When I returned home, I dropped an email to my chosen e-tailer asking if they had any Black Friday specials running.

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When I returned home I continued to feel ill so I went to my doctor who shrugged it off as flu.

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When I returned home from my China adventure, highlighted by a bullet train ride between Shanghai and Hangzhou, I met with similar skepticism.

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It all started when I returned home from college after my freshman year to find my newfound freedom again weighed down by daily parental oversight.

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When I returned home, the countless phone calls, letters, and e-mails that I received from people throughout the world assured me that my efforts had made an impact.

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When I returned home a week later, based on what I had seen in Israel, I purchased multiple copies and handed them out to senior staff who work with me.

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In my cubicle I worked with concentration and with an odd lightness of heart, and when I returned home in the late afternoon I looked at myself in all four mirrors.

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Back when I was a kid, growing up on the mean streets of Mahopac, New York, we returned home from a day at school and did (always in this order) three things: First, we had a snack (long story, but my mother hid the treats in the trunk of our '80 Datsun 510, leaving my brother and me a choice of plain graham crackers, carrots or -- dear God -- homemade yogurt).

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