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Any university student who has ever purchased a used textbook knows that there are sometimes strange surprises hiding between those pages. In this case, the surprise-with-a-textbook-purchase was a bag of cocaine.

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Student receives free cocaine with Amazon textbook order

Any university student who has ever purchased a used textbook knows that there are sometimes strange surprises hiding between those pages. Usually they come in the form of messy scribbles, but in one student's case the unexpected gift-with-a-textbook-purchase was a bag of cocaine.


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