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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. Motherhood across Time. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2021.",
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"citation": "Mayor, Adrienne. \"Baby Monsters and Centaur Families.\" In Extraordinary Bodies on Display: Humans, Animals and Cryptids from Antiquity to the Present, Jane Draycott, ed., 83-122. London: Routledge, 2026.",
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