At approximately 11 o'clock as I was getting ready to take my friend home I heard what sounded like a large lorry pull right up outside my home, or possibly a low flying aircraft.

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To take an actual example, if I want to invite my Norwegian friend Klaus to live in my home, either as a guest or as a paying tenant, what right does our government have to stop Klaus and me?

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In closing, if I was one of the fortunate abundantly wealthy people out there, I would LOVE to give my friend enough money to save their home from eminent foreclosure, support their causes and never have financial woes again.

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When I asked my close friend, a stay-at-home mom, about it, she told me about her own husband, who had to miss the first week that their young son spent at a new school because of a business trip.

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It was apparent police had targeted my son while he was riding his bike home from a friend's house.

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"We had just bought the home and I was afraid we would ruin it, " my friend said.

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