And then I realised that there are some gTLD names that someone should have applied for.

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Then I realised that all the rooms were named similarly, and that the company had commissioned a jokey wooden signpost to help employees navigate their way around.

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Then my husband and I realised that the top of the crane was gone.

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', and then I came here and realised that I can.

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Then I grew up and realised that they're really just 40-odd identical channel strips, which do nothing more magical than the volume and tone controls on a home stereo.

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It was then I realised, at the age of 35, that I wasn't the problem, she was!

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Then, at 10, I realised with appalling clarity that I was still in my nightdress, hair in all directions looking like nothing on earth.

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Then I asked my Twitter followers - and quickly realised that the emails were genuine and signalled the most serious security crisis in the company's history.

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And then I came back to California and when I went to the first football game afterwards, I realised that if we did not manage to win this war, Israel would become a part of history and not a single football game would have been cancelled.

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