Now, the day I visited, some of the employees had won the lottery.

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The day I visited, the girls had just visited the offices of e-commerce darling Gilt Groupe and were gushing about the experience.

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The day I visited the prison-turned-museum, a woman was outside it selling T-shirts, one printed with "Good Morning Vietnam" in red letters.

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Blackberry's four cheeses--Singing Brook, Violet, Trefoil and Blackberry Blue--are made by cheesemaker Kristian Holbrook and his assistants, who the day I visited included a fresh-faced young woman named Heidi, lacking only a dirndl and a yen to yodel to pass for a Swiss milkmaid.

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His house in Altadena, a modest bungalow surrounded by exotic fruit trees that he and his wife planted, often serves as a late-night design-and-disputation forum, with a full bar in the living room. (When I visited on the day of the Curiosity landing, the mirror above the mantel was covered in half-erased equations.) The session at J.

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The next day, Wass and I visited a cave, wandered around St.

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And so, on a cold day this past January, I visited the Port of New Bedford at the invitation of Richard K. Sullivan, Jr.

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So in the end, I come back to something Elie said that day we visited Buchenwald together.

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When I visited her in December, she dreamed of the day she would buy colorful pictures to cover the walls of her bare apartment.

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So to this day, I remember my amazement at some of the sights of Taipei when I first visited the city in the 1980s.

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