"I'm dead excited as it's my first time there, " said the man who has been a UK Championship (1999) and LG Cup (2003) quarter-finalist.

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Clear-View has taught me so much already, all for the best. and now for the first time in my life I can start to see there is a better way to live.

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And today, for the first time in history, there is a Latina in my Cabinet and a Latina on the bench of the highest court in the land. (Applause.) Hilda Solis is doing an outstanding job.

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My first assumption was that there was an electrical fault, but as the time settled on 5 minutes past one, I suddenly realised that it was "'clocks going back time" ...and I would have to sit through that whole hour again!

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My former roommate is still one of my best friends and she was there to help me through the surprises of first-time homeownership.

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And so when I went back to Yellowstone, with Ken and my daughters -- that was the first time they had been -- and I'm standing there -- I'm thinking not only about them and the first time they're seeing this, but I'm also remembering back to when my grandmother and my mother had shown me this amazing country so many years before.

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