That paunch starts to reappear, like an old friend.

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And it really is like hearing an old friend again, although admittedly one who has a dozen different ways to respond to your death.

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To hear that old rumble of steel wheels come grumbling up behind you, to turn and see those green streetcars back on the tracks again is like seeing an old friend who's been away a while.

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Chris O'Riley and I go back quite a few years, so every time we get into a studio together, it's like hanging out with an old friend.

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It was just like the old Jewish joke about an Israeli who is puzzled when he sees his friend reading an anti-Semitic newspaper.

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