Her legs were shaking as well, so she sat down in the low chair by her desk.

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He was asleep, so she sat in the orange plastic chair in the corner and watched him.

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So she sat them down and together they looked at the websites of the National Guard and the Navy.

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"Everything was optional, so a lot of people just sat around and talked about losing weight, " she says.

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Now I've never sat in one of Tyrrell's meetings, and so I can't speak as to what she did or did not do.

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