"Dear Sarah, I bought a goat for you, " says one card the couple received.
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Shortly after taking up cycling, I bought a Vitamix blender and began making smoothies.
When my oldest son was about 10, I bought a little plastic toy frog for him.
Some weeks later I bought a few bottles of wine at a modestly upscale food retailer.
When I bought a Porsche I was soon invited to an advanced driving school.
Then I bought a toy telescope, checked out its internals and made another one identical to it.
In 1997, here in Nashville, my boyfriend Chris Fletcher and I bought a house in a Mayberry-for-eccentrics-type neighborhood.
Later, as a print journalist moving online, I bought a Flip Mino HD.
The 3000-acre farm was the setting for the book, I Bought a Mountain.
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One asked me recently, 'I bought a home on the third floor at a new launch, is that OK'?
"I bought a spa day from Groupon which included a massage, glass of bubbly and full use of the facilities, " she said.
When I bought a new ReplayTV that uses the Internet to provide additional functions, I had to run a network connection to my entertainment system.
He was, for a year, but then I bought a pretty Italian Art Deco vase for him, completely see-through, so I can see through to him.
After several weeks of getting around on foot and the Metro when I first arrived, I did what most newcomers to Copenhagen do: I bought a bike.
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So, naturally I bought a bottle of champagne and went home to draft my resignation letter, planning to hand it to my boss the next morning.
Because with all of my kvetching about this smartphone, I bought a new BlackBerry just a few months ago when my Verizon contract was up for renewal.
In keeping with this strategy, known as deliberate practice, I bought a drum machine and finally conquered (or at least came to terms with) my oldest nemesis, rhythm.
On a recent trip to Acapulco I bought a newspaper.
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What if I bought a cane for my dad?
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It takes about five minutes -- trust me, I'm not known to be a patient guy, and it didn't take more than a few minutes when I bought a rifle this past November.
At 21 I bought a grocery store.
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So while he was only mildly annoyed that we ended up donating twice what we had planned, he was mostly irritated that I bought a dinner party for six people to be held at someone's house a half-hour away.
About 9 years ago in 2004 I was having problems with my SNES (LONG after the console was no longer in production or supported by Nintendo), and I bought a used one that still worked just fine, and I can play all of my games in it.
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On the bright side, I was able to easily plug the Irex into a PC and Mac, and manually drag onto it personal PDF files, pictures and even a free book I bought at a Web site.
As a young man, I bought myself a ticket on the Isle of Wight ferry, and sailed through the lines of warships at anchor in the Solent - there were lines of Leander class frigates, 'O' class diesel submarines, and minesweepers.
When I bought tires a few years ago, I did so at a Sears Auto Center.
That winter, I even bought a twenty-pound log splitter and would go out in the backyard every morning and split wood until the sweat started steaming from my body like those horses in that Alfred Stieglitz photograph.
There was only one problem: I had just bought a pair of sunglasses by Juicy Couture which I absolutely adored.
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