Esther practised on past papers and took the exam in a private room in the secondary school, monitored by three examiners and her mother.

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Kerry is the second Democrat to make such a move, joining Vermont Gov. Howard Dean who filed papers this past spring.

CNN: Kerry files papers for presidential committee

But in the past few days you've already had the papers digging up things from his past in exactly the way they do in my novel.

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