His low-friend count shocked me.

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My favorite is to get someone, a friend, to count the tics over some specified period of time, like a speech, and then charge the offender an agreed-upon sum for each offense.

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There were three things any friend of mine could count on when their birthday arrived.

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However, I can always count on my good friend Andy Rothman to have a somewhat different take.

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One thing you can count on, if Peter does make it out, my good friend Rick Maiman will be there to snap a shot of him leaving the prison gates (THANKS FOR THE SHOT TODAY).

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