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A fan belt breaks in front of a general store owned by a man with this name, who breaks up a fight with a soda bottle. Contradictory lines about "Jay the only son of" this man (0[1])and "twenty-one children, the last one Jake" support (20[2])Susan Byrd's story about (20[1])this man. Children in Shalimar sing a song (20[2])replacing (20[1])"Sugarman" with this name. A man thinks "if you surrendered (20[1])to the air, (20[1])you could (*) ride it" at a "Leap" with this name, (10[1])where a "bag of gold" containing human bones (0[2])is taken (0[1])by Pilate. In a work (10[1])titled for (10[1])this name, (10[2])Robert (10[1])Smith (10[1])jumps (10[1])off (10[1])a hospital roof, (10[4]0[1])and the Seven Days group (10[1])is joined (10[1])by Guitar Bains. (10[1])For 10 points, Milkman Dead (10[1])is the protagonist (10[3])of a (10[1])Toni (10[1])Morrison novel named for the Song of what (10[1])king? (10[4]0[1])■END■

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