Aside from a ridiculous, tear-jerking plot twist that I won't type for fear of debasing my fingertips, the other characters are just there to have their floundering spirits lifted by Patch, or to angrily stand in his way while he tries to soak the vicinity with his unbridled wonderfulness.

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In a 2011 ruling, Duffy wrote that while Yousef was awaiting trial, he had been trying to collect urea -- a component of urine -- and a type of watch that had been used in a detonator in the airline bomb plot.

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