She "might tell a fan later down the road", but first wants people to relate the story to their own lives.

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For the moment, fan attention is on the road to the Super Bowl on the perennially favored New England Patriots, the defending champion New Orleans Saints, the resurgent Philadelphia Eagles and their quarterback, Michael Vick, of dog-fighting infamy.

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The Ipswich Town fan is also a regular visitor to Portman Road to see the Championship football team in action, along with his mother and brother, Jack, 13.

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Kristen Stewart may not turn On the Road or Adventureland into a blockbuster, but she has a huge fan base that flocked to see her in a medieval action fantasy that happened to be called Snow White.

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Playing DVDs of her favorite musical group while on the road "is a form of therapy for me, " says Ms. Hirata, a fan of a popular Japanese boy band called Arashi.

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However, Hibs fan McEwan, who harbours an ambition to one day headline a show at Easter Road, remains hopeful of having a fight of some description in Britain next month after returning home with his wife, Sarah, for the birth of the couple's second child, Cameron, on 10 June.

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