Everyone had left her alone, and she had liked it a lot, she said.

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Everyone had left something behind -- relatives, friends, language, land -- and so they brought with them a certain sadness and nostalgia.

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"It is a chilling reminder of a violent past that everyone in the community hoped we had left behind, " they added.

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Nonetheless, just one year into the project, with the technological infrastructure still not completely up and running, everyone we had worked with at Yahoo had left or been laid off.

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She discovered handwritten prayer notes her mother had left in boxes, praying for everyone from her family to people she met in passing.

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But if everyone who had an excuse got off, who would we be left with?

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"I guess the fact that this woman, who had decided to make some example of me, while everyone else was left undisturbed, did get the better of me, " Baldwin wrote.

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Then along came Parmalat, as if to remind everyone that the dragons of corporate malfeasance and fraud had only nodded off, not left.

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Mr Lammy said the riots had shown "the frustration of questions left unanswered", although he added that not everyone involved was "motivated by a sense of injustice".

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Everyone we met listened to my stories with genuine interest, and I left Listowel with a real sense that I had made friends that will last.

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