It quickly became the city's staple snack, and, after one bite, I understood why.

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It wasn't until I read Henry Kissinger's White House Years that I understood why.

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Now I understood why so many people were hired initially: they were prepared for the no-shows.

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Now I understood why, a year ago, they had told us to move cautiously and not to wear anything colourful.

BBC: De-mining in the Horn

At last I understood why my female housemates always ate together.

NEWYORKER: The House Behind a Weeping Cherry

And I thought I understood why.

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In fact, I never understood why I felt such discomfort with this idea of altruism as solely for the benefit of others until 1982.

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Two, I had a knack for remembering what kind of packing material was best for which fragile object, and I immediately understood why it was better that personal-size bags of chips be torn vertically, while family-size bags be torn horizontally, and where the tabs should be located to al-low each sort of tearing.

NPR: Chapter 1

It bothered me that I had not yet understood why.

NEWYORKER: Hand on the Shoulder

But then I watched the passion with which she filed, polished, scrubbed and painted and suddenly I understood that this passion was exactly the reason why I opted to spend a fair amount of money for my pedicure instead of doing it myself.

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But I think there's no question that for some reason people perceive of me as being quintessentially English, whatever that means, I've not quite understood what it means, why a Huddersfield welder is less quintessentially English than someone who talks like me is way beyond my understanding, it's really a strange thing.

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