If I can make it through these first turns, I think it will be a long and really great run.

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"I'm aware of the danger that complacency will make it harder to push through reforms, " says Finance Minister Tarrin Nimmanhaeminda.

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"Knowing that I did pass our 10th wedding anniversary and Tom's birthday -- and feeling my way through the maze of grief that you go through during the first year -- I think that it will make those occasions next year a little more open to happiness and joy, knowing that we've experienced them at least once without Tom, " she said.

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