"All I did was hang out with my friends and take them out to dinner all the time, " he said.
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"I was out with two of my friends, and when we came back ... we saw them, " Win Thike Oo, one of the fishermen who survived, told an Associated Press photographer at the scene.
"When I was a young boy, while my friends were playing with electric trains and teddy bears, I was out collecting decoys, " says Donal O'Brien, 71, former chairman of the National Audubon Society and part of the old guard, with shorebirds and waterfowl in his collection.
When I look at my wedding pictures with friends they always comment on what great shape I was in and how great my arms look.
At 14, I told Dad I was too busy with my extracurricular activities and friends to stay over with him anymore.
So today, while on an investment committee conference call, when the white smoke appeared and shortly thereafter we learned that an Argentinian Cardinal named Jorge Bergoglio had been elected and had chosen for himself the name Pope Francis, I decided that this time I was going to share my first thought with friends and colleagues on the call.
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' And to a certain extent, they're absolutely correct: if I have to be the Laura June that my step-mother (who was friends with me on Facebook, back when I had an account) knows when I'm commenting on Gawker, well, my behavior will be much different.
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I've reconnected with that high school buddy who was friends with my doppelganger.
But when I was younger I went to the Rocky Horror Picture show 10 times with my friends.
I, along with many of my family members and friends, was able to go to college and graduate school because we had access to financial aid.
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When I was a medical student, my friends and I wore white coats so stuffed with reference books we could barely move.
"In these two weeks I was able to relax a little, enjoy time with friends and get back into my training, " Pedrosa said.
And while my new friends were fun-loving, I was motivated to be with them by insecurity.
It was Saturday night, and I was at the local Cheesecake Factory with my two teen-age daughters and three of their friends.
While there's nothing wrong with that, convincing my friends I had suddenly found myself a wildly attractive girlfriend was going to be hard enough as it was - without the added issue around her communicating solely in Portuguese.
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The app that I felt was the killer app for me in Austin was one that helped me stay in touch with my friends, that helped me organising meetings, that gave me a connection back to my family in Scotland.
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By this point, I was quite frustrated, muttering to myself and talking back to the computer with greater and greater frequency (this perplexed my friends no end).
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