"It could be described that I became obsessed with her over time, " Mr Crompton said.

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That album is how I became obsessed with Elton John.

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"When I really got into basketball, I became obsessed with Syracuse basketball, " said Hopkins, who met Boeheim in the early 1980s at the coach's Big Orange Basketball Camp.

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Mostly I became obsessed with Niagara because I am an American, and although it sits mainly in Canada, Niagara Falls has a lot to tell us about America.

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So I became obsessed with cost reductions.

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It percolated in my mind to the point where I became quite obsessed with it.

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The irony: Normally I'm one of maybe ten women in America who aren't obsessed with food, but I became fixated on portions, grams, what I had eaten that day, and what I could consume next.

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