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Friday from a fraternity house off campus on Greek Row about an unresponsive person who had possibly drowned.

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She said the allegations had "taken a significant toll on me, which led me to try and drown out that noise and nearly take my own life a number of times".

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“The Queen Mother will be fine—she cannot die a second time. Your friend and that aboatia, though, will drown soon,” Tano says, unfazed, as if he’s giving a presentation on dolphins at SeaWorld.

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After that, Max’s howls of dismay at being left behind drowned out every other sound, until the door had been firmly shut behind them.

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And finally, Lord Fredrick’s father, Edward Ashton, said to have drowned in a tar pit but whose body had never been found.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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