The acceptable adaptations far outnumber the offensive, with the trademark growling guitars chugging at the heart-strings in an almost comforting manner.

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"The players have returned home, they'll have spoken to their families and young children and it's a tremendous pull on the heart-strings, " said Gooch.

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They have suspected for a while that the older survey methods were biased, and that the inflation thus produced was tolerated because it helped twang the heart-strings of potential donors.

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Andrew McGhie, a Lamu-based estate agent, says that Kenya's coast tugs at people's heart strings, not just their wallets.

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