As the sun rose, a man crouched on the sidewalk and painted a portrait of the pop star, who died suddenly on Thursday.

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The young man, who was tall and thin, with sun-streaked fair hair, and a wind- and sun-burned face, who wore the sun-faded flannel shirt, a pair of peasant's trousers and rope-soled shoes, leaned over, put his arm through one of the leather pack straps and swung the heavy pack up onto his shoulders.

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He suddenly looked a man his age, and A Duel in the Evening Sun it was not.

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One late afternoon as the sun turned golden yellow and the Pastor fixed the roof of the shelter, a man walked up to us and stood beside me.

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Take, for example, the story of 51-year-old Chinese man Sun Jifa, who lost both of his arms in an explosion and built his own bionic hands out of scrap metal.

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Could the bas-relief of the headless man, the vulture, and the round object represent the bird Garuda carrying the sun across the sky?

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Nor did Bebe realize that the old man in bombachas with a beard, long tangled hair, and a bare chest tanned by the sun was his father.

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Last October, as the sun set over the Hudson River, I approached a heavyset man in black kilt who wore thick, rimless glasses and had a long, waxed mustache.

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