"I was alone in the dark, listening to music, " Kendrick said.

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David paused before he opened the back door, enjoying a moment alone in the humming dark that was always nervous with the noise from the motorway: not a roar, but a thin murmur of movement that sucked substance from everything it reached.

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Out there alone with him, in the dark, with snow falling all around them, she might have said something she would have regretted.

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More than 200, 000 people in Virginia alone lost power and another 40, 000 in New Jersey were left in the dark.

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He is never alone, but is nonetheless a lonely man in the dark halls of the palace.

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There are millions out there in the dark days of their addiction, alone, trying to figure out how to stay alive.

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