Even the frailest residents of Willi Kupas Retirement Home will say, with a smile on their faces, that their retirement has been, even is, the time of their lives, involving a spending power few of them ever previously experienced.

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"It was full price" is all he'll say, with the trace of a smile.

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Diana would think of her last sight of me, that same morning, when she pulled up to the station and slammed on the brakes, and I got out of the car and, before closing the door, leaned in with a cryptic smile to say goodbye she would think that I had left her from that moment.

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"I'm just so tired, I don't know what to say right now, " Lundqvist said with a smile.

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At first, she had hardly any control over her face, but she can now muster a bit of a smile, and her doctors say with time she should be able raise her eyebrows and make other facial expressions.

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''Let's just say I'm interviewing, '' Max replies with a wry -- if not shy -- smile and another drag on his cigarette.

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