And when doing these sorts of look backs it is always so very tempting to pick something that has just happened for it burns more brightly in the memory.

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Sometimes we recognize that something spectacular just happened, something we sense may not happen again in our lifetime.

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And yet I find myself identifying as the best such decision of the year something that has only just happened.

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"There was that feeling back in 2007 that something should be done and it just happened that Emma and I somehow articulated that feeling that everyone had, " he said.

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"Tennis is just something that happened, " said Tyrone Crandall, the superintendent at the Mobile center.

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For a long time, this accident was just something that had happened to my mouth.

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It was just something that happened, not a big deal, at least for the two of them, but Clara made the mistake of telling Luis.

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That tells me something good has just happened.

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The first time this happened I duly entered that permission thinking it was just something new.

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