It is these kind of close-knit friendships that spring up from sport and school that is most missed by Bramhall-raised Alex Broadfoot.

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And as in most ski resort restaurants these days, putting on a knit sweater counted as dressing up.

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Instead of elegantly integrated hardware and software, you get a boxful of disparate programs so poorly designed that you end up being the one who has to knit them together.

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And many young people don't have the advantage of living in those tight-knit neighborhoods that many of us who are older grew up in, where people looked out for each other, and for each other's children.

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His message was picked up by Dallaglio, who plays under Edwards at the famously close-knit Wasps club.

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Arianda grew up an only child in a stimulating, optimistic, and tight-knit family.

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The killing, rather than taking up a central position in the story, acts as a mirror of the close-knit Pakistani community, especially for Jugnu's brother and sister-in-law, Shamas and Kaukab.

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She'd taught me to knit and crochet when I was six, and when I was eight, she'd brought me up here and taught me to target-shoot, bracing my arms on a wooden ironing board that she kept in the trunk of her car.

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