One strange thing about Patty, given her strong family orientation, was that she had no discernible connection to her roots.

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And there is only one strange thing in all of this: how many people willingly take part in the process of conserving emptiness.

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Its emphasis on natural gas is strange, for one thing: America does not have many natural gas vehicles.

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One thing that occurred to me was that it was kind of a strange location to talk about belt-tightening.

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