The longer I looked the more I noticed that she had a good figure within her plain muslin blouse.

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Right after my wife and I had our child, I noticed that she was complaining about the condition of her hair.

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In the darkest hours of the global recession, I had noticed at conferences how she engaged with humor and warmth while remaining serious in conversations with U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and others.

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When I got home, I asked my wife whether she noticed a difference.

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Recently, the poor health of one of the hospital's staff members compromised the well-being of Amy's son: "On Saturday, as I woke up, I noticed that our nurse was sick, " she says.

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"I was sitting about six o'clock in the living room, watching TV, and I noticed a woman walking past the window with two dogs, " she said.

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"I noticed that one word 'joy' kept coming into those letters over and over, " she said.

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When I noticed that my wife was taking pictures of her food in order to keep a record of how she was doing diet-wise I wondered if there was an app to make such data management easier.

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"The profile has definitely been raised and I've certainly noticed it, possibly as captain more, but other players have noticed it too, " she added.

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Then she came back a little later and reminded me again because she noticed that the red light on my noise reducing headphones was still on, even though I had taken them off my ears and they were hanging loosely around my neck.

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