The campaign also got a little help from a famous friend.

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There was a woman from Westchester with her friend from California who wanted her two daughters to get a taste of the famous bagels.

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The doodle, in biro, references the artist's famous diamond-encrusted skull and was given to a friend in Mexico.

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Schwartz, a friend of both the reality TV star and the famous actress and humanitarian, was at the auction and purchased the jewelry for Kardashian.

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It was bought by Mstislav Rostropovich, a famous Russian cellist and conductor, who presented it to his great friend Mr Radzinsky.

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My friend Marshall Goldsmith, the famous coach, talks a lot about self-marketing.

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Conductor Jose Serebrier has undertaken a series of recordings of transcriptions by his late friend Leopold Stokowski, the famous 20th century conductor.

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After reading a page on WeRelate.org about Daniel Boone, one of the most famous long hunters, Ms. Auvil says she found a wiki page link to a Kentucky state surveyor and friend of a brother of a Tennessee senator who was a friend of the man who adopted her fifth great-grandfather after his own father was murdered.

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