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All in the Timing: Sure Thing
David Ives
published: 1994, read: 3/20/17
13 pages, genre: Screenplay
rating: 7.75/10, normalized: 7.5/10
0.451σ better than average
-0.231σ or -0.134/10 worse than average in Screenplay genre
Hilarious rendition of groundhog day. Plus the male interest is named Peter and has a hard-on for The Sound and the Fury.
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