ear . . . 

      Joyce started the whole thing. Or maybe I did when for the umpteenth time I suggested she should marry me. She smiled in a way that showed she didn’t

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