My belief in improvising was confirmed when I closed my last restaurant 29 years ago.

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If I had known the restaurant's name, I would have known it was closed for lunch on Mondays, when I went.

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When I scratched her fuzzy little nose, she closed her eyes and went to sleep in my arms.

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And yet I was recently disappointed when the last bookstore closed down in the downtown area in the last year.

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When the door was closed on that plane, I knew we were finally safe, and a wave of overwhelming relief swept throughout my body.

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However, there are some things in life more important than money and I often think about them on the weekends when the market is closed.

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When it became increasingly difficult to work according to my principles, I closed my practice, first joining a "prepaid" group for 15 years, and then leaving patient care altogether.

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I'm not sure if it's just my phone, but when closed, the cover sticks up about 1 or 2mm and isn't smooth when running your fingers up and down.

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This was also to be the shop that, when Michael Jackson was in town, would be closed down for him to browse in private, and I remember glimpsing him wandering through the empty aisles of a ghost-like megastore.

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