Driving fast and in a panic, I told him that I had left my son unattended.
Within a few weeks I had left the television station to start my own company.
It was a life-changing revelation that caused me to return to a place I thought I had left forever.
But it was afterwards, after I had left, that I realized how inspiring the visit had been for me.
But would my buying capacity have been any different if I had left my watch at home this day?
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The next afternoon two of the children showed up at my hotel to give me some papers I had left behind in taxi.
Unfortunately for me, I had left Berlin by the time the Wall started to crumble, but within a few days I had hopped aboard a train in France back to the city.
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He was the only family I had left.
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But gold has continued its run, and silver has risen even faster, and it has been a bit sobering to reflect that my portfolio would have done better if I had left well enough alone.
At a financial firm, hindsight tells me I could have negotiated a higher starting salary, but it was already a great increase over my salary at the non-profit I had left just a short time prior.
In fact, this summer, I slipped for the first time and hit my head on the rocks, either knocking some sense into me, or knocking what little sense I had left right out (it depends upon whom you ask).
But I think, for me, it was somewhat redemptive just because having left the show after eight years I felt in some way, not that it wasn't the right decision for me, but that I had left Chris and Gillian (Anderson) a way to carry on without an integral part of the show.
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"I gave so much to the company, I had nothing left for my family, " she says.
So, since I had just left Avid the week before, I could chew out the engineers back at Avid headquarters to get me a fix.
There was a point well after I arrived in Puerto Rico where I felt like I had finally left the United States behind and arrived in the Caribbean.
After five days, I had no mental strength left so I gave up and confessed.
"I knew they had left them with them and nobody knew where they were, " Weining said.
Impressed by the transformation of a company I had pretty much left for dead.
No sooner had I left the Rex to meet an old friend at the Paris Deli, than I almost tripped over a couple of midget Santas.
They got back to me within 24 hours to say they were investigating Dave and I didn't really know what was going on until a couple of days later when I heard he had left.
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in 2011 was the first conference that I noticed had child care in the same building and wished that I had known because I left my nursing baby at home with his Dad.
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"I won't claim to have had any premonitions about the collapse, but one of the reasons I left was that we had moved so far away from fundamentals into a heady market that I wasn't really having fun anymore, " she says.
He stood ten yards from me, then had me point to his left eye while I had my right eye closed.
That got me thinking: What if I had only ten years left to live?
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"I figured I had lots of time left, " says Donald, who runs his own business, Archetype Digital Solutions, developing multimedia presentations for doctors.
"I had been away for the week in Spain and I left my husband to look after the fish which he had been doing every day, and then when he went out to check on them they had disappeared, they had been stolen, " she said.
But I actually had a job lined up for when I left school with--there was a great international show jumper called Pat Smythe.
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