For the next week we sat together every day on the concrete deck and I recorded his stories.

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Along with his parents, his American girlfriend was there, and we sat together in a tiny living room that abuts the family kitchen.

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As we sat together watching the film, unbeknownst to us, outside the theatre TV and radio were filled with stories about the rise of a terrible shadow in Sandy Hook Connecticut.

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We sat down together to enjoy a few frosty beverages, and our conversation soon turned to the similarities between sports and business.

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Eventually, Frances and I did meet, and one of the first things I told her when we sat down together was how important it is that she is pretty.

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We never sat together.

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We sat down together.

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We sat there and felt it together.

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Social Security we could probably fix the same way Tip O'Neill and Ronald Reagan sat down together and they could figure something out.

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And together with the United Kingdom, with Russia, China, and Germany, we sat down with our Iranian counterparts.

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