He reminded me that the press kit he had passed out included sworn affidavits from two friends asserting that Jones had first told them all about this that very day -- and that she was quite upset.

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But we are also heirs to those who won the peace and not just the war, who turned sworn enemies into the surest of friends, and we must carry those lessons into this time as well.

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If you have sat across the table for months on end with Cyril Ramaphosa and found a way by which sworn enemies can come together to craft a new nation (and become firm friends), then the frustrations that drive the rest of us to distraction seem to count for little.

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