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Jul 2024
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PRISONER OF THE SOPHS and CALL FOR CANDI...

JON HAGADORN
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Ken Ward, after talking to his coach not long after the great potato fight, is talked into walking over to the Sophmore dormirories to aplogize to the varsity basball captain, Dale- but Dale has other plans, and Ken and the coach find themselves trapped with no way out. 

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