We thank our family and friends, those we know and those we have never met, for their thoughts and prayers.

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We have never met, but I am a veteran of big pharma.

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Incidentally, we have never met a pension trustee who has seen the audited financials of a consultant-affiliated brokerage that would reveal how reliant these firms upon brokerage.

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We have never met with FADE.

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Though we have corresponded in the decades since, we have never again met in person.

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She and I have been playing online for a long time and have never met, but we sort of have a crush on each other and finally get to meet.

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Some people in parts of Cuba that we go to, they have never met an American before.

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Before going on, I should point out, in the interests of full disclosure, that we share a publisher - although I have never met David Hicks, nor read his book.

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So we tell them if they had never gone down that path they would never have met us and been given the chance to help others.

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Guys on floor 14 have never met the guys on floor 16 and a lot of the organizations we are talking to have people running trade desks across lots of different desk.

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