Carlos knew just how I took my coffee, and would stay up waiting for me if I came home late at night.

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It's been quite difficult to arrange these matches because I came into the job pretty late and the clubs were all mostly fixed up with their pre-season programme and matches.

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But I discovered football when I first came to New York in the late 1980s and my prejudices melted away.

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He and I came to loggerheads over the thing, about late 1969, early 1970.

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The storm came up late in the evening and it was the roughest I ever saw.

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The phone call came late one August afternoon as my older sister Gracie and I sat out on the back porch shucking the sweet corn into the big tin buckets.

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In late December of 2011, while browsing the Internet, I came across an article about a random reporter who obtained the email address of a famous billionaire by conducting a simple Google search.

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After many meetings, strained nerves, research and late or sleepless nights, the opportunity came when, on behalf of our group, I petitioned our school board to not only fully renovate our building, but enhance it with a Career Technology wing and a first class auditorium.

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