Looking back through their files, I found that they had been doing this faithfully for more than three years.

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"I had been away for the week in Spain and I left my husband to look after the fish which he had been doing every day, and then when he went out to check on them they had disappeared, they had been stolen, " she said.

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But neither Susan nor Lynn seemed right for a Quaker girl converting to Catholicism, as I had been in the process of doing with Father James, wishing to fill the long empty hours with something commensurate with my desire and because I loved him and believed he would like me better with a name like Mary.

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The best part was that Rex Ryan was on a beach, doing exactly what I had been trying to do.

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And so, then I started - what I was doing was trying to be a glamour girl, because I had been a tomboy most of the time.

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Mr. Marchetti shook my hand and told me I would be taking part in something Venetians had been doing for centuries.

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They'd been doing this for two years even before I had arrived.

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It struck me then that I would have done exactly what he was doing if the roles had been reversed.

NEWYORKER: Something Like Happy

While I've had a few days off doing as little as possible, the new Welsh Government's been busier behind the scenes than it might have seemed in public.

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