It wasn't love at first bite.

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It wasn't all love, however.

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It worked for her rendition of the song I Love New York, but I wasn't so sure about using it for Ray of Light, which is such a dance track it seemed odd to watch her strumming a guitar for it.

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It wasn't until he recorded a version of "Love Me Tender" with a Chinese jazz vocalist that the wheels in his head started to turn.

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Marco had told me the Emotion Maker was about love and death, but I wasn't getting it.

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Such was the level of humor that when he sang of his love's beauteous cheeks, you could be sure it wasn't her face he was fondling.

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We do the sport through love, so the thought that he wasn't doing it because he loved it - or when he went off to play rugby league - upset some of us.

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We'd love to have spent some time actually using it, but alas it wasn't to be.

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Narcissism, of course, wasn't invented by the Internet and it would be absurd to establish a causal connection between self-love and mass murder.

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