She says if you do get a plus one you can take anyone, not only a partner, but - and it's a very big but - the guest has to be appropriate for the occasion.

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They woke up early to dress up for the occasion, dug through boxes to find the appropriate forms of identification, just in case, and contemplated the ramifications of being newly out to their families and employers and landlords in a state where that is both legally and culturally risky.

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Since the Alliance is built on powerful ideas, this would seem an appropriate occasion on which to share with you the words of a few modern thinkers.

UN: Secretary-General

"It wouldn't be appropriate to have a festive occasion while a near-tragedy or a terrible challenge is presented in the form of a national disaster, " he told Fox News.

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As one of them has related, an appropriate way to prepare for owners meetings is to expect something along the lines of what happened to him on the occasion of his first meeting.

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