By that point, it didn't matter to Kelley -- she'd decided against abortion no matter what.

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Eventually, after she contacted other judges familiar with stories I'd done involving child victims, I think she decided it was worth the risk.

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The village elders, who remembered Bartels from the times she'd visited with her mother, had decided to anoint her as their new ruler.

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"Shhh, " she finally replied, apparently having decided that I couldn't have said what she thought she'd heard me say.

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She decided to join Schreiner, thinking she'd walk just a few miles.

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She decided that the big marketing budget would go, and that she'd reduce the brand back to her original idea: single bean virgin chocolate.

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Some said they had anticipated receiving more money while others decided they had fixed up their homes to the point that they'd stay, she said.

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Though, when conservative commentators take her limited role in the fight to raise rich people's taxes seriously enough that they decided to speculate that she is too rich to be the poster child for the downtrodden, she'd have to be amused, if she wasn't going to get annoyed.

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