She said she'd gone on a chat site for teens, started writing to a boy she'd never met and gave him her cellphone number.

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Then she went home happy, positive and outgoing, just as she'd gone to school, her mother told the counselor.

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She'd gone through three separate rounds of interviews with the food company and things were looking positive -- for a little while.

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Another relative recently got a call from Nicole Mansfield in which she said she was gone, but she'd be back to the United States for a visit soon.

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But you'd hardly know she was gone, judging from the stream of CDs flowing from her record company.

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Ferguson was elated--she felt she'd outwitted the windmill, gone to the top of it and back down through a simple equation.

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She'd seen to it that the index cards were long gone.

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"I knew they'd gone to a club, but I didn't know which one, " she said.

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We'd take the wagon back and forth to the radio stations and the minute she graduated we was (sic) gone the same day to Nashville.

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