"More than that, he was a good and decent man -- and a dear friend, " Bush said in a statement released by his office.

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"We lost a man and a family lost someone very, very dear to them and he was very dear to us, " he told reporters.

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What do you think about the news that the sequel might be once again mining the comic book storyline Extremis (the first Iron Man film included a lot of adaptation from the story as well), dear readers?

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And, in fact, I later found almost those exact words in a book that is now dear to me, by the same sailor, cited by the first man, who had written of the gifts of the sea.

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