There were others waiting and I kept thinking I should go - especially when she loosened her grip a little.

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All of this extemporizing actually loosened all of us up, and I think that comes through in the set and conversation.

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But he soon loosened up, prancing through hits like Let Love Be Your Energy, Old Before I Die and Better Man.

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"When I came off in the fourth, it just completely locked up and I got the trainer to give me a little massage down here with some heat, and it loosened up and loosened up really good, " Pettitte said.

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