But we were violating the code, the shy girl and I, seated face to face once again.

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Recounting her early life, starting with her birth in Hong Kong in 1963, Kemeny painted a picture of a bright and loving, but shy, girl.

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Now Indians are looking to renew their special bond with the shy young Burmese girl they first met nearly five decades ago.

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But Inge was very, very good, and he never wrote anything better than the soft-spoken story of Madge (Maggie Grace), a shy, pretty girl whose uncomplicated existence is upended when a handsome drifter named Hal (Sebastian Stan) passes through town and lures her into bed.

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"Pinki was a depressed, sad, lonely, shy, young little girl, growing up on the periphery of the society in a little village, " said Satish Kalra, director of Smile Train's South Asian region, after meeting with Pinki.

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During the show one little girl was almost too shy to produce a meow "I heard one, a quiet one, " an actor announced solicitously while other children eagerly joined the fray on stage.

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