As soon as I saw the image on the back of the camera I fired-up my laptop and quickly wired it to our editors with minutes to spare before I was needed to photograph Jessica receiving her gold medal.

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What I said to her was that she needed counsel.

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"I knew she needed me and I never gave up, I never gave up searching for her, " Felix DeJesus said, moments after his daughter arrived.

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At a corporate meeting in New York City, the SVP of Marketing summoned me to her office to tell me that I was, in her opinion, showing too much cleavage and needed to wear a blouse with a high neckline.

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Later that next day when she needed time to do some work, I offered to cover for her.

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"I lost my cell phone and I needed to get in contact with my sister, " Virginia told her.

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When she said she needed to be distracted, to get a job of her own, I told her to get a job of her own, and she did, volunteering at a local public-radio station downtown.

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This time, she suddenly doubled over, saying she was having intense contractions and needed me to do what I had done three years earlier -- push down on her hips to help relieve the pain.

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When I asked Lisa about her involvement, she said that Smith presented a point of view that needed to be heard, and that the safety of genetically modified foods has not been proved.

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One day as she was setting up, a state inspector noticed she had a carton of eggs in her cooler, and notified her she needed a state license to sell eggs (as Dave Barry would say, I am not making this up).

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