When a letter landed on my desk addressed to the BBC Technical Correspondent, I opened it with care.
As I opened it on the bus home, I realised that my number had come up in a rather big way.
"The cross was upside down outside the door so when I opened the door it fell in, " he said.
"When I got home and opened the box, I thought it was a real iPad, " Jamie Frick told the Newark Star-Ledger.
It opened my eyes to things I overlooked as a man in the marketing industry, and it spurred a lot of great conversation around the topic.
It came from nowhere, from the night, fully formed, extending in several directions, and when I opened my eyes in the morning it was all around me, filling the room.
And I saw it as soon as I opened the box, I got a ton of manufacturing errors in watches, and I was sitting on top of thousands of dollars of just trash as far as I was concerned.
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"I was so happy that it seemed to me to be like flying, so I opened my arms, miming a glide, " he has explained.
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When I first opened the Millionaires Club people told me I would never get the market, it was taken.
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Having a place to start opened it up, and then I could see other, more complex ways to think and progress.
But just the other day I lowered the hive, smoked it, and opened the cover.
It opened so many doors that I never imagined would be open for me.
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When I did, it was as if the sky opened up and showered awesome down on me.
Next, I opened with the remodeling, on the principle that it's less important than the homey touches, and a sentence should ideally end with a (relative) bang.
Memories flashed accompanied by more tears as my friends gathered around me and I opened my swollen eyes trying to picture the scene hoping it would last forever.
When I was finally able to cross that off my list it opened a whole new world of possibilities.
Best of all it has opened numerous doors for me where I have travelled to many countries attending seminars, conferences and training.
"Since it was labelled as 'miscellaneous goods', I casually opened the box, " Kunio Suno, president of the Ishinomaki Fish Market Co Ltd, told the AFP news agency.
Had my weekly newsletter gone out on Wednesday instead of Thursday, it would have opened with a summary of a conversation I recently had with an AAII member about bonds and interest rates.
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Until that Christmas, when I opened a rectangular gift and realized, to my shock and disbelief, that it had all been an elaborate con.
Accepting his award, Cooper said "being gay is certainly one of the greatest blessings" and that it had "opened my head and heart in ways that I never could have predicted".
"It opened my eyes to the fact that not only would I be trying to help one person but there was the possibility I could be helping someone else, " he says.
Without even thinking about it, I pulled out my Apple ( AAPL) iPhone, opened up Yelp, pegged my current location, searched for a smog check station, then grabbed the two that were rated highest and drove to the nearest one.
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Dreaded by many neighbors because of its out-of-scale height (25 stories) but anxiously-awaited by insatiable luxury-hotel fans, the glimmering glass Mondrian Soho tower opened to the public Tuesday, and I popped in yesterday to see how it measured up both to downtown fears and to other fanciful properties of the Morgans Hotel Group, otherwise known as the original chic-boutique hoteliers.
Michael Grandage's "Le Nozze di Figaro" is Glyndebourne's seventh production of the Mozart opera with which it opened in 1934, and the best of the many of those I've seen.
"I was Miss New York when the Barclays Center opened up and so I was looking forward to being able to be here, and now it's even better that I'm Miss America and Brooklyn is where I came from, " she said.
And as you have opened your arms and your hearts to me -- which you have so fully, and I feel it and I know it.
Not only because I believe very strongly in what TechStars is doing for the entrepreneurial ecosystem, but also because it has opened so many doors to develop working relationships with many of the startups that come through the network.
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