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  • What was the date at the top of the page, under the address of the house she remembered as home when she was a small girl?

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  • She suggested as much when she said afterwards: "This is what you try to achieve - I never expected that I would come back in this position, but I'm glad I stuck through it and I live for these kinds of moments".

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  • Marjorie was no longer as adept as she had been when she was younger and able to unroll a bolt of cloth and see every seam and dart, every buttonhole and facing, when she could tell, even before putting one pin into the cloth, how it would all fall together.

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  • She seems not as nice as she is when Jocelyn is around.

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  • She reuses materials as much as she can when planning and decorating, and uses compostable paper plates and cups at her parties, as well as recyclable cutlery.

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  • Especially after divorcing, she wasn't able to contribute as much as she wished and when her children finished college, she focused on repaying college loans.

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  • He took over as King when she died on 22 January 1901.

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  • Martin was what his family called him and Aisling thought of him as that when she was in her convent classroom, and every night before she went to sleep.

    NEWYORKER: Bravado

  • An elderly Georgian woman was scavenging for copper to sell as scrap when she accidentally sliced through an underground cable and cut off internet services to all of neighbouring Armenia, it emerged on Wednesday.

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  • The BBC's Charles Haviland in Colombo says that it appears that the maid's passport was falsified to give her age as 23 when she went to Saudi Arabia - other documents said to be genuine show that in fact she was only 17 and therefore a child.

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  • The great Billie Holiday said she thought of herself as a horn when she delivered a tune, reshaping melody and words to increase their impact.

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  • "She's as cocky as they come when she comes out for a show, but she's cuddly when she's home, " he said.

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  • But for Miss Abdi Nur, the opportunity to make a financial contribution to the country where she sought refuge feels as unlikely now as it did when she arrived five years ago.

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  • Even after carrying twins, she was as petite and slender as she had been when I met her.

    NEWYORKER: Wakefield

  • As a matter of fact, Saniewska says that at first, when she saw her as Lady Gaga, she didn't recognize her, having been accustomed to her as a long-haired brunette waitress.

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  • Just as a woman becomes instantly less likeable when she asks for a raise -- as research indicates -- a teenage girl can lose social standing when she seems too opinionated.

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  • She was working as an advocacy adviser when she first came across female genital mutilation and started her campaign against it.

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  • At first the police treated Ashley as a runaway, but when she didn't come home, she was reclassified as a missing person.

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  • She was as anonymous as in the days when she would charge out of her parents' house in Formby, near Liverpool, in much the same old belted mac and her school panama hat, a leggy 14-year-old heading for the shore and the arms of her German lover.

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  • The Liemba started life as the Graf Goetzen in 1913 when she was built as a warship in Papenburg on the River Ems in northern Germany.

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  • So when she says, as she did in our interview, that she did not see herself as a purely European candidate, those are not (just) empty words.

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  • My mother's charm, in her ninth decade, is that things are as fresh and new and revelatory to her as they were when she was a teenager or even a child.

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  • Fleming and co-writer Tiffany Paulsen has set the story firmly in 2007, but their Nancy Drew is an anachronism who dresses in tweedy skirts, preppy knits and penny-loafers, and whose prim sense of right and wrong (she drinks milk and knows CPR) quickly marks her as a social outcast when she moves from provincial Riverside Heights to a new school, Hollywood High.

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  • As she only started to cook when she was 20, she writes from the perspective of someone who had to teach herself and is aware of all the difficulties presented in the kitchen.

    BBC: Profile: Madhur Jaffrey

  • She studied physics, chemistry and maths A-levels without any real idea of what she wanted to do, but she already had an interest in meteorology from doing her weather badge as a Girl Guide when she was 12.

    BBC: Weather - Jo Farrow

  • When she served as dean of Harvard Law School, she was praised for naming several conservatives to the faculty.

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  • Ms Lux made her children perform even when they had the measles, just as she had performed, when pregnant, under heavy disguise of ostrich feathers.

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  • Her mother left her at the checkout with her aunt for just a moment as she went to get crisps but when she returned Katrice had gone.

    BBC: Katrice Lee

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