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Book review: The final choide: Playing the survival game, by Michael Grosso

Walpole, NH: Stillpoint Press, 1985. 348 pp. $10.95

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Mr. Greene is a freelance writer whose principal interest is parapsychology.

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Greene, F.G. Book review: The final choide: Playing the survival game, by Michael Grosso. J Near-Death Stud 7, 44–54 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01076749

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