Perhaps unexpectedly, the effects of rhetorical flourishes and verbal facilities on voters can be better understood by distilling them down to numbers.

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And perhaps most unexpectedly, a text from my Mom saying that people were calling my childhood home looking for me and hoping to get a quote about my experience on the flight.

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Perhaps I succeeded, for on Christmas Eve I found myself unexpectedly expecting again.

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