Simple: when a homebuyer signs a mortgage, the key document is the note.

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Sometimes, when Vivian finished transcribing an interview at the adoption agency, she would add a note to the bottom of the document offering her opinion of the interviewed couple.

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Critics wanted to know why the minister had let the Hollywo od star into the country without a passport - and why a handwritten note from the actor, explaining that he had lost the travel document, had gone missing.

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The document requires the Justices to disclose the source of all income earned by their spouses, and Thomas had failed to note that his wife, Virginia, who is known as Ginni, worked as a representative for a Michigan college and at the Heritage Foundation.

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