One student told how her grandmother had been in tears on the phone, as they talked over the sound of gunshots and bombs.

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They sent them to lessons and camps of all sorts, and they talked, even over diapers, of preparation for college.

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They hit it off and talked about how they might take over the world.

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When he suffered a stroke and was put on life support, "she knew instantly this was not what Dad wanted, because they had talked about this over and over again, " Ms. Fleming-Caruso says.

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From 1956 they walked, talked and drank together all over Paris, rake-thin writer and corkscrew-haired artist, ranging with formidable scholarship over art, literature, music and language.

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And I've even seen statements today from Republicans that have talked about continuing the effort that they've also been involved in over the past several years.

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But Senator Corker talked about how there was a discussion of whether they could have these frank discussions over dinner and then turn around and have the President attacking them in a partisan manner.

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Optimists in both camps still talked about how they would reach out to the other side when it was all over, like the World War I infantrymen who played soccer on Christmas Day before going back to their trenches to try to kill each other again.

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Recently there was an article in The New Yorker that talked about all the cost savings and how important they are going to be in terms of bending the cost curve over the long term.

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