"I don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone, " he explained.

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She first found success in a duet with Bobby McClure on Don't Mess Up a Good Thing and You'll Miss Me (When I'm Gone).

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And when I'm gone from the presidency, because I'll have a good pension, and if, God willing, I stay healthy, a decent income, the same thing would happen.

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"I don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone, " Koch told The Associated Press in 2008 after purchasing a burial plot in Trinity Church Cemetery, at the time the only graveyard in Manhattan that still had space.

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