Somewhere just behind and above the root of my tongue, my throat was beginning to tighten.

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And my organization, Root Capital, is financing two fair trade certified, organic cocoa enterprises, Kpeya Agricultural Enterprise and Balmed Holdings, both of which are breathing new life into the shattered countryside of Sierra Leone.

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My immobility was complete, as if tendrils of myself had burrowed down and sought root in the soil of Japan, rendering me brainless vegetation.

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My mother was rabidly Irish and my father rabidly Catholic so it was perhaps inevitable that as a boy I would rabidly root for Notre Dame.

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My younger brother James, fully appreciating the momentousness of the occasion, came straight from a root canal to join us.

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When I was meeting with a patient, my medical knowledge and intuition would generate a set of questions I wanted to ask the patient to get at the root cause of the condition.

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