As a general matter, I think when Americans are asked this question at a time of an economic downturn, I'm not surprised that they give a negative answer.

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At the end of my playing, he asked me if I would play the whole sonata again and that this time he just wanted to listen.

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When I asked my colleague, who has lived in Saigon for some time, about this sudden weakening of the spine, he laughed.

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It was a wonder to me why someone would spend this much time buying a car he could have surely purchased minutes from home, so I asked him why.

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