The interesting thing was I had been talking about the stuff I had heard my friends talk about.
Putting aside my annoyance at the sheer magnitude of Andy's surprise, it was good to see it had my close friends guessing.
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The sinuous main pool, with a swim-under fountain and swim-up bar, is so massive I had trouble recognizing my friends on the other side of it.
"As recently as three years ago just the fact that I wrote about politics and other social taboos had many of my friends and family worried about my safety and theirs by association, " said Shahin.
The fact that I was simply trying to save him from drinking something lousy was seemingly forgotten along with the fact that there had been many earlier instances when these friends had expressly sought my help in wine selection, including the occasion of their wedding.
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Of course, I loved Super Mario Bros. because all my friends had a Nintendo.
That was followed by three more while my friends had still not bagged one.
If anything, I was sad that none of my friends had the same equipment I had.
In fact, my mother had been friends with Patricia Field the costumer for Sex and the City in the late seventies.
Many of my friends had no choice but to get married and live a lie because they couldn't bear the disappointment of their families.
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"I had lawyer friends in my church, and we talked about the missionaries who saw evil around them but couldn't do anything, " he says.
Meanwhile, I had been talking to my friends at The Illuminator, a guerilla projection team that emerged from Occupy Wall Street, and the idea expanded from there.
To his credit, Adrian saw an opening to press me a bit on my own perspective and I told him that some of my friends had entered lotteries at their local parishes to try and get a coveted ticket to the Mass.
"It's a very special feeling anytime you make a hundred but it's been a tough couple of weeks and the support I've had from my family, friends, team-mates... and Lara as well has been tremendous, " said Clarke, who had dominated headlines on both sides of the Tasman Sea before the first Test.
My non-gamer friends have had a fantastic time with my recently-acquired Kinect.
While in college one of my good friends had a basic, American sounding name something like (name is changed to avoid embarrassing the real person) Charlie Palmer.
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Many of my friends have had the same experience.
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As I freshman, I wondered how I could give back for this wonderful gift I had been given and decided to help others, just as I had helped a few of my friends.
Labor has so much power and courts are so friendly to labor, one of my friends basically had to close down his business when a waitress sued him for a larger share of the tips.
While there's nothing wrong with that, convincing my friends I had suddenly found myself a wildly attractive girlfriend was going to be hard enough as it was - without the added issue around her communicating solely in Portuguese.
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At any rate, like most of my friends, I had no idea what formula guaranteed placement in Modern Love.
"I had joked with friends previously that my fingers were fish food now and so it just played in line with what I was expecting, " he said.
Sitting in the shade of a tree, a trickle of sweat running down my back, I ran my eyes across the land my friends and I had bought.
Scott and I had been best friends as boys in Falls Church, Virginia, and my mom had been like a second mother to Scott.
Besides my wife and me we had two friends over, including a dyed in the wool Peter Luger enthusiast from pre-hipster Brooklyn, and we all tasted my own grass fed T-bone first.
After confirming once again that all the photos that my friends and Ars readers had sent in were still online, I reached out to Facebook once again, looking for an answer as to why this is still going on nearly three years after the company first promised it was "working" on the issue.
Depressed and lost, my friends encouraged me to go back to school (I had 20 credit hours under my belt that I had paid for myself but could not figure out the major that fit me).
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The house was funny and fun for all my friends except the few who had done real prison time.
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