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suitable for drinking
- Uncle Alfred insists that Loveless Lake is 'potable'—he says we have swallowed so much of it, we would be dead if it weren't.p. 433.2
- I am living proof that the waters of Loveless Lake are potable because I swallowed half the lake every summer while waterskiing with my cousins.p. 56.6
There are no more uses of "potable" in A Prayer for Owen Meany.
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