If you just fly one trip with me, you could see the amazing difference all that weight, and all the monotony of doing all those revisions, can make.

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Amsterdam wasn't Israel, but it was close enough for my best friend to agree to fly there to be with me for a few days.

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The iPhone disrupted my relationships with people who would forever fly into their apps instead of talking to me.

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Mike Bellotti and Chip Kelly's Ducks helped me reconnect with my alma mater, and I faithfully fly west with my family once a year to visit the campus and take in a game.

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One of the great things about fly fishing is that its practitioners, like me, are able to stay in touch with it even when we are homebound, marooned in trout-less urban landscapes.

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