Two days ago I was in San Diego, desperately trying to figure out a way to get to home to the Northeast after my flight was cancelled (quite prematurely) in advance of Hurricane Sandy reaching the east coast.

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It was a good twenty miles to Coaltown, not just down the road, but I had to pass it on my way home anyway.

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In my imagination this gentleman is on his way home to take a nap.

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Does my staff back home talk to our customers this way when they have a question?

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As a boy, my earliest memory of being a customer revolves around a sweet old lady who sold penny candy from her porch to my friends and me on our way home from school.

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Yet, as I winged my way to and from Canada this week, I was able to enjoy TV shows and movies transferred from my home digital video recorder to my iPad mini.

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Round midnight antique trucks arrived to carry the revellers home to outlying encampments, their headlights dancing away into the darkness while I made my way back to my cold yurt past the lake brimming with moonlight.

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"I moved back home and there is almost no way to describe how happy it makes me when one of my kids says something so local in our accent!"

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On the ninth day, she came home, and I began to realize that my feelings of fear and anxiety had changed in a way that no prenatal screening could ever have predicted.

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