"The cross was upside down outside the door so when I opened the door it fell in, " he said.

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It came from nowhere, from the night, fully formed, extending in several directions, and when I opened my eyes in the morning it was all around me, filling the room.

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When I did, it was as if the sky opened up and showered awesome down on me.

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"When I got home and opened the box, I thought it was a real iPad, " Jamie Frick told the Newark Star-Ledger.

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When I was finally able to cross that off my list it opened a whole new world of possibilities.

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When a letter landed on my desk addressed to the BBC Technical Correspondent, I opened it with care.

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Until that Christmas, when I opened a rectangular gift and realized, to my shock and disbelief, that it had all been an elaborate con.

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When I first opened the Millionaires Club people told me I would never get the market, it was taken.

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"I was Miss New York when the Barclays Center opened up and so I was looking forward to being able to be here, and now it's even better that I'm Miss America and Brooklyn is where I came from, " she said.

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In Africa, it is a different story, as my colleagues and I found out in 2006 when we re-opened a rural health center in Rwanda that had been essentially abandoned.

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