To Ima and Sheila, and each of you -- in the darkest hours of your lives, you may have felt utterly alone, and it seemed like nobody cared.

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In the darkest hours of the global recession, I had noticed at conferences how she engaged with humor and warmth while remaining serious in conversations with U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and others.

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My Administration remains dedicated to providing these courageous first responders, emergency medical technicians, 911 dispatchers, law enforcement officers, volunteers, and others throughout our health care system with the support they need to aid the American people in their darkest hours.

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It slumbers, tossing and turning in the perpetual nightmare that enslaved it during the darkest hours.

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And this year, in this election, she touched her finger to a screen and cast her vote, because after 106 years in America, through the best of times and the darkest of hours, she knows how America can change.

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As a young man, he was a page in the U.S. Capitol, and worked alongside and observed a master of mutual respect and bipartisan cooperation -- so much so that the man's colleagues on both sides of the aisle rallied behind him to be president of the United States in one of the nation's darkest, most divisive political hours: Gerald Ford.

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All in all I spent about 10 hours with the game, 12 if you count an extra few that had me rummaging around in the darkest corners of the map scrounging for loose change and attempting to find just one more Voxophone that would give me just another scrap of the plot to analyze.

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