Okay, maybe not everyone, some just want to stay in touch with their kids halfway across the country, or meet new people with common interests, or reconnect with a pal from elementary school, or keep tabs at their own risk on an old flame, or support a political cause.

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But the journey becomes a moody trek to contact his old flame Daisy (Chloe Sevigny).

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Based on the money that has flowed into bond funds lately, apparently a lot of investors have rekindled that old flame for coupons.

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No one is more ambitious than Gatsby himself, who has made himself into a zillionaire for the sole purpose of enticing his old flame to leave her husband and come back to him.

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When he opened the back door, he saw that the old kitchen house had turned into a windblown orange fireball, streamers of flame running toward him through the grass.

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Johnny is about to be a father, Gus is a suave man yet to settle down and Linville is a young man initially more focused on his work though soon to meet an old flame.

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Shortly after the end of the Second World War, a reporter named Jake Geismer (George Clooney) returns to Berlin, where he meets an old flame named Lena Brandt (Cate Blanchett).

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