Though I had been blessed with consistent work, I lost my health insurance for the first time when I found myself undergoing my first major knee surgery five years ago.

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The point here though is not just to whine that I have lost one more way of wasting my time.

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Unfortunately in qualifying, on the second tire -- with which I could have improved -- I was stuck in traffic so could not improve my lap time and lost some positions.

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One of them said, The very time I thought I was lost, My dungeon shook and my chains fell off.

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My first inclination was to make up for lost time by cramming years of workouts into one month while making believe that I can still do what I did in my 20s.

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Not surprisingly, by the time I was done crunching all the numbers, my daughter had completely lost interest in the whole experiment.

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"My husband and father lost their jobs during the Thatcher years and although this was a long time ago, and the town had picked itself up, I felt I could not take part, " she said.

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It's not the first time this has happened to me, where for some reason or another I've lost work on my computer.

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