I'm suffering and it hurts me.

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The main difference this year is that I'm also suffering from "Homeland" envy.

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"I also use it as a reminder, when I'm climbing those long lonely steep canyons on the bike, that the pain and suffering that I'm enduring is pittance and short-lived compared to what others are experiencing in their battle against cancer, " Hoffman, 42, said in an iReport.

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I'm also increasingly focused on countries that frankly, are suffering.

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We are monitoring the storm -- FEMA is and NOAA -- and are very mindful of the suffering that Haiti has endured because of the earthquake, and will I'm sure be prepared to assist Haiti if it does suffer under this hurricane.

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And now I'm face-to-face with a man who says he was part of the suffering, albeit by his own account not complicit and not guilty.

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