I've lived in the village for three years and I've met more people in three days than I've met in the time I've lived here.
And I think at this age, I've seen a lot of the world, I've met different people, and I'm ready to compromise.
Perhaps the reason I feel quite so liberated from the present while more and more attached, not to individually-recalled "good old days", but to a collectively attested and ever-present past, is because the hard drive of my computer is overloaded with digital images of the places I've been and the people I've met, all of them time-coded to a 10th of a second.
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But what I've been telling every family that I've met here is we're going to be here long after the cameras leave.
Just being here I've met people that I never met before that have got some different story about things that relate to my mother on that day that I'd never heard before and then it triggers some other memory that maybe you hadn't thought of in years and years.
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And I've been to Africa dozens of times, and I've met with dozens of people on the ground who really know a hell of a lot about Africa, and who understand the difference between corruption and not corruption, and who understand that effectiveness and lack of effectiveness, and who understand what's a good government and what's not a good government.
Many of you I've known for a very long time, and some of you I've met more recently.
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"I've met a couple celebrities that I admired and they completely destroyed me, " Bradley explained.
"It is an emotional time but usually for me, once I've met the prospective family, I am just excited and want to get on with it, " added Ms Lloyd.
I've never met him -- I've kept up with him through his parents -- but I'd be honored to meet him someday.
And it's of little comfort to the families who wake up wondering how they're going to pay their bills, stay in their homes, or put food on the table -- the Americans I've met in towns across this country, or whose letters I read every night.
I've met parents who've on the Internet gotten the armor to send their kids.
I've met a surprising number of voters who say they can't make up their minds.
Day 2 is over and again, I've met some really cool founders of really cool startups.
"Barak is probably the most unique person I've met in terms of his range of skills, " he explains.
Unlike the other retirees I've met in Florida, they're not worried about crime.
Nor has any other Muslims I've met in person or even on Facebook.
"Jim Young is one of the best managers that I've met with, " says Tom Marsico, owner of Marsico Capital.
"He was the most intelligent man I've met in football, " said Mr Clifford.
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And most of the women that I've met over there and in the San Francisco area were very healthy people.
The early sunshine has helped morale and all the girls I've met up with appear to be in good spirits.
Considering his crucial role in 20th century biology and genetics he was one of the most unassuming and modest scientists I've met.
"Mario Melchiot and Daniel De Ridder - I know Daniel from the Under-21's and Melchiot I've met a few times, " he said.
I've met more than my share of engineering majors from Eastern Europe.
Now, I wanted to be here tonight, I'm grateful for the invitation, despite the fact that, as I said, I've met most of you.
"People at Howard are of the top politically motivated and politically aware as African-Americans that I've met, " says Remone Bradley, a public relations major.
"I've met only about 20% of my regular customers, " Dan said.
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