Ms. Prida's work as an advice columnist was remarkable because of the many lenses through which she viewed life, among them: immigrant, Cuban exile, poet, community activist, sister, friend, mentor, immigrant rights advocate, lesbian, cook, smartass -- a candid soul filled with wisdom and fully-lived experiences.

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Bob Pendleton, the Everton scout who discovered Rooney as a nine-year-old on the public parks of Croxteth, also re-lived his experiences of the young player and his family.

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It's that who you are seeing has lived these experiences.

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The sound that 20-something Laura has settled on is also accompanied by tales of personal experiences she has lived through, and writing about them isn't at all uncomfortable.

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If you think that political campaigns are different from companies because their data science efforts, experiences, and innovations are short-lived, Issenberg explains that here too the Obama campaign is an innovator.

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My heart is heavy, because I lived and worked in another free-market country and had multiple personal experiences of medical emergencies in a third one.

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"I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experience would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life, " she said in the speech, explaining how she thinks life experiences can influence judicial rulings.

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