"My cheerful and determined young man helped me to realize what matters in life and what doesn't, " she said.

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My happy-go-lucky cheerful attitude is the element of my personality that I am most proud of.

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Scouting inspired the value of cheerful service, honed my leadership, and fostered my ambition to nurture and advance my community.

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For the UK, you'll remember the likely fall in inflation (helped by stable or falling oil prices) was one of my biggest "reasons to be cheerful" in 2012.

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My mother-in-law is more cheerful today than yesterday, as we learned when we walked far enough north to make a phone call this morning.

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My dead Facebook friends still get happy birthday wishes and cheerful photos posted on their walls.

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Dr. Gowden later told me that he found me shy and difficult to talk to, but if I appeared timid to him it was because I was not used to dealing with people apart from my family and the three servants: Paddy, my nanny Kitty Lee, and Norah Maloney, a cheerful woman who lived on a farm in the hills behind Brook Lodge.

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The cheerful bearded sailor on her packet of Players was as close as my grandmother ever got to the sea.

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Never mind the usual gripes about missing apps or poor compatibility with Google's ecosystem -- the Lumia is cheap and cheerful enough that I honestly stopped worrying about those other factors early into my usage.

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