If, in the weeks to come, a solution can be found that keeps all parties happy, a new, similar arrangement is not out of the question.

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Before elections, candidates of both parties are happy to boast about their clever get-out-the-vote operations, special-interest campaigns or ballot initiatives designed to lure specific voter groups to the polls.

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All parties are happy.

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HIBA'S MOTHER: (Through Translator) You buy it to show off during parties or on happy occasions.

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And though there may be multiple parties thrown for the happy couple, Post says, the maid of honor is not required to go.

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So, what's less certain is whether a happy partnership will prevail between the coalition parties.

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Well, today, I am happy to say that legislators from both parties have come together to do just that.

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But many of the 40-plus parties in the current parliament are happy with the impasse.

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Unfortunately, the world around us is very good at offering us those opportunities cocktail parties, dinner parties, birthdays, weddings, happy hours, wakes.

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Julius looks like a happy child, but the family snapshots of picnics and parties include many loved ones who are already dead - his father Patric, his young cousin Brenda, his aunt Betty.

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