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Sometimes one had to be grateful for the small things.
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But that moment, the one that was supposed to be so special, had turned into an ache that would never heal.
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Macy enjoyed
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If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.
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slightly overweight, older than the typical groupie and definitely on the frumpy side. All of which
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Anger is so much easier than grief.
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Well, for heaven's sake, don't leave her unattended. You never know what she might do," she snapped and promptly appeared in the doorway."
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of taking what life gave her, she should take what she wanted from life.
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Racism is man's gravest threat to man--the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reasons. --Abraham J. Heschel, rabbi and philosopher (1907-72)
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You're like...you're like Abraham Lincoln. Didn't he walk some ungodly distance to return a penny? The store clerk probably thought he was an idiot.
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Somehow she had to find some middle ground between taking a stand for the right and being there for her children, even when they did the exact opposite of what she told them.
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spotting and stopping them? After having been kidnapped, tortured and left for dead when she was just a teenager--by her high school boyfriend--she's determined to understand how someone she trusted
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Live and let live,
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how someone she trusted so much could turn on her. So she's established a revolutionary new medical health center in the remote town of Hilltop, Alaska, where
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they cause? And are there better ways of spotting and stopping them? After having been
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mind. Why do psychopaths act as they do? How do they come to be? Why don't they feel any remorse for the suffering they cause? And are there better ways of spotting and stopping them? After having been kidnapped, tortured and left for dead when she was just a teenager--by her high school boyfriend--she's
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they come to be? Why don't they feel any remorse for the suffering they cause? And are there better ways of spotting and stopping them? After having been
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learn pretty damn fast that everything else is smoke and mirrors. Fame. Money. Success. You realize that life is fleeting and family's what it's all about. It's the only thing that matters.
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She was ruined. She'd become anathema--the
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You don't look so good.
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He kept imagining women like his mother creeping across the border with the hope of being able to make enough to feed themselves and their families, and being murdered by some vigilante who felt he had the right to take the law into his own hands. It was so easy to feel self-righteous and superior when you had a comfortable home, a safe place to live and a full stomach.
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Rod had signed on the dotted line mostly because he'd been promised a free college education. But his commitment to the armed forces had quickly evolved into much more than that. In the navy, he'd found a home, friends who were more like brothers, purpose in what he did, some self-esteem. But it hadn't been an easy road.
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it gave him the confidence he needed to believe that maybe, just maybe, they had a right to be together. He'd never felt the way he was feeling at
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Weak women get no respect.
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he was going to crash and burn, he might as well make it one hell of a conflagration.
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Learned that he had to overcome the past or the past would overcome him.
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To walk out of here and never look back. To put her heart and soul into loving those around her, loving her baby, instead of destroying herself.
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Maybe being a big star isn't the only life that will make you happy. Maybe the joy isn't in the end result--in the success. Maybe it's in living, loving--and trying.
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I knew you belonged with me.
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Sex is never messy on screen.
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We found you at last," her mother said, and they both started to cry."
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Do what you think is right," he said. "Just..." "What?" Riley asked. "Make sure you're thinking with the right head." Riley felt his jaw drop. "Excuse me?"
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To my second-oldest daughter, Megan, for her strength of spirit, her leadership ability and her constancy. Meg, you're a light to everyone who knows you, someone capable of great things because at twelve years old you've already learned the power of self-discipline. I can always depend on you to choose the right and stay the course, and that has been an incredible blessing. If you forget everything else I've ever taught you, remember this: ..
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Do you know that I thought you were the most beautiful girl in the world the moment I saw you?
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information, listening to every word with rapt attention. Now that she had established herself in the duke's household, the last thing
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There's no one like you, Dylan Amos.
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She'd decided she'd try to stick it out until halftime when she saw a face that made her scream and jump off the sofa.
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Hanover House?" "That, or it's possible someone just thinks it's funny. But if I find out who that someone is, I'm going to make them awfully sorry." He stepped back and told his dog to go inside with her. "Makita will stay with you until I check things out." She nodded and closed the door so that Makita wouldn't be tempted to follow"
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into it in the end, but she'd gotten the feeling he'd only relented to placate her, to ease some of the tension that'd crept into their marriage. And by then it was too late. A month later she was attending his funeral. Oddly, she didn't feel the gut-wrenching loss that normally accompanied any thought of her late husband. Did that mean she was learning to live without him? Or was it the hope of having a child that buoyed her spirits? If sh..
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she'd been determined to overcome the immunology challenges associated with finding a cure for diabetes--her favorite aunt had lost a leg to the dreaded disease--
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She didn't protect her own computers with a password, even the one she worked on here at the B and B. But there was hardly any crime in Whiskey Creek, and she had nothing to hide.
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She had a diaper pail, a car seat, a stroller and something he'd never even seen before--a breast pump, according to the box. He picked it up to take a closer look, decided he was glad to be a man and set it back down.
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it's my baby, too, isn't it?" "Are you double-checking?" "Just confirming." "Yes. It's your baby. It can't be anyone else's. Sorry that I haven't been more promiscuous," she said sarcastically."
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Reenie. It's not easy approaching the woman my husband loved more than me." "I'm sorry for what Keith did, Liz. To both of us."
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