Monday the lights in our apartment on West 13th Street flickered and went dim, and I called my parents, who live farther downtown, in Tribeca.

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Before I got any farther, let me confess my strong bias.

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But as my list shows, the genre actually started much farther back than you might realize.

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Traveling at expressway speeds with these lights fired up made me feel much safer and kept me from over-driving my headlights, meaning that the stopping distance is farther than can be seen with the headlights.

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When I adjusted the notebook and moved it farther over into its elastic strap holders, my handwriting was accurately captured.

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And while I'd relied on the "sweep vans" a couple of times to give my ankle a break, I'd walked so much farther than I'd expected.

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Distracted by what I'd seen, my mind wandered, and I only realized after some time that we'd gone rather farther into the suburbs than I had anticipated.

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One of my long-time readers, Jessica Hartung, wrote back encouraging me to take the point even farther.

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