So imagine my surprise upon tasting the Wild Oak chardonnay Sonoma County 2007 from St.

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Well, imagine my surprise this week to find the veil of secrecy is finally starting to be lifted.

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Imagine my surprise when Thanksgiving morning, I pulled out the frozen turkey and realized it should already it be de-thawed(ph).

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Imagine my surprise when I landed up in Delhi last week from Kochi and found a vast, clean, totally modern airport.

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So imagine my surprise when, within days, I got a brief note back, along with a recipe for something exciting called Moules Normandes.

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Imagine my surprise, then, when after years of plucking words and dripping my intimacies onto the page, a completed first novel in hand, the real skepticism arrived.

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So, imagine my surprise when, during a press conference this morning, Boehner took what could only be described as an extremely cavalier attitude towards the loss of jobs.

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Imagine my surprise when, in the course of an appearance I made last Wednesday on MSNBC's "Hardball, " host Chris Matthews seemed determined to diminish, if not dismiss altogether, this legacy of the Bush 43 presidency.

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