His moment of recognition came late on a raw winter's night, when he hankered to stay under his blankets but couldn't, because his family business makes quirky demands: Oyster growers like the Bishops engage in a rare branch of agriculture that farms in two elements, exposed earth and water.

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Since his first experience, Barish has bought two photo blankets and Fernando, a Chihuahua statue, for his friends.

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Loder said his daughter and her classmates have reciprocated by meeting weekly to make blankets, including more than 150 delivered to Newtown.

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In lieu of a crystal facility, there is a wonderful library, which Owens refers to as his "panic room, " and features rugs repurposed from surplus military blankets.

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Felsen, his dealer, wasn't sure how collectors would react when he splayed blankets across her gallery floor and arrayed tattered animals around them in formal groupings, like they were attending a picnic without people.

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Dale County Sheriff Wally Olson said in a briefing with reporters Saturday that Dykes has told them he has blankets and an electric heater in the bunker, which is located on his rural property.

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His father was a door-to-door salesman of household items like dishes and blankets and, eventually, saved enough to buy a ranch house in the working-class community of Warwick, Rhode Island.

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His thirst insane, the tiger lapped up water from the leaky fountain where the flower women filled their buckets, and then put his nose into the face of a sleeping child who had been left, wrapped in blankets, under the pancake stand.

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