So before games in each road city, Rivera can be found deep in some back room, chatting it up with staffers from each club.

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We form coteries as we stretch before class or in the humid euphoria of the dressing room afterward, chatting and complaining and comparing notes about teachers, and somehow this coalesces into intimacy.

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The two shared a room and stayed up late chatting about shared interests: girls and dancing.

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The couple went around the room to greet each of their guests and spent about 10 minutes chatting with those in attendance.

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The Republican Party set up a war room down the street from the convention, staffed by volunteers busily chatting on their phones and hammering away on laptops opposing much of what the Democrats say.

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There's room for alternatives as users becomes more familiar with pasting photos, writing blogs and chatting online.

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It seemed that every time I went to the ladies' room, June was there, applying mascara, combing her long, dark tresses and chatting.

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