• Resisting the temptation to simply request "real", I opted instead for - and here's a look into my mind - a brunette, aged 25, who was well-educated and with a passing interest in stand-up comedy, film and, since we're dreaming, football.

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  • The only quibble: There was an add-on component to my service--a sports massage--but my therapist didn't ask whether I had injuries or what sports I play before she commenced.

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  • My thought was to help that momentum, by backing and then announcing that backing right after the end of my Kick-a-thon segment to tie it all together.

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  • Sandinista will always be my favourite - a sprawling masterpiece.

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  • The way countries succeed over the long term is by making stuff and selling it to somebody else. (Applause.) So what -- my -- I set a goal.

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  • Whether confessing that important piece of information to either my colleagues urging me to join in a game of high-stakes poker or to my father in a best-of-three pool match down the pub, I can honestly say that I have saved both a fair amount of embarrassment and incalculable amounts of money by putting my cards on the table at the outset.

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  • My mortgage payment for a two-bedroom condo is now less than my former monthly commitment for a one-bedroom rental.

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  • Having watched several accidents already--including a rear-ender involving my 9-year-old son and a kid driving a bright yellow sled with "Taxi" written on the side--I grasped the physics of the situation.

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  • And I think about my mom -- a single mom, because my dad left when I was a baby.

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  • Your hosts can also open doors to hard-to-visit wineries, custom-stock your already well-stuffed (and free) minibar, book a chef to prepare dinner in your room, or--in my case--badger a rental car company into swapping out a lemon and delivering the replacement.

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  • Attempting to recreate a Janet Jackson video in my bedroom, aged 14, the plastic fold-away chair I was using as a prop snapped shut on my legs like a venus fly-trap.

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  • Leslie is a single mom -- just like my mom was a single mom -- trying to put her daughter through college.

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  • Eventually, my father ran a mail-order pharmacy, and my mother became a bone marrow transplant nurse.

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  • My father, who I barely knew -- I only met once for a month in my entire life -- was said to be a non-believer throughout his life.

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  • Working my way around this tumor with a ten-millimetre camera on the end of a foot-and-a-half-long wand was like trying to find my way around a mountain with a penlight.

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  • He joined a plethora of family members who served, including my grandfather and great-grandfather, a bunch of uncles and cousins and my father-in-law.

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  • By late afternoon, I'd fine-tuned my falling-off-a-building sailboard technique to the point where I was bumping along the surface of the lake for minutes at a stretch.

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  • The world got--excuse my lame phrase--a paradigm shift.

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  • If you see no benefit, there are in general two paths your doctor might recommend (and I say doctor in the generic sense, given that many folks nowadays see physician assistants or nurse practitioners who often -- in my experience -- do a better job diagnosing and treating depression than do MDs).

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  • What with all the environmentalists and not-in-my-backyarders, a new plant would take at least five years from groundbreaking to spigot-opening.

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  • "I came in three days later to do my exam, then when I finished exams I had the summer off and carried on with my A-levels after the break, " she added.

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  • My non-gamer friends have had a fantastic time with my recently-acquired Kinect.

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  • Not a vague, wishy-washy notion that I should "get in shape, " maybe "eat better" or possibly "go on a diet, " but rather a specific long-term plan to enhance my wellness in a way that would not only stick, but fit within the parameters of my busy life as a full-time lawyer, husband and father of four small children.

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  • My father lived -- my family, we lived in a little-bitty apartment on the South Side of Chicago.

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  • "It's a calamity - my baby was such a lovely girl who always gave me joy and happiness, " he said.

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  • Instead, it took a visit to my parents and a wine-fueled kitchen confessional, during which it became apparent my irrational fear that the dough would fail to rise was inherited.

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  • Now that he weighed a hundred and ten pounds and I had bench-pressed my way up to a hundred and seventy-nine, I could be aguajero, but he just ran his finger across his neck.

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  • Together we can again provide the doubters -- prove the doubters wrong who never tire of tedious question that from my first -- as a young senator, chairman of the European Affairs Subcommittee of Foreign Relations Committee, attended my first meeting on NATO in 1976 and the question was: Whither NATO?

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  • Lastly, and I shall end my non-verbal rebuttal, the waterways are a rich source of stable jobs which provide a valuable service which (and I eventually shall reach my point) need a work-space that is helped by the government.

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  • Since I worked for the Federal government for 26 years starting my own business and a non-profit organization was definitely a stretch outside my comfort zone.

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