It might even be passed on to someone you hold dear and become an heirloom.

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Then I did it in my second Test match at Edgbaston and someone wrote into dear old Brian Johnston on Test Match Special and he let the cat out of the bag.

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"We lost a man and a family lost someone very, very dear to them and he was very dear to us, " he told reporters.

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And someone else who is very, very dear to me, who has served Iowa for many years and has been such a great champion of education and libraries, and that is Christie Vilsack.

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So I decided, I'm going to think about someone who is no longer with me but was very dear to me, and that was my grandmother.

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Dear David , my apologies , your opinion sounded like that of someone pitching from over the pond , not someone who has been living here the last ten years.

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