And as I sat on the stairwell looking up at her, I realized that this was not the end of me, but rather the beginning of me.
"It's not been a good end of the season for me, " said Sharapova, who has slipped to 21st in the rankings.
But this sort of product jockeying reminds me of Lands' End vs.
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"Unfortunately, I will not be able to play the Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships this year because of the back injury that's been bothering me since the end of last season, " the 23-year-old said.
Two men appear in front of me as I come to the end of the row of shops.
So I've already started by asking Paul Volcker and my Economic Recovery Board to do a thorough review of how to simplify our tax code, and to report back to me by the end of this year.
The Begnas Lake Resort and Villas, based at one end of the lake, helped me organise my swim.
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And at the end of each conversation they thank me and say what great ideas I had.
At the end of the conversation he asked me to come to Washington.
At the end of the show he gave me a lot of respect for the way I handled myself and did my job on the show.
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''It was a tough quarter, '' said Liddell, ''I didn't see any improvement at the end of this quarter that made me think we're at a bottom or getting out of it.
The SleepTracker generally woke me at the end of the window I had set.
"Speak to me at the end of the year, and my sense is that we'll be higher than we are now, " he says.
"He was very relieved, he told me at the end of it, to have had a chance to tell his story, " Schaap said.
At the end of my playing, he asked me if I would play the whole sonata again and that this time he just wanted to listen.
And that includes the United States of America, which is why I've got a fiscal commission that's going to be reporting to me by the end of the year.
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"For me, the end of last week was the first time in a very long time where I could actually consider the possibility of moving on without having to worry about the company, " he wrote.
But, like Cattini, he says the appearance of Love Me Do in the charts was the beginning of the end for the old guard.
But I realized that photos like the ones of me, and ones much racier, would end up coming into the public sphere when women of my generation run for office.
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He reminded me that at the end of the first overtime he stole the ball from Monroe.
As a caregiver, I had a momentary lapse of sanity and wanted to physically strangle the man but the end of life care process was not about me but my dying Mother.
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And, at the end of the day their Bliss Spa provided me with a fantastic facial to refresh my skin that was thirsty for some moisture from all the sun and sand in this city.
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Marley's oldest daughter, Cedella, told me that near the end of his life, when his dreadlocks had begun to fall out because of the cancer treatments, he would still summon the strength to play with his kids.
Chilli's more usual sensory associations draw me to the far end of the square, where a row of jolly and pink couples are toiling away at little camping stoves in the mighty midday sun: the Chili Appreciation Society International has come to honour the chilli queens with a cook-off.
So, at the tail end of 2012, with 2013 laid out before me I like what I see.
"Milestone" makes me think not of the end of a journey, but of the long slog still ahead.
Let me end by reviewing the scale of the peril that we are facing if we fail to act.
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