As I watched the Vanishing Family Trick unfold, and played my own part in it, I sometimes felt as if love itself, or the acts of heart and mind that constitute love, were being leached out of the house by our screens.

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For all the disagreements, Tom, that we may have sometimes on issues, I know you love this country.

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And now I get to do what I love and I get to go to the Paralympics and win medals sometimes.

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Mr. LAWSON: (Singing) Now I've lived and learned, and let me say, take it from me because I've been there, that true love it don't come easy, and sometimes it just ain't fair.

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