"I've done a few outrageous places in the city for divorced fathers and bachelors, and it's a fun thing to do because it's like a second childhood, " he says.

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Like is set in Scotland for its first half and Cambridge for its second, and focuses on two childhood friends and their separate accounts of their friendship.

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The second recounts a family dinner during his childhood at which his mother, then in her 40s and dying of multiple sclerosis, struggled desperately to enjoy her meal.

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Addressing exclusion must start with early childhood care and education, the second policy knot.

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Less successful was Joanie Loves Chachi, a second Happy Days spin-off based around the lives of childhood sweethearts.

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Debate over those issues has produced near-gridlock and a series of deadline-driven budget crises in Washington, which now threaten to divert attention from Mr. Obama's second term goals of passing an immigration overhaul and expanding early-childhood education, among other things.

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She had a happy childhood, held multiple postgraduate degrees, and was newly married for the second time, with no children.

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Dr Savage came second in Labour's PCC selection process but became the candidate when Bob Ashford stepped down because of a childhood criminal conviction.

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