But, throughout this time, as the pre-sentence report observes: 'One of the major impacts in his life has been the inability to share his huge secret... he feared he would always be alone'.

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Out of randomness alone there will always be some category that outperforms over a specific time period.

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Speaking after the 2008 disasters, President Preval said that Haiti needed long-term help if it were not to be "left as always, truly alone, to face new catastrophes".

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To the rest of us, different and alone, that togetherness will always be strange and compelling.

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Of the minority who voted against, some just wanted to be left alone where they have always lived.

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"I've always known him to be a person who'd been alone, " he said.

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Novels and stories always will be put down little by little out of personal feeling and personal beliefs arrived at alone and at first hand over a period of time as time is needed.

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