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1164:"Ticket Deadline for Alfred and Myra Petsch".
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1059:. Texas Escapes – Blueprints For Travel, LLC
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567:Mineral Resources in River Beds, Investigate
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1053:"The Little Engine That Couldn't"
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896:Henegar, Lucielle.
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844:"San Marcos Campus"
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992:"Gillespie County"
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