"I ran across and kicked the door in and ran upstairs, but the heat put me back down, " he said.

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Until I read one news headlines that had me put my pen down, and think again about this one topic.

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The scars of this devastating maternal put-down have remained with me to this very day.

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"I would like to ask Collin Brewer when exactly he would have liked me to have been put down, " she said.

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When he sat down, he immediately put me at ease.

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He put his glass down on the bar and looked at me.

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"I did tweet on the way to the temple but then put my iPad down because the wedding planner yelled at me, " says Ms. Waxler, 41.

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After the incident, a credit-card company shut down Burger Me's account and put a hold on thousands of dollars in incoming payments, says Rich Griffith, its former owner.

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And when I didn't get better and was down to about a hundred pounds, they put me in a cell with two other Americans.

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Mr. HAMILTON: It makes me feel really blessed to have those comparisons to people who really put it down.

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We were about to put down a deposit but this problem of the cost of the booze was really bothering me.

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