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White Sox) and showcase the sport's stars in more cities, thereby boosting attendance and merchandise sales, which, in turn, will enable owners to satisfy players' skyrocketing salary demands.
Other sports will follow suit if these players are successful.
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The bottle suggested one 3-milligram tablet before bedtime.
Taking more than the recommended dosage can cause side effects.
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The AIB delivers real-time information in the banner.
THE AIB absolutely delivers real-time information in the banner.
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Critics say expansion could be another Yalta (the 1945 meeting at which Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin agreed on spheres of influence in postwar Europe)--imposing a line between East and West, and leaving nonmembers subject to Russian bullying.
There is little added protection from joining NATO.
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That's not your demographic profile on the Net, observes consultant Rob Arena, of Presage Internet Consulting, who coordinated Bob Dole's Internet campaign in 1996.
Bob Dole aggressively recruited Rob Arena to work for his campaign
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That was the spasm of sex and the drunkenness of drink.
Sex and drink are powerful things that can alter the trajectory of a person's life.
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While conservatives bash Bulworth for its political correctness, The Nation likens it to Citizen Kane . Like [Orson] Welles, [Warren] Beatty brings to this production a history of left-liberal politics and an admiration for black musicians, says Stuart Klawans.
The value of a multiracial cast was rejected adamantly by Beatty.
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Maybe if I were gay, but I'm not.
I might consider it if I weren't heterosexual.
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(Or to comment on his current incompetence--it's an open secret on the Hill that Thurmond has lost it.
Thurmond has been incompetent for a long time.
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Flytrap also bears some responsibility for Washington's paralysis.
Flytrap is solely to blame for the city's paralysis.
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In the case of Prusiner's prize, the Nobel Committee has settled for enthusiasm and single-mindedness.
The Nobel committee rewarded enthusiasm and single-mindedness.
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(The New York Post 's Page Six gossip column ran a lead item on the Enquirer story on Christmas Day.)
The New York Post has a gossip column.
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Much of the Internet discussion about this merger frames the issue Which is worse, Big Business or Big Regulator?
Big Business and Big Regulator are popular issues with the internet.
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Time reports on a peculiar development in medical fake operations.
The Los Angeles Times reports on developments in medical fake operations.
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The decline in the won, by making imports more expensive and exports more competitive, would help bring about the decline in the current-account deficit, or the generation of a surplus.
The company is on the verge of going bankrupt, due to the decline in the won and their current deficit.
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Unlike the universities, the military has none of the notorious statistics about dropouts and racial separatism and it has many success stories, such as Colin Powell's.
Shame was what Powell felt, knowin' 'bout his droppin' out, lyin' just to get into school at the top Universitylater, bein' top dog at Harvard then kicked out.
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Thompson is no longer Hunter S. He performs a Hunter S. Thompson routine.
Thompson performs a Hunter S. Thompson routine
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They trotted out numerous theories to establish the Kosovo mission's Air power alone had never won a war, the Serbs had proven their invincibility against Hitler, and negotiation backed by gradual military escalation had failed in Vietnam.
Kosovos air power will be an advantage.
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Keirsey does not muck around in your excretions in order to determine your personality.
Keirsey makes candy.
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[Monica] made him feel good about himself.
He was suddenly full of himself.
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Moreover, even if the '80s dramatized Soviet economic incompetence because the U.S. economy was growing so rapidly, this is no reason for the Soviet empire to implode in the way that it did.
The Soviet empire imploded because of its economic incompetence.
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Tolly worked in narcotics and knew there was a Southern market for drugs and so converted an existing piece of machinery, creating the first morphine pill.
Tolly was awarded a patent for morphine
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(At least they said it was hers when Sophie R-C handed over a100,000 of Bill Gates' money.)
Sophie R-C handed over a 100,000 of Bill Gates' money to the SEC.
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[F]rom the moment Cecilia Bartoli's vibrant Idamante arrives on stage, the performance takes wing, her luscious, tight vibrato perfectly capturing the adolescent trauma of the young prince, says the Independent 's Mark Pappenheim.
Mark Pappenheim is a critic of plays for the Independent.
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The overlapping dialogue and squealing Cuban-African music heard over tinny-sounding radios seems meant to induce a migraine to accompany the seasickness.
The radios did not sound very good.
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Kutchins and Kirk claim that the DSM isn't a true account of mental illness because it's informed by particular social values.
Kutchins works as an actor.
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For the United Nations to thrive, it's not enough that the United States trust it.
The trust of the United States alone is not enough for the United Nations to thrive.
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After the Madness reads like going to court feels.
Going to court is unpleasent.
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Presumably, a living, Clintonian Einstein would declare, I cannot believe that God plays Nintendo with the world.
A Clintonian Einstein cannot believe that God plays Nintendo with the world
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Our Today's Papers column will be posted Friday (but not Thanksgiving Day).
The post can be expected to be reposted on next Friday.
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Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori has worked well enough to send countless young men to their deaths through the ages.
Countless young men have died for years.
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As Melville pointed out, if a sperm whale can spend more than an hour swimming at depths of up to 6,000 feet, and a sperm whale is composed mostly of gas (air-filled lungs and blubber), then Boyle's law would dictate that, as Spruch puts it, a whale of regulation size at the surface should, at the pressures a thousand ...
Oxygen is a big component of the sperm whale's makeup.
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With crime down and the economy up, New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is finally able to turn to the really big issues--like keeping the original Winnie-the-Pooh doll in a Manhattan museum against the claims of a member of the British Parliament that it belongs back in England.
Rudy Giuliani has lived everyone but in NYC.
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No longer a Nobel Prize waiting to happen (Jeff Giles, Newsweek ), Kundera is said to overindulge in his philosophical musings, which no longer seem fresh.
Kundera used to be popular back in the day.
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A victory by Deep Blue would indicate its superior computational skills, but not a capacity for conscious thought.
Deep wasn't in contention.
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According to the great Yiddish linguist Max Weinreich, Jews appropriated the word nebbich from their Slavic neighbors in the 11 th century.
Max Weinreich is an accomplished Yiddish linguist.
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In the precincts of the American left that still dream of Fidel and Che in the Sierra Maestra, Rieff's book was greeted with murmurings of disapproval--the kind of murmurings that had greeted Sontag's famous Town Hall declaration of the moral equivalence of communism and fascism some years before.
In the years between Rieff and Sontag, the disapproval levels always stayed consistent
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Now the conservative mantras are perjury is perjury and no man is above the law--and K finds himself tempted by the idea that it isn't the end of the world if a perjurer gets away with it.
K finds the idea of perjurers escaping prosecution enticing.
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The cover story on Trent Lott doubts that he can control the Republican Senate.
Trent Lott is known for his masterful control of the Democrat Senate
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When Chechens raided the Russian territory of Dagestan, and bombs wrecked Moscow apartment buildings, the army seized the opportunity.
The Chechens were at peace.
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Even though Washington Week 's treatment of Flytrap is inordinately polite, it is worth watching--but only if you don't watch the rest of the show first.
Washington's Week's treatment of Flytrap is worth watching.
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Paul Samuelson had good reasons for beginning his textbook with Keynesian analysis.
Paul Samuelson's textbook is 400 pages
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His dance around the canvas looks like its own hidden language.
The way the man dances shows an obvious message.
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The errors range from the trivial (misspelling the name of former Gov.
The writing had a number of errors.
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By 1968, that annus horribilis when Johnson cracked from the pressure of mediating an increasingly centripetal Democratic Party and Kennedy fell to an assassin's bullet, two political ideal-types had a silent majority who supported Johnson's war on Vietnam and voted in Richard Nixon, and a new class of liberal profess...
Johnson was assassinated in 1968.
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When compared to Thomas Jefferson, Stewart replies, I'm reaching more people.
More people saw Jefferson at the height of his career than have seen Stewart.
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As companies found themselves increasingly squeezed between the demands of workers and stockholders, however, they started pressuring their insurers, who passed that pressure on to hospitals, doctors, and other providers.
What satisfies workers is at odds with what satisfies company shareholders.
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That sort of thing generally entails a coach or an east regional sales manager exhorting you to do something pointless, painful, or profitable to someone else.
If it hurts you, someone else profits.
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I hope it's not egotistical of me to think that when I write an article for, say, the New Republic , I am not reaching nearly everyone who might have an interest in it.
The author wrote a piece for the New Republic.
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But in child care, as in the behavioral sciences generally, we could have saved ourselves a lot of time and trouble by recognizing at the outset that people are animals, and pondering the implications of that fact.
Psychology is a field in behavioral science
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He recently said that a Washington state initiative to require trigger locks was written by Satan.
Satan employed a Devil's advocate, requiring all Gun Owners to melt down the weapons and construct Plowshares.
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hereby announces its intention to mark the year 2000 by anointing a Person of the Millennium.
Aristotle won Person of the Millennium
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4 The instability of Syria and the Palestinian Authority.
The Palestinian Authority caused instability in Syria.
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I wind up doing many things alone on weekends and in the evenings because she always has plans with the girls.
One spends time at the library in the evenings.
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But they admit that at least some consumers are being misled by the logo.
Zero consumers are mislead by the logo.
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The 15-year-old died with the band playing on his headphones.
Before he died, the 15-year-old listened to the band Metallica
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According to Time , dopamine explains how and why we become addicted to sex, drugs, booze, gambling, food, cheap thrills, and yes, tobacco.
Time, who published an article about dopamine, has more than a million subscribers.
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High praise for The New Yorker writer's stories about disaffected youth.
The writer's stories focus on a group under 18 years old.
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So what if all the negatives are lost?
We found the undeveloped photo slides immediately, which avoided a panic.
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Bush, or the Al Gore who is.
It is Bush who will be President.
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Were they in there?
They were never in there.
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Praising President Clinton for his federal transportation law to upgrade U.S. highways, the paper said that without a similar effort on our part, American superhighway traffic will come grinding to a halt at the Canadian border.
Clinton passed to transportation law to help improve roadways for many millions of Americans.
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The transformation of normal to abnormal may start with a pill.
It is impossible for a pill to start a transformation from normal to abnormal.
contradiction
As one agent A parolee of mine is OK and is looking for a job.
The parolee has always followed the law
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The headline over the NYT 's online version doesn't mention the homosexual angle, while the WP 's headline--FRANCE LEGALIZES GAY UNIONS--doesn't mention the heterosexual angle.
The headline over the NYT 's online focuses on the homosexual angle.
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It's probably therapeutic for Slate's two warriors to be taking time out from their inquiries into the House Budget or Travelgate to organize their thoughts on their place in the universe.
Slate has two warriors.
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Anticipating the patient's regular tics, the researchers monitored how his grip on the sensor box changed as his arm twitched.
They watched his tics and tried to correlate them with his grip on the sensor box.
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They report the makeup artist took another man on a multimillion-dollar, Oprah-hosted cruise.
Oprah hosted a cheap cruise that the makeup artist went on.
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The more Brown is attacked, the better she does.
Barraging Brown makes her better because people feel sympathy for her
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He suffered the strange fate of many artists who aim for the sublime, then find their work enlisted in other all-too-human narratives.
His work was put into scientific journals.
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Now it appears that he may have been simply assuring himself she really was dead, at least according to three of Wynette's daughters, who have filed a $50 million wrongful death suit against Richey and a doctor.
The Wynettes have 6 sons
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The old western was almost always a tale of a courageous loner imposing order on lawlessness, as in the Wayne films and Shane (1953).
Old westerns portrayed the west as lawless.
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Late in his prize-winning series, Gerth wrote some harsh things about Hughes, and Hughes' lobbying of Clinton, but he scarcely mentioned Hughes' Republican connections.
Hughes and Clinton were strangers to each other.
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He's plunging us, the viewers, into it, too.
The viewers are being thrust into a situation.
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A 1993 General Accounting Office report showed the breadth of incompetence in financial-aid administration--between 1982 and 1992, 43,519 ineligible students received subsidized loans.
The financial-aid administration since inception has possessed the reputation of diligence.
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Other figures of the Reagan-Thatcher era chose other retirement plans.
Some figures of the Trump era chose other retirement plans.
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You just have to be interesting.
You need to be boring.
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But calculated honestly, the penalty is a lot smaller than people claim.
The fraction of the penalty that is owed, if calculated properly, is exponentially larger than believed.
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Also, while PointCast packages news and information as your screensaver, SlateCast TM will package acute witticisms about the news directly onto your voice-mail answering message--in your own voice--thereby completely eliminating the need to develop or even to express your own opinions.
SlateCast TM's packaging of acute witticisms could lead to the spread of misinformation.
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His apology, June 12: If I knew it was like a religious-type deal, I would have never said it.
He felt sorry for what he had said.
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Please ask Jonah Goldberg (Linda Victimized or Vicious) to explain why he thinks, if all Tripp wanted to do was to protect her good name, she continued to tape Lewinsky long after she would have had enough evidence for this purpose.
Tripp taped Lewinsky to get evidence.
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Until two years ago, it was ritual among Supreme Court-watchers to speculate that this term would be Rehnquist's last.
Rehnquist never served on the Supreme Court.
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The Super Bowl will be a grudge match between Broncos quarterback John Elway and former Broncos coach Dan Reeves, who now coaches the Falcons.
Dan Reeves coached the Broncos before he joined the Falcons
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That is not a Medicare or Medicaid cut, he reassured seniors.
Neither Medicare or Medicaid has been removed.
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Time excerpts its own 1979 article about cult leaders Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Lu Nettles (then Bo and Peep).
Time is a popular publication
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Plato's girlfriend is worried the former actress is on a downward spiral to death.
Plato's girlfriend is concerned about the dire trajectory of the former actress
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To succeed, a propaganda campaign need not convince its audience; it need merely suck the oxygen out of the lungs of its foes.
A propaganda campaign impresses it's audience by exposing how weak the opponent is.
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will be more accurate than jurors who are unsure about only one criterion (does my doubt exceed 5 percent?)
Jurors must have absolutely no doubt when reaching their verdicts.
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A whole Lincoln bedroom full of cliches, says Newsday 's John Anderson.
Newsday's John Anderson commented on the number of cliches he found.
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How do we know when the president had done a good job?
Experts believe the president's performance has been satisfactory
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Hannah was recently spotted in New York wearing a hat with a star on it, while Kennedy was photographed elsewhere in the Big Apple wearing a T-shirt with--are you sitting down?
Kennedy wore a T-shirt in the Big Apple with a star on it.
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On Late Edition , Wolf Blitzer trots out Friday's CNN/Gallup/ USA Today poll indicating that if John McCain and Bill Bradley win some early primaries, Bush voters may switch to McCain, but Gore voters likely will not switch to Bradley.
Wolf Blitzer who supports Bradly appeared on Late Edition.
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In restaurants she cleans out the bread basket and transfers everything to her purse.
She later distributes the contents of her purse to the homeless.
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Degas, according to Daniel Halevy, carried his camera as proudly as a child carrying a rifle.
Degas, had trouble remembering his camera, he was known to have a bad memory in the past as a child, it later got even worse.
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During the Asia, Russia, and Brazil crises, Rubin constructed bailout deals that benefited outside creditors above all.
Rubin made deals during the Brazil crisis.
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The Chechen Russia is trying to take us over again.
Chechen Russia will leave us alone.
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So does that of my fellow general editor, Nelly MacKay.
Nelly MacKay is a highly regard for her work as an editor
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What's likely is a bitter battle between Perot and Ventura, conducted through proxies, their respective stand-ins for the Reform Party presidential nominee.
The two political group's leaders might fight it out, each using a sort of Straw man, or delegate instead.
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Do I just have the capacity to eat doughnuts and hamburgers and broccoli?
I eat doughnuts, hamburgers and broccoli.
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At night we sometimes had sex outside on the deck--and even in a swing hanging from a tree in her front yard.
We touched sometimes outside on the deck.
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