In my mind, this person was protecting me from the rest of the world.

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They were trying to calm me, they keep telling me I was safe, they were protecting me.

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Going into a home was her way of freeing me from my gratitude and was yet another way of protecting me.

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Ms. ADAMS: (Singing) I can look at my life and see all the things that he's done to set me free, protecting me from harm.

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Now, at thirty, I'd found all I needed in the sweet, real world of Cedar Valley, where I lived-the mountain peaks forming a torn-edged horizon, like a castle's crenellated walls, protecting me within a bowl of neatly laid out streets lined with well-established homes and mature trees.

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As I learned more about environmental issues, I committed myself to a career path that would enable me to work toward protecting the environment and the people that depend on it.

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Now, I know that the flight attendant was protecting herself, the airline, and even me: What if it was a heart attack?

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"For me, guns are about hunting and protecting my family, " the man says, as two children play on tire swings in the background.

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The inconvenience of rejoining the itchy and scratchy show, has left me thinking about how our great plans for controlling and protecting the natural world can end up biting us in the most painful of places.

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To not support that, but then to demand protecting tax cuts for the wealthiest among us, and even extending them, is, to me, I would think an untenable position politically, even if it doesn't weigh on your conscience.

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