The kindred spirit friends I have, whether from earlier years or made more recently, are my go-to resources.

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Part of the kindred spirit that Feeney and Gates share stems from their entrepreneurial backgrounds and how they apply them to giving back.

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In response, the FBI in mid-1996 opened a criminal investigation at Los Alamos under the code name Kindred Spirit.

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Early in the book, Kavenna describes her meeting with a kindred spirit, the philosopher and mountaineer Arne Naess, who mourns the loss of the personal relationship to nature once offered by living in the far north under the heaven of stars.

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He wounded Italy's then prime minister by summarily dismissing any idea that Italy was some kind of kindred Mediterranean spirit, to be jointly mollified on the way to euroland.

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In October 1991, she married for the eighth time - to construction worker Larry Fortensky - in an opulent ceremony in the grounds of the ranch owned by pop megastar Michael Jackson - a close confidante and kindred spirit.

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Mr James was captain of Glamorgan when Mr Fletcher coached the team, and as a young player he spent winters in Zimbabwe where he discovered Mr Flower to be a kindred spirit.

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