Before the Olympics, I ran with the Olympic flame in my old home town of Bexhill-on-Sea in the south of England, which was a tremendous honor.

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Now, an old flame has the country's heart.

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"As Henry VIII discovered, with at least two of his wives, this is the perfect place to bring an old flame, " Mr Johnson said.

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No one is more ambitious than Gatsby himself, who has made himself into a zillionaire for the sole purpose of enticing his old flame to leave her husband and come back to him.

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Pinault owns 2, 000-plus pieces by upward of 80 artists, from Picasso and Mondrian to new talents, like the 33-year-old Swiss-born Urs Fischer, whose flame-color raindrops sculpture cascades over the Palazzo Grassi's central staircase.

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When he opened the back door, he saw that the old kitchen house had turned into a windblown orange fireball, streamers of flame running toward him through the grass.

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The handover of the flame took place at the site of the former customs station on the old Dublin road, south of Newry.

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But the journey becomes a moody trek to contact his old flame Daisy (Chloe Sevigny).

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Based on the money that has flowed into bond funds lately, apparently a lot of investors have rekindled that old flame for coupons.

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