Alex is my family, my other half, the love of my life.

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About half my job was management and doing budgets and working with bankers, and then the other half of my time was taking care of pigs and fixing stuff.

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Let me just assure you that first of all I have spent half of my adult life in the public sector in government in the United States and politics and the other half of my adult life in academe in the United States as a professor.

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" Against a gain-heavy guitar and a single trumpet, Simone half-whispers a refrain that translates to "I surrender the other half of my kingdom.

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Half of my university friends today are married to each other.

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After we lost the World Club Challenge the other year, he spent half an hour listening to my dad telling him how he was putting a ladder up to the loft.

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It doesn't help that no more than half of the lyrics are coming through clearly other people sitting in my row at Tuesday night's performance felt the same way.

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The other day, I was holding up my 16-year-old pair of black Via Spiga half boots pondering the inevitable.

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This was the perfect opportunity for me to snuggle up to TV and spend some quality time together, but instead I opted for other activities including spending more time with my wife, having two children, running marathons, doing half-Ironman races and smaller triathlons, co-founding new companies, and writing.

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