Yet as the smiling faces of girls in white dresses I hadn't seen since high school stared at me from my computer screen, I couldn't help but feel I was suddenly looking at the path I hadn't taken.
So when I was told I had a stroke, I couldn't help wonder if I was going to have those kind of aftereffects.
Yet this morning - as I listened from afar on a half-term break - I couldn't help noticing that this latest news simply led both Messrs Osborne and Balls to say "I told you so".
As much as I enjoyed the tasting, I couldn't help thinking about the Clos Ste.
As we rode through the enormous city, I couldn't help but compare Beijing with Shenyang.
After seeing off my nephew, who left disappointed, I couldn't help blaming my brother.
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But I couldn't help the nagging feeling that her birthmark would always enter the room before she did.
And, I mean, to sit there on a bed and hear this and felt helpless that I couldn't help...
As I wandered around the museum I couldn't help wondering what on earth it was like to be a foundling.
And I couldn't help but feel rejuvenated, and my spirit was lifted.
While the premise makes for entertaining television, I couldn't help but wonder how this whole scenario would play out in real life.
Still, I couldn't help think how much attitudes had changed from when I first reported on the women in combat debate in 1993.
It's too early to tell, said Maris, but I couldn't help asking the obvious question: how will third parties make money off of Glass?
As I watched Topher Grace and Dennis Quaid "standing on their heads" I couldn't help but draw some comparisons to Microsoft's upside-down WMV strategy.
As Mitt Romney made his speech surrounded by his family I couldn't help notice the different features of two of his sons, behind his left and right shoulders.
By the end, I couldn't help thinking that it's not London that the rest of the country has a problem with - it's the UK's over-centralised system of government.
As a branding veteran, I couldn't help but note how these individual stories characterized the two fundamentally different starting points for achieving the same ultimate marketing objective: Make the sale.
Watching the match-saving partnership between Michael Clarke and Marcus North on Monday, I couldn't help but draw parallels between England toiling unsuccessfully and Australia missing out on an expected victory at Cardiff.
Three and a half decades later, when Klugh was scheduled to come into our studios for a performance and interview, I couldn't help but wonder whether his decades of success had changed him.
"My chest was full of grief and I couldn't help but cry, " said Takeko Kano, a 67-year-old grandmother who came to the ceremony hoping she would feel a sense of peace over her missing daughter.
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Hearing the news of her death on Sunday, I couldn't help but think of another star, Tejano singer Selena, who was poised to make an impact on American culture when she was killed 17 years ago.
Bill wanted more meat in our dinner menus, apparently, and had brought me an instruction manual -- 600 pages long, I couldn't help noticing, and with the same sort of heft as the sirloin pork roast in the picture.
Although Messrs Munoz Ledo, Rubio Barthell and Bellizia Aboaf appeared to find their London trip fruitful, I couldn't help feeling they were looking forward to getting back to the less frigid climes of Mexico, where solar power - as they remarked - seems a much more viable venture.
Listening to the future governor yesterday, I couldn't help thinking that he might change the attitude to economic policy in the UK, by reminding us that what we're living through is not just "exceptional" - a word he used a lot today - but worth getting worked up about.
Gazing at the picture whilst on my guided tour of the paper - part of my exciting experiment as the guest editor of Radio 4's Today programme - I couldn't help wondering what Bill, who died in 2007 at the age of 94, would make of the extraordinary transformation that has taken place since his death.
Friends cooked for me and I cried because I couldn't even help them set the table.
"The nurses were so busy, I couldn't get them to help with simple things like turning down my bed, " says 50-year-old Kim.
For instance, when I first became disabled I couldn't even ring an alarm bell if I needed help but now I can operate many items of equipment in my home.
At that particular time he was a young man I wanted to help because (his father) Billy couldn't and had so much wanted to.
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