You learned early to keep your distance from potentially dangerous people, and that included not going into dark sheds to meet them.

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"You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger" (Sept. 23): It should still be summerish in September and I am huge Woody Allen fan ... so I had to include this one.

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Ms Boaden said she "had never heard any dark rumours about Jimmy Savile" but did meet him at a lunch for veteran radio presenters.

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In the dark, Simon Alcarac was shoveling snow, trying to meet Milwaukee's 11 p.m. deadline to move his car to a nearby elementary school parking lot or face a hefty tow bill from the city.

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Rather than dark and mysterious, it is bright and friendly, the kind of place people meet and become friends through their love of the treasure hunt.

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The next morning, he dressed in a dark suit, a white shirt, and a red tie, and went downtown, to Duane Street, to meet with his criminal lawyer, Georges Lederman.

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